"We can't gamble on something like this, nor can we truly remain indifferent to the Hyuga Clan's current predicament."
"How about this? To be safe, I'll handle the Hyuga Clan Head's side. All of you should head down."
Shizune said with some concern, "But if we do that..."
Shikaku Nara cut her off. "Even if something unexpected does happen on my side, compared to the consequences if something goes wrong at the Hokage Building—"
"That would be a real disaster."
Shikaku Nara said.
In the end, Inoichi Yamanaka made the final decision. "Shikaku is right. This matter really doesn't seem so simple."
Night. Utter darkness.
Within the endless forest, where no bright moonlight fell,
a figure was rapidly moving in a certain direction.
His speed was so great that rustling sounds occasionally echoed through the woods. Looking closely, one might catch a black shadow flashing past—
or perhaps it was merely an illusion, filling the place with an eerie atmosphere.
Hyuga Hiashi moved swiftly forward.
Although this course of action was indeed somewhat risky for someone who had always been cautious,
he had truly had enough of this long-standing silence.
This time, the other side had crazily trampled over his bottom line. He no longer wanted to endure it.
Yet judging by the situation, the other side seemed to have him completely figured out.
But Hyuga Hiashi thought to himself,
as the Clan Head of the Hyuga Clan, his long-standing low profile had perhaps shaped everyone's impression of him.
And that did indeed seem to be the case.
Yet beneath that, people seemed to have overlooked something. Keeping a low profile did not mean he had stagnated or failed to develop in secret.
It was precisely because of this disguise of modesty that, over all his years leading the Hyuga