The Hyuga Branch Family Submits (Part 2)

Qin Mo raised an eyebrow. "Speak."

"First, every last member of the Hyuga Main Family must be killed. No future threat can be left behind."

Hyuga Tosei's voice carried bone-deep hatred. "Second, the Hyuga Branch Family must not be forced to do anything against our will, much less be humiliated.

Third, intelligence must be shared every time troops are deployed. You must not deliberately set my clan up to be harmed."

The corners of Qin Mo's mouth lifted slightly. "Reasonable terms. I agree."

Hyuga Tosei rose to his feet, old tears streaming down his face. "Thank you for your mercy, my lord.

The Hyuga Main Family currently has more than thirty elite jonin remaining, over a hundred mid- and low-ranking ninja, and more than three hundred civilians, all holed up inside the clan grounds.

On ordinary days, clan affairs are all handled by us branch family members. They are only responsible for enjoying themselves..."

Qin Mo's face chilled. "Perfect. We can wipe them all out in one net."

"Hyuga To... Tosei!" the Main Family's grand elder roared hoarsely, yet he still carried that nauseating sense of superiority. "You lowly bastard! Ungrateful cur!

How dare you... how dare you collude with those despicable Uchiha outsiders and harm your own family!

You branch family scum, betrayal runs in your very bones!"

Every word was like a poison-tempered needle, stabbing hard into the hearts of every branch family ninja.

The days when they had been called "scum" and "bastards," the humiliation of having their dignity trampled at will because their bloodline was "impure," instantly surged into everyone's mind.

The fury they had suppressed for years was like dry firewood set alight, crackling in the eyes of every member of the Hyuga Branch Family.

Hyuga Tosei's body trembled violently, not from fear, but from surging grief and rage.

"Shut your mouth, you old bastard!" Hyuga Tosei's roar drowned out the grand elder's curses, making the entire camp fall silent for an instant. "Your own family? When has your Main Family ever treated us branch family members as your own?

Do we not have the same Hyuga blood flowing through us?

But in your eyes, we will always be lowly scum beneath you!

Tools that can be sacrificed at any moment!"

The more he spoke, the more agitated he became. "Oppression! Enslavement! Beatings and abuse at the slightest excuse!

The moment we show the slightest dissatisfaction, the slightest resistance, you use this damned Caged Bird!"

Hyuga Tosei struck the curse mark on his own forehead hard, producing a dull thud. "That heart-rending agony, that torture worse than death—have you lofty Main Family lords ever experienced even the slightest bit of it?!"

A trace of choking entered Hyuga Tosei's voice, but there was even more resolve. "I, Hyuga Tosei, as the grand elder of the branch family, have done all this to protect the clansmen behind me who carry the same Hyuga blood!

To protect them from being driven and abused by you like livestock ever again!

To protect their descendants from being branded with this mark of shame the moment they are born and reduced to slaves of your Main Family! What is wrong with that?

Tell me, what is wrong with that?"

The Main Family's grand elder was left speechless by his roar for a moment. He could only widen his sightless Byakugan, his lips trembling, but no longer able to spit out a complete insult.

Hyuga Tosei's accusation bled with every word and struck the heart with every sentence, tearing open the ugliest, bloodiest truth beneath the Hyuga Clan's splendid cloak of clan law.

At the side, Qin Mo gently clapped his hands. "Well said, Elder Tosei!

To express the sincerity of our Uchiha side, and to allow you all to completely sever the shackles of past humiliation... this man will be handed over to everyone in your Hyuga Branch Family... to deal with yourselves."

As soon as the words fell, Qin Mo waved a hand casually.

The two Uchiha ninja released their hold and shoved this former grand elder of the Main Family into the center of the circle formed by the branch family members as though throwing away garbage.

"No... no! You can't! I am the Main Family's grand elder! I am..." the Main Family's grand elder screamed in terror, his instinct to survive overwhelming everything else.

He struggled to climb up and run, but with Qin Mo having completely sealed the chakra points throughout his body, he was now even weaker than an ordinary old man.

However, he had only taken one step when a foot in a ninja boot slammed viciously into his lower back!

"Ah—" the Main Family's grand elder screamed and fell flat to the ground, his mouth full of mud.

The one who had struck was the scar-faced branch family ninja. Flames of vengeance burned in his eyes. "Old dog! Still trying to run?"

"Beat him!" Hyuga Ryusuke roared, being the first to pounce.

The hatred suppressed for so many days erupted at this moment like a flood bursting through a dam!

"This is for my dead father!"

"Give me back my sister's eyes!"

"Feel pain, you trash!"

"Scum? Let's see who the scum is now!"

The branch family ninja pounced on the lamb awaiting slaughter like a pack of starving wolves, utterly losing their reason.

Fists and feet fell like rain, and the cold gleam of kunai flashed beneath the sunlight.

There was no ninjutsu, no order, only the most primitive, most violent release.

"Spare me... spare me... Tosei... for the sake of..." The Main Family's grand elder's pleas were drowned out by furious roars and the dull thuds of flesh being struck.

Hyuga Tosei stood a little outside the crowd and did not step forward to act.

He watched the man who had once been insufferably arrogant, who had held the power of life and death over all branch family members, wail, roll, and deform under the fury of the clan.

There was not a trace of pity on Hyuga Tosei's aged face, only an almost numb desolation after vengeance, and the faint, barely perceptible hint of relief deep in his eyes.

This one-sided slaughter did not last long, but to every participant and bystander, it was as long as a century.

When the final faint groan vanished into the dust and the crowd gradually dispersed, only a mangled, inhuman wreck remained where he had been.

The formerly noble grand elder of the Hyuga Main Family ended his life of enslaving others in the most humiliating, most miserable way.

The scar-faced ninja wiped the blood splashed onto his face and was the first to turn toward Qin Mo. He dropped to one knee, his voice somewhat hoarse from emotion. "Thank you, my lord!"

"Thank you for granting this, my lord!" Hyuga Ryusuke immediately followed after him, kneeling heavily.

"Thank you, my lord!" More and more branch family ninja knelt one after another, their voices gathering into a wave filled with gratitude and awe.

Qin Mo stood beyond the pool of blood, his expression still calm, as though the bloody scene before him was nothing more than an insignificant interlude.

"It was nothing." Qin Mo's voice was flat and unruffled. "Clean up and prepare for the next step. The Hyuga Main Family's clan grounds are still waiting for us."

Madara reminded him from the side, "Mo, it is almost time for our negotiations with the Senju Clan."

Qin Mo nodded and swiftly formed hand seals with both hands. "Shadow Clone Technique!"

"Bang!"

White smoke dispersed, and another "Qin Mo" appeared before everyone.

"Senior Jin, Senior Yan," Qin Mo said to the two Uchiha elders, "please follow my shadow clone and lead the Hozuki Clan and Snow Clan to annihilate the Hyuga Main Family."

Qin Mo paused, his tone turning solemn. "If anything unexpected happens, retreat immediately. Do not get bogged down in battle."