"Wuye, if you weren't trying to break up with me, then why did you tell me all this?" Konan asked calmly.
Hyuga Wuye finally caught that fleeting spark of inspiration.
Since he had explained everything, it was impossible for him to break up with Konan, so...
Why not just give up on making her his breakup target?
He was thirteen this year, with seven years left before the ten-year limit.
As long as he found another suitable breakup target before then, there was no need to break up just for the sake of breaking up!
Besides, so what if he could not keep breaking up forever?
With everything he knew now, and once he learned Tsunade's abilities, reaching the level of the Kage of each village would be no problem at all.
As for Six Paths-level strength, that would depend on Kaguya...
So!
The only thing forcing him to keep breaking up was the time limit on using this body...
Ten years was a long time!
He would always find a replacement.
"Only by telling you this can I let go of my guilt and reservations, and only then can I truly consider our relationship with you."
Hyuga Wuye's lips curved upward.
A sense of conviction unlike anything he had ever felt surged from him.
"Just now, I realized something."
"Who I like and who I choose to be with can only be because I like them."
"As for whether they're a breakup target, aside from being part of how that connection began, it has nothing else to do with it."
Only now had he truly broken free from this body's control.
Because from now on, whatever he chose to do would be his own decision, unrelated to anyone's coercion.
Even if his life was threatened, it would be the