"What did you especially want to tell me, Great Elder?"
Hyuga Wuye returned to the reception room and refilled the tea for himself and Uchiha Yuxiong.
"Wuye, what do you think of Mikoto?"
Uchiha Yuxiong took a sip of tea, set down his cup, and looked at him directly.
"She's very good."
As though he had not understood the implication, Hyuga Wuye smiled. "A gentle girl from the Uchiha Clan is rare."
Uchiha Yuxiong rubbed the rim of his cup with his right hand, his gaze resting on Wuye as he slowly said, "Have you considered returning to the Uchiha Clan? Then Mikoto could marry you."
Wuye paused, then looked up with a smile. "Great Elder, the Uchiha Clan doesn't seem to have a rule requiring marriage within the clan, does it?"
"That's true. Unlike the Hyuga Clan, we do not require marriage within the clan," Uchiha Yuxiong said with a smile. "But if you marry an Uchiha girl, you must marry into the Uchiha Clan and take the Uchiha name."
"I see..."
A helpless expression appeared on Hyuga Wuye's face. "Great Elder, you know Kaguya is my older sister. She would never let me go. Even when the Hyuga Clan privately withheld clan members' mission rewards last time, she handed me the clan head's token and never took it back afterward."
He raised a hand and took out the Hyuga Clan Head's jade token for Uchiha Yuxiong to see.
Uchiha Yuxiong's old face twitched hard.
There was no way to compete with that!
They had put their entire clan on the line...
"That really is a pity. I had thought we could become one family..."
Uchiha Yuxiong sighed sincerely. "It seems Mikoto has no fate with you. Fugaku has always liked her, though..."
He had intended to retreat in