The Pedantic Hyuga IV

"Hyuga Tianyi!"

Hinata Tsubaki's furious roar echoed through the blood-soaked conference room.

It carried the wrath of a clan leader whose authority had been utterly trampled:

"Hyuga Tianyi! What exactly are you trying to do?!"

Facing the clan leader's furious rebuke, Tianyi remained calm. Beneath that calm, however, lay bone-chilling coldness and mockery.

He retorted clearly, each word as sharp as a blade: "What am I trying to do?

That's a question you should be asking yourselves—the Main House elders present here."

He slowly raised a hand, pointing at the elders on the floor, clutching their severed wrists and wailing in agony, then at the seat of honor.

Finally, he pointed toward the door:

"From the moment I stepped into this room, did I ever say what I wanted?

Did I ever take the initiative to make any demands? No, not a single one.

Yet you Main House elders have come looking for 'trouble' with me again and again.

From your impatient summons to your deliberate cold treatment and attempts to put me in my place.

Then came your disrespectful reprimands, even insults toward my parents.

And you, next door, did not care in the slightest..."

His gaze returned to Hinata Tsubaki's face, his pale eyes utterly still.

"Everything I did was merely forced self-defense—cleaning up the nuisances that tried to bare their fangs and claws at me.

So the ones who should be answering are you—you Main House people. What exactly are you trying to do to me?!"

"Cough... cough, cough..." The oldest elder on the floor had received rudimentary treatment for his severed wrist.

Enduring the intense pain and weakness, he lifted his head.

Pain and misery mingled across his aged face as he rasped:

"Hyuga Tianyi... you misunderstand... from the beginning.

The clan... the clan only hoped