How Will You Repay Me?

Hinata immediately frowned. "What nonsense are you talking about? I truly love you. It's not because of your handsome appearance or anything.

"Even if you were incredibly ugly, the sight of you jumping down from that tree to save me that day was already the most handsome thing I've ever seen in my life."

Her expression was extremely serious.

She could not accept Kanami's talk about deception at all.

Kanami froze.

After a long while, he sighed. "Of course I know. I was just afraid you'd care too much about how I looked after becoming ugly and carefully look after me because of it. I don't care that much about appearances either.

"But if I can be handsome, then of course, it's better to be handsome."

The corners of his mouth twitched.

It looked particularly stiff.

Hinata said nothing more. Instead, she stepped forward and supported Kanami.

Together with Kaguya, she helped Kanami into the living room.

"Have some porridge. It'll get cold if you don't drink it soon. Anyway, the fact that you can wake up now is already the happiest thing in the world to me. It's been ten years. I'd already lost hope."

Hinata's eyes reddened as she spoke.

Kanami's heart ached at the sight.

"You've had it hard these past ten years. By the way, where is Father-in-law?"

"Father awakened the Tenseigan. Since you're ill now, he's taken over the role of Red Emperor."

"The Tenseigan?"

Kanami froze. "I didn't expect him to turn misfortune into a blessing too."

He remembered that Otsutsuki Toneri had dug out his eyes before and used them to awaken the Tenseigan.

He had not expected that now that Otsutsuki Toneri was gone, his Byakugan would instead transform into the Tenseigan.

Still, he had sensed it long ago.

After all, he