After Hyuga Hiashi voiced his refusal, the room fell silent for a moment.
"Clan Leader Hiashi, are you refusing the Hokage's orders?"
Chihane's eyes widened slightly, a red gleam flashing through his black pupils. Then he unleashed his unique Conqueror's Haki, asura killing intent. Although he still lacked fine control, he could at least keep its range confined to roughly ten meters around him.
His fierce aura roared toward Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga like a tsunami.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Facing Chihane's unique Conqueror's Haki, Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga were like lambs awaiting slaughter, unable to move. Cold sweat poured down their bodies. Even their breathing seemed to stop.
Conqueror's Haki was an incredible crowd-clearing ability, usually used against small fry. But against sheltered ninja like Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga, who had trained within their clan since childhood, never set foot on a battlefield, and barely even killed a few bandits, its effectiveness was doubled.
Time crawled by. Only when Chihane saw that Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga were about to collapse did he withdraw his Haki.
The instant Chihane withdrew his Haki, Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga slumped to the floor.
"Can we talk now, Clan Leader Hiashi?"
Sitting across from Hyuga Hiashi, Chihane looked down at him as he spoke.
Hyuga Hiashi still had not recovered. He had never felt an aura this powerful before. None of the ninja he had met had ever overwhelmed him with their presence alone. Even the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi fell far short of this.
For a moment, he had felt as though he were staring at mountains of corpses and seas of blood. His ninja instincts had kept warning him not to move-that if he moved, he would die. Even being in his own Hyuga Clan hall had offered him