"If I could render your Caged Bird Seal ineffective, would you dare defy the Hyuga Main Family?"
At Hyuga Akira's words, Hyuga Hikaru's face immediately lost its color. "What nonsense are you talking about?!"
He quickly activated his Byakugan to scan their surroundings. Fortunately, there was no one around.
Hyuga Akira simply watched him quietly.
After a long silence, Hyuga Hikaru said, "Prove it to me, if your Caged Bird Seal really has stopped working."
Hyuga Akira chuckled. "What I asked was whether you dared defy them."
Hyuga Hikaru sank into another long silence.
Everyone who had ever been called a genius carried a deep sense of pride.
But after being constantly suppressed by the Hyuga Main Family, Hyuga Hikaru had ultimately become willing to give everything for them.
But if he could truly escape the cage that trapped the bird...
What would he do then?
Hyuga Hikaru stared fixedly at Hyuga Akira, hoping to see deception on his face. Yet everything Hyuga Akira had done, along with his newly developed kekkei genkai, proved that he and the Hyuga Main Family were already locked in a fight to the death.
And without the Caged Bird Seal's restraints...
The Main Family could do nothing to Hyuga Akira.
"Yes! As long as I can get rid of the Caged Bird Seal, I'll dare do anything you ask!"
He had had enough of the Hyuga Main Family dictating everything in his life, enough of being their dog.
Hyuga Akira walked up to Hyuga Hikaru and kicked him in the knee.
"Squat down. I can't reach!"
His damned height. He was a year older now, but he still hadn't grown much taller.
Hyuga Hikaru squatted down until he was slightly lower than Hyuga Akira, who placed a hand on his forehead.
"Exorcism!"
He could