Chapter 82

Seeing Hashirama Senju's calm demeanor,

Hiyashi Hachizuki felt an intense longing arise within her!

She too wished she possessed Hashirama Senju's strength!!

If she had such power,

what would the Caged Bird Seal matter?!

How would the entire Hyuga clan dare treat her differently?!

【Madara Uchiha: ……Hashirama's power…… this Hashirama's power…… no one can truly restrain him anymore!!!】

【Hashirama Senju: Why is it me… how could his growth rate be this fast? Even if one didn't eat, drink, or rest for twenty-four hours, he couldn't progress this quickly…】

【Tobirama Senju: Aside from time, personality likely plays a huge role… this elder brother feels completely different to me… I even feel there's nothing he doesn't know and nothing he can't accomplish!】

【Hiruzen Sarutobi: Sigh… Wood Release… Wood Release… I wonder if Konoha will ever restore the power of Wood Release, letting the Will of Fire fly once more…!】

【Orochimaru: Hehe… Master Sarutobi, you probably don't want the Wood Release to fly again, do you? The Will of Fire… whose Will of Fire is it—yours or Konoha's? …】

【Tsunade: Sarutobi! Even if Wood Release reappears, it must be under my control!! You're too weak, too soft-hearted—you'll only drag Konoha down!! If I had Wood Release, it would be entirely different!!】

【Jiraiya: When I find the prophesied child spoken of by the Toad Sage, everything in this world will change!!】

【Fourth Raikage: Your Konoha… looks just like a pyramid scheme…】

【Rosha: I feel these guys have never been normal… mad scientists, pyramid scheme elders, and charlatans…】

……

A strange atmosphere now filled the arena,

the Hyuga clan members halted their attacks,

and Hashirama Senju made no move to strike!!

Only Hyuga Tensō remained standing, dazed,

that scene replaying endlessly in his mind!!

When Hyuga Tensō looked up again at Hashirama Senju's Wood Clone,

he couldn't help but shudder all over!!

Golden sunlight fell upon Hashirama Senju,

like a god's battle robe,

and with Hashirama Senju's utterly indifferent gaze at this moment,

he looked like a god himself!!

This robbed Hyuga Tensō of the courage to attack Hashirama Senju again!!

And the Hyuga clan members surrounding Hyuga Tensō,

now noticed something was wrong with him,

their clan head…

was actually afraid?!!!

Hyuga Tensō stared at his trembling hands,

a ludicrous thought rising within him!!

Am I really afraid right now?

This was incomprehensible to Hyuga Tensō. He took a deep breath,

but discovered a fact he could not accept.

He no longer had the courage to strike Hashirama Senju!!

Just one glance at Hashirama Senju,

and he felt his soul freezing solid!!

As if watched by an unimaginably terrifying presence!!

And when Hashirama Senju saw Hyuga Tensō had stopped,

he was utterly speechless.

What the hell is going on?!

You're the head of the Hyuga clan!!

You only struck once,

and now you've lost the courage to strike again?!

Even if Hashirama Senju had underestimated Hyuga Tensō and the Hyuga clan's courage and strength beyond measure,

he never imagined

that these Hyuga clan members were this cowardly!!

【Fourth Raikage: Heh… clearly the Hyuga clan is as timid as mice… back then, they just handed over their own clan members!!】

【Hiruzen Sarutobi: Raikage, are you trying to start a war with Konoha?! We acted to avoid needless conflict—but that doesn't mean Konoha is weak!!】

【Daimaru: Wasn't the one sacrificed and handed over… the Hyuga clan head's own younger brother?!】

【Hyuga Hiashi: Daimaru! Are you also trying to start a war with the Hyuga clan?!】

【Orochimaru: Look, First Hokage, Second Hokage—this is your Will of Fire. See how thoroughly my teacher, the Third Hokage, has carried it out!!】

……

Inside the Hyuga clan's training ground,

Neji Hyuga clenched his fists tightly, blood oozing dark red from his palms!!

His heart burned with fury,

as if a flame raged within him!!!

If not for the conversation in the livestream,

He himself would never have known that his father's death actually had so many hidden details!!

He only knew that his father had died because of the main family!!

But he never expected it was because he was made a sacrificial pawn!!!

Thinking that his father's Byakugan had been gouged out while he was still alive.

Neji Hyuga felt an incomparable sorrow in his heart,

And incomparable fury!!!

This was the tragedy of the branch family of the Hyuga clan!!

From the very moment they were born,

Their fate had already been sealed!!

There was nothing that could change it!!

……

"Damn it!! ……"

"Damn the Fourth Raikage!! Damn Onoki!!"

Hyuga Hiashi said with a dark expression as he cursed.

The two of them discussing things in the livestream,

Was tantamount to trampling the Hyuga clan's face underfoot!!

Everyone in the ninja world could see the livestream's contents,

This made the Hyuga clan lose face tremendously!!

Especially thinking that Neji Hyuga was seeing all of this,

Hyuga Hiashi felt even more that the situation was slipping from his control!!

His own younger brother's son,

Talent was indeed there,

Far stronger than his own daughter.

So Hyuga Hiashi had always been thinking about how to use Neji Hyuga,

To make him willingly lay down his life for the main family!!

In his hands,

There was even Hyuga Hizashi's last letter!!

This last letter,

Was in fact also meant to protect Neji Hyuga,