The time came to noon.
Yun Chuan Hyuga walked back to the Hyuga compound from the Konoha Hospital, looking down at his bandaged palm.
Relying on this body’s increasingly powerful healing ability, the wound on his hand had actually completely healed on the way to the hospital.
Just to avoid attracting unnecessary attention, he cut another gash in his palm.
Even so, he still drew sighs from the medical ninja at the hospital, marveling that such a strong healing ability was rare.
Of course, Yun Chuan Hyuga doing this also had other reasons.
“…”
While thinking, Yun Chuan Hyuga had already walked to the outside of a training ground.
Looking up, he saw a figure respectfully surrounded by several people.
Hinata Aoi, the daughter of a main branch elder in the Hyuga clan.
Her long black hair seemed to flow under the sunlight.
The healthy, rosy cheeks of the sixteen-year-old girl still carried some baby fat, but those white pupils were like ice-quenched blades.
“Get lost!”
She ruthlessly kicked away the branch family member kneeling in front of her.
That branch member only endured the pain with a muffled groan, not daring to show or even harbor any dissatisfaction.
“Trash.”
Hinata Aoi glared at him with disgust.
Her gaze swept over the other branch family members, her tone irritable: “All of you are trash!
Not a single one dares to make a move.
Father actually sent you pieces of trash to protect me?”
The surrounding branch family members lowered their heads, their attitude respectful and subservient, not daring to have any retort or presumptuous actions.
Because that main branch elder only had this one daughter.
Being pampered since childhood led to her arrogant, spoiled, and willful personality.
If it were just that, it wouldn’t be a big deal; many main branch children were like this.
Unfortunately, she was pugnacious and highly competitive, always thinking of leaving the village to kill enemies on the battlefield.
In the eyes of the branch family, this was overestimating her capabilities, and in the eyes of the main branch, she was asking for trouble.
This time, because her request to leave the village was rejected by her father again, she wanted these branch members to spar with her using their full strength.
But, how could they dare?
Although Hinata Aoi wasn’t yet at the age to learn the curse mark, if they accidentally injured her, they might be tortured by her father using the curse mark.
Let alone just being painlessly insulted and scolded right now.
As long as they didn’t have to endure that kind of pain originating from the depths of the soul, a pain worse than death, if Hinata Aoi was willing, they could even kneel and bark like dogs.
“Wait a minute.” Seeming to notice something, Hinata Aoi frowned and questioned, “Is someone missing?”
As soon as these words came out, several branch members slightly raised their heads, their gazes met briefly, and they all saw who was missing.
“Lady Aoi.”
After a moment of silence, the Hyuga clan member who had stopped Yun Chuan Hyuga while on duty that morning spoke first, respectfully saying, “It’s…”
“Lady Aoi, I am here.”
Before he could finish speaking, a familiar voice came, causing his body to shudder uncontrollably.
He felt his bruised abdomen begin to throb with pain again.
Hinata Aoi frowned and turned to look.
Seeing Yun Chuan Hyuga walking over, she said coldly: “I was wondering who was missing, so it’s you, this piece of trash.”
Yun Chuan Hyuga ignored Hinata Aoi’s ridicule.
He just raised his bandaged palm, lowered his head slightly, and said: “Apologies, Lady Aoi.
My hand is injured, so today I probably cannot…”
Buzz!
The whistling sound of tearing wind suddenly reached his ears.
He instinctively turned his head to dodge.
A fist brushed past his earlobe, the fist wind lifting his black hair tied behind his head.
Yun Chuan Hyuga calmly lifted his lowered eyes, meeting a pair of emotionless white pupils.
“Cut the crap.” Hinata Aoi’s tone was cold.
“Let me see if you, a piece of trash, have made any progress.”
With that, Hinata Aoi withdrew her fist, turned it into a palm, and thrust it towards Yun Chuan Hyuga’s chest.
But in the next moment, the figure in front of her retreated and evaded the palm with footwork almost akin to “floating,” like a fallen leaf blown by the wind.
A hint of surprise flashed in Hinata Aoi’s eyes.
Hideous veins crawled up around her eye sockets, and she assumed the true starting stance of the Gentle Fist.
The next moment, her right hand turned into a blur, her three fingers held together, about to strike Yun Chuan’s left shoulder.
“…” Seeing this scene, Yun Chuan Hyuga sighed in his heart.
“So troublesome.”
Although he didn’t want to show off his abilities this early, letting him obediently kneel and be a dog was also impossible.
After all, he had endured for three years to get the chance to change his fate.
If he still continued to kneel and be a dog now, wouldn’t his three years of endurance be for nothing?
So, did he want to stand tall, or did he want to make “money” [Realization Points]?
“I just want to stand tall, and still make the ‘money’.”
In that case.
Yun Chuan Hyuga slowly closed his eyes.
Sure enough, he entered that state of total concentration again.
Besides mental perception, the visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile senses of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body were all completely sealed off.
Bang!
His figure suddenly twisted and leaned back.
Hinata Aoi’s fingertips brushed past the tip of his nose, leaving an inch-deep palm print on the wooden post behind him.
Shredded wood splinters drifted down onto his eyelashes, carrying the bitter scent of pine resin.
Hinata Aoi’s fists and palms arrived one after another, her movements swift, but in Yun Chuan Hyuga’s perception, they were incredibly sluggish.
And the boiling blood in his body flowed like a rushing tide, feeling scorching hot like magma, allowing his body to keep up with the speed of his thoughts.
He was like the only normal-speed existence in a slow-motion film, freely wandering in an extremely elongated timeline.
“What’s going on?”
Seeing her seemingly sharp offensive moves being completely evaded by Yun Chuan Hyuga with his eyes closed, Hinata Aoi’s pupils condensed.
Her expression became excited, but her hand movements gradually started to become hasty.
Yun Chuan Hyuga could “see” that her seemingly fierce attacks actually exposed openings under her ribs every time she turned.
In the next second, seizing the gap of her mistake, Yun Chuan Hyuga raised his palm.
Like a fish, it nimbly twisted from his chest, grabbing Hinata Aoi’s wrist.
His other arm also blocked her arm, and a force twisted out along the bones and muscles…
Crack!
Snap!
In a short instant, Hinata Aoi’s arm made two sounds.
One sound was the dislocation of a bone, and the other was snapping it back into place.
The movement was very skilled and fluent, not even leaving her the chance to cry out in pain, leaving only a momentary sting.
Before she could recover from her astonishment, Yun Chuan Hyuga’s body moved again.
The upper and lower parts of his body seemed to vibrate with an amplitude difficult to see with the naked eye.
A penetrating force instantly transmitted from his spine along his muscles to his arm, swinging it like a whip toward Hinata Aoi beside him.
Bang!
It sounded like a sturdy bamboo bent to its breaking point, suddenly released, producing a cracking sound as it whipped through the air.
One could even see a puff of thin mist resembling white gauze explode in the air.
The strike hit Hinata Aoi’s arm blocking in front of her body, making her feel as if she had been hit by a hammer.
She uncontrollably staggered backwards several steps, looking like she was about to fall to the ground in a sorry state…
If she looked too pathetic, it would be hard to deal with.
Yun Chuan Hyuga sighed, raised his hand to grab Hinata Aoi’s collar, and pulled forcefully without any grace.
“You’ve had enough fun, Lady Aoi.”
Yun Chuan Hyuga opened his eyes, looking at Hinata Aoi’s trembling pupils.
With a hint of harshness in his tone, he lowered his voice and said: “If you really want to go to the battlefield, you should at least understand…”
“On this blood-soaked land, inside this cruel clan, you are able to live because many lives were offered as sacrifices.”
“Those who live must be worthy of such sacrifices.”
“Unfortunately, in my eyes, you are not worthy yet.”
With that, he raised his head, let go of Hinata Aoi’s hand, and pushed her away.
Ignoring the surrounding gazes filled with astonishment, fear, or shock, Yun Chuan Hyuga gave a slight bow to Hinata Aoi and turned to leave.
With his back to Hinata Aoi’s gaze, Yun Chuan Hyuga’s expression was calm, and his footsteps were steady as he walked outwards.
But the moment he stepped out of the training ground, the notification sound he had been waiting for echoed in his mind.
[Ding!]
[Your lie has been judged as [False Affection] [Attracting Bees and Butterflies], Hinata Aoi produced a strong emotional fluctuation, reaching the level of [Self-Doubt], obtaining 300 realization points…]
“…Tsk, this is slander.”
The smile on Yun Chuan Hyuga’s face instantly vanished, and he said in a low voice: “Deceiving women, I cannot do such a thing.”
After making the joke, he caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye of a familiar figure running out from another courtyard, a look of resentment on his immature face.
That was…
Neji Hyuga.
“Oh, look,” Yun Chuan Hyuga narrowed his eyes and smiled.
“My protagonist has appeared.”
(END CHAPTER)