Chapter 162: 162. Just Revenge
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Hyūga Kawaryū staggered and took two steps forward. The blood on his chest flowed down and soon dyed the tatami red.
"You..."
He wanted to say something, but he felt his vision darken and his strength drain away. Finally, he could only kneel down and watch the slaughter by Hyūga Iroha behind him.
Yes, it was slaughter.
In Hyūga Kawaryū's view, Hyūga Iroha, whose figure flickered, would take away one person's life every time he appeared. His indifference was as if he were doing something very insignificant.
How could this happen?
Why?
Everything was going well...
With this thought in mind, Hyūga Kawaryū fell down and completely lost his breath.
"B*****d!"
"Hyūga Iroha, do you know what you are doing?"
"Damn it! Stop it."
"Ah..."
The remaining six people were angry, frightened, and panicked. But before one of them could finish what he wanted to say, he was met with the blade of Hyūga Iroha. The latter had a smile on his face. Although his eyes remained closed, it gave people the illusion that he was looking at them.
With each flicker of his figure, it was terrifying.
In theory, as the elders of the Hyūga, they should not be so fragile.
But after all, they were old and had not fought for a long time.
Compared with the elders of the Uchiha, they, as the main family of the Hyūga, were taken care of by the branch house members in everything.
They were more pampered.
Even if they were extremely talented and powerful in their youth, it is difficult to display that now.
What's more, Hyūga Iroha was not weak to begin with, and with his extremely surging chakra and his special sense of vision, it was not difficult for him to kill them.
Of course, the main reason is that Hyūga Iroha knew their weaknesses, and this was told to him by the Hokage.
"Why! You b*****d, why are you doing this? You are also a member of the main family, and you will take over the Hyūga clan in the future!"
The elder was extremely angry.
Seeing that the others had fallen and he was the only one left, he wanted to grab Hyūga Iroha by the collar and ask.
Hyūga Iroha's figure appeared again, leisurely picking up a kunai with his feet, then picking up the ring at the end of the kunai with his fingers, turning it while gradually approaching the elder. "Why? It's very simple: revenge."
Hyūga Iroha's voice was very calm.
Although the smile on his face did not change, the coldness in his voice made the elder feel cold all over. "No! You... you can't do this! You are also a member of the main family, and you will become an elder in the future."
"With your talent, you will also be the elder of the main family, I promise!"
The elder retreated repeatedly.
Hyūga Iroha paused, as if someone had guessed his true feelings, and the smile on his face became more and more obvious.
Seeing this, the elder hurriedly said: "Iroha, don't make any more mistakes..."
"Ha..."
Before the elder finished speaking, he was interrupted by Hyūga Iroha's laughter, who seemed to find the elder's words amusing.
"Don't you think it's too late to say this now, Great Elder? Or do you think the position of elder can attract me? The Hyūga clan has a clan leader."
"What do you think of Hyūga Hiashi? He is the clan leader you chose."
The Great Elder took a deep breath and said hurriedly: "Hyūga Hiashi is still too young and has many shortcomings."
"He needs the assistance of the elders."
"Young? Insufficient? You're just unwilling to give up the power in your hands. It's ridiculous."
"After discovering that the purity of my Byakugan is special, you were greedy from the beginning, right? No, you wanted to control me. Unfortunately, I am from the main family, and my father was as well. Did you use my mother to threaten my father? Logically speaking, the Hyūga clan should have been treated preferentially at that time."
Hyūga Iroha stepped forward again, approaching the Great Elder step by step, and said, "Let me guess, you were very unwilling at that time, right? The Hyūga clan's Byakugan is under the control of the main family, but the real authority is with the Hokage. You couldn't find a way to solve that problem. So, you decided to train someone who could compete with the Hokage. I was chosen. That must be it."
"The Hyūga clan rarely goes out to perform tasks. With my father's status, he wouldn't be involved. The only reason that could force him to act must have been my mother. Because she was from the branch house."
At this point, Hyūga Iroha shook his head. "That's right. My father was too special within the main family. Despite being a member of the main family, he loved a woman from the branch house and even voluntarily gave up the position of elder. You must have been very disappointed, right? It didn't matter—if I couldn't be controlled by you, then you'd just kill me. That's what you thought from the beginning, wasn't it?"
The elder's old face trembled. He felt deeply uncomfortable as Iroha's words hit too close to home.
"Can't speak? That's right—the main family has always been hypocritical. Brother Hiashi wanted to improve the treatment of the branch house, but you undermined him. The branch house people just wanted a more relaxed life, but you rejected them, and even ordered that they shouldn't contact anyone from the Ishigami clan. You were afraid, weren't you?"
Hyūga Iroha's figure suddenly disappeared. As soon as the elder's old body moved, a kunai pierced into his neck and through the other side.
"I..."
The elder's figure trembled, and he reached out to grab Hyūga Iroha's shoulder.
"Take a deep breath, Elder. Dizziness is normal, don't be afraid."
Hyūga Iroha supported the elder's body, gently placing him on the ground, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, more from the clan will soon accompany you to the underworld. Those who supported you in the main family won't be missing."
"...W-Why?"
The elder finished the sentence with difficulty, his eyes wide open, filled with unwillingness.
"You want to ask why I, a member of the main family, would do such a thing, right?"
Hyūga Iroha drew out his kunai, then walked to the body of the youngest elder, stretched out his hand, and pulled the Byakugan from his eye socket.
"Because I hate you, it's simple, isn't it."
Hyūga Iroha collected the Byakugan one by one, placing them in glass containers and storing them in his ninja bag. Finally, he returned to the elder and shook his head slightly.
"You're too old. Your Byakugan has degenerated too much. It's not even worth taking. That's really sad."
With that, the kunai pierced the elder's remaining eye.
"Db..."
The elder's body trembled slightly but showed no significant reaction.
"Tsk, can't you hear anymore? How boring."
After completing everything, Hyūga Iroha looked around and smiled softly.
"Don't you understand the real reason why I'm doing this? It's just revenge. There's no need for a complicated reason."