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After a while, his smile remained as his bloodshot eyes fixed on Yunchuan.
"What do you really want? Why did you save me?"
"I want you to leave Konoha alive, find somewhere to hide, and recover from your injuries," Yunchuan Hyuga replied softly, looking down at him.
"I will take care of your wife and child and make sure their life in Konoha is not affected. It will even be better than it is now."
Wujie's pupils shrank sharply at those words.
His wife and child were his greatest weakness, and the reason he had become a spy. Because they were still in Konoha, he had chosen to fight to the death instead of escaping when facing the three of them.
"What is the price?" he asked hoarsely.
"Waiting."
Yunchuan lifted his gaze toward Konoha, as if looking into a distant future.
"I want you to wait for a moment. Wait for a great change in the Hyuga Clan."
He lowered his head again and said with a faint smile, "Wait for a child named Neji Hyuga to defect from Konoha."
"When he leaves Konoha, I want you to find him and become his teacher and protector."
Wujie Kohinata stared at Yunchuan Hyuga without blinking, as if trying to find a trace of a joke in his eyes.
What met him was a pair of calm Byakugan, quiet and deep like a cold pool with no bottom.
That alone made him understand one thing.
This man was serious.
Wujie Kohinata knew very well who Neji Hyuga was. He was the child of the former head of the Hyuga Clan Branch Family.
That meant Neji Hyuga was a Branch Family member branded with the Caged Bird Seal, a bird locked inside a cage. Forget leaving Konoha, he could not even break free from the Hyuga Clan itself.
Yet the Yunchuan Hyuga standing before him claimed that Neji Hyuga would defect from Konoha in the future, and that the Hyuga Clan would undergo a huge change.
Wujie Kohinata's gaze flickered as he stayed silent for a long time before finally speaking.
"Aren't you afraid I will report everything you just said to the upper ranks of Konoha?"
As his words fell, Yunchuan Hyuga's voice reached his ears, but it did not come from in front of him.
It came from higher up.
"Do you think the Sealing Technique in your head can stop me?"
Wujie Kohinata's pupils shrank as he followed the sound and snapped his head upward.
His shocked eyes met a pair of pure white eyes that were calm and clear.
At some point, the "Yunchuan Hyuga" in front of him had vanished, and the real Yunchuan Hyuga was standing on the tree above him, the very tree where he had been watching earlier.
From the fight between him and Shisui until now, it felt as if Yunchuan Hyuga had never moved at all.
"Wujie Kohinata, my ability is Five Senses Manipulation," Yunchuan Hyuga said with a faint smile. "You can try to guess what that means."
"When you leave here and several years pass, in one ordinary battle, you will drive your blade into an enemy's heart. The one you kill, will it be an enemy, or will it be family?"
Wujie Kohinata froze, his mouth opening slightly as a deep chill surged up from his chest.
As he thought about the possibility Yunchuan described, that cold crept up his spine inch by inch and spread across his face, making him shudder hard.
"You..."
Fear wrapped tighter and tighter around him, and Wujie Kohinata's breathing grew fast as he swallowed with difficulty.
He looked at those calm, indifferent eyes, then at the two Uchiha members beside him who stood stiff like statues with empty gazes.
For a moment, he even doubted whether the world around him was real.
What he was seeing, hearing, thinking, and feeling now, was it illusion or reality?
"So who was it that said you were gentle?" Wujie Kohinata muttered at last. "You are clearly a monster."
He finally lowered his head in defeat and let out a long sigh.
"I agree. Please hurry up and remove the Genjutsu."
"It has already been removed."
The voice came from in front of him again, and Wujie Kohinata looked up without thinking.
Seeing Yunchuan Hyuga standing there once more, he could only give a bitter smile.
This was even more frightening.
Root never knew whether a Genjutsu had truly been removed.
"I still have one last question."
Having fully accepted it, he took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and lit it. Only then did he look up at Yunchuan Hyuga and ask, "Why him, and not you?"
Yunchuan Hyuga understood what he meant.
With such terrifying power and clear dissatisfaction toward Konoha and the Hyuga Clan, why was it not him who defected, but another child of the Hyuga Branch Family?
Faced with this question, Yunchuan Hyuga showed a gentle smile.
"Why would I defect?" he said softly. "I am a hero in the eyes of the people of Konoha. I am the inheritor of the Will of Fire in the eyes of the Third Hokage."
Wujie Kohinata was completely stunned, the cigarette burning quietly between his lips as he stared at Yunchuan Hyuga's mild smile.
"...Hahaha! Hahahaha!"
At last, as if he had heard the most absurd joke in the world, he burst into hysterical laughter filled with sharp mockery.
"Hahaha, Yunchuan Hyuga, hero of Konoha! Ninja who inherits the Will of Fire! Hahahahaha, so that's how it is!"
He laughed until tears streamed down his face, tugging at his wound by accident.
Gasping for breath between laughs, he said, "I thought I had hidden myself well enough."
"But compared to you, I am nowhere close."
"Everyone misjudged you. You fooled everyone. They lifted you onto a pedestal, never knowing that you are just like me, a traitor with schemes in his heart."
"No, that's not right. You are a monster. A devil."
"How ironic. Too ironic."
After that, Wujie Kohinata shook his head and grinned.
"I give up. This time, I truly give up. Now I am actually looking forward to seeing how far you can go."
Did he feel hatred and resentment toward the Hyuga Clan and Konoha?
Of course he did.
Otherwise, as a Konoha Jonin who lacked neither money nor power, why would he choose to become a spy?
As for what exactly caused that resentment, it was nothing more than something involving his wife and child. Yunchuan Hyuga would not ask, and he did not care.
He had only received a task from the Third Hokage, thought about it briefly, and then placed a casual piece on the board.
It would surely be useful in the future, and there was no need to worry about betrayal.
Moreover, with Wujie Kohinata's development and innovation of the Byakugan, becoming Neji Hyuga's teacher would be more than enough.
"Then the deal is done."
Yunchuan Hyuga nodded slightly and took out a Scroll from his clothes, placing it on the ground.
With a burst of white smoke, a corpse similar in build to Wujie Kohinata appeared, along with a box whose contents were unknown.
Even after witnessing Yunchuan Hyuga's methods before, Wujie Kohinata could not help but look at him deeply.
Had this man already prepared everything from the moment he received the mission?
What a calculating person.
And yet such a terrifying person was worshipped as a hero by the people of Konoha.
"You can leave now."