Aoba didn't speak again.
Hyuga Natsu also lay on the bed with her eyes closed, the sudden stillness in the air around her making her even more nervous.
Although she knew Aoba wouldn't hurt her, nervousness was instinctual.
She was still just a girl in her early twenties.
Lying with eyes closed on the bed of a vigorous young man, it was inevitable some improper thoughts would arise.
The next moment, she felt her forehead protector being taken off. Her body trembled slightly, a wave of panic rising in her heart, and she instinctively wanted to open her eyes.
"Aoba-sama…"
"Don't be afraid, this isn't ugly."
Aoba gently comforted her, placing his hand on her forehead and softly caressing the Caged Bird seal.
A chakra filled with warmth soothed her spirit.
This action also calmed Hyuga Natsu's panic for the time being.
The atmosphere fell silent again.
Before she realized it, Hyuga Natsu seemed to have fallen asleep.
Only from time to time, by her ear, did Aoba's voice murmur "I see."
Though it was only one morning, with the Sharingan and the Spirit Transformation Technique, he had already discovered some clues about the Caged Bird.
The essence of the Caged Bird was Yin Release.
It mainly consisted of three parts: one on the optic nerve, the second on the brain's nervous system, and the third covering the soul, linking to both the optic nerve and the brain's nervous system.
And it was exactly this third part that the Hyuga Main Family used to control the Caged Bird.
As long as a Main Family member who had mastered the Caged Bird technique activated it, his chakra would resonate with the chakra of the third part of the Caged Bird seal.
From there, the first two parts would be triggered, damaging the optic nerve and the brain's nervous system, thus destroying the Byakugan.
When a Branch Family member died, their soul would face problems, and the Byakugan's automatic destruction was also based on this principle.
Therefore, in theory, as long as that part of the seal acting on the soul was removed, the Caged Bird would truly transform into a means of protecting the Hyuga clan.
Based on this, Aoba had already thought of a rather simple and crude method.
That was to directly use a sealing technique to seal up the part of the seal acting on the soul.
As long as the Main Family ninja couldn't use the Caged Bird technique to resonate with the Caged Bird's chakra, couldn't sense the seal, then naturally they wouldn't be able to use it.
However, this sealing technique wouldn't be applied to the brain or eyes, but had to work on the soul itself.
Perhaps this was also why the Hyuga Branch Family, after so many years, had never found a solution to the Caged Bird seal's difficulty.
It was only through the Sharingan and Spirit Transformation observation that he had discovered this issue.
As for how to resolve it later, if he wanted to completely erase the Caged Bird, he would still need to do much more research.
Time quickly reached noon, and Aoba hadn't expected that just one morning could bring such huge results.
He quietly withdrew the genjutsu placed on Hyuga Natsu.
Just now, to calm her down, he had no choice but to use some illusion.
"Mmm…", As the genjutsu lifted, Hyuga Natsu slowly woke up, letting out an unconscious soft hum of comfort, stretching her body.
"How did you sleep?", Aoba asked.
"Not bad," Hyuga Natsu answered instinctively, but then quickly noticed the unfamiliar ceiling above her, immediately standing up and bowing in apology, "Aoba-sama, I'm sorry, I fell asleep."
She had originally come to cooperate with his research, yet she had actually fallen asleep on someone else's bed.
It was truly too embarrassing.
"It's fine, I just needed you to stay calm. Honestly, falling asleep made it easier," Aoba smiled.
Hyuga Natsu, "As long as I didn't trouble you, Aoba-sama."
"Right, this is yours."
Aoba handed back her forehead protector.
When Hyuga Natsu saw the forehead protector, she suddenly came back to her senses and instinctively covered her forehead.
She had forgotten to put the protector back on.
As a Branch Family member, although she had long accepted this mark, she still felt it was ugly.
"I don't think it's ugly. But yes, to you it is indeed a scar," Aoba gently removed her hand, his voice soft, then carefully helped her put the forehead protector back on.
Hyuga Natsu's delicate body trembled slightly, "Thank you, Aoba-sama."
Aoba had originally wanted to pat her head, but seeing their height difference, he halted halfway.
But Hyuga Natsu took the initiative to lower her head, guiding his hand onto her head, gently rubbing against it.
So as not to make the family embarrassed.
It was also part of a maid's duty.
Aoba was slightly stunned, then came back to himself, rubbed her head, and said with a smile:
"Maybe in the near future, this mark will disappear."
"What?"
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"Little Hanabi, are you angry?"
"No!"
"If you're not angry, then why are you avoiding me?"
Aoba sat on the sofa, wanting to hug Hanabi, but she skillfully dodged.
Hanabi's cheeks puffed in anger, "Because Aoba-nii is a bad guy."
"How am I a bad guy?"
Aoba caught her off guard and pulled her into his arms.
"Hmph!"
Hanabi didn't struggle, just turned her face away, "Aoba-nii brought Natsu-oneechan into his room. You were definitely doing bad things."
Aoba's mouth twitched, and he pinched her little nose, "I was doing something serious, not bad things."
"Mm… I don't care. If you're sneaking around, not letting me see, then it's bad things," Hanabi stuck firmly to her idea.
Aoba was speechless. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, where she was preparing lunch with Kin, Hyuga Natsu's face was already red.
At the same time, she couldn't help but wonder if Aoba had done anything bad while she was asleep.
If he had…
"You put in too much salt!", Suddenly, someone nudged her with an elbow.
"Sorry!", Hyuga Natsu immediately came back to herself, looking at the resentful Kin, and apologized sincerely.
Kin didn't say much, just added more water into the pot.
Aoba looked at Hanabi's little mouth as she exhaled lightly, and slipped a stick of dango into it.
"This is your favorite flavor."
"Don't think you can bribe me with just one dango!", Though she said so, Hanabi had already stuck out her little pink tongue to lick it.
Although the Hyuga clan wasn't short of money to buy dango, Hiashi was still very strict about Hanabi's diet.
Like Hinata, Hanabi was being raised as the next clan head.
As for which of the sisters would ultimately become head… Naturally, it would be the one who didn't marry Aoba.
"Then shall we play together this afternoon?", Aoba squished Hanabi's chubby little cheeks.
Hanabi's eyes widened, "Really?"
"Of course, really."
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