After learning Nagasawa's identity, Neji suddenly had a feeling of worrying about gains and losses, similar to the feeling after clearly being able to obtain something good, but missing it because of a moment of hesitation.
Although Naruto said that Nagasawa had actually agreed, and knocking three times meant for him to get up in the middle of the night and go find Nagasawa.
But was what Naruto said necessarily correct?
Not necessarily, because Nagasawa had not expressed anything, nor had he acknowledged Naruto's words.
Fortunately, Nagasawa had not clearly refused either, so it was not as though there was completely no hope.
In the afternoon, Neji trained as usual.
Although not immediately agreeing to Nagasawa's proposal was a great loss, his daily training could not stop.
If he could learn Nagasawa's Taijutsu, that would be excellent. If he could not, then that was also something there was no way around, because the decision was no longer in his hands now.
But the experience he was currently training was his own strength, and no one else could take it away.
Remembering again the scene of his father once lying on the ground wailing, Neji's punches became much stronger. He did not want to see that kind of thing happen to his father again, nor did he want that kind of thing to happen to himself.
And if he wanted to complete this goal, then he could only become stronger. In the Ninja World, powerful people with strength naturally had the right to speak.
Hinata did not know what had happened to Neji. She only felt that this cousin of hers was a little strange today. When he first started training, he seemed somewhat absent-minded, but later, he suddenly became even stronger than before.
After training ended, Neji suddenly asked Hinata, "Do you know where Lord Nagasawa lives?"
Even if there was only some hope, Neji could not give up. He decided to go find Nagasawa at twelve tonight.
But he did not know where Nagasawa's home was. Naruto seemed very familiar with Nagasawa and should know. Since Hinata was Naruto's friend, perhaps she knew too?
If Hinata did not know either, Neji could only go ask others. There would always be someone who knew.
"Lord Nagasawa's residence?" Neji actively speaking to Hinata made Hinata fail to react for a moment.
"It is at..."
After reacting, Hinata quickly told Neji what she knew.
"Thank you." Neji carefully memorized what Hinata said, then thanked Hinata.
"It's fine. Brother Neji, you helped me pass on a message and deliver a letter. I am only saying an address." Hinata waved her hands and said.
After training ended, Neji returned home and silently waited for night to arrive.
When he saw the hour hand move slightly and point to twelve, Neji stood up, took a deep breath, and walked out of the house.
It was just that this was Neji's first time staying up until twelve. He usually rested at nine, so Neji was a little sleepy now.
But thinking of what his father had said to him at the end today, Neji raised his spirits again.
"If you can learn his abilities from Assistant Nagasawa, perhaps you really can change the Hyuga Clan."
When Neji asked whether becoming the strongest person in the Hyuga Clan would allow him to escape the Caged Bird, his father had been silent. However, after hearing about what happened today, his father had said such words.
This made Neji understand Nagasawa's weight even more.
At twelve, Konoha's streets had already become somewhat deserted. However, because Konoha had been developing better and better these past few years, there were now also quite a few shops specially open at night, so it was not to the point that there was not a single person on the streets. Still, compared with peak hours, there were far fewer people.
Neji had not expected that even at twelve at night, he could still see so many glowing shops on the street, and so many pedestrians.
'Do these people not sleep?' Neji thought in confusion.
The journey to find Nagasawa's house was very smooth. Neji did not encounter any obstacles.
When Neji saw Nagasawa standing at the door, he knew that staying up late this time had not been in vain.
"Lord Nagasawa," Neji said respectfully.
"Come in and talk." As Nagasawa spoke, he brought Neji into his house.
"Why do you want to become stronger? Or rather, why must you become stronger?"
After entering, Nagasawa did not bring up the matter of teaching Taijutsu, but asked Neji a question.
Neji thought for a moment, then answered firmly, "To escape the Caged Bird! To escape the cage that the main family has imposed on the branch family!"
"Clearly, everyone is a member of the Hyuga Clan. Why must there be a main family and branch family? My father is even twins with the current clan head. Clearly, they were born from the same mother, so why must there be a main family and branch family?"
Different from ordinary children, Neji clearly had his own belief. He did not become stronger for the sake of becoming stronger.
Nagasawa smiled and nodded. Neji was a teachable talent. Although his goal was not as great as Itachi's, Itachi's was to eliminate war and make the entire village better, while Neji's was merely to change himself and his own clan.
But this was not because Neji was selfish and only thought of himself, but because his experiences had long since created such a dream.
When Itachi was four years old, Uchiha Fugaku had brought him to the battlefield, and he personally felt the cruelty and tragedy of war, causing him to extremely hate war.
As for Neji, when he was a little over two years old, he personally saw his father being tortured by the Caged Bird, wailing on the ground. At three years old, he himself was also branded with the Caged Bird.
Having experienced these things, Neji had already been imprisoned within the Hyuga. Like a bird locked in a cage, he had lost freedom and found it very hard to care about other matters.
A bird locked in a cage also could not come into contact with the vast world.
"I have felt your will, but I need to let you know some things," Nagasawa still did not rush to speak about teaching things.
"Perhaps in your view, the Caged Bird is an extremely unreasonable existence that should be abolished.
However, when the Caged Bird was first developed, it truly was for the sake of protecting the entire Hyuga Clan." As Nagasawa spoke, he took out a scroll.
Inside the scroll were all incidents of the Hyuga Clan being attacked.
Even with the Caged Bird, the other several great ninja villages still coveted the Hyuga's Byakugan.
There was no other reason. Because turning on wallhack during war was really especially satisfying.
A small wallhack did not count as cheating.
Not to mention ninja wars, even in the wars of Nagasawa's previous life, reconnaissance ability was also an extremely important point.
Unless you had Hashirama or Madara's ability to sweep through everything, the Byakugan could play a huge role in war.
Konoha had always been invincible in wars not only because Konoha had more strong people, but also because the Byakugan allowed them to always see through the other side's movements.
If there were no Caged Bird, Nagasawa estimated that the Hyuga's priority in war would greatly rise, and everyone would rush to kill Hyuga and seize the Byakugan.
The bounty amount for Hyuga ninja on the black market would also skyrocket, and many ninja organizations and some bounty ninja would set their sights on Hyuga ninja.
Some people valued money over life and always wanted to take a gamble. If they succeeded, they would make a huge profit.
Neji looked at the information Nagasawa took out, then fell silent, his eyes becoming confused.
Was the Caged Bird really protecting the Hyuga Clan, and not to imprison the branch family? Then what had his dream become? Was it to destroy the Hyuga Clan?
He did not want that. He disliked Hiashi, but he did not dislike that cousin who would get shy even when speaking, nor did he dislike the entire Hyuga Clan.
Neji's body swayed, and he was somewhat unable to stand steadily. In these short ten-plus minutes, his worldview had suffered a tremendous impact.
At this time, a pair of powerful hands landed on Neji's shoulders, stabilizing Neji's body.
Neji raised his head and looked at Nagasawa with a blank face.
"The Caged Bird protected the Hyuga Clan to a certain extent. This is a fact. But the Caged Bird imprisoned the branch family. This is also a fact! Your thoughts are not wrong!" Nagasawa said to Neji with certainty.
Hearing Nagasawa's words, Neji became even more confused.
Since the Caged Bird protected the Hyuga, then why did he still say that his thought of escaping the Caged Bird was not wrong?
Neji looked at Nagasawa with a longing gaze. He hoped to get an answer.
"If the Hyuga Clan still does not change, sooner or later, it will decline in the great changes to come," Nagasawa said without any politeness.
"In every generation, only the clan head's first child is main family, and all the others are branch family. The most essential portion of the Hyuga Clan's Taijutsu is only passed down to the main family and not to the branch family. If they continue being so stuck in their old ways, decline is inevitable."
Unless it was an individual cheating genius, otherwise, working behind closed doors would not work. Like the Hyuga's kind of Secret Technique passed down to only one person each generation, there was an extremely high risk of it being lost, and it was very difficult for stronger new things to appear.
"The main family being able to freely decide the branch family's life and death is even more something that must be abolished."
"Perhaps at the beginning, this Cursed Seal truly wanted to protect the Hyuga Clan, and the caster being able to control life and death was only an effect naturally produced during development. But in the long time afterward, this Cursed Seal did not change in the slightest. Without doubt, a problem appeared," Nagasawa continued.
The Caged Bird actually had two effects. One was that people of the main family could actively use the Cursed Seal to destroy the brain nerves of the branch family and kill branch family members.
The second was that after the caster's eyes were removed or they died, the Cursed Seal would automatically destroy the Byakugan.
Assuming that the original purpose of the Caged Bird truly was to protect the Hyuga Clan, and controlling life and death was only something naturally produced during development, then later, why was this Cursed Seal not optimized to only destroy the Byakugan after death, without the ability to control life and death?
Clearly, someone had selfish thoughts and wanted to use this to allow the derived main family to rule the Hyuga forever.
Otherwise, with such a long time, it should have been successfully improved long ago. The history of the Hyuga was very long, just like the Senju and Uchiha.
"If you and your friend made sushi together, then went mountain climbing together, because your friend's stamina was a little better, after discussion, the sushi was carried by your friend. You walked in the mountains for a long time, and your friend took out the sushi to eat. You saw it and asked your friend to give you one to eat, but he said this: the sushi is mine, why should I give it to you?"
"Why?"
"I worked hard carrying it for so long, so of course it is mine. No matter how hungry your stomach is, I can endure it."
Neji stood in place blankly. Although it was a hypothetical matter, the person in this story was far too unreasonable. Clearly, the sushi had been made together, so why did carrying it for a long time turn it into his?
"What the main family is doing now is the same as the person carrying the sushi in this story. They have already gotten used to controlling the life and death of all branch family members, and believe this is only natural," Nagasawa said.
The main family, passed down to one person each generation, controlling the life and death of the entire Hyuga, was undoubtedly extremely unreasonable and inhumane.
"So, your thoughts are not wrong. Escaping the shackles of the Caged Bird is something that should be done." Nagasawa once again acknowledged Neji.
"You cannot permanently lock a child in a room just because you are afraid the child will be bullied. That is unreasonable. Since you are afraid the child will be bullied, then go change all of this. Use your own efforts to change it, so your child will not be bullied."
"Neji, your talent is very good, but do you have the determination to lead the Hyuga to make this change in the future?" Nagasawa stared into Neji's eyes.
After Nagasawa's long period of talk therapy, Neji did not dare say that he clearly understood all the stakes, but he was also no longer as ignorant as before.
"I will do it with all my strength!" Neji said firmly. After understanding everything and receiving Nagasawa's approval, Neji's belief became even firmer.
Because in his heart, this matter had become even more meaningful.
This was not only resistance against unfair treatment, it was saving himself, and at the same time, it was also saving the Hyuga Clan!
Nagasawa revealed a gratified smile.
"It is already very late now. Go back first. Come to me tomorrow when you have time," Nagasawa said.
However, Neji shook his head. Changing his previous calmness, he said with a blood-boiling look, "I am not sleepy. Right now, I only want to become stronger, then like you said, change the Hyuga and make the Hyuga better."
Seeing that Neji had already said this, Nagasawa brought the blood-boiling Neji to the nearby open space.
"There are two things I want to teach you. Aside from the Six Powers I mentioned before, there is also Breathing Style," Nagasawa said.
"Aside from the Rankyaku I showed you before, the Six Powers also have Soru, Tekkai, Kami-e, Geppo, and Shigan, these five styles." As Nagasawa spoke, he simply demonstrated them once.
After all, it was the middle of the night. It was better not to make too much noise. Disturbing others would not be good.
Neji seriously watched Nagasawa demonstrate and directly activated the Byakugan.
"Breathing Style is not a Taijutsu move. You can regard it as an explosive Secret Technique, and it also has the effect of training the physique." Nagasawa directly pointed out the core of Breathing Style.
"Compared with the Six Powers, Breathing Style is more important. It is the key to your growth."
Neji seriously memorized Nagasawa's words, preparing to make Breathing Style the core of his training in the future.
Afterward, Nagasawa directly used Flying Thunder God to bring Neji outside Konoha to teach him, analyzing the Six Powers step by step with Neji.
Finally, for Breathing Style, what Nagasawa gave him was the same basic Sun Breathing booklet as Naruto.
Before he trained, Nagasawa also did not know whether Neji could successfully train in it. Since he was going to train, he naturally had to first try whether he could train in the progenitor Breathing Style. If not, Nagasawa would help develop a new one.
As for the other basic Breathing Styles, none were very suitable for Neji.
However, Nagasawa estimated that Neji might not be very suitable for Sun Breathing either. In the end, he might still have to make some kind of Tai Chi Breathing Style, Eight Trigrams Breathing Style, Gentle Fist Breathing Style, or the like.