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HGBW: Ch. 30
🕑 Added 2025-03-03 01:37:09 +0000 UTCInside the room, separated by a single door.
Tanaka wielded a kunai, like a shooting star piercing the sun, thrusting straight toward the Hyūga clan's First Elder.
Bang!
At that moment, Mitsuhiko was just about to greet Hiashi, a sudden, sharp pain struck his heart, as if he had been stabbed.
Immediately, a heart, encased in a translucent cube, was forcefully extracted from his back and floated midair.
"Ah!" His eyes widened in shock, his face contorted in pain, astonishment, and confusion.
He couldn't understand—why would he be attacked inside the clan leader's chambers?
Before he could think further, before he could speak, before he could even react—because his heart had been surgically removed by Tanaka's scalpel technique—though he wasn't dead on the spot, an overwhelming weakness and powerlessness surged through his body, spreading outward from his left heart chamber like an unstoppable tide.
Thud.
His legs gave out, and he collapsed forward, helplessly sprawling onto the floor.
"Mitsuhiko!"
Seeing the First Elder fall, the other elders were momentarily frozen in shock.
The sudden turn of events left them momentarily sluggish in their response.
Perhaps, in their younger years—before they became elders of the Hyūga main house—they had all been battle-hardened jonin. But now, age had taken its toll.
Having lived in the safety of the Hyūga clan for years, with no need to fight in wars or carry out missions, while their strength might not have deteriorated drastically, their ability to react under crisis had certainly dulled compared to those who constantly walked the edge between life and death.
"Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
In that brief moment of hesitation, "Hiashi," who had been standing at the door, suddenly sprang into action. In a flash, he lunged forward, already prepared, launching his technique.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
In an instant, his hands became a blur, striking like a torrential rainstorm, like an unrelenting volley of arrows—delivering sixty-four devastating blows to the body of Wataru.
Each strike precisely targeted his tenketsu.
While sealing the flow of chakra, the blows also inflicted severe internal damage to his chakra pathways and organs.
"Hiashi, you—!" By the time he realized what was happening, thirty-two strikes had already landed. His chakra was completely sealed.
Forget counterattacking—he couldn't even activate his Byakugan.
Such was the nature of ninja battles.
Both sides possessed high offense but fragile defenses.
Beyond sheer strength and intelligence, victory often depended on who struck first—who managed to land their technique before the opponent.
Wataru hadn't activated his Byakugan.
He was utterly unprepared.
Awakened abruptly in the dead of night—not exactly groggy, but certainly caught off guard.
One side was battle-hardened, executing a premeditated attack.
The other was out of practice and completely defenseless.
The outcome was inevitable—within mere moments, Wataru collapsed under the hands of "Hiashi."
"Are you insane?!"
"Hiashi!"
"How dare you attack us?!"
"We placed you in the clan leader's seat—we can remove you just as easily!"
Seeing both the First Elder and the Second Elder fall, the remaining four elders finally reacted. While enraged, they swiftly stepped back, moving with precise footwork—like swallows skimming across water—as they retreated.
They had yet to fully grasp the situation.
Regardless of why Hiashi had chosen to rebel, one thing was undeniable—he had attacked them.
The immediate priority was to escape, then expose everything about Hiashi.
Whoosh!
However, just as the four elders kept their eyes locked on "Hiashi," wary of any further pursuit—suddenly, four identical figures materialized behind them, as if they had teleported, blocking their escape.
"ROOM · Amputate."
Tanaka's four shadow clones, each wielding a kunai, thrust their blades into the backs of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Elders of the main house.
The spatial swapping ability of the Op-Op Fruit was unbelievably fast.
Compared to the speed of light, it could be said to be even more advanced.
In the One Piece world, only top-tier Haki users like Doflamingo would have the physical prowess and Observation Haki perception to keep up with such speeds.
In the Naruto world, anyone below the Kage-level—even if they were aware of Tanaka's ability in advance and had made preparations—still might not be able to keep up with it.
As for the four elders of the main house, though they were taijutsu specialists, they did not possess Observation Haki. They had no way to predict his ability beforehand. Furthermore, they were focused on defending against Hiashi in front of them, never expecting that someone could instantly close in from behind.
With a well-planned ambush, combined with the sheer speed of ROOM's spatial swap—
By the time they activated their Byakugan in mid-air and saw the four shadow clones behind them, kunai in hand, thrusting forward—
It was already too late.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Four muffled sounds, like distant thunder, echoed through the room.
The four elders, still in mid-air, attempting to retreat, were struck without exception.
Each of their hearts was forcefully ejected from their bodies by Tanaka's ability, wielded through the kunai of his shadow clones.
Under the 360-degree vision of the Byakugan, they witnessed the entire process with horrifying clarity.
From the moment their hearts were extracted, to the instant they flew out into the air, they saw everything.
However, seeing did not mean they could change anything.
The moment their hearts left their bodies, the four elders felt an unprecedented weakness and powerlessness wash over them—just as Mitsuhiko had moments earlier.
When their feet touched the ground again, their knees buckled, their bodies collapsing limply onto the floor.
They could not move.
Even their Byakugan could no longer be activated.
At this moment, let alone fighting, even the simple act of breathing required all their effort.
"Space-time ninjutsu… And a technique that ejects the heart from the body… These are not Hyūga techniques. No, they are not even Konoha techniques."
"Hiashi, why are you rebelling?"
Aside from the Second Elder—who had been personally taken care of by "Hiashi" and had fainted due to his severe injuries—the other five elders, despite having their hearts forcibly removed, remained conscious, though utterly weakened.
Thinking back on everything that had just transpired, they were filled with confusion and shock.
They could not understand why Hiashi would go to such lengths to orchestrate an attack against them.
As the clan leader, he already stood at the pinnacle of power within the clan.
Beyond the title of Hokage itself, there was nowhere higher for him to ascend.
Even as elders, they had to unite as a collective to balance the authority of the clan leader.
Because of this, none of them could comprehend—
Why would he rebel?
At the same time, all of them felt an overwhelming sense of terror and unease.
Because, through their Byakugan's vision, they had clearly seen the identity of the person who attacked them.
A branch house member.
Tanaka.
