This time, her older brother's Chakra increased significantly, and the Caged Bird Seal mark also faded, but the Byakugan showed no signs of evolution.
Later, Asana injected her older brother with the subsequent two extracted genes.
Her older brother's Caged Bird Seal mark also shrank to the size of a fingernail, but he did not exhibit the other Ōtsutsuki Clan characteristics. The only change was that his hair color turned silver-white, just like hers.
Subsequently, Asana injected the serum into her parents as well. Her father's hair color also turned silver-white, but her mother showed virtually no changes apart from the Caged Bird Seal being undone, and her hair color remained unchanged.
This left Asana baffled.
Later, after multiple experiments, Orochimaru formed a hypothesis: this situation occurred because of differences in the purity of the Byakugan, or rather, the purity of the bloodline.
To confirm this result, Asana asked Uchiha En to secretly infiltrate the Hyuga Clan and steal blood samples from some clan members, especially the Main Family's blood.
Asana sent these blood samples to Orochimaru, who confirmed his hypothesis after testing them.
Moreover, Orochimaru reached a new conclusion: currently, the purest bloodline in the entire Hyuga Clan belonged to the Hyuga Main Family's eldest daughter, Hyuga Hinata. Asana, who ranked second, still had some gap compared to her.
Uchiha En was not surprised by this result. In the original work, the Ōtsutsuki on the moon directly called Hinata the Byakugan Princess, and Ōtsutsuki Toneri had stolen Hyuga Hanabi's eyes to activate the Tenseigan.
From this, it was clear that the purity of the Byakugan in both daughters of Hyuga Hiashi must be extremely high.
In other words, it was possible for both of them to achieve an effect similar to Asana's—completing Bloodline Reversion by supplementing their genetic deficiencies.
After learning this conclusion, Asana developed some interest in Hyuga Hinata.
Furthermore, since many members of the Hyuga Clan Branch Family were secretly seeking her out, Asana simply decided to help these Branch Family members escape the control of the Caged Bird Seal and use this opportunity to abolish the Hyuga Clan's Main Family/Branch Family system.
Asana told Uchiha En her idea, and Uchiha En naturally gave his full support to Asana's decision.
Therefore, Asana told the Branch Family members who secretly sought her out to find opportunities to accept missions that required leaving the Village.
Because her method of removing the Caged Bird Seal required some time, doing it within the Village might lead to the Main Family discovering it midway, which would cause trouble.
The members of the Hyuga Branch Family who secretly came to Asana naturally agreed immediately.
In the following days, more than a dozen members of the Hyuga Branch Family successively accepted missions requiring them to leave the Village, thus "fleeing" the Hyuga Clan.
Asana had Orochimaru send people to meet them in advance.
Orochimaru was also very welcoming towards the Hyuga Branch Family members. He wanted to see what changes would occur after these members were injected with the gene serum, and if a second anomaly like Asana would appear.
Meanwhile, Uchiha En had also completed all preparatory work and was ready to attempt constructing a new Tailed Beast inside Naruto at any time.
At the funeral, my friend seemed very calm and didn't cry; he was just expressionless, looking somewhat numb. His appearance stopped me from offering any words of comfort. Later, after the funeral ended, when they were removing his mother's photo, he suddenly burst into uncontrollable tears, sobbing while he packed up—it was truly heartbreaking. That night, a few of us gave him some alcohol, and he drank heavily by himself. They say that drawing a sword to cut water only makes the water flow faster, and raising a cup to drown sorrow only makes the sorrow grow, but at times like that, what is better than wine to soothe the pain in one's heart?
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