Escape From Konoha

In the following days, Shiraishi often saw Ayane living alone in the school.

She suddenly had no friends, no so-called desire for life, her eyes were empty, like a walking dead.

This may be the real life attitude of a 'slave'.

It is estimated that it is impossible to get out of this shadow in this lifetime.

Shiraishi didn't know how a girl who clearly yearned for freedom felt when she was defined as a 'slave' by her closest clansmen.

But it must be full of despair and pain that ordinary people can't imagine.

After that day, Ayane's grades plummeted, and the class teacher Fujimura Taiga didn't say anything about her, and he could only give her some trivial comfort and encouragement, so that she could study with peace of mind and stop thinking about anything.

Although he really wants to help his students, the tradition of the Hinata clan will not be changed by a school teacher who is nothing like him.

Fujimura Taiga understands this very well, and he also knows that there is no way to solve this kind of thing by asking the Third Hokage for help.

These wealthy families are like small villages in Muye Village.

Many rules of Muye Village do not control their internal affairs.

But Shiraishi saw it very clearly.

Words of comfort are of no use to Ayane.

She can only be enlightened from another level.

Mental wounds can only be healed with spiritual medicine.

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Tormenting one's body with pain has always been a good medicine to divert mental numbness.

Only by using this kind of physical pain can Ayane feel that she is truly alive now.

I am still a person, not a 'livestock' raised by the family.

She didn't understand the meaning of the family's traditional existence, nor did she want to, nor did she want to.

Although those adults kept enlightening her, saying that planting the 'caged bird' curse mark on her body was for her own good and for the sake of the family's inheritance.

All her sacrifices were not meaningless, but worthwhile.

If so, why didn't people from the Zong family sacrifice themselves? This questioning thought kept popping up in Ayane's mind.

The more she thought about it, Ayane felt that her heart was filled with a feeling of wanting to destroy all darkness.

The hatred also continued to intensify.

With such thoughts of hatred and anger, her fair and gentle face also became a little ferocious, with a hint of ferocity, without the gentleness it used to have.

Attacking the wooden stake with the Hyuga Clan's soft fist, gradually, in the swing, her soft fist also gradually changed its taste, there was no trick of the soft fist at all, but she directly used her fist to the wooden stake purely Let it out and get hot and hard.

Even if the fist was bleeding and the pain continued, there was no tendency to stop.

Rather, using this pain to divert her mental numbness was exactly what she wanted.

After a while, she stopped this self-harming way of venting, and squatted next to the wooden stake, with her hands hugging her knees, her head drooping, her long black hair covering her face, and only a slight sobbing sound could be heard.

The sun was setting, and the forest was shrouded in darkness.

It was almost dark.

The air in the forest has also become a little cold.

The dark green leaves fell on Ayane's shoulders, and she was still sobbing softly.

——Suddenly at this moment, the sound of light footsteps came from the dark woods, causing her to stop crying suddenly.

"So you are hiding here, but this place is really suitable for a person to lick his wounds alone."

This voice, Ayane, was very familiar, and she couldn't help raising her head to look at the person coming.

That was my deskmate - Chiba Shiraishi.

A truly ordinary person.

Commoner, insignificant grades, average student.

That's all he is.

Although the relationship with him was relatively harmonious before, but now she is not in the mood to deal with an irrelevant outsider like him.

"Why are you here?"

She didn't call out the other party's identity with the gentle title of 'Mr. Baishi' as before. On the contrary, her voice became stiff and unfamiliar.

Ayane was puzzled as to why Shiraishi came here, but there was a feeling of being spied on and discovering a secret, which made her very annoyed.

"There are many reasons, but more are drawn to the hatred and anger inside you. I'm actually like you."

A meaningful smile appeared on Shiraishi's face.

"same as me?"

Ayane was stunned, not understanding what Shiraishi was talking about.

Bai Shi came out from the darkness, with a slight smile in his steady black eyes:

"Yeah, I, like you, am a part of this twisted, unknowingly boring village. Even the insignificant part, commonly known as the humble thing whose destiny is controlled by others."

Ayane gasped for breath.

Bai Shi's ordinary image suddenly became another stranger in his mind.

It's like getting to know your deskmate again.

Is he expressing dissatisfaction and hostility towards the village?

Why does he have this idea?

But when Shiraishi said this, Ayane didn't know why, but her heart was filled with sympathetic joy.

"You're puzzled, aren't you?"

Shiraishi asked with a smile again.

Confuse?

What are you wondering about?

Facing Shiraishi's inexplicable question, Ayane frowned, and there was a hint of vigilance in her pure white eyes.

"Do you already feel that you are inferior?"

As soon as Shiraishi said these words, Ayane's chest was filled with a strong murderous aura.

These words have already hurt her personality and self-esteem.

All the negative emotions rushed into her heart, causing Ayane to lose her mind in an instant, and her figure rushed towards Shiraishi quickly, and vigorously shook her fist at Shiraishi's body.

Shiraishi smiled slightly, Ayane, who was dominated by anger and thus lost her composure, her attack has become weak and deceptive, without any method.

There is absolutely no need to be on guard against this level of attack. Bai Shi said in his heart.

So, he caught Ayane's fist and counterattacked, pressing her whole body against the tree next to her, preventing her from moving a bit.

The situation was reversed in an instant.

It may be that the defeat was too sudden, so Ayane froze immediately.

It was totally unexpected that this would be the result.

"Have you been hiding your strength? Why are you doing this?"

Ayane regained her composure and asked this question.

"What exactly? But before we get into that, how about we talk about your business?"

Shiraishi said in a gentle voice unhurriedly.

"Hmph, what do commoners like you know? Don't be ridiculous."

Ayane said with a voice that wanted to crush Shiraishi's throat.

What does this kind of civilian who is nothing know?

She was planted as a 'bird in a cage', and everything in her life in the future will be dominated and planned by those high-ranking clans.

The so-called freedom and dignity have been ruthlessly deprived from now on.

Whenever she saw the superior arrogance on the faces of those clansmen, she felt like trampling that arrogance under her feet.

Let them also try, how humiliating and desperate it is to be toyed with dignity and freedom.