"Interesting…"
"Since becoming the captain of the Combat Division, this is the first time I've formally carried out an arrest order—and the target is a former colleague who once attended captain meetings with me!"
"How ironic…"
Inside the 11th Division barracks.
Zaraki Kenpachi geared up, a thrilled arc curling his lips. After receiving the notice from the 1st Division, he slung his notch-riddled Zanpakutō over his shoulder without delay!
He looked like a man itching to chop someone down!
"Captain… please be serious. This situation is grave—it's no joke!" Madarame Ikkaku pleaded with worry. "Aizen… he's the most vicious traitor in the history of the Court Guard Squads!"
Recalling the video—
The brutal scene of Hitsugaya Tōshirō being cleaved in one strike by Aizen—both Ikkaku and Ayasegawa Yumichika couldn't help swallowing hard.
One encounter, instant kill!
Such an overwhelming gap proved Aizen's power far surpassed ordinary captain level—far more exaggerated than imagined!
Facing such a ruthless traitor.
If not for this arrest mobilizing every captain-level Shinigami, Ikkaku would've been downright terrified!
"Ikkaku, scared already? Where's your manhood?" Zaraki Kenpachi grinned ferociously. "Don't forget the arrest order's final line: 'If resistance is met, kill without mercy!'"
"Aizen, a dead man walking!"
"What's there to fear?"
Shouldering his blade, Zaraki strode toward the door.
"Let's go…"
"Aizen's head is mine—Zaraki Kenpachi claims it!!!"
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5th Division, underground chamber.
"Ale ale…"
"Captain Aizen, what do we do now? We're surrounded by a dragnet…" Enveloped in a black cloak that blocked spiritual pressure, Ichimaru Gin asked with feigned panic.
Though his tone suggested helplessness, his signature fox-like grin betrayed his insincerity!
Ignoring Gin's theatrics.
Aizen glanced sideways at Tōsen Kaname, calm as ever: "Tōsen… 'Anti-Membrane' and 'Thousand-Step White Snake' are ready, correct?"
From earlier inventory rounds.
After realizing the videos exposed future events and every secret of listed figures.
Certain he'd appear, Aizen had prepared contingencies!
"Everything is ready, Lord Aizen!" Tōsen replied respectfully, also cloaked in spiritual-pressure-blocking black.
"Then…"
Staring at the screen with scholarly indifference.
Aizen's lips curved playfully: "Let's keep watching! When the Shinigami realize the one in the squad office is an innocent colleague wrongly killed, we'll make a grand entrance and reveal the truth…"
"Eeeh…"
"Captain Aizen, you plan to wait until the video exposes our future defection, then defect in sync? That's… pretty evil!"
Ichimaru Gin deliberately stirred the pot.
"Gin…"
Aizen turned leisurely.
Glancing expressionlessly at Gin, he intoned:
"If, even with prior exposure…"
"The Court Guard Squads still can't stop us from leaving Soul Society, doesn't that prove their ignorance and incompetence?"
Emotionless tone.
Highlighting Aizen's disdain for the Court Guard Squads.
"Such a result would inflict secondary damage far harder to accept, no?"
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Meanwhile,
As Seireitei drowned in the shadow of "arresting the traitor," the inventory video continued!
Scene shift.
To the sky above Sōkyoku Hill!
"Asanji Renji…"
"Put down Kuchiki Rukia and step back willingly…"
Before the frame fully settled.
Aizen's commanding, icy voice rang out.
Then,
As the camera panned slowly.
Renji's stunned, bewildered face filled the view!
"Aizen… Captain?!"
"You were… already dead, weren't you? How…"
Overwhelmed by shock.
Renji's arms loosened, nearly dropping Rukia.
She, clad in white prisoner garb.
Wore the same stunned expression!
This scene's emergence.
Instantly startled a certain redhead en route to the 5th Division arrest.
"No way…"
"Am I insane?! Rukia in prisoner clothes, and I'm holding her while facing Aizen alone…"
Passing the squad gate.
Catching the video in his peripheral vision, Renji's pupils shrank, sweat pouring!
Hitsugaya's one-slash defeat still fresh.
Had he lost his mind?
Daring to face Aizen solo!
Worse—
Future him not only defied Aizen's order but drew his Zanpakutō and slashed!
"Insane, insane… future me has lost it!!!"
Renji's vision darkened.
He nearly fainted.
Damn it!!!
Future me, calm down!
That draw will cost lives!
Alas…
Renji's cries and anxiety couldn't pierce time or alter fate!
"Asanji Renji…"
"Persistence is admirable. But excessive stubbornness is overreach…"
Aizen's cold voice lingered.
Yet his figure outpaced the camera, instantly appearing behind Renji.
Accompanied by a blood pillar spraying dozens of meters high!
"What!!!"
"Another one-slash! Another captain-level Shinigami felled by Aizen!!!"
"No… the camera didn't even catch his swing. Renji was down before we saw it!!!"
…
Terrified screams.
Echoed across the Court Guard Squads.
Watching Renji collapse in a pool of blood, countless seated officers trembled in fear!
One slash, one captain-level Shinigami!
Aizen's casual display of power—more brutal, more visually shocking!
Yet,
The slaughter continued.
Fear spread as Aizen stepped toward Rukia!
"Kuchiki Rukia…"
"Once I extract the Hōgyoku sealed within you…"
"We can return to Hueco Mundo smoothly…"
…
"We?!"
"Did we wrong Kira Izuru? Or is Aizen's true accomplice someone else?"
1st Division.
Sparrow Minister Jirō's face stiffened.
Staring wide-eyed in disbelief.
Before,
Due to the Central 46 chase.
He, like others, assumed Kira was Aizen's accomplice—the Central 46 butcher!
But now…
The real accomplice was another!
Just as his cry escaped.
Camera shift.
Focused on the two captain-haori-clad figures flanking Aizen!
Ichimaru Gin…
Tōsen Kaname…
In that instant.
Despair exploded across the Court Guard Squads!!!
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