Admiring the expressions on everyone's faces—wariness, fear, or awe—Aizen's eyes gleamed with mockery and amusement.
In just a few minutes, he had successfully made every captain and vice-captain of the Gotei 13 completely forget the good-guy image he had spent centuries cultivating and shaping.
The feeling of toying with others in the palm of his hand was so intoxicating, no matter how many times he experienced it.
At this moment, Aizen felt like a god standing high above, looking down upon those ignorant, foolish mortals.
Through the Soul-Soul Fruit's power, Allen clearly sensed this intense emotional fluctuation and immediately realized that Aizen had completely broken free of the last restraints on his mind.
Once they entered Hueco Mundo, he would probably completely let himself go and become the sort who would raise hell as long as he was not dead.
Of course, that had absolutely nothing to do with him.
Even if they overturned the entire Soul Society and successfully opened the entrance to the Spirit King's Palace, those old geezers from Zero Division would still be waiting inside.
And besides that, Yhwach—the emperor of the Wandenreich and the source of all Quincy—was still watching covetously from the sidelines.
Seizing the Spirit King's power and replacing him was no easy task.
With that in mind, Allen slowly drew the Zanpakuto that had hung at his waist untouched for four whole years. He walked straight up to Captain-Commander Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto and said to the old man, who was already burning with fury and itching to cut someone down, "Captain-Commander, I believe you began considering how to seal this dangerous Zanpakuto of mine during the Graduation Exam four years ago, didn't you?"
"Hmm! Your Zanpakuto's ability is the death that annihilates all things. It is far too dangerous to the entire