Hunter's Ascent: Starting in the Hunter x Hunter World
Chapter 885

Pride and Arrogance

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"Allen, tell me, why do you want to destroy Soul Society and all the Deaths? As far as I know, these people don't seem to have provoked you, have they?" Aizen asked probingly, stroking his chin with great interest.

He had always wanted to understand what goal this genius before him—who seemed indifferent to everything—had in mind when he had "voluntarily" joined his camp.

Especially since Allen had so Clean and Neatly handed over Hollowfication's Hogyoku. Even Aizen had found that quite unexpected.

Putting himself in Allen's shoes!

If he himself had created a third Hogyoku, Aizen would never have handed it over to anyone, even if violence had been required.

Allen naturally knew that the "king of pretension" beside him had never truly trusted him. Smiling, he replied, "That has nothing to do with whether they provoked me or not. All my views are conclusions drawn from an objective standpoint. The Deaths of Soul Society have ruled this world for too long—so long that they have forgotten they were once human. One by one, they have become incomparably arrogant and prideful. And pride and arrogance will inevitably lead to destruction! That is an irreversible law of history! It has played out countless times in the human world."

"The original sin of pride and arrogance? That really is impossible to refute." A thoughtful look appeared on Aizen's face.

Having been a Death for several hundred years, he naturally knew how many problems existed within Soul Society's entire ruling structure.

After all, it was an aristocratic republican system established thousands of years ago, with the Five Great Noble Houses at its core.

And the Central 46 Chambers were the clearest manifestation of that system.

But as human society and technology advanced, the whole world's population began to soar, inevitably causing the

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