Lu Li more or less understood what had happened after hearing Aizen's words. He did not believe that someone as meticulous as Aizen would have failed to check his friend list after coming out of seclusion.
Lu Li did not know about Chuchu, but he remembered that when Shrimp Meat had temporarily joined the team before, Aizen had been friends with Shrimp Meat.
He guessed that Aizen had seen no X on the avatar and simply taken it for an ordinary mission. Besides, Aizen might not have paid much attention to the people on his friend list.
To put it bluntly, Lu Li had always known that Aizen was a proud and aloof person, sometimes cold-hearted by nature. Other than those he acknowledged and who could stand at the summit alongside him, he would not pay much attention to anyone else.
If, thousands of years after emerging from seclusion, Aizen had found that Shrimp Meat and the others still had gray avatars, perhaps he would have gone looking for them out of old friendship, or because of Chuchu's value as a blacksmith and Shrimp Meat's value as a cook.
But avatars turning gray for only a few years was not particularly abnormal in the ninth rank. Aizen would not have specifically concerned himself with it.
Still, there was no need for Lu Li to expose any of this after seeing through it. Aizen had no obligation to rescue anyone, and he had probably been in some kind of obsessive state during that period.
Just from the way he and Soul Singer had fought, Lu Li could tell that Aizen had done more than trade blows with the man for a while after finding him. For all he knew, they had already been fighting for years.
In the end, Lu Li