"Soul King Palace..."
Tsunayashiro Tokinada looked somewhat grim. The hand gripping his Zanpakuto trembled constantly, and his gaze drifted uncertainly, as though he was considering whether he should go to the Soul King Palace.
"What are you thinking about?!"
Just as Tokinada was lost in thought, a large hand landed on his shoulder. Araki's deep, magnetic voice slowly rang out beside his ear.
"Hehe..."
Tokinada gave a self-deprecating laugh.
"Teacher Araki, you should know that I am a member of the innately 'evil' Tsunayashiro Family!"
"For someone as evil as me, the only things in my mind are probably matters deeply disrespectful toward His Majesty the Soul King..."
This was the first time Tokinada had called himself a member of the "innately evil" Tsunayashiro Family. A hundred years of tempering had made him far more mature, and it had also made him understand many things. He finally knew why Araki had called him an "innately evil" brat when they first met...
If what was recorded in the secret texts within his family's archives truly existed, then not only the Tsunayashiro Family, but the other four of the Five Great Noble Clans—the Shihoin, Kuchiki, Shiba, and the family guarding Hell—were all implicated! Anyone with the blood of the Five Great Noble Clans flowing through their veins was born guilty!
"Teacher Araki, if it is you, then you should know exactly what the ancestor of our Tsunayashiro Family once did to His Majesty the Soul King, right? Does someone like me truly have the right to cultivate in the Soul King Palace?"
Tokinada then looked at Araki and asked.
Smack!
Just as Tokinada's eyes went dull and the gloomy aura in his heart continuously spilled outward, making him seem as if he lived in a bottomless Abyss, Araki's scabbard heavily struck him