None Shall Stand Before Us!

The atmosphere seemed to sink into a silent gravity as Aizen Sōsuke waited.

At last, a somewhat bedraggled figure burst in—it was Grimmjow, wounded in several places.

Seeing this, Nel, whom Aizen Sōsuke had kept by his side, called out worriedly.

"Grimmjow?!"

Grimmjow looked up at the unscathed Nel, a flicker of joy and relief passing through his eyes. He hurriedly dropped to one knee before Aizen Sōsuke and spoke respectfully.

"Lord Aizen, I cannot thank you enough."

Aizen Sōsuke did not answer directly. Instead, he took Nel by the hand and descended the steps beneath the throne one by one, stopping before Grimmjow and looking down at him.

Feeling the immense pressure so close at hand, Grimmjow could not help asking nervously.

"Lord Aizen?"

After all, this had truly been Grimmjow's unauthorized action.

Originally, Grimmjow had thought his mission had been a complete failure. Yet when he returned to Las Noches in a miserable state and hurriedly joined the meeting, he saw Nel at Aizen Sōsuke's side.

Though puzzled, Grimmjow could not help feeling intense joy.

The other Espada, as well as Tōsen Kaname and Ichimaru Gin, also focused their gazes on Aizen Sōsuke and Grimmjow, their eyes filled with scrutiny and confusion.

An emergency meeting had been called without warning, yet Aizen Sōsuke had quietly gone to the World of the Living and brought back Nel, who had been missing for some time. He had even deliberately waited for Grimmjow, who had acted on his own, to return.

The feeling that a storm was about to break arose naturally!

At that moment, what the Espada were even more curious about was how Aizen Sōsuke would choose to deal with Grimmjow.

In the past, any Arrancar who defied Aizen Sōsuke's orders had been dealt with without mercy!

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