The entire Soul Society... was in an uproar!
Members of the Thirteen Divisions, seated officers, Vice-Captains, and Captains alike stared fixedly at the images being transmitted back to the Seireitei.
The Zero Division guarding the Soul King Palace were actually traitors?!
Perhaps, before this, the vast majority of Soul Reapers had not even known of Zero Division's existence.
However, after Sōsuke Aizen's attempt to create the King's Key two years ago, and the Wandenreich led by Yhwach attacking the Soul King Palace, Zero Division's existence had undoubtedly become known to a considerable number of Soul Reapers.
Royal Guard, protectors of the Soul King Palace, the path for Captains to advance to a higher level...
Yet at this moment, all those past labels and impressions associated with Zero Division utterly collapsed.
Meanwhile, in a plaza within the First Division, after watching Hyōsube Ichibē finish speaking, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni slowly closed his eyes. Ukitake Jūshirō, on the other hand, revealed profound shock in his gaze.
"Teacher, if something like this is made completely public, I fear..."
Ukitake Jūshirō spoke, his voice filled with concern.
"It will cause enormous turmoil, perhaps even completely overturning the balance of peaceful coexistence that Zero Division and the Thirteen Divisions have maintained for a thousand years," Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni said slowly.
Ukitake Jūshirō took a deep breath and said, "Vice-Captain Chiba was far too careless. No matter how inappropriate Hyōsube Ichibē's tone was, he should have cut off the transmission at once, lest the Thirteen Divisions and Zero Division completely turn against one another."
Yet Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni smiled. "Ukitake, do you still not understand?"
"Understand what?" Ukitake Jūshirō asked in surprise.
"This is precisely what that brat Chiba Makoto wanted to see," Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni stated in a resolute tone.
"Why? The balance that Zero Division