Before encountering these people, Asano Kiyoshi had always maintained the necessary respect for other people's intelligence.
But after seeing their performance today, Asano Kiyoshi realized that the gap between people truly could not always be measured by common sense.
If they used their brains even a little, they would know that he was fundamentally different from the previous Chief Kido Master—and that he really would kill nobles...
Yet these people acted as if their precious brains had never started working, still jumping around before him.
However, after thinking it over carefully, Asano Kiyoshi could not really blame them.
After all, the nobles had lorded it over Soul Society for far too long. Raised under that sort of influence from childhood, these people simply had no proper values. It was not all that difficult to understand why they behaved differently from him and the others.
Sure enough, after hearing Asano Kiyoshi's question, the masked man's face showed a trace of reluctance. But because of the strength and methods Asano Kiyoshi had displayed yesterday, he still answered in a muffled, unwilling voice:
"Because the two of us were very far away, we already ran here at full speed. Please do not make things difficult for us, sir."
Hearing that, Asano Kiyoshi was nearly angered into laughter. The way these two had sauntered over just now, and the leisurely pace he had sensed through Reishi perception, had not been concealed in the slightest.
And now they were saying this to him? Was that not plainly brushing him off?
So, faced with their attitude, Asano Kiyoshi could not be bothered to beat around the bush any longer. He stated it directly:
"You two, from the moment I notified you, I sensed your movement speed and distance the entire time. In my perception, you were