Mayuri Kurotsuchi's words, combined with the surveillance footage filled with flesh and severed limbs, left everyone present in slight silence.
Although everyone understood that those servants were merely the nobles' private property, and that however they were dealt with was technically within the permitted bounds.
Still, when living lives vanished before their eyes one after another, they could not help but feel somewhat rueful.
Captain-Commander glanced at the severed limbs and chunks of flesh, shook his head slightly, then continued asking:
"Then, among these rifts and surveillance feeds, Captain Nemu, did you discover anything?"
Hearing this, Mayuri Kurotsuchi nodded. He then took out something resembling a remote control and lightly tapped it toward the surveillance display. The image changed once more.
This time, there were not so many corpses or pools of blood on the screen. Instead, it appeared rather empty and desolate. Beneath withered towering trees stood quite a few lavishly dressed nobles.
Yet there was not the slightest hint of joy on their faces. As they looked at the stern-faced soldiers surrounding them, the nobles were inwardly miserable beyond words.
If they had not been forced by those Great Nobles to come here as scapegoats, why would they have abandoned Soul Society for this godforsaken place?
But if they had not obeyed the Great Nobles' orders and come here, given the size of their families, they would have been toyed to death in no time.
As for defecting to the Gotei 13?
Well... how should they put it? If even one of the things their families had done became known to the Gotei 13, their entire clans would face the danger of extermination.
Looking at it that way, coming here was actually not such a bad choice.
When everyone saw the people appearing in the surveillance footage, their