"Self-awareness? Hell developed something like a world will too? How could a Dangai give birth to something like that?"
Asano Kiyoshi's questions came at the Soul King like machine-gun fire. But perhaps because no one had spoken with him for far too long, the Soul King did not find them irritating. Instead, he patiently explained, "Strictly speaking, it is not a world will, but something more like a collection of resentments. Back then, I killed far too many Hollows, and some of them possessed power even greater than the current captains of the Soul Society."
"Even after such powerful beings died, their Reishi retained intense emotions. When that Reishi, imbued with strong feelings, encountered a Dangai with a powerful attraction to Reishi, a peculiar reaction was born. The Dangai continuously absorbed Reishi, while the emotions within it continuously merged and intensified. In the end, it became the Hell of today."
"Naturally, I noticed this situation, so I personally went to that Dangai. There, I saw the newly born Hell's Will. To be precise, it could not truly be considered a will. It possessed no intelligence, nor did it have any desire to drive the world forward or allow it to develop. It was more like a chaotic mass of emotions."
"However, because most of the emotions making it up held resentment toward me, Hell's Will was also filled with hostility toward me. I did not pay much attention to that. Hell was merely a somewhat unusual Dangai. I reconstructed that world and gave Hell's Will some preliminary education."
"I wanted to see how far that world could go. But unfortunately, just as I had begun to dispel its hostility toward me, I was sealed within this crystal. I do not really know what Hell is like now. From the moment