"All right, no time to waste. Since Inoue is in the Fifth Division, no matter what schemes Shunsui Kyoraku is plotting down there, we should go save her now."
Kurosaki Ichigo frowned, unwilling to waste time on this endless speculation.
In his eyes, the Soul Society was already rotten to the core.
It looked glamorous on the outside, but it was crawling with maggots beneath the surface.
He did not care whether Ross or Shunsui Kyoraku won or lost.
Once they rescued her and helped Teacher Aizen fulfill his long-cherished wish, he would dust off his hands and leave.
Whether this place was flooded with chaos or underwent a change of regime afterward had nothing to do with a high school student from the Human World like him.
He was no savior. He had no obligation to save a bunch of hopeless Shinigami.
"Let's go!"
Yoruichi Shihoin suppressed the intense unease in her heart and nodded gently.
Though she also wanted to charge into Mugen and demand to know what Shunsui Kyoraku was trying to do, reason told her that now was not the time.
According to the records of the Great Spirit Library Corridor, the trail of Shunsui Kyoraku's Spiritual Pressure was moving away from Mugen.
Following him now would most likely lead them nowhere.
After swiftly clearing away all traces of their search, Yoruichi and Kurosaki Ichigo quietly left the Great Spirit Library Corridor deep underground.
But along the only route out, Yoruichi stopped and turned her gaze toward the stairs leading up to the Central 46 Chambers' assembly hall on the surface.
"I want to take a look upstairs."
Though Central 46 Chambers was closed off to the outside world, the Great Spirit Library Corridor was located within it, so there was naturally nothing separating them.
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