What You Care About Never Had Any Meaning

"That's impossible!!"

Shinji Hirako sneered. "Who do you think you are? Countless people have lived in and perceived this world for centuries. Do you think we can't tell whether it's real or fake?"

However.

Before he could finish speaking.

Bzzzz!!!

The world around them underwent a drastic change without warning.

The change came so quickly that they did not even have time to blink.

One moment, they were standing amid the devastated ruins of the Soul King Palace; the next, they had returned to the familiar barracks of the Fifth Division.

But then, in the very next instant.

The world was completely overturned.

Shunsui Kyoraku felt the ground vanish beneath his feet. When he planted his feet firmly again, he discovered in horror that everything around him had changed.

It was still the Fifth Division barracks. The buildings had not changed, nor had the layout.

But he knew that everything was different!

The sky was no longer the eternally overcast or monotonous sky of Soul Society. Instead, unfamiliar sun and moon hung above them.

An incomparably brilliant sun hung in the west.

A crescent moon radiating fluorescent light hung in the east.

The warmth of the sunlight, the humidity of the air, even the scent that entered his lungs with every breath had become utterly different.

It was a sense of reality brimming with life, yet profoundly jarring.

He could even feel that his body, long accustomed to Reishi-fication, now possessed the genuine sensation of flesh and blood.

It was as though they had been bound inside Gigai.

Or perhaps they were people with physical bodies, rather than souls formed solely from Spirit Particles.

The crisp chirping of unknown birds reached his ears. Looking into the distance, he saw creatures that had never existed in Soul Society.

And when they