What Is Its Value?

"How could your data possibly be accurate down to the individual person?"

Listening to the long string of numbers Ross reported, Kirinji felt as though he had been plunged into some surreal fantasy.

What he felt now was exactly the same as what Chōjirō Sasakibe had felt when the number of 147 people had been announced.

It was the suffocating feeling of being completely seen through, of having one's intellect utterly crushed from one side!

He had never imagined that someone as absurdly extraordinary as Ross could exist in this world.

Even the Soul King, who had once been the core of the world, could never have captured such precise population and geographical data in an instant.

As a member of Zero Division, he knew the Soul King's limits all too well.

Even if the Soul King wished to perceive such things, he would need time to read them.

Yet Ross made it seem as effortless as reciting the accounts of his own backyard.

But Ross was clearly an invader of this world, and yet he was more familiar with their world than they were themselves. It was simply too surreal.

"It really can be precise down to the exact number, Lord Kirio."

At that moment, Chōjirō Sasakibe, still bathed in golden light, let out an extremely complicated sigh.

He bowed slightly and answered on Ross's behalf in a tone filled with reverence.

"Back when Lord Ross was still serving as Acting Captain-General, he used thunderous methods to conduct an unprecedented census across every Rukon District in Soul Society."

"During that time, he also wiped out every destabilizing factor in Soul Society. The purpose was to ensure the stability and authenticity of the data."

Recalling those days, a trace of shame, like that of a new recruit facing an old