Isshin Shiba quickly realized just how serious the situation was. In the middle of the night, an alarm suddenly sounded: all captains of the Seireitei's Thirteen Court Guard Squads were to report for an Emergency Assembly!
Issuing an emergency assembly order at this hour was enough to show how grave the situation was.
Isshin Shiba, who had not slept and had been sitting blankly in the corridor with Yinsen, was genuinely frightened this time. Captain Yinsen's premonitions were really this accurate?
"I'm going to the First Division."
Emergency captain assemblies were held in the First Division's captain conference room, the same place where Yinsen had held his Succession Ceremony. It was the fixed location where the captains of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads gathered to discuss matters.
It was really just a separate little room within the First Division barracks, neither spacious nor particularly decorated, but it was a place only a very small number of people could set foot in.
Including Captain-Commander Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, and excluding the Ninth Division's injured captain, Kensei Muguruma, as well as Kenpachi Kiganjo, who habitually ignored captain meetings, the remaining captains had all arrived... Oh, Kisuke Urahara had not arrived yet.
The meeting did not wait for everyone to be present before beginning. According to the rules, captains had to arrive within a set period after an emergency summons was issued. Once the time was up, the meeting began. Unless there were special circumstances, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, who had always followed every rule, would not delay the meeting.
However, Kisuke Urahara was not late by much. He arrived just as the meeting began.
"Please... please send me!"
Kisuke Urahara was deeply worried about his lieutenant, Hiyori Sarugaki, and volunteered to join the investigation team, only to be rebuked by Yoruichi: he needed to