"Hogyoku? Setting aside the fact that I had no interest in something like that, even if I wanted to use it, it wasn't in my possession right now.
"As for how I reached my current level, it was the same answer as before—I relied entirely on myself."
Hearing Yoru Machi's answer, Aizen immediately frowned deeply. "Captain Yoru Machi, are you playing me for a fool?!"
By himself? In merely seventeen months, he had improved his soul beyond Aizen's centuries of planning. Then what did that make Aizen? Trash?
"I'm really not joking. Captain Aizen, haven't you always said that your goal was to become one who stands in the heavens?
"Then have you ever considered that there may be skies beyond the sky? Perhaps the heavens you stand upon aren't the highest.
"You believe you stand high enough, so you look down on those with narrow horizons. You think they are only worthy of looking up at you—but have you ever considered whether the heavens you stand upon are truly the highest point?"
"Captain Aizen, this world is vast... no, rather, your horizons and ambitions should be broader. They should not be limited merely to the Human World, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo.
"As someone who could also be called a scientist, have you ever considered that there may be other worlds beyond the one we inhabit?
"And that in those higher-dimensional worlds, we might be no more than ants?"
Aizen, whose body had been bound to the chair, had his eyes flash brilliantly upon hearing Yoru Machi's words. His limbs, which had already broken free of their restraints, now moved from sheer excitement as he stood up directly.
"Captain Yoru Machi, are you saying that you know of worlds beyond this one, and have even visited other worlds?"
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