"Even if she was an Arrancar, she was still just a child! How could you lay a hand on such a young child?!"
Faced with Ichigo's furious accusation, Yoru Machi, whose collar had been seized, wore a baffled expression. "I killed her? Why would you say that?"
"Bastard! Didn't you just—"
Seeing Yoru Machi still trying to deny it, Ichigo became even more enraged. He pointed at Nirgel's "corpse" lying on the ground, about to say something.
But in the next second, the little girl who had been lying on the ground actually stood up again.
Pesche and Dondochakka, who had been stopped by Hinamori Momo on the other side, were equally stunned when they saw Nirgel rise again.
Especially when they saw the crack in Nirgel's mask glowing and slowly repairing itself, the two of them became so excited they could barely contain themselves.
"What is going on...?"
Seeing Nirgel stand up again, her spiritual pressure steadily rising, as well as Pesche and Dondochakka's excited expressions, Ichigo naturally realized that he had misunderstood Yoru Machi.
Yet seeing everyone's reactions, Hinamori Momo, Yoru Machi's number-one brainless fan, glared at Ichigo, Pesche, and the others in displeasure. "You people really don't know what's good for you. Big Brother Yoru Machi's Zanpakuto possesses the strongest healing ability in all of Soul Society.
"And Big Brother Yoru Machi is both strong and gentle. Even if she was an Arrancar, how could he possibly bring himself to kill a child?"
Thinking about how Kurosaki Ichigo and the others had doubted Yoru Machi earlier, Hinamori Momo felt extremely angry.
Hinamori Momo was usually shy and timid, but now that the idol she admired had been suspected and misunderstood, she was even angrier than if she herself had been questioned.
"All right, I didn't explain things