"My, Captain Ailin, what are you talking about? My gaze has always been gentle."
Tokinada Tsunayashiro narrowed his eyes and took several steps back, distancing himself from Ailin.
Tokinada Tsunayashiro had only recently returned to the Seireitei from the Human World. He had no desire to clash with Ailin.
Of course, Tokinada Tsunayashiro had already taken note of everything Ailin had done to him today.
Shinigami had long lifespans, anyway. There would always come a day when he could settle the score.
As long as that being created by Ouhana Auhra—the original Fullbringer—using her Fullbring to gather the corpses of Fullbringers, Shinigami, Quincy, and Hollows...
However, this newly created being was still incomplete. Everything above its neck was missing, and it had only avoided immediate death through the circulation of spiritual power between its Chikaku and Sōtsubame.
For that very reason, Tokinada Tsunayashiro had returned to the Seireitei and established the Mao Shiyakkuin, having its people continuously use Healing Arts to maintain the being's condition.
At the same time, he knew that his ambush of the former head of the Kuchiki Clan had very likely been exposed.
However, thanks to the abilities of the Tsunayashiro Clan's inherited "strongest Zanpakuto"—Enrakyōten—he had not used his own Zanpakuto when he ambushed Ginrei Kuchiki.
As long as the Kuchiki Clan had no evidence, and he did not provoke them, he would remain safe in the Seireitei.
"I hope so."
After saying that, Ailin took Ise Nanao by the hand, passed Tokinada Tsunayashiro, and walked up to Byakuya Kuchiki.
"Byakuya, I'll take this little girl home first. I'll leave things here to you."
"Mm."
Though Byakuya Kuchiki had learned from his grandfather that Tokinada Tsunayashiro was the one who had ambushed him and left him mortally wounded, without evidence, Byakuya—as a model among Seireitei nobles—could