Thus, Unohana Yachiru had not met the Royal Guard's requirements and had not received an invitation from them.
"What do you think?"
Ailin reached out, pried Tenshiro Kirinji's hand off his wrist, and flung it aside. He had no habit of letting other men hold his hand.
"I'm living perfectly well in the Seireitei. Why would I go to the Soul King Palace and become a prisoner?"
"Hah? Brat, how dare you call members of the Royal Guard, who protect the Spirit King, prisoners?"
Tenshiro Kirinji flicked up his pompadour and sneered. "Protecting the Spirit King is the highest honor. How dare you call our honor imprisonment?"
"Isn't it?"
Ailin was not intimidated by Tenshiro Kirinji in the slightest. He shrugged. "Once you become a member of the Royal Guard, you can't leave the Soul King Palace, can you?"
"If the Soul King Palace is the only place you're allowed to move about, then what are you if not prisoners?"
"You bastard..."
Tenshiro Kirinji wanted to refute Ailin, only to realize that his own situation was not much different from what Ailin had described.
It was just that, before being promoted to the Royal Guard, its members had all been researchers devoted to their work. Otherwise, they could not have created things that did not exist in the Soul Society, become part of the Soul Society's very "history," and gain the recognition of the Spirit King's will.
For them, joining the Royal Guard to protect the Spirit King merely meant changing to a better place for research.
But for people like Ailin, who valued freedom, joining the Soul King Palace as a member of the Royal Guard and being unable to leave it was itself a form of restraint.
Having thought it through, Tenshiro Kirinji immediately understood.
No wonder the