But their luck was poor. The moment they rushed out of the prison, they ran into the arriving Ailin.
Whoosh!
Boom!
Golden lightning flashed, blasting a massive crater into the ground before them and slightly slowing the prisoners' charge.
"Everyone, passage through this area is prohibited."
As Ailin looked at the group rushing out of Central 46's Judgment Chamber, dozens of golden spatial ripples appeared behind him.
Perhaps some among them had been reduced to criminals because of the nobles' selfish desires, but that had nothing to do with Ailin.
Under normal circumstances, if these people broke out of the underground prison, members of the Second Division and Tenth Division would be responsible for hunting them down.
But not now.
Umehari had broken through from the Eleventh Division, and he had learned from its members that the previous generation's Kenpachi, Jushiro Genpachi, was imprisoned in the underground prison.
It was because of Umehari's actions that these people had escaped from the underground prison. The blame fell on the Eleventh Division.
Ailin could not allow them to flee.
"If you return to the underground prison now, I'll pretend I never saw you."
"But if you take another step forward, I will attack you. Don't say I didn't warn you!"
Upon hearing Ailin's words, some of the prisoners who had rushed out of the underground prison looked at one another in silence.
The Shinigami imprisoned more than a thousand years ago did not understand, but those imprisoned within the past millennium recognized what the haori on Ailin's body represented.
It was the Captain's Haori, worn by only thirteen people in the entire Gotei 13, representing the Gotei 13's highest combat strength.
Having been imprisoned underground for years, these Shinigami had long since had their Zanpakuto confiscated. At most, they retained thirty to