At that thought, Shunsui Kyōraku suddenly froze.
He suddenly recalled that many years ago, Ailin had once asked him whether he wanted to teach Ise Nanao some swordsmanship.
At the time, Ailin had seemed to say that having something and not using it was different from wanting to use it and not having it.
Could it be that Ailin had already guessed something like this would happen back then?
Or was even this current upheaval related to Ailin?
I can't figure it out...
Captain Ailin, just how many secrets do you have that I haven't seen?
"Just as I thought..."
The moment Ailin stepped out of his Inner World, he sensed that the entire world seemed to harbor powerful malice toward him.
"Because I imprisoned Aizen, the future changed and deviated from the path the Spirit King had foreseen, so the Soul King's Will is enraged?"
"Rumble..."
Dark clouds churned as bolts of lightning raced through them. The thick cloud cover seemed to be rapidly descending toward the ground, as though it intended to utterly destroy everything within the Seireitei.
"Whoosh..."
Without a sound, Ailin returned to the Kuchiki Clan estate and handed a Zanpakuto with a green hilt to his clone.
After receiving the Zanpakuto, Ailin's clone immediately departed, rushing toward the Fifth Division.
Only after his clone had left did Ailin raise his head and look toward the heavens.
Boom!
Vast spiritual pressure surged from Ailin's body, transforming into a pillar of golden spiritual energy that shot straight into the sky.
That spiritual pressure pierced through the Seireitei's Soul-Shield Membrane and surged upward, breaking through the seventy-two barriers above the Seireitei before reaching the Inner Palace of the Soul King Palace.
"Rumble..."
Within the Spirit King's Inner Palace, the four palace guards of the Soul King Palace