As long as you possessed sufficient strength, everything in this world would treat you gently.
Even Aizen could not refute that point.
However, though Aizen could not refute Ailin's view, he did not agree with it either.
Because this was the cruelest truth of the world: betrayal.
The Spirit King's power was beyond doubt.
Yet his excessive strength gave the Five Noble Clans beneath him other thoughts.
In the end, the Spirit King was betrayed by the five subordinates he had trusted.
However, through the future he could see, the Spirit King himself believed that his sacrifice was worthwhile.
Thus, even after being sealed within a yellow crystal, even after suffering the Tsunayashiro Clan's torment several times over the past million years and becoming a living human stick, the Spirit King still had no intention of destroying the world.
Even when he could no longer endure it and sought liberation through death, he chose, from countless futures, the one that would cause the least harm to the world, protecting it all the way as it flowed toward that future.
In that future, someone capable of killing him would be born, along with three or four people who could perfectly replace him as the "wedge" stabilizing the world.
No matter what the world became after his death, its future would not change much.
Therefore, when Captain Ailin called him a cautionary example, Aizen merely chuckled.
"Captain Ailin, are you sure I truly am a cautionary example?"
"If I am not mistaken, Captain Ailin is still leisurely enough to come here, which means no disorder has broken out within the Seireitei."
"In other words, Captain Ailin has taken over the fruits of my centuries of work, used Kyoka Suigetsu to hypnotize the entire Seireitei, and had someone else replace me as the