But now, the situation had been reversed.
According to Kukaku Shiba, her sister-in-law, Miyako Shiba, had been a spy sent by the nobles to investigate the Shiba Clan's secret treasure.
However, during her time with Kaien Shiba, this spy had genuinely fallen in love with him and confessed her identity to him.
Then, when the nobles of Seireitei had been preparing to move against the Shiba Clan, Miyako had invited Captain Ailin's disciple, Rukia, to visit the Shiba Clan and leaked that information to the nobles.
She had wanted to use Captain Ailin to deter those nobles, making them wary and unwilling to attack the Shiba Clan, buying Kaien Shiba more time to grow.
But Miyako Shiba had never expected that her actions would make those nobles think Kaien Shiba was on the verge of a breakthrough.
Once Kaien Shiba broke through, the Five Noble Clans' million-year scheme would come to nothing.
On top of that, members of the Shihoin Family and Kuchiki Clan had added a few remarks from the sidelines, implying that their families were closer to Captain Ailin than he was to this disciple.
They had presumably believed that, for the sake of erasing the Five Noble Clans' greatest stain, Captain Ailin would not care about a single disciple.
But no one had expected that after the incident, that "Strongest Shinigami" would give no face to the Shihoin Family—nor even to the Kuchiki Clan.
It was said that Captain Ailin had now moved out of the Kuchiki Clan estate with his wife.
If Ailin learned that these nobles had knowingly increased the number of Death Warriors and launched the attack despite knowing Rukia was at the Shiba Clan's home, none of the families involved in this operation would escape Ailin's purge.
In the end, Shihoin Yoruichi had