The one who said this was the captain of the Eighth Division, Shunsui Kyōraku.
On the surface, he was criticizing Mayuri Kurotsuchi for disrupting the internal unity of the Gotei 13. But what he truly meant was that Mayuri should produce evidence that Captain Ailin had helped Yhwach reclaim his power and launch a counterattack against the Seireitei.
Seemingly prompted by Shunsui Kyōraku's reminder, Mayuri stopped and gave a cold snort.
"Of course. Naturally, I have evidence, which is why I say this."
"Humph. Nine hundred and ninety years ago, Captain-Commander Yamamoto defeated and severely wounded Yhwach, the Quincy King, forcing him to spend nine hundred years recovering his heartbeat and ninety years recovering his consciousness."
"But at that time, we can be certain that Yhwach had not fully awakened. For him to awaken completely, one most crucial thing was still missing."
"That is, living Quincy in the Human World had to be sacrificed to provide him with the aura of 'living souls,' allowing Yhwach to fully revive."
"If we had completely exterminated all surviving Quincy remnants in the Human World more than two hundred years ago, then without the sacrifice of living souls, Yhwach's condition would not have been complete even if he revived."
"Yet it was because Captain Ailin signed a cooperation agreement with the so-called 'last Quincy' that the Quincy of the Human World were given room to breathe..."
"Four years ago, I discovered signs of Quincy revival and sought to eliminate the Quincy in the Human World, only for Captain Ailin to appear and severely injure me."
Mayuri directly portrayed his attempt to research the Quincy as an effort to uncover their plans and eliminate the danger completely, only to be obstructed by Ailin.
"Sure enough, in merely four years, Yhwach initiated the 'Schrift,' drawing upon