"What? Did Researcher Ranshiro say something to Captain-Commander Yamamoto that made him wary?"
The Communication Device fell silent for a moment. Clearly, Ailin had hit the mark.
"That is correct."
A few seconds later, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's voice came through the Communication Device.
"Ranshiro threatened me. She said I was not to send any captain who had held the position for over a hundred years to fight the Bount. Otherwise, she would detonate the Pure Realm Chapters she had hidden within the Seireitei long ago and destroy the Seireitei."
"Oh? Now that's interesting."
Ailin leaned against the wall, absently twirling the curtain with one hand, a smile at the corner of his lips.
Ailin knew about the Pure Realm Chapters.
Though he did not know which director of the Soul Technology Development Bureau had invented them, they did indeed contain vast quantities of spirit particles and could be detonated through certain methods.
Why were they called "Pure Realm Chapters"?
Over the past million years, there had been no shortage of capable and insightful people in the Seireitei who had recognized the crisis facing this world.
Ordinary people lived by the creed: after I die, let the floodwaters rise.
But those blessed with great wisdom and determination thought instead of how they might save the world.
Thus, some people began all manner of research in order to save it.
Researchers were geniuses—and madmen.
Over the past million years, these researchers had developed many dangerous things, causing immense destruction to Soul Society.
To prevent history from repeating itself, someone created the "Pure Realm Chapters."
Though these "Pure Realm Chapters" bore the name "pure realm," they were, in truth, instruments of destruction.
Several Pure Realm Chapters were buried beneath every laboratory.
Once an experiment went wrong and created something that might cause tremendous