Uchiha Hiko was immediately filled with doubts. Looking at the few people before him, clad in coarse, tattered clothes, he kept turning things over in his mind.
These people definitely aren't souls from District 80!
Judging by the aura they gave off, they most likely came from an area near Seireitei!
But why would people from near Seireitei appear here?
Could something really have happened?
That sudden little ambush instantly put Uchiha Hiko on alert. Everything he had encountered along the way was far too abnormal.
This was not his first time entering the Soul Society, and nothing like this had ever happened before.
Only this time! Something about this situation felt wrong!
Uchiha Hiko's thoughts raced.
After considering it from every angle, he still found no answer. Then, a possibility suddenly came to him!
The possibility of the Senkaimon "valley"!
Uchiha Hiko raised his head and looked at the sky. That expanse of blue resembled two paintings that had each been cut in half, then pieced together from separate halves!
One half showed the urban scenery of Karakura Town: towering buildings, bustling traffic, sedans and buses moving along stretches of asphalt road.
The other half was nothing but a deep blue sky! Every now and then, a few birds flew from the sky over the cityscape into the depths beneath that blue sky.
It gave people the illusion that they had crossed into another world!
Uchiha Hiko frowned deeply. If things were really as he imagined, then hidden undercurrents must also be surging within the Soul Society of the Bleach World!
That Soul Society, which appeared calm on the surface, was far from peaceful!
Uchiha Hiko's brows remained tightly furrowed. From this scant bit of information, he had already drawn far too many possibilities!
"I'd better ask what's going