More than eight hundred Shinigami had been deployed here. Under the rotation system, at least one Shinigami captain had to remain on standby at all times to command the eight garrison units.
Yet an incident broke out today. One of the garrisons had sent an urgent distress call earlier, claiming that a large force of Hollows had invaded and that Gillian Menos Grandes had appeared. The female captain of Squad Three, who was on rotation duty, did not take it too seriously and rushed over with an emergency response team.
However, when the Squad Three captain arrived, she was shocked. As many as ten Gillians led over a hundred Hollows in a slaughter of the stationed Shinigami. She immediately unleashed her full strength and, in less than half an hour, led the reinforcements and remaining Shinigami to wipe out the invaders.
Before she could even catch her breath, the remaining garrisons all sounded alarms and called for aid at the same time, reporting large-scale Hollow invasions. Their reports all mentioned varying numbers of Gillians.
Only then did she realize something was wrong. She immediately sent subordinates back to the Seireitei to request reinforcements.
Meanwhile, the servants of both families had kept watch on Kuchiki Byakuya and Shiba Zhu as they went to Shino Academy to befriend Ronglin. When the three secretly slipped out of Shino Academy and headed straight for the Graveyard of the Fallen, the news was promptly reported.
Thus, while the Thirteen Court Guard Squads had originally sent Kyoraku Shunsui, Jushiro Ukitake, and Unohana Yachiru to provide support, Kuchiki Haru and Shiba Kaien, worried about the youngsters of their families, volunteered to come as well.
They had not expected that a disaster of such magnitude had already erupted here. Large numbers of Hollows had invaded every garrison, and