"Yes!"
"After verification, the stories and characters depicted in these manga all have corresponding real worlds somewhere in the vast universe!"
"That includes the Sea Star I come from, the Shinobi World, one of the affiliated worlds, the Giant World, and the Demon Slayer World."
Perona's words were astonishing.
Then she stared into Aizen's eyes and said, enunciating each word, "And just yesterday, Teacher Linlin gave me a manga called Bleach."
"What it tells is precisely about the Soul Society, Shinigami, Hollows, and a place in the world of the living called Karakura Town."
"The opening is about the protagonist, Ichigo Kurosaki, becoming a substitute Shinigami after meeting 'the Shinigami Rukia Kuchiki.'"
The moment those words came out...
The entire space of the Star Council seemed to fall into a deathly silence.
Aizen, who had originally remained calm, as if everything were within his grasp, finally had the smile on his face stiffen.
The fingers he used to push up his glasses paused slightly.
Behind the reflective lenses, his pupils contracted uncontrollably in an instant.
A manga that recorded the world he was in?
And Ichigo Kurosaki. Rukia Kuchiki.
The former was someone he had secretly observed for many years.
As for the latter, he only remembered that she was a member of the Thirteenth Division.
The key was that he had never mentioned either of those surnames to Perona.
So there was no possibility that the other party had simply made it up.
Aizen's state of mind, hardened like bedrock after a century of vicissitudes, actually wavered a little at that moment.
He could not understand how such a thing could exist.
The world he lived in was being read as manga by another world?
The reason and composure he took pride in suffered an unprecedented shock at that