You've Underestimated Yourself

Yuko acted as if she hadn't seen her reaction and said, "To some extent, you still need to thank us."

"Eh?"

"Your consumption of living humans' souls has already drawn the attention of the Soul Society." Yuko looked her straight in the eye. "They sent people out long ago."

Yoshino pursed her lips. "You mean that orange-haired boy?"

Yuko cast her a strange look and shook her head. "No. How could it be that weakling blondie?"

The skin on Yoshino's face twitched. "If I didn't hear wrong, he seemed to call you Aunt?"

Is that how an elder is supposed to act?

"Did he? Maybe he was trying to curry favor with me." Yuko answered off the cuff, ignoring the topic of Ichigo and continuing, "But the people who came to the Human World this time are proper Captain-level figures."

"At present, there are current Captain-level figures from the Seireitei in Karakura Town."

Yuko held up one finger. "Two of them."

"..." She understood the reasoning, but why didn't Yuko's words and actions match at all?

Yoshino stared at Yuko in astonishment. She felt that this person's style was on an entirely different level from before.

Yuko had probably guessed what she was thinking and explained, "I'm the sort of person who forms first impressions. I heard rumors about you Bavents from elsewhere."

"A race that absorbed human souls to achieve immortality."

"My sense of justice may not be as strong as that blondie's, but I also dislike ordinary people being harmed at will."

Yoshino gave a bitter laugh. "That's right. We Bavents are such a twisted race."

"But we have always only absorbed the souls of the dead. We never intended to harm humans. That's our race's rule..."

"To me, there's no fundamental difference between the souls of the