"Captain Duan Mu..."
Shuhei Hisagi stood at the edge of the battlefield, his expression filled with conflict.
Following Captain Duan Mu's orders, he had tried walking toward the outskirts, but no matter how far he went, he couldn't leave the area. In the end, he always returned here.
After discovering that he couldn't leave, Shuhei Hisagi abandoned the idea of requesting reinforcements and instead seriously watched the battle between Captain Duan Mu and Aizen.
In the battlefield, Captain Duan Mu was still gritting his teeth and holding on. Although he hadn't been injured, his face paled every time he blocked one of Aizen's strikes.
The captain had clearly fallen into a disadvantageous position. As his lieutenant and aide, Shuhei should have gone forward to support him.
Yet the words Captain Duan Mu had spoken to him before the battle began left Shuhei Hisagi deeply conflicted.
Aizen's ability, Kyōka Suigetsu, was no longer a secret among the captains and lieutenant captains. If he hadn't had a direct understanding of it before, then what he had witnessed upon arriving here had been more than enough to make Shuhei Hisagi understand how terrifying Aizen's ability was.
Shuhei Hisagi could understand why Captain Duan Mu wouldn't let him interfere recklessly.
But was he really supposed to stand here and do nothing, watching helplessly as the captain was suppressed by the enemy, and even... possibly defeated and killed?
Snap~~
The Kido Blade shattered once again. With Kyōka Suigetsu no longer blocked, it reached Duan Mu in the blink of an eye.
Pfft—!
The sound of blood spraying rang out as Duan Mu was sent flying backward.
Aizen, meanwhile, stood where Duan Mu had been moments earlier, his brows drawing together slightly.
He dodged it.
Aizen had intended for this strike to inflict a severe