Tsudou chewed on the roots of the Hellstone Flower. Its peculiar bitterness mixed with a faint sweetness and spread through his mouth. The stimulation numbed his throat and mouth, while the rush made his forehead swell slightly and gave him a mild dizziness, rather like being drunk.
He disliked drinking, but he loved this dizzy feeling!
The mild dizziness produced by the Hellstone Flower's roots not only failed to make him sleepy, but instead left him excited, with faster reactions than usual.
Most of the villains in the districts with higher numbers had been born and raised in the Soul Society. Only a small portion had died in the Human World and, for various reasons, eventually become residents of the higher-numbered districts!
Among them, Tsudou was the only Great Villain to have experienced both worlds!
Unlike those villains, he had not become twisted by the passage of time, nor had he become a villain because of hatred for the Soul Society's system or anything similar. At least, that was not how Tsudou saw it.
When he had first arrived in the Soul Society, he had followed the rules and lived a peaceful life like the ordinary residents. The only difference was that he possessed an exceptionally strong talent for Spiritual Power. Even though he had never deliberately cultivated, his spiritual pressure had gradually grown stronger.
That talent had once caused him to lose himself, immersing him in the admiring gazes of those around him. At the time, he had thought his life was wonderful.
It was not until several hundred years later that he finally realized it!
Those admiring gazes were completely useless. They were nothing more than shackles that bound him in place, making him follow the so-called rules just like the trash around him.
Fortunately, he had come