Muken

Yhwach had already arrived in Soul Society Soul Society when the Quincy began to reveal their true forms. Instead of launching an attack on the Soul King Palace immediately, he ventured deep into the underground of Soul Society.

To be precise, it's the underground of the First Division Barracks, the Central Underground Prison, Muken!

Logically, the Muken environment should be all darkness. It is a place where the most vicious criminals in Soul Society are imprisoned, and criminals should not be allowed to enjoy even a sliver of light. They can only sink into endless darkness.

Yet, even in such an environment, a glimmer of light appeared, and from time to time, crackling sounds came from the center of the Muken.

Firm footsteps echoed through the Muken. Yhwach's first act upon arriving in Soul Society was to Muken out his new companion, Sosuke Aizen.

Aizen alone carries more weight than all his Quincy combined. Yhwach had witnessed Aizen's magnificent and mysterious entrance into the Soul King Palace.

Sensing Aizen's spiritual pressure, Yhwach prepared to greet him even before seeing him, "Sosuke Aizen, you..."

Yhwach suddenly couldn't say anything; he simply couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Right in the very center of this Muken the Jail, Aizen sat cross-legged on a prison chair, wearing headphones and intently staring at the glowing object in front of him. Yhwach knew that the glowing rectangular object was something called a television in the World of the Living.

Aizen Sosuke Aizen, the arrogant and domineering man who dared to storm the Soul King Palace, was actually curled up in a chair watching a movie like a shut-in?

Not only that, Aizen was also constantly putting something into his mouth, and the crunching sounds all came from him.

Sosuke Aizen, who was watching a movie, shifted his position. Everything here was great—quiet and with things to do to pass the time.

The only downside was the chair I was sitting on; it was too hard and uncomfortable. But Captain-Commander Kyōraku absolutely refused to replace it with a sofa. Honestly, a prison chair should look like a prison chair. Fortunately, I've been sitting on it for so long that I've gotten used to it.

Aizen's mouth was getting dry from eating potato chips, so he turned to get a drink from the chair next to him, only to find that a guest had arrived.

Aizen calmly paused the movie, took off his headphones, and coughed twice in a mocking manner. "Yhwach, what brings you here?"

"Sosuke Aizen, I never thought you would fall so quickly!" Yhwach resolutely refused to admit that the Aizen before him was the same Aizen Sosuke Aizen he had seen in his the Almighty who could annihilate the Soul King Palace with a mere wave of his hand.

"Degenerate? I feel pretty good about it. I don't have to fight for my life, and I can even have something to amuse myself." Aizen handed over the potato chips in his hand. "Want some?"

Yhwach didn't even glance at the bag of potato chips, continuing to spout his own opinions.

"I originally thought you were the warrior who dared to defy the Soul King and destroy the Soul Society. As one of the special combatants, I originally wanted to invite you to come along. I never expected that you would turn into this in just one year."

"Travel together? That unpleasant spiritual pressure permeating the ground, that must be from you Quincy." Aizen silently placed the potato chips on the armrest, leaned back in his chair, and looked up, his gaze seemingly able to pierce through countless obstacles to see Seireitei. "That irritating feeling alone is enough to determine that we won't travel together."

"Or is it that the King of the Quincy will follow in the footsteps of the Bleach?" Aizen turned to look at Yhwach, his eyes filled with a mixture of amusement and icy coldness.

"Is this your reply?" Yhwach turned halfway to the side, preparing to leave. "I'm truly disappointed. That Sosuke Aizen is now willing to sit in this chair and bind himself."

"Self-imposed constraints?"

Aizen extended his fingertip and pointed it a little further away. A row of lights lit up at Yhwach's feet, which were keyholes. Then, intense lightning enveloped Aizen, and a rectangular lightning cage trapped Aizen within the range of the prison chair.

"You're afraid of this mere thunder?" Yhwach understood what Aizen meant; Aizen still hadn't escaped the Soul Society's imprisonment.

In other words, if Aizen hadn't been imprisoned, he would still have chosen to rebel against the Seireitei's rule, regardless of whether they were on his side.

"Mere thunder? Haha!" Aizen laughed twice as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, then fixed his gaze on Yhwach. "You can't not sense whose spiritual pressure this is, can you? Wasn't it precisely to avoid him that you chose to attack Soul Society on this day?"

"Sawada Tsunayoshi!" Reminded by Aizen, Yhwach realized why the green lightning looked so familiar.

"Good luck." Yhwach lifted his foot to leave. Luckily, he hadn't recklessly released Aizen earlier. Not only had he failed to subdue Aizen, but he had also alerted Sawada Tsunayoshi, which would have been a huge loss.

"Just like that, you're leaving?" Aizen's voice carried a hint of mockery. "Didn't you come here because you saw my power as a threat?"

Yhwach stopped and said, "Since you've fused with the Hogyoku, killing or sealing you would be a waste of time."

Yhwach's footsteps faded into the distance, while Aizen sky, thinking, "Our paths have never aligned; he's destined to be destroyed sooner or later."

"Snort!"

Yhwach, far away, heard Aizen's murmur, left a cold snort, and vanished into the Muken.

After a while, a crack appeared in the ground next to the prison chair, and a lift platform rose up, along with another person: Captain of the Squad 12, Kurotsuchi Mayuri.

"Alright, stop pretending. He's no longer in Muken."

Upon hearing Kurotsuchi Mayuri's words, Aizen immediately got down from his chair, stood before Kurotsuchi Mayuri, and bowed respectfully, "Kurotsuchi Mayuri."

"I say, you're really trying too hard to pass as Aizen, aren't you? I can tell you're an imposter." Kurotsuchi Mayuri looked at the Aizen who was being so respectful to him and was somewhat speechless.

"Lord Aizen said that only a 30% resemblance is needed; letting the other party guess the rest makes it seem more authentic, since he's never actually seen the real Sosuke Aizen."

Kurotsuchi Mayuri made a face as if he had a toothache. He considered himself far superior to Aizen in research, but when it came to scheming against people, he couldn't be bothered to compare himself to Aizen.

"Alright, alright, you should just go back to your original form. We should leave." Kurotsuchi Mayuri Aizen over and said, "I didn't expect that someone as powerful as Yhwach, even with his own Quincy power and the combined power of Kyoka Suigetsu, would be unable to see the truth of the matter."

"It seems his the Almighty are not true the Almighty!" Kurotsuchi Mayuri judged.

Upon receiving Kurotsuchi Mayuri's order, Aizen's appearance gradually changed, transforming into a graceful woman with braided hair, holding a modified Zanpakuto in her hand. She was none other than Nemu Kurotsuchi, the Vice-Captain of the Squad 12.

"This Enrakyōten is really useful. That ignorant guy Tsunayashiro Tokinada, wanted to use it to take revenge on Soul Society. It would be so much better to use it for research."

Kurotsuchi Mayuri received the Enrakyōten from Nemu Kurotsuchi. Nemu Kurotsuchi had just used the power of the Enrakyōten to imitate the power of the Kyoka Suigetsu, Water Moon.

Kurotsuchi Mayuri neatly removed the transparent tubular object from the end of the hilt of the Enrakyōten Blade, replaced it with a new one, and then handed it back to Nemu Kurotsuchi.

When Urahara Kisuke Tsunayashiro Tokinada Enrakyōten. After studying it, he gave it to Kurotsuchi Mayuri to play with, and Kurotsuchi Mayuri ended up modifying it.

Using the power of the Enrakyōten requires consuming a soul, but for Kurotsuchi Mayuri, the cost is incredibly low, not to mention that he has an abundance of artificial souls.

The current Enrakyōten is like a modern firearm; by replacing the bullets with artificial souls, it can be used continuously.

"It's that Tsunayashiro Tokinada again! He stole the body out of nowhere, making me lose a research subject for nothing!" Kurotsuchi Mayuri and resentful when he talked about Tsunayashiro Tokinada.

Nemu Kurotsuchi was able to deceive Yhwach not because of her Kyoka Suigetsu ability, which was far inferior to Aizen's, nor because of the Saint Letters Y extracted from Lloyd's corpse.

Using this potion, Nemu Kurotsuchi could temporarily use Lloyd's abilities once, but unfortunately, because Tsunayashiro Tokinada stole the corpse, Kurotsuchi Mayuri only made one potion and then ran out of raw materials.

Without any medicine to replenish her energy, and not knowing when Yhwach would arrive, Nemu Kurotsuchi couldn't stop replenishing her Reishi once she used the medicine.

Nemu Kurotsuchi has been in the Muken for three whole months. Fortunately, she has entertainment facilities in the World of the Living to keep her company, so she is not bored.

After transforming into Aizen Aizen front of him, Nemu Kurotsuchi officially took up residence in the Muken, waiting patiently for Yhwach to arrive.

The cage created using Tsuna's lightning-attribute flames was not actually meant to trap Nemu Kurotsuchi, who had transformed into Aizen, but rather to protect Nemu.

In the event that Yhwach discovers he has been tricked and becomes enraged, this Thunder Prison can help Nemu Kurotsuchi block an attack, buying her time to escape.

Under Aizen's personal tutelage, Nemu Kurotsuchi perfectly imitated Aizen's posture. However, because she resembled Aizen so much, Aizen asked Nemu Kurotsuchi her own style.

Fortunately, Yhwach did not seem to realize that this Sosuke Aizen was an imposter, which made the person who orchestrated this meeting realize that Yhwach's the Almighty were not true the Almighty.

Even the Almighty powers have blind spots and can be interfered with!

"Hey, Azashiro, open the gate!" Kurotsuchi Mayuri shouted.

Soya Ashirogi, who controls everything in Seireitei, has opened an emergency passage within the Muken Realm for Kurotsuchi Mayuri and Nemu Kurotsuchi. Kurotsuchi Mayuri must escape as soon as possible to prevent Yhwach from returning once he discovers something is wrong.

Yhwach, having left the Muken, shook his head. He sensed something was amiss, but couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.

This Sosuke Aizen the Muken Affairs faction is actually Nemu Kurotsuchi in disguise. So where did the real Sosuke Aizen go?