Reinforcements?
Bzzzz!
An invisible wave spread outward from the underground base.
In the blink of an eye, every resident of City T felt a brief sensation of weightlessness. The next moment, everything returned to normal—but anyone who looked up into the sky would notice a subtle difference.
The scenery outside City T had changed even more drastically, yet the city's residents showed no signs of panic.
"They actually did it! The Gotei 13 really moved an entire city!"
"I wonder what kind of enemy is attacking this time. Even the Gotei 13 wasn't confident they could protect us completely, so they moved the whole city somewhere else."
"I hope we can still go back. Very few hero agencies can protect us from monsters the way the Gotei 13 does."
"..."
The choice of battlefield this time was much like the battle against Aizen in the past, except it was far easier than using a dimensional transfer gate. They had directly constructed a model over a thousand kilometers away from City T and transferred it within the same dimension.
Unlike ordinary people in the Human World, the ordinary people of this world were not truly ordinary. It would have been difficult to conceal something like this completely, so all residents had been informed beforehand.
Thus, the residents felt only shock, not panic.
Where City T had originally stood, the skyscrapers and streets remained as they always had.
But...
The place was incomparably quiet. Everything had been transferred away, yet the underground base remained where it was.
Countless members of the Kido Corps gathered around the entire base, surrounding it and setting up barriers.
"Hmph—!"
Deep underground in some desolate, uninhabited region lay a laboratory far larger than the underground base occupied by the Gotei 13. At this moment, a