A Temporary End × Stealth Force

In the Human World, amidst a city reduced to rubble, a figure with spiky hair swept back emerged from the Gate of Crossing.

"It seems you're not in too bad a shape,"

"It doesn't look like you needed my rescue after all."

Isshin Shiba spoke, looking at Nara Dan sitting on the ground and the others lying around.

"Not at all."

"Without Captain Shiba's rescue..."

"We wouldn't be able to return to Soul Society."

Nara Dan replied.

"We meet again, Nara-kun."

"Though it's not auspicious to meet here..."

"But go ahead and tell me."

"This city..."

"What exactly happened to it."

Isshin Shiba frowned as he gazed at the human city, nearly completely leveled to the ground, unable to imagine what kind of fierce battle had taken place here.

Seeing this, Nara Dan naturally recounted everything about encountering the Ox-Head Hollow after the Graduation Exam, while manually omitting the part about the transaction with Kisuke Urahara.

He described it as that green-hatted man using Shunpo on his own to take away the corpse of the Humanoid Ox-Head Hollow and knocking out Tōshirō Hitsugaya and the other three.

But telling it this way easily led one to suspect that this Humanoid Hollow incident was yet another part of Urahara's never-ending Hollowfication Experiment.

After all, it was hard to explain the missing corpse and Urahara's sneaky behavior otherwise.

"I see."

Though Isshin Shiba had met Nara Dan a few times, he wouldn't easily believe Nara Dan's one-sided story.

Instead, he removed the Badge from Tōshirō Hitsugaya's chest, activated some functions, and absorbed the visual information into his mind.

But the Badge's recording function was limited.

It only captured the appearance of the Ox-Head Hollow and Nara Dan rushing forward to clash blades, after which the footage cut off.

Because such a miniature