Chapter 155
"You pride yourself on knowing everything about this world."
"But that is merely your own one-sided view."
Su Feng spoke without pause. "Exterminating every Hollow in the world? That would only plunge the world back into a primal chaos where neither life nor death existed."
"Is that what you believe a Soul Reaper's duty to be?"
At the center of the room, Azashiro Soya, glowing faintly, fell silent.
With his limited sources of information, he had no way of confirming whether those words were true.
"Whether it is the teachings of the Soul Reaper Academy or the records kept by the nobles."
Su Feng stared at Azashiro Soya and said solemnly, word by word, "Neither has ever mentioned exterminating all Hollows!"
In his view, Azashiro Soya was, in truth, a pitiful man as well.
The misery he had suffered in childhood had long since driven his thinking to extremes.
Strictly speaking, the root cause of such thinking lay in the struggles for power and profit among the nobles.
Several centuries ago, the Azashiro Family had once been a renowned noble house within Soul Society, and Azashiro Soya, as the eldest son, possessed extraordinary talent.
However, the Azashiro Family suffered a calamity. All its high-ranking members died, while other nobles, coveting the Azashiro Family, plotted to kill nearly all of its remaining members.
Azashiro Soya's elder sister, the sole survivor, had even unleashed Sōren Sōkatsui, which she was still unable to control, while fighting a Hollow during her execution. Her body exploded, and she perished together with the enormous Hollow that had clamped her in its jaws.
All she left behind was her final smile, forever imprinted in Azashiro Soya's mind.
Unfortunately, the nobles were not satisfied with this and continued ordering Hollows to be released into the execution