Department of Research and Development.
Su Feng strutted about the Spiritual Wave Measurement Research Division, barking out orders.
"Bring this one too, and that one?"
"Captain Su Feng, that's the big bed I sleep on."
"You have a problem with that?"
"Not at all, sir!"
No substantive proposals were raised at the captains' meeting. They merely emphasized the potential threat posed by Hueco Mundo a few more times.
However, judging from the lack of interest shown by Yamamoto Genryusai, Shunsui Kyoraku, and Retsu Unohana alike, it was clear that they were only offering verbal suggestions.
In truth, they did not care much about it.
Indeed, Adjuchas-class Arrancar were astonishingly powerful, enough to beat a select few captains into the ground in all sorts of ways, putting them through more than three hundred positions on the spot.
But the question was, even if the power increase after an Adjuchas became an Arrancar were applied to a Vasto Lorde—
A Vasto Lorde with ten times the spiritual pressure truly was terrifying.
Even Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto from two thousand years ago had once been beaten badly by one.
But after two thousand years had passed, never mind Yamamoto Genryusai—even Shunsui Kyoraku was confident he could face an Ancient Menos from back then head-on.
Of course, that was assuming there were no comrades nearby.
To the present-day Yamamoto Genryusai, even a Vasto Lorde strengthened tenfold or several dozen times over was nothing much.
Like chickens and dogs made of clay, they were merely heads waiting to be taken.
That blind confidence stemmed from strength so overwhelming it was practically unsolvable.
Every villain who had ever tried to overthrow Soul Society's rule had faced one unavoidable obstacle.
Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, hailed as the strongest Shinigami in a thousand years.
Now, under his unwavering protection