An underground secret facility, Department of Research and Development.
Spiritual Wave Measurement Department.
Beep! Beep! Beep!!!
The piercing alarm rang throughout the room as crimson light once again illuminated every corner.
With a numb expression, Hiyosu tapped away at the keyboard before him and asked the person beside him without changing his expression, "Which time is this in recent days?"
"The third..." the researcher in white answered quietly, his expression surprisingly similar to Hiyosu's.
"This Ninth Division captain is truly terrifying..."
"Ever since he became captain, the alarm devices have been going off one after another."
"Last time it was an Adjuchas in Nigoku District, then a Vasto Lorde in the Human World, and now it's a Zanpakuto Bankai in Zaraki District."
Hiyosu sighed and activated the communication device, transmitting the relevant information to every division.
"This really makes me wonder whether it's because of him or because of the enemies..."
Fifth Division Barracks, captain's office.
Aizen sat upright with a serious expression. Behind his lenses, his eyes followed the strokes moving across the paper, the winding characters carrying a faint sense of fluidity.
Tsunayashiro Su Feng, Tokinada Tsunayashiro, Kaname Tosen.
The three names appeared on the white paper, intertwined with one another to form a closed loop.
Aizen's gaze shifted slightly toward the window.
Several white clouds drifted across the azure sky, adorning one another and lending a few different hues to the unchanging heavens.
"An unexpected performance."
"Tsunayashiro Su Feng..."
Before long, a figure clad in a white Captain's Haori used Shunpo from the Fifth Division Barracks and departed in the direction of North Rukongai.
Rukongai, Zaraki District.
Takehara Kazuhiro's spiritual pressure erupted violently, forming an incomparably massive pillar of light that shot into the sky. The clouds overhead were instantly shredded and scattered in every direction.