The moment Aizen removed Kyoka Suigetsu from his body, a brilliant azure crystal slowly blossomed from his chest.
"Crackle, crackle..."
The dazzling blue radiance seemed to irradiate everything around it.
As it emerged from Aizen's chest, white, bony fluid seeped across his chest like that of a Hollow, slowly melting away until it left a space large enough to embed the Hogyoku.
The next moment, Aizen's brown hair began growing rapidly at a visible rate. In only a few moments, it had already reached his waist.
The clothes on his body seemed to merge with him, transforming into a layer of white bone that clung tightly to his body.
At the same time, when Aizen raised his eyes again, they had been filled with a deep, shadowy purple. Only those eerie white pupils gave off an incomparably chilling feeling.
High in the sky, Aizen's transformation naturally fell into everyone's sight.
The expressions of everyone who saw the changes in him shifted slightly, becoming extraordinarily grave. Especially when they saw those eerie eyes, a chill ran down their backs.
No matter who it was, anyone who looked into those eyes felt as though their heart had been thoroughly seen through!
If they had to describe the feeling, then to them, Aizen at this moment was like an omniscient, majestic god who did not truly exist, yet had taken root deep within people's hearts.
Seeing Aizen's transformation in the sky, Dai's resolve wavered slightly as well.
But very quickly, he cast that hesitation completely from his heart!
He had already made his absolute resolve. To him, in this final moment of burning his life away, his sole purpose was to completely remove the danger threatening the village...
Even if... the enemy was once his closest friend!
With that thought, Dai, wrapped in