Remove All Your Clothes

After leaving, Aizen regained his composure. Having heard from Dunn the news he most wanted to hear, Aizen had unconsciously dropped his pretense.

Kaname Tōsen, following behind Aizen, could sense an immense pressure radiating from him.

"Lord Aizen."

Tōsen spoke, and Aizen, walking ahead of him, slowed his pace.

"Do you truly believe what that man said?"

Tōsen knew that Aizen had always been searching for the Hōgyoku, but Kisuke Urahara had hidden it away long ago.

Yet after searching for so long without any leads, they had suddenly heard of it from this man.

"Whether I believe him or not isn't important."

Tōsen's question made Aizen fall silent, and the oppressive aura around him vanished once more.

"We'll know once we go and see."

"That's true!"

Tōsen suddenly understood.

There were not many members of the Kuchiki Clan to begin with. Though it was a great family with a long history, its numbers were small, and there were even fewer women.

Moreover, Tōsen had already guessed the likely candidate.

The girl Byakuya Kuchiki had taken away from Rukongai.

"If she has remained hidden for so long, her degree of fusion with the Hōgyoku may be very high. Otherwise, there's no way I wouldn't have noticed."

Aizen had naturally met Rukia Kuchiki before, but he had never sensed anything unusual about her.

Even her abilities were not especially outstanding.

Of course, that was by Aizen's standards.

By the usual standards for Soul Reapers, Rukia Kuchiki was also a genius.

"Let's go. We'll deal with their matter first."

As he spoke, Aizen led Kaname Tōsen back to the Seireitei.

Within the Seireitei's Fourth Division, Aizen and Kaname Tōsen arrived to visit Gin Ichimaru, who was still lying there like a corpse.

Naturally, they had come under the pretext of visiting an