A Sudden Change in the World of the Living

Following Uchiha Retsuyō, they passed through a cluster of palaces and soon arrived at an incomparably spacious and luxurious hall.

The hall was bustling with people. At a glance, every one of them was tall and powerfully built, towering over this group of short Death Gods.

The creatures within came in all shapes and forms: giants, merfolk, and beings that resembled half-orcs.

It was quite an eye-opener for the Death Gods.

When they truly stepped into the hall, the Soul Society group sensed all manner of formidable auras.

Along the way, not to mention the guards stationed around the imperial palace, who had given them a faint but intense sense of danger.

Even in this hall meant for receiving guests, they could feel the overwhelmingly oppressive presence radiating from the mortals laughing loudly around them.

After quietly sensing the surroundings for a moment, quite a few Death God captains discovered that there were no fewer than several hundred powerful individuals who made them feel stifled.

Only then did they understand why, between the Underworld Bureaucracy and the human world, the human world held the dominant position.

This world was absolutely not a place where they could act recklessly.

If they dared display the same arrogance toward mortals that they had in the Soul Society, they would surely be beaten to death by the powerful people here!

That was what each of the Death God captains silently thought.

Naturally, the arrival of their group drew the attention of many people in the hall.

Those qualified to attend His Majesty's wedding generally knew one another.

Yet the arrival of a group of strangers, coupled with their utterly out-of-place air, made many people in the hall reveal curious expressions.

Various auras continuously probed toward the Death God captains. Naturally unwilling to be outdone,