Uchiha Hikaru smiled and shook his head. "Absolutely not!"
What a joke. Uchiha Hikaru knew perfectly well just how powerful the Hogyoku in Sosuke Aizen's hands had been in the original story. If not for Kurosaki Ichigo's Protagonist Halo, there would have been no place for him in the Three Realms long ago.
Urahara looked puzzled and asked, "Do you know who might have taken the Hogyoku, Uchiha Hikaru?"
"I think it was most likely Sosuke Aizen. After all, he's the only one besides you who has researched the Hogyoku." Uchiha Hikaru spoke calmly.
Urahara's eyes widened as he blurted out, "That guy still hasn't reined in his ambitions?"
"If it really was him, I'll kill him with my own hands—Sosuke Aizen!"
The more Urahara spoke, the more worked up he became. By the end, he was practically gritting his back teeth.
Uchiha Hikaru looked at Kisuke Urahara's fierce, murderous expression and said only one thing: "You can't beat him."
Kisuke Urahara immediately deflated and rolled his eyes. "We're allies now. Could you not be so discouraging?"
He knew it himself. In terms of Combat Power, there was a high chance he was no match for Aizen. Not to mention...
"If Sosuke Aizen really has obtained the Hogyoku, then his current strength is absolutely beyond what we can handle." Uchiha Hikaru frowned deeply, as though he had said it deliberately—or perhaps not.
"If only we knew what level his strength had reached."
Ever since arriving in the world of Shinigami, every part of the original plot had changed to varying degrees.
First came the Espada of Hueco Mundo, then Soul Society, and now both the Hogyoku and Sosuke Aizen had changed as well.
Yet although these matters appeared chaotic and disjointed, their root cause was ultimately the Hogyoku.
If Sosuke