After all, no matter how things changed, the root of the matter remained the same—he bore responsibility for this too.
If anyone was to blame, they could not simply keep targeting Love Aikawa alone.
Uchiha Hikaru glanced at everyone in the Visored, then pressed a hand down to signal for silence. "Did you mean what you said just now about one life paying for one life?"
Love Aikawa's pupils constricted sharply. He stammered, "Y-you won't drag my brothers into this, and you can get the Soul Society to call off the hunt for them... then it counts."
Uchiha Hikaru burst out laughing. "With guts like yours, you actually managed to do something like that!"
No one understood what Uchiha Hikaru meant. They looked at him, then at Love Aikawa.
They trusted Love Aikawa as their brother, so they regarded Uchiha Hikaru with even greater suspicion.
Yet Love Aikawa, the brother they trusted, showed a flicker of panic beneath Uchiha Hikaru's gaze.
Could Uchiha Hikaru have discovered something?
"Uchiha Hikaru! You can't keep holding onto this just because you had an unpleasant encounter with Love!"
Kensei Muguruma said that, and everyone remembered what had happened when they first met.
Love Aikawa had indeed shouted angrily at Uchiha Hikaru.
But that had only been an extreme reaction after he had fallen into despair over the Soul Society and suddenly heard Uchiha Hikaru's words.
Could Uchiha Hikaru really keep hounding Love Aikawa over that?
Everyone felt a trace of contempt for Uchiha Hikaru. How could someone so petty be worthy of standing with them?
Even Shinji Hirako felt a slight dissatisfaction toward Uchiha Hikaru.
Watching the Visored's reactions, Uchiha Hikaru smiled disdainfully.
"Love Aikawa, you truly don't deserve brothers like these." Uchiha Hikaru took a sip of tea and spoke calmly as he