So it really had changed!
He closed his eyes and thought deeply. No matter what, there had to be an entrance and exit. Otherwise, how could Ryudōji Yan Long's group have wandered around everywhere?
How had they gone to Karakura Town to capture people, then entered the "Valley"?
"Think carefully! What was unusual about Yan Long's group?" He closed his eyes, and every scene since he had entered this other world rapidly flashed through his mind.
His encounter with Kurosaki Ichigo and the others, Akane Shizuku being captured... Soul Society...
Time passed bit by bit. About thirty minutes went by.
Uchiha Hikaru suddenly opened his eyes. "Why did Yan Long seize Akane Shizuku and keep rising ten thousand meters into the sky at the very beginning?"
"Could the entrance be up there?"
"And why was Kuchiki Rukia unable to enter when she was just one step away from opening the passage to Soul Society?"
Uchiha Hikaru had carefully calculated and deduced that one-step distance before.
Given Kuchiki Rukia's speed and reflexes, even if she had been ambushed and pushed from behind—
She should have been pushed into Soul Society. There was no way Akane Shizuku could have been taken away while Rukia herself failed to even touch the threshold of the passage.
There was another major point of suspicion.
Kuchiki Rukia's wound had been on her chest. In other words, she had been ambushed from the front.
Could the enemy have come out of the passage???
Uchiha Hikaru turned and stepped toward the ground, moving at incredible speed as the wind howled past his ears.
He returned to the ground in less than a minute.
Shinji Hirako was still standing at the entrance to Urahara Shop, quietly waiting for Uchiha Hikaru.
"Shinji! Whatever grievances you have against me, this isn't