Uchiha Hikaru was immediately filled with doubt. Looking at the few people before him dressed in coarse, tattered clothes, he kept turning it over in his mind.
These people definitely aren't souls from District 80!
Judging by the aura they give off, they most likely come from an area near Seientei!
But why would people from near Seireitei appear here?
Could something really have happened?
This sudden little ambush instantly put Uchiha Hikaru on guard. Everything he had seen along the way was far too abnormal.
It was not his first time entering the Soul Society. Nothing like this had happened on any of his previous visits.
Only this time! Something about this time felt wrong!
Uchiha Hikaru's thoughts raced.
After thinking it over and over, he still found no answer. Then, he suddenly thought of a possibility!
The possibility of the Dangai "Valley"!
Uchiha Hikaru raised his head and looked at the sky. That blue expanse looked like two paintings had been cut apart, with half of each stitched together!
One half showed the cityscape of Karakura Town: towering buildings, bustling traffic, sedans and buses moving along stretches of asphalt road.
The other half was nothing but a deep blue sky! Every so often, a few birds would fly from the sky above the cityscape into the deep blue sky.
It gave people the illusion that they had crossed into another world!
Uchiha Hikaru frowned deeply. If things were truly as he imagined, then the Soul Society of the Shinigami world also hid turbulent undercurrents!
That Soul Society, which appeared calm on the surface, was not calm at all!
Uchiha Hikaru's brow remained tightly furrowed. From these scant clues alone, he had inferred far too many possibilities!
"I should ask what exactly is going on first," Uchiha Hikaru muttered