In the Second Division.
Sui Feng was constantly training in the training ground despite the fact that her injury had not fully recovered.
As time passed, she became more and more angry.
She didn't understand why she was so angry, but her anger at this moment was indeed beyond the time when Yoruichi defected.
At Yoruichi's time, it could still be said that Yoruichi had to abandon the honor of the Shihouin family and betray the Soul Society due to some personal reasons, but Mazuru's case this time, was different.
Abandoning his shinigami identity, slaughtering Central 46, causing the Noble Street tragedy, and taking away the spiritual veins under Karakura Town and already running away with hollows to Hueco Mundo… Each and everything Mazuru had done could be called highest-degree crimes.
Sui Feng, as the captain of the Second Division and the leader of the Onmitsukidō, was obliged to bring such criminals back to the Soul Society for delivering the rightful punishment and execute justice.
She wanted to ask Mazuru face to face.
Why did you choose to do these things, why did you betray everyone?
As for what kind of punishment Mazuru would face after he was brought back, Sui Feng no longer had the heart to think about it. In simple words, her only thought at this moment was to bring back the traitor Kyo Mazuru.
…
In the Eleventh Division.
Zaraki had already woken up, but recently, his mood seemed to be a little depressed. He was no longer as excited as before. He looked at Maki, who had returned to the Eleventh Division, and said softly, "That is to say, at that time, you saw Yachiru disappear with your own eyes?"
"Yes."
Maki responded truthfully, "When you awakened your Zanpakuto, Captain, she was right in front of me and then, she suddenly disappeared."
"Although I don't know what's going on, it must have something to do with that guy. Although I enjoyed the Hueco Mundo fight last time, this time, it's for Yachiru, I have to fight him again and get her back!"
Zaraki believed that the disappearance of Yachiru was related to Mazuru.
After all, they were both deep in the enchantment behind his Bankai.
There were some words that Maki did not say.
That is, he surmised from what Yachiru was mumbling, Yachiru was most likely Zaraki's Zanpakuto.
Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence? At the same time that Zaraki awakened Zanpakuto, Yachiru mysteriously disappeared.
But this guess was too unbelievable.
From the moment this conjecture took root in his mind, sometimes, even Maki himself couldn't believe it.
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Tenth Division.
Toshiro had also been depressed recently.
As another proud student of Mazuru, Mazuru taught him personally even more than Byakuya.
Even before he was admitted to Shinō Academy, Mazuru had been teaching him for a long time. This laid the foundation for him to become an excellent shinigami, so after he entered Shinō Academy, even though he was young, he was able to quickly become a top student, and then graduated with countless honors.
After that, Shiba Isshin, the former captain of the Tenth Division, disappeared without any warning, and it was Mazuru who gave him specialized training, allowing him to quickly master his Bankai.
However, one day, he suddenly discovered that the teacher he respected so much turned out to be a traitor, this made Toshiro feel extremely sad.
The former captain Isshin mysteriously disappeared, and at that time he was also very sad, but at that time, he could console himself by saying that the captain encountered a strong enemy.
But what about Mazuru's betrayal?
What is the purpose of actively joining in Hueco Mundo?
In addition to Mazuru's betrayal, there was one more thing that was noticed by Toshiro.
That is, according to Byakuya's narration, there was a shinigami who followed Mazuru in the Hueco Mundo at that time, and the Zanpakuto he used was suspected to be… Hyōrinmaru.
Byakuya speculated that it might be because of some experimentation by Aizen, so that guy's Zanpakuto looked so much like Hyōrinmaru.
But it reminded Toshiro of something else.
In fact, there were two Hyōrinmaru in this world.
The owner of the other Hyōrinmaru was called Kusaka Sojiro.
On the eve of their graduation, because of the awakening of a second Hyōrinmaru, at the orders of Central 46 of that time, he had to fight a battle to death against him, and then Sojiro was declared the loser, and was executed.
'He should be dead.'
But now there was identical Hyōrinmaru.
'Is he not dead?'
'Or did Aizen steal his body and use his body for some experiments?'
Toshiro spawned a lot of speculation.
But no matter what kind of speculation it was, it couldn't change his determination to participate in this Hueco Mundo expedition.
This was the Soul Society side, which because of Mazuru's betrayal, was once again in turmoil even after Aizen's defeat.
…
This turmoil couldn't help but permeate thorugh the Soul Society, and even spread to the world of living.
Inside the Urahara store.
Kisuke was in deep thought.
"Kisuke, what are you thinking so hard?"
Yoruichi came to Kisuke and asked.
Kisuke also did not hide whats on his mind, "I am thinking about some problems, it is not only because Mazuru betrayed us… but something else."
"To be honest, his betrayal surprised me, but after knowing the reason behind the action, it doesn't seem to be unacceptable."
"He went to Hueco Mundo, at best, it gave us an additional enemy similar to Aizen, but it is not very difficult to deal with him when we have all information about him."
For Kisuke, the most terrifying thing was never a powerful enemy, but an unknown enemy.
No matter how strong the enemy is, as long as he knows the corresponding information, he could use this information to conduct targeted research to investigate their flaws, and then defeat the enemy, just like how he dealt with Aizen this time.
Immediately, Kisuke followed on what he was thinking.
"I'm thinking about that last line that Aizen said."
'The thousand-year old feud is about to come to the surface. I really want to know how the Soul Society will deal with that group of enemies lurking in the dark...'
'A thousand-year old feud…'
'That is to say… an enemy from a thousand years ago… There is indeed one…'
Before Mazuru betrayed him, he also came to him and said somethings that could be related to it, such as about Yhwach, told Kisuke a lot of speculations he had about the Wandenreich dormant in the dark.
"Perhaps, these two things may be the same thing."
What do they know?
Kisuke referred this "they" to Aizen and Mazuru.
Back then Mazuru said that he knew these things from Ishida Soken, but now it seemed that it might not be so simple.
Mazuru's betrayal might or might not be related to this incident, but it was something he needed to look into.
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