Because of the previous enchantment covering the place, no one knew if there was any ambush laid in the Noble Street, so Nanao hesitated for a long time before finally choosing to step into it.
Behind her, many shinigami who were following her also entered.
Soon, a bunch of shinigamis' exclamation sounded.
They gradually understood why Noble Street seemed so quiet, creepily so.
Because the nobles living in it had been killed.
They were lying on the ground. They didn't look injured at all, but they were breathless, and reiatsu's reactions had completely disappeared. There was no doubt that they were all dead.
"What the hell…? What happened?"
Looking at the tragedy in front of her, Nanao clenched her fists, with a dazed expression on her face.
…
On the other side of Noble Street, Mazuru led Sojiro and Grimmjow and was walking slowly, suddenly as if he sensed something, his steps came to an abrupt halt.
Sojiro, who had become a tool man helping Mazuru carry the corpse, couldn't help but glance at Mazuru, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing…"
Mazuru shook his head and didn't explain anything.
"Next, let's go to Karakura Town."
"Karakura Town?" Grimmjow couldn't help but ask, "Are we going to the one in the world of living?"
"Not the fake one, but the real Karakura Town."
Mazuru shook his head and answered Grimmjow.
…
Back in the world of living, Isshin's participation in the battle did not bring any changes to the battle, it was nothing more than adding another captain-level shinigami.
On the other hand, Byakuya, Renji, and Rukia who went with Maki to pick up the injured shinigami and brought them to the side to be healed by Unohana were shocked to see Isshin who suddenly joined the battle.
"Is he Ichigo's father?"
"Ichigo's father is a shinigami?"
Due to Isshin's appearance being quite different from when he was in the Tenth Division, and Rukia and Renji were not in much of a position in Gotei 13 at that time, so they didn't have much contact with Isshin, so they were really not familiar enough.
So looking at him wearing a shihakushō, they were shocked realizing the fact that he was a shinigami?
"No wonder that despite being a human, Ichigo has such great power, it turns out he is a child of a shinigami and human."
Rukia looked at Ichigo who was also fighting against Aizen with Yoruichi, Kisuke, and Isshin in the distance ahead, and couldn't help but murmur.
"Ichigo..."
Byakuya stared intently at Isshin.
"If I'm not mistaken, he should be Captain Shiba who has been missing for many years. What an interesting twist of fate…" Unohana sighed.
"Captain Shiba?" Rukia glanced sideways at Unohana.
"Well, he is Shiba Isshin, the former captain of the Tenth Division, mysteriously disappeared due to unknown reasons, and was later labelled as a defector by Central 46. It turns out that after he ran into the world of living, he changed his surname and started a family."
"I didn't expect that Kurosaki-kun was actually his son, but this also explains why Kurosaki-kun has such latent powers."
He's from the Shiba clan after all.
Even if the Shiba clan had declined and was not among the Great Nobles anymore, and Isshin was only the head of the branch house, but after all, being a former noble, still makes a difference.
From the declining Shiba clan, powerful shinigami such as Shiba Kaien and Shiba Kukaku could still be born, which actually showed that the Shiba family was still not something to be trifled with. Even though Kukaku never joined Gotei 13, she was undoubtedly strong and Kaien was now the new captain of Ninth Division.
"Ichigo's father is a former captain of Gotei 13?!"
Hearing Unohana's words, Rukia and Renji couldn't help but be shocked.
"Ah, I remember that in the early years of my joining, there was indeed a captain disappearance case. Captain Hitsugaya passed the captain's assessment after that and became the captain of the Tenth Division. He also became the youngest captain of Gotei 13."
While talking, Rukia remembered another thing.
That is when she came to the world of living, every time she went to Ichigo's house, his father was not at home, and though occasionally she met him one or two times, his father looked out of tune sometimes.
It was really difficult to put this wretched uncle and connect him with the Shiba clan, and the captain of the Tenth Division back then.
"However, it's really a rare scene."
"The previous Tenth Division captain, plus the previous Second Division captain, Shihouin Yoruichi, the previous Twelfth Division captain, Urahara Kisuke, the previous Kidō Corps Commander, Tsukabishi Tessai, plus those guys lying on the ground over there, all the captains and vice-captains who left the Soul Society and were charged with betrayal, almost all of our captains and vice-captains are gathered here."
Unohana spoke slowly while healing everyone.
Regarding the identity of Yoruichi, Rukia and others have heard some rumors, and she also helped Ichigo and others to break into Soul Society earlier, but the inconspicuous green hat shop manager turned out to be the previous captain of the Twelfth Division, it surprised young shinigami such as Rukia and Renji who were still inexperienced.
After saying this, she said to Maki, "I have to trouble you again to bring those guys lying on the ground over there, after all, they used to be companions, in that case, it's not good to let them die like this."
Maki nodded.
"Those guys, so they were also members of the Soul Society?"
Above on the roof, Rukia couldn't help looking at the members of the Visored lying on the ground not far away. When they returned to the world of living, Aizen had already defeated the Visored. She always felt that those guys were a little strange. Now it seemed that the backstory of these guys were not so simple.
Especially what Unohana said last made her think of something.
'Counting those guys, all the captains are almost all together...'
The reason why it was "almost" was because there was one captain who was not here.
Captain of Third Division – Kyo Mazuru.
It seemed that because of Isshin's participation in the war, together with Ichigo, Kisuke, and Yoruichi, it could now be regarded as four captain-level shinigami besieging Aizen.
Among the two shinigami who defected to Hueco Mundo with Aizen earlier, Gin was somewhat unable to watch anymore.
From the start of the decisive battle to the present, Kaname was seriously injured because of the fight against Sajin, while Gin was just watching the show from the beginning to the end.
Right now, he finally chose to fight.
He released his Bankai directly, sweeping across the air with an unbelievably-long blade, making it impossible to ignore him as soon as he entered the fray.
Gin, though a former vice-captain, was of course a shinigami with captain-level combat power.
'As expected of that guy's vice-captain!'
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