After roughly half an hour, Shiba Kukaku finished checking all the information she wanted to check.
During that time, Rosse sensed that Shiba Kukaku had unconsciously looked at him twice.
With how sensitive he was to eyes, those looks carried mostly confusion, without any other negative emotion.
He just didn't know what exactly Shiba Kukaku had found.
To make sure nothing went wrong, after obtaining the Enrakyoten, Rosse had come alone to the Great Archive once more.
When he came that time, he completely deleted the information Aizen had edited and replaced it with information he had written himself.
After all, he was the one who knew himself best. What Aizen had compiled did look convincing, but it still differed quite a bit from the real him.
Even though he didn't fully understand the mechanism of the Great Archive, he had deleted Aizen's falsified data from the root of the spiritual particles. Even if Shiba Kukaku had higher permissions, she should not be able to restore something that had been completely erased.
As for whether Aizen could completely erase and modify things, he had no idea.
Either way, as long as he didn't expose himself, it was fine.
"Captain Rosse, I've finished reading. Do you have anything you want to look up? I can search it for you."
After receiving all the information, Shiba Kukaku looked extremely heavy-hearted, but she still asked Rosse.
If Rosse needed her help, she would never refuse.
"I don't have anything I need to check."
Rosse lightly shook his head. He saw the redness of her eyes and the fragile strength that was about to collapse. He slowly stepped forward and, with a gentleness that allowed no resistance, pulled her tightly into his arms.
Their foreheads touched softly. Rosse's warm breath brushed across her brow as he spoke, his voice low and steady, "If it hurts, then just vent it all out here. With the Stealth Spirit Orb, your voice won't get out."
Those words were like a key, instantly shattering the cage of rationality in Shiba Kukaku's heart.
"Damn it!"
Shiba Kukaku clutched Rosse's collar with all her strength, burying her face in his shoulder. Her voice was broken beyond recognition:
"Why? Why did it have to be our Shiba family! Why did those bastards make my brother the bait for their scheme! Why didn't they go die themselves!"
Tears of anger and humiliation streamed out burning hot. Shiba Kukaku's body shook violently. She couldn't even cry properly anymore.
Inside the Great Archive, she had seen everything. Every detail, from beginning to end.
Starting half a year ago, her brother Shiba Kaien began probing the Feng family where Sui Feng belonged, under the persuasion of Ukitake Jushiro.
The elders of her own family, thinking the Shiba family could benefit and suppress the Shihoin family in the process, didn't even consider the danger and joined the plan without hesitation.
From top to bottom, the entire family was involved in this gamble. Only she and young Ganju were kept completely in the dark.
How ironic. In the end, only the two ignorant outsiders survived.
And with the highest permissions of the Great Archive, Shiba Kukaku found something even more chilling.
Behind this matter, it was nowhere near as simple as it looked. At least five captains were involved.
Aizen Sosuke, Tosen Kaname, Sui Feng, Kyoraku Shunsui, Ukitake Jushiro.
In this incident, not a single one of these five was innocent.
That Hollow was Aizen's experimental subject, thrown into the Thirteenth Division's territory by Tosen Kaname. And most of the Shiba family elders were slaughtered by the Second Division's punishment corps.
At the same time, the essence of why this incident happened at all was that Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro persuaded Shiba Kaien to help investigate the Feng family. Without that, the Shiba family would never have experienced any of this.
In the end, the two captains did absolutely nothing, and the entire Shiba family was sacrificed instead.
What made Shiba Kukaku unable to accept it the most was that Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro were clearly the masterminds, yet they came out without a scratch.
Meaning the Shiba family took all the suffering those two captains should have borne.
'Why?'
In Shiba Kukaku's broken, halting narration, she relayed everything she had seen in the Great Archive in meticulous detail to Rosse.
In truth, she had also specifically searched for Rosse's information.
She was afraid.
Afraid that even Rosse, the only person she trusted, might actually be one of the masterminds behind the incident.
But fortunately, the answer she got both shocked and relieved her.
The relief was that Rosse truly had nothing to do with the matter. The only reason he appeared in the Thirteenth Division was because he had received the distress signal.
As the Tenth Division captain, he was supposed to be the first to rush over when something happened in Seireitei.
What shocked her was that Rosse's identity records had a problem.
Rosse's data was not automatically gathered by the Great Archive. It had been manually edited by someone.
And according to the highest permissions and the spiritual particle information she discovered, the one who manually edited the data was the very Rosse standing beside her.
Meaning the information recorded about Rosse in the gallery was created by Rosse himself.
Long before she came, Rosse had already been here.
When he hesitated earlier and didn't bring her here, maybe part of it really was because he feared his secret would be discovered.
But no matter what secrets Rosse had, Shiba Kukaku's heart felt relieved.
Secrets didn't matter. As long as he wasn't connected to her brother and sister-in-law's deaths, that was enough.
The Shinigami world was already filthy beyond imagination. Anyone who could climb to the rank of captain surely had secrets.
No matter what, Rosse was the only one who reached out to help her. Even if his true form was a Hollow, she would still give him her complete trust.
On Rosse's side, after hearing her explanation, he more or less understood the Great Archive's tiered access.
A lot of information must have been modified by Aizen, yet Shiba Kukaku still found it. This could only mean their permissions were completely different.
But this was reasonable.
If everything was as expected, the Great Archive was made from a piece of the Soul King.
And that piece should be the portion the Five Great Noble Clans obtained when they dismembered the Soul King.
After creating the Great Archive, the Five Great Noble Clans having higher permissions made perfect sense.
Otherwise, the other four noble families would never allow the Tsunayashiro family to manage it, nor allow the existence of the gallery to be known by outsiders.
Judging from Shiba Kukaku's expression, she probably hadn't discovered the connection between him and Aizen. Otherwise, she wouldn't have told him everything without holding back.
But regardless of whether she knew or not… he still planned to tease her a little.
"So that's how it is. Captain Aizen and the rest were involved too. Kukaku, with the matter involving five captains, aren't you afraid I might expose this information to one of them?"
Rosse slightly lowered his head. His voice was gentle beyond compare, yet it sent Shiba Kukaku plunging into an icy abyss.
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