[Two days later, Tenth Division Barracks]
"A late night visit. Did you come specifically to give me a heads up?", Rosse sat behind his desk, reviewing the accumulated duties of the Tenth Division.
The workload of the Gotei 13 really could not be called heavy. Even duties piled up over a hundred years were nowhere near the amount of paperwork the World Government had to deal with in just a few days.
After all, Soul Society was far too calm and stable.
Within such a stagnant system, there were very few things that actually needed managing.
The reason those captains felt busy was either because some of them were nothing but brutes, or because the captains simply did not want to work at all.
As for Rosse, it was not a matter of whether he wanted to do the work or not. The Tenth Division was in charge of patrols and security within the Seireitei, and the daily duties were basically interesting stories happening around the Seireitei.
To him, they were like bedtime stories he read every day.
"Lord Rosse!"
Aizen's figure had already appeared in front of Rosse, and he slightly bent forward to give Rosse a salute.
But if anyone else were present at this moment, all they would see would be Rosse sitting alone at the desk, handling documents.
"Go on. Lately our Captain Kyoraku seems to have run into some trouble?", Rosse said with a teasing smile.
Between him and Aizen, nothing about cooperation had ever been stated outright. Each of them simply did their own things.
But both Rosse and Aizen were smart people. At the right moments, they would always provide each other with just the right kind of help.
"The Central 46 has already rejected the request to try Captain Sui Feng four times in a row. And several sages have gone to the Kyoraku family, trying to do some ideological persuasion," Aizen spoke with a smile on his face.
For Aizen, manipulating nobles was nothing new. But Rosse's ability to calculate human nature to this extent truly surprised him.
After all, in his eyes, Rosse's essence was that of a Hollow, and even the king of Hueco Mundo.
A true king should disdain such filthy affairs. Yet Rosse seemed to prefer tormenting his prey rather than killing them cleanly with a single strike.
"Your spiritual pressure is a bit low," Rosse suddenly said.
"Hm?", Aizen frowned slightly. He knew Rosse would not say something like that for no reason.
Linking it to what he had just said, and to what he had been doing these past few days, Aizen pondered for a moment before speaking, "Lord Rosse, has someone discovered abnormalities with Kyoka Suigetsu?"
A Shinigami's battle was a battle of spiritual pressure.
In the face of an absolute gap in spiritual pressure, all techniques of a Zanpakuto became meaningless.
His current spiritual pressure was at the peak of first class spiritual might. In Soul Society, he already stood at the very top among Shinigami. This was also the limit of this body.
Although he was slightly inferior to Captain-Commander Yamamoto, there was no fundamental difference in their spiritual pressure.
The reason Yamamoto's strength surpassed his was only because of that Zanpakuto with terrifying destructive power, whose peak performance was enough to threaten even those with a higher level of spiritual pressure.
Kyoka Suigetsu was both a sharp weapon and a shackle to him.
If he were to swap Zanpakuto with Captain-Commander Yamamoto, he was even confident he could face Rosse head on.
But only in a direct confrontation. If other methods were involved, Aizen admitted he fell far short.
In the past few days, Rosse had given him an enormous shock.
Aizen pressed those thoughts deep down, while clearly understanding what Rosse meant.
Since Rosse was reminding him like this, there was only one possibility.
A powerful figure other than Captain-Commander Yamamoto had descended into the Seireitei, and had even deceived his perception.
"Do you know what Kirinji Tenjiro's nickname is?", Rosse asked with a faint smile.
"Back when he served as the captain of the Fourth Division in the Seireitei, his title was 'Lightning Tenjiro.'"
As Aizen spoke the title, a look of realization appeared on his face.
'So it was that one.'
To be given the title "Lightning Flash," his speed must have reached the extreme.
And speed and concealment often went hand in hand. Someone fast would never be weak in hiding.
"He came to investigate traitors colluding with the Hueco Mundo royal palace."
Aizen chuckled softly, stating the other party's objective in a single sentence.
For a figure like that to descend into Soul Society and hide in the shadows, it had to be for factors that threatened the stability of Soul Society.
Although his own strength was not weak, and he firmly believed his future would not be weak either, Aizen still had self awareness and knew he was unlikely to draw attention at this stage.
If that was the case, then the one being watched could only be the Rosse in front of him.
But that Lightning Tenjiro must have already found the so called truth.
After all, what truth could a hidden agent uncover when they had been exposed to the enemy from the very beginning?
"Lord Rosse, thank you for your care these past few days."
Aizen bowed slightly once more, a smile at the corner of his mouth, performing an elegant salute toward Rosse, his posture even more proper and composed than Kuchiki Byakuya's.
At the same time, his gaze casually swept over the Enrakyoten at Rosse's waist.
Although Kyoka Suigetsu required vision as its medium to activate, its essence was still the entanglement of spirit particles. If one's control over spirit particles was fine enough, even a blind person could potentially fall under Kyoka Suigetsu.
In this world, there was only one person who would absolutely not fall under Kyoka Suigetsu, and that was the owner of this blade, Aizen Sosuke himself.
Therefore, he could not see the scenes Rosse created after releasing Kyoka Suigetsu, but at the same time, he was not affected by this kind of hypnosis.
From his perspective, far too many people in the Seireitei had been talking past each other lately.
Clearly one person was criticizing Sui Feng, while another was praising her, yet the two could still chat together and even agree with each other.
It was terrifying.
So terrifying that even Aizen himself felt a chill.
This was also the first time he realized that his Zanpakuto could cover the entire Seireitei, turning the whole Seireitei into part of this performance.
Without exaggeration, as long as one entered the range of the Seireitei now, they would be controlled by Kyoka Suigetsu and become part of this massive drama.
And the content of this drama was completely guided by the man in front of him.
Whatever he wanted others to see, they would see.
This was the first time Aizen felt doubt toward his own ability.
Using the same Kyoka Suigetsu, even with a hundred years more familiarity than the other party, there was still such a huge gap.
This kind of gap, like the line between man and god, was something he could truly catch up to?
"It's nothing worth calling care. As long as you are within the Seireitei, you don't need to worry about being noticed by that person. With your current spiritual pressure, as long as you take it a little seriously, lightly influencing that person's five senses is not difficult at all, as long as it is not too out of place. I was just reminding you," Rosse said calmly.
To him, this did not even count as a minor interlude.
Among the entire Squad Zero, there were currently only one and a half individuals worthy of his serious attention.
One was the old monk who had lived for over a million years.
The other half was the blade god who forged all Zanpakuto.
As for the rest of Squad Zero, in his eyes, there was no difference between them and ordinary captains.
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