At the gates of Las Noches.
"Miss Yoruichi, as I said, the war is now over, and Las Noches will no longer be an enemy of the Seireitei. Therefore, please do not interfere in the affairs of Las Noches anymore," Ryūsei Kenzaki said slowly.
Yoruichi sneered: "I have already left the Gotei 13, and I don't have any positions in the Seireitei. Your war is over and has nothing to do with me. I just want to take away my friends."
At this time, Uryū Ishida behind Yoruichi stepped forward. He looked at Yoruichi very sincerely and said: "Miss Yoruichi, I am very grateful that you can help me like this. But I have decided to stay!"
Hearing Uryū Ishida's words, Yoruichi, Orihime, and Chad all showed surprised expressions.
But soon Yoruichi understood why Uryū Ishida made this decision. In reality, it was because he had no choice!
The Gotei 13 had been defeated, and the Seireitei and Las Noches had announced a truce. Even if Uryū Ishida returned to the human world now, if Las Noches insisted on bringing him back, no one would be able to protect him.
"For you to have such awareness, Rukia has not been wrong to always regard you as a partner. When your strength is insufficient, it is the most foolish and selfish choice to burden your friends for your own sake," Byakuya Kuchiki said in a deep voice.
He had broken free from Yoruichi's bandages at some point and was standing quietly to the side, watching Uryū Ishida.
Now that things had come to this, Yoruichi knew that she could no longer change anything with her power, and she also felt a deep sense of frustration that she had always been confident in her strength.
In the end, she could only leave Hueco Mundo with Orihime and Chad.
As for Ichigo, who was still in Hueco Mundo, they learned through Byakuya Kuchiki that Rukia had already fought with Yūsuke for the right to deal with Ichigo, so Ichigo would not be in any danger.
After the Gotei 13 left Hueco Mundo, Kyōraku Shunsui first, as the new Captain-Commander, visited each division member who participated in this war.
While encouraging them, he also exhorted all the captains, vice-captains, and seated officers to cheer up and not dwell on the failure of this war.
At the same time, Kyōraku Shunsui tried his best to attribute the cause of the defeat to himself, minimizing the impact of the defeat on the Gotei 13 members.
Although Kyōraku Shunsui always looked very lazy and idle in the past, Yamamoto Genryūsai, as his teacher, saw his outstanding overall situation, management ability, and the sense of responsibility hidden in his heart.
It could be said that apart from personal strength and prestige, Kyōraku Shunsui was even more suitable for the position of Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13 than Yamamoto Genryūsai.
At night, in the courtyard of the Seireitei Research and Development Institute, except for the guards on duty, all the members had returned to their residences, leaving only the director, Kisuke Urahara, sitting on the porch looking up at the sky and quietly contemplating.
Suddenly, Kisuke Urahara seemed to notice something, turned his head to look at the shadows in the corner of the outer wall of the courtyard, and said with a smile:
"Captain-Commander Kyōraku, why haven't you gone back to rest so late? What brings you to the Research and Development Institute? It seems that even you, once pushed to that position, can no longer be as free and easy as you used to be."
At this time, Kyōraku Shunsui walked out of the shadows slowly. Although he was still wearing a captain's haori, the number on the back of the haori had been changed from 'eight' to 'one'.
Kyōraku Shunsui sat next to Kisuke Urahara and said slowly: "Captain Urahara, I think you should be able to guess why I came to you, right?"
"Of course, but you came much later than I expected," Kisuke Urahara said with a smile.
He did not expect that Kyōraku Shunsui could be so calm, focusing entirely on comforting the Gotei 13 members these days, and waiting until now to ask him about the Spirit King's intervention in this war.
"What Princess Kasumiōji handed over to Uchiha Yūsuke should be the royal seal, right? Why would the Spirit King give such an important thing to him, and even the Zero Squad would agree?" Kyōraku Shunsui asked directly.
A sharp light flashed in Kisuke Urahara's eyes, and his tone became low.
"Because Uchiha Yūsuke is the one that the Spirit King has been waiting for to free him!"
"Let the Spirit King free himself? Do you mean that he will become the new Spirit King!?" Kyōraku Shunsui exclaimed in disbelief, looking at Kisuke Urahara next to him.
Kisuke Urahara nodded: "This is just my guess, but I am at least 80% certain. It is precisely for this reason that the Spirit King intervened in this war at this time."
Kyōraku Shunsui frowned: "But there are still many questions that I cannot understand. Why can Uchiha Yūsuke replace the Spirit King in balancing the world, and why can the Zero Squad agree to the Spirit King's decision?"
Kisuke Urahara's eyes narrowed slightly: "I also happened to have the opportunity to enter the Great Spirit Book Repository to view the data before going to Hueco Mundo, and I understood some related information after seeing some relevant information. Otherwise, I would not have been able to think of the reason for this at all."
In the Great Spirit Book Repository, there were documents that recorded that the Spirit King's power structure for balancing the world was a combination of the powers of the Quincy, Hollow, and Shinigami.
It could be said that the Spirit King was the source of all Quincy, Hollow, and Shinigami, which was why Yhwach, the ancestor of the Quincy, called the Spirit King his father.
In the Thousand-Year Blood War, after Ichibei Hyōsube was defeated by Yhwach, he designed for Ichigo to go to Yhwach to die, the purpose of which was to have Yhwach make Ichigo into a new Spirit King, replacing the existing Spirit King to maintain the balance of world power.
However, he did not expect that Ichigo would later actually defeat Yhwach with the assistance of Uryū Ishida and Aizen.
The reason why Ichibei made such a decision was precisely because Ichigo possessed the power of the Quincy, the power of the Shinigami, and the power of the Hollow at the same time, and was the perfect mold for creating the Spirit King.
Regarding the principle of the Spirit King maintaining the balance of world power, Kisuke Urahara accidentally found relevant information from the Great Spirit Book Repository not long ago.
Combining this with the information that Yūsuke was seeking the Hōgyoku in his and Aizen's hands, Kisuke Urahara boldly guessed that Yūsuke wanted to gather the Hōgyoku of three different powers to fuse a Hōgyoku whose power was no less than or even higher than the Spirit King's.
With such Hōgyoku power, Yūsuke was fully capable of replacing the current Spirit King.
Kisuke Urahara told Kyōraku Shunsui all the information he had guessed, and then continued:
"You should have seen the Spirit King too, maybe he has the idea of freeing himself, so he gave the royal seal to Uchiha Yūsuke, and used who knows what reason to persuade the Zero Squad to admit that Uchiha Yūsuke would become the new Spirit King."
Kyōraku Shunsui fell into deep thought upon hearing this. He knew that the Zero Squad's position was completely different from the Seireitei nobles' position.
The initial five great noble clans worked together to attack the Spirit King and turn the Spirit King into a human pillar in order to protect their rights, while the Zero Squad members did not have the idea of maintaining such rights. They were purely protecting the Spirit King for the sake of the world.
To some extent, the Zero Squad members were very similar to volunteer teams.
For the Zero Squad, whether the Spirit King was a human pillar or a normal person might not be critical.
Looking at Kyōraku Shunsui, who had fallen into deep thought, Kisuke Urahara said in a deep voice:
"For the sake of maintaining the balance of the world, a Spirit King without any ruling power should be the best choice. For the Zero Squad to recognize Uchiha Yūsuke as the new Spirit King, there must be a key that we don't know about!"
As Kisuke Urahara said, the reason why the Zero Squad recognized Yūsuke as the new Spirit King did indeed have a very key factor, and that factor was Yhwach, who would appear in three years.
As a Spirit King with the ability of "Almighty", he had actually foreseen that he would be killed by Yhwach before the Thousand-Year Blood War, but he did not reveal this information to anyone, because he had been waiting for that day.
Only when he died could he be completely freed from this endless life and humiliation.
Now, because of Yūsuke's appearance, the Spirit King foresaw another future.
In order to persuade the Zero Squad, the Spirit King used spiritual power to evolve various foreseen futures, indicating that without Uchiha Yūsuke's power, the world would be destroyed at the hands of Yhwach.
It was precisely for this reason that Senjumaru and Rurichiyo appeared in Hueco Mundo.
"What kind of factor can make all the Zero Squad members agree to the Spirit King's decision?"
Kyōraku Shunsui and Kisuke Urahara were thinking about this question at the same time, but without the ability to foresee, no matter how they analyzed it, they could not analyze the real reason!
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