"Fine. Since you put it that way, I'll trust you this once."
Yoruichi stared at Ichigo for a long time. In the end, she only frowned slightly and withdrew her pressing gaze.
It was not that she truly believed Kurosaki Ichigo's pale explanation.
What really made her waver was the place where Inoue Orihime had appeared.
That girl had shown up in the Fifth Division. That fact alone was full of contradictions.
If Aizen really was the mastermind behind the scenes, then why would he hide such an important hostage in his own barracks at a time like this, when everything was under the spotlight?
Wouldn't that be the same as exposing himself?
If Aizen had a problem, Inoue Orihime should have appeared on the territory of the Eighth Division or the Tenth Division. That would fit the logic of framing someone else.
As long as Inoue Orihime had not been in the Fifth Division, Yoruichi would not have cleared Aizen of suspicion.
But she just happened to be in the Fifth Division…
"Forget that. Check where Kyoraku Shunsui, Rukia, and Rosse are right now," Kurosaki Ichigo could not help saying.
Right now, instead of getting stuck on the Fifth Division, it was better to check everything that needed to be checked and then hurry to the Fifth Division to rescue her.
"I'll check right away."
Shihoin Yoruichi nodded. She also knew this was not the time to argue over it.
Whether Aizen had a problem or not, they had to finish what was in front of them first.
She had come to Soul Society this time to drag the mastermind out into the open.
No matter who that person was, they were her target.
A grudge of a hundred years, she would never forget it.
As Shihoin Yoruichi kept tapping on the console, recording the information of the three people's spiritual pressure traces, the data quickly appeared in front of them.
When they saw the freshly released spiritual pressure records, both of their expressions turned a little subtle.
"Rosse has no problem? After he went to the Shihoin house yesterday, he went back to the Shiba house and hasn't come out since?"
Ichigo saw Rosse's information first and could not help frowning slightly.
Deep down, he actually hoped the one who took Inoue away was Rosse. That way, they could just pin the crime on him directly.
Yoruichi had just explained that manipulating the five senses could only blur their senses, but it could not block the Great Spirit Book Corridor from collecting spiritual pressure traces.
And the information in the Great Spirit Book Corridor was displayed in the form of spirit particles.
Even though they were looking with their eyes, in reality they were sensing and receiving it through spirit particles.
In other words, they were definitely not under the control of the five senses right now.
And to avoid being recorded by the Great Spirit Book Corridor, the only possibility would be to have control over spirit particles far beyond the Zero Division. But in their understanding, Rosse was nowhere near that strong.
Otherwise, there would be no need to play any schemes at all. He could just crush the entire Soul Society with pure strength.
"When I took Inoue yesterday, Rosse's spirit particle trace was already close to the First Division. During that time, apart from that moment at the First Division, he had no contact at all with Aizen or the Fifth Division."
Shihoin Yoruichi frowned as she added that, though she also felt a bit relieved inside.
She could understand Shiba Kukaku's change. Even though the two of them had already become enemies, she still did not want Kukaku to have Hueco Mundo standing behind her.
Parting ways because their beliefs did not match was very different from directly betraying Soul Society.
"Rukia also has nothing unusual. She's been in the prison of the Ninth Division the whole time. But Kyoraku Shunsui… that place is the central area of Seireitei, right?", Kurosaki Ichigo frowned.
He could not really understand the way the Great Spirit Book Corridor displayed spirit particle records. He could only vaguely tell that Kyoraku Shunsui was not in the Eighth Division at the moment, but deep underground in the central area of Seireitei.
So the question was, why would he appear there? And what was there?
"That's the location of the Central Underground Great Prison," Shihoin Yoruichi was too familiar with Soul Society. She recognized Kyoraku Shunsui's location at a glance, and her tone grew slightly heavy, "His exact position is in the lowest level, the Muken Hell. The ones imprisoned there are all major criminals since the founding of Seireitei. Their sentences start at a minimum of ten thousand years."
"Ten thousand years?"
Kurosaki Ichigo's mouth fell open, his face full of shock.
He was not even seventeen yet.
In other words, the people imprisoned in that so called Muken Hell had sentences at least sixty times his age.
He could not even imagine what someone would become after being locked up that long.
"You Shinigami live that long?"
"We are souls to begin with, so naturally we live longer than people in the World of the Living. But only those whose spiritual pressure is strong enough to reach captain level or above would have a normal lifespan close to ten thousand years," Shihoin Yoruichi shook her head.
Of course, even though their normal lifespan could approach ten thousand years, almost no captain actually died of old age.
Having power meant loving to fight.
Everyone was captain level. One careless moment in battle could mean death.
And because of too many battles, hidden injuries would keep piling up. Once they got a little older, their spiritual pressure would keep declining, which in turn shortened their lifespan.
Even though the sentence was over ten thousand years, even among the prisoners of Muken, most could not last a thousand years before dying.
But no matter what, all the prisoners left in Muken now were definitely not simple characters.
"Then what's Kyoraku Shunsui doing there? It can't be visiting relatives and friends, right?", Kurosaki Ichigo could not help asking.
"I don't know. But he's definitely not doing anything good. He is the most suspicious."
Yoruichi did not know who exactly Kyoraku Shunsui had gone to see. But going to Muken at a time when undercurrents were surging, no matter how she thought about it, it felt like a big problem.
And according to the records, this was not the first time Kyoraku Shunsui had gone to Muken.
On the day Kurosaki Masaki appeared, he had already gone to Muken once.
Moreover, after Shihoin Yoruichi's detailed search, she also discovered quite a few traces related to Kyoraku Shunsui.
Whether it was the death of Shiba Kaien, the decline of the Shiba family, Sui Feng being labeled a traitor, and other incidents, none of them were without Kyoraku Shunsui stirring things up behind the scenes.
And according to the records, during Captain Commander Yamamoto's coma, he had not met anyone else. Every day, it was Kyoraku Shunsui who took care of him.
Even Ukitake Jushiro had come only a few times. As for Unohana, aside from the very beginning when Captain Commander Yamamoto was defeated, she had not had any contact afterward.
This was very abnormal.
Under normal circumstances, Kyoraku Shunsui should have been trying every possible way to help Captain Commander Yamamoto recover quickly, not keeping the unconscious Captain Commander Yamamoto by his side.
But in reality, what Yoruichi saw was a set of data that had been tampered with by Shiba Kukaku.
Only someone with the same authority as one of the Five Great Noble Clan heads could hide things from another person with the same level of authority. That was a program set in the Great Spirit Book Corridor from the very beginning.
The purpose was to let each family keep its own secrets while still being able to investigate everyone else's secrets.
In truth, Kyoraku Shunsui had tried many methods and had invited Unohana several times. He had even sought out Kirinji from the Zero Division a few times. But those records had all been erased, so Shihoin Yoruichi naturally could not see them.
And Shihoin Yoruichi had never once thought that Shiba Kukaku would tamper with the Great Spirit Book Corridor.
After all, even though they had already gone their separate ways, Shihoin Yoruichi still did not believe that Shiba Kukaku would betray Soul Society. She only thought their beliefs did not align.
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