"This is Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tosen, the Captains of the 3rd and 7th Divisions. They are also comrades who share my ideals."
Suzuki Makoto nodded to the two of them, considering it a greeting.
"Gin, Kaname, I will be heading to Las Noches with Suzuki-kun next. We will begin the plan to conquer the entire Hueco Mundo from there. You two stay here and prepare for the relocation of the experimental facilities and the breeding facilities. When the time comes, we will re-plan and reconstruct the entire Las Noches as our new experimental base."
"Lord Aizen, please allow this subordinate to accompany you!"
Although Kaname Tosen had a rather good impression of Suzuki Makoto's 'Yellow Turbans' previously, Suzuki Makoto was, after all, a newly joined accomplice, and Tosen still maintained a considerable degree of vigilance.
"Permission denied."
Sosuke Aizen casually rejected Kaname Tosen's proposal. Beside him, Gin Ichimaru couldn't help but take a few extra glances at Suzuki Makoto.
Judging from Aizen's actions these past few days, he obviously placed great importance on Suzuki Makoto. Compared to verbal companions but substantive subordinates like himself and Kaname Tosen, Suzuki Makoto seemed more like a true partner to Aizen.
And... did he actually trust him this much?
Watching the two disappear into the desert, Gin Ichimaru pondered for a moment before walking towards Kaname Tosen, who was organizing materials.
"Kaname, don't you think that man is a bit strange?"
"That is a person Lord Aizen has acknowledged."
Kaname Tosen was someone who had witnessed that battle with his own eyes. He had raised an objection earlier only out of concern that Suzuki Makoto might plot something malicious; it was not that he looked down on Suzuki Makoto or felt he was unqualified to participate in such a plan together.
"I mean, should we make some private preparations? After all, Suzuki Makoto comes from the Rukongai and only arrived in the Seireitei a few days ago to join the 4th Division. What kind of person he truly is... Lord Aizen may not necessarily have a one hundred percent grasp on him, right?"
"What do you want to do, Gin Ichimaru?"
"I want to investigate the other party a little. Isn't your 7th Division responsible for propaganda and broadcasting throughout the Seireitei and the Rukongai? You have more intelligence channels on your side, so I would like to borrow them."
Of course, what Gin Ichimaru wanted was not this. He simply hoped to pull Kaname Tosen to the opposite side of Suzuki Makoto, creating a bit more internal friction under Aizen's command to buy himself more time.
"Fine."
"Then, many thanks."
The snake's smile remained as calm and cold as ever.
Meanwhile, the person he wanted to deal with had already arrived in the sky above Las Noches.
"Well, I can only say a Hollow is a Hollow. Although the name is quite good, this so-called palace is really nothing special."
Looking at the architecture before him, which could only be described as barely taking human shape, Suzuki Makoto was simply greatly disappointed. It seemed that Aizen's aesthetic standards were more reliable; this Las Noches really just had a good name and nothing else.
"We are going to flatten it and rebuild it anyway. In a way, doesn't this save us time?"
"True enough. Will you knock, or shall I?"
"I'll do it."
Aizen extended his hand, and boundless Reiatsu instantly blasted apart the dome of Las Noches.
"Who goes there!"
The sounds from below could completely be described as wailing ghosts and howling wolves. Suzuki Makoto sighed with a bit of annoyance.
"Hadō #99—Goryūtenmetsu."
Five dragon-shaped streams of Reiatsu surged from Suzuki Makoto's hands, drowning all the Hollows below in an instant.
Sosuke Aizen never focused his gaze on the ground from the start. He kept examining Suzuki Makoto's movements, humbly learning how to preserve the power of this ninety-ninth-level Hadō after abandoning the incantation.
"Shinigami!"
A furious roar came from the ground that had already been turned to powder. Among the thrones once surrounded by hundreds of Adjuchas, now only unidentified trash—a mixture of Adjuchas and the throne—remained.
It went without saying just how enraged its former master would be.
A giant skeleton wielding a huge axe flew into the sky. The crown on his head was still as bright as new, obviously having been specifically protected during the sudden attack just now.
The gazes of the two men focused over there simultaneously. After all, this was their first time seeing a Vasto Lorde Menos Grande, so both Suzuki Makoto and Aizen were quite interested in him.
"You two audacious lunatics, you dare to destroy my Las Noches?!"
"Who might you be?"
Suzuki Makoto revealed a sincere smile and asked with heartfelt earnestness.
Answering him was a massive axe blade lunging towards his face.
However, this time, it was not the target of the attack that was split in two, but the axe itself.
"Excuse me, who might you be?"
Suzuki Makoto maintained that smiling appearance, but Baraggan had already put away his previous contempt. However, the anger in his heart grew more and more intense.
"Good! Very good! What a fellow who doesn't know the height of the heavens and the depth of the earth. Let me show you the power of I, Baraggan Louisenbairn!"
A pitch-black aura began to surge from the skeleton Menos Grande's body, quickly pouncing towards the two men.
"Bakudō #80—Danku."
As the most widely used Bakudō, Aizen's mastery of Danku was even above that of Kurohitsugi.
However, for such a Bakudō to withstand the special attack of the King of Hueco Mundo was still a bit beyond its power. Those black mists continued to erode inward slowly but resolutely.
"The power of time? Truly interesting, but as long as it cannot make contact, it is meaningless."
The man finally felt a bit of interest in Baraggan. He successively cast Bakudō, sealing this Menos Grande and his power simultaneously within his own Reiatsu.
"Is the power of time really something he can control? I am rather curious as to how exactly he obtained this power."
Suzuki Makoto indeed did not take Baraggan to heart. If not for that ability to age time, this Skeleton Emperor was actually unqualified as a Vasto Lorde Menos Grande. Whether in combat experience or physical strength, there was an obvious gap between him and a true Vasto Lorde.
"That is something we can research later. However, how to capture him right now is actually a difficult problem."
Aizen naturally saw through Baraggan's reality at a glance. If the opponent hadn't formed a protective membrane on his body surface using the same black mist, he feared Baraggan himself would have been eroded by the mighty force of time—to actually use a power that could harm oneself, this guy's title of Vasto Lorde was just so-so.
However, Suzuki Makoto was right. Compared to his strength, this Menos Grande obviously had more research value, so Aizen also entertained the thought of capturing him alive.
"Let's just keep him locked up like this. The Reiatsu of the two of us is enough to seal him here indefinitely. Use Danku to completely cut off his opportunities to obtain external Reishi and Reiatsu. Let's see if there's a chance to directly wear him down until he loses all his Reiatsu."
Suzuki Makoto yawned, not taking it to heart at all.
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