Chapter 1485

Su Xiao stepped into the house and closed the sliding door behind him.

"Although we aren't exactly good people, there's no need to keep the lights off."

Su Xiao had already determined the identities of the two people in the room through their aura.

"Bai Ye, why do you always have the habit of placing yourself on the side of evil?"

The figure in the darkness spoke; it was Aizen.

"Because I am not a hypocrite."

"..."

Aizen smiled. He felt that Su Xiao was calling him a hypocrite. The three people present were all on the same side, so Aizen did not bother to put on the facade of a "good guy."

An oil lamp was lit, casting a dim yellow light throughout the room. Besides Aizen, Gin Ichimaru had also arrived; he always wore that smiling expression.

"In other words, only the three of us are opposing the entire Soul Society? If that's the case, I choose to quit."

Su Xiao sat cross-legged at the wooden table in the center of the room, with Aizen and Gin Ichimaru sitting on the other two sides. Gin Ichimaru had a plate of persimmon cakes in front of him, eating one from time to time; this was his favorite food.

Su Xiao certainly knew how large Aizen's forces were, but he had to act as if he didn't know.

"Of course not, but we do indeed only have four people right now."

Aizen would not let Su Xiao quit, or rather, this was a pirate ship; once you were on it, you couldn't get off.

"Four people, what a massive force. The good news is, we actually have five people."

"Five people?"

Aizen's brow furrowed. Letting Su Xiao join was forced by the situation, but if Su Xiao were to recruit Soul Reapers on his own, Aizen would absolutely not allow it.

"That guy is named Shadow. I can control his life and death. He doesn't know about your affairs. His combat power is roughly at the captain level, and he is not from the Seireitei."

"Will there be any problems?"

Although Aizen was short on manpower, he was very cautious.

"Do you think I would joke with my own life?"

"In that case, we'll see how things go."

"Fine."

Su Xiao did not hide Shadow's existence, or rather, he would need Shadow's combat power before long. Instead of being secretive, it was better to be direct.

"Bai Ye, there is one thing I must ask clearly."

"What is it?"

Su Xiao lit a cigarette; there was no need to pretend here.

"How is your combat power?"

Aizen spoke as if casually, but in reality, this was a question he very much wanted to know, because Su Xiao had never made a move.

"If we were to rank the strength of the thirteen captains, it would be no problem for me to kill any captain ranked 7 or lower."

"Hmm?"

Aizen looked somewhat surprised. In his judgment, Su Xiao having the strength of a lieutenant was already a pleasant surprise, after all, he was a researcher.

"Without the ability to protect myself, how could I have infiltrated the Seireitei? Speaking of which, if we go to war with the Soul Society, who will deal with that old man Genryusai Yamamoto? Gin Ichimaru, how about you deal with him?"

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Gin Ichimaru stopped chewing the persimmon cake in his mouth.

"Do you want me to die?"

"Then how about you, Aizen?"

"..."

Aizen smiled. He couldn't deal with Genryusai Yamamoto Shigekuni either, but he began to introduce his series of plans.

Before Aizen went to war with the Soul Society, he had already been operating in Hueco Mundo for many years. Currently, Aizen was in a lurking phase. As for why he was lurking in the Seireitei, the goal was simple: Aizen was doing it to perfect the Hogyoku.

If he possessed a complete Hogyoku and integrated it into his body, Aizen's strength would rapidly increase according to the desires in his heart, provided his will was not shaken.

Overall, the Hogyoku was a simplified version of a wish-granter, which would increase the user's strength according to their will, provided the conditions allowed.

Su Xiao was not interested in the Hogyoku because, in his view, the Hogyoku was very unstable. He could never understand the principles behind this thing, or rather, was the strength catalyzed by the Hogyoku really reliable?

Aizen craved the Hogyoku. There were two creators of the Hogyoku: one was Kisuke Urahara, and the other was Aizen.

Kisuke Urahara had created an incomplete Hogyoku, but before him, Aizen had actually already created a semi-finished Hogyoku. Whether it was a coincidence or destiny, the Hogyoku created by both of them were incomplete.

After Kisuke Urahara created the Hogyoku, he discovered its danger, so he sealed the Hogyoku inside the body of a baby girl in the Rukongai. That baby girl's name was Rukia.

Now, Aizen's goal was to seize the Hogyoku inside Rukia and fuse the two incomplete Hogyoku to see if he could obtain a complete one.

Whether it was Rukia entering the World of the Living and meeting Ichigo Kurosaki, or being captured, everything was arranged by Aizen. He even killed everyone in the "Central 46" and used Kyoka Suigetsu to hypnotize the relevant people.

As the judicial institution of the Seireitei, the Central 46 was now in Aizen's hands, so he sentenced Rukia Kuchiki to death.

Aizen's plan was linked ring by ring. Judging from the current situation, his plan had no loopholes.

"This is roughly my plan. Right now, we are not enough to shake the Soul Society, but it will be different once we have a complete Hogyoku."

After Aizen finished narrating his plan, he looked at Su Xiao with a smile.

"So, you did all these things just for that semi-finished Hogyoku inside Rukia Kuchiki?"

"That's right. For this, I have prepared many backup plans..."

Aizen briefly narrated his backup plans again.

"After going in such a big circle, your goal is nothing more than to seize the Hogyoku and incidentally cultivate an opponent?"

Su Xiao felt that Aizen really liked to play with others in the palm of his hand. An ordinary person couldn't achieve what Aizen had done; he had everyone in the Soul Society spinning around in circles.

"This is safer. If..."

Looking at Aizen's expression, it seemed he was preparing to narrate that grand layout in a leisurely manner again. Su Xiao waved his hand; he was not good at layouts, so listening to it gave him a headache.

When Su Xiao explained pharmacology, Aizen actually got a headache too, and when he narrated that grand layout, Su Xiao had the same feeling. This was clearly mutual harm.

Gin Ichimaru remained calm, not knowing how many persimmon cakes he had eaten.

"The plan has reached the most critical stage. The three of us need to play different roles."

Aizen took a letter from his bosom and handed it to Su Xiao.

"Within the next few days, I will be 'killed.' Gin Ichimaru will play the role of the 'killer,' and as my good friend, Bai Ye, you need to be 'hostile' toward Gin Ichimaru and investigate the cause of my death."

Aizen finally stated his purpose for inviting Su Xiao here. The letter in Su Xiao's hand was written by Aizen to his lieutenant, Momo Hinamori.

This letter mainly contained three general points: first, that Aizen had sensed his time was running out; second, to tell Momo Hinamori to "be strong"; and third, to frame Toshiro Hitsugaya.

The main driving character in this was that little rabbit, Momo Hinamori.

"The killer?"

Gin Ichimaru seemed to become interested and took the letter from Su Xiao's hand.

"If there are no problems, then proceed according to tonight's plan."

Aizen's mood seemed very good, because the plan he had been preparing for so long was finally about to conclude.

"The role you're playing is too easy; you get to be the dead person."

Gin Ichimaru tossed the letter aside. In this plan, he was the most miserable character, the primary suspect for Aizen's murder.