7-2 -

Please don't destroy that! If you do, I won't have anywhere in this castle to relax!

You're...

It's me, Hikone Ubuginu! Umm, you're Shuhei Hisagi, right? Thank you for your help the other day!

(What? His Spiritual Pressure is... Wait a second.)

(Is this entire room filled with his Spiritual Pressure?)

But what are you doing here, Mr. Hisagi?

Oh! Did Lord Tokinada call you here?

If you're Lord Tokinada's guest, then I must make you feel welcome!

Is Tokinada Tsunayashiro here?

Yes, he's downstairs right now! Would you like to see him?

Oh! I-I see.

(His Spiritual Pressure was crazy back then too, but now it's on a whole other level.)

Hey, do you know what Tokinada is trying to do?

Lord Tokinada?

I don't really understand complicated things! But if Lord Tokinada says something is the right thing to do, then it must be so!

You shouldn't decide something like that so easily.

Why not?

Just try using your own head.

Even that Lord Tokinada of yours could be wrong from time to time. No one in this world is perfect.

Wrong? When was Lord Tokinada wrong?

Well...

And according to who?

Huh?

Well, I won't go as far as to say the whole world, but he is according to the Soul Society and the world of the living's general public.

I see. Then he's not wrong to me.

What?

To me, the world is just something that Lord Tokinada gave me.

I don't know any other worlds. However, I don't have any worries, so there's no need for me to know another one.

That's...!

If Lord Tokinada is doing something that the rest of the world considers wrong, that's not wrong to me.

Stop.

Even if everyone else in the world thinks Lord Tokinada is a bad man, he is the definition of justice to me!

STOP IT!!!

I'm sorry. Did I say something to upset you, Mr. Hisagi?

No. I'm sorry for yelling. But don't use the word justice so lightly.

Why not? Lord Tokinada told me that Soul Reapers are admirable people who fight for justice in the Soul Society.

Oh, but I'm not a Soul Reaper in the Court Guards myself. Is that why I shouldn't use the word justice?

That's not the issue.

There's more than one way to define justice. Tokinada's justice might not be the same thing as the Soul Reapers' justice.

Yes! Lord Tokinada said the same thing! That's why Lord Tokinada and I might have to fight the Soul Reapers!

What did you just say?