"I have also heard the rumors about the 'Konsō Reisai'." Sora nodded slightly. "I even saw Captain Takezuna Jigyō return from Hell with my own eyes."
"Takezuna Jigyō went to Hell too?" Saitō Furōfushi was slightly taken aback upon hearing a familiar name.
"A few years ago, Captain Takezuna was drugged and ambushed by a Reigai..." Sora caught Saitō Furōfushi up on the recent events in the Soul Society.
"Reigai..." Saitō Furōfushi mused. "A product of the 'Captain Perfection Project'? There was no such thing as Reigai when I was imprisoned."
"But none of that has anything to do with me anymore." Saitō Furōfushi pursed her lips. "As long as the Tsunayashiro clan stands, it's impossible for me to get out of here alive."
Wearing restraints that suppressed her spiritual pressure for so long caused great damage to her spiritual body. If her own wasn't so powerful, she would have been dead long ago.
But Saitō Furōfushi's sentence still had about seven hundred years left. Even for her, it would be difficult to endure another seven hundred years here.
"Miss Saitō's directness is admirable," Sora praised.
During the few days he had been buying things for Saitō Furōfushi, Sora had learned about the grudge between her and the Tsunayashiro clan from Batsu'unsai.
The matter wasn't complicated. The head of the Tsunayashiro clan at the time wanted a marriage alliance with the Saitō clan. He coveted Saitō Furōfushi's status as the first Captain of the 6th Division and had his son pursue her.
Saitō Furōfushi rejected the pursuit of the Tsunayashiro clan head's son, so the father and son duo decided to drug and plot against her.
But before the drug could even take effect, the Tsunayashiro father and son were chopped to pieces on the spot by Saitō Furōfushi.
"It seems Batsu'unsai told you my story." Saitō Furōfushi picked up the wine jar again and took a large swig. "A weakling who couldn't even defeat me dared to pursue me! And when his pursuit failed, he dared to use drugs! So I killed them, and that's that!"
"They certainly deserved to be killed," Sora agreed wholeheartedly.
"Are all members of the Tsunayashiro clan so morally corrupt..." Sora couldn't help but think of Tokinada Tsunayashiro. The current head of the clan was Tokinada's uncle.
And the father and son duo that Saitō Furōfushi killed were the current head's father and older brother.
In other words, those two were also Tokinada Tsunayashiro's grandfather and uncle.
"That family enjoys inbreeding. The one who inherits the headship is always the son born to a clan relative. Their brains are completely rotten!" Saitō Furōfushi's face was filled with disgust. "Do you know someone from the Tsunayashiro clan as well?"
"I once competed with Tokinada Tsunayashiro for the position of head of the Spiritual Arts Academy's swordsmanship department..."
Sora recounted the process of his competition with Tokinada Tsunayashiro for the position.
After hearing the story, Saitō Furōfushi was overjoyed. She stood on her toes and patted Sora's shoulder: "Good thing you drove him away! Letting someone from the Tsunayashiro clan teach and educate students at the Academy would be a complete disaster!"
"You're just my type," Saitō Furōfushi said bluntly. "In that case, I'll tell you a few more things you might be interested in."
Saitō Furōfushi put down the wine jar she was holding, touched the cord on the back of her head, and removed the eyepatch covering her left eye.
The moment she took it off, Sora was captivated by the blood-red pupil of that eyeball.
"Miss Saitō... you don't happen to have some kind of strange eye technique, do you..." Sora felt as if that blood-red eye might shed a tear at any moment and ignite black flames, or perhaps summon an armored giant.
"What eye technique?" Saitō Furōfushi placed her hands on her hips and said proudly, "This left eye of mine is an eye from Hell!"
"This spiritual pressure... it's a living thing?" Sora used his spiritual perception to sense the blood-red eyeball and discovered it possessed spiritual pressure.
The spiritual pressure on Saitō Furōfushi's body had been sealed by her restraints, which also blocked external probing, so Sora's perception couldn't sense her spiritual pressure.
However, Sora could now sense spiritual pressure in Saitō Furōfushi's left eye.
So this blood-red eyeball existed independently of Saitō Furōfushi!
Sora glanced at the eyepatch in Saitō Furōfushi's hand. This eyepatch probably had the function of shielding spiritual pressure, which was why he hadn't sensed the eyeball's existence before she removed it.
Saitō Furōfushi explained, "Yes, this eyeball is a creature from Hell. Like the 'Voice of Hell', it was a gift from my grandmother."
"The 'Voice of Hell' looks like a large conch shell. I can use it to communicate with my grandmother in Hell."
"But at the same time, the 'Voice of Hell' also receives other information from Hell. My grandmother said some of that information has the power to bewitch people's minds."
"This left eye of mine helps me resist that bewitchment."
"Does it have its own consciousness?" Sora's brow furrowed slightly. If something from Hell possessed its own will, it might not be safe.
"Not anymore. But I can use it to enter my own inner world and communicate with my Zanpakutō. If it weren't for this eye, I doubt I could have endured being here for so long," Saitō Furōfushi said.
This eye had the ability to resist mental influence and allowed Saitō Furōfushi to enter her inner world by drawing on its spiritual pressure.
"Then, does Miss Saitō know anything about the 'Will of Hell'? Back then, after Captain Takezuna Jigyō arrived in the Soul Society, he was controlled by the 'Will of Hell'," Sora asked.
"You've asked the right person. Few in the Soul Society know about these things," Saitō Furōfushi said with pride. "Hell once had a Lord, but he disappeared without a trace after being defeated by the Soul King."
"The former Lord of Hell may already be dead, but according to rumors in Hell, one day, the Lord of Hell will return."
"The 'Will of Hell' you mentioned that controlled Takezuna Jigyō is very likely the will of that Lord of Hell, because the Lord of Hell also possessed the ability to influence people's minds."
"His will influences the souls that have fallen into Hell."
"This power to influence minds has always existed in Hell. Even after the Lord of Hell vanished, it never changed. I could also be affected by this power when using the 'Voice of Hell'." Saitō Furōfushi touched her left eye and continued, "That's why my grandmother gave me this eye, which can resist this power."
"The Lord of Hell... If the 'Will of Hell' is truly the will of that lord, then the person who holds the 'Voice of Hell' has very likely been controlled by him." Sora's brow furrowed. An existence that required the Soul King to act was definitely not someone he could deal with at his current level.
However, that Lord of Hell most likely hadn't revived yet. Sora still had time to develop.
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