Chapter 273: Yhwach’s Power vs Naruto, Preparation?
In the Seireitei, beneath the Spirit King's Palace...
As Jūshirō Ukitake began to remove his clothing, he paused, looking up at the sky.
"It stopped," he murmured softly.
"So that disturbance wasn't caused by the Spirit King's death?" Shunsui Kyōraku squinted, also glancing upward. "Was it their fight shaking everything?"
"Incredible. The whole world was..."
Yamamoto stayed silent. Despite his long life, even he, like the younger officers, had never experienced anything like this. He, too, was uncertain about what had truly happened or what had caused the previous tremors.
"Don't get your hopes up," a dry voice sounded suddenly among them. "It 'was' the Spirit King's death."
They turned.
It was Mayuri Kurotsuchi—or rather, another one of his clones—who walked in from outside, eyeing Ukitake intently. "So this is the Spirit King's fragment within Captain Ukitake, isn't it? Mimihagi?"