Chapter 343: A Conversation Beyond Good and Evil
The bottom of the underground prison, the eighth prison: Muken.
There is only darkness here. Or rather, this is a space where even darkness itself has no identity. No up, no down, no left or right. Gravity does not exist. This is not emptiness — it is erasure. This is the prison known as Muken.
Only a few individuals have ever been sealed here, yet the Soul Society expends an extraordinary amount of power to maintain this void for just those few.
It is not for punishment. It is for obliteration.
To make sinners forget the world.To make the world forget sinners.
This place is a massive artificial void created by the Soul Society, meant to erase the very existence of those within.
Almost no one alive now remembers who the first prisoner confined here was. But the memory of the last one imprisoned still burns vividly in the minds of the shinigami.
Aizen Sosuke.
Both shinigami and hollow. Both savior and betrayer.
This traitor once ruled Hueco Mundo and sought to overthrow the Soul King using the power of the Hōgyoku. But through the combined efforts of Kurosaki Ichigo and many others, his ambition was crushed, and his immortal body was cast into this bottomless hell.
The Sōkyoku, the execution tool once used on shinigami, was already destroyed by then. Not that it mattered. Even if it were intact, it couldn’t kill Aizen — not after the Hōgyoku had made him immortal.