"I thought you were going to say something? And this is it?" Ichigo said disdainfully.
"You're not still hoping I'd call you 'father', are you?"
"Aizen, this doesn't seem like you!"
"It's laughable. I am the victim, our entire family were victims of your schemes."
"Wasn't it because of my own reasons that I broke free from your control?"
"What, you want to harm others, but forbid us 'victims' from resisting?"
"Even if you want to find an excuse for your failure, there should be limits, Aizen!"
Ichigo's cold rebuke made everyone nod in agreement.
Kisuke spoke up: "That's right, Aizen, this doesn't seem like you!"
"Could it be that the Hogyoku's existence has even changed your personality?"
"Or perhaps, you, who have sailed smoothly all the way, cannot accept failure? But that doesn't seem right either..."
Looking at Aizen, Kisuke said with confusion.
However, upon hearing Kisuke's words,
Aizen seemed stimulated, glaring fiercely at him.
"No, Urahara Kisuke, your intellect is even above mine!"
"You are the only person in this Soul Society who interests me! Don't you have even the slightest awareness?"
"Even I only just recently figured it out clearly!"
As he spoke, Aizen turned his gaze back to Ichigo, continuing:
"Kurosaki Ichigo, your birth, your origin, everything about you was under my control."
"Therefore, regarding your existence, I am the one who understands it best in this world!!"
"You were the material for my pursuit of perfection, the embodiment of perfection!"
"Originally, you should have been drawn into the Shinigami World due to Kuchiki Rukia!"
"Then, in your battle with Ishida Uryu,"
"You would be pressured by a Gillian, completely awakening your Shinigami powers."
"Afterwards, Abarai Renji's arrival would make you aware of the power of the Zanpakuto."
"And with your personality, you would enter the Soul Society to rescue Kuchiki Rukia!"
"I would then send Gin to obstruct you, forcing you to enter via Shiba Clan's cannon!"
"Subsequently, I would arrange for people to intercept you, so that you would be drawn into constant battles-"
"Finally encountering Zaraki Kenpachi, who would provide you with clues about Bankai!"
"And after Bankai, comes Hollowfication!"
"Kuchiki Byakuya would battle you, stimulating the power of Hollowfication. Then, afterwards…"
"I would bring you into Las Noches, allowing you to fully master Hollowfication!"
"Haven't you realized it yet, Kurosaki Ichigo? Your entire path was arranged by me!"
"You only needed to follow the steps,"
"And you would become a perfect being with limitless potential!"
"I arranged every one of your battles!"
Aizen laid out the life trajectory of the person named Kurosaki Ichigo, matching the original storyline!
Although he didn't have much empathy for the original Ichigo, hearing this, Ling Fan, who now was Kurosaki Ichigo, couldn't help but feel a chill!
Such a life, thoroughly arranged like in The Truman Show, was terrifying!
After all, the original Ichigo's path was a path of courage.
The original Ichigo, who understood everything, had courage, but that didn't mean the current Ichigo did...
If he had suddenly heard this, and then the world was replaced with a fantasy world, it would undoubtedly shatter his 'conviction'!
Fortunately, he hadn't been arranged by Aizen, disrupting all of the other's plans!
At the same time, looking at this Aizen, the live stream audience grew increasingly astonished and puzzled.
"He even calculated Kurosaki Ichigo's battles and growth?"
"Is it really possible to mold a person like this?"
"Of course, modern society can also create information cocoons to completely control a person, like having 99 undercover agents in a group of 100, with only you being real!!"
"But for Aizen alone to attempt such an operation is truly astonishing!"
"I even feel that what he's describing would have been the original Kurosaki Ichigo's experiences!"
"Terrifying!"
"Indeed!"
Everyone grew more and more impressed by Aizen.
But at this point, they also grew more and more confused. Someone typed:
"Then the question arises: why is Aizen saying all this? To show how great he is?"
"But as before, we always believed Aizen wasn't such a person!"
"Then there's only one possibility: Aizen still has something more to say!"
After speculating about Aizen's purpose, everyone focused intently, waiting.
Looking at this Aizen, Ichigo, Kisuke, and the others also did not interrupt him!
After a moment, Aizen continued, his voice carrying a trace of madness:
"But! But, Kurosaki Ichigo! Even with limitless potential, even perfect, you should not possess your current level of strength!"
"The power of your second Zanpakuto, the Doll of the Bount, your Reiatsu that transcends the limit, various techniques, strange Kido!"
"These things should not be something the person named Kurosaki Ichigo could possess!"
"Because, Kurosaki Ichigo, I am your creator! I know clearly, you absolutely should not have manifested such power!"
"Simultaneously, the most terrifying question arises: even if you did manifest such power, I completely failed to sense anything amiss!"
"I merely thought you had surpassed the development I had planned! That this experiment had failed! Or succeeded excessively!"
"But it was only until just now, the blade you struck me with, that made me completely clear-headed!"
"My utter failure to perceive anything amiss is the greatest anomaly! Because I know you too well, Kurosaki Ichigo!"
As he spoke, with the progression of his deduction, Aizen's eyes grew brighter and brighter!
Then, he took a deep breath and reached a conclusion!
"This is not a matter of my experiment succeeding or failing!"
"Rather, from the very beginning, from the moment you obtained Kuchiki Rukia's Reiatsu, a mysterious force intervened, interfering with your growth!"
"The most terrifying part is that I remained unaware, thinking everything was normal, as if under the effects of Kyoka Suigetsu!"
"To be honest, if it weren't for Kyoka Suigetsu, I might never have considered this possibility!"
Aizen grew more and more agitated as he spoke, staring fixedly at Ichigo, even bordering on madness!
"Kurosaki Ichigo, no, you are not Kurosaki Ichigo. Who exactly are you? What force allowed you to unknowingly replace the original Kurosaki Ichigo? Is it a god? Is it the Soul King?"
"Hahahaha, I should have realized it long ago!"
"Such a vast world certainly cannot contain only beings like us!"
Aizen covered his face, laughing wildly towards the sky, not even caring about the massive wound on his right chest anymore, looking utterly deranged!!!