From Pirates to the Strongest Death God in Soul Society

Chapter 463 Aizen: Admiration is the feeling farthest from understanding.

Shinō Spiritual Academy.

In a large classroom, a teacher was explaining some key points about Bai Da.

Among the students, in the middle area of the classroom, Aizen Sosuke was staring at the empty notebook in front of him in a daze, his fingers unconsciously twirling the pen.

As mentioned before, Aizen Sosuke is a rare talent in Soul Society that is hard to come by in a thousand years. He is not outstanding in just one aspect, but is excellent in all aspects.

At this point, he had already learned everything that was taught in class, and even if he were asked to be a teacher, he would not make any mistakes.

It's just that Aizen is good at hiding his weaknesses. He only revealed his true side to Bane and Orochimaru. After he had shown his talents for a while, he began to hide his impression on others.

The skill that a true academic master masters has is to control scores.

Aizen Sosuke can always accurately analyze the learning progress of other students, and then in each assessment, he is only slightly better than them, occupying the top position without seeming so incredible.

This year marks Souichi Aizen's second year at the Shinō Spiritual Academy, and he is about to enter his third year.

As someone who had already completely mastered the knowledge of the Shinō Spiritual Academy at the beginning of his first school year, he had also been studying diligently for almost two years.

"Shiba Kaien, completed the required credits in one year and graduated as the top student, Kuchiki Byakuya, completed the required credits in three years and graduated as the top student, Hachisho Aya, completed the required credits in three years." The names flashed through Aizen Sosuke's mind.

These are the outstanding talents in the college who are widely remembered over the years.

He was thinking, if he chose to graduate with full credits now, would it seem too dazzling?
After a series of memories in his mind, the names flashed one by one. After a moment, Aizen Sosuke felt that there was no problem and they would not be too dazzling.

The training at the Shinō Academy of Spiritual Arts is not something that is particularly high-end; it is just basic training. The chief may be noticed, but he is not taken too seriously. There have been many powerful chiefs graduating over the years, but over the past few decades or hundreds of years, there have only been a few who have truly established themselves in the Gotei 13 and radiated dazzling light.

The most powerful one among them should be Kuchiki Xianghe, at least on the surface.

It took him six full years of study before he had enough credits to graduate. Judging from this experience, he is no match for someone like Shiba Kaien who graduated in just one year.

But what is the reality? In fact, he, Kuchiki Hibiki, mastered the power of Bankai within a few decades after graduation. In comparison, many chiefs who graduated in two or three years could not master the power of Bankai for dozens or hundreds of years, or even their entire lives, after graduation.

Gradually he became lost in the crowd.

Thinking of this, Aizen Sosuke felt that his graduation from the Maou Spiritual Academy in three years should not cause any big waves, so he made a tick on the blank notebook.

Then he turned to the next blank page.

"When you have settled down and want to leave the academy, I will recruit you into the ninth squad. I have reserved four seats for you."

Ling Zun's voice echoed in my mind.

If I don't make any deliberate choices or changes, then after graduating from the academy, my future can be said to be very bright. I can immediately become the fourth seat of the ninth team, which is a relatively high starting point.

However, at this time, Aizen Sosuke's expression was a little hesitant.

Going to the 9th Division and serving beside Reito no Sou is certainly a good choice. This is how Aizen Sosuke arranged himself before becoming Reito no Sou's direct disciple. Even if Reito no Sou's ...

After all, among the people he has come into contact with so far, the only one who can be truly respected and recognized by him is Ling Zun.

Perhaps in many aspects and even in terms of strength, Aizen is still a little immature at this moment and cannot be compared with those masters such as captains who have been famous for many years.

But Aizen Sosuke has enough confidence in himself, and surpassing those "mortals" is just a natural thing.

Even if he does nothing now, he will definitely reach or even surpass the level of those captains just by relying on his own natural growth.

But after becoming the direct disciple of Ling Zun, Aizen suddenly found that he had achieved his previous goal of joining the 9th Division, that is, to be closer to his idol.

"Admiration is the feeling that is farthest from understanding." Aizen Sosuke suddenly murmured.

This is the fundamental reason for his hesitation and deliberation.

He had an admiration for the Spirit Master in his heart, and he was very sure of this feeling and did not think there was anything wrong with it. But after becoming a direct disciple, Aizen Sosuke began to realize a new problem. That was, when he thought about it carefully, he found that he actually knew almost "nothing" about the Spirit Master.

How did Ling Zun become such a powerful person?
Why does Ling Zun stay as the captain of the 9th Squad?

What expectations and goals does Ling Zun have?
What is he working towards?
Such a powerful and noble person stops here. Is he looking forward to higher and farther goals?
The last question is, what can I do for Ling Zun?
He could have asked, gone to Bane in person and asked for the answers, and Aizen also felt that the spiritual master would definitely tell him the answers.

But he felt that this was not a good idea. If he got the answer in this way, he would still remain in the realm of "admiration". As long as he remained in this realm, he would definitely continue to encounter similar problems and would never be able to truly "understand" the Spirit Master. "I'm sorry, teacher. The 9th Division is really not suitable for me. It's too close to you, but too far from understanding you." Aizen Sosuke finally made up his mind and crossed out the blank page.

Without wasting any time, he turned to a new page.

Now that I have made up my mind and decided to refuse to join the 9th Squad, what should I do?

Where can I better understand the teacher?

In an instant, the teams of the Gotei 13 flashed through Aizen's mind.

Let's not talk about the 9th Squad for now. The captain of the 1st Squad, Yamamoto Genryusai, is also someone Aizen respects at this moment. He has only met Yamamoto Genryusai a few times in the academy and they have never spoken. In fact, all this respect comes from his teacher Reizun.

Especially last time, the teacher told him to learn more from the wisdom of the captain, and to observe his words, his actions, and his character.

If we look at it from this teaching perspective, joining the first team seems to be a good idea, as you can observe and learn from the captain up close.

However, this idea was quickly dismissed by Aizen Sosuke because it was not a high enough priority. Compared to Yamamoto Genryusai, he wanted to "understand the teacher" more.

Needless to say, the Second Division is a direct force of the Shihoin family. In order to maintain the purity of this force, the Shihoin family hardly recruits people from the outside world. All its members are selected from the criminal army, the secret mobile force, and the nobles of all sizes who are dependent on the Shihoin family.

Even if Aizen Sosuke wanted to join the second team, he probably didn't have the qualifications, not to mention that he had no intention of joining.

The Third Division is the most lackluster division among the Gotei 13. Aizen couldn't even find a reason to join this division.

"The 4th Division is very meaningful." Aizen Sosuke thought of the head of Kaido Academy, Unohana Retsu.

In my impression, she is a gentle, virtuous, considerate and generous person with a very kind and easy-going personality, and is deeply loved by the students of the Maou Spiritual Academy.

I don't know why, but sometimes I find that some senior teachers, such as Mr. Norabei, would have some instinctive fear after meeting Ms. Unohana?

But these are not the point. The point is that Unohana-sensei has a very close relationship with Lord Reison. Aizen alone has witnessed several times that these two people entered and left the office of the Dean of the Kidōin Academy.

He went in late at night and came out early the next morning.

If you said this was some official matter, like the department head reporting to the dean or something like that, Aizen would never believe it.

What's more, these two almost never hide the special emotional relationship between them. Which student in the academy doesn't know about the complicated love triangle between Dean Ban, Department Head Unohana, and Professor Shudra?

But perhaps because the society of souls is relatively open-minded and multiple marriages are considered common sense, everyone treats it as gossip and fun, but does not think there is anything wrong with it.

As long as the person involved can accept it, why would these monsters and ghosts have any right to make irresponsible remarks?
As an all-rounder, if Aizen really wants to join the 4th Division, there is actually no problem at all. His Kaido is also good.

"Tentative."

I marked the Fourth Division in my mind, and then continued to think about the Fifth Division. Apart from the captain Zhu Sibo Zhengyuan being a veteran Shinigami, there didn't seem to be anything special about it, so I skipped it.

The Sixth Division, like the Second Division, was not something he could join just because he wanted to. Of course, given the relationship between the Kuchiki family and the Reizoun, if he showed his badge, the Sixth Division would probably be very happy to have him join, but it didn't make much practical sense, so it was rejected.

The 7th Division was once the strength of the Tenseiin family. Recently, it seems that something has happened? Aizen, who is in the academy, does not know the specific situation, nor is he interested in understanding it, so he also skips it.

A glimmer of interest flashed in the eyes of "Eighth Division" Aizen Sosuke.

The Eighth Division is the intelligence division. It was once known as the "most informed" division along with the Twelve Division. Later, the Eighth Division began to take charge of the Great Spiritual Book Corridor and became a unique existence.

In the Great Spiritual Book Corridor, the academy naturally taught relevant common sense. It was said that it was able to record everything that happened in Soul Society regardless of the will of the God of Death. It was called 'omniscient' and was an absolute treasure!

Although normally, ordinary members of the Eighth Squad would never be qualified to enter the Great Spiritual Book Corridor, the captain, vice-captain, and chief officer should still have a chance, right?

There seems to be no need to think too much about the captain and vice-captain. Kyoraku Shunsui is the direct disciple of the captain-general. It is said that he has been the captain of the Eighth Division for nearly two hundred years. There will be no accidents and it is impossible for someone to replace him. The vice-captain is also unchanged for many years, but the chief officer can be strived for.

If I could join the Eighth Division and get the chance to enter the Great Spiritual Book Corridor, would I be able to learn a lot of information about the Spiritual Master from the Great Spiritual Book Corridor?
Will this help him understand the teacher better?
Obviously, with Aizen's current living environment, he would not be able to know that Bane himself could not be recorded in the Great Spirit Book Corridor because of his status no less than that of the Soul King.

In the corridor of the Great Spirit Book, if you want to find information about Bane, you can only keep "groping" from the side.

For example, in the Tsunayashiro family rebellion incident, the concept of "the Immortal King was sealed in a nameless technique by an unknown and unrecordable existence" was recorded in the Great Spirit Book Corridor.

Not knowing this, Aizen was very interested in the Eighth Division at the moment, so he thought to himself, "Tentatively, and ranked first in priority."

(End of this chapter)