Bleach -99

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[side text: His true face that had lain hidden... Aizen writhes in the shadows!!]
Shinji: ...Ai... // ...zen...!

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BLEACH -99
Turn Back The Pendulum 10
[insert text: Just as long as this brief feast lasts... // ...let's eat our hearts out and build up our strength!!]

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Shinji: I knew it... // It was you all along...
Aizen: Oh, so you had noticed? // Very impressive.
Shinji: 'Course I fuckin' noticed...
Aizen: Since when?

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Shinji: From the moment you burst out of your mother's belly...
Aizen: ...I see.
Shinji: I've always thought... // ...you were dangerous... the kinda guy you can never really trust... // Hell, why d'ya think I picked you out as the Lieutenant for my own squad...? / I wanted... / ...to be able to keep an eye on you, Aizen...!

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Aizen: ...Oh, yes. / I should thank you for that, Captain Hirako. // Thanks to those deep-seated reservations you held against me... // ...you never once noticed.
Shinji: ...I thought I just told ya, I did notice...
Aizen: Oh, no. // You never once actually noticed, did you? // That for this past month...

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Aizen: ...The man following you around in all your daily duties... // ...was never me in the first place.
Shinji: ...Wha...?!
Aizen: To cause the enemy, in accordance with my wishes, to mistake any given thing in this world for something which it is not... / That is the true ability of my zanpakutou, Kyouka Suigetsu. // I call this power...

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Aizen: ..."Absolute Hypnosis".
Shinji: ...Absolute...... // ...Hypnosis......?!
Aizen: You're a very sharp man... / ...Captain Hirako. // If you had treated me in the same way as the other Captains treat their own adjutants... // ...it is entirely possible that you would have seen through my ruse. // However... / ...you did not.

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Aizen: Because you never once truly placed any trust in me... // You always maintained a definite distance between the two of us. / You never confided in me... / ...never gave me information... // ...You never really bothered yourself with me at all. // And that is why you never realised the truth. // Even when... // ...an entirely different man was standing there in my place. // I made sure that my "body double" memorised... / ...all of my usual day-to-day activities... / ...and all of the proper ways to interact with you and with the other Division members and Captains. I was very thorough. // Yet... / ...if you had truly understood me on more than a superficial level... // ...the slightest mannerism or change in attitude could have triggered your suspicions.

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Aizen: The reason that you are lying there on the ground right now... // ...is that you were so very kind... // ...as to not understand a single thing about me. // Captain Hirako.
Shinji: ...Aizen...
Aizen: ...Oh, and one other thing.

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Aizen: Just then, I believe you said... / ...that you chose me as your Lieutenant in order to keep watch over me. // I'm afraid that's not quite right. // Just as Captains have the right to choose their own Lieutenants... / ...Division members themselves have the right to refuse any given post offered to them. // Well... / In truth, it is rare that this right is ever actually exercised. // But still... I always had the option to refuse to become your Lieutenant. // Why do you think I did not do so? // ...Because the position was ideal. // You, with your deep misgivings, ever so wary of me... // ...were the ideal person to allow my plans to come to fruition.

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Aizen: Do you see? // You never "chose" me. // It was I... // ...who chose you. // Captain Hirako. // I believe you may owe an apology to your friends over there. / It is entirely thanks to your being chosen by me... // ...that both you and them... / ...have ended up flat on the ground, entirely at my mercy.
Shinji: ............... // ...Aizen...!

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Shinji: ...Ngahh...?!

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Aizen: ...Let me thank you once more... // ...this time for allowing my simple provocations to arouse your anger.
Shinji: Shit... // ...Even me...?!
Others: Nnghh...

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Shinji: Aizen!! // What the hell is this?! // What the hell are you trying to pull - // ...
Aizen: ...As I thought. // Agitation in the subject speeds along the Hollow transformation marvellously.
Others: GUAAAAGHHHHHHHHH

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Shinji: ......Hollow... transformation......?! // The hell... / ...is that...?
Aizen: I see no need to tell you that.
Shinji: ...Ngh... // NGUAAAAAHHHHHHHH // AAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Hiyori: ...Sh... // Shi...n... // .........ji...... / ...?
Aizen: Kaname.
Tousen: Yes.
Shinji: ! // Stop - !

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Aizen: ...Let us bring an end to this. // Captain Hirako. // You were a splendid Captain. // Thanks to your suspicions, you kept me close at hand... / Thanks to your suspicions, you kept your distance from me... // By always looking at me with such suspicion... // ...you thought to keep me under controlled supervision. // ...Let me tell you one last thing.

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Aizen: You should not dwell on the betrayal that you can see. // Because the truly terrifying betrayal... // ...is that which lies utterly hidden from your eyes. / Captain Hirako. // Farewell.

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Aizen: All of you have made wonderful... // ...test subjects.
Shinji: ...Sh... // ...it... // NGUAAAAAHHHHHHH // AAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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[no text just URAHARA VS FUCKING AIZEN. Let's just dwell on that for a moment. For the first time in the entirety of Bleach, right here on this page, we see URAHARA in COMBAT against AIZEN. A momentous event indeed.]

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Aizen: ............... // ...Oh, my. // It looks like we have... // ...some very interesting new guests...
[side text: They finally arrive at the scene of the tragedy... a showdown seems inevitable!!]