Lumi found his hand trailing to the pommel of his Zanpakutō. Ordinarily he wouldn't carry it around the palace on a casual basis. It stayed locked in his room, his only possession of any worth, at least to him.

With a variety of visitors arriving, however, Lumi had taken to arming himself. Arming himself more, at any rate. He still carried a gun under his jacket, in a shoulder holster. A revolver, it was just a simple mechanical pistol, Niflheim import, outfitted with a range of bullets, from Hollow Rounds to Shell Crackers, with one chamber empty for safety.

So, they both had reason to have an interest in Aizen, then. Their attendance wasn't simply a courtesy. The woman seemed to have some sort of connection to the Jyllandi anti-Hollow force, although Road suggested that it was an on-again, off-again one, currently in the negative. The Noah had a personal interest in Hollows, and the killers of such.

She had sidestepped Tyki's question, but neither of the Noah had answered hers either, instead choosing to employ mocking levity.

With neither revealing a reason, they either had something to hide, or felt the need to keep the scales of power balanced without giving anything away, even if it was information of no real consequence.