"That's awful," Nel said, clearly still shocked by the information. The idea of taking children like Ulquiorra, or Wonderweiss, or Kadaj, and sticking a tag on them because they might be dangerous rankled. "At least everyone has to carry a licence," she said.

Any system that would have slapped a 'danger, mistant' banner on someone like Ulquiorra because he was grey that didn't bother to slap anything on someone like Aizen even though one bad mood could see him raze a city, seemed to have gone fundamentally wrong.

She looked back at Apache again. She'd never mentioned it, and it seemed pretty clear why.