Hojo quietly finished making his coffee before he clasped his hands behind his back again and eyed the four specimens in the room. Aizen was unlikely to agree to letting Hojo borrow one or two of them, not even the weak ones, so Hojo would have to gather what data he could without direct study.

That was unfortunate.

"Clearly I've been away far too long, for such fascinating specimens to have escaped my attention until now." More than four of them, too. Daguerreo really was the ends of the earth. "I shall have to remedy that," he told himself, and then turned back to pick up his coffee.