Yylfordt snapped out of his blue screen to look back at Apache. He was still heavily wrongfooted, and it showed.

"So both of you are irresponsible," he said, trying to rally. But his heart wasn't in it anymore, not least because his brain kept trying to go back to the image of Fang with Halibel. "She's higher ranked than you."

And than him, which seemed moot at this moment. Halibel's antics were Aizen's issue.