User blog comment:Savalric/Feeling bad for Urahara/@comment-26420452-20131114190602

I don't think he's anymore exiled. In the Fullbringer arc, he was able to go and meet the Captain-Commander. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't be able to. He seems to have chosen keeping on doing research in the Human World. But a question I've had in my mind for a long time resurfaced: having been childhood friends with Yoruichi, was he a noble or not?