User blog comment:Savalric/Inconsistencies with the story/@comment-26420452-20131115095850/@comment-26420452-20131116081103

There's no inconsistency. During End of Hypnosis, Aizen lies about the function of the Hōgyōku and about when he started tracking Rukia (he didn't, he'd used her beforehand) and he got interested in Ichigo (before he was born, not after he broke into Soul Society). So telling one more lie doesn't seem such a shock to me.