User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/416: Deicide 18 (The End)/@comment-1268838-20100818214031

Well, the second Gin decided to cross Aizen, his fate was pretty much sealed. We all knew that he wasn't going to kill the guy, and we all know what happens in stage three of being Aizen'd. At least Aizen had the common decency to hack him into pieces instead of one-shotting him like everybody else who gets Aizen'd.

As far as the revelation of two Hougyokus existing, I thought it actually cleared some things up, such as how Aizen could possibly have any knowledge of the Hogyoku's abilities. It also increases the possible time he has spent working on his Arrancar army by god-knows-how-long. I'm very curious about exactly when Aizen went about combining the two, if that was what he was implying.