Koi no Yokan: the premonition of love. After the betrayal of Aizen, The Soul Society wages a long and vicious war against him and his arrancars. In order to bring a swift end to the war, The Soul Society sought a secret weapon in The World of the Living. However, once they found it they discovered it was an immensely powerful child: Ichigo Kurosaki. Upon this discovery Central 46 and the captains of The Soul Society agreed not to interfere with the boy's life until he reached his majority. Yet once again fate was not with them, for when Ichigo turned nine he and his mother were murdered by a hollow, and the boy's soul was lost. All hope for ending the war against Aizen seemed to have vanished. That is, until a particularly successful raid against Aizen's fortress of Las Noches brought The Soul Society a very interesting prisoner.