Hitsugaya had wondered that himself, but didn't feel it worth mentioning. The telepath had known the thought came into his mind. He was starting to recognize that if he wanted to answer something the captain was wondering, he would have.

Besides, this meant there were now other things he could focus on, like River's investigation into the man she could only assume was Ichimaru. Why did Renji ask her to do that? It wasn't that he was angry with the vice captain for his decision, so much as simply perplexed. Ichimaru had betrayed them all, had stood idly by while Renji's closest friend was scheduled for execution over a crime she did not commit when he knew fully well that she was innocent.

And then there was Momo. Glancing back over to the table where she sat, some pretty-faced man with a definite noble air about him had sat down to talk to her. What does he want? he absently wondered, then shook off the thought and turned his attention back to the conversation at his own table.