The orderly blocking his path only made Byakuya sigh a bit; of course it wouldn't be that easy. Why would it? Something simple also being easy was sheer foolishness... or, at least, that was what the universe seemed to think. And, while he would love to argue the point, he had a feeling the universe was not up to being convinced.

So. That left him here, angered, and with the sinking sensation that egress would require him to humiliate himself. On the off-chance, the distant hope, that such was not the case, his initial answer was a simple one: a vaguely contemptuous stare, and an icy request of, "...come again?"