[NO bursting, egg-buddy! Growlithe's just gonna be cuddling around you now, so enjoy all that warmth and fur. And lickings. Lots of lickings.]

Things would undoubtedly be different. I doubt we would have been prepared for what Aizen has done without experience in war. There might not have been anything left of the Seireitei without them.

[It's a sobering thought, truly.]