Sadly, Hitsugaya had seen a great deal of that kind of selfishness before. Which wasn't to say that he approved of it; people should be better than that. Cynical as he was, he liked to believe there really was something such as common decency.

He kept Hyourinmaru circling the sky for a few moments as he watched Aurican dispense with the ground-level beasts. Breathing some type of paralytic gas? Hn. He hadn't ever heard of a dragon being able to do that before, and his head tilted slightly in interest.

Hitsugaya didn't even blink as he watched Aurican snap their spines. It was efficient and clean. Perfectly respectable, that. He'd seen far more brutal kills.

"I'd never heard of a dragon having that kind of breath weapon at his disposal."