[voice]
What else leads you to that belief? [Ukitake is curious. Even knowing, as he does, what becomes of human souls at nearly every stage of the journey, he still faces doubts. Reincarnation, in his world, is not so much a recycling of a soul, but a fresh start, one free of the encumbrances of the past. Similarly, when a soul leaves the living for Soul Society, the life it once knew is soon forgotten. There are times when this knowledge haunts him, as it means that no matter how much he might wish it, he will never truly know what became of his second-in-command after Kaien was killed.]