Bleach: No cheat codes, he joined Aizen's side.

Chapter 110, Page 109: A Bizarre World

"Ding~ Taoyuan Road Station has arrived. Passengers who wish to disembark, please take your belongings with you and exit through the rear door."

Without attempting to interfere with the workings of the world, Higashino Shuichi stayed at the company until the familiar 9 PM before leisurely leaving and taking a bus that went directly to his rented apartment to go home.

This was a unique habit of Higashino Shuichi in his previous life.

Because in the city where he lives, the subway is particularly well-developed, and buses, which involve detours and traffic jams, are gradually being phased out by young people going to work.

So every evening after get off work, Higashino Shuichi could enjoy the pleasure of having an entire bus to himself and appreciating half the city.

This is one of the few pleasures he can find when he's alone away from home.

In this world constructed from illusion, Higashino Shuichi once again experienced this kind of enjoyment.

After getting off the bus, Higashino Hideichi went to the convenience store on the side of the road with ease and skillfully bought a cup of instant noodles.

While making a mobile payment, I accidentally bumped into a young man next to me. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that the young man's phone screen saver was Matsumoto Rangiku, a character from Bleach.

Can this really turn into a hot-blooded otaku who likes Bleach?
Higashino Hideichi silently complained to himself, then arrived at the entrance of the community, swiped his access card, took the elevator, and finally arrived at the door of his apartment, entering the password. This was a standard procedure that Higashino Hideichi was all too familiar with in his previous life.

But when Higashino Shuichi pushed open the door, he was stunned.

At the door stood Matsumoto Rangiku, wearing an orange plaid apron, holding a spatula, with bare legs and orange slippers.

"Lord Shuichi?! You're back today!"

Rangiku exclaimed in surprise and rushed into the kitchen, put down the spatula, and then hurriedly ran back to the door to fetch slippers for Higashino Shuichi.

Because of Rangiku's voice, Kabuto Masayako came out of the bedroom. Her casual white T-shirt could not hide her graceful figure at all, and she was only wearing a pink mini skirt on her lower body.

Higashino Shuichi was stunned. This scene seemed familiar to him, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

However, Rangiku in my memory seemed to be dressed less, while Sayako was dressed more like a Yamato Nadeshiko, and Sayako in my memory didn't seem to be wearing black-rimmed glasses like she does now.

More importantly, is that petite girl in the living room who's engrossed in playing fighting games on her PS4 Soi Fon?
"You must be tired after a long day at work, Xiuyi-kun~"

Sayako's gentle voice made Higashino Shuichi feel as if the Hollow within him had glimpsed something extraordinary from his memories.

Soon, the aroma of food wafted from the kitchen.

After finally finishing the game and winning against her opponent, Soi Fon happily shouted "Shuiichi-sama!" to Higashino Shuichi.

Through his conversation with Sayako, Higashino Shuichi also learned that these familiar people in front of him were indeed just illusions created by the Hollow within him, based on his memories and certain "reasonable" fantasies.

They don't have memories like I do, nor do they possess the abilities and Zanpakuto of Shinigami.

In essence, they are simply NPCs who possess the appearance, voice, and personality of characters like Masayako Kabuto.

Even so, the sensory stimulation was still real, and the intense exercise before bedtime at night made Higashino Shuichi somewhat addicted.

Just as Higashino Shuichi had set up the warning spell and was about to go to sleep, the doorbell rang.

In the quiet night, it sounded particularly jarring.

"Who?"

Higashino Shuichi quickly dressed, picked up his Zanpakuto, went to the door, and looked through the peephole to see a man and a woman standing outside.

The man was younger, around twenty-five or twenty-six, while the woman was older, at least fifty-six or fifty-seven, and was wearing pajamas, so she had obviously just been woken up.

"I am Lao Gu, a member of the homeowners' committee. This young man next to me said that you were making too much noise last night and disturbing his rest!"

Before the woman could finish speaking, the young man beside her was already getting impatient, repeatedly pounding his fists on Higashino Shuichi's door.

"You son of a bitch, open the door! Can't you do your work earlier?! Working so late, and in several shifts, taking so long each time, are you not going to let people get any sleep?!"

Higashino Shuichi frowned.

He seemed to vaguely recognize the woman outside who called herself Old Gu, and he also seemed to vaguely recognize this young man, but he couldn't quite recall where he had seen him before. Perhaps he was just a random passerby created by the ethereal being within him.

But no matter how noble the reasons the young man gave, his actions revealed his impatience.

"He seems to be complaining about my previous behavior, but his real purpose is to get me to open the door, right?"

Why do I have to open the door?

Shuichi Higashino was not fooled by appearances.

He knew that he was not in a real world, so every unexpected event must have its reason for happening.

After all, the Void within him certainly wasn't meant for him to come to this world to enjoy life.

Either completely devour Higashino Shuichi, or be completely controlled by Higashino Shuichi, or be temporarily defeated by Higashino Shuichi so that Higashino Shuichi can briefly control the power of intangibility.

There are only these three options.

However, just as Higashino Shuichi was considering whether to open the door, the door in front of him opened by itself.

At that moment, Higashino Shuichi suddenly remembered why he had some impression of this middle-aged woman named Lao Gu.

Because isn't she his landlord's wife?
"Oops!"

As the password was entered and the sound of the door unlocking rang out, Higashino Shuichi knew it was too late to stop the other person from entering.

Rushing forward to block the door will only bring unknown risks to yourself.

Therefore, Higashino Shuichi decisively chose to take a half step back.

The spiritual pressure within him was released the moment the door opened.

Severed by beating.

Completely disregarding the consequences of his strike, Higashino only wanted to eliminate this unexpected intruder at the doorstep.

But that familiar feeling came back again.

Higashino Shuichi vaguely felt that he had experienced this before at some point.

Oh right, it was in the elevator from before.

Even though he had already used the Hanging Star technique, theoretically, with the Kido released by his spiritual pressure, if he wanted to stop a freefalling elevator, let alone if he was falling from a height of dozens of floors, even if he was falling from a height of ten thousand meters, Higashino Shuichi could slow down its speed to some extent.

But the result was that his hanging star seemed to have completely failed, allowing the elevator to fall freely until it plummeted to the bottom and destroyed everything.

The same applies now.

The sword strike that could previously rival Kenpachi Zaraki's full power in Soul Society, and which could even cripple Kenpachi Zaraki in his Bankai state, felt like soft tofu when it hit the young man who entered.

"Is there something wrong with my spiritual pressure?"

Seeing the young man rushing angrily toward him, Higashino Shuichi no longer hesitated.

"Tracing the origins of military strategy, Bankai, a smile concealing a dagger!"

As the Bankai unfolded, the terrifying spiritual pressure lifted the entire house, yet it did not budge the young man in front of Higashino Shuichi in the slightest.

"No, it's not a problem with my spiritual pressure."

At this point, Higashino Shuichi also realized the problem.

The young man before him was a manifestation of some kind of rule.

Ninety-nine steps of dividing the moon, choking the flow, and breaking the path, the five dragons turn and perish.
Despite using all his strength, Higashino Shuichi couldn't budge the young man an inch. In the end, he could only watch helplessly as the young man approached him, his hands gripping his neck until he suffocated and lost consciousness.

(End of this chapter)