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

Chapter 130, Section 128: Feeling Insulted in Intelligence

Playing with the moon among the flowers, a fairy holds her heart; the flowing water is heartless, but the falling flowers are full of affection.

As soon as Higashino Hideichi and his entourage entered Osaka Prefecture, they saw a geisha dressed in flamboyant attire and heavily made up parading through the streets amidst the cheers of thousands of people aboard a huge mobile flowerbed.

"Is this some kind of celebration?"

Matsumoto Rangiku looked out of the carriage window and asked curiously.

I still remember when Hideaki brought her and her friends to the real world for a picnic. At that time, in a small village in the real world, people were also having a grand celebration.

There was also a beautiful woman who was surrounded by a crowd of people.

"I guess so? But it's probably just a gimmick used by businesses to attract people's attention."

Higashino Shuichi only glanced at it before losing interest.

To put it bluntly, these outings featuring courtesans are simply a way for venues to attract potential customers and enhance the value of their courtesans.

Moreover, from Higashino Shuichi's aesthetic point of view, the courtesans of this period were completely unappreciable.

"May I go take a look, Shuichi-kun?"

However, while Shuichi Higashino wasn't interested, Sayaka Kabuto in the carriage was quite intrigued.

Originally, she had basically never left the Kabuto family home in Soul Society. The first time she ever went on a long trip was probably when she mustered up the courage to come to the human world. In the years she has lived in the human world, she has rarely gone out because of Shuichi Higashino and the others.

I am now filled with curiosity about these activities in the modern world.

"Yes, of course. You can leave the task of finding Yokosawa Tsuna to me and Shusuke. I'll have Kensei accompany you."

Higashino nodded and said.

They have now entered Osaka Prefecture, so it's time to temporarily abandon the carriage.

For Shuichi Higashino, walking was clearly a more efficient and discreet way to move around.

"Won't this affect your plans, Shuichi-kun? I don't actually need to go see it."

Upon hearing that Higashino Hideyoshi only planned to travel alone with Kisaragi Shusuke, Kabuto Asayako immediately expressed her concern.

"It's alright. Gathering information isn't Kensei's forte anyway. It's good to have him by your side. Don't worry, Sayako. Shusuke and I will be right back."

As Higashino Shuichi spoke, he reached out and gently grasped Kabuto Masayako's soft, delicate hand, while with his other hand he took out the Zanpakuto, Seiya Basa, which had been stored with him, from inside her clothes and placed it in Kabuto Masayako's palm.
"Oh, right, here's yours back. But please don't use it unless absolutely necessary. Your body is already weak because of those evil spirits, so avoid using abilities that consume your lifespan. No matter what happens, I will get back as quickly as possible!"

"Hmm~ I believe you, Shuichi-kun~"

Asayako Kabuto felt the warmth of Shuichi Higashino's palm on the back of her hand, lowered her head slightly, and then responded softly.

"Alright, Lord Shuuichi, you can go with Shusuke without worry. Don't forget, I'm here!"

Matsumoto Rangiku spotted a large izakaya (Japanese pub) and eagerly opened the car door.

Just as Matsumoto Rangiku and Kabuto Sayaka were pulling Kensei Rokugura off the carriage, who had just recovered a little of his strength, and preparing to follow the parade to take a look,
"And what about me? Mr. Xiu, actually..."

Satomi Nagasawa pointed to herself and asked, noticing that Shuichi Higashino seemed to have automatically categorized her as being on the same side as Sayaka Kabuto.

But she actually wanted to act alongside Kisaragi Shusuke.

She didn't mean anything by it; she just thought Kisaragi Shusuke was an idiot who couldn't understand many things in the real world and often needed her guidance.

"You stay here, Rimi. I know you really want to be with Shusuke, but this time the enemy we're facing isn't the kind of small-scale skirmish we've had before."

Higashino Shuichi shook his head and said.

As someone who's been through it all, he could easily see the relationship between Kisaragi Shusuke and Nagasawa Satomi. But putting aside the fact that one of them is a Shinigami and the other is a human, making it difficult for them to match in terms of life cycle, Nagasawa Satomi's Fullbring ability and her current combat skills are indeed not suitable for dealing with complex combat environments.

In comparison, it was Higashino Shuichi himself and Kisaragi Shusuke, who had been trained by him for a long time, who were more skilled at this kind of work.

"Huh?! Lord Shuichi, what are you talking about? I never wanted to be with that idiot Shusuke!"

"I...I'm going to keep Sayako company!"

Before Higashino Shuichi could finish speaking, Nagasawa Rimi, sitting opposite him, didn't even need him to offer any reasoning or persuasion. After hearing Higashino Shuichi directly point out the truth, she blushed and ran down from the carriage in a flash, afraid that Kisaragi Shusuke, who was about to walk over, would hear something.

"Lord Shuichi, what's wrong with Rimi?"

Just after Nagasawa Satomi left, Kisaragi Shusuke belatedly opened the car door on Higashino Shuichi's side and asked the latter in a puzzled tone.

"Her? Nothing special, just a silly girl number two who has her secrets exposed and is too afraid to face them."

Higashino Hideichi smiled and then stepped down from the carriage.

As soon as he got out of the car, a three-wheeled vehicle slowly drove past him, carrying a blond man in a black suit and a top hat.

"Shuichi?! Is that Fullbring?"

Seeing this scene, Kisaragi Shusuke, who was wearing a fake body and unable to sense spiritual pressure from the outside world, instinctively compared it with his past memories. After finding that there was nothing to refer to, he turned around and came to Higashino Shuichi's side. While watching the direction the three-wheeled vehicle left in vigilance, he whispered something in Higashino Shuichi's ear.

"What Fullbring? That thing is called a car! It's a product of modern technology!"

Higashino Shuichi couldn't help himself and gave Kisaragi Shusuke a light tap on the head.

"Ah, sir, is it the kind of thing that Urahara Kisuke usually tinkers with?"

Kisaragi Shusuke put one hand on her forehead and looked at Higashino Shuichi with a somewhat aggrieved expression.

"Pretty much, but Kisuke's stuff is much more advanced. Compared to Kisuke's black technology, these things in the real world are at most like small karami, but in any case, they're not Fullbring."

Higashino Shuichi explained to Kisaragi Shusuke.

After saying that, Higashino Shuichi led Kisaragi Shusuke toward a roadside trading company.

If taverns are undoubtedly the hubs of information in the Western fantasy world of D&D, then in this somewhat realistic world, trading companies hold an equally valuable and prestigious position.

There is no information that these profit-driven businessmen cannot obtain.

If you couldn't get it, it's because the price wasn't right, not because you couldn't get it.

The crowd slowly departed with the parade carriage carrying the courtesan, leaving the street somewhat empty.

As Higashino Shuichi walked to the entrance of the trading company called Kurihara Trading Company, before even entering, he saw a well-dressed lobby manager greeting him with a smile.

"Lord Koizumi, your presence today truly brings honor to our Kurihara Trading Company! I wonder what General Sato desires today?"
Fine rice? Delicious food? Fine wine? Or a beautiful woman?

"Lord Kou?"

Higashino Shuichi was puzzled as he looked at the mustachioed man who had inexplicably approached him and was bowing and scraping to him.

"Uh... I'm so sorry, sir! I deserve to die! I think I heard General Sato address you that way that day, so I made the presumptuous decision to address you that way. But if I made any mistakes in addressing you, please forgive me, sir, since this is my first offense!"

To everyone's surprise, Higashino Shuichi's slight expression of doubt was enough to make the mustachioed man in front of him instantly weak in the knees, kneel down and slap himself on the left and right, then prostrate himself on the ground, trembling all over.

"This"

Kisaragi Shusuke, standing to the side, was also shocked by the behavior of the mustachioed man in front of her.

Previously, he had only often heard Lord Hideichi say that all the merchants in the world were shrewd and capable. Now it seems that the rumors are indeed true. This human could see at a glance that Lord Hideichi was no ordinary person.

This fearful attitude is really bad. Lord Xiuyi is clearly a very kind and gentle person. Why is he so afraid?

"Get up. This is not your fault. I came here only to conduct a post-event satisfaction survey on behalf of General Sato. I hope you can cooperate."

Higashino Shuichi was confused, but that didn't stop him from playing along. After all, this wasn't the first time he'd done something like this; he was quite skilled at it.

"A satisfaction survey? What's that?"

The man with the mustache said, puzzled.

"Ok?"

Shuichi Higashino merely frowned slightly.

The man with the mustache immediately wiped the large beads of sweat from his face with one hand.
"We guarantee our cooperation! We guarantee our cooperation!"

"Well then, tell me, what day did General Sato arrive?"

Seeing that there weren't many people in the trading company's lobby, Higashino Hideichi guessed that the company might be targeting a high-end market, so he casually found a sofa in a corner and sat down.

"what?"

"Ok?"

Higashino Shuichi's voice rose in pitch, and the mustachioed man standing in front of him, whose collar was already soaked with sweat, immediately lost his temper.
“A week ago, just a week ago, General Sato brought you, sir, to our trading company to inspect our work!”

"Does General Sato come here often?"

"Forehead"

The man with the mustache really wanted to say, "Shouldn't you know this better than I do?"

Unfortunately, when he saw Higashino Shuichi's furrowed brows again, he dared not say a word.

"No, General Sato was only transferred here from elsewhere a week ago, and you came with him, sir."

"Nonsense, do I need you to remind me?" Higashino Shuichi said coldly, startling the mustachioed man opposite him so much that he didn't dare to breathe.

"Alright, next. Recently, quite a few people similar to our General Sato have come to Osaka Prefecture, right? Tell me your impressions of them."

"That's what Higashino Shuichi said casually."

When Higashino Shuichi actually asked this question, he himself was not very sure, because he was only guessing that the so-called General Sato's identity might not be simple and was most likely related to a Fullbringer.

After all, they suddenly came to Osaka Prefecture at such a sensitive time.

But will other Fullbringers be as high-profile as General Sato?

Hard to say.

However, seeing how completely intimidated the mustachioed man opposite him, Higashino Shuichi felt that even if he said something wrong, it shouldn't cause him any trouble.

"My lord, I don't quite understand what you mean. Who are you referring to as someone similar to General Sato?"

The man with the mustache asked in a low, somewhat timid voice.

He racked his brains but couldn't think of any other general besides General Sato who had recently come to Osaka Prefecture.

"Baka! Who else could it be? It's those people with unusual identities, high status, or special abilities, who are just as arrogant as our General Sato, and who came to Osaka Prefecture from outside around the same time!"

Higashino Shuichi feigned impatience as he spoke.

Higashino Shuichi's idea was very simple.

If Osaka Prefecture wasn't a pre-arranged trap, then whether or not he caught Yokosawada Tsuna was actually not important to him.

Because Higashino Shuichi knew very well that unless Kyoraku Shunsui took the position of Captain-Commander, and Aizen wiped out the entire Central 46 Chambers and those nobles, and then Yhwach wiped out the entire Soul Society's high-end fighting force.

Otherwise, including Higashino Shuichi himself, and other Hollowfied Shinji like Hirako Shinji, it would be impossible for them to be accepted by Soul Society, and no amount of effort would be of any use.

The so-called efforts to gain the support of the Shiba family and to show the Soul Society that they are actually "harmless" are nothing more than self-deception by Shinji Hirako and his ilk.

If Osaka Prefecture is a pre-arranged scheme, how many Fullbringers could there be in just Osaka Prefecture?
If we want to deal with a Soul Society investigation team, or even besiege a point and attack reinforcements, and test the quality of the current high-end combat power of the Soul Society, how can we do without some extra support?
Higashino Shuichi didn't ask for much more. As long as the mustachioed man mentioned two or three names, plus the so-called General Sato, it would be enough for him to infinitely narrow down the first wave of examiners.

If any one of these people is a Fullbringer, then the rest of the problem will be simple; Higashino Shuichi only needs to follow the clues.

He simply didn't believe that these people would engage in one-way communication between superiors and subordinates, or resort to such outlandish tactics as dead mailboxes that only appear in spy movies.

However, Higashino Shuichi had no idea that he seemed to have overestimated the intelligence of the people in the real world, or perhaps he had overestimated the intelligence network that the Grim Reaper had in the real world.

The man with the mustache rattled off a list of seven suspicious individuals, including one or two who had performed what they called "miracles" in public.

For a moment, Higashino Shuichi felt that his intelligence had been insulted.

According to the man with the mustache, if Higashino Shuichi were to ask any resident of Osaka Prefecture on the street, he might find that some people only knew a little bit, but if he asked a few more people, he would definitely know everything.

"Alright, let's get back to business. General Sato said that when you left last time, your company said you must send the general another big gift. The general sent me here this time to urge you to send it over as soon as possible. Is that alright?"

Higashino stood up, patted his clothes, and said.

"A big gift? We didn't have one." The man with the mustache looked completely bewildered.

"Hmm?" Higashino Shuichi asked in a rising tone.

"Yes, yes, yes, we'll definitely send it to the general as soon as possible!"

The man with the mustache quickly wiped the sweat from his face and said...

"Hurry up, do you hear me?"

"Hideichi Higashino warned."

Then, he took Kisaragi Shusuke and left the trading company, leaving the mustachioed man there alone, feeling melancholy.

"My lord, can the technology of this world really bring the dead back to life and allow people to ascend to immortality?"

On the street, Kisaragi Shusuke directly asked Higashino Shuichi the question she had wanted to ask him earlier in the trading company.

To this, Shuichi Higashino naturally shook his head.

If this were the purely materialistic world of his previous life, then Higashino Shuichi might say that someone was just swindling people.

But this is the world of death gods, and Higashino Hideaki will only associate these two with Fullbring.

Because a true Grim Reaper wouldn't stoop to such pointless tricks.

Only a Perfect Manipulator who is human would have this worldly desire to perform miracles on ordinary humans in order to satisfy certain needs of their own.

"So those two people must be Fullbringers like Rimi, right?"

Kisaragi confirmed.

Higashino nodded and continued, "Go find Sayako and the others now, bring Satomi out, and then the two of you should investigate their addresses, habits, and so on. But remember, it's better to give up investigating than to disturb them."

"Understood, sir!"

Kisaragi Shusuke nodded in agreement with high spirits, and then left directly.

Meanwhile, Higashino Shuichi stayed near the Kurihara Trading Company, casually found a small stall, bought some things, and sat down leisurely.

They waited until the man with the mustache personally led a small group of men out of the trading company, looking anxious.

He was very curious about the little dog that the mustachioed man had mistaken him for someone else.

(End of this chapter)