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

Chapter 289, Section 287: A Shocking Conjecture
Hell, what kind of place is it exactly?
No one could give Kisuke Urahara an answer.

Even the souls of the first captains, who were temporarily summoned back from hell, were bound by certain rules and were unable to tell Kisuke Urahara about that magical place.

To Urahara Kisuke's knowledge, there is currently only one Shinigami in the entire Soul Society who has successfully gone to Hell and returned from there.

And that Grim Reaper's name is Higashino Shuichi.

Kisuke Urahara did not expect to get the answer he wanted from Shuichi Higashino.

Even if Higashino Shuichi were truly willing to speak, Urahara Kisuke certainly couldn't afford to pay him.

However, one thing is certain about Kisuke Urahara.

That is the hell we know today, accumulated over thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

It's almost at its limit.

This should be a believable fact.

After all, the source of this information was Kabuto Sayaka, one of the original five noble families, who was specifically sent to oversee Hell.

Masayako Kabuto's words are definitely worth believing.

Hell only accepts the souls of powerful captain-level Grim Reapers.

To get Hell to its limit as quickly as possible.

Kisuke Urahara must accelerate the process of absorbing souls.

This led to Kisuke Urahara's subsequent series of actions.

Just as he had said to Yinmeng before.

Kisuke Urahara and Shuichi Higashino are fundamentally different in their actions.

His purpose in sending the first captains to attack Soul Society was merely to train the Shinigami in Soul Society.

This is exactly what is meant by "pulling up seedlings to help them grow."

Admittedly, this process will inevitably result in the deaths of many.

However, the Shinigami of Soul Society also experienced a rapid increase in strength during this process.

He needs to increase the number of Shinigami in Soul Society who have the strength to enter the threshold of Hell.

Therefore, sending Takuya Kabuto, a powerful Quincy, into Soul Society to give the Shinigami some early training might not be such a bad thing.

After all, in that shadow world, there are even more powerful Quincy waiting for those Grim Reapers in the future.

So Kisuke Urahara agreed.

But this was unexpected and illogical.

Because Kisuke Urahara did not make any requests or arrangements to him.

Shuichi Higashino felt that this was unreasonable.

Even if one's reasons seem plausible.

But he is Kisuke Urahara.

Does he really believe that a Quincy would go to Soul Society alone for a Shinigami?

Or does Kisuke Urahara simply want to see him go to Soul Society and fight those Shinigami?

However, this contradicts Kisuke Urahara's previous actions.

At least in Higashino Shuichi's view, although Urahara Kisuke had some elements of testing him before, there was also a lot of element of trying to win him over and gain his trust.

If it were anyone else, Higashino Shuichi could believe that they were just confused for a moment.

However, regarding Kisuke Urahara, Shuichi Higashino felt there must be a reason driving him to do this.

For example.
"Troop training?"

After returning to his room, Higashino Shuichi suddenly had this word pop into his head.

Then, in an instant, some of the questions that had been troubling Higashino Shuichi were suddenly answered.

Could it be that Kisuke Urahara's true purpose is to increase the strength of the Shinigami in Soul Society?

Was it because he went to the Unseen Empire in the Shadow World in advance and learned about Yhwach that he came up with this idea?

Higashino Shuichi shook his head, denying his own belief.

Definitely not, because the timing doesn't match.

Kisuke Urahara obtained the spirit residing in the power of the first captain from Masato Miyazaki and began consciously sending them to interfere with Soul Society, even before he had obtained the key.

At that time, he couldn't possibly have known about the Invisible Empire.

why?
In the original storyline, Kisuke Urahara didn't have nearly as much screen time as he does now. It must be because of his own butterfly effect that Kisuke Urahara developed his current thoughts.

So what kind of influence did he have on Kisuke Urahara?

Higashino Shuichi sat on his bed, deep in thought.

He had a vague feeling that he was about to grasp the key to how Kisuke Urahara became who he is today.

If we were to pinpoint the biggest difference between this timeline, which has its own storyline, and the original one for Kisuke Urahara, it would be that his team now includes Shuichi Higashino and his group.

However, neither Higashino Shuichi himself, nor Kisaragi Shusuke, nor Matsumoto Rangiku were actually familiar with Urahara Kisuke.

The impact they could have on Kisuke Urahara was almost negligible.

But there was one exception.

Sayako

Suddenly, a figure appeared in Higashino Shuichi's mind.

This is the head of the Kabuto family, who should have died long ago in the original storyline, and one of the five great noble families that may have been wiped out long ago in the original storyline.

Their disappearance created a void in the Soul Society's understanding of Hell.

but now.

Kisuke Urahara, however, was able to learn a great deal about hell from Sayaka Kabuto.

"The minimum requirement to enter Hell is that one's spiritual pressure must reach at least the level of a mid-level captain, or even higher."

Ordinary captain-level Grim Reapers don't even qualify to enter Hell.

Higashino Shuichi felt as if he had grasped the key to the problem.

This can indeed explain everything Kisuke Urahara has done from the beginning to the present.

Given Kisuke Urahara's personality, if he really wanted to do that, he could easily disregard the lives of individual Shinigami.

For Kisuke Urahara, those were all necessary sacrifices that had to be made for the ultimate goal.

In this respect, Kisuke Urahara and Shuichi Higashino are quite similar.

However, this brings up another problem.

That explains why Kisuke Urahara did it.

If this were the pre-time-traveling Shuichi Higashino, and someone told him that Kisuke Urahara had designs on hell, he would definitely point his finger at that person and yell, "Are you out of your mind?"

But now, for Shuichi Higashino, this could very well be a bloody reality.

However, he was forced to consider this possibility.

Because, in Higashino Shuichi's view, this is the best explanation for all of Urahara Kisuke's actions so far.

Yoshihisa
The next day, just before setting off for Soul Society, Higashino Shuichi came up with an answer.

A somewhat outrageous answer, but perhaps the closest to the truth.

That is, ever since Higashino Shuichi learned about the world of Bleach, he has been troubled by a certain term.

That was the will of the Spirit King.

He knew that this thing existed in the world, and that many people had accepted this will.

But he had never seen, heard, or experienced it.

And what about Kisuke Urahara?
The members of Squad Zero can sense the Soul King's will because parts of their bodies have been replaced by the King's Key.

Hyōnobu Ichibei was once a bodyguard-like figure to King Rei.

Therefore, it is not surprising that they could sense the Spirit King's will.

Zhicheng Shuang was also able to sense the Spirit King's will because what Zhicheng Shuang was about to do was enough to threaten the situation of the Three Realms that the Spirit King had worked so hard to leave behind.

That's why the Spirit King's will was made to be perceived by Shi Cheng Shuang as well.

Apart from this, in Higashino Shuichi's memory, no other Shinigami has been able to clearly perceive the Soul King's will.

But how was Kisuke Urahara able to sense the Soul King's will?
If he couldn't sense it, how could he have been so prescient in the original storyline, perfectly cooperating with Aizen and preparing to become the Soul King's replacement so early on?

In the current timeline, how did they manage to appear in such coincidental situations that caused Higashino Shuichi headaches or were unexpected?

These are all points of doubt, and these are also clues.

They all point to the same result.

That is, there may be an unspeakable connection between the will of Kisuke Urahara and the Soul King.

It is possible that Kisuke Urahara is the embodiment of the Soul King's will, or that Kisuke Urahara is another executor of the Soul King's will.

It's also possible that Kisuke Urahara was chosen by the Soul King as a safety belt.

In short, even if Kisuke Urahara cannot directly represent the Soul King, he should be able to represent the Soul King's will to some extent.

To put it more simply, Kisuke Urahara's role in this world could be similar to that of an observer.

It's possible that Kisuke Urahara himself didn't know.

But what he did was indeed to mend and patch up the world left behind by the Spirit King after his death.

In the original storyline, whether it was Aizen's rebellion or Yhwach's attack on Soul Society led by the Wandenreich.

Kisuke Urahara always played a supporting role quietly behind the scenes.

Until Tsunayoshiro's death, Kisuke Urahara never truly demonstrated his strength.

If the Zero Division exists to help the Soul King conduct macro-level control over the entire world, then the Zero Division will handle major events.

Whether the world can proceed perfectly according to the script designed by the Spirit King depends on having someone who can handle the details and help him deal with many variables, such as those of Souya Azashiro and later Shuichi Higashino.

People like Souya Azashiro, who are obedient, are easier to deal with.

However, someone like Shuichi Higashino, who is clearly impossible to communicate with, cannot possibly have complete control over everything just by looking at his ethereal will.

Therefore, there must be someone as powerful and intelligent as Kisuke Urahara to help the Soul King plug all possible loopholes.

Even further, to accomplish the great task that even the former Spirit King failed to achieve—to completely unify and transform this world, and to incorporate Hell into the cyclical system!
"call"

Higashino Hideaki dared not think any further after reaching this point.

The original storyline tells us what the Spirit King saw that led him to decide to die at the hands of the five noble families, but he doesn't know.

But could the Spirit King in his current timeline have already foreseen that he has transmigrated?

Higashino Shuichi felt a chill run down his spine.

It's not impossible.

Because there was something about him that seemed like he had a protagonist's halo at the time.

That was when Higashino Shuichi first went to hell.
In that perilous place, even Higashino Shuichi now wouldn't be able to guarantee he'd emerge unscathed.

And just by chance, I met Kenpachi Kuruyashiki.

It wasn't even any other Soul Society senior; it was the famous Kenpachi Kuruyashiki, who was incredibly kind to his subordinates and juniors and possessed extraordinary strength.

Even though he was killed by his own subordinate, Souya Azashiro, he still stopped other Shinigami who wanted to avenge him at the last moment of his life, and personally passed on the title of Kenpachi and the position of captain of the 11th Division to the latter.

What if none of this was a coincidence?

What if Maki Kurato, the captain of the 10th Division who inspired Higashino Shuichi to want to go to hell, hadn't just happened to run into his line of fire?

What if that battle, in which the people from the West Outpost came to the East Outpost to flex their muscles, didn't happen on the very day that Higashino Shuichi took Matsumoto Rangiku and the others to have a picnic in the real world?

Higashino Shuichi also recalled what Aizen had said to him earlier: he wanted to work with Aizen in hell to find a way to change the world.

Is there a powerful force silently driving all of this behind the scenes?
He believed that he was completely unaffected by the Spirit King's will.

In reality, the Spirit King had already used various psychological suggestions and the driving force of events to make him actively strive in the direction the other party expected.

But now that things have come to this point, Higashino Shuichi realizes that there is no turning back for him.

Hopefully not.

Shuichi Higashino felt that his idea was too shocking and conspiracy theory.

But he was also very scared, and that's the truth.

Despite his efforts to become a chess player, he ultimately became a pawn in the schemes of the Spirit King.

Such an outcome would make everything he has been involved in over the past few centuries seem incredibly clownish.

However, Higashino Shuichi felt that even if that were the case, he was not without a chance to turn the tide.

Hell, that damned hell!

That was the only place the Spirit King could not reach.

That was the only place he could rely on to completely control his own destiny!
"I must get there, and take control of it!"

If previously, Higashino Shuichi only considered hell as one of his options...

So now, hell has become a place that Higashino Shuichi is determined to go to no matter what.

However, before that, he still had to appease Aizen and resolve any remaining concerns within Soul Society.

After all, only Aizen was the best helper for Higashino Shuichi to analyze and master the power of hell.

(End of this chapter)