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

Yoruichi Shihouin collapsed, and Nemu was left with only one breath. The spirit of the first captain, Yuuki Otoko, who had sent Yoruichi Shihouin over, was also dealt with by Nemu during the previous battle between Nemu and Yoruichi Shihouin.

Compared to the later captains of the 12th Division, the first captain of the 12th Division, Wang Tuchuan Yuxu, was more like a research-oriented talent.

Even in that chaotic era, his combat strength was still the lowest among the original thirteen captains.

Therefore, he hadn't participated in many battles before, so it's understandable that he was easily killed by Nemuro.

Even Jushiro Ukitake, far away, was too exhausted to continue fighting.

In the other smaller worlds, the battles were also evenly matched.

The Espada, who had been strengthened once again by Aizen who possessed the complete Hogyoku, were not at a disadvantage when facing the first Captain America.

Therefore, in this vast world of shadows, only Higashino Shuichi and Urahara Kisuke remain.

This is their battlefield.

The Quincy's power was withdrawn from Nemu, and Higashino Shuichi once again appeared in the sight of Yoruichi Shihouin and Kisuke Urahara as Yhwach.

Yoruichi Shihouin was somewhat shocked, but it also seemed to make sense. After all, the one she had fought before was the Shinigami Nemu. If Nemu hadn't killed Yhwach and seized Yhwach's identity and power, then there should indeed be a real Yhwach behind Nemu.

"Is this your trump card?"
The power of hell?
Are you sure that's a power that even you Grim Reapers can touch?

Higashino Shuichi looked at Urahara Kisuke, who was slowly walking towards him, and said coldly.

Higashino Shuichi was all too familiar with the power that had just killed Nemuro.

Isn't that the "ash" that belongs to hell, which he had already severed ties with long ago?

However, Higashino Shuichi did not expect that this power, which he had long abandoned and planned to deal with in the future, would now be picked up again by Urahara Kisuke.

"why not?"

Urahara Kisuke smiled and replied,
"Even among us Grim Reapers, there are those who have been cultivating Hell for many years~"
Those guys had been exposed to hell much longer than I did, and even longer than you.

Higashino Hideichi understood instantly: Urahara Kisuke was referring to the Kabuto family, one of the four great noble families in Soul Society.

As one of the five great families that attacked the Soul King together, the Kabuto family voluntarily went to Hell from that time onwards, and was responsible for guarding, protecting, and researching Hell to prevent this uncontrolled area from having any improper thoughts about the Soul Society, the Human World, and Hueco Mundo after the Soul King's death.

It was during this process that the Douma family developed special divine runes, which they used in conjunction with their family's heirloom artifact to eliminate the potential of hell.

This plan was one that Hideichi Higashino had participated in and that he had personally verified as feasible.

Unfortunately, the price was too high. Even as a captain-level Shinigami with peak strength, Higashino Shuichi could not use the power of Hell for a long time.

Furthermore, the conditions are extremely demanding. To deplete the potential of Hell, one must venture into that perilous place where everyone is immortal and inscribe divine runes on the objects to be eliminated.

The stronger the Grim Reaper, the more attention they receive from Hell, and the greater the difficulty they face.

Therefore, after Higashino Shuichi relinquished the power of Hell, he never again had the idea of ​​venturing into Hell.

He will only consider heading to Hell after he has resolved all his concerns in the Soul Society and the human world.

However, Higashino Shuichi did not expect that Urahara Kisuke was bolder and faster than him.

The divine runes used to restrict the power of hell were probably taken from Sayako by Kisuke Urahara when she was exiled to the Western Frontier.

He had already confirmed this point in the remains of the first captains and in Sayako's memories.

Previously, Higashino Shuichi simply believed that only he, who possessed the fragments of the Spirit King's fingernails and could regenerate infinitely, and those special beings specially made by Miyazaki Masato, could rely on divine runes and the power of hell.

In retrospect, Higashino Shuichi underestimated Urahara Kisuke's creative abilities as a top-tier scientific researcher in the Bleach world.

The divine runes, a special power that the Kabuto family spent countless millennia painstakingly exploring and creating, have been developed into a completely new version by Kisuke Urahara in less than a century.

This can be inferred from the fact that Kisuke Urahara clearly used the power of hell, but his body was not corroded into ashes by the power of hell like Shuichi Higashino was before.

Higashino Shuichi felt that it was almost certain.

"So you think you can defeat me with that so-called hellish power?"

Higashino Shuichi sneered.

"How will you know if you don't try?"

As Kisuke Urahara's Zanpakuto slashed towards Shuichi Higashino, a gray crack appeared, stretching across the sky and earth like a thin line, cleaving the entire Shadow World in two.

Higashino Shuichi guessed that Urahara Kisuke would not talk to him about politeness first and then force, so he had long been on guard against Urahara Kisuke suddenly stabbing him in the back.

So he dodged the blow.

But they cannot escape the shadow world they inhabit.

The next moment, Yoruichi Shihouin, who was already exhausted, saw the first ray of light in a long time in the pitch-black world of shadows.

However, it was only slightly hazy, because above the world that had been split open, there was a sky full of dark clouds, and a few drops of rain even seeped through the crack and fell on Yoruichi Shihouin's face.

"That is... the present world?"

Yoruichi Shihōin was so shocked by Kisuke Urahara's strike that she was completely speechless.

More importantly, given that Kisuke Urahara possessed such formidable strength and trump cards, why did he remain indifferent to the deaths of these people throughout the war?

Are Kyoraku Shunsui, Saito Immortal, and others, including herself, merely dispensable pawns in Urahara Kisuke's eyes?
"Your strike wasn't threatening enough. Are you trying to show off to me?"

Higashino Shuichi didn't have as many thoughts as Yoruichi Shihōin, mainly because his previous speculations had given him advance preparation for any changes that Kisuke Urahara might make next.

Moreover, Higashino Shuichi already knew what kind of person Urahara Kisuke was.

When he captured Yoruichi Shihouin, the bad things he said about Kisuke Urahara to her weren't all nonsense.

"Yes, I wonder if this strike is enough to kill you?" Kisuke Urahara did not deny Shuichi Higashino's question, and even boldly assumed the stance for his next strike.

Use a horizontal knife to make a horizontal cut.

It must be said that, in Higashino Shuichi's opinion, Kisuke Urahara's slashing technique was probably not much better than that of the 11th Division's captains.

It lacked power, speed, and even feints and follow-up attacks.

Extremely ordinary.

But this is actually normal, since Kisuke Urahara was never a Shinigami who was particularly good at fighting.

He, Aizen, and Higashino Shuichi were like three gamers with different skill point allocation strategies on the same skill panel.

Higashino Shuichi focused on the combat skill talent tree, maxing out all combat-related skills and talents;
Kisuke Urahara, on the other hand, focused on the technology skill talent tree, maxing out all technology-related skills and talents;

As for Aizen, he unlocked all the core talents, but didn't push anything to its extreme.

However, compared to Shuichi Higashino and Kisuke Urahara, Aizen has an additional unique artifact slot that no one else has, which perfectly compensates for his greed.

Another gray line swept past, and Higashino Shuichi prepared to use the same trick again, using his body to dodge this attack that seemed to have no other advantages besides its great power.

But he found himself stuck this time.

The space around his body suddenly converged on him at that moment, and the immense pressure pressed Higashino Shuichi down to the spot like a drowning man, and the pressure grew heavier and heavier.

Bankai, Kannon Kai - Benihime Kai!
These were the unspoken words of liberation. The spiritual pressure that should have erupted was well controlled by Kisuke Urahara using the power of his Bankai, remaining contained around his body and not manifesting.

The first strike was merely a feint by Kisuke Urahara, designed to lull Shuichi Higashino into a false sense of security.

This second strike, combined with his Bankai, was the real killing blow against Shuichi Higashino.

Kisuke Urahara's Bankai allows him to reconstruct and modify anything his Zanpakuto touches within the area covered by his Bankai. The modified objects will show traces of stitching, similar to needle and thread.

Kisuke Urahara's first cut was also a prelude to this second cut of reconstruction and transformation.

Urahara Kisuke's Bankai was originally not capable of manipulating space to this extent.

But the problem is that Higashino Shuichi chose this shadow world as the location for the battle.

The entire Shadow World did not originally exist; it was a new world that Yhwach forcibly created using his power and spiritual particles.

Therefore, the spiritual particles that were touched by Kisuke Urahara's Zanpakuto and formed the basis of the Shadow World became objects that Kisuke Urahara could manipulate and reconstruct.

At the moment he was restrained, Higashino Shuichi also understood this principle.

Aside from laughing at himself for being too clever for his own good, he had no choice but to take Urahara Kisuke's knife head-on.

The Quincy Cross Blade in Higashino Shuichi's hand was torn to shreds, and the wailing, stark white bones gradually devoured the black longsword amidst the gray lines.

The barriers built by Higashino Shuichi using his omniscient and omnipotent power, the rules he altered, and the new powers he bestowed, all seemed completely incompatible with the power of hell, which was not even in the same combat system. They all collapsed after only a few rounds.

In that instant, a scene suddenly appeared before Higashino Shuichi's eyes.

It was a chaotic world where the Soul Society, the Human World, and Hueco Mundo had not yet separated from each other.

In this world, among all living beings, there exists only one strongest being, who is revered by all other beings as the Spirit King.

On this day, the Spirit King launched an attack on the gray space that hovered above the world, constantly demanding immense power from it.

As the strongest being among all creatures in this world, the Spirit King undoubtedly possesses the greatest power. Almost every imaginable ability can be manifested in the Spirit King.

But even such a powerful Spirit King would find his strength pale in comparison to that mysterious gray space.

That mysterious gray space seemed to belong to a different world.

His power is incompatible with the laws of this world.

All of the Spirit King's methods seemed utterly powerless in the face of that gray power.

No matter how many times the Spirit King tried, the outcome was always the same: failure.

He was powerless against this mysterious gray space and could only watch helplessly as it robbed the world of its powerful dead, day after day and year after year.

The Spirit King realized that if things continued this way, the power of the entire world would only weaken, until finally, there would be no chance left to resist this gray, mysterious space.

Therefore, he decided to leave his hopes to the future, and dedicate his life to protecting the world from the influence of that mysterious space.
Then, there were some things that Higashino Shuichi already knew.

Higashino Shuichi didn't know why he saw all of this so quickly and superficially in that instant.

It was probably the Spirit King's will that, for the first time since he had been in this world for so long, attempted to influence him.

Regardless of how much of the images that the Spirit King specifically selected for him to see were real or fake.

Higashino Shuichi probably guessed what the Soul King's will wanted to see after all this planning.

The Spirit King wanted to see the possibility of fighting against the power of hell through himself, a variable.

And he even used the power of the Spirit King to fight against the power of Hell.

For this reason, the Soul King tirelessly worked behind the scenes to achieve the battle between him and Kisuke Urahara.

There was no external interference; it was purely a collision between two forces.

To be fair, no matter how much Higashino Shuichi usually disagrees with the Soul King's ideas, at least at this moment, Higashino Shuichi has indeed achieved a unity of purpose with the Soul King's will.

If we can glean some solutions from Kisuke Urahara before truly entering hell, wouldn't that be wonderful?
"Ah"

A smile crept across Higashino Shuichi's lips.
"Watch closely, Spirit King!"
Rules are meant to be used like this! (End of Chapter)