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

Shuichi Higashino is indeed not in good condition.

Although they eventually managed to kill Kisuke Urahara.

However, maintaining his physical condition will be no easy task for Shuichi Higashino.

He needs time to recuperate, and incidentally, to meet that person.

Is this the answer you wanted?

Higashino Shuichi stood in the empty world of shadows and muttered to himself.

"No."

In front of Shuichi Higashino, Kisuke Urahara's corpse slowly rose from the ground and spoke.

Higashino Shuichi knew that this was just a case of the dead coming back to life.

Inside that body, Higashino Shuichi could no longer sense any trace of life.

"You're looking for a way to eliminate the power of hell once and for all, right?"

Since there were no outsiders around, Higashino Shuichi no longer needed to force himself to put on an act, so he simply sat down on the ground.

Although the hellish power on his body had faded with the death of Kisuke Urahara, the damage that hellish power had caused to Shuichi Higashino's body was something that Shuichi Higashino could not cleanse himself of in a short time.

"I thought I could find the answer in you. You are one of the only two people whose future I can't see clearly."

"Urahara Kisuke" opened his mouth and said.

"Who is the other one? Let me guess, could it be Kurosaki Ichigo, who will never be born again?"

At times like this, Higashino Shuichi can talk without worry with the will of the Soul King who has borrowed Urahara Kisuke's corpse to meet him.

Why do you think he would have the surname Kurosaki?

I think he should be called Higashino Ichigo.

"It was the will of the Spirit King who spoke."

"This joke is not funny at all."

"You are not the Grim Reaper who should exist in this world!"

With their eyes locked in a tense standoff, Higashino Shuichi sat on the ground, gazing at the lifeless Urahara Kisuke before him, and suddenly smiled.
"Hehe, didn't anyone tell you that your transition was really abrupt?"

"But the joke was funny, at least you laughed."

The Spirit King's will answered methodically.

It's a point I'm inexplicably fixated on.

However, this further confirms one of Higashino Shuichi's guesses.
"Has anyone ever told you that you are actually no different from hell?"

"Why do you say that?"

As the Soul King's will finished speaking, the broken blade in Higashino Shuichi's hand pierced the neck of Urahara Kisuke, the body he was currently possessing.

"Because the Spirit King is dead, just like the body you are currently inhabiting."

You are now merely a high-level program he left behind back then.

You are meticulously and without a trace of emotion executing the script set by the Spirit King.

At least until I came along, it always has been, and it always will be.

It wasn't until I appeared that your program malfunctioned, which led to your series of actions that seemed incomprehensible to outsiders.

You sometimes help me, and sometimes you stop me, all because you can't see through the chaos in my program.

But for the true Spirit King, these are impossible things to do.

Just as the power of hell is the absolute ruler in hell, the Soul King is like a creator to the three worlds we inhabit: Soul Society, the Human World, and Hueco Mundo.

If you are the true Spirit King, you don't need such roundabout ways.

After another brief silence, the Spirit King's will recovered from the shock of Higashino Shuichi's words.
"But in the end, you did not become the one who made the prophecy."

The gates of hell remain closed to you.

You should travel back to your past life and have intercourse with that human woman named Kurosaki Masaki. Perhaps your child can complete this task.

"If that fails, should we continue to let that child mate with new human women, combining new power, and keep selecting superior genes until the best generation is born?"

Higashino Shuichi sneered.

Is this the future that the Spirit King saw?
Judging from the plot of the original work, it seems that this is indeed the case.

However, Shuichi Higashino could not accept it.

What's the difference between this and being a tool to be manipulated?
Moreover, even if "Higashino Kazuyoshi" is born as desired, will he be able to help the Soul King resolve the threat from Hell according to the script he saw?

This answer is probably unknown even to the Spirit King himself, and Higashino Shuichi is also unclear about it.

Because in the original work, at least before he transmigrated, that damned Kubo hadn't drawn this part yet.

It's possible that Kurosaki Kazuo in the original story succeeded, but it's also possible that he didn't.

However, based on his observation of the Spirit King's attitude, Higashino Shuichi speculated that, at least in his own timeline, Ichiyo was most likely in a Schrödinger's cat state.

Since it involves Hell, the Spirit King probably can't see the future there either.

Therefore, the will of the Spirit King took it upon itself to move some of the eggs and put them into Higashino Shuichi's basket.

But as everyone knows, what Higashino Shuichi hates most is the unknown probability.

He likes to keep everything under control.

"I said, haven't you considered any other possibilities?"

"Higashino Shuichi said slowly."

"There is no other possibility. I have considered all possibilities beforehand, and I have tried all methods. There is no other way but to continuously iterate the power."

After saying that, the Spirit King's will played another scene for Higashino Shuichi.

In this scene, Higashino Shuichi first sees the ancient era when the Soul King, along with Hyosube Ichibei, swept across the land and unified the world, and then relives the Soul King's crushing defeat when facing Hell.

Finally, after the Soul King willingly allowed himself to be killed by the original five noble families of Soul Society, he voluntarily divided his power into four forms.
These are the powers of the Shinigami, the Hollows, the Quincy, and the Fullbring.

In the vision of the Spirit King, he needed time for future generations to refine these four powers to perfection through continuous practice and exploration. Finally, through the miraculous process of childbirth, these powers would be perfectly reshaped within a person's body.

Thus, an existence capable of surpassing the original Spirit King was constructed.

When Higashino saw this, he felt that the plot was somewhat familiar. It was very similar to the myth in a certain Eastern country in his previous life, where one breath transformed into three pure beings, and then the three pure beings returned to one.
Perhaps the Soul King's choice truly had its reasons. However, in the end, Higashino Shuichi still shook his head.

"If you don't believe me, you can try having sex with that human woman named Kurosaki Masaki. For you, it's just a matter of lifting your buttocks."

You don't need to worry about what happens next.

The spirit king's will is still trying to persuade Higashino Shuichi.

But Higashino Shuichi's attitude was very firm.

"do you know?
There's an old saying in my hometown: "Don't leave all the burdens to the next generation." Any bloodshed and sacrifice that can end in my generation should end with me.

“That makes sense, but I’m pretty sure you’re not a person of high moral character!”

The Spirit King's will nodded, then, oblivious to the situation, retorted.

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Higashino was speechless for a moment. He never thought that one day he would be rendered speechless by such a brainless Spirit King's will.

Couldn't he be allowed to add some value and elevate the theme just as all of this was about to end?

"Okay, I admit it, I just wanted to try and see if I could handle Hell."

After all, I'm not human; I only have a few decades to live. What if my hopes are pinned on my offspring and they don't listen to me in the future?

As Higashino Shuichi spoke, he stood up from the ground, looked at Urahara Kisuke's corpse opposite him, and continued,
"Of course, the main reason is that I want to possess a power that can rival you."

After all...
I really don't want to experience something like what happened to Kisuke Urahara again~

After saying that, Higashino Shuichi's expression hardened, and his previously listless demeanor suddenly became solemn.

The broken Zanpakuto blade that had just been stuck in the neck of Kisuke Urahara's corpse was also retrieved by Shuichi Higashino at this moment.

Without any warning, Higashino Shuichi's power, which he had just recovered a little bit of, erupted in an instant at this moment.

"Swallow Returns - Eight Thousand Streams!"

Without the binding force of hell on his body, Higashino Shuichi's strike was far more ferocious and swift than when he faced Urahara Kisuke, even though his body had not fully recovered.

Furthermore, Higashino Shuichi wields his sword with his left hand, using the Kabuto family's sacred weapon, Seiya Basara.

At this time, he had not yet shed the form of his Zanpakuto, Hungaku Reirou, which meant that there was another soul in Higashino Shuichi's body, Kenpachi Kuruyashiki.

This also means that Higashino Shuichi's strike was imbued with the power of hell.

After the blade's edge flashed, the once boundless world of shadows was reduced to a small area around Higashino Shuichi.

"You can't kill me like this."

The Spirit King's will suddenly appeared out of thin air.

The corpse of Kisuke Urahara, which he had previously possessed, had already been completely destroyed by Shuichi Higashino's slash.

"I know, but I'm just giving it a try~"

Higashino Shuichi was panting heavily, sweat dripping from his forehead.

After all, they were so close just now, and they knew that the Soul King's will was definitely possessing Urahara Kisuke's corpse. It was hard not to feel the urge to go up and slash at it.

What if it succeeds?

Then he wouldn't even need to worry about hell.

Unfortunately, as expected, it failed. Now, the Spirit King's will, like the power of hell, is completely integrated with the world to which they belong, belonging to an embedded program.

Unless Higashino Shuichi destroys the entire Three Realms created by the Spirit King, he can forget about eradicating this troublesome Spirit King's will.

"No matter how many times you try, the result will be the same."

The Spirit King's will spoke emotionlessly, then paused briefly before adding, in a slightly anthropomorphic tone, "..."
"Even if you go to Aizen Sousuke, it won't do any good. He's tried many times already."

"Huh? Aizen too, huh~"

What can Higashino Shuichi say about this?

This must be what we call tacit understanding, right?

He said that's how it is, right?
It's really hard for anyone to resist the urge to stab the Spirit King's will when it's right within their grasp.

"I'll give you one last piece of advice: you can choose to go to the mortal world and meet that person named Kurosaki Masaki."

The Spirit King's will patiently persuaded him.

In his judgment, Higashino Shuichi was undoubtedly the most suitable Grim Reaper in the three realms to serve as a breeding horse.

Aizen Sousuke is not so good; his body has been tainted by the Hogyoku he created, a creation that brings great uncertainty to future generations.

On the contrary, although Higashino Shuichi harbored great malice towards the Soul King both verbally and in his heart, his body betrayed him, equipping him with a large amount of the Soul King's power and body components.

If we look at Higashino Shuichi from a highly rational perspective, from the perspective of the Spirit King's will, Higashino Shuichi is a true second-generation Spirit King.

"Alright, alright, I know. Even if I don't go, you'll still find a way to arrange for someone like Shiba Isshin or Lambo Isshin to have a passionate romance with Kurosaki Masaki, right?"

Give me some time, I'll handle it.

The world is constantly changing.

If this had happened decades ago, and someone had told Higashino Shuichi that he would end his first formal meeting with the Spirit King's will in this way, he would have smashed that person's head in.

What the hell? There's still room for compromise between Higashino Shuichi's and the Soul King's will?
He almost ruined a script that people had painstakingly prepared for thousands of years. It would be a wonder if the Spirit King didn't think about chopping him up!

But if this were over a hundred years ago, when Higashino Shuichi was just a mere vice-captain of the Fourth Division, and someone showed him a scene like this, he would probably have been overjoyed.

Because in this way, he will no longer have to worry or be afraid, and he can even confidently pursue women. Why not?
If this scene were to happen today, even Shuichi Higashino could only sigh, as there was nothing he could do about it.

Ultimately, the Soul King is the cornerstone of this world; the world of the Grim Reapers exists because of the Soul King.

He once thought that as long as he could create an infinite number of substitute Spirit Kings, he could continuously maintain the entire Three Realms, thereby allowing the Three Realms to completely get rid of the influence of the Spirit Kings. Now it seems that such an idea was too naive.

The Spirit King's idea was not wrong, nor did his will do anything wrong. What was wrong was that they had transcended the realm of humanity and were devoid of emotion.

For them, maintaining the world order is the most important thing.

But for Shuichi Higashino, life is the most important thing.

"That's why I'm giving you no chance to restart. Isn't this the future you foresee, Spirit King?"

Higashino Shuichi braced himself against the sword, silently reciting the words in his mind. (End of Chapter)