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

Chapter 7. The Hunt Begins (Part 7)
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Real-life battles are not like those depicted in anime from my previous life, where enemies politely greet each other before engaging in combat.

The three Hollow bodies that led the charge had barely emerged halfway from the black cavity when three long-prepared Hollow Flashes shot out.

"The eighth method of binding, rebuke!"

"Lightning strike!"

Higashino Shuichi and Shihouin Yoruichi made their moves at almost the same time.

The former drew his Zanpakuto from his waist, used the Binding Path to condense a layer of spiritual energy shield on the blade, and with his superb Shunpo technique, he deflected the trajectory of the Cero by slashing it before it could hit the young noblemen and ladies who had not yet reacted, forcing it to deviate from its original target point by hundreds of meters.

In contrast, the latter directly predicted the location of the Cero, aimed his palm at the path the Cero was bound to take, and used the Kido he released in an instant to annihilate the Cero at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.

However, faced with the sudden and swift attack of this Hollow, it was clear that the quick reaction of Higashino Shuichi and Shihouin Yoruichi alone was not enough. The third Hollow flashed straight past the ordinary Hollow that had just been knocked down by those noble young masters.

Before he could even cry for help, a lower-ranking nobleman met his end.

It wasn't until the three Hollows had completely emerged from the black cavity and the dust rose from the ground that the noble young masters and ladies finally realized what had just happened.

Just as slow to react as the noble young masters and ladies was Gintoki, who stood frozen in place.

"What's going on? How come so many Hollows have suddenly appeared?!"

As the fourteenth seat of the Sixth Division, a noble-exclusive division, Ginjiro rarely faces Hollows directly. This is because it is almost impossible for Hollows to directly intrude into the Seireitei. Most of the time, Hollows that intrude into Soul Society are eliminated by members of the Tenth Division, Eleventh Division, Second Division, and other divisions in Rukongai.

Therefore, his current reaction is perfectly normal.

Furthermore, dealing with Hollows of the Gillian and Adjuchas levels would normally require a vice-captain or captain-level Shinigami to handle. Low-ranking officers like Gintoki would generally be sent away as many as they come, unless there are special circumstances.

Therefore, Yoruichi Shihouin, who witnessed the whole process, knew that she couldn't rely on Ginjiro at this time.

Similarly, the noble young masters and ladies below need not be considered at all.

"Ginjiro! You must immediately take those nobles and leave District 62!"

Yoruichi Shihouin immediately used Shunpo to appear between Ginjiro and the Hollows, her burning gaze fixed on the menacing Hollows.

"I I know!"

After being yelled at by Yoruichi Shihouin, Ginjiro finally turned his head.

After saying that, he wanted to call Higashino Shuichi to join him, but when he looked over, he found that just as Yoruichi Shihouin arrived to stabilize the situation, Higashino Shuichi had already pounced on one of the Adjuchas.

"Aizen's letter said that I could appropriately demonstrate my strength in this operation. By 'appropriately,' I mean that I could kill any enemy that I could theoretically defeat."

Is this understanding correct?

Higashino Shuichi licked his lips as he thought.

To be honest, since following Aizen, he has indeed stopped worrying about his life, but he has been living a very stifling life because Aizen practices the true way of survival.

If I'm not 100% sure, I'd rather die than reveal it.

Therefore, Higashino Shuichi learned a lot of skills from Aizen, but he never had the chance to use them.

Now I've finally found an opportunity to unleash a little of my true potential.
Higashino Shuichi looked at the bewildered Gillian standing beneath him and a pleased smile crept across his face. He could only think, "You guys didn't check the almanac before you went out today."
"Take the mountain!"

A deep voice came from Higashino Shuichi's throat. At the same time, the Hollow, which had not yet seen how Higashino Shuichi suddenly appeared above its head, had its skull cracked and its huge body was kicked hard into the ground from the air, leaving only half of its body sticking out upside down.

"This kind of free-for-all technique."

As one of the few Shinigami in the entire Soul Society who is proficient in hand-to-hand combat, Yoruichi Shihouin couldn't help but murmur upon seeing this scene.

As everyone knows, among the various techniques of swordsmanship, fist fighting, and ghost fighting, the most favored by most Shinigami is the first technique, swordsmanship, followed by Kido, then Shunpo, and finally Hakuda.

This has resulted in the fact that, in the entire Soul Society, only the Second Division, led by Yoruichi Shihouin, is able to specialize in Hakuda and Shunpo because of their positions, which make it inconvenient for them to use Kido and Zanpakuto.

Given the impressive martial arts skills demonstrated by Higashino Shuichi's "Mountain Stomp" move, Yoruichi Shihouin couldn't help but suspect that Higashino Shuichi might have left her Second Division.

However, in the excitement of battle, Higashino Shuichi obviously had no energy left to observe the behavior of others.

The attack that slammed the Kylian into the ground didn't satisfy him; it wasn't even a warm-up.

However, his long-standing habits prevented him from losing his mind in this extreme excitement; he still remembered that he had a task to complete.

"Attack, warriors!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Higashino Shuichi seized this perfect opportunity and immediately released his Zanpakuto into Shikai.

And used one of its three abilities.

"He who commands troops governs his people!"

Falling from the sky, Shuichi Higashino's Zanpakuto drew a sharp vertical line in mid-air, releasing spiritual energy.

The Hollow he had just stepped into the ground didn't even have a chance to struggle before being split in two by Higashino Shuichi, and then transformed into seventeen pure white, faceless spirit beings.

"Not only can you break down your own spiritual particles into controllable little people, but you can do the same with your enemies?"

This was the first time Yoruichi Shihōin had witnessed Shuichi Higashino's Zanpakutō in actual combat. Previously, she had only heard about it from the Captain-Commander and Shunsui Kyōraku. "No wonder Shunsui said that this is a very dangerous ability."

The danger doesn't lie in how powerful Higashino Shuichi's ability is in actual combat, but rather in the fact that Higashino Shuichi's Zanpakuto's ability is very similar to that of the Quincy, the Shinigami's nemesis from a thousand years ago.

The difference is that the Hollows destroyed by the Quincy not only have their spiritual particles broken down, but their souls are also annihilated.

However, Higashino Shuichi's Zanpakuto ability allows him to selectively decompose only spiritual particles and recombine them into usable spiritual beings.

Even though this is a controllable ability, this ability of Shuichi Higashino's Zanpakuto is still a relatively dangerous ability for the Soul Society.

"Third Seat Higashino Shuichi! You're not allowed to use your Zanpakuto abilities again! Use Hakuda and cooperate with me!"

Thinking of this, Yoruichi Shihouin immediately stopped Shuichi Higashino's actions.

Higashino Shuichi had already achieved his goal, so he pretended to be embarrassed and apologized to Shihouin Yoruichi, "I'm sorry, Captain Shihouin, I might have been a little nervous. I won't use my Zanpakuto ability on them again!"

However, underground, unseen by Yoruichi Shihōin, under the cover of the scattered spirit puppets on the ground that were rushing towards the phantoms that were passing through the black cavity, a dozen or so spirit puppets used stealth Kidō and Shunpo to rush towards the 64th and 66th districts of the western Rukongai, as well as the 71st, 73rd, and 75th districts of the male Rukongai.

(End of this chapter)