Bleach: Starting with Marrying Retsu Unohana

As Yhwach spoke, he gently lifted his black cloak to reveal his white knight's uniform beneath, and ignoring the wounds he sustained in the battle with Araki, resolutely drew the cross-shaped longsword from his waist...

At this moment, Yhwach's eyes were filled with fighting spirit, ready to settle things once and for all with Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, the leader of the assassin organization "Gotei 13" and known as the "uncrowned king of Seireitei".

"boom!"

Upon hearing Yhwach's words, Yamamoto Genryusai didn't waste any words; he simply raised the 'Great Fire Sword' high in his hand.

"coming……"

Yhwach's pupils trembled slightly as he prepared to retaliate.

"puff……"

Just as Yhwach was focusing all his energy on Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, a rapier pierced through his chest with a sound of blood and flesh splattering.

"Um?!"

Yhwach felt a pain in his chest and subconsciously looked down.

"Sizzle, sizzle..."

The rapier was still flashing with lightning speed.

"No sound?!"

Yhwach took a fraction of a second to think it over, and then he remembered that he had sealed his ears in order to fight Araki’s Bankai!

The spirit particles he had used to cover his ears had somehow gathered around them again. Because they were his own spirit particles, Yhwach did not notice them. And across the entire battlefield, there was only one person who could do this: Araki, who possessed the ability to control spirit particles!

"Damn Araki!!"

Yhwach's cold eyes, filled with boundless rage, gazed at Araki, who was slumped on a stone block in the distance, and roared.

"Haha~"

Araki responded to Yhwach with a 'goodwill' smile.

"Lord Yuan Liuzhai, now is the time!!"

It was in that moment when Yhwach was distracted that the person standing behind Yhwach, with short gray hair and wielding a thunder sword that had pierced Yhwach's chest, shouted loudly at Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, who was not far away.

"boom!!"

The man was met with a flaming sword that fell from the sky!

Without uttering a single word, Yuan Liuzhai staked all his flames on a single strike, descending from the sky!

"what!!"

With Yhwach's unwilling roar, a massive mushroom cloud of fire rose from Seireitei like a blazing sun, seemingly illuminating the entire Soul Society in an instant.

"it's over!"

Araki looked at the scene before him and finally breathed a sigh of relief. He collapsed backward, exhausted.

"Araki, are you alright?"

"Araki, are you alright?!"

Just as Araki fell, two figures appeared behind him in a flash and caught him as he leaned backward.

"It's Retsu and Saito, you two!"

"Don't worry about me. I'm just a little tired because I've exhausted both my spiritual pressure and physical strength. I just need to get some sleep and rest!"

As Araki spoke, he leaned against the two of them, closed his eyes, and began to do his best to restore his 'physical strength' and 'spiritual pressure'.

"Um……"

The moment Araki closed his eyes, the two women standing behind him, Saito Immortal and Uno Retsu, narrowed their eyes slightly.

"Ara~"

"Isn't this Captain Saito of the 'Sixth Division'? As the 'Captain of the Sixth Division,' shouldn't you be rescuing your own squad's members? They're waiting for you, 'Captain'!"

"As for our Eleventh Division Captain Araki, it's enough for me, as a fellow member of the Eleventh Division, to take care of him~ You don't need to trouble yourself with that, Captain Saito!"

Uno Retsu looked at Saito, who was immortal, beside her with a smile on her face. Her words were full of cadence and seemed to have a hidden meaning. At the same time, she snatched Araki from Saito's arms.

"Ha ha……"

"How come I never knew that Captain Uno had the ability to take care of others?"

"As far as I know, Captain Uno, you seem to be good for nothing except fighting~"

Saito retaliated against Uno and pulled Araki, who was in Uno's arms, towards his own.

"Ha ha……"

Una showed no sign of letting go. Her slender, fair fingers were as strong and firm as steel bars, firmly locking Araki's body in her arms and preventing him from moving an inch.

"You guy!"

Upon seeing this, Saito felt a surge of anger, and a hint of ferocity flashed in his eyes.

"That Captain Saito, Captain Uno!"

"I am here on the orders of the Captain-Commander to retrieve Captain Araki. The Captain-Commander will dispatch the best healer in Soul Society to provide medical treatment for Captain Araki!"

Just as Saito and Uno were arguing over Araki, to the point that Araki's face was turning ashen, a member of the Gotei 11 approached Saito and Uno, knelt on one knee, and respectfully addressed them.

"what?!"

"Are you saying my return won't save Araki?"

Upon hearing this, Saito roared at the soldier of the First Division in front of him.

"Ara~"

"I can't pretend I didn't hear that, can I?"

Uno no Retsu also gave the soldiers in front of him a faint, peaceful (but murderous) smile.

"Um, well, that's not what I meant. I was just following orders..."

Upon hearing this, the first squad member panicked. He looked at the two captains in front of him with tears in his eyes. He was just a working man, please spare him!

As for Captain Saito and Captain Uno's 'Return to the Dao' cultivation level, how could he not know that Captain Uno and Captain Saito could do such a thing?!

"Hey! You two, stop fooling around! This is an order personally given by the Commander-in-Chief!"

Just as this member of the First Division was about to faint from the aura of Saito and Uno, a deep voice suddenly rang out, stopping Uno and Saito from their actions.

"Captain Tail Bullet!"

Upon hearing this, the First Division soldier looked up and saw that the Fifth Division Captain, Odanjiro, had somehow appeared beside them and kindly spoke up for him. The First Division soldier immediately gave Odanjiro a grateful look.

"Cut~"

Saito, who is immortal, had no choice but to give up his claim to Araki after hearing this.

"Humph~"

In response, a hint of disdain flashed in Uno's eyes as he looked at Saito, and he personally handed Araki over to the First Division member in front of him.

"Thank you for your understanding, Captain Saito and Captain Uno! And thank you for your help, Captain Odanjiro! I'll take my leave now!"

As the First Division soldier spoke, he helped the sleeping Araki and disappeared from the battlefield.

"boom……"

On the other side, accompanied by a series of booming sounds, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni sheathed his Zanpakuto and walked expressionlessly toward the group of Shinigami soldiers who were there to greet him.

"The war is over! We won!"

Following closely behind Yamamoto was Chojiro Sasaki, the same man who had successfully ambushed Yhwach using the Thunder Blade. He loudly addressed the Shinigami soldiers in front of him, announcing the failure of Yhwach's invasion and the victory of Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni over Yhwach!

"Oh!!!"

As Chojiro Sasakichi finished speaking, cheers of victory from the Shinigami (death gods) echoed throughout the Seireitei.

"Did we win?!"

On the other side, when Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni heard the word "victory," he quietly looked at his hands. He had indeed struck with that final blow, and he had indeed used the flames of his Zanpakuto to burn Yhwach's body to ashes. But Yhwach, facing the endless flames, not only did not beg but instead smiled...

Finally, Yhwach seemed to say something to him, but the roar of the surrounding flames was too violent for him to hear clearly! However, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni had a strange premonition that Yhwach had not died just like that, and that sooner or later the other party would make a comeback.

If one day Yhwach, whom he should have killed, were to return, and by then he were old, who in this Soul Society could stand against such a monster?!

"Araki!"

As Yamamoto thought this, a name slowly rose in his mind.

"Forget it! Let future generations handle the affairs of the future! When Yhwach makes a comeback, I might not be the captain of the Gotei 13 anymore! Let the younger generation handle everything then!"

Thinking of this, Yamamoto's mood seemed to improve a lot. Unlike the original story, Yamamoto was not alone now; he had a successor who was capable of taking on the mantle of the Gotei 13.

In a pitch-black space...

"His Majesty!"

A handsome young man with short, smooth, golden hair, a face so striking it was impossible to tell his gender, and a pair of bright blue eyes stood respectfully before a charred, unrecognizable 'corpse' and spoke softly.

"Hasward?"

Upon hearing this, the corpse suddenly spoke in a chilling manner.

"Your Majesty, everything is as you said. While you were fighting against death, we Quincy created this world within the shadowy space of Seireitei..."

A handsome young man named Hasward stood beside the 'corpse' and spoke calmly.

“Hahaha…very good!”

The corpse burst into laughter upon hearing this.

“Your Majesty, the Grim Reapers are celebrating their victory in Seireitei. As Your Majesty has suffered a temporary ‘defeat,’ some of our companions have followed Your Majesty to this world of shadows, while others have returned to the mortal realm.”

Haschward continued speaking.

"Let them go! From this day forward, the 'Empire of Light' will vanish! From this day forward, we will move from 'light' into 'shadow,' and our empire will be called... the 'Invisible Empire'!"

The corpse continued to speak.

"As ordered!"

Hasward nodded slightly upon hearing this.

"Yugaran Hasward! Go and tell the people of my empire that I have not been defeated, and that the future is on our side! A thousand years from now, I will bring true peace to the entire world!"