[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

-110 years ago-

"Vice Captain, good evening!"

"Good evening, Kuroi Ten Seats." Lan Ran nodded to the girl holding a stack of official documents, with a warm smile still on her face.

But the captain of the Fifth Division beside him is not very decent.Kuroi Jushi moved his head to Aizen's chest, Mako Hirako, who was unconscious with long hair hanging down, blinked at Aizen with some embarrassment and teasing: "Then I'll go first, I'm going to talk to you tonight." Nakajima Twelve Seats sort out the recent records, if there is something wrong, the vice-captain will send Hell Butterfly over, no problem!"

"Thank you. You and Nakajima don't tidy up too late. Going to bed late is the enemy of girls. Go." Aizen said with a smile.

Holding the document, the girl hurriedly bowed again, blushing and walking away at a faster pace.Pingzi who was leaning on his chest uttered an unintelligible raving, and rubbed against his chest a few times.

"...I also feel that I need help." Ai Ran sighed, "Fantasy, please."

Later, on the way back, whether it was the female officers of the "Vice Captain's Personal Guard" or the male soldiers who came out to drink and enjoy the cherry blossoms, they all turned a blind eye to their own deputy captain who was half dragging and half hugging the captain.All the way back to the room smoothly, seeing that Pingzi's long messy hair was a little bit on his own neck, Aizen first put Pingzi in the captain's exclusive room, and then turned to the bathroom behind to boil water.

While yelling "I tell you, if you hit me in the stomach again, I will throw your knife out", raised his own knife and said to the vice-captain Yuanji. Mirror Flower Shuiyue threw it out.

"Ah, you don't mind." Aizen, who seemed to be talking to himself, was actually talking to his own knife, with a headache on his face.This is also the expression he only shows in private.

The blade trembled slightly, and Aizen laughed again: "Ah, I've been bothering you since I met you, I'm really sorry."

The Flower in the Mirror and the Moon in the Water no longer trembled, replaced by Hirako's cock in the house.Woke up so soon?It would be fine if he didn't need to take care of himself, let him wash up by himself, and the vice-captain is the vice-captain, not anyone's guardian.

"What, I'm not lying." He refuted his own Zanpakuto, "Recently, Ayao has been asking me why I slowed down the research progress."

The sound of boiling water covered his low laughter, and there was almost imperceptible regret.

Hirako in the room seemed to be muttering something again, Aizen heated up the water, and then entered the captain's bedroom.The wall lamp was dim, Hirako was barefoot, standing on the quilt, staggering, his Zanpakutō was thrown not far away, and he was holding a pillow in his hand.

……

"team leader?"

Lan Ran raised her hand to support the glasses on the bridge of her nose, her tone full of helplessness: "Well, I've boiled the water, I'll go first—"

A pillow flew directly over and hit the face, and the glasses drew a beautiful arc in the air and fell on the tatami.Ai Ran was speechless by the sudden beating of a pillow, but her heart was also a little annoyed.He was pretending to be kind-hearted, how could he stand being thrown a knife and slapped a pillow on his face?

"Captain, I'm leaving first." He turned to look for glasses again.

A strong attack came from behind, and he was directly crushed on the tatami.If he hadn't supported it with his hands in time, his face would have come into intimate contact with the tatami.

"team leader!"

He raised his voice.

"Soyousuke?"

He was turned over and lay on the tatami.The other party's long golden hair hung down and fell on his face.In the dim and flickering light, it took him a while to see Pingzi's expression clearly.

"It's still better like this."

He said to himself, and slowly brought his head closer: "Hey, can't you see clearly without your glasses?"

To be honest, Aizen is a little at a loss now.

"How about it, do you know who I am?" Hirako Mako stretched out his hand, patted Aizen's face lightly a few times, then stretched his hand down, grabbed the collar and was about to pull it off.

"team leader??!!"

"Hey, hey, let me say, you just... don't wear glasses in the future..."

The aroma of sake and the unique refreshing taste of Herako were captured by Aizen, but now is obviously not the time to enjoy the intimate contact with the captain.

"Well, Captain, please don't—"

"do not speak!"

The vice-captain was choked by him and looked away, but he still didn't give up struggling.Pingzi, who was pressing on Lanran, seemed to want to play a hooligan to the end.Aizen knew that if a person was really drunk, he would have no ability to do anything at all, and Pingzi would do such a thing with the power of alcohol.

Why can't he be willful?

"Captain, I..."

"If you talk now, I will be very angry."

Pingzi grabbed his collar and released the Reiatsu, trying to smash his mobility so that he would no longer struggle.The hoarse voice drilled into his ears little by little, teasing Aizen's patience.

"I said, how about taking care of your captain once in a while..."

"what?"

"I said, are you my vice-captain?"

His brown eyes narrowed slightly cloudy, as if the golden light of a candle was flickering inside, staring at Ai Ran: "Then this is an order, I..."

Aizen silently looked at his own Zanpakuto in the dirt.

"The sword spirit is not here." He picked up the knife, and brushed off the dirt on it lovingly and distressedly.

Urahara Kisuke exaggeratedly sighed: "What a coincidence, Aizen-kun—do you have any clues?"

Aizen held the knife, thoughtfully, and then turned his gaze to the river.

"I feel that my spiritual power is draining rapidly." He slowed down his speech while walking slowly to the shore, "especially when approaching this river."

"Then you come back." Hirako complained about him leaning on the pillar of the torii gate, "Hey, otherwise I will send you spiritual power, and I can stab you to death along the way."

Aizen seemed to be very helpless, turned around and shook his head at Pingzi: "If you don't want to, I won't force it... I just think that Sword Soul is also nearby, just because there is too much mixed spiritual power now, I feel Not to her."

At midnight, a few people stood here, and everyone except Aizen came to the door as death gods, but Aizen would still be seen by ordinary humans.So it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, and they don't want to startle the snake.

"So now your spiritual power is all on the sword?" Urahara walked beside him, looking at the mirror in his hand.Buried in the soil for a few days without seeing the sun, any god of death will feel sorry for his Zanpakuto, and Aizen is no exception.

Ichigo walked behind them, Aizen and Urahara walked in front, and last was Yoruichi.Ichigo walked beside Hirako, and looked at Hirako sideways with strange eyes.

It's very complicated, the lips are tightly pursed, staring at Aizen.He didn't dare to ask Hirako why he kept staring at the other party here, it would be embarrassing for Aizen to hear him at this distance.

"I think, now..."

He turned his eyes to the river.

"Don't you think the stones under the river are strange?"

Without waiting for Urahara to stop him, he squatted down close to the shore, reached out and fished out a stone at random, and then threw it to Urahara.

"Hey, your hand—" Ichigo pointed to Aizen's hand, which turned translucent after being in contact with the river water.

Pu Yuan was holding the stone, and his face became serious: "Souyousuke, you are really scary."

The stone is dry.

"This river is the embodiment of my spiritual power. The river water is completely composed of spiritual particles, so it will not interfere with real things at all." Aizen said lightly, "Congratulations, Urahara-kun, I entrusted you Bengyu's blessing has transformed my body, and it also has spiritual power."

Urahara casually threw the stone back into the river, and stepped his shoulders down a few degrees: "You'd better go back and let Ping Zijun help you deal with the hand problem."

He looked back at Pingzi, only to find that the man who was wearing a deadly costume and did not wear the haori of the fifth division was looking down at the road, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he didn't know what he was thinking when he lowered his eyes.

"Mr. Hirako? Captain Hirako?"

When called "Captain Hirako", Mako Hirako looked up in surprise.

"Hey! Why are you calling me that!"

"There is nothing wrong, you are now the captain of the Fifth Division." Assistant Ki Urahara said naturally, "Go back and help Aizen-kun deal with the problem of hands."

"Ah."

After he agreed sullenly, he lowered his head again.

Aizen was inspected when he graduated, but he didn't notice Mako Hirako.He didn't notice the captain until he was assigned to the fifth team.I don't know if it's an illusion, but he always feels that the captain is watching him, and touches the knife at his waist from time to time.

He was still a little nervous, but the captain didn't do anything, even after he restarted those experiments using souls as raw materials.

But it is indeed unusual to repeat this several times.Why do you want to touch the knife when you see yourself?Is it a subconscious move of vigilance?

Until Jinghua Shuiyue told him the answer.

"What, the captain's knife felt you?" He felt a little funny, "I said that when I saw the captain, you were always too quiet, so that's how it is."

It's just that his own knife caught his knife's attention. Presumably the captain is also confused, right?

Aizan, who originally wanted to transfer to the [-]th Division for the convenience of the experiment, put out his thoughts and stayed in the [-]th Division with peace of mind.Already noticed, it's not good to be noticed if you suddenly walk away.

He stared intently at Hirako's blond hair.

The hair that hangs softly on the side of the cheek is not as long as it used to be.He retracted the knife, and raised his hand, which became solid again.

"Minghua Shuiyue once communicated with me," Aizen looked at Pingzi who was sitting cross-legged on the bed with the knife sheathed, "She said that your knife noticed her, so she felt very uncomfortable."

Pingzi raised his eyes to look at him, then looked away, and put the knife in the gap between the bedside table and the bedside.

"That's true, that's right, Nifu will keep shaking when he sees you." Pingzi had already lifted the quilt and lay down, buried his head in the pillow, with his back to Aizen, his tone didn't fluctuate, "Well, maybe At that time, you were reminding me that you can't be trusted?"

Lan Ran laughed: "But the captain didn't trust me."

"I'm not your captain." Pingzi reached out to turn off the bedside lamp, covered his head with the quilt, "Nah, I'm going to sleep."

Outside the quilt was Aizen's chuckle, a syllable between heh and hum.

He closed his eyes and thought to himself, since the knife was brought back, there should be no more dreams to haunt him now.

Aizen leaned against the bedside and read the book for a while, closed the book and looked at Hirako Mako thoughtfully, and after a while picked up the mirror that had been cleaned and re-maintained by him.

This matter cannot be concealed. When he approached the shrine, the virtual breath he felt was one of his previous experiments.If the people around him are still awake, they will laugh at themselves for what they deserve.But he has done too many researches, and he is not sure which one it is.

He has indeed done a lot of things that can take away other people's knives and draw away their spiritual power, and the successful one even made the ninth blade of the ten blades.Maybe it's because both his spiritual power and sword have been modified, so the Xu can't absorb his spiritual power or use his Zanpakuto.

The last question is, why did he have to go to Karakura Town to take his sword, and then deliberately turn the spiritual power that could not be absorbed into a river, into the Aizen River that is now "flowing out of the river again"?What's the point of doing this?

But the most meaningful thing right now is probably...

Looking at Pingzi, who had been covering his head because he couldn't stand it, and was sleeping soundly again, he thought twice and stretched out his hand.

It was obviously a very short distance, but it stopped repeatedly several times.

Forget it.

The sound of sighing was very soft, and he also reached out to turn off his bedside lamp. In the dark room, only the person beside him could truly feel his presence.

Your breath, your temperature, everything about you is within my reach.

If you think this way, even if you don't say anything, just looking at you will make you feel satisfied.

Even though Aizen didn't say anything, Urahara was somewhat aware of it.

"Could it be that Xu is attached to that girl?"

He babbled to Ye Yi, while the black cat lay on the bed, licking its paws from time to time.Urahara's conversation with her is not expecting her answer, but a process of sorting out his thoughts, Ye Yi is also very clear about this.

"Maybe, maybe not." Urahara tapped his knees with his fingers, and sat cross-legged on the bed, "Maybe Xu can't absorb Aizen's spiritual power, because in fact, Aizen who has been transformed by Beng Yu, even Later abandoned by Bengyu, it is also an existence higher than Shinigami and Xu."

After stealing the sword, it is normal for the sword to take away his spiritual power because he was once integrated with the sword in the evolutionary stage. This is the price of evolution. After giving up the power, only various weakened conditions still exist with.The soul of the sword was forced to separate from its master and the body of the sword. The soul of the sword alone could not withstand the huge spiritual power, so it was a very good way to camouflage by turning into the water gushing out of a dry river.During the day, the sparkling water gets the power of the mirror flower, water moon, and pretends to have the touch of the water. When Aizen touches the water at night, Aizen himself is immune to the power of the mirror flower water moon, so he can fish out the dry stone.If Urahara fished it himself, it must be like real water and feel moist, so Yoichi went to Aizen River twice and didn’t feel it. It’s not real water, but a large number of spiritual particles. Because the river absorbs the power of Shinigami, Kurosaki-kun didn't get close to the river, but just patrolled around, so he didn't notice anything wrong, which is normal.

"What a genius, Aizen-kun."

Although everyone is talking about Aizen-kun*, Urahara Kisuke is more inclined to keep a distance from this person who has a criminal record and has entered the history of the soul world.

"Speaking of which, Yeyi, do you know that when I first sent the spiritual power to Mr. Lanran, I took the opportunity to ask him why he entered Jinglingting..."

Lan Ran, who was sitting opposite him, had a calm expression, and even tilted his head slightly: "Your curiosity is really like Miss Yeyi."

His usual composure, and his sharp sarcasm no longer veiled.Thinking about the Captain Aizen who was praised by everyone in the past, and the vice-captain Aizen who thought he was good when he first became the captain, this comparison is even more ironic than the words he uttered.

"I just went to see it twice occasionally. It's also a way to pass the time to recall in the old place."

Although what he said was very cryptic, Urahara followed his first reaction and asked him: "Which team do you often go to... the Fifth Division?"

"You're very smart, Urahara-kun."

Even though he was smiling, even though his chest was pierced by the opponent's knife, he still stared at Kisuke Urahara with cold eyes, just like his eyes when he was standing on the canopy.

"Please keep it a secret, Urahara-kun."

Speaking of this, Urahara slammed his mouth: "Unexpectedly, Aizen-kun will also be angry when encountering such a thing. What do you think, Yeyi?"

He finished recalling and turned his head to another bed.

The black cat was snoring and sleeping soundly.

After being taken aback for a while, Urahara smiled indifferently again, and continued to write and draw on his whiteboard.