[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

When he regained consciousness in a daze, it was because he was stimulated by the light from the sky passing through the eyelids that he couldn't help opening his eyes.

"...Did you do that?"

"Very clever."

The soft voice asked questions with curiosity, which was very familiar; the voice of the man who was annoying before also gave an answer with unknown meaning.That voice is like the soft and lovely voice that appeared in many dreams before...

The light wasn't very good every time he looked at Aizen.Thinking like this, Mako Hirako sat up slowly, trying to see the source of another familiar voice.It seemed to be a little girl wearing a Furisode kimono, pulling the hem of Aizen's casual suit, raising her small face to look at Aizen, and Aizen smiled and put her hands on her head and rubbed her head twice.

When the dark green eyes turned to his side, he was stunned for a moment, then the small figure immediately hid behind Aizen, still clutching the hem of Aizen's clothes, carefully poked his head out from behind him to look at him.

"Oh, are you awake?"

Aizen casually inserted one hand into his pocket, and the glasses that had been crushed had returned to the bridge of his nose at some point.

"It's okay to sleep a little longer."

"...Wait, who is that child behind you!"

Hirako Mako shook her head quickly, blinked, and looked at the little girl in disbelief.The girl looked even more frightened, and the protruding heads were also retracted, leaving only the twin ponytails, one of which seemed to grow behind Aizen, hanging down softly, with a slight curl at the end of the hair.

"Didn't you already guess it?" Lan Ran asked him back.

Hirako Mako was frightened when she got up early in the morning: "This...it's not true..."

He also thought about it, because he was completely hypnotized by Jinghua Shuiyue, so even if Jinghua Shuiyue talked to him in his dream, maybe that voice was simulated casually to win his sympathy.

"Hey...that child...isn't the image I saw after being hypnotized by you?"

As soon as the words fell, the girl's figure disappeared in the morning light like morning dew.

Lan Ran raised her hand to adjust her glasses, a little helpless: "It takes time to comfort her again... I said, captain, I doubt that I can do it. Your words are too rough for her."

Are you mistaken, that is your sword spirit!He saw such capitalized and bold words on Pingzi's face.

"Even if it's Sword Soul, it doesn't mean I'm the same as myself." Although he was still smiling, Aizen frowned, "It's better for you to wake up a little bit."

Is this angry?

His eyes followed the well-dressed man, and watched him walk past the window, and then the door clicked and closed, and Aizen just went out.

If he is fully awake, he can fully imagine the surprised faces of others seeing Aizen's sword soul materialize.

In fact, Aizen did it. When he took Kyoka Suigetsu to the elevator, he saw Kurosaki Ichigo standing aside waiting for the elevator.

"Hey, Kurosaki-kun, good morning."

"Ah, Aizen, early... ah, who is this child?"

The little girl who reappeared behind Aizen tilted her head, her long black hair was divided into two strands and tied behind her head, and delicate pale pink flowers were dotted on the hairband, her dark green eyes were full of curiosity and a pure smile: "It's not the first time we've met, Brother Ichigo, I'm... the flower in the mirror."

"Oh, it's you, no wonder I feel that you are not an ordinary child..." Kurosaki Ichigo also smiled, bent slightly to look at the mirror, "Well, I am Kurosaki Ichigo—"

It was only when he said this that he realized that there seemed to be something wrong, and he blinked vigorously, while Jinghua Shuiyue was still smiling sweetly, his dark green eyes narrowed like a summer forest, and that smile was exactly the same as that of someone.

Ichigo sweated coldly on his forehead: "That...your name is...Mirror Flower and Water Moon?"

The little girl nodded, still looking very proud.

"Hey!!! Aizen!!!!" Kurosaki immediately ran to the wall behind and pointed at her tightly against the wall, looking at Aizen tremblingly, "That, that is... Your sword?! The soul of your sword??!!"

Lan Ran showed a look of "you are so boring", nodded and said, "That's the kid, what's the problem?"

"What do you mean by 'what's the problem'! This child is actually your knife?!"

Fortunately, there were no people in the hotel corridor in the morning, and the sound insulation was also very good, so that the sound of Kurosaki did not disturb other resting people.

Showing a little bit of aggrieved expression, Jinghua Shuiyue habitually grabbed Aizen's clothes and shrank behind him.

"This is not facing Nifu." Lan Ran patted the top of her head, "The elevator has come up, let's go."

Ichigo managed to suppress his shock, and followed Aizen into the elevator.Facing Lan Ran's smiling eyes, he involuntarily lowered his head and rolled his eyes inwardly.

And in the field of vision is the top of the little girl's head.The soft-looking hair is not completely black, but dark brown, slightly darker than blue-dyed hair.

The pink flowers on both sides of the twin ponytails are very beautiful and delicate. She raised her small face and looked back at him. Although she was still holding on to the hem of Aizen's clothes, she was obviously not too afraid of him. On the contrary, she showed him a small smile. With a small smile, there is an innocence unique to little girls in the dark green eyes.

……Angel!

Ah, how could this be Aizen's sword!So cute!

"Kurosaki-kun, you're blushing."

"Whispering!" Ichigo turned his back to Hua Shuiyue, oops, this is too cute, what's going on...

Jinghua Shuiyue turned her gaze to Aizen: "Master, doesn't Brother Ichigo like me?"

As a sister-in-law, Ichigo was of course a hidden lolicon before.The cry of Brother Yihu made him want to lose his soul from his body.

"No, no!" He turned around and hurriedly waved his hands to Jinghua Shuiyue to explain, "Well, just a little, a little surprised..."

So he saw the eyes of Jinghua Shuiyue crooked again, and smiled happily: "That's good, I'm afraid of being hated."

I don't hate it, that person.

From the moment it was built by Master Ermeiwu, Flowers in the Mirror and Water Moon could not stop feeling the breath of the master.

Was it at Jinglingting's home, practicing the chopping technique?

Today is hell.

"Still waiting for your master, you?"

There is always Dao Po asking her like this.

"Well, I can feel that the master is working hard!"

She also answered with a smile.

"If you don't work hard, it will be very hard to partner with you!" The other swordsmen sighed like this, while she lowered her head and shook her head slightly.

Gradually, the knives created at the same time as her disappeared one by one, and finally there were only a few knives left in the sword house, and she was unwilling to leave here and move to a new sword house... because here she could be the most Clearly perceive the spiritual fluctuations of his future master.

My own body is very ordinary, and there will be no difference before and after the first solution, it is just an ordinary knife. "Complete hypnosis", such an ability would not have any effect on the battlefield, would it?She is not as beautiful and powerful as Zanpakuto of the Ice and Snow Department, or passionate and fierce like the Fire Department; unlike the Physics Department, she will become more suitable for the battlefield, and she is also the weakest one in the Ghost Dao Department.

Will the master like himself?

Such a weak self...

The hem of the kimono was tightened, but she still chose to sit on her knees, trying her best to feel the master's spiritual power—a faint connection through the clouds and barriers.

My master will be excellent, better than any other death.

She believed so, closed her eyes, and still knelt and sat on the spot.

"Oh, Aizen-kun, I thought you would wake up late."

Although it was this kind of words, Urahara didn't look very surprised, until he saw the little girl Aizen had been holding, his expression suddenly became subtle.

Kiyoka Suzuki looked at the dumbfounded Urahara Kisuke curiously, and asked, "That, is that Mr. Urahara?"

"That's him." Blue Ran nodded.

Let’s not talk about the cuteness of this little girl——

Because pets are not allowed to stay, Ye Yi, who has become a human, also froze in place.

"This……"

This dark brown bangs are exactly the same as the blue dye 110 years ago!Those who know must know that this is Aizen's Zanpakuto, and those who don't know will probably be shocked by this coincidence!

"After all, modern society doesn't have a knife order, and she usually comes out in this posture." Lan Ran raised her eyebrows and looked at the two gods of death who were already petrified, "Is there any problem?"

Urahara's forehead was dripping with sweat: "Well, no, ahaha—this child is very cute."

In the end, Aizen was still in a good mood and touched Jinghua Shuiyue's head: "Thank you."

Hirako, who came out of another elevator, was really taken aback when he saw Aizen's smile.

The proud look on his face is really too unbearable to look directly at.

Perhaps because of being stared at by everyone's strange eyes for a long time, Ai Ran himself felt a little uncomfortable, so he hugged Jinghua Shuiyue, and Jinghua Shuiyue sat obediently in his arms, his dark green eyes were still blinking for no reason.

"Then let's set off for home," he said with a warning smile.

After the big devil spoke with displeasure, no matter whether it was the boy who had saved the world or the other three gods of death at the captain level, they all obediently waited for the big devil to go to the counter to complete the check-out procedures.

A group of people walked out of the hotel and saw the crowd by the river as expected.After the commotion last night, he said "Let those gods of death who came to this world deal with it", but Hirako still fulfilled his duties as the captain of the [-]th Division of the Goutei. After returning to his residence, he washed his face a little , then went out again, gathered the gods of death around to deal with the aftermath, and contacted the [-]th Division to send more people over; although there were a lot fewer people at night, the aftermath work included erasing memories and moving back the residents who ran out due to the earthquake , the workload is still not small.

So it is understandable that Hirako was the last one to get up.

Now, people are by the river, pointing at the Aizen River that has suddenly dried up, and the bottom of the river is not even wet.There are also cameras and reporters making urgent reports on the re-drying of the Aizen River.

"There was no water in the first place..."

Hirako crossed her hands behind her head, her eyes just slightly slanted towards the direction of Aizen River, and when she passed the bridge, she had a strange expression on her face.

It seems that because even the materialized weight is only the weight of a knife, it seems that Aizen easily hugs Kyoka Suigetsu who is unwilling to return to the knife, and walks against the crowd.He followed Aizen, staring at his light brown hair in a daze.

Seemingly tired, Jinghua Shuiyue changed her posture, put her arms around Lanran's neck and lay on his shoulders, just in time to see Hirako staring at Lanran in a daze.

"... Mr. Hirako?"

It may be because the Zanpakuto was retracted into the spirit body, and the person was not as a little irritable as when he just woke up. It seemed that Kyoka Suigetsu had a little courage to talk to Hirako.At this time, Hirako, who started to study Jinghua Suigetsu carefully, discovered that Jinghua Suigetsu's bangs are exactly the same as Aizen's 110 years ago.

Apart from that strange sense of disobedience, Hirako's thinking went awry for a second, the child seemed much purer than her master.

"Well, don't be so unfamiliar! You can just call me Mako! Anyway, I'm someone I've talked to a few times!"

He grinned and stretched out his hand to touch Jinghua Shuiyue's head, but he didn't expect the little girl shrank her neck and avoided Pingzi's hand.After recovering, he found that his actions were mirror images, and his fair little face was a little red.

"I'm sorry Hirako...Mr. Mako...I..." Her voice was almost drowned in the passing crowd, half of her face was buried on Aizen's shoulder, only a pair of dark green eyes looked at him pitifully.

He couldn't get angry with such a child at all, Hirako sighed.

"Captain, it's best not to touch this kid casually." Lan Ran just turned his head slightly to look at him, then lowered his eyes to look at the mirror, and then turned his head back to look at the road again.

It would be awkward if his knife was touched by others, so when he thought about it, Hirako knew why Aizen was unhappy.

"I'm sorry, I'm in the mirror." Pingzi smiled reassuringly at her again.

Jinghua Shuiyue shook her head and whispered, "Ah, it's okay...it's my fault."

"It's not your fault." Aizen retorted quickly.

It seems that when Hua Jinghua Shuiyue was around, Aizen seemed extraordinarily approachable-not to say that he was friendly, but rather that he was more real, like an ordinary person, and his emotions became obvious.Yes, after all, Zanpakuto is a part of one's soul, and it is a closer relationship than anyone else.

Of course, it is only "like", Hirako can be sure of this.

Hirako, who was trying to swing the knife again, was about to say something again when his cell phone rang first.It's not a mobile phone, but to be precise, it's a messenger machine—Pingzi doesn't know why the people of the [-]th squad are always willing to give their inventions such weird names, and it's a little shameful to say it.

"Hey, hey... Hey, it's Xiaotao?"

Aizen must have heard it, and so did Flowers in Mirror and Water Moon.Unlike Jinghua Shuiyue who put her arms around her master's neck wholeheartedly and showed an interested expression, Aizen still walked ahead without even turning her head.

"The matter has been resolved... yes, it will be back soon..."

Pingzi put his hands on his hips, bent his back lazily, and tilted his head as if Chusen was right in front of him: "I'm not being lazy—no—ah, that...it would be great if Tao was here!"

When Hirako devoted himself to dealing with the vice-captain, Aizen closed his eyes in front of him, and sighed almost inaudibly.

"Okay, no problem, I'll go back in Karakura Town—what? You're at the door? I've been located? Wait, the Kyoto Spirit Vein just disappeared! Ah! That!"

Pingzi held the phone a little farther away, covered the microphone and shouted: "Hey! The one in front! The one in front!"

Aizen pretended not to hear.

"Hey! Aizen!"

Only then did Aizen turn around, and looked at him with raised eyebrows: "Do you want me to disappear automatically?"

"That's not it! You bastard!" Pingzi growled at him, "Before I do it, you will be captured! Come back to the Soul Soul Realm with me!"

"Have you ever heard of fugitives being caught without a fight?" Aizen's expression was obviously amused by Hirako's words.

"In short... either you run away with your tail between your legs while I'm on the phone, or you can catch him without a fight." Pingzi continued to yell at him, and when he took the microphone back to his ear, he added, "Don't let Xiaotao see you! Get out of here !"

Aizen smiled and shook her head: "I promise she can't see mine."

The mirror flower on his shoulder nodded fiercely, his eyes were full of innocence and innocence, and there was a trace of pride in a child's success in doing something.

Pingzi Mako Shiyu stared at him, grinning, looking really angry: "...I don't care! Anyway, get out and don't get in the way! Both of you!"

Then he saw Jinghua Shuiyue's eyes filled with tears in an instant.

Lan Ran looked back at the tearful Jinghua Shuiyue, narrowed her eyes, and pursed the corners of her mouth into a straight line: "You don't want you to scare her."

He disappeared in a blink of an eye, leaving Pingzi standing there alone, dumbfounded.Not to mention that he let go of the number one fugitive in the soul world with an attitude that he couldn't believe - that kind of reaction was too intense!This is not the master's attitude towards the knife, the father's attitude towards his daughter is the same!

"Hello? Ah, I'm standing still, come and find me... what? It was just a bad signal just now, trust me, Xiaotao!"

Maybe it was because I just wanted to protect Xiaotao's heart from being hurt for the third time or the fourth time, and my tone was a bit more serious. Flowers in the Mirror and Water Moon didn't look as hateful as his master. I'm afraid it was because I was not gentle with girls this time. .

Ahhh, it's so troublesome, every time I encounter something about this man, the simplest things will become extraordinarily difficult.

Hirako, who was spewing out his soul and reflecting on himself, watched helplessly as a door in the sky was opened, and Chisentao walked out from it.However, it seems that he is still wearing the prosthesis, so he can't fly up directly with his feet on the ground.

At this time, we should thank the person who invented Qu Guang, the ghost way.After a moment of light, he flew into the door, and then got out of the prosthetic skeleton. Hirako took the portable inflatable prosthetic skeleton given by Urahara and smiled at his vice-captain: "Thank you, Xiao Tao——"

But Chu Sen didn't smile, on the contrary she seemed to want to put on a straight face, but the melancholy in her eyes betrayed her.

"Emergency, Captain." She said with difficulty, "The disappearance of souls began to occur in Karakura Town, and the amount was very large, and... Captain Aizen was found in Karakura Town..."

Seeing Hirako frowning, Chu Mori hastily changed his words: "I found the trace of Aizen-kun, maybe he started..."

"Starting those evil experiments again?"

Pingzi walked in front casually, since the door was open during normal hours, there was no need to worry about surprise attacks.He didn't know that Jutu had been wiped out by Lan Ran's stare before.

Thinking that he seems to have let the fugitive go again, Pingzi rolled his eyes: "So? Report."

"Three days ago, the souls of Karaza Town began to disappear in large numbers, and they concentrated in the first high school in Karaza Town, not far from the company where Aizen-kun is hiding now."

"Speaking of which, I still attended classes there, Xiaotao, I still look very young..."

He stopped suddenly while talking, turned his head, straightened his back, and looked down at Chu Sen: "Say it again, when?"

Chu Sen was holding the official document, with a look of surprise on his face: "Three days ago... Is there a problem, Captain?"

This is impossible.

Pingzi just wanted to speak, but stopped.

Maybe in the past three days, Aizen was pretending to lose his spiritual power and acting like that?What if he used Mirror Flower and Water Moon?But looking at Tianma Qianhe's appearance, Aizen is real, and Ichigo also confirmed this.

However, just because it doesn't look like it doesn't mean that the answer to the question is on the other side of your mind.

In a trance, the youth under the dim light overlapped with the figure of the man on the bridge.He raised his hand and grabbed his bangs in pain, gritting his teeth.

"...that's impossible." He hissed the words through his teeth.

Even if he, Urahara, Kazuyoichi, and even Hanataro were all deceived, it is absolutely impossible for Kurosaki Ichigo to be fooled at the same time.

"Tao, it's impossible..." Pingzi narrowed his eyes, let go of his hands, turned his head and rushed forward.

Chu Sen was startled, and hurriedly followed: "What's impossible? Captain? Captain, wait for me!"

"That guy Aizen—"

Following the captain's side, Chu Mori saw Mako Hirako frowning, not angry, but anxious.

"——Tao, please don't say it... For the past three days, I have been with Aizen, and he has no chance to do such a thing."

It was the first time Hirako heard Aizen's innocence, and Hinamori's eyes widened.

"how come……"

The door was close at hand, Hirako stopped and stood at the door, putting one hand on Chisen's shoulder.

"Tao," he said in a low voice, "That guy Ichigo can also prove that he lost all his spiritual power in the past three days...Maybe he recruited some new men, but this time it's hard to say..."

It's hard to say, maybe the judgment was confused by those memories.

It's hard to say where this anger came from; maybe he was deceived again, because since Aizen has been able to deceive him for so many years, it must not be short of a few days.

It's just that his intuition told him that Aizen wasn't the culprit for what happened this time.Maybe it has something to do with him, but—

When he called his vice-captain's name without adding any nickname, Chisen knew that this man was serious.She knows how much her captain hates Aizen, and although Aizen has done too much to her, but because of the beautiful memories, she always regards Aizen as the captain she once supported in her heart look at.

"I understand."

The girl nodded to Pingzi: "Captain, because Aizen-kun is the most suspicious, the captain of the tenth division and the vice-captain of the thirteenth division who are going to the present world are all targeting Aizen-kun."

"If the captain thinks that Aizen-kun is innocent, then we need to go to the empty seat to investigate, so as to clear Aizen-kun from suspicion."

Meeting the girl's determined gaze, Hirako narrowed his eyes in confusion.

If only I could be like her, after all, the past - not all unhappy.

Just facing things about him will lose judgment and can't let go.Originally, reason had told him at the first time that it was best not to interfere in this matter, but before making up his mind, it was faster for Chisen to say the sentence "Aizan may be innocent" than to do it rationally. Make decisions faster.

"I see...for your sake, Xiaotao, I will choose to side with this bastard for now." Pingzi sighed again.

As he opened the door, he said to his vice-captain: "We'll talk about it in the fifth team, but now—"

"what?"

Hina Mori's heart, which had just been let down by Hirako's speech, was suspended again.

"...I still want to stand on the side of convicting Aizen."

Laughing self-deprecatingly, Hirako turned back to Chisen and said, "I need the help of my cute and capable vice-captain!"

Chu Sen hugged the official document tightly to his chest, and promised: "Yes!"