[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

-The world of corpses and souls after the thousand-year bloody war-

Hirako Mako turned her head to look at the old files that had been cleared out, which had already filled up her captain's room. Beside her was Xiaotao who was instructing the officers to carry them. She held a notepad in one hand and shook the hand holding the pen from time to time.

"I said, Tao, this, I remember that the [-]th team was originally very big, is there really no extra room?"

Before he was driven out of Soul Soul Realm by Aizen, there was a cherry tree at the door, but now there is only a lonely small pine tree at the door, which was affected and broken in the previous battle.

Chisen put the pen holder against her chin, and after thinking about it for a while, she showed an expression as if she remembered something.

"I've heard from the seniors that the current captain's room is directly remodeled from the former captain Aizen's room when he was the vice-team."

Pingzi showed a curious look, and was a little apprehensive because he heard that person's name.Chisen didn't realize her slip of the tongue and continued to speak.

"After becoming the captain, Captain Aizan would sometimes go to the old captain's room, but he didn't go there after that... Ah, that's your former captain's room, right?"

While recording the information of the damaged files on the bulletin board, Chisen cast an apologetic look at Hirako who was approving official documents and listening to him half-heartedly: "I'm sorry, Captain, because everyone is not in the habit of going there. I'm really sorry that all the official documents are piled up here-"

The man put down the pen, stood up and walked to Chu Sen, took out the notepad and pen from her arms, raised his head and shouted: "Where is the third seat? Who is the third seat now?"

An honest-looking man raised his hand.When Pingzi saw his honest and exaggerated face and muscles all over his body, he really couldn't rest assured to entrust him with the recording task.

"Forget it, everyone rests! Keep your spirits up and continue tidying up later!"

"Yes!"

Usually only the captain would issue such an order. Although they also love and respect the vice-captain Hina Mori, the vice-captain Hina Mori is really scary when working.

"Hey! Captain—"

"Take me to that room."

Because it's been a while since I left the world of souls, and it's impossible for the team building to remain unchanged when Aizen was the captain. In the first week, he relied on Chisen to find various places smoothly.The file room is also good, the deputy captain's room, the captain's room, the chief officer's office area, the dojo, and so on.I don't know if it's my memory loss or what, but it's completely different from what I remember.

He followed Chu Mori, and Chu Mori took a lot of effort. After leading him around a few times, Hirako saw the familiar cherry tree.When planting in other teams, many double-petalled cherry blossoms were gathered on both sides of a road or planted together for viewing. Only he was unwilling to let the cherry blossoms of his team bloom as early as those of the first team. As soon as spring came, everyone went to enjoy the flowers instead of doing work, so they deliberately scattered the cherry blossoms, and chose ordinary single-petalled cherry blossoms.The only flower tree with double cherry blossoms was planted at the door of his captain's room.Aizen once complained about him, "Even so, the team members will go to other teams to enjoy the flowers, and they won't work in the team at all", but he didn't listen.

At this moment, the leaves of the double-petalled cherry blossom, which was snatched from the Thirteenth Division and transplanted, were beautifully stretched, showing its vitality.The green palm-sized leaves are a unique scenery in summer.The former self also enjoyed it very much, opened the door, listened to the music, and looked at the team members walking around in the courtyard, as well as the figure of the vice-captain who was busy back and forth.Although I always have a feeling of worrying about gains and losses for the deputy captain, it is impossible for people to remain vigilant and careful all the time.

It is because of this that they will fall into the opponent's trap unconsciously.

Occasionally, I would call my vice-captain to come in, watch him sitting next to me drinking green tea, and send him to buy some snacks for me when he finished drinking.Such a life, assuming there is no betrayal by Aizen, even if Aizen erases his memory, I am afraid that he will fall into such a gentle person again in such a landscape.

"It's here."

After Chu Sen finished speaking, he saw the captain walk to the door.As if thinking of something, he sighed softly and opened the door.

The air was full of dust, probably from the previous battle, and although the trees outside were still intact, the inside must have been shaken, so the dust from the roof fell on the tatami mats, mixed with sawdust that had been shaken down.It's true, after such a long time, I don't know many old players, and I still expect him to be "slightly shabby" here, which is really a bit whimsical.

But in a cloud of dust, he stepped into the room without hesitation and looked around.

It doesn't look like his captain's room at all.

In the dusty mirror, he was standing there in the captain's haori, but his original long hair did not appear in the mirror.Speaking of cutting off the hair, although it is a bit regrettable, it is not bad now.

The record player is still on the side, but the vinyl records on it have been removed.He turned his head and looked at the window sill next to him, where the records were neatly stored.When I ran to the emergency meeting, I was still sorting out these records, which were all over the floor and on the desktop; now they are neatly placed in the cabinet, and I don’t need to think about who wrote them.

The chapped brush is still stained with ink, and the paper on it is much less.He opened the door next to the captain's room leading to his own bedroom, and walked to the cabinet, which contained his own used bedding.Be it combs or pens and inks, they are all placed in my memory.

He walked around and finally walked out of the captain's room.

"Peach, go back to work first."

"What about the captain?"

Pingzi grinned, and gestured to the dusty captain's room behind him with his thumb: "Let me clean this by the way, and move the other documents that are outside - and, it will be your office in the future, I still want this between."

It was dusty and looked difficult to clean.Chisen hesitated and said, "Well, do you want me to call someone to help you?"

"No, no, no! Let me take a breath and miss it for a while!"

When he turned around again, there was not much fluctuation in his heart.Even thinking of Aizen, now he can control his emotions well and not lose his composure in front of his subordinates.Apart from the emptiness in my heart, I don't have any extra thoughts.

The air is full of decaying smell, except for the furnishings of the room, there is no feeling of peace of mind before.He suddenly regretted why he had to go back to this room; but thinking about the place where he worked before, Aizen had stayed there, and felt that if he went back again, he would really be ashamed to see Xiaotao.

What a mess, he exhaled.

When he was hesitating where to start cleaning, the familiar Reiatsu approached, so he had no choice but to walk out of the room again, and saw Xiaotao knelt down on one knee in front of him with a complicated expression.

"What, is there another emergency situation? Really, the war has just ended!"

"Report to the captain," Hina Mori's voice trembled, "emergency, Aizen Soyousuke was in a state of being banned, and on the way back to Wujian, he suddenly broke the seal - he has escaped from prison and is missing. Jingle President The captain asked the captains of each team to stand by quickly to track down the whereabouts of Aizen Soyousuke."

She raised her head, and in the sight of Hirako's wide haori cuffs, white and slender fingers were stretched out, then slowly clenched, and finally tightly clenched into fists.

"I see. The order is issued, and all the members of the Fifth Division quickly go to the warning positions to stand by."

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, Chisen immediately disappeared in front of him.The current captain of the Fifth Division raised his head, looking at the lush green cherry trees and the blue sky.

"...A group of idiots, how could they find it?"

He stood under the corridor, motionless, just quietly looking up at the sky.

Because of the lack of available detection items at hand, Aizen didn't know that the school where he was avoiding trouble was the place with the highest density of spirits in the entire Karakura Town.But this does not prevent him from guessing that this place is currently a relatively special existence.

He trusts his own judgment.

I can't go back to the apartment for the time being. In the temporarily rented apartment, Aizen meditates alone in the dark living room.If it was him, what could such a large number of disappearing souls be used for?Coupled with Xu, who evolved at an abnormal speed, he also felt slightly confused.

On the street, he also met Hitsugaya and Matsumoto. Because of Kyoka Suigetsu and deliberately concealing the Reiatsu, he passed them by.But soon after, Hitsugaya took out a strange machine and said something.It seems that sooner or later more people will find out that he is still in Karakura Town.

The bay window of the apartment was open, and the sliding door of the balcony was not covered by curtains. The moonlight came in softly, illuminating half of his face.He crossed his fingers, thinking casually.

In addition to bringing chaos to his life, the disappearance of the mirror image before, he also felt the long-lost satisfaction when his life was threatened.Maybe it's because life is too ordinary and there's really nothing to do, he finds this small disturbance very interesting.Should I say that I am too greedy or too easy to satisfy?

I don't know, he chuckled, and his voice paused for a second in the empty and dark living room.

He had obviously left the Soul Realm, but he would go back and take a look in his spare time.Whether it is the fifth team or other teams, the fifth team is the one I often go to.Probably, it was because that person went back.

In the battle that caused him a disastrous defeat, when his sword touched Kurosaki Ichigo's, the emotions on the sword were exchanged for a round, and together with each other's thoughts and emotions, they were seen and understood It feels like this is the first time.

lonely?Traveling boy, that is not alone.

The so-called loneliness is that in this world, you can't find someone similar to yourself.

And when you find him, but he is not by your side, it is called loneliness.

Aizen, whose thinking has shifted slightly for a while, can't help but curl the corners of his mouth for what he's thinking about.He closed his eyes, sat in the junction of moonlight and darkness, and continued to meditate alone.

Tianman is a good research material, but if extra people interfere, he will feel very troubled.According to the phone call from Pingzi in the morning, no matter what happens in this world, he always thinks of himself first, so Jinglingting's imagination will stop here, right?

Hirako Mako, ah...seriously speaking, you are actually a little nervous when you know your mental world, right?As a result, the other party was just surprised and then did not respond. Should it be said that he is the captain?Or because of what happened 100 years ago, I have never been able to forgive myself.He is that kind of person, so whether it's good to break the seal or let him know that it's his mental image world, no matter what he does, I'm afraid that from now on, he can only watch his back from afar.

Even more distant than what he saw when he was the vice captain.

But he never regretted what he did.If you want to sum up the reasons for failure, there is nothing more than the only weakness that cannot be overcome by human beings, nothing more.

"Yo, sure enough, you didn't go to Tokyo at all."

Someone's shadow appeared on the moonlight, Aizen didn't look at him, but just stared at the shadow on the ground: "I just feel something unusual, just wait a little bit, maybe something more interesting will happen."

"Easy to say, you."

The shadow master's voice was very low, and he asked him: "So, did you really not do anything?"

"If I said no, you wouldn't believe it, would you?"

"Well, who knows, it looks like you are quite bored. If it was me, maybe I would do something to pass the time."

"How could you?"

Only then did Aizen give up his contemplative posture, stood up from the sofa, looked at the visitor standing on the window sill railing under the moonlight, and said with a smile: "Urahara-kun, instead of testing each other, how about saving time and exchanging information? ?”

Kisuke Urahara lowered his hat with one hand, covered his expression, and stopped talking.He thought for a long time before finally raising his head and staring at him with burning eyes.

"It seems that I came at the wrong time today. If there is anything else, let's talk about it next time."

His figure quickly disappeared, and the room became bright again, and the moonlight poured all over the ground, as if it had always been there, never blocked by anything.

Aizen narrowed his eyes slightly.

"...Then, see you next time, Urahara-kun."

On the other side, Hirako Mako followed Kyoka Suigetsu to Aizen's former apartment.

"It's really not here," he said with a sigh, "I thought he would have some conspiracy, such as using you as a bait to lure me back—"

After Jinghua Shuiyue put the key card on the coffee table in the living room, she nestled directly on the sofa, with confusion in her eyes: "Why did the master ask me to be the bait?"

"Kill me, let's see how far his experimental material has come, or maybe just dismantle me." Pingzi also fell directly on the sofa, took the TV remote control, kicked off his shoes and lay on his back Above, "In short, you have to know that your master is very bad, and anything is possible."

Jinghua Shuiyue hugged her knees, buried half of her small face, her dark green eyes continued to blink: "Ah, do you still remember that the master wanted to kill you with me?"

"Of course!"

Hirako flipped up and down on Aizen's coffee table, but apart from fashion magazines, there were only work materials and no snacks.Thinking that a person like Aizen would not have the hobby of buying snacks, he switched to the remote control to change the channel indiscriminately, while continuing to say casually: "I'm dying! How can I not remember this kind of thing!"

Jinghua Shuiyue stared at him like that for a while, then suddenly jumped off the small single sofa, walked to the knife rest on the side, and said in a sullen voice, "If you want to find clues, please feel free in the room." ,I'll have a rest."

"...um, um...huh? Looking through the mirror?"

He looked in the direction where Essence Suigetsu disappeared, and only saw a Taidao placed on a black holder, with the sword in its sheath.

Now that they are all here, if you look for this guy a little bit, there is no clue to prove that he is doing bad things.

Hirako Mako jumped up from the sofa and looked around in the living room.Speaking of it, he didn't look at it seriously last time.Thinking about it, this is now Aizen's permanent residence, which is a bit strange.

A beige sofa, a transparent glass coffee table, and an empty vase next to the TV cabinet.He walked over to check, and there was still a damp smell inside.Were there any flowers here last time?He didn't pay attention.Looking up to the direction of the balcony, apart from the knife rack placed there, there is an empty drying rack.Because I'm going to travel far away, or I don't live here temporarily, so I put away my things very carefully, that's how it should be.

"Although I let me find it myself, Mr. Hitsugaya and the others must have searched this place long ago."

Scratching the back of his head and muttering, Hirako picked up the shoe he had just kicked off casually, and put it obediently at the entrance.Although Jinghua Shuiyue is a sword, Hirako really can't think of her as just a sword.

There are simple vegetables and meat in the refrigerator, and the hot spring eggs I brought back last time are still in it.

"... Hey, are you trying to disgust me on purpose?" It's all overdue Hey!He took out the box in disgust and threw it into the trash can.

In the bathroom, besides Aizen's own daily necessities, there is also a new toothbrush and a separate cup that Aizen unpacked for him last time.Maybe it was because he had to run away with his tail between his legs shortly after returning, so he didn't clean up?Although he followed Jinghua Shuiyue to Aizen's residence, he had no intention of staying here at all.After seeing the cups of the toothbrush, she really thought about it.But is it really okay not to go back to Kisuke?Xiaotao still has to come back to live after delivering the official documents.

Such a cute vice-captain was placed with Kisuke, a little uneasy... He thought so with dead fish eyes.

"What a boring person."

He opened Aizen's wardrobe. Except for suits and shirts, the T-shirts were all solid colors and rarely printed.A rigid and stubborn idiot, this is how he usually knows his vice-captain.

There is no need to pretend anymore, why not make it a little more trendy, anyway, you are still doing a job related to fashion now, right?It's really not suitable for him if it's too fancy, but I still feel a little uncomfortable.

"Should I say you're boring or you're too good at putting on airs, Soyousuke..." One hand flipped casually among the clothes in the closet, while mumbling, Hirako suddenly stopped when he reached the drawer where the tie was placed.

Hitsugaya-kun, relying too much on machines is bad behavior.They must have never searched as hard as themselves, and some things can only be discovered when they touch the real thing with their hands, right?

He took out a wooden box from the drawer he touched. Inside was the Reiatsu that he was familiar with. Although it was very faint, it definitely belonged to someone, and Aizen hid it in the closet.

It was an ordinary wooden box with neither a lock nor a seal on it. After shaking it, I didn't hear a sound, probably the things inside were very light.

what is it?

"You must tell Mr. Hitsugani about this matter—such a careless guy, Xiao Tao, you still defend him."

While saying this, Hirako opened the box, and her pupils shrank suddenly.

"This is……"