[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

"Hey, clog hat, something is wrong!"

As usual, Kurosaki Natsuri went to the Urahara store to buy exorcism supplies, but this time it was obviously not such a simple thing as buying things.

"Miss Kurosaki, please don't worry." Tie Zhai opened the door and welcomed her in, "How about trying this first? The cherry blossom roll cake I tried. Spring is here, and it would be nice to have some seasonal desserts once in a while, right?"

Facing Uncle Tie Zhai, who has a good voice and good temper, no matter how anxious Xia Li is now, he can't vent his usual anger towards Urahara to him, which is too impolite.

"Thank you, Mr. Tie Zhai."

She knelt down in front of the short table, put her schoolbag aside, and asked, "When will that idiot store manager come back?"

"It's hard to say, because he went out early this morning, and Captain Pingzi said he had something to look for him." Tie Zhai brought out the snacks from the kitchen while talking, "Why are you in such a hurry, Ms. Kurosaki?"

Xia Li watched Tie Zhai pour the tea, and then thanked again, holding the pottery teacup in her hand: "About our school, a new student transferred here is very suspicious. Some time ago, there might be spirits on the roof of our school... I didn't go up to see it either, but those people seem to be addicted to playing the game of inviting the fox fairy, talking about how effective it is."

She paused at this point, Tie Zhai seemed to hear her say something stupid or something.Then Xia Li became serious: "On the first day that student came, when I finished my duty and left school, I saw her standing on the roof, wearing the clothes of the god of death, and then returned to the body, turned her head and disappeared."

While she was talking, she observed Tiesai's expression and asked, "Mr. Tiesai, if I remember correctly, the only God of Reaper who is currently vacant is Yamada, right?"

Tetsusai put his arms across his chest: "Indeed, there is only Yamada-kun alone. But Ms. Kurosaki doesn't need to worry too much, about this Shinigami—"

His words were interrupted by the sound of the store door being opened, and Urahara walked in with a small fan, laughing: "I can feel Miss Kurosaki's spiritual pressure from a long distance away, why are you so unhappy—? "

"Hey! How dare you say that! You don't even know that there is a strange god of death in Karakura Town! You unscrupulous businessman!"

"Hey, I'm not the god of death on duty, how could I know so clearly!"

Urahara looked at Xia Li, who was a little anxious, and strode in: "Could it be that you have some contact with your brother Kurosaki-kun again?"

Xia Li's shoulders drooped, obviously relieved, but her momentum remained undiminished: "You know it - you asked me who I am, the idiot old man on the first day, it's obviously suspicious, isn't it?"

Urahara turned sideways, not in a hurry to explain to Xia Li, but shouted out the door: "Come in, or there will be a big misunderstanding."

"Then excuse me—"

Kurosaki Xiali stared at the person who came and said, "Student Tianman!"

Amma Chizuru held her schoolbag and smiled at her embarrassedly: "I'm really sorry for causing trouble to Kurosaki-kun, but it's absolutely true that Kurosaki-kun helped me, and I'm very grateful."

Soul Realm.

After becoming the captain of the first team, Ise Nanao became even busier.Because not only the documents of other teams will be collected here, but she also needs to prepare materials for room 46 every day.Although the captain is still in a lazy state, he can no longer lie on the roof and bask in the sun every day like before.

Vice-Captain Sparrow, I really worked hard on you before.

Thinking of the amiable and respectable deputy captain of the First Division who died in the line of duty with Captain Yamamoto, Ise couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Captain, here is the latest attendance document, and the reply from Room 46 on the investigation of the sudden disappearance of the soul in this world, please have a look."

"Oh, thank you for your hard work, Xiao Nanao!"

Jingle Chunshui took the document and began to flip through it casually: "You must have read the following documents, please make a summary and tell me."

"Yes! Room 46 stated that during the escape of Aizen Soyousuke and other prisoners, this kind of incident must be taken seriously and dealt with to prevent the possibility of the situation from expanding. Morita voluntarily applied to go to the real world to investigate the incident and expressed his approval. Room 46 also issued an order that once Aizen Soyousuke is found in the real world, all forces must be dispatched to take him down."

While listening, Jing Le kept nodding her head: "Mmm, these old men are really worried about Mr. Aizen... Wait, Captain Hirako??"

He widened his eyes in surprise: "Hey, why haven't I heard of this matter? Why did he also go to the present world?"

Ise Nanao raised her glasses with her hand, she was used to the captain's obliviousness: "Last week, Captain Hirako asked for leave, and on the weekend, Deputy Captain Hinamori rushed to process a batch of documents, and went to the World Assistance Day Captain Panya's application form is also inside."

"Hey, is that so—"

Prolonging his voice, Jingle Chunshui scratched his chin and looked at the ceiling: "I went to find Ukitake on the weekend, so all the documents for that day were signed and passed—ah! Xiao Nanao! Don't hit me!"

Ise Nanao hugged the file in one hand, and hit Jingle on the head with a paper folding fan that she didn't know where in the other hand, looking very unhappy: "Captain! You are already the captain! If you want to work, just so-so!"

"Forgive me, Xiao Nanao, I can't do the work that Mr. Yamamoto has done for hundreds of years!"

While laughing dryly like this, Jing Le stepped back again and again: "I also just took over the team affairs not long ago, please spare me!"

"Ah! Ah! Captain!"

Nanao Ise seemed to have nothing to do with her captain: "Then, why are you surprised that Captain Hirako went to investigate this matter in this world?"

"This," Jing Le pressed down her bamboo hat, and smiled, "I just thought of something suddenly, so I feel a little surprised."

Qi Xu put the fan behind her waist and put the documents on his desk: "Then at least tell me why you are surprised."

Although Jingle Chunshui looks very casual, he is not someone who will sign his name on documents casually.Presumably he had read the documents that day, and he signed and submitted them to Room 46 when he thought they were reasonable.

"At first, I thought it was just the intention of the vice-captain Hina Mori. I didn't expect the captain and the vice-captain to go to the present world with the same mind, so I was surprised."

When he said this, his smile deepened: "That person, Mako, looks like that, but he is actually very reliable, Xiao Nanao, you know that - such a sharp and rational person, now he has learned to listen to himself from time to time. It may be a good thing to think about the problem from a different perspective.”

Mako Hirako implicated the captain and vice-captain because of her wrong belief in her vice-captain a hundred years ago.He himself has been feeling remorse for a long time. When he took over the fifth team, he complained about the trouble and died, while showing a complex expression of nostalgia.Even after saying those words and showing that expression, he finally accepted the proposal and became the captain of the [-]th division again.

I still have a responsibility, I want to protect this place, no matter how disdainful I say, but I think the people around me are very important in my heart; if this feeling continues, it will become a burden for him.Not to mention that he could see at that time that Hirako seemed to have noticed something about Aizen, and became particularly vigilant during the time when he partnered with Aizen, but in the end because he couldn't resist Aizen's disguise, he still delivered it. Trust ushered in such a result.

Even to the masks, I heard that they accepted the appointment of the Fifth Division before telling them of their decision.If he was blamed or retained, Hirako would feel that he would stay because he was also responsible for them—it was because he knew this, and after weighing it, he made the choice to return to Jinglingting and deal with the matter It's clean and beautiful.

It was precisely because of this that Jingle Chunshui felt that this man's sense of responsibility was a bit too much—to the point of ignoring his own heart.Maybe it would be good if he could neutralize Vice Captain Hina Mori a little bit.

"Should it be said that it worked? Vice Captain Hina Mori really contributed a lot." He muttered softly, took a sip from the teacup in hand.

Hina Mori is also flexible in handling things.This style is to learn from Pingzi. If you know that you think it is reasonable when you approve documents on weekends, you will let it go, and you will not waste your brains on it.

"That man, I don't know why he changed." Jingle Chunshui whispered with a smile like this, and didn't want to continue to explain Nanao.These things, only when you understand them, you will feel subtle and emotional at the same time, right?

It seemed that the captain was not going to continue the discussion on this topic, so Nanao Ise bowed to leave, and when she walked out of the gate of the first team, she saw Nozomi Omaeda, the vice-captain of the second team, waiting outside.

"Ah, Vice Captain Omaeda, good day!"

"Well, good day!"

Omaeda walked beside her, and said as he walked, "The number of prisoners who escaped from the maggot's nest has been counted and the specific list has been sorted out because of the war damage."

"Ah, then what?"

"Then, this, um..." Omaeda scratched his head, with the oily pancakes on his fingers, "Vice Captain Ise, can you make some arrangements with Room 46, we will report the list of escaped prisoners and arrest them later Working conditions--"

"Ah, why?" Nanao Ise turned her head to look at him, her eyes full of suspicion, "Hey, maybe you did something wrong behind Captain Broken Bee's back, then I won't help you."

Omaeda hurriedly waved his hands and explained in a panic: "It's not like that! No! Because—"

Because of the impact of the millennium bloody battle, the maggot nest, which was originally built behind the second team, was used to take special care of suspicious and dangerous elements in Jingling Court, and the ceiling was destroyed. Some prisoners were crushed to death inside, and some escaped by chance. Most of them have been caught so far.

But the gods of death guarded in the nest of maggots, after being investigated by room 46, are not only guarding some ordinary gods of death, some nobles are also among them.But because they couldn't bear that kind of differential treatment, there were not a few people who committed suicide; some of the family members of those people would regard them as a family shame and ignore them from then on, and some would try to save them, because there was also a political Victims of struggle.

"Room 46 may have a conflict of interest with our arrest work. The captain means to capture them as soon as possible, and then give the list to Room 46. In case they rescued people in advance, they will blame our second team leader If you go up..."

Ise Nanao nodded: "Understood—it's hard for you, Captain Suifeng will only say the first sentence and add something like 'If you don't catch it, it will appear that the second division team is very incompetent'."

Having been seen through, Omaeda had no choice but to smirk again: "Anyway, it's best for Vice Captain Ise to understand, so I'll go first!"

"See you!"

Waving at Omaeda's back, Ise Nanao put down her hand and went to help her glasses.

"The reconstruction work is endless."

Not only that, because of another replacement of the captain and vice-captain, the functions of each team are somewhat confused now. For example, the 46th team has also started part-time medical treatment, but not many people are willing to go; the 46th team seems to be the captain. Intentionally reforming, the famous Kumon Fan team is also striving for the opportunity to go out to the field.Now that the ministries are in short supply of manpower, sending two captains and deputy captains to investigate in the real world is a complete luxury.Although there have always been various disputes between Room [-] and the Gotei [-]th Team, the fact that Room [-] of the Gotei [-]th Team, which has two captains, can be praised at this time shows that the [-]th Team is indeed short of manpower.

Captain of the Fifth Division...

When I was very young, I saw that back.Long golden hair, always followed by a gentle deputy captain.Always with a lazy tone, and his own captain would go back like this. At that time, Captain Lisa complained, "Are the captains all such lazy guys?"

But it was only a few times, and because I was still young at the time, the only memory of the captain of the fifth team was the person who deceived the entire Soul Soul World.That long golden hair and the back view, only so much remains in my mind.

Every time I look at the back of the captain of the fifth team, I also try to combine that person's back with the one in my memory, but I always feel that something is different.Maybe it was because of that experience, it was very difficult not to change my heart, because I was betrayed by my vice-captain.

She didn't know about the conversation between the captain and deputy captain at that time.So what she was thinking was that she would probably be sad to be betrayed by her trusted vice-captain, right?

Although she didn't know some things, it didn't prevent her from getting a conclusion close to the correct answer.

It is true that a new history teacher has come to the first high school in Karakura Town. When Man Qianzuru saw the new history teacher walking to the podium that day, he was slightly taken aback.He was indeed a handsome man, but he wasn't Aizen.Thinking of some things that Yamada had explained to her, she was a little dazed—then when did Aizen completely hypnotize the whole school?And that day, he just showed himself his true face, isn't that right?

"Hi everyone, I'm your new history teacher this semester, Junichiro Fukumune!"

The handsome teacher on the stage introduced himself vigorously, and the eyes of the girls below were full of admiration, only Amama Chizuru was still puzzled, so she didn't even listen to the class.So how will Aizen guide himself next?

"—So that's it." Qianzuru sighed, "Sorry, Mr. Urahara, I couldn't help you."

Urahara shook his head, raised his hand and lowered his hat habitually: "It's okay, I'm very grateful for Miss Tianma's willingness to help."

Kurosaki Natsuri was confused: "Urahara, what's going on?"

"Ah, Tenma-san has a very special physique. Aizen paid attention to him, so I contacted Tenma-san after returning to Karakura Town."

Amami Chizuru nodded and continued: "Mr. Urahara also told me a lot about Mr. Aizen, and told me that if he taught me how to use the power of death, his method is not suitable for me. So let me transfer to Karakura Town, let Aizen-sensei take the initiative to find me. So when I was talking to you yesterday, Aizen-sensei found me."

Specifically, after discovering that Amma Chizuru had arrived in Karakura Town, Aizen somehow used Kyoka Suigetsu's ability to completely hypnotize her to sneak into Karaza Town No. [-] High School as a teacher for a day, and the new teacher was the handsome Fukumune Junichiro didn't even know that he was replaced for a day.

"No wonder, the students in the next class were talking about it. They met Mr. Fuzong yesterday."

The timing was just right, if not, Aizen might easily get any teacher or student confused, Urahara thought so.

"Hasn't he himself been replaced for a day's self-awareness?" Sa Tai, who heard their discussion, retorted casually when passing by.

Both Qianhe and Xia Li were taken aback, only Urahara continued to laugh: "Ah, what Sata said is true! And there are some suspicious things there recently, and this needs to be taken seriously - let's leave this aside for now, Aizan has something. It's all tricks to get in."

The store door was opened again, Hitsugaya Toshiro walked in with Matsumoto.There are a lot of people today, but Toshiro has a clear goal, looking directly at Urahara: "Isn't Hirako here?"

"He found something you didn't find in Aizen's room yesterday!" Urahara grinned, "But it's not related to this incident, because of this, he was hit hard, and I don't know what he is doing now." where."

Dong Shilang's expression was a bit helpless: "Hey, this is just an excuse for him to be lazy, right? What exactly did he find out?"

Before Urahara could speak, Kurosaki Natsuri stood up at the innermost short table and looked at Toshiro.

"Aren't you that... Hitsugaya-kun?"

"You are... oh, Kurosaki Ichigo's sister, right?" Toshiro nodded with his usual indifferent expression, "Long time no see."

"It's been a long time...you appear here, maybe there is another crisis in Karakura Town?"

Arms folded in front of her chest, Xia Li with drooping eyes seemed to still have the unique charm that Zhibo used to have when she was single-minded and helpless.Toshiro somewhat recalled the incomprehensible captain in the past—that is, he felt that the person who was idle all day seemed unreliable. At that time, only his third seat was much more tiring than the third seat of other teams.

"That's what I was going to say." Hitsugaya nodded to her, "According to the investigation, there have been many accidents in Karakura Town recently. But when we got there, there was no soul reaction."

"—That's it."

Hirako, who had turned into a god of death, brought Hinamori to the scene of the accident. After careful inspection, he stood up and put his hands in the sleeves of Haori: "I don't understand the reason why this happened. I stopped here with Kisuke yesterday. When watching it, Kisuke said that it was different from the disappearance of souls I encountered before, when these souls still existed in the body..."

He frowned, narrowed his eyes as if thinking of something, and continued after a pause: "It has already dispersed into spirit particles and disappeared."

"Captain Hirako and I happened to come across the scene of an accident when we went back last night." Urahara continued to explain, "After being forcibly dispersed, some spirits still remained in the body, so I was able to identify them quickly."

Even so, those spiritual particles dissipated very quickly, so the whereabouts of the same component spiritual particles could not be traced.

"I also noticed that there is a Reiatsu from the two of you at the scene." Toshiro said with a straight face, "But there is no Aizen, and about the remaining Reiko, didn't Hirako tell you the details? The members of the Second Division are the advance team of the investigation.”

Because Aizen didn't go out at all last night.Due to his own interference, Aizen may have to give up his plan to actually kill that teacher and hide himself in the school.

"No, ah, maybe he forgot to tell me?" Urahara's voice didn't change, but as he said this, he already thought of someone in his heart, and couldn't help wiping off a cold sweat for that person.

In addition to this incident, there are also many unreasonable things, such as Amma Chizuru saw Aizen's real appearance, but others did not.Did Aizen deliberately show off his abilities to Amma Chizuru?In this case, does it mean that his plan has been seen through, or is there some other reason?

"No wonder Room 46 directly suspected him, so you didn't report the preliminary investigation to me?" Hirako looked back at Chu Mori, his tone a little cold, "Is it because you are afraid that I will think of other things? Vice Captain Chi Mori? "

The soul of Ruhun Street disappeared 100 years ago. As a vice-captain, Hina Mori is also working in the team that handles official documents.Hirako's face showed a rare indiscernibility of joy and anger, at least Chisen had never seen him like this since he took office.Whether he is serious or dissatisfied, he usually expresses it clearly on his face, but when he looks at him expressionlessly, the coercion belonging to the captain is truly released.

"I'm so sorry, Captain!"

Chu Sen knelt down on one knee, lowered her head, and trembled on the soles of her feet: "I'm very sorry, I..."

Taking into account the mood of the captain, and really didn't want the vacillating captain to deepen his suspicion of Aizen, Hina Mori deleted the report from the early team members from the materials handed over to Hirako, and only handed it to Hirako for 46 Office reports and summary documents of previous reports.

"me……"

Hina Mori, whose voice was trembling under the strong spiritual pressure, really didn't know how to explain it.Yes, she didn't care about the captain, and she even cared more about the former captain than the current captain.

"It explained a lot of things, Hinomori-kun, such as why captain Hitsugaya went and returned, and dispelled my doubts about me. I was also surprised, why would a serious and rigid person like Hitsugaya-kun go away so quickly? Come back and exchange information with me."

For being deceived, Pingzi was obviously in a state of extreme anger: "I understand, it was just a disintegration of the soul that happened inside a living person, and the disintegration of the soul outside the body like before. If you don't doubt him, who else can you doubt?"

Chisentao felt the cold sweat flowing down her temples, she wanted to speak, she wanted to say something, but her head couldn't work at all.It doesn't matter if you say something, you must explain it clearly to the captain—but apart from these two sentences, you can't think of anything.

"Yeah, if it's just a simple disappearance of the soul, I don't suspect anything. After all, if it disappears, it is likely that it has become too much to be eaten, but if it is not an ordinary disappearance, it may be that Aizen used it to do it." What kind of experiment—from the time I saw you and you said that the soul disappeared, your expression has already betrayed you—if it is an emergency, you will never show anxiety, let alone look for me; because only The captain can bring the vice-captain to the present world, but whether you think I am lazy or see something related to Aizen, I will definitely not let you go to the present world to investigate."

With her head down, Hirako's voice was steady, and she couldn't hear anger, but when it came to the last sentence, there was no doubt that there was a strong disappointment in it.

"Tell me in advance that it is the disappearance of the soul, show me your revised official document, change the disintegration of the soul into the disappearance of the soul, and immediately after talking about the disappearance of the soul, he said that he found traces of Aizen. , it may be the impression of being wronged——I feel something is wrong since then.”

Hirako put away the Reiatsu, Chumori heard a soft sigh above her head.

"I wanted to praise you at first, and submitted the application to go to the present world when I was resting, and then settled Room 46. It's really my style. Come to think of it, Aizen actually taught you, right?"

"No, it's not, Captain—"

With tears in her eyes, the girl raised her head.

"Captain, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry..."

Pingzi lowered his head and looked at the girl. There was finally some emotion in his brown eyes.Disappointment, and some other complicated stuff.

"It's also because of some previous things, so I still choose to believe you. For the time being, I wonder if that guy is being used as an excuse by someone to do anything wrong. Tao, I am very disappointed."

In a low voice, he spoke painful words.He raised his head, stroked his forehead with one hand, and looked at the ceiling above his head, his eyes were a little distracted.The accidents mentioned on TV, he hadn't taken it to heart at all before, but now he remembered that instead of following Kyoka Shuigetsu to Aizen's apartment and finding that kind of thing—he had time to watch that kind of thing, he might as well patrol Karakura Town , maybe even save more souls.The direction of his investigation is a waste of time. If he had already started patrolling, maybe the family he saw yesterday would not have died tragically; , I don't know what kind of expression I will show.

He was even more disappointed that Chu Sen had lied to him.

What if it's because of something else next time?In case she—

"Urahara-kun told me to come here to find you, Captain."

A gentle, deep and mellow voice sounded, and Chisen saw a familiar figure appearing beside Hirako.

"Please don't blame her, Captain."

Aizen Soyousuke appeared next to Hirako Mako wearing the uniform of the Konya Palace that he wore during the winter decisive battle, with a mirror pinned to his waist and no glasses.

Facing the familiar situation and familiar words, Hirako frowned again.

He turned his face, looked at the person who was wearing familiar clothes, and his half-smile face, and squeezed out a sentence between his teeth.

"Aizen... Sousuke..."