[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

Although Amma Chizuru came to school pretending nothing happened, Xia Li, who was sitting next to her, clearly felt her depression.Come to think of it, it's normal to be frightened and shocked after something like that happens.

A black butterfly flew in from the window, and the other students laughed as if they didn't see it, but Amami Chizuru watched the butterfly land on her desktop, and then made a sound.

"Temma Chizuru, I have already learned about you through Urahara-kun."

Xia Li was also startled by the sound, and looked at the black butterfly on Tianma Qianhe's table.The head teacher of her class was talking with the new teacher, and the classmates were also talking and laughing. It seemed that this butterfly was also invisible to ordinary people.

"I can't get away at the moment. But as your teacher, let me give you a piece of advice."

Qianhe looked at the butterfly, then at the serious Xia Li next to her, and clenched her hands in front of her chest.

"In this world, some people wield their knives out of hatred, while others wield their knives out of a sense of responsibility. Some draw their knives to protect the ones they cherish, while others slash their knives at others for their own selfish desires."

The class bell rang, and the students finished their discussion and returned to their seats.Butterfly flew up from the table, Aizen's voice was steady and cold, and finally said: "No matter what the reason is, to myself, it is to face myself honestly and raise the knife in my hand—remember you first What you said when you met me..."

"Attend class!"

The students sat down immediately, but Tianma Qianhe stood there in a daze, still maintaining the posture of leaning over to face Xia Li.

The new teacher frowned, and called out "Class" again.

The butterfly flapped its wings and flew out of the window again, leaving a last sentence.Xia Li hastily pushed Qianhe to bring her back to her senses.

"...Why did you find me and why did you swing the knife? You can deceive me, but you cannot deceive yourself."

The teacher had no choice but to flip through the roster, looked at the seating chart above, and called out helplessly, "Student Tianman, class is on. If you have anything to say to the classmate next to you after class, is that okay?"

Only then did Tianma Qianhe stare blankly at the male teacher on the podium.The teacher sighed: "Forget it, class starts now. Tianman, come to my office before the lunch break."

"Well……"

My head hurts, I feel dizzy, and I want to vomit.The world is bright, and the ceiling is shaking in front of the eyes, creating many phantoms.

After opening his eyes, his vision was blurred.There seemed to be someone sitting there next to him, and when he saw him wake up, he approached him to check.

"Mr. Hirako? Mr. Hirako?"

With a crisp and pleasant voice, he should know this person, right?

Mako Hirako blinked hard, and finally focused on the face of the person next to her.The little face of Jinghua Shuiyue was above him, seeing him wake up with a happy smile, and the dark green eyes were full of joy: "Great, Mr. Pingzi! Finally woke up!"

Mr. Hirako, when this guy calls himself that, it means...

"Oh, are you awake?"

Aizen in a white uniform appeared at the door, holding the tea tray in one hand, opened the door with the other, and closed the door after entering the room.He walked up to Pingzi, put down the tea tray and knelt down in front of him, Jinghua Shuiyue next to him smiled sweetly at him, and Aizen nodded to her with a smile, and put his hands on top of her head.With a flash of white light, the figure of Flower in the Mirror and Moon in Water has disappeared, replaced by the knife in Lan Ran's hand.He put the knife on the tatami, and looked at Hirako: "It looks good, captain. Want something to eat?"

Pingzi supported his head with one hand, slowly got up from the quilt, his lips were pursed into a straight line.He didn't look at Aizen, but lowered his head to stare at the white quilt covering his body.

"What the hell happened to me?"

In his memory, he swung a knife at Lan Ran, but Lan Ran approached him, as if he was saying something; then, he blurted out and flashed towards Lan Ran—fragments flashed in front of his eyes one by one, the surging malice And anger seems to still be left in the heart.

He looked at Aizen, and Aizen still looked at him with a smile.It doesn't look like he was injured, yes, this guy is much stronger than himself, which I have to admit; and maybe he used Jinghua Shuiyue to avoid his own attack at that time, it is normal that he was not injured.

Then I saw my virtual self in the dark world, and then——

"Tsk!"

His head ached violently again, and he couldn't help but clutch his bangs tightly, clenching his teeth to keep silent.

"It's better to call out if it hurts, after all, there is no one else here now." Aizen looked at Hirako trying to suppress his pain, and said, "Also, don't try to recall what happened before, your blur It’s not completely suppressed by me, and it’s easy to lose control again.”

Pingzi put down his hand, grabbed the quilt, frowned and looked at Aizen: "Being suppressed by you, what does that mean?"

Aizen closed his eyes and lowered his head: "It's okay to explain to you, after all, it's my masterpiece. Since I can make the god of death at the captain level blur, I have naturally studied the method of suppressing the blur, and successfully implemented it on Dongxian .With the help of Bengyu, suppressing the power of Xu in your body is an easy thing to do."

"Originally?" Pingzi froze for a moment.

Speaking of this, Aizen frowned slightly: "That's the way it is, but Kisuke Urahara..."

"Kisuke, him?" Hirako interrupted Aizen, lifted the quilt and was about to get up and walk out, "Kisuke was affected by me? How is he now?"

"No, he is fine now and is investigating outside."

Aizen remained calm on the surface, but a hand quickly stretched out and grabbed Hirako's ankle, preventing him from taking any further steps: "It's just because of him, I can't completely suppress your blurring. During your coma, Not only you, but Hitsugaya-kun also has an uncontrollable blur."

After speaking, he raised his head and stared at Pingzi's face: "Until your situation stabilizes, you'd better not go anywhere."

"Huh? That's enough, I'm back to normal now, let me go!" Hirako raised his foot and shook it vigorously, hoping to shake off Aizen's hand.Lanran let out a long breath, and pulled down his hand, Pingzi lost his center of gravity and fell on the bed.

"You still don't understand? It was I who restrained your emptiness." Aizen said with a slight mockery, "Captain, if it weren't for me, you would be swallowed up by emptiness this time."

Hirako Mako's pupils constricted instantly.

"Please rest assured."

When the brown-haired man spoke, his tone became calm again, so that Hirako suspected that the mockery just now was his own illusion.

Kisuke Urahara stood up from the spot, followed by Matsumoto Rangiku and Hishitsusai.

"How is it, Mr. Urahara?" Ranju couldn't help but stepped forward and asked worriedly.

Urahara shook his head, turned around and said, "Unfortunately, Xu's Reiatsu has disappeared. Although I don't know why, it is too abnormal to disappear so cleanly."

Tie Zhai continued to ask: "Then, what happened to Captain Hitsugaya's emptiness?"

"I suspect that not only Hitsugaya-kun, but also Hitsugaya-kun was affected by the same kind of influence. Then, the place where Hitsugaya-kun and Hitsugaya-kun both visited was the scene of yesterday's crime. Hitsugaya-kun and Matsumoto Miss went with her, but she just took a look and left." Urahara pinched his chin with one hand, thinking seriously, "However, Mr. Pingzi went there twice in a row and stayed for a long time."

Facing the other two people, he stretched out a finger and said solemnly: "We might as well put forward a hypothesis. In fact, there is a virtual spiritual pressure left in the air, or some other influencing factors. It is this kind of influence that makes Pingzi Jun was angry and lost his mind and finally turned into a void, which also made Mr. Hitsugaya lose his sense of blur during the battle and was unable to eliminate his own blur.

Luanju put one hand on her arm in some trouble, and her fingers tightened unconsciously: "But, as you said, the captain didn't stay there for a long time, and Xu appeared here by accident—"

"It was indeed accidental, but not entirely." Kisuke Urahara said, "According to Mr. Hitsugaya, when he was patrolling yesterday, he met Ms. Tenma and Ms. Kurosaki——Ms. Kurosaki, you know, she Her spiritual power grows very fast, and Miss Tianman's physique is 'spiritual abuse', which is what humans often say attracts evil spirits. This special Void is noticed that there is a very delicious food for it. His soul will appear here, just in time to collide with Hitsugaya-kun."

"At first, I thought the perpetrator should be someone who retained his sanity, but Mr. Hitsugani said that no matter which direction you look at it, this bird doesn't show any intelligence." Urahara turned around and walked forward, watching There are cracks in the walls on both sides. "There is a possibility that someone 'domesticated' this head and took it to devour the souls of living people full of spiritual power. In the beginning, the head was easy to satisfy—but as time passed, As time went on, its appetite also continued to grow. This person had to try to create the illusion of various accidents to collect more souls for it."

Luanju widened her eyes in horror: "What are we going to do? How can we find this person? And that one?"

Urahara frowned: "That depends on what that head Xu thinks - I'll go back and ask Aizen-kun, he might have some ideas."

——In another perspective, terrifying eyes are watching the two people.

"If I were that head, I might have my own specific desires after being fed so many souls full of spiritual energy and living memories."

——In the darkness, two girls in uniforms were staring at each other.One has long black hair and the other has short black hair.The girl with the long hair looked very depressed, and the one with the short hair seemed to be comforting her.

"Xu is transformed from an ordinary soul," Urahara's crutches drew irregular circles on the ground, "greed is also part of their nature. If you eat delicious food once, you will want more, even if you are hungry. I will never eat those tasteless food again. Kurosaki summer pear may be such a 'delicious' to it--now with the addition of Amma Chizuru, we may not need to worry about this one going to harm other people for the time being. human."

—— Delicious soul, I don't know what kind of expression and scream will be made when dying.Fear makes the soul tastier, and despair is the perfect seasoning on top of it.

As if feeling some strange movement, a man somewhere frowned, put down the pen in his hand and said to the void, "Be safe and don't be impatient."

——I want those two souls, I want that kind of delicacy.

When Urahara and the others were still investigating and guessing, the man showed a look of fear, and continued: "We are very close, I know, after eating them, the god of death, those two young people, and that man Well, you'll eat them all..."

Lowering his voice, he chuckled softly, "Ha, you are my invincible monster."

The man's face was gradually distorted, and he couldn't hold back the laughter, while Xu also quieted down, shrinking in an unknown space, waiting for the man to create the next opportunity for him.

According to Aizen's explanation, his anger that day was the result of being affected by an abnormal event.Hirako huddled under the quilt, wearing the haori of the captain of the Fifth Division, holding a pottery teacup in his hand.The moment I took it, the fragrance of green tea lingered in my nose, and other inexplicable feelings emerged because of that person next to me.

"Thank you," he whispered.

Aizen was still sitting right next to him, he could feel a deliberately concealed spiritual pressure outside the door, it should belong to Urahara, it seemed that he had gone to the scene to investigate and came back.Ever since Urahara made the cloak that can isolate the Reiatsu, he has deliberately strengthened his perception.Standing outside the door but not coming in, maybe he wanted to see if he would do something to Pingzi again.

The long hem of the white uniform was spread out beside the tatami, and the knife was also placed on the ground, with the handle facing Hirako.Aizen without glasses, and without short bangs on his forehead, gave him the feeling of the gentle vice-captain who was next to him when he was in Soul World.

Mingming's eyebrows and eyes are full of arrogance and sharpness that cannot be concealed, it's just his own feeling.

"Don't worry, the Miss Tenma we saw in Kyoto, and Kurosaki Natsuri, should be able to hold back the enemy's footsteps." Aizen spoke slowly, eyes unblinking, watching Hirako lower his head and sip green tea .

Hirako Mako raised her head, showing a puzzled look: "Little Qianhe? Why is she here? And what does it mean to hold back the enemy's footsteps?"

"That is to say, the enemy is currently listing her and Kurosaki Xiali as one of the attack targets. It is very cost-effective to use the two of them to lure the enemy out."

"Is it your own idea, or Kisuke's idea?"

Putting the teacup aside, Hirako asked him seriously.

"It's the idea of ​​the two of us." Aizan replied, "The captain and Hitsugaya-kun are now affected by the blur, and it is not appropriate to go out to investigate. After discussing with Urahara-kun, I decided that Hinamori-kun and Matsumoto-kun will continue on weekdays. During daily patrols, Urahara-kun and I took turns monitoring the dynamics of Karakura-cho Daiichi High School. Urahara-kun determined after detection that the high-concentration spiritual particle gathering at Karakura-cho Daiichi High School was just a recent event, not like the one in the world of souls. What was said in the report——the concentration of spiritual particles is abnormal is because I was near there.”

The man shook his short blond hair, tilted his head and waited for Aizen's next statement: "In other words, Hitsugaya-kun and I can only stay here?"

"In order to prevent accidents, Urahara-kun and I both think so." Aizen narrowed his eyes with a little slyness, "However, in order to prevent one of you from being held back, the other will take the opportunity to run away, My mirror flower and water moon will always stay here."

Sure enough, Pingzi, who had been debunked by his thoughts, turned his head and "cut".

Just relying on the mirror and the moon can already keep the two of them.As long as Aizen is willing, Jinghua Shuiyue can hypnotize the two captains who have seen her unraveling, and trap them in the illusion created by Aizen.Letting one of Urahara and Aizen stay is just to prevent the virtualization of the two from getting out of control again.

In fact, Shiro Toshiro's virtual state is far lighter than Hirako's virtual state, because the virtual poison in Dongshiro's body is not high enough to produce a virtual body with personality in his body, and at most it will only make him lose in doing things. Rationality; and Hirako's emptiness is very likely to go berserk, and even be wiped out by the emptiness of personality. Whether it is Urahara or Aizen, they will be powerless at that time.

"So please calm down, captain. After the matter is over, I will find a way to suppress the emptiness in your body."

After making such a conclusion, the seemingly calm Aizen couldn't help guessing Hirako's answer in his heart.

Turning his head back, he stared at Aizen Hirako, as if thinking of something after a while, lowered his eyes, and spoke in a calm tone.

"Aizen, I have already said that I am no longer your captain. If you can't remember, use your fist or knife, I will remember it for you."

This time Aizen finally couldn't help raising his hand slightly, but quickly put it down again, resisting the urge to hold his forehead or directly pull Hirako to his side.

"It doesn't matter whether it's the first name or the last name, in short, don't call me captain again."

When Pingzi raised his head, he saw Aizen's usual shrewd and cunning face, or gentle and polite face, and for the first time, he showed a little doubt so clearly. By slightly raising the corners of his sharp eyes, he showed a little bit of curiosity. Innocent come.

"...Mako-kun?" Aizen called him tentatively.

The pronunciation of these two syllables may be a bit unfamiliar to Aizen, so he was very hesitant when calling it.

"Well... that's it! You said a lot just now, but you just told me that I can't go out? Really, you are so annoying!"

It was the usual dead fish eyes again, grinning and showing neat teeth, Mako Hirako waved at him, and raised her voice impatiently and said to Aizen: "Hurry up and get out! I'm so tired of listening!"

Aizen also stood up obediently, walked to the door, and brought the sliding door back to the door, as if still in a state of confusion: "Then invite the team... Makoto-kun, take a good rest."

Pingzi waved his hand again in disgust: "Hurry up, don't make me say it a second time."

After Aizen slowly closed the door, the footsteps in the corridor gradually faded away.Pingzi bared his teeth and stared at the door for a long while, then suddenly buried his face in the quilt.

What "Mako-kun", why does this guy add honorifics!They're all called names!And why did he speak in that tone, was he so surprised by his name or something?This idiot, if you are surprised, don't call him by his first name, can't he just call himself by his last name?

"Ah, Mr. Hirako."

A delicate voice sounded beside him: "Mr. Pingzi, why are your ears so red?"

Startled, Hirako looked up at the source of the voice.Jinghua Shuiyue sat beside him, looking at him curiously.Leaving aside why these words are so familiar, he completely forgot what Lan Ran said just now, "I will leave the mirror behind".

"Don't tell your master!"

Perhaps at this moment, her expression of embarrassment and anger also contained grief and indignation, it was so obvious that even the mirror could see how complicated his mood was now.She nodded obediently, and looked sympathetically at Mako Hirako who buried her face back in the quilt again.No one knew about it, and the other two men outside the door were also having a similar conversation.

"Thanks for your hard work, Aizen-kun." Urahara took off his hat and hung it on a hook on the wall, and walked out of the shop with a cane and Aizen, "Using the power of Beng Yu to suppress the blur, now only you can do it arrive."

Even Urahara only knows theories about how to suppress the holiness, and there is no external means available to help Toshiro and Pingzi.

Originally, Urahara asked him to try his best to undo the blurring of the two people, but because it was Urahara's request, Aizen kept a straight face until he went out.I don't know what happened, but when talking to Urahara, the corners of Aizen's eyes can still bring out a smile.

"Ah, Mr. Hitsugaya accepted the reality very easily." In fact, Aizen just explained to him forcefully, and only after he promised not to go out, he solved his blurring. "It seems that after that battle, it is also Matured a lot."

Urahara went to the short table and poured himself a cup of tea, and continued to ask, "What about Pingzi-kun? His state is the most unstable."

"Speaking of Makoto-kun, I can't use Bengyu's power well because of you. If it is solved, it is only halfway."

Urahara squinted at Aizen, who looked obviously abnormal, and said while thinking, "Even if that's the case, I won't help you. Even without you, Hirako-kun will control himself well. After being tricked by you, he He is also the first to control the virtualization and wake up."

"I found that Hitsugaya-kun's virtualization is not complete. It seems that you have thought of a new method so that they can not only obtain the power of virtualization, but also protect them from the torture of virtualization. In this regard, you are indeed a genius , Kisuke Urahara."

No matter how strong Urahara's nerves were, he still noticed that Aizen was obviously wrong.There was no contemptuous praise in this tone, which should be the first time in his memory.He stared at Aizen in horror, and Aizen returned to his usual look of being in control, standing behind him happily, it should be said.

Could it be that he was caught in a mirror?It is impossible for Aizen to have such an obvious flaw.

"I left the mirror flower and water moon with Mako-kun..."

Sure enough, if Flowers in the Mirror and Moon in Water were here, the Aizen he saw in front of him must not be real...real...

Adjust the direction of my thinking a little bit. What Aizen said just now is that he left Jinghua Shuiyue with Pingzi.

However, there is still something subtly wrong.

"Can you repeat what you just said?" Urahara asked him carefully, his voice trembling a little.

Lan Ran closed her eyes, her voice could not conceal her pride, but also her targeted contempt: "I left Jinghua Shuiyue with Zhen Zijun to prevent any of them from going out when you are not paying attention."

This time Urahara finally knew where the sense of disobedience came from.Urahara sighed loudly in his heart, and instantly thought of what might have happened just now.

Makoto-kun, have you been cheated by this man again!

"Did you hear me?"

As if that wasn't enough, Aizen asked him with a smile on his face.

Urahara replied helplessly: "Yes, I understand... Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Aizen-kun."