[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

four years ago.

Kisuke Urahara, holding an oil-paper umbrella, strode back on wooden clogs.It happened to be raining heavily, and the hem of the gray-green feathers floating behind him was wet from the rain.

"Ah, what a bad weather." He held down his hat, and hurriedly walked in the direction of going back.

Originally, the weather forecast said light rain, so he took an oil-paper umbrella and went out.Luo Wu lent the large steel frame umbrella that was placed in the store before.I don't know if he forgot or what, but Luo Wu still hasn't sent it back to him.

He must have forgotten it, as he walked back, he complained silently in his heart. After seeing the latest issue of Juvenile Jump, he would be completely immersed in it until the next issue came out, such a continuous bad cycle.There was another thunder from above, Urahara shrank his neck in shock, and stepped even faster.

He has long been accustomed to living in this world, even if his clothes are wet by the rain now, he is too lazy to rush back with Shunpo.He is more like an ordinary uncle living in this world, hurrying on the road with an umbrella in his hand - the only strange thing for passers-by is the oil-paper umbrella that will not break no matter how the wind blows, right?

Strengthening the umbrella with spiritual power, Urahara walked against the wind.On such a rainy day, he didn't expect to be able to hail a taxi at all.Besides, even if he stopped the car, he couldn't drive directly to the entrance of Urahara's store, he still had to walk a while.Being wet all over is also causing trouble to the driver, right?

"Luo Wu-jun is the same, will there be shops open in this windy day?"

Moreover, I am stupid enough to come out on such a gloomy day. I can do it tomorrow if I contact you to buy goods or something—and I don’t know if Miss Yeyi has gone back. The quilt was wet when the wayward black cat rolled on it, and I had to catch her with Mr. Tie Zhai and wipe her clean.

What I worry about is only trivial things, compared to a year ago...

A year ago, the Realm of Souls was breached by the Invisible Empire. After a fierce battle, they defeated Yuhabach, and the Realm of Souls is also under intense reconstruction.

After experiencing all kinds of narrow escapes, it is a kind of happiness to be able to worry about small things like this, and think about it carefully!

Thinking of this, a silly smile appeared on his face involuntarily.

I hope that days like this can last forever——

"bump!"

Kisuke Urahara was still imagining the happy days when he would bask in the sun on the porch and pet the cat, when he giggled, a huge thing fell directly in front of him.

……

Hello!What are you doing!

Wrapped in torn cloth, it seems to be a human figure.Urahara looked left and right, there were very few pedestrians on the street, and some of them just walked in a hurry. No one noticed that he walked faster just now, or he might be killed by an unknown falling object.

Uh, what is this?He knelt down and lifted the rags outside.

"...Uh...Really, don't destroy my peaceful life!"

Urahara Kisuke let out such a groan.

The man in the rag seemed to move a bit, the only eye that was exposed slightly opened, looking at Kisuke Urahara.Although he looked like he was going to die at any moment, the upturned corners of his eyes and the impatient look inside were as sharp as before.

"Urahara... Kisuke..."

After speaking, his eyes were closed again, and he seemed to have passed out completely.

The person wrapped in rags is the sinner and traitor of the Soul Society who is considered the number one criminal by the Soul Society and should be imprisoned for 2 years.

There is a soft bedding under the body, and the body is also very warm.

But his body was still bound by something, and he wanted to mobilize his spiritual power, but failed.The spirit seed seems to be frozen in the body and cannot be used.Both hands and feet are immobilized, and it is impossible to even move a finger or toe.

"Ah, it seems that I have regained consciousness."

——And the nasty man he saw before he fell into a coma, it really wasn't his illusion!

He had no choice but to slowly open his eyes, the other eye was still in the dark, and after the vision of the right eye was blurred for a while, he could clearly see the face of Urahara looking down at him from above.

It can't be said that it was hard to escape, the accurate description should be "it was hard to seize a favorable opportunity", but in the end it fell into the hands of this man again.Forget it, falling into his hands, it sounds more comfortable for him than being caught by ghosts or those gods of death.

"Where am I?" He asked the man above.The man squinted his eyes, looking sly in the shadow of his hat brim.

"Let's count it as one of my residences." He said lightly, "Because I didn't understand what happened, I brought you here first.

In between the man's words, he tried to sense his surroundings.But it's a pity, because the body is still in a fixed state, and the seal has not been completely released. I can feel that there is nothing but the cup on my body and this man.

"As you can see, I'm jailbroken."

He closes his eyes.Instead of facing the fate of being sent back soon, it would be more useful to sleep again.Maybe the dream won't be interrupted this time. Thinking about Shen sleeping in the 2-year dream, he has enough time to think slowly, wait for Jinglingting's vigilance to relax, and then get the dream again. free.

Urahara looked at Aizen who closed his eyes as if resigned to his fate, and didn't know whether to sigh or roll his eyes.

"Hey, are you waiting for me to send you back to the Soul Realm?"

After he brought Aizen back to this apartment, he sealed him with a fixed spiritual pressure and spiritual power.It just so happened that after his seal was completed, Aizen regained consciousness.If it was Aizen who could still mobilize spiritual power, he would definitely not stand by his bed and speak so calmly.

And just as he was casting the seal, he received a communication from Ling Tie Zhai.Because Aizen escaped from prison, there was an uproar in the soul world.Not only is the entire soul world undergoing intense searches, but a large number of people have also been sent to the world.In the end, the order from Room 46 of the Central Committee was that if Aizen Soyousuke could not be caught after seeing him, he could only be executed on the spot.Not to mention who can execute Aizen, it seems that everyone in the thirteenth team of the court thinks that if Aizen runs away, if they don't capture him, Aizen will really completely destroy the world of souls this time.

"...but then again, Soyousuke-kun is really hated!" Sitting on the edge of the bed, Urahara explained with a smile while looking at Aizen who was fixed on the bed by him and couldn't do anything except breathe and talk, " They were all ordered to be executed on the spot!"

"Hmph, are you pitying me, Kisuke Urahara?" Aizen asked back without even bothering to open his eyes.

Although Aizen didn't look at him at all, Urahara still shook his head: "How could it be! I just think, ah, it's a pity that such a person died——"

And now Bengyu was sealed by Aizen Soyousuke's body.If it was Bengyu who was exposed and active outside, no matter what, it would be difficult for him to completely seal it.If this kind of blue dye was really killed on the spot, he would have to say sorry and ask someone to help him afterward.

"But you don't seem to be someone who can accept fate casually like this!" Urahara continued to tease Aizen, "Souyou Jie-kun, this, one failure doesn't mean everything, besides, your success in the bloody battle The performance is also very commendable!"

In the war with the invisible empire, Aizen also made a lot of contributions.It seems that he still hates the world of souls, but he still chose to stand by them when Kyoraku Shunsui asked him to, which already made Urahara Kisuke breathe a sigh of relief.

And a person who is so proud of Aizen, of course, would not choose to let Yuhabach inject letters into his body for the sake of freedom, allowing himself to be controlled.He was a little surprised but not surprised that he chose the former between being chained to a chair and waiting for the end of the spirit world, and being free to go out and avenge the gods of death.

At the end of the war, Aizen who was placed outside will naturally be transported back to the Infernal Prison.During the reconstruction period, the first order issued by Room 46 was to reorganize the Wujian Prison and imprison Aizen Soyousuke in it. The sentence will not be reduced and the seal will not be reduced. The captains took turns to take care of Aizen.

"That's true." Aizen didn't deny Urahara's statement, "Before I was placed on the top floor of the Palace of Repentance, but Liuche Kenxi and the captain didn't come to see me, which is really disappointing."

"team leader?"

It took Urahara a while to realize who the captain Aizen was talking about, and he couldn't help laughing: "You're called the captain even after you betrayed me. Ping Zijun will be angry when he hears that!"

The sound of rain outside continued.Once the summer rain starts, it will not stop easily.Torrential rain washed the glass, and occasional thunderclaps shook the window frames.Under such a downpour, all traces will be washed away.

In the dimly lit room, Aizen's expression remained calm.He didn't open his eyes, and after hearing Urahara's words, he was silent for a long time, and Urahara took off his hat, and kept spinning it on his fingertips.

If you contact Jinglingting now, it's impossible for the gods of death to rush over immediately.

"It's still raining, isn't it?"

Aizen said suddenly.

Urahara didn't need to answer, the muffled thunder outside and the raindrops hitting the windows could explain everything well.

"Why don't you take that opportunity and kill me?"

Urahara looked at Aizen with some surprise, and Aizen opened his eyes again, the two people's eyes met, and he saw that Aizen's light brown eyes were waiting for the answer, nothing else.

"Ah, it's because of Beng Yu—"

"Besides this reason?"

Lan Ran interrupted him: "Because of Bengyu, I can't die happily, that's for sure. You need to use my body to seal Bengyu, and I know that."

The sky darkened little by little, and in the room where the light was slowly dimming, Urahara turned his eyes away from Aizen's face and looked at the ground, while still turning his green and white striped wide-brimmed hat in his hand.

"It's just that if it's you, you don't have to use my body to seal Bengyu, right? Why don't you take this opportunity and kill me? It's better than Bengyu staying in my body all the time, let me keep the opportunity Better, no?"

Urahara bent over, deep in thought.The lights in the apartment building opposite came on one after another.The two sat in the dark room, thinking about their unknown secrets.

"...Because, I don't need to kill you, right?"

As if he had figured something out, Urahara grinned again, and the hat was turned and fell to the ground.He raised his hand to scratch the back of his head, and said this to Aizen who looked surprised.

"Although you, Aizen-kun, have caused me a lot of trouble and hurt a lot of people-but because there are no fewer people around me, and they are living a happy life now, not worse than before, so I want to say I hate you , it's really hard!"

"..."

"Just like what you said to Kurosaki-kun back then, no matter what, there is no reason to kill you, probably, that's right!"

The friends around me were traumatized physically and mentally because of Aizen, and some of them would never be able to return to Jinglingting, including himself who was still convicted by Room 46 and had not been revoked.

"If you have to say why you hate you, it's because you lied to all of us."

With that kind face, he deceived all his colleagues and subordinates who liked him and loved him.The person who once gave warmth to others, cared for and cared for everyone, suddenly betrayed, this kind of blow is more terrible than physical injury.

"It's just that now you have also received the punishment you deserve. You see, you are locked in a room without a room, and your whole body is sealed. To be honest, let me sit in a place where I can't see the light for a year and don't let me speak. I will find a way to come out. But maybe before that, I will go crazy alone, right?"

Unlike Aizen, there are many people around him who like him, and he also likes him very much.Compared with a person like Aizen who has been in loneliness for a long time without knowing it, he understands that his weakness is the fetters with his subordinates and friends.It is also by relying on such fetters to help everyone that he can seal Aizen, and at the same time defeat the invisible empire together with his companions.

The disbelief in Aizen's slightly widened eyes looked really pitiful.

Probably because, he has never experienced this kind of feeling, him.Thinking of this, he would recall the sad expression on Kurosaki Ichigo's face when he defeated Aizen.I'm afraid that at that time, my expression was similar to that of Kurosaki-kun, right?

"Are you pitying me, Kisuke Urahara?"

Aizen closed her eyes again with a very disdainful tone.

"Fetters or something, that kind of thing, if I want to get it, it's not impossible."

"Your understanding of fetters is still too naive." Urahara said mercilessly, "That's not something that can be cheated, and the feeling of self-satisfaction obtained through deception—"

The torrential rain outside the window continued, and in the thick dark clouds, lightning flashed, illuminating his serious face.

And Aizen's calm expression.

"no."

Aizen interrupted Urahara's words.

Urahara also stopped speaking, waiting for Aizen's rebuttal.

The water droplets illuminated by the light slide down the glass quickly.In the bright lights of the apartment building opposite, it may be a happy couple, or a family with children, a social person who has just returned from work and is relaxing, or a young man who is excited because of watching a game, eating delicious food and revealing Elderly people with happy expressions.In contrast, the two men in the darkness were silent.As for the scene outside the window, neither of them was in the mood to watch it.

Probably because I have already got it, or it was once available at my fingertips.

Immersed in the darkness, with a warm body, he couldn't restrain his rising and happy tone, and the man's wet golden hair was scattered between his fingers.

"...I don't need you to pity me, Kisuke Urahara."

Even if it was just one night, it was proof that he once had that person; even if that night turned into a memory of a person in the end, more distant than a dream.

"I've had that kind of thing before."

It's just for his goal that he gave up by himself, that's all.He will not regret it, because it was a necessary sacrifice, nothing more.It's just so superficial and ridiculous to say rashly that I haven't had that kind of thing, and that the feelings I get are all deceitful.

"Ah, is it?"

The rain gradually became smaller, so the sigh in his words was easily captured by Aizen.

No matter how dull he was in the past, after seeing Aizen like this, some bits and pieces in his memory were outlined so easily.

If this is the case, it would be too sad, right?

A certain captain who never looked back, and the vice-captain who always followed him, watching him with tender eyes.Ah, so it turned out to be like this, so it wasn't his illusion.It turns out—that was supposed to echo each other, the feelings of two people, right?

"That's right."

He sighed again.

If there is anyone who has not come out because of the incident 100 years ago, that person is the only one.

"To be honest, I'm still a little worried about Bengyu." Urahara said suddenly, "And I also know that person, Nirvana, maybe one day I will become interested in Bengyu and liberate you. possible."

The corners of Aizen's lips were covered by shadows, so Urahara ignored the tiny curve.

"Besides, if you are returned to Jinglingting, you may still run away—then it is unlikely that something like today's luck that caught you will happen again."

In the eyes of everyone in Jinglingting, it is absolutely impossible to untie the seal with bare hands, and the binding works that Nirvana is proud of, under the fiddle with Urahara's hands, the straps were untied and scattered one by one.It's just that the spiritual pressure and spiritual power are still fixed, like solidified wax.

"Don't try to use spiritual power at this time - in that case, if the limbs are suddenly broken, I won't connect them."

Now that the body is completely made up of spirit particles, if he forcibly uses the spirit power, he will meet the fate that Urahara said.

As the bandages were removed one by one, Aizen's body was also displayed in front of Urahara.When Urahara put his hands on his bare chest, he was relieved to find that Bengyu was still sleeping there soundly.

More importantly, even when Bengyu is sleeping, she can actually respond to the voice of the host.It's just that at this moment, Beng Yu'an was completely asleep and did not respond to Lan Ran's actions.

He once said that Beng Yu gave up on Lan Ran because of his inner turmoil.However, even if Aizen doesn't have any thoughts in his heart now, there is no guarantee that Aizen will not start calling for Bengyu's power again in the days to come.

Urahara understood that it was impossible for him to tie Aizen to this apartment forever.Just in case, some restrictions are still necessary-while giving him freedom, on the one hand, it is also for better when Aizen tries to do something again, at the fastest speed, he will be better than what Room 46 gave him. If you want a more serious punishment, immediately respond to him.

"——So that's it." Urahara poured tea for himself to relieve his dry mouth, "After taking off the restraint, Soyousuke-kun's spiritual concentration and spiritual pressure returned to normal. Because I The restriction has been lifted, so he can only obey me obediently!"

But because Aizen looked around for Urahara's store afterwards, in order to prevent harming the innocent, Urahara set up a barrier in his store, and the barrier didn't lose its effect until Kurosaki Ichigo and Heping Mako took him there.

"The previous words were just letting him do what he wanted, and I can't control him."

It's just that he didn't know that apart from working in this world—after being controlled and sealed by him, Lan Ran dared to return to the world of souls many times, especially to the team house of the fifth team.It is also because the concentration of spirit particles in his body has been adjusted, his ghost way will appear even more terrifying-and because of the seal, his control over spiritual power is not completely in his hands, so in the incident in Kyoto, his Only then will the spiritual power be drained easily.

Seeing Aizen sitting quietly next to Urahara, he didn't make any fuss about Urahara, "Souyou Jie-kun cried and begged me not to restrain him" "What did he say at that time, please don't send me back to Soul Society There was no response to such nonsense, and Hirako Mako also knew that Urahara was indeed holding a sharp weapon that could subdue Aizen immediately.

"In this way, I can rest assured for many years." Pingzi let out a long breath, "Really, why didn't you tell me when you first went to Kyoto!"

Regarding the conversation between Aizen and him, he also knew that Urahara didn't tell the whole story easily.But because it was Kisuke Urahara, his trusted friend, he also thought that what Urahara was hiding was probably trivial things like Aizen sneezing and picking his ears.

"I told Urahara-kun, don't tell you."

Only then did Aizen speak, and looked straight at Pingzi: "Mr. Makoto, is it because you don't know that you don't trust me, or is it because you never believed me from the beginning?"

Hirako's mouth opened and closed, and just about to say something, Pu Yuan stood up, put his hat on his head, and smiled at Pingzi: "Well, Mr. Pingzi, let me go out for a while—I feel that Hirako Mr. Pangu is coming this way, talk slowly!"

The door was quickly closed, only Aizen was left facing Pingzi, the two looked at each other, but they didn't know what to say.

Finally, Aizen moved his body towards Hirako.

"Fighting against the virtual self, the wound hasn't completely healed yet?" He smiled at Hirako again, "Mako-kun, let me heal you, is that okay?"

With a questioning tone, but his hands stopped on the palms of his hands covering his abdomen.

How much has he changed as a result of this failure?

Has he never changed at all?

"Then I'll leave it to you... Aizen."

Still refused to change the address, the owner of the name noticed the hesitation in the pause of the person calling.Aizen smiled again, and the light of replying came out softly from between his palms.

This surprised Hirako, raised one eyebrow, and said habitually: "Ah, Aizen—I didn't know you were so proficient in applying advanced Hui Dao!"

"This is..."

Aizen was still smiling, watching him, not responding to the temptation and ridicule in his words.

"Then let's start with how many ghost ways I can use. Please Mako-kun come to understand me."

Pingzi was still baring his teeth and looking at him with drooping eyes, but he just turned his head away after hearing this: "Stop joking, who wants to understand you."

——Because the more this happens, the more I can't help wanting to trust you.

——Because if you do that, you'll probably start to trust me.

There was no torrential rain, nor lightning and thunder.

At this moment, the spring sun shines softly into the house through the paper door.