[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

"Idiot, forcibly control it, what are you thinking?"

The boy stood outside and asked impatiently, with his hands folded on his chest, his gray eyes were icy cold.

"...Not yet."

The man stood in the shadows and replied with such words.

"Coward!" The young man grinned, with a cold smile, "I want to live a peaceful life and experience excitement at the same time, this is not okay. What about the courage and awareness back then? Well, we are weak human beings in the first place. , I can understand being a little cowardly."

"Shut up for me!!!"

The people in the shadow became excited: "You are just a brat, yet you dare to teach me a lesson!!"

"Whatever you say." Yu Zuoming sneered, "For a person like you who only has arrogance and no brains, this is the maximum you can do-feed it quickly. Otherwise, I will There are no guarantees of consequences."

Misaki turned and left, the man in the shadow clenched his fists and gritted his teeth unwillingly.

"Damn brat..."

While Yeyi was holding the food in his mouth, he glanced in Aizen's direction from the corner of his eye.Because she couldn't take it any longer, she had no choice but to move closer to Pu Yuan, put her hands over her mouth and asked him in a low voice, "Hey, those two guys are even more strange."

Urahara also raised his eyes to look in Aizen's direction.It seems that because of Aizen's super-advanced Huidao treatment, all the hidden injuries in Hirako's body caused by fighting Xu have healed.Although Ling Tiezhai is a great ghost Taoist leader, he can't do the same level as Aizen in terms of healing.Urahara pursed his mouth, stretched his chopsticks towards his saury, picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, watching Aizen's actions.

Well, although his body is the best prop to seal Bengyu, he is indeed right. Isn’t it okay to use his body after losing his consciousness? It became like this.

"Would you like another bowl of miso soup, Mako-kun?" Just by looking at it, one could feel the speaker's physical and mental comfort, as well as the spring breeze.Isn't this kid a little too smug?

Pingzi opened his hand holding the empty bowl again: "No need! How can I eat anymore when I go on like this, idiot!"

——The person being taken care of looked bored, but he seemed to be enjoying it.

"Just looking at that smile makes me feel disgusting!" Ye Yi said disgustedly, "You too, you didn't tell me that you saved Aizen, what do you think!"

Urahara looked away, took a few more mouthfuls of food, and then looked at Yeyi with a smile: "Where is it! You know it's not 'saving' him!"

Aizen over there continued to say softly: "Ah, is that right? I didn't think carefully—but seeing that you like today's soup very much, just a little reminder, I made it myself."

Hearing this, Ye Yi quickly put down the soup bowl that Ye Yi had just picked up, and Dong Shi Lang, who was drinking the soup, choked unpreparedly, and thinking of himself who had already drank a lot, the corners of Pingzi's mouth twitched: "You...you No poison..."

"How could it be?" Lan Ran tilted her head and smiled, "After all, if you really want to kill everyone here, you only need to kill everyone here, and you don't have to do such things as cooking yourself."

Hey, your true nature is revealed again, Soyousuke-kun.Urahara Shiyu seems to be Aizen who said this without knowing it, and that's not how he pretends to be good. What are you thinking in your head? ? ?

Sure enough, Hirako grabbed Aizen by the collar and shook back and forth, shouting: "You bastard!!! I really want to kill you now, you know?!!!"

"Really?" Aizen smiled and let Hirako shake himself.

Hirako said "Huh?" and stopped, Aizen still had a gentle smile on his face.It's just that this kind of gentle smile, because he doesn't have glasses... Should it be said that he is not used to it, or that the lethality has doubled?

"...Tch," he let go of Aizen's collar and picked up the bowl again, "boring, finish your dinner quickly and go out to patrol."

It's getting late and patrolling is business.Ranju greeted Shiro Dong in advance, and asked for leave today to watch a movie with Xiaotao, so in the evening, Hirako, Shiro Dong and Aizen went out to patrol together.After all, during the period when the two captains were unable to move, they had been responsible for patrolling and recording Reiatsu responses, so it was okay to rest for one night.It's also rare that Luan Ju didn't slack off this time, so Shiro Dong nodded and let them go on vacation.

Yeyi stretched after eating and drinking, and turned into a black cat again at Urahara's feet.On another small table, two captains and a former captain also finished their dinner and were ready to go on patrol.Pu Principle flipped through the records of the flow of spiritual pressure and Xu's appearance recorded by the two vice-captains, while picking up the soup bowl next to him.

"However, the soup is really delicious." He flipped through the records and said, "Mr. Tie Zhai, it's really delicious."

Hearing this, Hirako, who was wearing the captain's haori at the door, turned back and grabbed the door frame and shouted, "Hey! You are not allowed to praise him!"

Urahara looked innocent, holding the soup bowl and didn't put it down: "But it's really delicious, the tofu is very tender, the kelp is also very fresh, the taste of miso..."

"I told you that you are not allowed to praise him!" Pingzi protested recklessly, grabbing the door frame, "Xisuke! This kind of person will become lawless once he hears a compliment!"

"Captain Hirako! It's time to go!"

Toshiro's voice came from the door, and Hirako bent down exhaustedly, and took one last look at Urahara before closing the door.It was also at this time that emotions between confusion and gratitude surfaced in his eyes for a moment.Then he stood up and turned around, with his back to Urahara.

"Well, thank you...But let me think about it later."

Urahara showed a relieved expression, and put down the soup bowl.

"That's it."

The sliding door was closed, and the figure wearing Captain Haori left outside.Urahara picked up the soup bowl again, drank the soup in one gulp, looked at the crumbs of tofu left at the bottom of the bowl, and smiled very comfortably.

"It's great to be scolded...you think so, Miss Yeyi?"

The cat meowed indistinctly, but ignored him.

In the sky above the city center, Toshiro and Heiko confirmed the patrol route for the last time, and then left in a blink of an eye.

"I said, shouldn't you go on Liberty Patrol?"

Turning around, Aizen was still standing there.He walked ahead, and Aizen followed behind him.Her long hair was still hanging behind her, but it was much shorter than it was in the morning.As the power of Aether disappears, eventually he will change back to short hair.

Aizen thought, what a pity.

"Since it is free action, I am also free to follow Mako-kun."

"Then you just follow, and I won't talk to you if you follow."

Putting his hands into the pockets of the skirt pants, he slightly arched his back and walked in front in a relaxed manner.

It seems that going on like this is not a problem.Being silent like this, Aizen's Reiatsu was behind him, not saying he was uneasy or anything, but just feeling extremely bored.

"Speaking of which, Aizen."

"what?"

"What the hell do you think about my hair?"

Speaking of this, as if remembering something, Hirako turned around and stared at Aizen fiercely: "Over 100 years ago, you actually did such a nasty thing to me while I was sleeping—"

He never forgot about shaving him bald.That day he was looking for Aizen everywhere angrily, but accidentally bumped into Captain Yamamoto; after that, he gave up a lot of effort to grow his hair long.

Especially when I found that kind of thing at Aizen's residence that day.

"You put my hair and scissors in the same box!" Speaking of this, Pingzi clenched his fists angrily, "You must have done it on purpose! Use a mirror to lure me over, and let me see myself hair and scissors!"

Aizen looked very indifferent: "That! Your hair, and that amazing pair of scissors - if there is no evidence, please don't talk nonsense, I don't have any special thoughts about your hair."

Pingzi stopped in front, straightened his body, and the rise of the spiritual pressure showed that his mood was fluctuating violently because of this matter: "It was really a sweet talk in the morning!" He couldn't believe this man at all. Nothing but sophistry answers.

"Eh?"

Aizen also stopped, and seemed to be thinking hard: "I just let you know how many ghosts I know in the morning—"

"..."

Pingzi turned around silently, feeling very drained.Why do I still have any expectations for this man? If so, I will be fooled again, won't I?

Sensing the change in Pingzi's mood, Aizen put his hands in his pockets neatly, still standing where he was, and said, "The first time I cut your hair was because of your fault."

"Huh?? My fault??!!"

Hirako turned his head, completely unable to remember what he had done before that besides keeping Aizen from getting too close to him.

Lan Ran frowned: "You really don't remember? A week before that day, you lay down for a day because of illness."

Although he was fine the next day, he used his illness as an excuse to order Aizan to do the official duties of the captain and vice-captain for a whole week. All the official documents of the three vice-captains and the captain were handed over to Aizen.

Wearing a yukata and haori, every time he passed by the vice-captain's room, Ichimaru Gin, who was smiling and watching him being squeezed, passed by, pretending to cough twice and saying, "Since Soyousuke is so capable, next week's I also entrust you with official duties." Under the pressure of such Hirako, Aizen finally couldn't hold back one day...

"—That's it." Aizan was still smiling when talking about this matter, but Hirako's back felt cold for a while.

"You are too narrow-minded! I am a patient! And Ichimaru was indeed a child at that time, so it is normal for you to be in charge of the third seat's official duties!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Lan Ran with dead fish eyes: "And at that time, just refuse if you don't want to take it, why don't you say a word?"

"Probably because it's you?" Aizen said lightly, "So there's no way to refuse."

But because I felt that I would not refuse this because I felt that I was being used, I was a little angry. I cut off Pingzi's hair while he was taking a nap; but because it felt surprisingly good when I touched it, I didn't throw it away. Fearing that Pingzi would dig it out if placed in the room, he hid it in Xuye Palace.He waited until he was rescued by Urahara, and when he remembered this incident, he went to Xuquan to get the things back.

However, because I knew what was in the box and kept it there for such a long time, I neither threw it away nor opened it once.

That night, when Mako Hirako opened the box, what she saw was her long hair that had been cut off before, and the scissors that caused trouble at that time—however, because it had been left for too long, when she first touched Hirako’s Reiatsu, the long hair The hair that was carefully coiled in the box turned into fly ash.

"There must be nothing in the box, right? Since you've already opened it." After Aizen finished speaking, he raised his feet and walked towards Pingzi, "What a pity."

Hirako's expression under the moonlight is very complicated now, but the long golden hair soaked in the moonlight is seen by Aizen.As long as he thinks that the long hair in front of him will break off and dissipate as spirit seeds in two days, Aizen will feel very sorry.

"But speaking of which, where's the scissors?"

"You really dare to ask!"

Of course, the scissors were handed over to Urahara that night, and then they passed by the new crime scene, and then it was time for Hirako to talk to Hina Mori, and Aizen appeared beside him.

"Speaking of which, for being able to arrange the scene so skillfully, Misaaki is really familiar with the present world."

"Oh, how do you say that?"

Walking beside Hirako, Aizen listened to Hirako's questions.

"Kisuke and I immediately entered the room as gods of death." Hirako folded his hands in his haori sleeves, and walked on the street at night with Aizen, thinking about what he saw that day, "It's also because of you." , I have been in the reincarnation for a long time, and I know a lot about the modern life of human beings... A family of three died that day, the father and mother were lying in the bedroom, and the child was also, and the gas was on, and it looked like poisoned and died."

Due to too many doubts, although the police dealt with it as an accident, before Chisen went to the scene of the crime to meet him, he turned on the TV and found that it was just after the time of the death of this family. The TV taps a late-night show.Also after the time they died, the TV was turned on and automatic recording was set.

"Judging from his actions in fighting you, he is not such a thoughtful person." Hirako said, looking up at the bright moon, "It was because of Kisuke's help that I realized that the souls of those three people were shattered in their bodies. The exact time of their death. The time of their death judged by humans is half an hour after that, which is also the event after the TV recording was set.”

Aizen nodded: "Indeed, after the soul is shattered in the body, it will take a while before the body is judged to be officially dead. In fact, the saying of vegetative people in this world is similar. Because the soul is broken, the body cannot move, but the soul is still in the body. When there are still residues in the body, it is a state that cannot wake up and cannot die."

Judging from the two appearances of Yu Zuoming, he is not such a careful person, and he doesn't bother to hide himself.Judging in this way, Misaki can be counted as one of those who bring Xu to kill people in this world.

"Although it was very thoughtful and deceived human beings, it's just that the layout of this scene is too thoughtful. Unfortunately, the plan that is too foolproof and leaves no room for failure is actually full of flaws."

After finishing speaking, Hirako thought of something, and deliberately squinted at Aizen.

"That's right. As expected of Mr. Zhen Zijun, he is both far-sighted and meticulous."

Of course, Aizen didn't react at all, on the contrary, he praised the other party without hesitation.Did he really think so, or just said it casually, Pingzi was too lazy to think deeply.

"Let's save the good words for later." Patrol the street with a casual attitude, passing passersby who appear from time to time, "This guess, because it is not sure, so I didn't tell anyone. If there is more than one person behind the scenes People, no, if there are more than two people, Yu Zuoming will startle the snake after solving the problem."

"But find out all at once, and then solve them all, so that you can avoid future troubles forever." Lan Ran lowered his head slightly, and the gap between Lian Pingzi's habitually frowned eyebrows was traced by his eyes.

Pingzi still squinted at him, and said, "Stand back."

"what?"

Hirako quickened his pace, and the golden hair fluttered for a moment, flashing in Aizen's eyes.

"Stand back and walk behind me."

Because in the past, either Aizen followed him or fought face to face, Mako Hirako only had a real sense of the fact that she was much shorter than him when Aizen walked beside him.

So Aizen paused helplessly, and waited until Pingzi opened a distance from him before raising his heels: "Yes, Makoto-kun."

Said helplessly like this, but the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl up.The back of the person in front... He hasn't seen it for a long time.

"I'm sorry, Urahara-san."

The sliding door was gently opened, and what appeared at the door was the materialized Mirror Flower and Water Moon, with a tea tray and snacks beside it.

"Ah, didn't you go with your master?"

Urahara put down the notebook in his hand, opened his mouth slightly, watched Jinghua Shuiyue move the tea tray in with a firm eye, closed the door, and then put the tea tray on the low table.Sitting opposite Urahara, she looked a little disappointed when she heard this.

"No, the master said, let me stay here. If there is anything, just tell me, and I can also notify him in time-this is the refreshment made by Mr. Wu Ling, and I wanted to help. "

She raised her head and smiled helplessly: "But I'm Sword Soul, and I can't taste anything except blood, so I just helped bring the tea, haha."

This, this child is worthy of Aizen's knife!Even the way they speak is exactly the same!

Sweating from the temples of Urahara, he poured himself a cup of tea: "Ah, that's it, I've worked hard on you—Actually, I happen to have something I want to discuss with Aizen-kun."

"Huh? What is it?" Jinghua Shuiyue sat opposite him, her dark green eyes were full of curiosity.

Urahara flipped the notepad he used to write his thoughts to the front: "That, that is—"

He suddenly raised his head, leaned forward to get close to the mirror flower and water moon, his face full of gossip: "That can wait for a while, hey, you are his Zanpakuto, so he can also know a thing or two about what's going on in his heart, right? What is his impression of me, nah?"

Jinghua Shuiyue looked embarrassed: "This...I...well, isn't it too good..."

Urahara smiled wickedly: "It's okay, I will keep it a secret from now on, if you have any wish, I will help you realize it without violating the principle, hey, how about it?"

The little girl put a finger up in front of Urahara's face, her cheeks puffed up slightly, and she also leaned forward: "I don't think I will care if I tell the master, but do you really want to hear me tell the truth?"

Urahara nodded sharply: "Yes! Hey, I've always been curious about how Aizen-kun thinks of me!"

The Flower in the Mirror and the Moon in the Water seemed to be in a bit of a bind, but since she couldn't find an excuse to refuse, and she wasn't good at lying, she had to sit up straight and cough dryly.

Urahara's eyes were filled with anticipation.

Just about to speak, Jinghua Shuiyue looked at Urahara with a little melancholy for the last time: "Mr. Urahara, do you really want to listen?"

"It's okay, it's okay! Say it!"

It is a rare opportunity when Aizen is not around, and it is a lie to say that he doesn't care about Aizen's opinion of him!In case Aizen wants to overthrow the soul world again, at least he can be sure that he may be the last one to die.

"Ah..." Jinghua Shuiyue coughed dryly, then her big dark green eyes narrowed for a moment, and a soft and cold smile appeared on her face.

"Ask Urahara Kisuke?" She even imitated her tone vividly, "That guy looks stupid and unreliable."

... Urahara's expression froze on his face.

He watched the mirror flower and water moon learn from Aizen, pinched his chin and closed his eyes, with a signature smug smile on the corner of his mouth, and continued: "Ah! Really? What you see on the surface can't be the only judgment on this person, mirror flower and water moon. Although I told you so, that kind of lazy guy who seems unreliable can only do that!"

"Oh? You said the captain looked at him differently? Huh, the captain is just able to get on well with anyone, and that's the same with the unreliable guys that he himself despises."

"That man, although being consistent on the outside and inside is a rare and precious quality, but I never said that rare is a compliment."

"Sure enough, as I thought, this man can do this to this extent, I really want to say sorry to him."

Urahara Kisuke swallowed hard.

After saying this, Jinghua Shuiyue opened her eyes again. When Urahara thought she had finished speaking, she put her hands on her waist, as if imitating Aizen's hands in her pockets, and slightly lowered her head, her dark green eyes became deeper: "Should it be?" Thank him well, about Beng Yu."

"After seeing something like the King of Spirits, he can still deceive himself in such a self-satisfied way. That man doesn't know how to write the word pride?"

Soyousuke-kun!Thanks to me covering you up and not transporting you back to the Soul Soul Realm, did you always think so! ! !

The black cat next to him who didn't know when he woke up had already turned into a human form, put on his clothes a few times and sat behind the already petrified Urahara Kisuke, watching Mikaka Suigetsu imitating Aizen.

"Hmph, interesting, he's a man beyond my expectations...a little bit upset."

Urahara tremblingly asked Yeyi: "Well, Miss Yeyi, do you think this is a compliment to me?"

Ye Yi decisively shook his head.

Then I saw Kyoka Suigetsu staring suddenly, and then yelled out in a loud voice: "Kisuke Urahara, I despise you!!!"

……

"Are you all right, Urahara-san?"

Looking at Urahara, whose upper body was completely slumped on the low table, Kyoka Shuigetsu looked embarrassed: "That's why I thought it was too rude, so I hesitated to say it. Mr. Urahara, are you okay?"

Ye Yi laughed beside him and almost passed out, and later asked Jinghua Shuiyue: "Hey, what does Aizen think of me?"

Jinghua Shuiyue looked up at the ceiling, thought hard for a while, and then said: "Hmm...'Yeichi Sifengyuan, the physical skills are very good', no more."

Ye Yi let out a long breath: "There's only one sentence—hahahaha, Xisuke! It seems that Aizen really values ​​you! Be happy!"

Urahara was still weeping lasagna tears on the table: "I feel like if he stands on the opposite side of us again, I will die sooner, right?" Dyed the same bangs, double the lethality.

Jinghua Shuiyue sat on the spot and sighed a little, seeming to sympathize with him: "Mr. Urahara, cheer up. Didn't you just say that you have something to discuss with the master?"

"Ah, okay..."

Urahara sat up unsteadily, picked up his notebook, turned it to the front, took deep breaths, pointed at the notebook, and began to explain to the mirror.

"First of all, I went back to when the accident started five years ago. Ah, since there are many ordinary accidents, it took a little effort at the beginning because of the screening."

After continuous investigation with Lan Ran, the time when the crime started was barely determined.

"In the first year, the timing of the crimes may be irregular, but in the second year, the crimes are committed every other month."

Aizen was walking behind Hirako, and suddenly stopped, and stretched his hands to his waist, but he just stretched out.

"Hey, what's the matter, Aizen?"

When he stopped and looked back, he saw Aizen's hands resting on his waist, making a gesture of wanting to draw his sword.But his waist was empty, so after a short pause, he put his hands down and followed Hirako: "It's nothing, Urahara-kun seems to have some thoughts, and he is talking to Kyoka Suigetsu. Soon Kyoka Suigetsu will repeat these thoughts to me."

Hirako waited until Aizen was standing behind him, then turned back and continued walking forward, and asked casually, "The action just now was not intended to communicate with Zanpakuto."

Aizen didn't answer him, but walked behind Pingzi holding something in his right hand.

"Because the crime was committed at the beginning of the second year, and I picked up Aizen-kun in the summer, so the possibility of him being an accomplice has also been ruled out."

Ye Yi sat cross-legged beside him, looking at the book curiously: "Accomplice?"

"Ah, I asked Xia Li. During the day, I also checked Yu Zuoming's previous records. Five years ago, he suddenly appeared. He had no parents, and of course there was no school. In the first year, there was also a soul collective. The [-]th squad also had corresponding records of the dissipated incident, but because there were too few manpower at that time, it was only a hasty investigation, and since there was no such incident after that, they went back home——However, in the second year I found a clue. He entered middle school as a transfer student. He went to and from school like a normal person. Although he was withdrawn, I asked his former neighbors and nearby shops, and they all said that he often saw this My child, the school attendance record is actually full."

Every crime has a perfect alibi, and even in the fourth year, which happens twice a month, the attendance at Karakura Daiichi High School is full.

"Complete hypnosis is definitely impossible, because no one will hypnotize such a large number of people at the same time in just a few years—the hallucinations are temporarily discharged first."

Urahara made a big cross on Aizen's head portrait drawn in the notebook, turned over a page and continued: "So, that means he has an accomplice who is familiar with the rules of human society and common sense of life— —Speaking of this, his former neighbors also complained that the child could not speak, and would even eat the watermelon with the skin on.”

He has no common sense in life and has a withdrawn personality. However, he goes to school quietly and does not take any action, just living in silence like this.

In the second year, he should have met someone before becoming like this.Then, it was speculated that the appetite of this domesticated animal had increased, so the frequency of another murderer's crimes became more frequent.

"Mako-kun, I think your guess may be right."

"Huh? Why did you say that suddenly? Did Kisuke say something?"

Folding her arms behind her head, Hirako waited for Aizen's explanation.

"Just now, Jinghua Shuiyue has been telling me about Urahara-kun's guesses intermittently."

Recently, accidents happen almost every day. Due to the existence of Amma Chizuru and Kurosaki Natsuri, Shixu has his own ideas, and it may be one of his trainers that makes it dormant, so it He didn't take any action - but on this point, Misaki had the opposite opinion with him, that's why Misaki took Oku to attack Amma Chizuru, Kurosaki Natsuri and Kurosaki Yuko.And the greatest possibility is that the current accomplice is in your Karakura town, and has an inseparable connection with Karakura No. [-] High School.

"It seems that there is indeed such a thoughtful accomplice, Mako-kun, do you want me to tell Urahara-kun?"

Hirako didn't look back, and waved his hand casually: "Please Aizen, please explain clearly to Kisuke!"

From just now, Aizen's right hand has been holding something empty.

However, Mako Hirako didn't notice.

Jinghua Suigetsu closed her eyes, silently digested what Urahara said, and after telling Aizen all the data and guesses she had seen, she opened her eyes.

"Actually, Mr. Hirako also talked about his discovery just now. It was at the scene you and he went to, and he discovered the problem when he went to wait for Vice Captain Hinamori the next day."

After talking about the speculation about the automatic camera, Urahara held his chin with one hand and pondered: "That's it—but there should be no second accomplice."

"The master likes to do that action too!"

Urahara was startled and then shed tears again: "Ah, thank you for reminding me, it's a mirror image." But the small movements that people do subconsciously when they are thinking can't be controlled!

"But that day," Ye Yi asked the question, "Xiao Qianhe said that Misaki disappeared because ordinary people passed by. Why did Misaki disappear who doesn't care about human rules or social order?"

Urahara took off his hat and shook his hair: "I don't know about that, but it seems like they know someone."

The shadows of the three people in the room all stood up, Urahara opened the door, looked behind and said: "Go ask them tomorrow, let's go to bed early today. If you wait for the master, don't be too late!"

"it is good!"

Slightly bent down to send the two of them out of the small reception room, Jinghua Shuiyue held her chin, staring at the refreshments on the table in a daze.

I really want to eat it, but unfortunately...

She buried her head in her arms.

Can't taste...