[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

Aizen has always believed in Hirako's strength.

Naturally, as the captain of the Fifth Division, he has strong strength in himself, not to mention that he can still be virtualized now; people who are not at the level of the Quincy Guards or Aizen cannot easily defeat him.That's why Jingle Chunshui can safely entrust him with the rescue mission.

"Captain Pingzi, there is no trace of the enemy around!"

The team members who went to search the surrounding area for stealth maneuvers came back and reported to Hirako.However, the strange aura just now was always around.It is very strange, and it is subtly similar to when I resisted that high-level void in the enchantment.An ominous feeling lingered in his heart, Hirako put his thumb against the scabbard, frowned, and looked around vigilantly.

It was unmistakable, it was the weird atmosphere in Karakura Town, but he was not sure what kind of Reiatsu it was.It doesn't look like Xuya, nor is it Shinigami—the only thing he can think of is that he has never seen it, and Urahara and Aizen have mentioned it, the boy who caused the riot in Karakura Town, Misa bright.

However, almost three months have passed, and even midsummer is coming to an end, why does this missing black hand suddenly appear here again.Could it be him, was it possible?

"what--!!!"

A member of the stealthy maneuvering team member who was guarding the surroundings suddenly let out a scream and fell down immediately.

"Enemy attack! There is an enemy attack! All—ah!!!"

The person who just shouted suddenly fell down.Hirako drew out his sword, and while searching for the traces of the enemy, he raised his voice and shouted: "Everyone, gather behind me!"

The team members who were close to him quickly walked behind him to form a defensive formation; however, it was still a bit late, and the hidden mobile players guarding behind the maggot nest fell down one by one screaming.

But no one—? !

Hirako stared straight ahead.

No matter how bad the weather was, it was impossible for him not to see anyone.

"Xishiro," Hirako asked the boy next to him in a low voice, "do you see anyone?"

"No." Yushiro shook his head, clenched his fists and stared at the front.The moon reappeared from behind the clouds, and the moonlight slowly fell on the open space in front of me.

The moment the open space in front of him was completely illuminated, Hirako understood why neither he nor Yushiro saw anyone.

It wasn't a human being - rather than a human being, it might as well be a black mist in the shape of a human being, with a knife in its hand, suspended in mid-air.Although even the facial features were blurred, Hirako could feel the other party's eyes on him.

Staring closely at the black figure floating in midair, he clenched the knife in his hand; a small number of team members gathered behind Hirako, waiting for instructions from the only captain present at any time.

Too bad, I don't know what Kuchiki is doing down here... He suddenly appeared after the three captains separated, so it can be seen that the opponent's plan was to separate the three of them from the beginning.

While thinking, Hirako clenched the knife in his hand and confronted the figure in the sky.

"So you are the culprit who caused this riot?" He raised his voice and asked the figure in the sky.

The figure seemed to shake for a moment, and then a gust of wind blew in; it was not an ordinary wind, but an ominous wind with a hidden Reiatsu.

"Isn't this... Mako Hirako?"

The voice of the figure was a little hoarse: "It seems that he is not a man who deserves that person to give up his ambition. It's ridiculous."

"What did you say?"

In the silent forest, there is only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.Hirako clenched the knife in his hand, although he was standing casually with the tip of the knife pointing to the ground, but his hand holding the handle of the knife was silently tightened, and his eyes were fixed on the figure.

There was a loud noise from the prison below, and Hirako's pupils suddenly shrank; at the same time, a figure attacked him—he raised his knife, barely blocking the attack of the figure.

"The rest of the team members go to the nest of maggots! Yushiro, go to the first team!"

"Don't think about it."

The figure smiled lightly, heading straight towards Yushiro.Hirako stood behind Xishiro, and turned Nifu towards the sharp blade.Bounced by the sudden counterattack, Soi Ying swung another blow at Hirako.Pingzi raised his knife to block again, and at the same time, he quickly said with the other hand: "The 63 of Bindao, chains and chains!"

The thick golden chain in his hand issued out, only entangled the figure for a moment, and then easily dissipated.Pingzi didn't panic, but continued to chant Bound Dao: "Bound Dao 61, Liuzhang Light Prison!"

"It's useless, Mako Hirako."

The six-foot light prison on the figure disappeared in an instant, and Pingzi narrowed his eyes.

The way of disappearing just now was not breaking free and causing the binding path to shatter, but as if it was absorbed.When he was blocking, the force on the knife suddenly disappeared; instead, the figure quickly retreated.Pingzi quickly caught up, turning around to block the steps of the black shadow rushing into the maggot's nest—and the last team member also entered the maggot's nest just at this time.

"Don't think about the past!"

The man shouted loudly, and pushed the figure away with force on his knife.The black figure was bounced away, and after gliding in mid-air for a certain distance, it barely stopped.Pingzi lowered the knife again, pointing the tip at the ground.It seemed that he relaxed his defenses, but in fact, his arm began to faintly gather strength again, lifting the figure's next attack.Yushiro had already gone back in Shunbu, and the other team members also went down to support Kuchiki.As long as he can hold back the instigator at this moment, he can wait for reinforcements to arrive.

"Are you Yu Zuoming?" He raised his voice and asked, looking up at the figure surrounded by black air.Seeming to have paused for a moment, Heiying laughed softly: "Why, take them all away, so you want to ask me this kind of question?"

Before Hirako could speak again, the figure laughed again: "Torashiro Toruya, Misaki, any name is fine, to me it's just a stand-in. If you think I'm Misaki—huh , you can call me Misaki."

While speaking, he rushed towards Pingzi again and slashed.The force of this saber was stronger than the previous several sabers in the continuous attack, and Hirako who raised the saber to block had to use his free hand to hold the saber, pushing forward to reject it.The sparks from the collision and friction of the blades burst out, and Misaki's blow pushed Hirako directly from the spot, until Hirako found the right opportunity and suddenly lost his strength and dodged to the side.

"Tsk—"

But still unable to dodge in time, Pingzi's shoulder was cut, and a shallow wound appeared under the torn clothes.

At that moment, Aizen's naked back, the wound on his shoulder, and the face of Urahara who threw the needle to him, these images quickly flashed in his mind.

This guy's knife, the cut...can't heal.

Raising his left hand to cover the wound on his right shoulder, Hirako really felt it—it was just a very shallow wound, but when his fingers touched it, blood oozed out continuously.

Melee is very unfavorable to oneself.After realizing this, Hirako's blur was completed in an instant, he raised his knife and pointed it at Misaki who was rushing again, and clustered in front of the blade.

In the forest under the moonlight, a huge spiritual pressure erupted.Immediately afterwards, a dazzling red light lit up in the forest.False flashes gathered quickly in front of the Hirako knife, shooting straight at the black figure.

"ridiculous."

Yu Zuoming raised Tian Congyun and waved lightly at Xu Shan who was rushing towards him at a high speed.In Pingzi's frightened eyes, the red flash seemed to be pushed away by an invisible hand, and it rushed straight to the entrance of the maggot's nest——

"Speaking of which, Mr. Hirako hasn't met Misaki, has he?"

Aizen disassembled the materials that Urahara had given him, and stuck them page by page on the whiteboard in his study with magnets.At the beginning, this whiteboard was used by him to hang various photographic materials, so that he could concentrate on observing and learning those photographic techniques; but now, the photos next to it are all put together on the windowsill, and Aizen puts the key parts of those materials Page after page was pasted on the whiteboard, and the landline next to it was turned on in hands-free mode.There are similarities between Urahara and Aizen in that they prefer to use landlines instead of mobile devices.

"No, only me, Chizuru, and Kurosaki Ichigo's sisters have seen him."

While talking, Aizen read the information carefully, moving the scissors in his hand, cutting out the key parts and pasting them on the whiteboard.

"So, has Misaki met Hirako-san?"

"He used to follow us, so he should have seen him. What's the problem?"

"It's nothing." Urahara on the other side of the phone was doing the same thing, the difference from Aizen was that sitting next to him was not Yoruichi Sifengin, but Ichigo Kurosaki.

Ichigo frowned as he took over the disfigured documents cut by Urahara, and pasted clues on the padded clipboard he bought at Urahara's store.While cutting the note, Urahara instructed Ichigo to pin the note to the correct position, and also asked Ichigo to mark the key points of the connection between the clues with lines of various colors.

"It's Aizen-kun, do you still have contact with Ms. Tianman?"

"I'm not like some people who can ignore others after they have used them." On the other side of the phone was Aizen with his usual subtle tone of sarcasm.Glancing at Ichigo who was frowning and standing in front of the board with his hands on his hips analyzing the situation, Urahara coughed dryly and said, "The person who killed his own subordinates is not qualified to blame me, right?"

"Huh." Aizen just responded with a soft hum, "Qianzuru's talent is very good, so now I go to Kyoto to meet her once every two weeks, and teach her how to use her power."

After that incident, Tenma Chizuru also returned to Kyoto. I heard that she is also determined to inherit her shrine, and she is also working hard to learn how to use the power of death.Unlike Ichigo, her power of death is completely given and guided by Aizen, and due to her natural spiritual abuse physique, the accumulation of spiritual power is very fast, and at the same time, it is easy to attract Daxu. The Shinigami solution stationed in Kyoto will not work.

"But is there any problem with this? The Soul Society doesn't know anything about Yusaoaki now——did you ask what happened when you came back, Aizen-kun?"

"... Long-winded, if you want to know so much, send Kurosaki Ichigo to take a look."

Ichigo, who was sorting out the clues, was taken aback by Aizen's roll call, and looked around in a daze: "I... what am I?"

Aizen over there was leaning against the desk alone, looking at the various pieces of paper that were attracted by the magnets on the whiteboard, putting aside the scissors in his hand, and putting one hand in his pocket.Suddenly Aizen raised his eyebrows, as if he had discovered something interesting.

"Kurosaki Ichigo, what do you think about this matter?" He asked suddenly.

Ichigo over there continued to be at a loss: "I... Me?"

"Hmm." There seemed to be a little smile in Aizen's voice, causing Urahara next to him couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Ichigo stared at the board for a while, and then slowly said: "First of all, just after you got your knife back, Karakuza Town was reported that a large number of living souls disappeared abnormally, and then Hirako and Toshiro came to investigate According to reports, it is because with the help of human beings with life experience, Shixu took away a large number of living souls and made a disguise—isn’t it surprising that a large number of living souls disappeared when you were looking for a knife, And your location has also been found out."

Aizen closed her eyes on the phone, with almost inaudible approval in her voice: "Continue."

"Then Hirako and the others continued to investigate, but when encountering Xu and approaching Xu's habitat, different degrees of blurring occurred. But according to Mr. Urahara's inference, this is not caused by Xu's ability, but because of Xu's owner Because of being nearby—"

"I don't want to listen to Urahara's inference."

Ichigo was stumped by this sentence, stared at the landline of the Urahara store for a while, then turned his gaze back, and continued: "Anyway, at the place where Xu and Xu haunted, both Hirako and Toshiro appeared. An uncontrollable blur."

"So, what is your judgment?"

"I?"

Ichigo stared at the clue for a long time with a bitter face, and finally said under Aizen's pressure, "Well, I think Mr. Urahara's words are also reasonable."

Aizen on the phone raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, and said, "Kisuke Urahara, is this the person you trained to defeat me?"

There was a cross on Kurosaki Ichigo's forehead, and Urahara sat behind the desk and laughed dryly: "Well, do you have any other ideas?"

"Although it's just a guess, Yu Zuoming himself should be one of the treasures of the royal family." Aizen said in a steady voice, "In this case, what is his ability?"

Urahara sighed: "I still want to ask you, there should be records in the corridor of the Great Spirit Book, don't you really remember it?"

There was an eerie silence in the air.Kurosaki Ichigo looked at Urahara who was pinching his chin in thought, then at the landline—as if it was Aizen—and then turned his gaze back to Urahara.

"Hey, Mr. Kurosaki, haven't you been to Soul Society for a while?"

"Ah... ah, yes."

After the war with the Quincy ended, although there were a few minor incidents, Ichigo, who had to take care of his university studies, hadn't been to the Soul World since three or four months ago—but During school, you can still see the god of death who came to guard in this world, and there are also messages sent to him, telling him the news of everyone in the soul world.Moreover, when he returned to Karakura Town, he could often see his father and Urahara, so he didn't feel that there was any distance between him and the world of souls, not to mention that it was only three months, and he had been separated for a year. The situation is not without.

"Then let's go to the Soul Realm first?"

Pulling Zanpakutō from the crutch, Urahara smiled brightly at Ichigo, and that smile was full of treachery that Ichigo felt.

"Hey, wait! There's no notification in the early morning!"

"What's wrong, just to see what happened... huh... ah?"

It is obvious that the Soul Realm has lifted the arrest warrant for him and allowed him to enter the Soul Realm, but the Zanpakuto inserted into the mid-air cannot open the world-transmitting door no matter what.

"...Let me come, haven't you been released from the wanted list?"

"How is it possible, Mr. Kurosaki, you have to trust me!"

As he said that, Ichigo took out his agency card and got out of his body, while pulling out one of his two swords, and stabbing it in midair.Urahara rubbed his stubbled chin over there: "No, last time the leader of the Beijing Band said that my knife can be used—"

He watched as Ichigo thrust the knife into the air, and the orange-haired youth was sweating profusely trying to turn the handle of the knife.

"Is your knife rusty because it hasn't been used to open the gate for a long time, Mr. Kurosaki?"

"Hey, long-winded!"

Lan Ran on the other end of the phone sighed, hung up the phone by pressing the hands-free button, walked to the living room, and took the mirror from the knife holder.Facing the air, he stretched out his hand, and with just a light tap, he easily tore apart the space.

Crossing the aisle, when he came out from the door, he happened to see Kurosaki Ichigo who was still sweating profusely turning the handle of the knife.

"Ichigo Kurosaki."

Ichigo turned his head and met Aizen's gaze.In a trance, he still felt that he was on the battlefield in winter, facing the mighty big devil Lan Ran who was merging with Bengyu.

"follow me."

Under Ichigo's disbelieving gaze, he tapped the air in front of him a few times; faint cracks appeared where Aizen's finger touched.

"Give me the right hand to connect with the boundary stone—"

Unlike the huge black cavity opener made by Urahara, Aizen just lightly tapped his right side to start singing, and black cracks appeared in the air in front of him.

"Give my left hand the blade of existence—" Aizen tapped his left side again, and then pointed his finger above himself, "The black-haired shepherd, the chair with the neck twisted, the layer of clouds rushing to..."

Ichigo turned his head to look at Urahara, who lowered his hat with a dry smile.Aizen finally pointed down: "I hunt the ibis."

The air in front of Aizen suddenly shattered, revealing a small black cavity the height of a person.Aizen also noticed Urahara's movements, and the disdain in his eyes was undisguised: "I added the chanting because I wanted to lead someone. As for you, you will go to Soul Soul Realm with a dark voice."

"Aizen-kun??" Urahara had already stood up and was about to walk over, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded after hearing Aizen's words.

"Let's go, Kurosaki Ichigo."

Lanran stepped into the black cavity without looking back.Ichigo only hesitated for a second before stepping in.Heiqiang quickly closed in front of Urahara, as if he was afraid of being taken advantage of by Urahara.

Sure enough, what Jinghua Shuiyue said was true, Urahara put the knife back into the crutch with a wry smile, silently thinking, Aizen really hates him enough.

"You really hate Mr. Urahara, Aizen."

I have to say that the genius of Aizen lies in the path he walked, and the point of force formed by the condensed spirits under his feet is very solid, so Ichigo doesn’t need to condense the spirits under his feet, just follow Aizen directly. .While thinking "It really is amazing", Ichigo walked behind Aizen and looked at the man in front.After his millennium bloody battle, he rarely saw Aizen wearing that white uniform or deadly costume.More often, Aizen is like this now, wearing a slim suit, and sometimes you can see him wearing a long trench coat with a T-shirt when you come to the Urahara store.

"That man is just full of talent... hmph."

Can't tell whether it's contempt or praise, Aizen answered him in such a flat tone.Think about the person who once defeated him, although Aizen is not only narrow-minded enough to be unable to get along with Ichigo, but the coldness when the two of them are alone is also inevitable.

"Well, you often use this trick... to go to the Soul Realm?"

"There is surveillance in the broken world, it's not clear to you." Aizen said as he walked, holding the part of the scabbard of Kyoka Suigetsu in his hand, unlike Ichigo who was looking around, he walked forward without any disorder Go, leaving only Ichigo with a tall and straight back.

Ichigo also knew about the monitoring of the broken world, and he was also framed because of this.So he can understand a thing or two about Aizen's thoughts.

"So where did you open your black cavity? You won't be found out if you go out?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Aizen slowly turned his head and showed him a playful smile.Seeing that familiar arc full of malice and calculations, the feeling of being powerless to fight back at the top of Karakura Town flooded into my heart again.

"Don't worry too much about it." Aizen seemed to have turned a corner abruptly in the black cavity, and Ichigo had to follow the road formed by Aizen's spiritual power.

Ahead is the end of the passage.Through the observation just now, Ichigo found that compared with the black cavity that Urahara and Nirvana gave him before, this black cavity feels narrower to him, it seems to be only a little bit taller than him, but he can't see it under his feet. The depth of the end still exists.After making a right-angle turn, Aizen stepped out of Kuroku first, followed by Ichigo.

The low table by the side, the mirror, the record player and the shelf on the table by the window—the last thing he saw, he knew whose room it was.

"This is... Hirako's room?"

Wait, even though he knew about the delicate relationship between Aizen and Hirako, a fact suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and Ichigo couldn't accept it a little bit.So every time Aizen's foothold in Jinglingting is the fifth team?Has he not been found?And what exactly is it going to do in Hirako's room——

There was no movement behind him for a long time, only the chaotic Reiatsu proved that Kurosaki Ichigo was indeed not locked in the black cavity.Aizen looked back, just in time to see the orange-haired young man with flushed face, as if his nostrils and ears were spraying steam.

"This is his dormitory. Also, restrain your boring imagination a little bit, we still have things to do."

——Maybe at this time, Aizen is more depressed than Ichigo.

"Ah, yes... yes!"

As soon as Ichigo answered, Aizen pulled open the door of the dormitory.

"Hey, aren't you afraid of being discovered like this?" Ichigo was shocked, remembering the scene when he found Hirako beating Aizen here three months ago and grabbed Aizen to let him identify him.At that time, he rushed over because he sensed Aizen's spiritual pressure.At that time, because of the loss of spiritual power, Aizen, whose spiritual pressure was almost undetectable, was less likely to be discovered than Aizen, who was full of spiritual power in its heyday.

Aizen didn't care what Ichigo thought, and stepped out of Hirako's dormitory in one step, looking extremely satisfied with being able to breathe the air of Seireitei.

But after searching in a small area, Aizan didn't find Hirako's Reiatsu in the fifth team.After thinking for a while, he closed his eyes slightly, grabbed a bright red spirit vein from the void.

"This is...?" Ichigo opened his eyes slightly, "Is it Hirako's?"

"No, this is Chu Sen's spiritual network." Lan Ran said, and quickly let go of it, watching the spiritual network float into the distance.He stood there frowning, stretched out his hand, and the spiritual power gathered at the fingertips little by little, and woven into a white butterfly, which flew out from his fingertips.

Ichigo looked around, but there was no Shinigami coming here.He was afraid that Aizen would be discovered at the same time as he was discovered, so he was also carefully restraining the spiritual pressure.Aizen glanced at him again, without commenting on his actions.After a while, a familiar spiritual pressure rushed over here.

"Hey, Aizen! Someone is coming!"

"I know."

Aizen stood motionless, seeing this scene, Ichigo didn't want to drag him back and let him hide.In the next second, the deputy captain of the Fifth Division appeared in front of them.

"You are... Chisen?"

"Aizen-kun, Kurosaki-kun!"

"Hinamori-kun, thank you for your hard work."

In the Jubaichou just sent out, out of caution, Aizen asked Xiaotao to plant an enchantment that could weaken the spiritual pressure in the entire fifth team.After he left Soul World, the new batch of Mao's students hadn't seen him in the mirror, so now Aizen can't have 100% confidence that he won't be discovered by other Shinigami after leaving the fifth team.

After bowing slightly to the two of them, Xiaotao who rushed over from Shunbu looked at Aizen worriedly.

"Did you hear about the captain's injury?"

Aizen's pupils shrank suddenly.