[Reaper Lanping] Dark River

When he realizes that he is dying, he knows that it is futile to think.

Until a warm current penetrated into the body.

He opened his eyes and looked at Ni Fu in front of him in surprise, while Ni Fu looked back at him calmly.

"It's been a long time, you should wake up."

After speaking, he walked out without looking back, and disappeared into the darkness.Before Hirako could react, there was a sound of footsteps outside the corridor.

Only then did Pingzi realize that his hands and feet could move freely.He staggered to his feet and walked towards the door. At the same time, the people outside the door also came over, looking directly at him with warm eyes.

"how is this possible……"

His golden brown eyes couldn't help but widen, apart from surprise, another indescribable emotion was swirling in his heart.

"Captain, it's time to go."

Between the movement of the eyes is the respect and love for the officer... and the admiration for him in the eyes.This seems to be a very long memory.Settling in his mind was something he had been unwilling to think about.

When Aizen faced him now, his eyes were so wholeheartedly warm.

It is precisely because of this that sometimes there is a mood of worrying about gains and losses-that is why he maintains an underground relationship, neither reporting his movements to Jing Lingting, nor wanting to reveal more to the people around him.Being with this man, whether monitoring him or interacting with him, Hirako felt an inexplicable sense of pressure.

"team leader?"

"...Hey, that's enough." He stared at the vice-captain Lan Ran in front of him, folded his arms around his chest and let out a sneer.

Last night passed, and when the routine captain's morning meeting began, everyone looked very tired.Last night, I heard that Aizen Soyousuke appeared in Jinglingting again, and at the same time, many gods of death who were chasing fugitives were killed because of this-but the Aizen found later was not the real Aizen, but just a substitute.

Standing in the queue, Shiro Dong with two huge dark circles under his eyes sighed.Fortunately, it was a stand-in, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to explain to the captain.If Lan Ran really killed the person, then he must give the captain an explanation and submit the details of the previous report.At that time, Pingzi's reputation will also be threatened.

In Toshiro's thinking, he didn't think that if his report caused Hirako to have an accident, Hina Mori would be sad because of it; in fact, after Hirako became the captain again, his performance is obvious to all.

Pingzi also clearly knows what he has done, and he is even the most qualified person to say that Aizen is not - but a person like him who can distinguish between public and private has not chosen to report it. It can be seen that Aizen is not only in his heart. It's as simple as a relationship partner or an enemy.

"Now, the morning meeting begins."

Captain Ukitake didn't come, it was Kuchiki who came to the meeting...

Similarly, Kurosaki Ichigo, who was standing at the door, also caught Toshiro's sweeping eyes for a moment.

Captain Hirako, Captain Suihou, and Captain Ukitake were all in poor health and could not attend, and it seemed that Captain Kuchiki and Captain Six were not in a good mood either.

"We received a lot of information last night." Jingle opened his mouth trying to mobilize the dull atmosphere a little bit, "For example, Aizen Soyousuke appeared again, and most of the team members died."

Having said that, his voice sank involuntarily.His colorful feathers were draped over the back of the chair, and Kyoraku stood up from the chair and walked towards the queue.

"However, the cause of death of these team members was not ordinary knife wounds. They all bled to death because the wounds could not heal. From yesterday afternoon, Aizen attacked a god of death, and the report showed that the prisoner was possessed by the god of death and attacked first. From the point of view of Aizen, Aizen is not on our side, but he is not an accomplice of the enemy either."

Having said that, he stood still in front of everyone, looking at Kurosaki Ichigo sharply.

"Kurosaki Ichigo, since last night you have applied to see the captains, but unfortunately, due to the security, all of them could not be assembled normally. Now you can talk about what you are so anxious about?"

The captains and vice-captains present all turned their eyes to Kurosaki Ichigo.Without fear, Ichigo took a step forward, stood in front of all Shinigami, and nodded to Jingle first.

"Thank you, the leader of the Beijing Band...Mr. Urahara...and I have found out the true identity of Misakaaki, who seems to be called Tetsuya Torano."

With a serious expression, Ichigo said while recalling what Urahara said on the phone that woke him up last night.

"It may have been written in Dongshiro and Heiko's report that this person was holding a knife named Tian Congyun. This knife is the treasure of the royal family-this is the first news we knew."

Urahara's lazy, hoarse yet cautious voice seemed to be right next to his ears.

"Aizan said that at the beginning, this person's aura felt like a sword soul. In fact, it was not, and it was also related to what he said had devoured Tian Congyun's sword soul. Fu Sangshen can devour whatever you want."

Both hands kept tapping on the keyboard, and the hat had already been put aside. Urahara tilted his head and clamped the phone with his shoulders, while explaining to Ichigo: "You know that the three legendary artifacts in Japan are mirror sword jade? In fact , all legends have their prototypes... and these three things were originally treasures created by the Spirit King Palace."

For example, the big ghost seen in the empty seat is a replica of the legendary first-generation Vastord, Yamato no Orochi.Feeding the souls of living people to it is also consistent with the legend that a girl is sacrificed to the monster every once in a while.

"And in the text message that Aizen just sent, there is this one - during the day, no matter how he moves and hides his breath, he will eventually be found by Yu Zuoming. And in Yu Zuoming's narration to him, he only knows that he is in the daytime He once hacked and injured you, took out the collapsed jade from Miss Kuchiki's body, and had a decisive battle with you, but he didn't know about the experiments he did in private."

Aizen's experiments are almost always carried out at night, not to mention Aizen, even Urahara, who likes to do some marginal research at night.

"Know what happened during the day, and the evil spirit attached to Tiancongyun is materialized at night. Among the three major artifacts, Tiancongyun is the sword of the mirror sword Yuli. This sword symbolizes ominousness and is the sharpest magic sword. "

Urahara stopped typing on the keyboard, and looked up at the information on the royal treasure displayed on the huge screen.Two of them have been shown to be lost, and it will be a long time before he takes over as captain of the Grim Regiment, so he doesn't know.

"The other missing item is exactly the Yata mirror in the mirror sword jade."

According to legend, when Amaterasu was closed, the mirror was made to draw her out and reflect its light.Since then, the Yata Mirror has also become a symbol of Amaterasu.

"The mirror of all things, which was originally used to observe all activities in the world during the day, somehow ended up in the world of corpses and souls." Urahara sighed and continued, "After tens of millions of years, there have been Two kinds of artifacts possessed by the god of mourning, the one that symbolizes the light swallows the darkness... and then wanders in the world of corpses and souls, thinking that he is an ordinary soul."

Maybe I don't know which day, I finally realized the existence of Fusangshen of Yata Kage who is different from others, and was also discovered by Captain Hikifune.

"After all, Fusangshen's composition is different from Shinigami's, and Reiatsu is not at the same level, but because of his subconscious suppression, it is difficult to exert his full strength--the power of Yata mirror is not that it can surpass the magic sword , to devour the will of the Demon Sword..."

Having said that, Kurosaki Ichigo closed his eyes and lowered his voice: "It's that, as long as it is daytime, all our movements will be seen clearly—no matter where he is or what form he exists in. on."

All the gods of death present were shocked.

"Including our current conversation, deployment and patrol during the day; as for night, he relies on Ama Congyun's evil spirit to act, because Misaki who loses the sun is tantamount to losing the ability to move and understand everything in the world during the day—— That's why I made sure to ask to see you yesterday."

It's a pity that they failed to gather because of the pursuit of the head of Lan Ran and the increasing number of victims, which hindered their footsteps.Thinking of this, Jingle sighed.

"It must be because of this that the other party keeps creating troubles for us at night, making us restless."

It's too late to say this now, when they couldn't help but shift their focus from tracking Misaki to Aizen, the enemy had already gained the upper hand; what's more, it was daytime, and their every move would be judged by the Yata mirror Misaki saw clearly.

As soon as he realized this, the entire Jingling Court felt an unusual spiritual pressure at the same time.

"Oops!"

Kurosaki Ichigo turned his head abruptly, kicked on the gate, as if his eyes were about to pass through the gate.

"Kurosaki Ichigo." Kyoraku lowered his bamboo hat, "I have a heartfelt request."

"What is it?"

Kurosaki had already pulled out the longer of the two swords with one hand, and turned his head to look at Jingle Shunsui.But Jingle Chunshui didn't need to say much, he also understood that the captain wanted to ask him to do something.

"Sorry, can you resist him for a while?" Jing Le closed his eyes, "After all, the captains still have to continue to hunt down the prisoners, and..."

"I'll go with him."

Everyone looked at the source of the voice in disbelief. It was the captain of the sixth division, Byakuya Kuchiki.

"Did you feel it too?" Kuchiki Byakuya looked directly at Jingraku Shunsui, his voice was cold, "Under this spiritual pressure, there is a huge spiritual pressure." Just because of the outbreak of this spiritual pressure, it is difficult be noticed.

It turned out that the first person who was surprised by this was Ichigo.

"Eh... eh? Is that so? I thought it was just one person!"

Rukia helplessly looked at Ichigo who was scratching the back of his head with one hand and laughing dryly, while Ichigo continued to say with a little embarrassment: "I'm sorry Byakuya, I've never been very sensitive to detection in this area.

In this regard, Kuchiki Byakuya snorted coldly: "It's not too late, let's go—I hope you are not so dull that you need me to lead the way."

These words are slow and straightforward, but Ichigo finds that he has no reason to refute; in fact, the area covered by the spiritual pressure is too wide, and the distribution of the spiritual pressure is almost the same, maybe he really needs Bai Zai to help him Find where the enemy is.

In an unknown place, a scene with a completely different atmosphere was staged.

"What's the matter? Captain, it's already morning." Aizen, who was wearing glasses, wearing a deadly costume, and the armband of the vice-captain of the fifth division, smiled softly at him.

"Don't play tricks like this with me again, Aizen." Hirako said calmly, his golden brown eyes fixed on Aizen.

After hearing this sentence, the former deputy captain on the opposite side seemed to be stunned for half a second, and then burst into a smile that was completely different from the gentle smile before.It was a clear and reassuring smile.Hirako had never seen him laughing so relaxedly, so he couldn't help but stop.

"Makoto-kun, are you awake?"

Like black ink dripping into the water, the black dead bully suit, together with the pair of glasses on his face, spread out gently in the air, revealing the white uniform underneath and the sharp corners of his eyes as always.The handsome face seemed to be a little surprised by Hirako's quick response, and then it was replaced by his usual easy-going smile.Aizen put one hand in his pocket, and lifted his bangs; 3 The Aizen he was familiar with in the winter decisive battle returned, but it was not as sharp and sharp as that winter.I don't know if it's his own psychological effect, but from Pingzi's point of view, Aizen's whole body softened after seeing him, and the upturned corners of his eyes were also extremely soft, it didn't look like the night under the moon in his memory, or Aizen who drew his sword at him above the pseudo-empty seat was stunned.

"What silly words, my consciousness has always been very clear!"

Aizen walked towards him, standing in front of him just as he spoke.It's not that Hirako hasn't noticed the height difference between them, it's just that when Aizen approaches, he will be particularly upset.

"Then, it's time for you to wake up."

Aizen lowered his head and reached out to him.

Even so, whether it is vigilance or communication, I don't want anyone to know about his relationship with Aizen——

But her liking for him didn't affect her at all.

Hirako stretched out his hand, first touched Aizen's fingertips, then put his palms together, and finally clasped his fingers together.It was only a few seconds, but Hirako felt that this movement seemed to have taken decades to complete.

"Makoto-kun, let's go."

Aizen said gently: "You are seriously injured, I think you also know that this is not your original inner world."

"Could it be that if you take me away, I will die completely? Then I will never see you again." Pingzi said with a little teasing in his voice.

"Yes," Aizen said softly, his eyes fixed on Pingzi.The tenderness in those eyes almost faintly turned into despair, "If you don't leave here, you will never see me again."

Snow fell outside at some point and covered the ground again.When Aizen moved away sideways, what Pingzi saw in his eyes changed back to the silent snow field when he woke up here, and the orange and purple sky interlaced.He was held by Aizen and led out of the room.

"We don't see death, so we fear it."

Aizen said while walking.

"Witnessing the physical death of others, and being terrified by it—at the end of the day, it's not death we're afraid of, it's loss."

"Just like I don't want to lose you."

Aizen stopped on the corridor, looked at Hirako and said this.Suddenly, everything around became hazy, and even the touch of Lan Ran's hand holding him gradually disappeared.

In the white light, he seemed to have gradually recovered his body perception.Opening his eyes, there seemed to be someone leaning over to look at him in a blur.

"……See……"

What?What is he saying?

"Really... can..."

The recovery of the five senses was extremely slow. After adapting to the light, the first thing he saw was Aizen's face.

"Mako-kun, can you hear me?" Ai Ran sat by his bed and asked patiently for the third time.

The perception of the body gradually recovered, and the whole body seemed to be washed by a warm current.It may be because of lying down for too long, the muscles are a little weak, but the body does not have the cold feeling caused by excessive blood loss.

Only then was the excess temperature on the hands noticed.Hirako shifted his gaze down, and saw Aizen's hand in his own.Sensing his gaze, Aizen seemed to move his left eyebrow, and then let go of his hand.

"How do you feel now?" He looked at Pingzi gently.

For a while, Mako Hirako was a little speechless.It turned out that holding his hand at that time was not an illusion; in fact, until he realized that Aizen was indeed holding his hand just now, he thought that what he saw when he was dying was a real hallucination-but he is not like this now Guarantee.

"I have never used Bengyu's power to perform a large amount of healing on others."

Aizen's voice was as deep, magnetic, and warm as ever: "I'm not sure if it's feasible to infuse a large amount of this power into other people, so I did an experiment with the two injured gods of death next door... sorry, you won't Angry?"

Although Pingzi was still in a state of weakness all over his body, his head was completely awake.He immediately thought of who was the god of death who was still alive but hurt by Amazono - Suifeng and Omaeda - he should be thankful that Aizen had a big picture this time and didn't just treat him willfully, why should he be angry? Woolen cloth?

"I'm a little late, is that okay?"

As if seeing through what Pingzi was thinking, Aizen tilted his head slightly, still looking extremely peaceful, but looked at Pingzi with undisguised concern.It's just that some emotion he didn't know that he was trying to hide was so strong that he couldn't help the habitual suspicion—not to mention the glowing star on his chest when he leaned forward to look at him. Collapsing jade.Hirako didn't know why Aizen put on this uniform again, and with a subconscious glance, he saw the collapsed jade that Kisuke swore to guarantee that the ticket would not be broken, but now it had been activated.

"No way, as long as I'm still alive, it's never too late, thank you Aizen!"

While talking, Hirako usually turned his head away, not wanting to face Aizen's eyes.

Although he was saved, he still subconsciously suspected others.Even if the other party is Aizen, he is not able to ignore his guilt and awkward feelings.

"Really, then..."

Without warning, Aizen leaned over and hugged Hirako.

Burying her face in Hirako's neck, Aizen lowered her voice, almost whispering, whispering close to Hirako.

"That would be great... Mako."

"...Ah, ah, it's okay."

Aizen's lips squirmed against his neck.He didn't know what Aizen wanted to say, and he didn't hear anything.The only thing he can do is try his best to straighten his back and let Aizen lean on him.There was no tension, or heat, from previous contact... All he could feel was his breath, and his lips that were finally closed tightly against his own skin.

"It's okay, Sosuke."

He raised his arm slowly, resting his hand on Lan Ran's neck, and put it on his back after a while, with a gentle and flat tone.It's a hug, but it's better to say that he just put his hands on it, because he really has no strength.

"Thank you," he said again.

While I was waiting for death, although I didn't expect anyone to come...

"Mako." Aizen finally spoke, his voice still low.At this time, as if he had finally come to his senses, he propped up his body a little bit, but his head was still buried in Pingzi's neck, "Please need me."

After experimenting that Bengyu's ability to concretize wishes can be truly competent for the healing task and reject the curse of the magic sword, Aizen sneaked into Hirako's ward.

Although he had treated himself for the wound cut by Tian Congyun before, he did not distinguish whether it was caused by Bengyu's self-protection or his own wish.So when he tried to use Bengyu to heal the wound, he was also full of doubts.But when it was confirmed that Beng Yu once again recognized himself, his joy did not come from his regained strength.

"What nonsense, why do I need you!"

Slowly raising his hand, he stroked and combed the hair on the back of Aizen's head.Hirako still pretended to speak in a nonchalant tone, which was quite different from the man who comforted him softly just now, as if he had turned back into the usual captain of the [-]th squad who was just doing nothing.

"Please need me, Mako... just like I need you." Aizen didn't care about his answer, and whispered to himself.

"..."

There was silence in the ward for a long time, until Hanataro, who was knocked out when Aizen Soyousuke entered the ward, woke up and saw this scene.

The man with short blond hair smiled slightly, and that smile was purest that he had never seen before.It doesn't look like joy, and it doesn't look like sadness.

"Thank you."

While combing the blue-dyed hair with his fingers, he turned his head and whispered in the same whisper.

"Soyousuke... I'm very happy."