Death: No cheats, take refuge in Aizen

Chapter 167 165. You can show off, and I can do it too!

Aizen's plans never have a single purpose. After a long period of planning, Aizen always hopes to achieve the most results with the least amount of things.

It's the same this time.

It's just that unlike the previous great victories, this time Aizen's plan was executed very smoothly, except for the core purpose, which was to expel the Shiba family from the four major nobles after their vitality was severely damaged. In order to achieve the status of Shiba Kukaku, it was not completed.

Mainly because Aizen didn't expect that Shiba Isshin, who had not been taken seriously by him before the Shiba family split, would be so stubborn that he would lead a group of main Shinigami of the branch to the front line to resist the attacks of the Daxu.

This move not only helped the people who separated the Shiba family to avoid the purge of the Shiba family by the Arrancars specially arranged by Aizen, but also helped the Shiba family win the support of some neutral nobles in this incident.

If it weren't for the reasons that everyone knows well, Higashino Shuichi, the sword hunter chief, is affiliated with the Tsunayashiro family, then most nobles can say responsibly that in this incident, only the Shiba family showed Undertake the responsibilities that the five nobles should have.

Although most of the limelight was ultimately taken away by the Tsunayashiro family represented by Higashino Shuichi, it is basically impossible for the Tsunayashiro family to unite with other nobles to launch a case to exclude the Shiba family.

Because not only the core members of the main family, but also Shiba Kongzuru, Shiba Iwaharu, and Shiba Haiyan have survived, and the branch family has also retained a lot of combat power, especially Shiba Isshin, who has served as the head of the branch family. , and in the process of resisting the Great Hollow, he successfully mastered the swastika of the Zanpakuto. After the war, he and the new head of the Kuchiki family, Byakuya Kuchiki, each took their place in this incident. Sacrificing the Captain's Gap.

Byakuya Kuchiki became the new captain of the sixth division, and Isshin Shiba became the new captain of the tenth division.

This made Tsunayashiro Kamihara's idea of ​​kicking the Shiba family away met with great resistance.

After all, Isshin Shiba is a brand new captain, and he is different from the old head of the Shiba family.

If nothing else goes wrong, Shiba Isshin's existence can at least bring hundreds of years of stability to the Shiba family. If coupled with the new head of the Shiba family, Shiba Haiyan, who has terrifying qualifications and it is only a matter of time before he becomes the captain, then Tsuna This idea of ​​Yayokanhara will last for the rest of his life.

Every time he thought about this, Tsunayashiro Kamihara was a little annoyed as to why Higashino Shuichi had to deal with that Bailegang so quickly. Wouldn't it be better to wait a little later for those Daxu to kill more people of the Shiba family?

Of course, Tsunayashiro Kamihara would only whisper in his heart such words that were not conducive to unity. It would be impossible for him to say it to Higashino Shuichi.

The relationship between the two people is not that good yet.

For Aizen, this is also a troublesome matter.

Because the Shiba family has not been kicked out of the five nobles as expected, and even in the foreseeable future, there will be no such worries for a long time, then it will be difficult for Higashino Shuichi to strike while the iron is hot and Shiba Kukaku Build a good relationship and ask the latter to produce the technical information they want to see.

Which one is better, Shiba Kūkaku, who is one of the five nobles, or Shiba Kūkaku, who is a down-and-out commoner? Even Aizen, who has no experience in this area, knows the answer.

Here Higashino Shuichi has to complain about Aizen's inexplicable brain circuit.

Obviously he had already bought a regular ticket to the Spirit King's Palace, but Aizen didn't want to use it and had to find a way to get a scalped ticket by himself.

But fortunately, Aizen always leaves room for leeway when doing things.

For example, in this incident, he had planned to cause a large number of casualties in Soul Society. In order to prevent unnecessary losses due to Soul Society's revenge, Aizen took the initiative to remove those in Hueco Mundo that he had prepared. All the abandoned children were given to the Gotei 13th Division as gifts.

In this way, even on the surface, the casualties on the side of Hueco Mundo are even more tragic, so that after this incident, Captain Genryu Yamamoto after reading the statistical data submitted by the 12th Division Zhai Zhongguo didn't speak for a long time.

Because unless he wants to deal with a group of Rukongai civilians by himself, he really can't move this Hueco Mundo, otherwise the balance between the two worlds will be lost.

And this has also become a headache for Tsunayashiro Tokinada.

Soul Society is now aware of the situation of the Arrancar, but now and for a long time to come, Soul Society as a whole will maintain a state of strategic contraction in order to regain a perfect balance between Soul Society and Hueco Mundo.

Under this situation, it became an extravagant hope for him to let Hidetoshi Higashino contact the Arrancars of Hueco Mundo and subdue them for his own use through operation.

So no matter which angle you look at it, this time Aizen said it was a temporary move, but it was actually a carefully planned major event. Higashino Shuichi found that he seemed to be the only one who was the biggest beneficiary.

Not only did he gain fame, identity, and feelings, he also greatly increased his spiritual pressure.

In short, it's a win.

It's just that some people are happy and others are sad. Human beings' joys and sorrows are always different.

Sitting in the lounge of the vice-captain of the fourth team, listening to the members of the fourth team outside, they were discussing with great interest the performance of Higashino Shuichi, the swordsman commander in this incident.

Yamada Seinosuke felt very unhappy inside.

Please, how many days has it been?

Didn't he just kill the Lord of Hueco Mundo?

Didn't he once serve as the vice-captain of the Fourth Division?

When you discuss Higashino Shuichi in such a big way in front of me, the current vice-captain, have you really considered my feelings? !

Although the team members did not discuss it openly in front of Yamada Seinosuke, Yamada Seinosuke just felt unhappy.

In the past, he could still attribute this to the fact that Captain Unohana always paid attention to Higashino Shuichi. As long as Higashino Shuichi was present, Captain Unohana would always look at Higashino Shuichi intentionally or unintentionally.

Yes, he admitted, he was jealous.

But now, Yamada Seinosuke discovered that even if Captain Unohana was not involved, he would feel unhappy as long as he was praising Higashino Shuichi.

Because he is also the deputy captain of the Fourth Division, as long as others praise Higashino Shuichi, he will always compare himself with Higashino Shuichi unconsciously. How is he inferior to Higashino Shuichi?

Well, it seems that except for Hui Dao, he really can't compare to anything else.

But the more this happened, the more annoyed he felt.

Yamada Seinosuke felt that the shadow of Higashino Shuichi was all over the position of deputy captain of the fourth division, like a tarsal maggot, lingering.

Even though Higashino Shuichi has not been in this position for so many years, Yamada Seinosuke feels that he is still living in Higashino Shuichi's shadow.

Even attentive, he discovered that since Higashino Shuichi made a high-profile return to Soul Society from the living world, his captain Unohana Retsu went to the secret training ground that belonged to her exclusively in the Fourth Division significantly more often.

Each time he stayed there for a long time, but there was no sign of any fighting, as if his captain was waiting for something.

Yamada Seinosuke knew that he might and should know the answer, but he didn't even have the courage to say that name in his mind.

"Why? Why do you only have eyes for Higashino Shuichi?"

Yamada Seinosuke looked at the sealed documents in front of him and didn't know who he was asking this question to.

He knew that the answer he wanted might be inside.

Because these are several pieces of information saved by his captain Unohana Retsu.

Judging from the marks on it, it has obviously been there for some time.

If it hadn't been for this Daxu attack that destroyed the fourth team's team building, including the captain's lounge, and Captain Unohana left for a while, Yamada Seinosuke would most likely not have seen these pieces of information. of.

At first, Yamada Seinosuke did not intend to keep these documents as his own, but when he saw these documents, they all had the handwriting of his captain, and the handwriting clearly wrote a name, Higashino Shuichi, After a complex psychological struggle, Yamada Seinosuke mustered up the courage to quietly take them away from the ruins of the captain's lounge.

What information about Higashino Shuichi allowed the captain to keep it for so long?

Could the content in this be the reason why the captain has a new admiration for Higashino Shuichi?

Yamada Seinosuke took a deep breath, and finally stretched out his nervous left hand and opened the first book.

Well.

The content of the first book is unremarkable. It tells the investigation of several Death God casualties a hundred years ago. It mentions that the Hollow who attacked the Death God at that time did not devour the Death God's spiritual power after defeating the Death God. Instead, he used it on the Death God. An extremely special extraction method deprived most of the core spiritual power of the Death God's body in a crude way, so that these Death Gods died of spiritual power exhaustion rather than pure injuries.

During this period, according to Yamada Seinosuke's understanding, Higashino Shuichi was just an ordinary soldier of the Fourth Division, while he was already a bench officer at that time.

Therefore, he couldn't figure out what this had to do with Higashino Shuichi.

Then Yamada Seinosuke opened the second book. The contents were not much different from the first book. They were all a later investigation of the injured Shinigami's body.

But this time, the time is closer to now, and the Shinigami investigated in the data are all the Shinigami who have been treated by their fourth team. They have one thing in common with the Shinigami in the previous data. , that is, the core spiritual power related to the soul part of the body has been deprived of part of it in a special way.

The difference is that compared to the Shinigami who died quickly after being deprived of their power in the previous book, the losses recorded in this book basically do not affect their normal lives.

It will not even affect their own strength, because the amount of loss is very strictly controlled, as if it has been carefully designed, not one point more, and never less than one point.

But similarly, in this material, there is no mention of Higashino Shuichi in the whole article. However, according to the time point provided in the material, Yamada Seinosuke can roughly remember that Higashino Shuichi at that time had already become the fourth fan. The team's vice-captain?

But what does this have to do with Higashino Shuichi?

With such doubts, Yamada Seinosuke continued to open the third book.

Finally, he saw Higashino Shuichi's name in this information.

This is a book that Captain Unohana asked Hikifune Kiryu, who was the captain of the 12th Division at the time, to conduct a separate investigation. The subject of the investigation was a Shinigami who had been treated by Higashino Shuichi.

The investigation results showed that the phenomenon mentioned in the first two books also appeared in this god of death.

But this information is just that, and there is no more content.

Yamada Seinosuke instinctively felt that this was a continuous plot, and there should be a follow-up later. However, when he wanted to open the next book, he was shocked to find that it was gone.

He only got back these three books from the ruins of the captain's lounge.

"There must be more than these three materials, there should be some more later."

At this moment, Yamada Seinosuke felt a little regretful.

He regretted why he didn't search more carefully in the ruins at that time. Maybe he could find all this set of information.

At this time, he completely forgot that he was not like this just a few hours ago.

But now Seinosuke Yamada feels like he is following a novel he likes and has reached the latest chapter. He has just reached the climax, but is suddenly cut off by the author. It is extremely uncomfortable.

Especially since he didn't dare to go to the captain's lounge to look for the later parts. This was undoubtedly the same as he was sure that the author had just finished the eunuch, which made people hate him even more.

There was no other way, Yamada Seinosuke could only use his own logic to deduce the ins and outs of the whole thing.

First of all, because the captain marked Higashino Shuichi’s name on all three books, it can be determined that these three books must be related to Higashino Shuichi;

Secondly, although these three materials have a relatively long time span with each other, there is no doubt that they all point to the same thing;

Finally, and most importantly, what role did Higashino Shuichi play in it?

The culprit?

How can it be!

This idea was rejected by Yamada Seinosuke at first, because if Higashino Shuichi was really the culprit, how could Captain Unohana still keep him until now?

That kind of criminal should have been executed long ago!

So why is Higashino Shuichi involved in these things?

Especially the third information shows that at that time, Higashino Shuichi was likely to have been deeply involved in this incident.

Soon, after Yamada Seinosuke thought repeatedly, he finally came up with a convincing and reasonable explanation.

That is Higashino Shuichi, who was asked by Captain Unohana to conduct secret investigation and research on this matter.

Captain Unohana must have discovered something was wrong, and then asked Higashino Shuichi, who was already the deputy captain at the time, to take the lead in secretly investigating the incident.

Then Seinosuke Yamada, the follow-up information, doesn’t need to think about it to know what the content is. It must be Higashino Shuichi’s final investigation and research, so it’s

wrong

Thinking of this, Yamada Seinosuke's brain suddenly became clear as if it had been struck by lightning.

He went to look through the specific times recorded in those documents again like crazy, and then looked at the team history of the fourth team. In the long team history, he remembered it.

At that time, he had been challenging Higashino Shuichi for the position of vice-captain, but because at that time he couldn't beat Higashino Shuichi, he could only take a sideways approach and use his strength as a breakthrough in order to challenge Higashino Shuichi. Get off the horse.

Originally, his request was never agreed to by Captain Unohana, but one day, Captain Unohana suddenly agreed, and he also successfully won the position of vice-captain from Higashino Shuichi.

Does this mean that Higashino Shuichi at that time actually did not fulfill the expectations of captain Unohana?

Didn't he successfully investigate this matter and figure out the real reason behind it?

Yes, that must be the reason!

Otherwise, why did Captain Unohana suddenly agree to his request? Was it because he suddenly felt unhappy with Higashino Shuichi?

How can this be?

However, after taking office, he did not show the same research talents as Higashino Shuichi. He just wanted to prove his accomplishments in return to Captain Unohana. This led to Captain Unohana later replacing the position of deputy captain. Gave it to Higashino Shuichi

At this point, all the actions of Captain Unohana in the past have been reasonably explained!

In fact, Higashino Shuichi has been secretly conducting some unknown investigations and research for Captain Unohana!

Those are investigations and studies that the Soul Society does not pay attention to, or that are not convenient for public conduct!

Even the original virtualization incident may have been the result of Higashino Shuichi suffering backlash due to his unfavorable research.

This explains why Higashino Shuichi can now return to Soul Society openly, because he originally did these things for Soul Society secretly under the instruction of Captain Unohana.

Clearing his grievances is nothing more than Captain Unohana and Soul Society making amends for him.

From the beginning to the end, Higashino Shuichi has never betrayed Soul Society, which also explains why Higashino Shuichi stepped forward a few days ago to block the Lord of Hueco Mundo for Soul Society in danger.

All the doubts in the past suddenly became clear in Yamada Seinosuke's mind at this moment.

However, he has no plans to make his findings public.

But he wanted to prove it to Captain Unohana in his own way.

Shows can be done, and so can I!

As for Higashino Shuichi, a rough guy who can't even do the refined ability of replying, it's a damn thing if he can do such a thing well!

Failure and backlash are inevitable results!

But Seinosuke Yamada is different. He is confident that he can definitely do better than Shuichi Higashino!