[Death · Bailu] Flower Story

The zigzag verandas and sliding doors that made Rukia and his party go around for a long time before disappeared in an instant, and the people in this tense atmosphere had no leisure to pay attention to their surroundings like a revolving lantern. Changing scenery.

After the torrential rain or the spring cherry blossoms disappeared, Rukia, who had been staring at the man in front of her, finally raised her eyes and glanced at the surrounding scene that was finally frozen.

The difference between the dark night like a virtual circle and the barren plain is the large six-pointed stars scattered on the sky, and the huge spar not far behind the elegantly dressed nobleman, which reflects half of the night into deep purple.

It turned out that everything he saw before was actually an illusion created by this person alone.

The slender fingers under the cloak held Sode Shirayuki even tighter, and Rukia flew to Baizai's side, smiling at those calm gray-purple pupils.

"Hey, Your Excellency Bai Zai, I said that your sister is safe and sound now, do you believe my sincerity now?" As if the three attacks that were fierce and deadly just now were also phantoms, Fuzhou still had a friendly smile on his face. It didn't matter to me, the half wide sleeve that had just been put down not long ago covered her face again.

"I didn't expect that although Prince Fuzhou is the son of a bad face, Gongqing's etiquette is unambiguous at all, and the younger generation is taught." The young Lingwang with orange hair and black clothes spoke sincerely, but the coldness in his brown pupils could not be seen at all. "Teachable" means.Rukia only felt that the air around her body fluctuated slightly, but when she focused her eyes again, she found that Ichigo had already covered himself behind with Zan Yue in his hand.

"Heh, heh heh..." The white-faced and red-lipped nobleman seemed to have heard something funny, and he smiled so much that the pine and crane pattern reflected the increasingly dazzling purple light behind him, shaking out dazzling spots of light, "a man kept saying that' Old man', a person keeps claiming to be a 'junior', but Zanpakuto is pointing at us unceremoniously. Could it be that we look so kind and deceitful? What do you think, Miss Lucia?"

"I feel that Master Fuzhou has acted like this. If he hadn't been an old friend and a junior, it would not be as simple as pointing at Your Excellency with Zanpakutō." The crystal clear purple pupils were full of smiles, but the words he said made his nerves tense Ichigo almost laughed, "You can lead His Royal Highness Lingwang and your elder brother here, so please stop beating around the bush."

Rukia took half a step forward, and for the first time stood beside her elder brother, folded her hands in front of her and saluted, and when she got up, her white streamers flowed lightly.

"It's almost time, then... as Miss Kuchiki said."

Suddenly the purple light was shining in front of him, and then the huge hexagrams on the dark night fell one by one, and the dazzling starlight drew a white trajectory in the night, but the originally dark sky was inexplicably turbulent, Like a curtain cut by a sharp knife, there is something in the gaping mouth trying to break free.

"This spiritual pressure..."

A flash of wind and thunder drew a deep gully on the ground. Before Lukia could react, she felt her waist tighten. The familiar Fangyi breath and the steady heartbeat under the palm are still clear.

"Swallow solution, Qianben Yingjingyan."

The person who held him in his arms seemed to be dissatisfied with the shock effect he had brought to this little girl, and the cold voice rang above Lukia's head with suppressed anger, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

The thin girl with purple eyes ignored her elder brother's haori in her hand, stared blankly at the golden tassels flying in front of her for a long time before raising her eyes, "Please let Rukia down, my lord brother, Rukia is more sympathetic like this." You are causing trouble..." Suddenly, his gaze turned to Varstord who was about to pounce on him behind him, "Absolute zero!"

Bai Zai didn't even look at Daxu who fell down in an instant, he tightened his arms and pressed the girl deeper into his arms, "It's okay, in the circle of harmlessness, these bastards are nothing to worry about," but for a moment The petrified little girl put it down, "Let's go, don't be careless."

"Then protect him..."

"Oh, the atmosphere is good, Rukia-chan~"

The joking voice suddenly coming from behind must be a dream, before turning around, Rukia still thought so.

"Hahaha, I can finally do it again, the boys from the [-]th squad will follow me!" Before Rukia could speak, Kenpachi Saragi who suddenly appeared had already lifted the little pink-haired loli on his shoulders. After a few vertical leaps, he disappeared into the false flash and dust.

"Captain! Rukia, are you all right?" The red-haired young playmate suppressed the a little bit of embarrassment in his heart after seeing the previous scene, and patted Rukia on the shoulder. Temporarily surrounded a safe space, "Captain, the Seireitei rebel party has been wiped out, and Asai Renji led the sixth team to help. Yoruichi-san, Urahara-san and the eleventh team also came .”

"Well, do your thing. Rukia, follow."

The quietly rotating purple spar was right in front, and the man in black was sitting beside the spar in a leisurely manner.Lukia couldn't see clearly what the floating boat was doing through the flying dust and the false flashes that illuminated half of the sky, but she could feel the ever-increasing sense of oppression coming from the depths of the amethyst.

Time is running out, hurry up.For some reason, this feeling became stronger and stronger in Rukia's heart.She clenched her fingertips that had been numb from the violent swinging and slashing, and after once again clearing out a Killian who was about to cast a false flash behind Bai Zai, she took two steps back and leaned against Bai Zai's back. .

Brother, this time, it will be Rukia who will protect you.

"Swastika, Bai Xia Punishment!" The white light flowed like a bright moon, and Lukia's slender figure was almost swallowed by the white halo around her, but her pair of purple pupils were even more shining.She bent the corner of her eyes and showed a smile to Byakuya who turned back in surprise, "My lord brother, Rukia will not cause you any more trouble."

The pure white light is like substance, and the falling snow seems to cover all filth. When Bai Zai saw the white light and flying snow passing by thousands of miles across the ice field, he couldn't help but think that this girl almost wiped the whole area in the bamboo forest a few months ago in order to see him sooner. The bamboo forest was frozen, a slight pain flashed across my heart, but the corners of my mouth curled up.

The killing sakura fluttered all over the sky, Bai Zai waved his hand to drive the sakura, which had already been dispelled, to stay close to the white light, and for a while, the flying sakura accompanied by the fine snow rendered the battlefield like a dream, but the bloody Shura field It was more like a peach blossom snow in spring, Bai Zai turned his face to look at the slender girl beside him with calm eyebrows and firm eyes, and waved the knife in his hand from his right shoulder, and the thousands of thin and thin blades swept across The offensive became more and more fierce.

"Kisuke, it's almost time for us to pass." The purple-haired and brown-skinned capable woman kicked away a Varstord that was rushing towards him with its fangs and claws, and frowned as she looked at the silver-haired man who was concentrating on setting up the formation. , "This is the last one, I'm afraid if it drags on..."

"Let's go."

When Liuli and Ichigo finally broke through the encirclement and arrived under the virtual crystal, the huge and sticky power seemed even more terrifying.

"Fuzhou, I don't care what you want to do, it's best to stop immediately." Ichigo pushed aside the glass in front of him and walked forward, but was blocked by the thin but strong barrier in front of him.

"Your Excellency Bai Zai, are you really sure you want to undo... this barrier?" The man in the jet-black patterned suit laughed wildly. He looked at the young Spirit King in front of him with his hands behind his back, and said something between his red lips. Totally irrelevant.

"The ones inside are the resentment and cohesion of thousands of great ghosts and the ghost crystals of the power of the previous spirit kings," the pale-faced man stroked the spar in front of him gently, as if he was caressing his lover's cheeks, "Those The virtual crystal powder made the Lingling Court into a mess, if you act rashly, the god of death who is fighting for you outside will not know what will happen."

Looking at Byakuya and Rukia who were slowly walking out from the other side of the barrier, Ichigo couldn't help frowning even more.

"Didn't you ask me why I was like this before?" Those eyes completely covered by the black mist slowly stared at Bai Zai who was waving his sleeves to strengthen the outer barrier, Fuzhou raised his mouth and grinned contemptuously, "You still I don't understand, because I hate the royal family and want to destroy it, that's all."

"The royal family cannot be destroyed. Even if the blood of the royal family is completely withered, there will be nobles from the royal family as the new spirit king," Fuzhou stared at Bai Zai quietly, with extremely bright paranoia shining in the depths of those empty and dark eyes Guang Guang said, "Of course I understand this, why don't I leave this kind of good thing to you, which can be regarded as the friendship of an old friend, what do you think?"

"..."

"Miss Lukia, do you know this one?" Seeing Bai Zai's face sinking into water, Fuzhou turned to look at Lucia, staring at her until the hairs stood on end.

"My sister has passed away for many years, it's too disrespectful for you to do this." Rukia held back the urge to rush into the barrier, holding Bai Xue tightly in her hands.

"...Fei Zhen, they all thought you were dead, what do you think?"

The woman next to the man who was almost identical to Rukia shook her head quietly, and was about to say something, but the sudden huge turmoil made him unable to speak.

"Polluted waves, crazy boats; boiling! numb! flickering! sleepless; the steel princess is corroded, and the clay puppet is also crumbling; assemble! confront the enemy! flood the ground to make them know that they are powerless..." Bai Zai suddenly sang It angered the floating boat, but when he realized it, it was too late to stop it.

"The Ninety Black Coffins of Destruction!"

The pitch-black box covers the entire virtual crystal and the surrounding barrier, but this isolation is only a matter of a moment. When there are more and more cracks on the surface of the black coffin, Byakuya and Ichigo looked at each other, and saw that it happened to appear Sifengin Yoruichi and Urahara Kisuke, who were in the barrier, nodded and stood in the previously agreed positions.

When the floating boat drove the power of the virtual crystal and completely destroyed the black coffin, what I saw was the people who stood in their positions like a pentagram sealing formation.

"Little black coffin wants to control me, it's really beyond its capabilities!" Fuzhou's eyes turned from black to red in anger, and his whole appearance became even more distorted.The slender five fingers were tightly attached to the spar, and everyone was surprised to find that the unpredictable purple light began to have black air continuously spreading out.

"Lukia, are you worried?" With the mudra of both hands, he raised his spiritual pressure to the limit, Bai Zai watched every move of the floating boat in the barrier, but he was still distracted and worried about the thin girl beside him.

"Lukia is fine, please don't worry, brother." Lukia, who was suppressed by the five super captain-level gods of death who were extremely powerful and had lifted the restriction on the spiritual pressure, bit her lip and forced With some blood on her face, she raised her head and smiled at her elder brother.

Like it or not.

Brother, Rukia suddenly thought clearly in this life and death.

Rukia's love for you is not fake, nor is her desire to protect you.

You gave Rukia care, gave Rukia a hug, and gave Rukia a manshua and half a love song, which is very good.

The seventh person who suddenly appeared in the barrier shocked everyone, but Fuzhou suddenly laughed wildly.

"Very good, you are finally here, has the formation been unsealed?"

Rukia only felt a turmoil in the super strong spiritual pressure around her. It seemed that no one expected that this Fuzhou Palace would have another move.

"Heh..." The negative man in black robe and black scarf smiled lightly at the floating boat, "Don't worry, my lord."

The sky and the earth changed color for a while.

Rukia didn't know what she saw, she felt that everything in front of her was fake.

The barrier surrounded by the sealed formation suddenly became brighter, but it couldn't stop the faster and faster virtual crystals and the black mist from the barrier.The sharp sound between the flow of black air and purple light was like a ghost crying.This is the very familiar death, the cry of despair when the soul dissipates.

How many unjustly dead souls are imprisoned in this virtual crystal.

Everyone on the ground pushed their spiritual pressure to the extreme, and had no time to care about this man in black, who was an enemy but not a friend.

"Your opponent is me." Raising her hand, she raised her sleeve Baixue, who was already swastikaed, Rukia didn't dare to look into Bai Zai's eyes, she jumped out of the protective barrier, and stopped in front of the man in black.

"Oh, interesting."

"Lukia, don't mess around, go back to Byakuya's side." Ichigo, who was covered in golden spiritual pressure, was terrified, ignoring the central barrier that was gradually disintegrating under the pressure of the super captain-level gods of death, his body shape It will move to the two people who are already fighting together.

"Ichigo, if you want all your efforts to come to naught, just come here!" Rukia struggled to receive a top-to-bottom slash from the man in black, and the sparks that met the blade made her dizzy for a moment.Before she could recover, the double blow that followed caused her to turn sharply. Sode Baixue bent a tough arc on the ground, and in the next instant she jumped into the air.

"Moon White."

In one-on-one battles, the Ice and Snow Zanpakuto do not have the advantage, and Rukia is much better than Kido.Byakuya looked at Rukia who was constantly dealing with the man in black and leading him farther and farther away, his whole body was extremely anxious.

Putting your fingers together and yelling "Break", the barrier surrounding the virtual crystal was finally broken, and the black energy in it was firmly sealed in the eye of the formation as expected, without revealing half of it.

"Do you think that's all right?"

Everyone was amazed by the change in the sound of the floating boat and the irresistible coercion within it. Lucia was caught in a gap by the man in black because of a flashing god. He pulled out his left hand at the waist and stabbed the girl's slender neck. department.

"Red Princess." At the very moment, Urahara Kisuke, who was not far from them, leaned out from the formation and threw his Zanpakutō, turning it into a light shield to block the fatal blow.

When he turned his head again, he found that Bai Zai who was diagonally opposite had disappeared.

"Final scene, White Emperor Sword."

The virtual crystal in front of them is gradually dissipating, and at the same time, what is gradually dissipating is the space they are in at this time.Ichigo looked at the floating boat in front of him that was constantly absorbing the power of the virtual crystal and changing its shape, and suddenly thought of Aizen who had used the power of the collapsed jade at that time.

"No, Byakuya—"

But it was too late, he had already disappeared in the thick black mist around the floating boat.

"Crack-"

What a broken sound.

Everyone only saw the twisted smile on the corner of Fuzhou's mouth, and the purple blood that suddenly gushed out from his increasingly red lips.

"how so……"

They heard him say it.

When the thick fog dissipated and everyone saw the situation clearly, they couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Rukia—"

The man in black raised his hood, knelt down to Ichigo with a black cloak in his hand, and then Liuli shouted in surprise: "Yingluo?!"

Bai Zai, who was covered in blood, was hugging a slender woman in a domineering attire, with unprecedented fear and disbelief on his face.

They saw Sode Shirayuki deeply piercing the chest of the woman who looked exactly like Rukia.

As for the belly of the girl in a domineering attire, there was only a dagger handle that was shining with a dark purple light.

No one looked at the floating boat, which was gradually annihilated into ashes, and no one listened to what he said.

——"How is this possible, you betrayed me, how is this possible?!"

——"Yingluo failed to protect Miss Lucia comprehensively, and ten thousand deaths cannot atone for this crime. Please punish His Royal Highness Lingwang."

What is the importance of these words?

Rukia was in Byakuya's arms, and when she heard his heartbeat beating irregularly, she was also in a trance.

She wanted to tell him that every time she heard his steady and powerful heartbeat, it was the time when she felt most at ease.

She wanted to tell him that she really liked him very much.

But until the end, she only had enough strength to say: "Brother... Kongchan, how can I use it?"

Then she felt something warm dripping on her face.

She remembered that year when the cherry blossoms were just over, she was admitted to the Deadwood House, and it was the first time she saw this elder brother who she couldn't love and couldn't wait for now.

She thought of his handsome figure sitting upright behind a few desks, and the paper with wet ink that was blown away by the wind, on which were the haikus he composed on a whim.

She thought of the night when the moon was thin, he took her to step on every stone pillar and every roof of the murderous stone formation in the Lingling Court, and extended his hand to her who accidentally slipped and fell.

She remembered the Muhua Festival not long ago, when he embraced herself in the midst of fireworks.

This man is the person she loves the most since she can remember.

So even though she couldn't see anything now, she could smell him, hear his breathing, feel his slight trembling — trembling?

Why is he trembling?

Her thoughts became more and more blurred, she didn't know whether she was being hugged or lying on the ground, and she didn't know who was around.

In the last sliver of clarity, she buried her face in his arms.

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