[Death · Bailu] Flower Story

"If you have already made up your mind, I will naturally agree, Rukia." A dry and warm palm fell on her shoulder, but she couldn't find the hand that was brought by the breeze blowing through the booklet at that time. temperature.

The bloodless face was reflected in the gentle brown eyes, and Ichigo smiled bitterly.

I can clearly see all the worries and nostalgia on your face, but I still pretend not to see it, my own heart.

"Wow--" The sliding door opened, but it couldn't break the heavy air in this small tea room.

"Ah, I found it. Next time, I must tell Tiesai not to tidy up the closet casually..." A clear voice always came with a mischievous smile. The box, carrying the bright summer afternoon sun behind him, appeared in everyone's sight.

Someone who was completely unaware of the strange atmosphere in the room opened the numerous spiritual power mechanisms on the box lightly and swiftly, and then took out two very familiar pure black cloaks, "Hey, Ichigo, this is the one I mentioned to you earlier. The cloak that was used to completely isolate the flow of Reiatsu, after taking it, don't mention anything to me about going to the Zero Division..."

"Ah, Urahara-san, this is such a pity." Ichigo nodded to the silver-haired and green-clothed person knowingly, reached out and took a cloak from Ruri's hand and put it on, feeling a little dissociated in Rukia. A bright smile appeared in his line of sight again, but a pair of brown pupils revealed an obvious look of caution.

"That way, you don't have to worry that Yingluo will find me," he half-jokingly said, "Lukia, let me tell you what you know first. After I'm done, can I go to Muhua Festival?"

Rukia looked at the young Lingwang who was wearing a cloak in front of her, only revealing a small part of her face, and felt that what she was in was not Fang Xiaoxiao's tea room, but on the cliff next to the Lingling Garden, where the strong wind accompanied her that year. The burning enthusiasm still lingered in the corners of her eyes, and the orange-haired boy who had just learned swastika at that time was also dressed in black and wearing a cloak, appearing in her life like Zorro the Rogue in a modern textbook, and then a scene The scenes meet and part, the spring blooms and the winter snows, the leaves fall and the flowers fly, and the years have flowed here for more than ten years.

"...Ichigo, is it really okay to just listen to a suspect's request and statement like this?"

"Hey Lucia, facing the bipolar fire, facing me wearing a mask, facing the royal family envoy who suddenly appeared, and facing so many uncertain futures, did you ever doubt me? "

"...Let's go, Your Highness Lingwang, Your Excellency Liuli. There is indeed some good luck in the database of the Kuchiki family's library."

"Bah-"

The sound of blood dripping on the sand is indistinguishable from the sound of sweat dripping on the floor of the dojo.

This was the thought that popped into Byakuya's mind the moment before he drove the swastika Senben Sakura to attack the next Valstord again.

The flying blades reflected the moonlight, but the scene of killing was as beautiful as Sakura blowing snow when the flowers were in bloom.Bai Zai looked at the myriad of thin sharp blades that gradually wrapped up the hopeless Daxu, but his eyes seemed to penetrate time and space, and the final focus was when he was sitting under the cherry tree and holding his sleeve The flimsy girl who was sleeping with a contented face, the flakes of fine powder swirling down around her confused her vision, but made him see his own heart clearly.

If possible, I only wish to use this killing cherry to protect your peaceful dream.

Tsk, these little guys who haven't opened their faces, after the battle with that guy Aizen, they are not enough to see--oh, it's hard work~ Xiao Nifu~"

Waiting for Hirako Mako to play with the back caress in his hand, he showed a shining signature smile to the death gods of the [-]th team who were also fighting to the end. fell in three different directions.

After reaching the virtual circle from the present world, the resistance encountered is not as great as imagined, and I have never encountered too many virtual groups that organized attacks like they did outside the bamboo forest.As for the few broken faces left over ten years ago, none of them appeared this time.

Putting Qianben Sakura back into the scabbard, someone who has been more and more respectful of quick battles since entering the virtual circle looked quietly at the Xuye Palace in front of him who was once evaluated by a little girl as "a bit Byzantine style".

That was when Rukia had just been brought back by him from the pumpkin-shaped ten-blade hand, and he turned his head when he heard the frowning little girl say this evaluation to Torakuru Yune who was helping her with treatment Come, and the watery light flowing between the pair of clear purple pupils is easily poured into the heart.

After a farewell in this world, it seems that the breath of just a few days is still lingering in my breath.

A dim waning moon hangs in the dark sky, quartz tree trunks slant out from time to time in the vast desert, the white buildings not far away look the same as ten years ago, and the secrets that may be hidden in the buildings.

At this time, in his eyes, it was not as good as the agreement that had already been made, Xia Ye Huahuo.

"Senior Pingzi, take a step ahead." The gray-purple pupils became more and more bottomless against the background of the night, Bai Zai didn't look back and searched once he entered the virtual circle, even forgetting the god of death of his own team, and only focused on fighting Saraki Kenpachi didn't wait any longer for Hirako, who was still commanding the [-]th team to search the periphery of Xuye Palace from different directions, to respond. Instead, he gestured to Liujiao and Gongqin who happened to appear beside him to follow, Fang Shun In a flash, he entered the white building that stood silently under the dark sky.

Although eager to end this troublesome matter, as the current "major suspect", Byakuya Kuchiki still has considerable self-knowledge - it is definitely not a good idea to act alone at this time.

"This group of ghosts, have they been just being lazy for ten years?" Bai Zai, who was flying along the road in his memory at high speed while carefully searching his surroundings, didn't notice that he was uttering the phrase in his mind.

"Puchi—" The two of them, who were struggling to catch up with the indifferent captain of the Sixth Division, couldn't ignore this whisper.

The labyrinth-like high walls in the Xuye Palace are still the same as when they evacuated the virtual circle ten years ago. They are full of scars caused by spiritual pressure and virtual flashes, and there is a collapse in the "sky" with white clouds from time to time. , revealing the real dark night beyond the sky.Since the great war ten years ago, the former enemy command center does not look like it has been repaired.

From the day when Bai Zai found that silver mirror in the bamboo forest outside Luo の Town, Bai Zai knew that he couldn't escape the current probe.

The honor of the No. [-] nobleman of the Kuchiki family Seireitei cannot be obtained by relying on noble blood.For thousands of years, the patriarchs of past dynasties have accumulated attainments in unblocking and spiritual arts, so that the moment his finger touches the mirror, he can sense the fluctuation of magic that connects the two spaces, and even feel the faint touch of magic left on the mirror. The almost imperceptible, completely impossible remnants of Reiatsu.

At that time, he was unable to express these conclusions. Firstly, the convincing power of his own words was indeed limited. Second, in that passive situation, Kuchiki Byakuya was not a youthful young man who could not assess the situation.

"Dididi——" When Bai Zai and the two people who were not far away from him quickly approached a corner, before entering the imaginary circle, the spirit sub-identifier equipped by Ukitake for each god of death suddenly flashed red light and let out a sharp cry .

Before several square deep pits with regular distribution and shape appeared in front of his eyes, the last thing that came to Bai Zai's mind was the one-month time when he poked the pink rabbit with glowing eyes every night in the dormitory.

Pointing backwards, a silver light quickly emerged from his fingertips.

"Bindao 81, Duan Kong."

Then just turned the corner at this time, but it was too late to stop. Hexagon and Gong, whose expressions changed slightly when they were about to step into the first huge pit, collided firmly with the huge transparent curtain wall that suddenly appeared. Above, there were two loud noises in succession.

With his back facing the two gecko-like figures that were gradually sliding down, Bai Zai stretched out his right hand and hung over the edge of the deep pit that was still exuding the blue light formed by the cutting of spiritual power, and made a strange gesture to feel the spiritual pressure "Mr. Liujiao, take samples and send them back to the Technology Development Bureau as soon as possible."

"Kuichi...Captain Sang, thank you very much for your help... How about using a hanging star or something gentle next time?" Gongqin struggled to get up while supporting his waist, but the speed of his mouth did not slow down at all.

"...Oh? Instead of looking forward to this, it's better to sharpen the level of hovering in mid-air." Someone who still closed his phoenix eyes slightly but put his hands behind his back, the sharp words he spit out were far from his own elegant demeanor Far.

Bai Zai vaguely remembers that when he was young, Kuchiki’s library was not what it is today. After sliding the door, there was a room like a ninja’s. It was the place where he and Yoichi Sifengin secretly tried to sneak in and play. .

From the beginning, the two of them couldn't figure it out at all, until he was thrown out of the sliding door by the demon cat, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen and he was furious, and in the end, he was the only one who dismantled the constantly updated defense techniques one by one, and kindly dismantled him before he slipped away. It restores and even repairs and strengthens.Everything inside that sliding door is weird and novel, some of which he still can't fully comprehend until today.

There are all kinds of boxes sealed on the ground, some are gorgeous and huge, but they are tightly bound with pure white water; some are wrapped four or five layers, and occasionally there will be "creak" and "creak" sounds.The huge bookcase so tall that you can't see the top floor is floating in the air, and the books on it need to use Shunpo and spiritual skills to take them out.One time when he was practicing Shunpo, he accidentally dropped a copy, but when he casually flipped through it, he found that the content recorded in it was a secret that now seems to be extremely necessary to be destroyed.

After seeing the specifications and arrangement of these several deep pits, combined with the orientation and strength of the spirit here, he suddenly remembered the meaning of the pattern drawn in the book at that time.

"There is no need to stay here any longer, return to Sei Ling Ting soon." If his predictions were correct, he had already guessed about the guy's intentions.

If there is no delay on the way, maybe there is another matter in time.

But when the three of them walked out of Xuye Palace, what greeted their eyes was no longer the endless silent night sky and vast desert, but a half sky illuminated by fire and virtual flashes.

Rukia sat on her knees in a room that was always crowded and narrow on weekdays, but at this time it was so empty that it seemed that a cool breeze was blowing through her. When the brocade boxes she picked up were dragged into the closet, the sound of footsteps outside the door and the subsequent knock on the door made her frown hesitantly as she looked at the situation inside the house.

"Wow——" Appearing in the summer evening, in the golden red courtyard sprinkled by the afterglow of the setting sun, was the old housekeeper standing outside the door with a long and narrow brocade box in his hand.

"Miss is well," the old butler greeted her with a kind smile as before, and then sent the brocade box in his hand to Lucia who was standing on the door of the room, which happened to completely cover the situation in the room, "This is Before the Patriarch left the Lingling Court, he specifically asked to hand it over to Miss at this time."

Rukia glanced back at the room unconsciously, there were several brocade boxes that were very similar in size and length to the ones that appeared in front of her, and then she saluted the butler with a smile and stretched out her hand.

"Then thank you very much."

If we say that goldfish and fireworks are the gorgeous colors that attract everyone's attention in the Minadutsu Twilight Festival.

Then on the bank of the river at that time, your gray and purple eyes illuminated by the unexpected grand firework are the secret treasure that I wish to protect alone.

So brother, please forgive Rukia's reluctance at this time.

Rukia held the empty brocade box in her hand and pressed one of her cheeks against it, but her eyes stayed on the pile of colorful colors in front of the closet.

The bottom part is stored in a sandalwood wooden box, which was specially sent by the eldest brother before the New Year's dance that year. The red dress embroidered with flying cherry blossoms and flowing water patterns that sister Feizhen once wore; in the apricot brocade box, except Underneath the precious cloth with silver thread running water pattern, there is also the camellia jade hanging; in the rattan box above, there are four summer everyday clothes that have not been worn much, the top one is that day. A wisp of smoky purple that was embraced by him.

……

"Pa—" The sound of the brocade box falling in his hand covered the sound of tears dripping down.

Rukia, through her tearful eyes, saw clearly the pattern of goldfish swimming out of the clear and light empty silk satin in the next second under the reflection of the jumping candlelight.

When Rukia finally closed the sliding door of the closet, she turned around and put the wooden box containing a stack of Chiyo paper with a thin background of cherry blossoms on the table, a look of relief finally appeared in her eyes.

At least before leaving, he could finally do something for his eldest brother.

What was transcribed on those beautifully colored papers was the detailed list of her plans for going to the royal court that she had drawn up after spending several days in the library to look up the records, and after countless discussions with the old housekeeper and Ye Yisang.

"Although the writing is still ugly, I hope that big brother won't be too angry," she tried hard to raise the corners of her lips and then thought, "But there is nothing you can do about it..."

By the time the eldest brother finds out, maybe her name is no longer on the Kuchiki family tree.

The sound of knocking on the door was remembered again, and Lucia took a deep breath and opened the sliding door.

As expected, a black figure stood outside the door.

"Lukia, why don't you dislike coming out to see the Muhua Festival with me so much? Look, you are still wearing a deadly costume." The two guys in black were really excited on the brightly lit streets of the Muhua Festival. It was too abrupt, but both of them enjoyed it.

"No, it's just that it's really convenient to pretend to be a dead bully."

And others will only think that we are the gods of death who maintain order.She silently added a sentence in her heart.

"Well~ it doesn't matter, anyway, I haven't seen much of this so-called summer festival, so it's up to you to lead the way, Rukia." Ichigo pushed aside the black face scarf that covered his nose and mouth, and took a bite of the kerchief in his hand. grilled corn.

They held grilled octopus and dorayaki with novelty and smiles, and carried small bags containing goldfish in their hands. They walked past the booming business stalls on both sides, the bustling crowd, and the chasing and fighting. The children in my life walked through the fiery trees and silver flowers and the hustle and bustle of this summer night.

When the lively sound gradually moved away from the two of them, Rukia raised her hand and was about to ask Ichigo to help get rid of the scary-looking grilled octopus in her hand. The busy His Royal Highness Ling Wang had already been invited away by a elusive hidden guard, but he had wandered into the summer water of that year unknowingly.

At that time, she had just arrived at Kuchiki's house, and she managed to ask the housekeeper for permission to go out with Luanju Xiaotao on the night of the Muhua Festival, but she was half drunk. next to.

Then, at the same time that the first fireworks illuminated the night sky that night, she noticed the figure in white clothes standing indifferently not far from her side.

"I thought you'd like a goldfish-patterned yukata."

The goldfish in her hand almost fell to the ground, and Rukia, who was awakened by the familiar voice, could not make any other expression except to open her eyes and try her best to see the figure that was gradually blurring.

Bai Zai sighed and approached the girl who seemed to him to have an expression of "get caught for doing something bad."

——"Brother...Big Brother?! Why are you here?"

—— "The fireworks in Shuimei in Xiaye are quite unique. But next time, don't drink too much wine when you come out."

——"... Brother, isn't he still drinking?"

"Bang!" A gorgeous firework bloomed in mid-air, and the two eyes facing each other under the night sky finally saw each other clearly by the riverside that suddenly lit up.

"Brother...Brother, are you injured?!" Someone who finally recovered his voice did not realize that his voice was sharp and trembling.

"Hush...a little injury is fine." Bai Zai frowned habitually, but this tiny expression made the girl on the side even more anxious.

"Can……"

The still warm palms covered the top of her head, and Bai Zai's extremely gentle embrace greeted her.The fragrance of flowers and water was diluted by the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke. Lucia obediently closed her mouth and breathed the air greedily.

"...Brother." Putting her head on that chest, Rukia closed her eyes trying to hide the overflowing tears, but she could only watch in vain as they seeped into the blood-stained flesh one by one in front of her. placket.

"Ok?"

"It's okay not to be so anxious, you have to take care of your body," she tried to calm her voice, but she didn't know that her hands had already clenched the fabric of his waist, "Lukia is safe at Kuchiki's house, and will never come again. Running around will cause big brother trouble."

"..."

The slender fingers raised her chin with an irrefutable force, and then Rukia saw her tearful eyes clearly in Byakuya's purple-gray pupils.

"Because I miss you, I want to come back and watch fireworks with you."

——"Does elder brother also like watching fireworks?"

- "Just thinking about someone."

——"Is it Mrs. Feizhen?"

——"...If there is a chance, let's watch it together next time."

"Bang bang—"

That year, the night wind blowing the di grass by the water, and your lonely figure hidden behind the willow trees on the bank, the fireworks at the Muhua Festival were so beautiful and warm, but your bright and dark face was still bright and dark amidst the fireworks. Not a trace of temperature.

I don't want to see that expression again, maybe I just thought so at first.

On the bank of Shuimei in midsummer, the fireworks that I have been looking forward to year after year.

will eventually bloom.

Hanasa Monogatari

Seventeen, Twilight

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The author has something to say: Phew~ this cabbage guy. . .How can you express your love to Lulu naturally and unobtrusively! !Your mother, A Zong, is almost to death by you~~

After laying the groundwork for so long, it's almost time to make it clear, don't be careless, Bai Zai, I like you~~

Dear ones, have a good time eating, and I wish all those who are taking the exam will have good grades and have a happy new year~~