[Death] Acacia inkstone

"Captain, I'm back." Kaoru Sakurai kicked open the door of the apartment, and saw Dong Shirou who was sitting on the sofa after packing up his things and cast a look of contempt at her.

"Sakurai, how many times have I told you," he said with a straight face as usual, "Don't destroy public property."

"Captain, I didn't destroy public property," Kaoru Sakurai walked over with a smile on his face, "This apartment was allocated to you by Jinglingting, so it is not public property."

Dongshiro frowned: "Is the matter over?"

"Yeah." Kaoru Sakurai nodded, and ran back to her room with lightning speed to drag out her luggage: "Captain, I have packed all my things. We can go now."

Toshiro put his hands on his chest, turned his head and looked at her a few times, making Kaoru Sakurai a little apprehensive.

The captain seems a little... weird today?

"Team, Captain," Sakurai Kaoru rubbed his hands while laughing dryly, "I will be very uncomfortable if you look at me like that. My things are really packed, and even Matsumoto sent it for you to correct a few days ago." A lot of team affairs have been collected for you."

After finishing speaking, she pointed to the stacks of documents tied with red nylon rope in the corner: "Don't worry, Captain, I have already greeted the waste collector. When we leave, just throw them at the door, and he will come Received."

"As for the fee..." Sakurai Kaoru looked at the veins on Toshiro's forehead that were gradually popping up, and finally swallowed, and swallowed the sentence "he has already paid me in advance".

Dong Shilang continued to stare at her for a while without making a sound, with a gloomy expression on his face.After a long time, he said: "Have you really thought about it?"

Kaoru Sakurai was at a loss: "Ah? What have you thought about?"

Dongshiro sighed softly, stood up: "If you want to stay, I won't stop you."

It turned out to be like this... Sakurai Kaoru finally understood why Toshiro looked weird today.

"Captain," she suddenly laughed maliciously, "You don't think I still like Takigawa Aoba, do you?"

"I like him, it was a long time ago." Sakurai Kaoru patted his butt, and stood up: "The me who was 'Huahara Chine' died already at the moment when I went to the Eclipse Heart Stage. Now I... am Kaoru Sakurai, your 'powerful subordinate'."

She blinked and deliberately emphasized the word "capable subordinate".

Dong Shilang's furrowed brows seemed to relax for a moment, but there was still no wave on his face.Childhood experience made him develop such a calm and extremely introverted character - keeping most of his emotions in his heart, making it difficult for others to detect.He turned away, as if deliberately avoiding her gaze: "Then let's go."

"Ahem," Sakurai Kaoru captured the moment when Toshiro's heart fluctuated. After all, she knew him well enough after being together for decades.

Seeing that Toshiro had already started walking forward, Kaoru Sakurai hurriedly dragged his luggage and stood behind him, coughing twice maliciously: "Captain just now, did you miss me?"

Before he finished speaking, Kaoru Sakurai saw the silver figure in front of him stiffen for a moment.She raised the corners of her mouth triumphantly, dragged her luggage and wanted to go around to him to see his expression: "Captain? Why aren't you talking? Are you shy? Let me see."

"Sakurai! You'd better be honest with me!" The silver figure in front couldn't stop speeding up.

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"Captain!" Kaoru Sakurai let go of his hands, and a thick stack of documents in his arms fell on the table in front of Shiro Toshiro with a "dong" sound: "This is the case-closing report you want to write."

Dong Shilang continued to quietly deal with team affairs, ignoring her.

"Hey, it's only been a few days since I returned to the Soul Realm, why did the task assigned by Jinglingting come here..." She sighed and tried to visually measure the thickness of the stack of papers: "Well... I think, the captain's room inventory Your inkstone should not be enough..."

"Sakurai, actually——" Toshiro finally raised his head to look at her, with a rare look of regret in his eyes: "You should write these documents."

"Ah?" Kaoru Sakurai resisted the urge to jump up in surprise: "So many? How could I make it up?" Before she finished speaking, she quickly covered her mouth, her face slightly embarrassed: "Ahem, I mean, This case spans a long time, and I can't remember many details clearly, how can I write it..."

"The case is not completely over yet, so you write these first." Shiro Dong put down his pen, and pushed the blank report she brought in front of her: "We still have one last thing to do."

"So," he stood up, and while passing her, stretched out a hand from the wide sleeve of the haori robe to gently hold her wrist: "Sakurai, now come with me to finish."

"Oh..." Kaoru Sakurai looked down at the wrist that was suddenly held by him, and then couldn't help but raised the other hand and rubbed his eyes—Captain, seems a little abnormal today?

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"Do you still remember the Realm of Leaving Souls?" Toshiro led Sakurai Kaoru through the shelves of the Great Spiritual Book Corridor, and finally arrived at the gate of the forbidden book area.

"Of course I remember," Sakurai Kaoru nodded, and Izumo Kahara's face covered in black spells appeared again in his mind: "She is the only one who can do such insane things."

"Then have you ever thought about why she knows the spell to activate the soul-leaving realm?" Dong Shilang stepped into the restricted area, glanced over the densely packed bookshelves inside, and said in a deep voice: "Only by using blood as the Only by using one's own soul to bear the power of the spell can one open the Soul-Leaving Realm. Not to mention that once the realm is broken, the caster's soul will fly away; even if the spell is successful, the consumption of the caster's body is not Ordinary people can afford it."

"Where did she learn such a forbidden spell?" Dong Shilang raised his eyes and scanned the rows of bookshelves, his brows furrowed deeper.

Kaoru Sakurai rubbed his chin and thought for a while: "So the captain brought me here to find the source of the soul-departing state?"

"I really can't think of any chance for her to get in touch with such a forbidden technique, and... there are still a few things I haven't been able to figure out." Sakurai Kaoru turned around, walked in another direction, and started Find books with Dongshiro.

"When I was free recently... sorted out what happened before," Kaoru Sakurai paused: "Izumo Kahara is my sister in name after all, although I don't have any feelings for her, but she Just like that, my soul is gone, I always... I still feel a little uncomfortable."

"You don't owe her anything." Dongshiro replied lightly, and at the same time reached out and pulled out a worn-out book that was about to be scattered: "On the contrary, she made you suffer a lot."

Kaoru Sakurai's footsteps suddenly stopped, she turned around slightly, and looked at the silver-white figure outlined by the faint light above her head. In the silence, the sound of flipping books was very clear.

That's right, she clearly remembered that after Takikawa was imprisoned, her half-sister came to talk to her in the name of drinking tea, and at the same time told her the only way to save Takikawa It is to go to the spiritual world to steal the forbidden book, and then transfer the whole body of spiritual pressure to him.

After she succeeded in saving people, her spiritual pressure was gone, and she was so weak that she couldn't move even an inch in the spiritual world where the density of spiritual particles was extremely high.However, Huayuan Izumo sealed his spiritual power with medicine, tricked Takigawa Aoba, and took her place.

While she was living like years in the prison of the spirit world, Huayuan Izumo was preparing for the wedding.

A book was suddenly stuffed in her hand, Kaoru Sakurai came back to her senses and found that Toshiro had walked in front of her at some point: "This book records what happened later."

"You should rest for a while." Dong Shilang's eyes lingered on her for a moment, his green eyes were like a pool of water, calm and yet unfathomable.

Kaoru Sakurai held a book and found a place to sit aside. She actually wanted to tell Dongshiro what happened after her soul disappeared. She was actually not very curious.However, she gently stroked the cover of the ancient book, and there was still the remaining warmth of the captain on it, as well as... Ai Ran's weak spiritual pressure.

Today's captain is really a bit weird, he just said that Aizen turned over the book and asked her to investigate it, and insisted on making such a big detour.

Kaoru Sakurai couldn't help laughing, she didn't expect the captain to be so awkward.

The book Dongshiro gave her is called "The Secret History of the Spiritual World", which records many events in the spiritual world in detail, including many secrets that cannot be made public.The value of this book is incomparable to the "Strange Records of the Spiritual World", which is full of gossip and unofficial history, which Sakurai Kaoru borrowed casually 20 years ago.

Kaoru Sakurai flicked to the corresponding page number directly, the lights in the forbidden book area were really dim, she complained softly, so she had to move her face closer.

"Well, it turns out that Izumo Kahara was rejected by Takigawa after I died." She frowned, but the ink on the yellowed pages was clear, and it had not faded in the slightest due to the washing of time.

According to the book, the seventh spiritual officer Takikawa Aoba was extremely talented, far surpassing the previous spiritual officials, and everyone at that time placed high hopes on them.He did succeed in establishing his prestige shortly after taking office, and the instructions he issued were clear and effective.However, he insisted on putting forward several proposals, such as abolishing the ban on exchanges between the spirit world and the spirit world, but they were all rejected due to strong opposition from other people in the spirit palace.Later, the spirit official kept silent about these thoughts, and just went in and out of the forbidden book area of ​​the spirit world from time to time.Everyone didn't take it seriously, thinking that he just wanted to practice some powerful forbidden techniques to make himself stronger. After all, the spirit official has a high position and power, so it is natural to have such thoughts.Moreover, there are many people who have done this among the previous spiritual officials.However, just a few months later, Takigawa Aoba suddenly disappeared.

No one could find him anymore, and he became the spirit official with the shortest reign in history.

"He should... have found the soul-returning technique in the book..." Sakurai Kaoru said to himself, "Then go..."

——It took 1000 years to reshape her soul.

Fate is really tricky.

She sighed and continued to look down.

"The woman who was rejected by the seventh Lingguan back then, felt that she had no face left, and even found a secluded place to cast spells to seal her soul, and fell into a deep sleep."

This is really Kahara Izumo's style.

Is she doing this in the hope that one day when she wakes up, she can forget these pasts?

Sakurai Kaoru suddenly found it ridiculous that her younger sister put her in a hard prison, but she didn't get anything, so she had to call herself a soul. Did she still expect to get something after waking up?

And after she woke up, she kept saying that she loved Dong Shilang, and continued to create a lot of obstacles for herself, and her arrogance was far more arrogant than before.

Sakurai Kaoru shook her head helplessly, and closed the book: "Captain," she stood up slowly, and walked towards the cold figure behind several bookshelves: "I think I probably know what's going on. "

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