[Comprehensive] Winter Feast

"Captain Urahara, this way of striking up a conversation is too old-fashioned." A casual voice came from behind, a man wearing a bamboo hat, a flowered robe, and a small flower in his braided hair swayed away. Come over, "Do you think so, Lisa-chan."

The female Grim Reaper with a meticulous expression pushed her glasses, but did not answer the words of her captain, Jingle Shunsui.

"King band leader." Urahara bowed to say hello to the senior.

Jingle Chunshui bowed his head and returned the salute, then glanced at Yae, and smiled casually and without malice: "Urahara is lucky to meet such a beautiful little girl... Where are you going, little girl, I will see you off." A ride?"

Yae really wasn't in the mood to joke, and answered him dryly: "I want to be the God of Death."

"It sounds a bit wrong." Jingle Chunshui shook the small wine jar in his hand, "There are many people who want to be the god of death, but I have never seen someone who looks so forced and helpless like you."

Jing Le glanced at Urahara: "Is this guy making things difficult for you?"

Yae raised his spirits: "Captain Urahara is a good person, just like you, the leader of the Beijing band."

Jing Le laughed: "Haha, the little girl can really talk."

He has subtly changed the name of Yae, from a young girl to a little girl, and I don't know whether it is intentional or not.

Anyway, Yae thinks that the little girl is much more pleasing to the ear than the little crush.

"I want to be the god of death, Captain Urahara took me to Jinglingting along the way." Yae answered Jingle's question, and Urahara added: "Yae is very talented."

"Captain Urahara's vision is never wrong." Jingle's tone was appreciative and admiring, "Does this mean that you want to recruit little girls into the [-]th squad?"

Because of Jingle's praise, Urahara scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly, but admitted Jingle's words: "It is fate to meet her. If Yae is willing, I certainly hope she can join the [-]th squad."

Yae climbed up the pole: "Then I won the captain's favor, can I get some privileges?"

Urahara made a surprised expression: "Eh? Yae, don't you already have the privilege of talent that others can't even ask for?"

Yae replied without a pause: "I won this by myself, not Captain Urahara, you gave it to me."

"Hahaha, what an eloquent kid," Jingle changed his address again, turned his head and asked Yae, "Then what kind of privilege do you want?"

Yae told the truth: "Captain Urahara said that only by becoming a god of death can he return to the present world. I want to go back and see as soon as possible... Will that allow me to skip a level in the Academy of True Souls?"

"It's not impossible..." Urahara rubbed his chin, thinking seriously.

On the other side, Jingle Chunshui interrupted: "Don't be so troublesome, there are also Shinigami who haven't fucked Mao."

Urahara's eyes widened, he obviously knew what Jingle was referring to: "How can this work, how can Yae be admitted to the eleventh team!"

"I have been jealous of the [-]th team for a long time, why are they the only ones who have the privilege to recruit people from outside Mao?" Jingle Shunsui threw the small wine jar back, "Since there is already a precedent, we can't implement it It would be too difficult, besides... Could it be that the gods of death in the Technology Development Bureau all came from Mao?"

Urahara was taken aback.

Jingle Chunshui looked at his expression, and the smile on his face became meaningful: "However, if you want to go this way, talent alone is not enough. Yae, are you willing to accept the test of the captain?"

Yae: "What test?"

"Do you know the rotten wood of the four great nobles?" Jing Le asked.

This is the family Yae is most familiar with in the soul world, she nodded.

Urahara showed vigilance: "King band leader, what do you want to do?"

"Hey, I just want Yae to do what you, Captain Urahara, did once again." Jing Le stretched out a finger and shook it. The captain of the Eighth Division, who looked like a decadent uncle, had unexpectedly good-looking fingers, which was a powerful gesture. Slender, "Go to Kuchiki's house and steal a pot of wine. If you succeed, you will pass the test."

Urahara immediately missed the point: "Why do you know the leader of the Beijing Band!"

Yae: "...Don't you even hide it? You admit it so directly?"

Urahara: "..."

Jingle smiled, with the wisdom of the elders in his smile, but not the dullness of the old, but the vitality unique to young people, and the cunning of wanting to do things.

This smile reminded Yae of Mikazuki for an instant, and the mood that had been resolved because of the conversation with Kyoraku and Urahara sank to the bottom of the valley in an instant.

Jingle said how he knew it was a secret, and he asked Yae: "Accept?"

Yae confirmed to him: "If you steal it, can you really become the god of death immediately?"

Jingle's expression became serious: "The captain still has this privilege. But girl, you have to think clearly, there is a reason why most of the gods of death come from Mao. Kidou, Shunpo, and Baida belong to Professor Mao. Based on the root of the forest of the strong. If you skip Mao and become Shinigami, you may have a big gap with your colleagues. The privilege of the captain can only let you join the team, and then it can't guarantee anything."

"I know." Yae is not worried. Her scroll contains all the ghosts, as well as the lives of the Kuchiki Patriarchs, that is, the captains of the Sixth Division, and the skills that the Shinigami should know. At least in theory, she is own.To put it bluntly, she also practiced it herself on the Kuchiki family's training ground.Probably because of the bonus of being a monster, she can basically succeed in all the moves at once.

"What if it fails?" Yae asked. She didn't come out of the cherry tree in Kuchiki's house when she came back to Soul Soul Realm. Now that Yae thought of this, she suddenly realized that she might have died again.

He was seriously injured and killed by the knife of Shi Shuo's marching army, and then died in the world of corpses and souls.

She is a monster, and she has not been extradited by the god of death. Although she is not a travel accident, she cannot be regarded as a normal entry—calculated, the monsters in Heianjing should go to the underworld ruled by Yan Mo, so she fell into a deep sleep for a long time. After repairing her injuries just woke up.

The guess was reasonable, and the anxious mood of wanting to go back calmed down, but the disappointment and regret grew stronger.

"If you fail, just go to Mao honestly," Jingle replied, "I will greet the Kuchiki family well, and you don't have to worry about the nobles' punishment."

"While I'm going to say hello to Captain Kuchiki, I'll ask Captain Urahara to help Yae prepare for the dive, such as popularizing the route or something."

The matter has been settled, Urahara no longer struggled needlessly, he looked at Yae: "Let's change clothes first."

Yae's pink kimono is too eye-catching.

Urahara took Yae into Jinglingting, and found her the black clothes of Shinigami for her to change into.

When she closed the partition and began to take off her clothes, Yae realized that she was still wearing the hook jade that Abe Seimei gave her around her neck.

There is no better place to put it, and Yae has changed into a Siba outfit and still wears the hook jade pendant.

Gouyu is a rather ancient decoration with the meaning of yin and yang, which is very rare in the world of corpses and souls. Urahara noticed it and couldn't help but look at it.The pendant is a bit long, and it falls on the chest, which is not a suitable position for men to stare at. After realizing it, Urahara clarified and said hastily: "Isn't it just a decoration?"

"No." Yae thought for a while, and replied, "It's a very important thing."

Urahara nodded half understanding, with a thoughtful expression.

"The way from here to Kuchiki's house is easy to remember..." he described it to Yae.

In fact, Yae knew the way. When she was mixed with Kuchiki's children, she went out to play with her.

So after the night that Jingle said is "suitable for hiding and stealing things", the monsters who are like a fish in water in the dark night smoothly turned into the Kuchiki family's mansion, and the location was in the garden with cherry blossom trees.

This location was chosen by Urahara, who said it was easy to enter because of the low frequency of patrols. Yaele accepted it, thinking that he would be able to go and see the cherry blossom tree.

But when he saw it, Yae was stunned.

In the severe winter season, the branches of cherry blossom trees are bare without a leaf-this is naturally normal.

But Sakura Demon Yae can see that the tree has no leaves not because of the season, but because it died.

why die?Is it because she absorbed the spiritual power of the cherry blossom tree but didn't come back for a long time?

The guilt towards the cherry blossom tree and the guilt towards Heian-kyo merged and overwhelmed Yae. She completely abandoned the test that she didn't take seriously, and reached out to stick her hand to the cold trunk of the cherry blossom tree, transmitting her power into it.

Demonic power—or it should be called spiritual power now, was injected into the dry trunk, like a soul injected into an empty shell, and the cherry blossom tree that had been dead for an unknown number of years unexpectedly showed signs of recovery.

The emotions of intimacy and surprise also revived from the cherry blossom tree, and it circled Yae's spiritual power, and quickly dissipated.It's like an old friend who greeted each other through time and was swept away by the torrent of time.

Yae was moved and even more guilty.

She failed to fulfill the agreement with Sakura Tree and was absent for too many years.

The spiritual power crawled to every corner along the veins of the trees, and the revived trees bloomed small flower buds in the severe winter night, and then the flower buds bloomed, and the tree was full of pink clouds.

The test was left behind, and at this moment, Yae was not afraid of being discovered at all, and she suddenly had confidence for some reason—she was the cherry blossom tree, which grew in Kuchiki's house and would never be expelled.

The cherry blossom trees bloom out of season, with bright colors and spiritual power.

With a "swish", the partition door was pulled open, and the black-haired boy ran out of the room, his hostile expression was replaced by shock when he saw the scenery in the courtyard.

Kuchiki Byakuya saw the blooming cherry tree, and saw the young woman in a domineering outfit under the cherry tree. He used questioning words, but did not ask in a questioning tone: "Who are you?"

"I am Yae." Yae answered honestly.

Her answer obviously did not satisfy the young man. Byakuya Kuchiki frowned at her with a guarded look on his face, but he could not raise any hostility. His tone was one of vigilance rather than confusion. He stood on the wooden porch and hesitated for a long time before asking. He said, "What are you doing?"

Yae looked up at the cherry blossoms all over the tree, with a soft expression: "As you can see."

She feels guilty and regretful, but seeing the grown-up Kuchiki Byakuya also feels emotional—probably the ancestors of the Kuchiki family in the scroll are responsible for the trouble.