[Comprehensive] Notes on Cat Raising by Benmaru

"Eh?" Tsurumaru's expression went blank for a moment, and he subconsciously cast his gaze on Zanpakuto's sword soul in front of him, her black tail drooped, and her pointed cat ears turned into radar ears.

The shattered Zanpakuto unexpectedly revealed a human body here after being stained with Chihiro's blood mixed with spiritual power.

She stood in front of the master who summoned her without hesitation, and for some reason she didn't even say a word.

Tsurumaru's eyes lingered on the sword soul for a few seconds, but soon, he withdrew his gaze, and turned his suppressed pain gaze to Chihiro who was pierced by the Zanhundao.

He watched the bright red blood dripping down the wound continuously, and then, walking past Yiqi Yizhen who was still a little dazed, he squatted down slowly.

He stretched out his hand and pressed his hand on Chihiro's wound.

Just like before, his hand passed through Chihiro's body without hindrance, so he raised his hand slightly in silence, and then gently placed it on Chihiro's wound, and gently pressed the other hand against Chihiro's wound. above her head.

Even if he can't touch him, he still wants to be by her side and support her.

It’s not that Tsurumaru didn’t think about what would happen if he could see the old master one day, but it was probably a long time ago. The fusangshen who had just lost their master at that time were inevitably a little depressed. Facing the tyrannical new master, I always want to go back to that stable life.

However, Tsurumaru never thought that one day, he would completely ignore the old master who had provided him with spiritual power, and his heart would be filled with the pale girl in front of him.

At this moment, Tsurumaru Kuninaga had to admit that he... even the entire Honmaru had been domesticated, completely defeated by a cat that was supposed to be domesticated by them.

"Xiao Qian..." He closed his eyes slightly, and the pure gold pupils reflected the same shift of attention to Qian Xun.

"That's not okay..." He said with a wry smile, but he was as helpless as a baby in his heart.There is no way to fight against the enemy, and there is no way to save her from the dying lord.

Ichiki Ikshin and Tsurumaru Kuninaga felt self-loathing towards themselves at that moment.

The retrograde army who landed from the barrier looked at Chihiro who had fallen on the only way to the Ikeda house, and the Zanpakuto standing in front of her, and swung the blade down without hesitation.

Although it seems a little unreliable, Maoyouji, who unhesitatingly protects her lord with a knife, has indeed shown her loyalty at this moment.She seemed to have the belief that she would disappear, but nothing showed on her face.

The turbulent flames spread again, and the spiritual fire that did not directly use Qianxun's spiritual power was far from the power that Qianxun used before. She clicked her tongue lightly, looking a little anxious.

Obviously born in Chihiro's soul, but it is completely different from Chihiro's Zanpakuto. Even though he tried hard to hide his anxiety, Chihiro still saw it.

Qianxun's feeling now is also very strange, she can clearly feel that her soul is gradually slackening, but her consciousness is very clear.

She looked at the Zanpakuto in front of her that she had wanted to get, and suddenly felt a strange feeling.She felt that she should be happy, every cell in her heart was full of joy, but there was always a voice deep in her heart, and when she stared at the scene in front of her, she sighed deeply.

In the gradually blurred vision, the sword soul with cat ears stood in front of Chihiro's body every step of the way. Her dark kimono seemed to be stained with blood, and the blazing fire surrounded her.

Then suddenly, the black hole that appeared in the sky seemed to expand.

In the first phase, he couldn't help frowning, his self-control was already on the verge of collapse, if it was still the retrograde army that emerged from the black hole, he might really be like Tsurumaru just now, unable to resist drawing his sword and charging go up.

However, what descended from the sky was not the retrograde army, but the man with the sword who couldn't see his face clearly. After a long time of hard work, he finally managed to see the corner of the dark blue hunting suit of the crescent moon.

He immediately understood that this was probably Fu Sangshen who had detected the traces of the retrograde army and came to the battle.But because Chihiro could no longer see things clearly, the Fusangshen in the dream was not clear.

The Fusangshen who descended from the gap in time and space seemed surprised by the scene in front of them. When they saw someone running to Chihiro's side, he squatted down, as if asking if Chihiro was okay.

He couldn't identify who he was in Yizheng. In fact, among the troops in this team, he could only identify Sanriyue.

I really like Sanriyue, this thought flashed through Yiqi Yizhen's mind quickly.

His eyes were still soft and gentle, and after a while, Tsurumaru heard something like a sigh from his mouth, "Really... I like Mikazuki so much, but I still don't remember anything in the end."

He raised his hand wrapped in white gloves trembling slightly, but because he didn't know where to put it, he still let it hang down.

His honey-colored eyes looked at the two parties at war. After Fu Sangshen joined, the battle situation became obviously easier. The sword soul who was able to breathe was relieved. She dragged her long tail to her In front of the master, as the soul-linked Zanpakuto, she understands Chihiro's current situation better than anyone else.

But the strange thing is that her figure didn't become transparent because of Chihiro's weakness. Although she knew that her condition was getting worse, there was no sign of disappearing.

Daohun felt a little strange. Although she really wanted to show up to help her master, this was not an easy thing to do.However, the moment Chihiro's blood touched the blade, she seemed to be forcibly pulled out.

It was like responding to her wishes and thoughts in an extremely rude way.

She tried to use her spiritual power to make Chihiro feel better, but it didn't work.Fu Sangshen, who had been checking Chihiro's situation, seemed a little anxious.

"She's hurt too badly, you take her away quickly..." His words stopped suddenly, and the knife drawn from his waist pierced the air with a narrow wind.

He resisted the attack from the enemy's sword with all his strength, and the somewhat blurred figure swayed in Yiqi and Tsurumaru's sight.

Then, they saw that Chihiro opened her eyes slightly and used her body to block the enemy's sword soul who came to sneak attack. She became pale like broken glass.

Snapped--

With the sound of the Zanpakuto falling to the ground again, Chihiro's world turned gray at that moment.

The distorted space gradually became chaotic, and the voices in the ears seemed to gradually become blurred.

"No, this will involve more people. We have to find a way to attract the remaining retrograde army to the barrier that was previously built in the space gap."

"Be careful not to involve others..."

"Oops...cum..."

The Zanpakuto that was swallowed by the distorted space and was about to be completely shattered became the last remaining image in front of Chihiro's eyes. She closed her eyes amidst the noise, and she felt as if she was in a soft cloud Then, the clouds turned into water vapor, and she fell suddenly, the blue sky in front of her was getting farther and farther away, leaving only the endless abyss.

"Xiao Qian!" Someone called her in the ear, but she didn't even have the strength to open her eyes.

"Dingling——" the light ringing of the bell spread out at the bottom of the abyss, and the mirror surface that spread out suddenly like a water wave caught her falling.

The drug seller with a huge medicine box on his back looked at her quietly at one end of the mirror, Chihiro slowly opened her eyes, she looked around blankly, and finally fixed her gaze on the drug seller.

"You are..." The moment she spoke, she felt that her throat was a little dry. She blinked, then stood up unsteadily.

"Where is this... I just didn't..." She suddenly remembered everything she had experienced just now, showing a troubled expression, "Could it be that the nightmare is not over yet?"

She knew she was dreaming, but she couldn't break free from the dream.

The drug seller took a step forward in silence, his cold voice combined with his expressionless face always made people feel a little unreasonable, but Chihiro subtly sensed a certain sense of peace of mind.

She breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly adjusted back to her original state. She asked in a calm, even slightly frivolous voice, "Could it be that you entered my dream?"

The drug seller shook his head slightly, "No, this is the space I built. I just followed the red line and pulled you here."

red line?It sounds weird.

Chihiro shrugged, she sat on the edge of the mirror very naturally, and then looked at the drug seller with her cheeks on her hands, "Then, this gentleman...what's your name?"

"I'm just a drug seller, so you can call me whatever you want." Chihiro nodded knowingly, "Then, Mr. drug seller, you will definitely not pull me here from the dream for no reason...you Is there something you want to tell me, but it is inconvenient to appear in front of me with your real body... or am I stuck in a nightmare and can't get out?"

Faced with such an abnormal situation, the girl who still remained rational asked with a smile, but she didn't get a positive answer from the other party.

"I've had this kind of dream more than once." He said in a declarative tone, "When I sold the stone in your eye, I once told the buyer that the soul seal can only be implanted when the user is completely relaxed. Stone, it can fully integrate with the spirit body."

He stared at Chihiro calmly, "It seems that the buyer has failed. He probably wanted to implant it while you were asleep, but he didn't expect to catch up with you having a nightmare. Entry failed."

"..." The other party was not polite at all, and the almost sharp words made Chihiro fall into silence. After a long time, she nodded silently, "It's probably like this, but because it's been too long, I don't care much about it." remembered."

"But you remember clearly what happened in the previous dream."

Chihiro couldn't refute, she licked her lips slightly, and answered after a while, "I... don't really like what other people do for me. Although my Zanpakuto is my weapon, I didn't think about it. Let her die for me."

She sighed deeply for the first time, "When she disappeared, I felt that she was not at all like me. She was anxious, reckless, immature, and could even sacrifice herself for others..."

"But then I found out that she is indeed very similar to me, but I have covered up all the things reflected in her character."

The disappearance of Zanpakuto, as if obliterating the other half of her body, made her feel uneasy.

However, no matter how many times she dreamed, the one and only weapon she had always wanted could never come back.

The Zanpakutō, which can only be seen in dreams and shattered for himself, has become a knot that is difficult to untie.

The drug seller has been watching her, and after discovering the slight changes in Chihiro, he sighed a long time, "Is that so? If I guessed correctly, what kind of dream did you experience before the nightmare? I don't remember it at all."

"Huh?" Chihiro raised her head in a daze, "The previous dream?"

The medicine seller reached out and handed her a bell, and the other end of the bell was pulling a long red thread, "Ignoring good things because of sad things, this is the mistake most people make."

The reserve god of death who had lost the beauty hesitated to take the bell, and the scene in front of her eyes became blurred in an instant.

"Who saved you? Is there anyone who has been by your side? Besides Zanpakuto, is there anything else you really want? If you don't figure this out, you will never be able to get out of the nightmare." came out."

The words of the drug seller were wrapped in a shallow sigh, and disappeared in her ears. The huge water mirror turned into a solid ground in an instant, and the sudden fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus from her nose made her take a deep breath.

"Hello..." Under the golden and green osmanthus tree, someone poked her cheek with sharp nails.

"Did you listen to me again?" The big black-haired monster stared at her with one of his open eyes, with a very chic smile on his lips, when he found that Chihiro ignored him, he poked The strength in her face increased slightly.

"Li... Li companion?" She was taken aback by her friend who suddenly appeared.

Nuliang Liban clicked his tongue softly, "What are you thinking, who else is there besides me, did you discover me after I talked to you for so long?"

"No...not..." Chihiro sighed and lowered her head, she grabbed the stones on the ground with her hands and threw them towards the lake not far away.

Ah... this is also a dream...