Return of the Mask

"Well, Rukia... have you seen Kurosaki-san recently?"

Walking in the school corridor, Rukia was slightly taken aback when she heard Inoue's words.

After a moment of silence, she lowered her eyes and shook her head.

"What happened to Kurosaki-san, it's been two days..." Inoue said worriedly.

"It's okay, Inoue!" Seeing Inoue's appearance, Rukia immediately raised her head and said with a smile, "That guy Ichigo probably went to fight somewhere and died, so he should lie down at home hahaha!"

"But... Rukia doesn't live at Kurosaki-san's house?"

"..."

It was evening at this time, and most of the students' club activities were almost done, and they were ready to go home.

After dumping the garbage in the trash can into the big trash can, Rukia glanced at the sky, exhaled slowly, and turned around.

However, the moment she turned around, she felt several unusual spiritual pressures, her eyes widened in surprise and she turned around!

Inoue, who was standing beside her, also felt these spiritual pressures, turned around in surprise, looked at the sky, and said in surprise, "It's Kurosaki-san's spiritual pressure!"

"Hey!! Gennai!!!" Looking at the figure in front of him who didn't know where he was going, Ichigo shouted, but it didn't have any effect.

"It's useless, she can't hear at all at this time!" Shunpo approached Ichigo, Hirako said with a frown.

"What's going on here?!" Ichigo asked aloud a little anxiously, "Didn't it mean that if something goes wrong, the soul will immediately dissipate? What's going on with Gennai's state now?"

"It turns out that you really hope that guy will die directly..." Pingzi sighed inappropriately...

"I didn't mean that!!" Ichigo roared angrily.

"Well," said a little impatiently, Hirako looked at the figure in front of him with drooping eyes, and said in a low voice, "As I said, the disappearance of her soul is only her final ending, but in what way? , We don’t even know when.”

"perhaps……"

Ichigo opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"...Does the soul dissipate, including being swallowed by the void?"

"If it becomes virtual, the person Gennai Yinshu will be equivalent to disappearing."

Pointing to the roof with his toes, Ichigo gritted his teeth and turned his head to rush over. When he saw the figure appearing in front of him, he was startled and stopped.Seeing the other party's appearance clearly, he froze for a while.

"Rukia..."

Rukia frowned and glanced at him, then turned sideways to look forward, and said in a deep voice: "I don't care where you went or what you did, it's just... who is that person? And that kind of spiritual pressure It's so weird, but it's not a face-off..."

Several people behind him stopped one after another, and everyone looked at the figure in front who had stopped at some point, with serious expressions on their faces.

Patting Ichigo on the shoulder, Hirako walked towards Otoki holding the knife at his waist.

After crossing a roof, he stopped behind her and said lazily, "Gennai Yinshu, can you still hear my voice?"

A heavy breathing sound sounded slowly, like a drowning person breathing hard.Pingzi was taken aback.

The next second, a knife slashed at him!

Swinging the knife in the air, Otoki pouted, and glanced at Urahara Kisuke who was standing in front of her very leisurely.

Surrounded by dark crowds, the one sitting at the front of the stage is the captain.Captain Yoichi sat next to Kuchiki Byakuya's grandfather, the captain of the Sixth Division 100 years ago, Kuchiki Yinling, with his legs crossed and the corner of his mouth hooked, looking very excited.

"I said Urahara Kisuke, can't you use Hajime?" Otoki's tone was very unfriendly.

"But... this is just a competition, there's no need to go to this level..." Urahara Kisuke scratched his messy hair and said in embarrassment.

"You are not taking your opponent seriously, and you are disrespecting me." Yin Shu charged him with a blank expression.

"Eh? But..." Kisuke Urahara looked at her innocently and confused.

Compared with him 100 years later, Urahara Kisuke at this time is too honest with people. However, no matter who he is, it is hard work to get him to use all his abilities.

However, it was precisely because she lost to him in this competition that she had the opportunity to be the vice-captain of the second team.

Letting out a breath, retracting the knife, Yinshu raised his eyebrows and looked at him.

However, now she is trapped in the memories of her past, unable to get out, and does not know what will happen next.Do you want to do something to break through this deadlock... Anyway, she can't stay here all the time, right?It doesn't matter whether you are dead or alive after you go out.

Thinking of this, Otoki plunged the knife into the ground unceremoniously.

Everyone was slightly taken aback when they saw her actions.

Otoki smiled, stretched out his hand, facing Kisuke Urahara, and said slowly: "The fourth of the broken way - Bailei!"

Kisuke Urahara smiled helplessly, and stretched out his hand to stop the trick, but he didn't expect that Otoki's target was not him at all!That beam of white light passed over his head and hit the gods of death standing by the stage!

A bomb!The scene suddenly became chaotic!

Taking advantage of the confusion, Yinshu said softly: "Swastika Jie Ershi—"

Centered on the point where the knife was, the ground began to turn black as if it had been dyed with ink, and this black area continued to spread outward.

Pingzi had seen Yinshu's swastika move, and immediately cursed "idiot" inwardly, and stepped back instantly!

"Quickly back away!"

"What is this?!" Rukia's eyes widened in surprise, and she and Ichigo turned around and fled the area with Shunbu!

"This is Yinshu's second swastika, I just heard her talk about it..." Lisa said with a frown beside them.

"If you are curious, you can go and try it." Pingzi rushed to them and said a little uncomfortable.

"Have you tried it?" Ichigo was taken aback.

"I can't forget it even if I want to, that disgusting feeling like watching a horror movie I acted in!" Gritting his teeth, Pingzi said with a sullen face.

"Hirako!!" Hiyori's voice reminded him, glanced at the black who was about to catch up with him on the left, he frowned, and sped up the speed!

Rukia turned her head, looked at the lonely figure who was getting farther and farther away from them, bit her lower lip, turned around sharply in the next second, pulled out the Zanpakuto from her waist, and slashed on the roof, then swiped the knife inserted between the cracks.

Leaping up on the handle of the knife lightly, a circle of air flow swayed around her, and then she said in a deep voice: "The 31 of the broken way——Red Cannon!"

A small fireball flew straight towards the figure and exploded! !

The spread of black stagnated for a few seconds, but soon moved again, and there was a tendency to climb up to Rukia's Zanpakuto.

Rukia was startled, and was at a loss for what to do!

The next second, a hoarse voice sounded in a low voice:

"—Sit in the frosty sky, Hirinmaru!"

Otoki heard something, and in a daze, Yoruichi's black figure jumped between her and Urahara Kisuke.

Yin Shu was startled, and was about to tell her to leave quickly and not to touch this area, Ye Yi already pulled out her rarely used Zanpakuto as if she knew something, deftly turned her body upside down in the air, and pulled out the Zanpakuto Inserted into the wooden floor!

Taking advantage of a while, Yinshu withdrew the swastika and put the nightmare ghost into its sheath.

Leaning down, he landed firmly on the ground, pulled out the Zanpakuto and put it back into its sheath, Ye Yi stood in the center, blinked at her, then smiled and said loudly in that ever-changing hearty voice: "This is the end of the competition." Finish!"

This is the end of the competition, and the result?

100 years ago, when she stood on this stage and confronted Urahara Kisuke, she had just learned the swastika and hadn't grasped how to use it well, so of course she didn't have the chance to let others notice her.

Now she is in her own memory, she has fully learned the swastika, and has already used the swastika, but she tries her best to use it when others are not paying attention.As long as this cautious attitude exists for a day, even if it is a phantom, she will not be able to change it.

"Although I don't know what you're guarding against," Ye Yi said while sitting on the couch unruly, raising his eyebrows, "but the captain felt that you performed well in the two competitions, so he came directly to be the My vice-captain."

After going out, she saw the still young, not yet the captain of the second squad 100 years later, dressed in black, looking at her expectantly.

"I heard you beat Kisuke Urahara today?!"

Yinshu smiled helplessly. "Where did you hear that?"

"Everyone said that," Broken Bee was stunned for a moment, put down her excited tone, and asked in doubt, "Didn't you win?"

"Well, I was stopped by the captain when I was about to win," Otoki shook his head, and said in a very disappointed tone, "Sure enough, the captain is having an affair with Kisuke Urahara."

"Don't talk nonsense!!" Broken Bee blushed and said loudly.

Seeing Broken Bee like this, Yinshu couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at..." Broken Bee blushed, glared at her angrily, and then muttered, "Why do you always think you're weird..."

"Strange? But I think you've become very strange too," Yinshu raised his eyebrows and looked at her in doubt, but didn't explain much. He just patted her on the head and said leisurely, "From today In the beginning I was the vice-captain of the second team, and when I saw me in the future, I remembered calling out to let me have a good time.”

"Vice-deputy captain?!" Broken Bee exclaimed, "Didn't you beat Kisuke Urahara?"

It's not really a win.

But this kind of victory or defeat has not been her most concerned.

Suifeng doesn't like Kisuke Urahara, and hopes he can stay away from Yoichi, thinking that he can't do anything big.

However, she didn't think about it that much.

She challenged him because he was closer to Ye Yi, and she didn't like him because he knew Ye Yi very well.

Her only wish is to be closer to that handsome, formidable, hearty captain, a little closer.

Only this idea has never changed.

A few days later, she was approached by Kisuke Urahara.

As the captain of a stealth mobile unit, she needs to go on a mission with Kisuke Urahara this time.

Before fully entering the mission state, she went back to the room where Hitsugaya had been living.

"Xiaobai, do you know that I have finally become the vice-captain."

There is only the sound of gnawing watermelon.

"This time, Captain Yeyi sent me a mission. It's the first time the captain sent me down personally... Doesn't it sound very handsome?"

"Plop flop" a few times, the people around her ignored her, and spit out black melon seeds from their mouths.

The melon seeds fell in a parabola in the air, as if mocking her.

After staring at him for a while, the other party was finally blushed by her silent gaze, turned his head and looked at him strangely and said, "Why are you looking at me like this?"

Yinshu smiled, turned his head, lay down on the back, covered his eyes with his hands, looked at the glaring sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves, and said with a sigh: "No... just remembered something."

"Finally succeeded, I must work harder in the future! Comparing Kisuke Urahara, let the captain know that I am the best!"

"It really makes people wonder if you are a child..."

"...What are you talking about, Xiaobai..."

"Is this kind of thing so happy? Being a god of death or something..."

"There is a sense of passion that you can't understand!"

"..." A sigh.

"Hey, why do children sigh, they will grow old, and they will grow old all at once."

"I'm not a child anymore!!" After a pause, the voice said nonchalantly, "Then what happens after that? The vice-captain has always been your goal, right? What else can you do after the goal is achieved?"

"Xiaobai, do you have any questions to ask me?" Yinshu stopped recalling and raised his eyebrows after glancing at the silver-haired boy sitting next to her who suddenly stopped eating watermelon.

The other party turned his head and looked at her, as if hesitating.After a while, he said in that awkward tone: "What are you going to do when you become the vice-captain?"

Exactly the same question, even though they hadn't had the same conversation they had 100 years ago.

As expected of a memory, no matter what you do, you can change things back to the original way.

Yinshu chuckled and looked at the blue sky without any impurities.

By the way, how did she answer back then?

A cloud of dust drifted past, and the black surface was covered with a layer of ice that was emitting a cold air.

Stepping on the ice, carrying the Zanpakuto, he walked over step by step.

The figure standing in the distance remained motionless, as if waiting for him to walk over.

When he came to stop in front of her, Hitsugaya frowned, his lake green eyes were complicated, turning back and forth, and finally he opened his mouth slowly in a deep voice.

"Didn't you say that after becoming the vice-captain, you should work hard to be a real Shinigami like Yoichi Sifengin? Your so-called real Shinigami shouldn't look like this, right?"

Raising his hand slowly, he reached for the mask on her face, trying to suppress his voice so that it wouldn't tremble:

"Let me see your face."