PDLP Chapter 673 Putting the blame on
Chapter 673 Putting the blame on
Yuko stood silently for a moment, then sheathed her Zanpakuto. After confirming Rukia's spiritual pressure at the top of the tower once more, she didn't linger and disappeared back into the night.
Yuko's figure appeared silently in the room, startling Yoruichi from his nap.
"So, did you see Rukia?"
Yoruichi's words startled Inoue Orihime, who was resting against the wall, and she cried out in delight.
"teacher!"
Yuko sat down cross-legged on her own, glanced at Inoue Orihime, and nodded slightly: "Rukia is indeed in the Penitentiary."
Orihime Inoue breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great."
Yoruichi rolled her eyes: "What's so great about it? We just confirmed Rukia's location."
"Next, you will be facing the entire Gotei 13."
"hey-hey."
Orihime Inoue playfully stuck out her tongue.
Yoruichi sighed and looked at Yuuko, noticing that Yuuko was frowning and deep in thought. He couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? You've been distracted since earlier."
Yuko glanced at Inoue Orihime and said calmly, "I ran into Aizen."
Yoruichi's golden eyes narrowed slightly: "Is that so?"
After all, Rukia is in the Penitentiary Palace, so it's not surprising that Aizen would be keeping an eye on that place.
"Are you being followed?"
They were essentially playing their cards openly with Aizen. Aizen's goal was to ensure the execution proceeded smoothly and ultimately steal the Hogyoku from Rukia's body, while their goal was to force Aizen to expose himself in order to seize the Hogyoku.
Therefore, the crucial moment must be during the execution of Shuangji.
Before that, Aizen's only task was to use the Gotei 13 to successfully locate and stop them.
Orihime glanced at Yoruichi, then at Ikuko, and asked curiously, "Sensei, who is Aizen?"
"Orihime, you can go out now."
"Eh?"
Before Inoue Orihime could react, she had already teleported to the outside. Her figure, which had been kneeling in the room, suddenly appeared outside.
She blinked in confusion, wanting to go back but finding the door locked.
……
Seeing her commotion, Yoruichi's brow furrowed with seriousness: "What's wrong?"
Yuko didn't answer, but instead asked, "What is the Spirit King?"
Yoruichi's expression changed from calm to horror. She used Shunpo to rush to Yuuko's face and cover her mouth: "Hey, where did you hear that name from?"
Yuko, unable to see anything because of her blocking the view, complained, "Your paws were just jumping around on the ground a moment ago."
"Shut up and answer me!" Yoruichi shook her head, crawled around her once, and then jumped back to the ground.
"You've completely become like a cat."
Yuko first made a sarcastic remark about the person, and then replied, "Of course it's Aizen, who else could it be? What? Is that so-called king the local tyrant of Soul Society?"
"No discussion allowed?"
Yoruichi's expression was more solemn than ever before: "...No, this matter is very complicated and of great importance, and it is difficult for me to explain it to you in a short time."
“Really? It’s alright.” Yuko didn’t seem too concerned and continued, “But I think I know Aizen’s purpose now.”
"Aizen invited me to join him, apparently saying he wanted to seize the Soul King's throne and become some kind of local tyrant."
Yoruichi squinted: "Is that so? Then that makes things clear."
“That’s not the problem.” Yu Zi crossed her arms. “I suspect he was waiting there to set me up.”
"It's just your imagination, isn't it?" Yoruichi looked up. "Did he see you when you came back?"
"No, it shouldn't be, but I just have a gut feeling." Yuko said, then changed the subject, "The Bankai and Shikai abilities of a Zanpakuto shouldn't be drastically different, right?"
Yoruichi frowned: "Are you talking about Aizen? Is there something wrong with his abilities?"
"Yes, he disappeared before my eyes."
"……I do not understand."
“I have already used Bankai to remove the effect of his Kyoka Suigetsu. Logically speaking, his Shunpo should not be so fast that I cannot detect it at all…” Yuko fell into deep thought. “If it is not because he has an enemy with a space-time Zanpakuto ability helping him… then it means that I have not yet removed the effect of Kyoka Suigetsu.”
Yoruichi's pupils contracted slightly: "How could this be?!"
"Your ability should be..." Yoruichi's voice was also very low, her golden cat eyes full of solemnity, "to interfere with and reshape everything in the world. No matter how strong Aizen's Kyoka Suigetsu is, it is ultimately just an illusion that deceives the five senses, and should be directly erased by your ability."
Yuko paused for a moment, then asked, "Do you think it could be due to a difference in spiritual pressure?"
“Impossible.” Yoruichi shook her head without hesitation. “It is indeed difficult to bridge the gap in spiritual pressure with abilities, but even if his spiritual pressure is strong, it must still be within the range of first-class spiritual pressure, at least not stronger than the Captain-Commander.”
The main reason is that Yuuko's abilities are so powerful that Yoruichi simply doesn't believe Aizen could deceive Yuuko so easily.
Yuko was silent for a moment: "Anyway, be careful."
Yoruichi sighed, "That's the only way."
……
The next morning, as the first rays of sunlight pierced through the paper windows and shone into the courtyard of the Fourth Division, the entire Seireitei was still immersed in tranquility.
The patrol team searched all night but failed to find any trace of the traveler.
At this moment, a six-person team was patrolling not far from the Palace of Repentance.
"Hey, is there really an intruder?" One of the team members, who had stayed up all night, couldn't help but complain.
"..."
Having received no response from his companion, the man turned around and said, "Hey, I asked you a question..."
"What are you doing?" He paused for a moment, and seeing his companion staring at him with a terrified expression, he instinctively turned his head.
On the outside of the white tower of the Confession Palace, in the middle section of the tower, something seems to be hanging there, swaying gently in the morning breeze.
"What's that? Which squad hung their flag there?" He frowned, his eyes focusing for a moment.
When he saw the thing in its entirety, the color drained from his face instantly, and his pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints due to extreme fear.
That's not a flag.
That's a person.
A person dressed in a white captain's haori was hung on the wall of the Confession Palace. Blood stained the white wall, leaving a shocking trail of blood from top to bottom.
That is……
"Aizen... Captain?!" A terrified scream shattered the tranquility of Seireitei in the early morning.
"Enemy attack! Fifth Division Captain Aizen Sousuke has been killed!!"
The alarm blared through the sky, and the entire Seireitei was instantly engulfed in this earth-shattering news.
Before long, the area outside the Palace of Repentance was surrounded by Death Gods who had rushed there upon hearing the news, including many captains and vice-captains from various squads.
When they saw the horrific scene on the wall, they all gasped in horror.
who is it?
They didn't even sense the burst of spiritual pressure.
This indicates that Captain Aizen was killed in a very short time.
Who could kill a captain so quickly? The entire Gotei 13 didn't even have time to react.
Even yesterday, when the treacherous travelers stormed into Seireitei and martial law was declared.
That's the team captain!
The Gotei 13 consists of only thirteen members.
"What...what happened?" Hinamori Momo collapsed to the ground in shock, unable to believe her eyes. Captain Aizen, who had always been gentle and kind and treated her like family, had actually done this...
"Momo!" The captain of the 10th Division, Toshiro Hitsugaya, quickly helped her up, his icy blue eyes also filled with shock and anger.
"Was it the work of the travelers? Even the captain was no match for them..."
"very scary……"
The crowd was abuzz with discussion, and panic spread through them.
"quiet!"
Captain-Commander Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, leaning on a cane, slowly walked over, surrounded by a group of captains.
He raised his head, a glint of light flashing in his aged eyes, and the heavy spiritual pressure, as heavy as a mountain, instantly silenced the surrounding noise.
Once everyone had quieted down, he turned his head slightly and said in a deep voice, "Captain Unohana, I'm counting on you."
"Yes, Captain."
Retsu Unohana nodded slightly, and in a flash, she appeared in mid-air, arriving beside Aizen's corpse.
"..."
Surprisingly, there wasn't the slightest flaw.
It looked just like a real corpse.
Based on this initial assessment, Retsu Unohana made this judgment.
Even if Retsu Unohana knew in advance that she might be under the influence of the "Mirror Flower Water Moon" ability, she couldn't find any problem with it.
If it weren't for her life-or-death bond with Yuko, she would have found it hard to believe Yuko after seeing this.
She quietly brought Aizen's body back to the ground and squatted down to begin examining it.
Just as Unohana Retsu was about to examine it closely, she suddenly froze, opened Aizen's clenched fist, and found a strand of white hair in her palm.
Unohana Retsu's pupils contracted slightly.
Could it be that Yuko went out last night...? No, that's impossible...
Putting aside the fact that Aizen was the culprit who forced Hirako and the others to become Hollows a hundred years ago, it remains to be seen whether Ikuko can defeat him in a short time.
If this really happened last night, then Yuko has no reason to hide it from her.
Upon seeing the hair in Aizen's palm, Kyoraku Shunsui's eyes trembled: "That hair..."
Gin Ichimaru squinted and said with a smile, "Oh my, this spiritual pressure... reminds me of a certain extraordinary guy."
The veteran Shinigami present all sensed a familiar spiritual pressure fluctuation emanating from that strand of hair.
Without a doubt, that belongs to...
Boom!
As the cane pounded the floor until it cracked, a powerful spiritual pressure erupted from the Captain-Commander's body. The vice-captains present felt a tightness in their chests, not to mention the other members, who even found it difficult to breathe.
Oh no, Yuko.
Unohana Retsu's eyes darkened slightly. Regardless of whether it was Aizen or not, now it was like mud had fallen into his pants—even if it wasn't shit, it was still shit.
This hat is probably not going to be easy to take off.
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni's eyes sharpened, and he asked in a deep voice, "Where is the Fifth Division Lieutenant?"
"I'm here." Hinamori Momo, suppressing her grief, stepped forward.
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni asked directly, "When did Captain Aizen leave the team last night? Did he show any unusual behavior?"
Logically speaking, a team leader wouldn't go to the Palace of Repentance in the middle of the night without a special reason.
Hinamori Momo forced herself to snap out of her grief and recall what had happened last night.
“Last night, the captain did leave the barracks after finishing his duties.”
"Where did he go?" Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni asked in a deep voice.
“I…I asked the captain, and he said…” Hinamori Momo’s mind flashed with Aizen’s gentle, spring-like smile, and her heart ached. “He said he ran into an old acquaintance and was going to see him.”
"It seems, it seems..." Hinamori Momo said, then involuntarily looked at Unohana Retsu, "It seems to be the Fourth Division."
Fourth Division?
The infiltration of the traveler was silent and has not been traced to this day. Could it be that he is not outside at all, but has infiltrated the squad?
That makes sense.
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni glanced at Unohana Retsu. Although he couldn't quite figure out what this woman was thinking, he didn't doubt Unohana Retsu.
However, others don't think so.
After saying all this, Hinamori Momo collapsed sadly into Hitsugaya Toshiro's arms.
With one hand supporting Momo Hinamori, Toshiro Hitsugaya calmly asked Retsu Unohana, "Captain Unohana, could you please explain this?"
"Explain what?" Retsu Unohana said calmly. "I did not sense any unusual spiritual pressure in the Fourth Division, and Captain Aizen did not come to the Fourth Division yesterday either."
Kyoraku Shunsui pressed down on the brim of his hat: "Perhaps Captain Aizen was deliberately lured here."
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni glanced at Unohana Retsu and said in a deep voice, "Conduct a full search of the Fourth Division!"
"Yes, Captain-Commander." Retsu Unohana bowed slightly, but she was already out of options.
She's here now and can't remind Yuko, so she just hopes Yuko and the others will be quick-witted.
It would be terrible if they were all caught in one fell swoop.
As for her hiding criminals?
I'm sorry, I have absolutely no idea.
Their clothes and such were also stolen from the Fourth Division.
At this point in the drama, she could no longer offer Yuko any protection. The rest was up to her.
But it's really disheartening, Captain Aizen.
This method...
The Fourth Division, in a remote corner.
Yuko, who was meditating cross-legged, suddenly opened her eyes, a hint of surprise flashing in her golden double pupils.
Almost at the same time, Yoruichi also woke up from her dozing, her fur standing on end as she transformed into her black cat form.
"This spiritual pressure is..."
"Oops!"
The two said in unison.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Inoue Orihime, hearing the two commotion in her sleep, quickly sat up. "Was it an earthquake?"
Her face still had a sleepy, dazed look.
Yuko complained, "This is much more troublesome than an earthquake."
Right now, at least three captain-level spiritual pressures are closing in on their location at an alarming speed.
The undisguised spiritual pressure seemed to confirm their location.
Did Sister Hua sell them out?
How infuriating! She clearly trusted Sister Hua so much!
Yoruichi hissed, "Quickly wake up Ichigo and the others!"
Yu Zi broke out in a cold sweat: "That's true... but I'm afraid it's too late."
"boom--!!"
With a loud bang, the roof of the room was ripped off by a powerful force.