Bleach: No cheat codes, he joined Aizen's side.

Chapter 327, Section 325: When everything is connected, the truth is not far away.
"The flowers are in a mess, the flower gods are crying, the sky is in a mess, the sky demons are sneering, the flowers are crazy!"

Appearing behind Higashino Shuichi was none other than the last Death God Captain, Kyoraku Shunsui, who had not yet made a move.

Generally speaking, when a battle reaches this intense stage, everyone involved should bring out their best skills.

Unless this is a noob-stomping match.

But clearly, this wasn't Kyoraku Shunsui's easy win.

If you really have to put it that way, it was Higashino Shuichi's (a character from Journey to the West) stomping of noobs.

Even Jushiro Ukitake, who rarely uses his Bankai, was forced to use his Zanpakuto's Bankai to save his life. How much more so for Shunsui Kyoraku, whose strength is not much stronger than Jushiro Ukitake?

However, Higashino Shuichi knew that this was because of the special nature of Kyoraku Shunsui's Bankai ability, which was why Kyoraku Shunsui would not use his Bankai right away.

Therefore, compared to Jushiro Ukitake, who used Bankai to easily float in this small world where the rules had been changed, Shunsui Kyoraku was not in particularly good condition even after coming behind Shuichi Higashino.

Kyoraku Shunsui relied entirely on his powerful spiritual pressure and strength to forcibly "move" himself to his current position.

As you can see, beneath Kyoraku Shunsui's white captain's haori, a considerable amount of blood has seeped from his body.

Faced with the menacing Kyoraku Shunsui, Higashino Shuichi simply turned around calmly, looked at Kyoraku Shunsui, and made no move.

"Ah"

An awkward smile squeezed out from the corner of Kyoraku Shunsui's mouth.

"Humph"

A cold laugh escaped from Higashino Shuichi's lips.

The originally heated battlefield atmosphere suddenly and dramatically froze.

Meanwhile, Kyoraku Shunsui, the instigator, was also experiencing a great deal of emotion.

"This isn't right."
Based on Yhwach's previous behavior, shouldn't he have turned around and attacked me without saying a word after discovering that I was behind him?

Why did he stop moving?

Kyoraku Shunsui was very frustrated. He suspected that Yhwach on the other side had seen his script in advance, otherwise why would the style of the story change so drastically when it came to him?
In fact, Kyoraku Shunsui was only half right.

Higashino Shuichi is currently relying on Yhwach's omniscient and omnipotent power, and his ability to foresee the future is inexplicably useless, even though he has temporarily defeated Yoruichi Shihouin.

But that's okay. Unlike Yhwach, who relies on his ability to foresee the future to make a living, Higashino Shuichi is not like Yhwach. Even if he can't foresee the future, he can still guess what Kyoraku Shunsui wants to do.

Deliberately reciting a perfectly standard chant without releasing one's Zanpakuto—Hideaki Higashino estimates that only Shunsui Kyoraku in the entire Soul Society would do something like that.

Higashino Shuichi was able to guess what Kyoraku Shunsui was thinking.

It's simply that Kyoraku Shunsui felt that even with the advantage of the rules, relying solely on the mandatory game of Shikai, he might not be able to defeat Higashino Shuichi. On the contrary, he himself might be trapped by the rule that one of them must die.

Therefore, Kyoraku Shunsui did not intend to rely on the Shikai of his Zanpakuto to fight against Higashino Shuichi.

But that's precisely where the problem lies. Higashino Shuichi is very clear that Kyoraku Shunsui's Zanpakuto Bankai ability, Katen Kyokotsu Kuromoshin, is a Bankai ability with a very special mechanism.

Its Bankai effect is unique in the entire Soul Society, possessing a unique ability to trace back the user's actions.

The effects of the first three acts after the activation of Katen Kyokotsu: Kuromoshin can all be traced back to the damage inflicted on each other by both sides before Kyoraku Shunsui activated his Bankai.

The more damage you inflict on the enemy before activating your Bankai, the more damage that enemy will receive after Kyoraku Shunsui activates his Bankai.

Furthermore, to use a term from many games, the damage dealt before activating Bankai is pre-tax damage that takes into account physical and magical resistance.

However, after Kyoraku Shunsui activated the Flower Heaven Kyokotsu: Black Pine Heart, the damage feedback from the Flower Heaven Kyokotsu: Black Pine Heart to those who caused the damage was all high-level true damage.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call Kyoraku Shunsui's Bankai ability a "true boomerang".

Furthermore, the effect of Kyoraku Shunsui's Bankai ability, the final scene in the heart of Katen Kyokotsu Kuromatsu, as a finishing move, is also related to the damage the opponent suffered in the first three scenes.

In other words, it depends on how much damage the opponent inflicted on Kyoraku Shunsui before he could use his Bankai.

It can be said that the more badly Kyoraku Shunsui was beaten before he achieved Bankai, the faster the person who beat him would die after he achieved Bankai.

As a transmigrator and someone who has been through it all, Higashino Shuichi is naturally very clear about Kyoraku Shunsui's Bankai ability, and can also understand Kyoraku Shunsui's purpose of deliberately deceiving him into attacking in this way.

Even though Shuichi Higashino didn't think that consuming all four acts of Kyoraku Shunsui's Bankai would lead to him being killed by Kyoraku Shunsui.

But as I said before, there's no need for Higashino Shuichi to risk his life for the sake of "he doesn't think so".

Because Higashino Shuichi doesn't want to shed his Yhwach persona yet, and because his current abilities are limited by a small portion of his omniscience and omnipotence for some unknown reason, he can't guarantee that he can kill Kyoraku Shunsui with a single blow.

Instead of gambling on whether Kyoraku Shunsui can unleash his Bankai before he dies, it's better to give Kyoraku Shunsui a cold treatment first.

After this brief silence, Higashino Shuichi slowly raised his right hand towards Kyoraku Shunsui.

Seeing this, Kyoraku Shunsui's expression remained unchanged, but inwardly he had already raised his alert level to the highest level.

"It seems that Yhwach hasn't discovered my little scheme yet?"
Is he planning to make a move against me?

Very good!
Is he planning to use that super-large holy bow he used before, combined with the powerful gravity around him, to create a fatal fall?
Or will they just create some new, special mechanisms out of thin air?
"Whatever it is, I just need to defend myself with all my might, make sure I don't die, and give myself a chance to unleash my Bankai!"

In a short moment, a great many contingency plans had already emerged in Kyoraku Shunsui's mind.

He even put himself in Higashino Shuichi's shoes, speculating what special mechanisms Higashino Shuichi would choose to create to attack him under such circumstances.

Regardless of the circumstances, as long as the rules of this world still involve spiritual pressure controlling spiritual particles, Kyoraku Shunsui, with his current immense spiritual pressure, has a fairly high degree of confidence in surviving Higashino Shuichi's attack. However, Kyoraku Shunsui calculated everything except that the Yhwach opposite him was not the real Yhwach. Therefore, this "Yhwach" possessed a trait that the original Yhwach could never possibly have mastered.

That is shamelessness.

Higashino Shuichi's raising of his hand was not intended to use any means of attack against Kyoraku Shunsui, but simply a farewell.

Because Higashino Shuichi felt that sending Kyoraku Shunsui away like this was a disservice to his appearance.

We should do something to leave him with a memento before he leaves.

Yes, it means exactly what it says: to send Kyoraku Shunsui away.

In Kyoraku Shunsui's pupils, which had probablyn't dilated much since he became the captain of the 8th Division, he saw that the area he was in was torn apart again by Yhwach's wave of his hand, turning into an even smaller world.

"I******"

To be honest, Kyoraku Shunsui has seen shameless people and scoundrels, but he swears that in his nearly 1,000 years in Soul Society, he has never seen anyone like this "Yhwach"!

Despite possessing overwhelming strength, even he chose to do this only as a desperate gamble.

Even so, Yhwach was unwilling to give himself a chance.

Even Aizen Sousuke, who had obtained the Hogyoku at the time, only turned and fled to Hueco Mundo when he was forced to fight to the bitter end!
No, that's not right. Kyoraku Shunsui suddenly remembered that he had actually met someone similar.

That is the former Soul Society's Great Sword Hunter, Higashino Shuichi, who is now imprisoned in the Avici Hell and will not be able to get out for at least several hundred years.

That was a guy who would stop at nothing to win.

It's just that comparing Higashino Shuichi with the Quincy King Yhwach in front of him...
Kyoraku Shunsui shook his head inwardly. What was he thinking?

At a time like this, he still has the mind to think about such things?
Putting aside Kyoraku Shunsui's frustrating experience, Higashino Shuichi's temporary banishment of Kyoraku Shunsui did not mean that he could rest easy.

After temporarily separating the area where Kyoraku Shunsui was located, the small world where Higashino Shuichi was located was now filled with thick iron chains that connected the four directions of heaven and earth.

At the same time, Higashino Shuichi could clearly feel that the concentration of spiritual particles in the entire space had become thinner due to the presence of these chains. Even in the Soul Society, in the Rukongai Ooku, the area furthest from Seireitei, the concentration of spiritual particles was stronger than in this world.

Higashino Shuichi suspected that the concentration of spiritual particles around him was probably not much higher than that of the Exile Zone outside the Rukongai in Soul Society.

The Land of Exile in Soul Society is a place where non-human souls like Komamura Sajin reside.

"Is this also your weapon, Death?"

Higashino Shuichi looked at Yoruichi Shihouin, who was struggling to get up from the ground, gripping the Eight Mirrors Sword, and asked her a question.

In such an environment, even if the world wanted to maintain its original suppression, it would be powerless to do so.

Yoruichi Shihouin, on the other hand, was panting heavily, responding to Shuichi Higashino with a confident smile.

"Don't underestimate our Shihōin family; we're known as the Heavenly Armored Squad!"

Shuichi Higashino wasn't sure how much of Yoruichi Shihouin's smile was genuine and how much was an act.

However, Higashino Shuichi knew very well that while the Shihōin family was indeed known as the "Heaven-sent Armored Family," and they did possess many divine artifacts, none of them included the thick chains that filled the entire small world before him.

The aura emanating from the chains made Higashino Shuichi feel that even he, if he accidentally touched them, would be at risk of having his spiritual energy drained.

That wasn't a simple extraction of spiritual particles; it was a direct, temporary absorption of Higashino Shuichi's maximum spiritual power.

That's an effect that even if Higashino Shuichi had the Soul King's left leg, he couldn't fix.

So weird!

If everything before was still usable for Higashino Shuichi, it was his appearance that created the butterfly effect, leading to events that didn't quite match his memories.

So now, the so-called family heirloom that Yoruichi Shihouin has pulled out is completely trampling on Shuichi Higashino's understanding.

Is this an attempt to deceive Higashino Shuichi into thinking he's reckless, or an attempt to deceive him into thinking he's short-sighted?

How can you so blatantly target us and still claim it's all just a series of coincidences?
Moreover, this reminded Higashino Shuichi of something that he found so unbelievable; he had actually had similar realizations long before.

That was the battle that took place in the present world between Toshiro Hitsugaya and Grimmjow.

At that time, Toshiro Hitsugaya was able to suddenly master Bankai and directly unleash its power to a level where he could fight Grimmjow, ultimately resulting in a near-mutual destruction between them.
This fact already puzzled Higashino Shuichi at the time.

However, due to a series of events that followed, coupled with Higashino Shuichi's subconscious acceptance of important characters in Japanese manga suddenly unleashing their full potential at crucial moments, he didn't delve too deeply into the matter.

But now, when Higashino Shuichi thinks about it, isn't Hitsugaya Toshiro back then exactly the same as Yoruichi Shihouin now?
And ever since Shuichi Higashino, as Yhwach, led the Nova Crusaders back to the present world, his ability to foresee the future has basically become useless.

And the Ise family's sacred weapon, the Eight Mirrors Sword.
When Higashino Shuichi connected all of these things together, only one sentence came to mind.

"Someone is targeting him!"

Even though it seems that Higashino Shuichi was indeed the beneficiary of the incident involving Hitsugaya Toshiro, the incident revolved around Higashino Shuichi, so Higashino Shuichi also included it in the category of incidents targeting him.

After all, targeting can have both advantages and disadvantages.

Immediately afterwards, in Higashino Shuichi's mind, this sentence was quickly reduced to two words.

More accurately, it is a person's name.
"The Spirit King!"

Higashino Shuichi never imagined that there could be a second being in this world, capable of interfering with this world with such power.

(End of this chapter)