Harry doesn't want to be a wizard, he wants to be a superhero

Rangiku paused for a moment, then realized what she meant: "Captain, you mean... there's something fishy about Aizen's death? Maybe it's fake?"

“Very likely,” Harry nodded. “Aizen has been plotting something all along, and now that Rukia’s execution is imminent, his sudden death is too much of a coincidence. If he really is dead, who will be the biggest beneficiary? If he faked his death, what is he planning?”

Aizen's death was definitely a meticulously planned act.

The purpose of this scene was probably to make everyone believe that the mastermind was dead, thus lowering their guard and allowing him to successfully obtain the Hogyoku on the day of his execution.

………………

The vermilion corridor outside the Fifth Division's barracks was taut with suppressed spiritual pressure, and the members of the First Division stood guard on both sides of the blockade, gripping their Zanpakuto.

As Harry led Rangiku Matsumoto, Toshiro Hitsugaya, and Momo Hinamori through the crowd, he could clearly feel the oppressive atmosphere surrounding them.

The panic of the Fifth Division members, the vigilance of the patrolling Shinigami, and the spiritual pressure emanating from the captains who arrived one after another, each with its own sharp edges.

The atmosphere at the scene was tense, as if it could explode at any moment.

"Captain of the 10th Division, this is where Captain Aizen died." Upon seeing Harry, the members of the 5th Division guarding the door didn't dare to breathe and stepped aside to make way.

From behind him, one could vaguely see a large pool of blood on the ground, and a figure lying on the ground.

Harry stepped into the clearing and immediately sensed the lingering spiritual pressure in the air.

There was no residual spiritual pressure from the intense battle, no trace of the culprit's spiritual power, only spiritual particles suspended in the air, no different from usual.

It's really clean.

In front of Harry, Aizen's body lay supine on the ground, a piercing wound tearing through his chest, dark red blood flowing down his clothes and staining the white killing intent stone.

His eyes were tightly closed, and his usually gentle features were now bloodless, even the strands of hair hanging down seemed deathly still.

The members of the Fifth Division crowded at the doorway, and no one dared to approach.

Several young team members had their heads down and their shoulders were trembling slightly.

The more senior team members had serious expressions and were whispering among themselves.

"How could this be?"

"Captain Aizen is so strong, who could kill him?"

The panic in their voices was palpable. They had never imagined that their captain, who always handled squad affairs with a smile and never criticized his members for their mistakes, would die in such a tragic way in the squad barracks.

"Shut up." A rough voice suddenly rang out. Kenpachi Zaraki, carrying Nohime, squeezed through the crowd. His crimson eyes swept over the corpses on the ground, and instead of sadness, a hint of impatience curled at the corners of his mouth.

"It's just a captain who died, what's with all this crying and wailing! You should use this time to find the killer and get revenge!"

He was about to leave when he was firmly held down by Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni's spiritual pressure.

Captain-Commander Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni stood in the center of the barracks, his body taut beneath his white haori, the wrinkles on his forehead furrowed deeply, and the anger in his eyes almost burning through the air.
"Zaraki! Behave yourself!"

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable authority that instantly silenced the entire Fifth Division barracks.

"Fifth Division members, clean up the scene immediately! Do not destroy anything! Division captains, stay here. Everyone else, leave!"

The members of the Fifth Division were relieved and quickly withdrew, leaving only the guards at the door.

Harry walked to the desk, squatted down, and without touching the corpse with his fingertips, he gathered a faint spiritual pressure and probed at the penetrating wound.

When the spiritual pressure passed through the bloodstains, Harry could clearly feel the spiritual energy fluctuations that a fresh wound should have, but it gave him a strange feeling.

As if touching an invisible membrane, the spiritual particles exhibited extremely subtle distortions at the wound site.

Harry sensed something was amiss. Although Aizen's corpse looked very real, it seemed to be fake in essence.

His instincts told him that there were indeed corpses ahead, but they were most likely not Aizen Sousuke's corpse!

"Hmph, a rare and perfect experimental subject indeed." Wearing white gloves, Mayuri Kurotsuchi approached Aizen's corpse, his eyes filled with excited inquiry. "Captain-Commander, it's rare to have a captain-level corpse. Could you hand this body over to me for experiments?"

He was about to reach out and touch Aizen's wrist when Yamamoto coldly stopped him:
"Hey! Don't move the corpse!"

Nie clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction, but still withdrew his hand.

Kuchiki Byakuya stood aside, not approaching the corpse, but scanning every corner around him, trying to glean some clues.

"The scene is too clean." He suddenly spoke, his voice cold. "Someone who could kill a captain-level Grim Reaper couldn't possibly leave no trace. Either the killer's ability to hide is far beyond our imagination, or..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but the suspicion in his eyes was obvious.

Harry's eyes flickered, but he still decided to voice his doubts: "Could it be that Captain Aizen faked his death? His death was completely unexpected. How could a captain-level figure be assassinated?"

"Captain Harry, watch your words." Yamamoto's gaze swept over, carrying a warning. "Aizen is dead. The most important thing now is to find the murderer, not to speculate wildly here."

Harry shrugged. He knew it. For the Captain-Commander, the truth didn't matter; what mattered was maintaining the stability of the Soul Society.

The captain was always too confident. He always believed that as long as he was there, he could suppress all heretics!
But he didn't know that there were at least three people in the Seireitei who were as strong as or even stronger than him!

The Captain-Commander is no longer invincible!
Harry shook his head and replied, "I just think it all feels a bit too contrived, like it's not real."

"Deliberately?" Kyoraku Shunsui waved his folding fan, his tone carrying his usual nonchalance, but his eyes held a sharp edge. "You mean, Aizen deliberately made us see him die here? But why would he do that?"

Harry shook his head without answering, because he had been 'idle' for the past few decades and knew far less about Soul Society than the other captains.

Although he quickly became familiar with the general situation of Soul Society after his resurrection, and even learned about some of Aizen's schemes, he still did not know what Aizen's specific goals were.

Seeing that Harry couldn't give a specific reason, Kyoraku Shunsui stopped asking.

Inside the Fifth Division barracks, the Captain-Commander continued to assign tasks to find the culprit.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi muttered to herself, "If only we could dissect it! It's such a rare specimen. What a waste!"
Kenpachi Zaraki had long lost his patience and leaned against the doorway with his sword on his shoulder.

Only Byakuya Kuchiki, Shunsui Kyoraku, and a few others would occasionally glance at the corpse, their eyes filled with the same suspicion as Harry's.

After searching for a long time, even the fourth division captain, Retsu Unohana, couldn't find anything. The other captains shook their heads and left.

In the end, only Harry and Retsu Unohana, the captain of the Fourth Division, remained on the scene. Unohana narrowed her eyes slightly, her tone still gentle as she spoke:

"Captain Harry, aren't you leaving? Those travelers haven't been dealt with yet."

"I'm going to take Captain Aizen's body for an autopsy now. Is there anything else?"

Harry calmly drew his Zanpakuto and released it.

Relying on his Zanpakuto's ability to control spiritual particles, he was finally able to see the true face of the corpse before him more clearly.

That was definitely not Aizen Sousuke's appearance, but rather that of an unfortunate member of the Fifth Division who had previously disappeared.

Seeing Harry's actions, Retsu Unohana's eyes grew even deeper, and she tentatively asked:
"I remember Captain Harry's Zanpakuto ability was to control spirit particles, right? Has Captain Harry made any discoveries yet?"

Harry didn't tell Retsu Unohana what he had seen, but instead pretended to be troubled and said:
"I haven't found anything either. It seems my previous suspicions were wrong. Captain Aizen's death is not a problem."

"Then, Captain Unohana, I'll leave the rest to you. Thank you for your hard work."

After Retsu Unohana nodded in acknowledgment, Harry turned and left.

Retsu Unohana stared thoughtfully at Harry's retreating figure.

In fact, compared to Captain Aizen, who is now very likely to fake his death, she was instinctively more wary of Captain Harry, who was only in his sixties or seventies.

If Captain Aizen is a deep, dark pool, what terrifying crisis is brewing within it?

Captain Harry is like a boundless ocean, ready to swallow the whole world at any moment.

She could still sense Aizen's unusual behavior, but she could hardly sense Harry's scheme.

If it weren't for her intuition constantly reminding her that Captain Harry was suspicious, and even the recent burst of high-intensity spiritual pressure from Harry that was completely different from his usual level, she would have really thought it was just her imagination.

Thinking of this, Retsu Unohana shook her head slightly. Recently, the waters of Soul Society have become increasingly murky, and even she, a captain for a thousand years, cannot see the truth of the Water Land.

But Unohana Retsu only thought about it briefly before putting it out of her mind.

Perhaps the deeper the waters of the Soul Realm are for her, the better, because one day an opponent will appear who can fight her to her heart's content.

After leaving the Fifth Division barracks, Harry went straight back to the Tenth Division barracks.

He didn't go out for the next few days, but instead gathered his friends at the 10th Division barracks, where they discussed something.

Meanwhile, several intense spiritual pressure battles have broken out in the outside world in the past few days.

Among them, the most eye-catching match was the duel between Ichigo Kurosaki and Kenpachi Zaraki, the captain of the 11th Division.

Because of Harry's spiritual pressure amplification array, Ichigo Kurosaki was initially overwhelmed by Kenpachi Zaraki.

However, the intense pressure also unleashed his potential, further enhancing his strength, thus allowing his spiritual pressure to truly reach the third level of spiritual power.

Combined with his various special characteristics and Kenpachi Zaraki's deliberate suppression of his spiritual pressure, he actually defeated Kenpachi Zaraki, the captain of the 11th Division.

Time flew by, and several days passed in the blink of an eye. Soon, the day arrived when Rukia Kuchiki was to be executed.

The dawn in Soul Society carried a biting chill, and the white stone steps in front of the Palace of Penitence were tinged white by the morning mist.

A densely packed line of Grim Reapers stood on both sides of the execution platform, their Shinigami robes fluttering slightly in the wind, yet not a single word could be heard.

All eyes were focused on the towering instrument of torture in the center of the square, the Double Torture.

The twin pillars forged from killing intent stone pierced the sky, their spears gleaming with a cold metallic luster, and the spiritual pressure swirling around them was so heavy it was suffocating.

That is the oldest instrument of punishment in Soul Society, bearing the name of purifying evil, a powerful instrument of punishment that can even pierce the body of a captain-level Shinigami.

Rukia was bound to the stone pillar in the center of the Twin Phantoms by a spiritual rope, and the collar of her Shinigami uniform was torn open, revealing her slender neck.

Her Zanpakuto, Sode no Shirayuki, had already been confiscated. Now, with her hands bound, her body hung limply at her sides.

Even as she faced death, her eyes showed no fear; she simply gazed calmly into the distance.

"The execution time is approaching," a Shinigami from the First Division whispered to First Division Captain Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni.

At the edge of the plaza, the captains of the Gotei 13 stood in a row, with Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni at the very front, his white haori fluttering in the morning breeze.

His grip on his cane tightened slightly, and his eyes were filled with solemnity.

Aizen's death is still under investigation, but Rukia's execution is imminent. The First Division Captain's intuition tells him that today will not be peaceful.

Kuchiki Byakuya stood in the captain's formation, his Zanpakuto gleaming coldly in the morning light.

He didn't look at Rukia on the Twin Stars, but he could clearly sense her steady spiritual pressure.

He was almost entirely involved in the capture of Rukia, and even repeatedly thwarted Ichigo Kurosaki and Renji Abarai's attempts to rescue her.

This doesn't mean he didn't love his sister; rather, in his mind, the honor of nobility was paramount.

To protect the Kuchiki family's reputation, he would sacrifice not only Rukia, but even himself!

Byakuya Kuchiki gripped the hilt of his Zanpakuto tightly, his knuckles turning white. Images of adopting Rukia years ago flashed through his mind, along with her smile during her first Shikai and other memories. His heart felt like it was being squeezed, and even his breathing became heavy.

"Hmph, hurry up, I can't wait to see that man!" Kenpachi Zaraki said impatiently, carrying Nohi.

Since his defeat to Ichigo Kurosaki, he has unsealed some of his spiritual pressure and is waiting for Ichigo Kurosaki to arrive.

Kurosaki Ichigo is one of the few opponents who gets his blood pumping, and he can't wait to fight Kurosaki Ichigo!
Harry stood beside Rangiku Matsumoto and Toshiro Hitsugaya, his green eyes fixed on the spear at the tip of the Twin Blades.

Today is very likely to be Aizen's celebration, but it's not just Aizen's celebration.

Today is also an opportunity for him. As long as he collects enough Spirit King fragments, he can use them to reduce the difficulty of devouring the Spirit King himself, and thus seize control of this world in one fell swoop!
From this perspective, he and Aizen had the same goal. However, Aizen only wanted to break through the boundary between Shinigami and Hollows, to break through the current limitations of his strength, so as to get closer to the Soul King.

Harry, on the other hand, wants to take control of the entire Death World!

"Captain, Ichigo hasn't arrived yet," Matsumoto Rangiku said in a low voice. "Judging by the time, he should have arrived at the Penitentiary by now. What if he doesn't come? Should we still proceed according to plan?" (End of Chapter)