Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 403 Konohamaru, Flesh Spray

"Captain, are you looking for me?"

After a winding and circuitous journey, Luca arrived at Mayuri Kurotsuchi's private laboratory. Without any hesitation, he pushed the door open and entered, greeting Mayuri, who had his back to him.

Based on Luca's understanding of his captain over the years, if he were truly conducting some important experiment and didn't want others to disturb him...

Therefore, the main gate would inevitably be locked, and traps would be set up directly above it to isolate interference.

Now that he had pushed the door open with his bare hands, he hadn't been electrocuted or knocked out by any random toxins, so there was no need to worry about disturbing the other party's work.

As expected, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, who was busy with something, showed no displeasure at Luca's abrupt entry.

Instead, he casually picked up a box from the side and tossed it to Luca, who had just entered.

"This is your proposed meat droplet and related technical information."

"However, I think that the gaseous defensive form you mentioned is not conducive to control after disintegration, and it is easy for the enemy to counter it by manipulating airflow. Therefore, this version is still only aimed at the transformation of the body into a liquid state."

"As for further gaseous changes, you can study them on your own if you're interested."

After speaking, Mayuri stared intently at Luca for a long time, and seeing that there was no sign of difficulty on his face, he nodded in satisfaction.

"It seems you've made pretty good progress in your studies on physical modification and biological agents lately."

Upon hearing this, Luca temporarily abandoned his intention to open the box and instead put on a gentle smile.

"There has been some progress, although we are still far behind you, Captain, but at least we can understand the existing information."

"Besides, it's actually not bad for me to do the follow-up research on this myself, is it?"

After several years of getting to know each other, Luca has gained a deeper understanding of Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi's personality.

Although the other party seems cold and cruel, their occasional behavior can make them seem crazy and perverted.

But in reality, he is a very rational person, so rational that he even has a somewhat divine personality.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi has a value system that is unique to him.

Everything has its own 'weight' in Mayuri Kurotsuchi's eyes.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he is the purest 'Gotei 14 captain'.

In order to maintain stability in the three realms, he could carry out a large-scale massacre of the common people in Rukongai.

They could also use their own men as human bombs to attack the enemy because they could only cause negligible damage.

However, when sacrificing himself can achieve a more valuable goal, he will not hesitate to place himself on the scales that are responsible for weighing him.

If a Zanpakuto's power is insufficient, then modify it; if one's own physical body is not strong enough, then abandon the body and choose a more useful mechanical substitute.

In short, as long as you are considered a valuable being in Mayuri Kurotsuchi's eyes, he will actually be quite tolerant of most of your actions.

This is why, even though Mayuri Kurotsuchi has shown so much cruelty, the higher-ranking members and researchers within the 12th Division still hold him in high esteem.

Just like the 'meat droplets' that Luca has proposed right now.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi himself felt that the suggestion was quite valuable, and Luca's talent also gave him ample reason to believe it.

He wouldn't mind spending his own time to help bring this result to fruition.

However, what Mayuri Kurotsuchi didn't know was that 'flesh spray' was actually a life-saving trump card he had developed in the original story. Moreover, Luca's desire for this technology wasn't for turning into a puddle of mud to escape in case of danger.

'Is it impossible to transform the physical body into a gaseous state, or into spiritual particles?'

'If it's just a liquid, it seems difficult to achieve the effect I want in terms of either fluidity or diffusion range. It looks like I'll need to make improvements myself.'

'Furthermore, a completely gaseous state isn't conducive to combat. It would be best to create a limiter for this thing, ensuring that during combat, only a portion of its body is converted into a gaseous state or diffused in a spirit particle form.'

Luca was pondering how to improve the 'meat droplets', while Mayuri Kurotsuchi didn't interrupt him, simply turning back to his work with a nonchalant air.

It wasn't until Luca came to his senses that he spoke again and gave the order.

"There's another reason I called you here today."

"Tomorrow is the graduation day for this year's students of the Shinigami Academy. It just so happens that your class is graduating this year. If you are interested, you can take my place and recruit this year's members."

After Mayuri finished speaking, he waved his hand to signal Luca to leave without waiting for a reply.

Time flies, I wonder if Renji and the other two will still rejoin their original squads.

After leaving Mayuri Kurotsuchi, Luca did not return to his own communications technology department.

In fact, although he gained some fame in the Seireitei for developing an advanced version of the communication device, and was promoted to head of the communications department as a result.

In reality, Luca only helped the Communications Department build some Spirit Communication Base Stations and corresponding signal transceiver integration equipment in the early stages, and then he rarely stayed in the Communications Department.

Because the knowledge I possess is quite complex, and I want to learn as much as I can about everything.

So Luca actually spends most of his time 'moving' between laboratories in other departments.

Of course, many other departments, including the laboratories where the director and deputy director of the Technology Bureau work, would also welcome such a versatile talent as him to participate in and help with research.

So much so that later, because many projects made good progress due to his involvement, Luca even earned a somewhat sarcastic yet respectful title within the technical bureau, similar to 'Little Director'.

However, Luca did not go to other departments to learn from them, but instead went straight back to the 12th Division barracks to his own room, the third seat.

He skillfully closed the door, turned on the lights, and activated the spiritual pressure isolation and shielding device.

Immediately afterwards, Luca drew his Zanpakuto from his waist and placed it in front of him, muttering softly.

"Read it, Core Key!"

The next moment, blue light flowed.

The black longsword in its initial form slowly appeared.

However, if you look closely, you can see that...

At this moment, the flowing blue patterns on the black sword's blade were slightly different from those five years ago.

After completing his initial release, Luca first looked at the 'Flesh Spray Potion' he had brought back. After hesitating for a moment, he did not directly insert the tip of his sword into the potion bottle, perhaps to obtain information.

Instead, he simply thrust his longsword into the ground beneath his feet.

As he rapidly absorbed the limited information belonging to the earth, Luca spoke softly to the 'air'.

"Senior Mole City, it seems like it's been a while since we last contacted each other~"

(End of this chapter)