I'm really not the number one slacker in Soul Society.

"I understand."

Aizen smiled and nodded, then extended his hand to Mima: "I have indeed seen the sincerity of the messenger-san—I am willing to establish this cooperative relationship, and I look forward to working with you in the future."

“This will be a wise choice.” Mima also revealed an impeccable smile, then grasped Aizen’s hand: “Then I wish us a pleasant cooperation.”

"Pleasant to work with."

Great, it's done!

If we were to use a video game as an analogy, this current experience is a crucial hurdle—if you pass it successfully, you'll get the ace support character, greatly reducing the difficulty of future games; but if you do, you'll push the ace support character to the other side and make them the boss.

This is much harder than the Szayelaporro level.

But the result was great!

Chapter Sixty: A Temporary Farewell

"Now that we've reached an agreement, let's part ways for the time being."

Mima released Aizen's hand: "I have other things to deal with, and I believe you do too... An incident involving four captains, three vice-captains, and a vice-Kido Master is rare even in the entire history of the Gotei 13—let me make this clear from the start, in this matter I am just a henchman, and you will have to handle the aftermath yourself."

“Of course.” Aizen nodded. “I naturally have ways to handle the aftermath, especially after the messenger’s help.”

"Whatever... Oh, right, there's one more thing."

Mima spread her hands at Aizen: "Do you have his contact information? You don't want me to openly come to the Fifth Division barracks to find you in the future, do you?"

“It’s simple, I’ve already prepared it, Tosen—” Aizen gestured for Tosen to come forward, took a map from his hand, and then handed it to Mima. “If you need to contact me, just go to the building marked on the map and knock on the door in the order of three light knocks followed by one heavy knock followed by one light knock. I will come over in person soon… or send someone to communicate with the messenger.”

...It has the feel of a spy movie.

Mima took the map, glanced at it, and noticed that it marked a house in an alley in the fourth district of West Rukongai. He couldn't help but sigh.

—It seems Aizen really owns a lot of properties.

"Received, understood." Mizhen tucked the map into her sleeve. "Then I wish us a pleasant cooperation once again."

He took two steps back and gradually disappeared into the shadows of the woods.

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Let's turn back time a little.

"Captain Urahara, she has indeed left."

Goryu Tessai released his hand from the ground—that was one of the many secret techniques of the Kido sect, used to increase spiritual pressure perception, and often used by Kido members for large-scale reconnaissance.

"Yeah……"

Urahara, who was checking on everyone's condition under the tree, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.

Hirako, who was helped to sit up, let out a painful groan and then slowly opened her eyes.

"Kisuke..." Hirako clenched her fists tightly, overcoming the waves of pain surging from deep within her body, and then forced a laugh. "Sorry for making you see me like this..."

"Don't be stubborn, Captain Hirako."

Urahara lifted the hood of his cloak and looked at the masks that appeared on the faces of the wounded, one by one.

Then he focused his gaze on Mi Zhen and asked him eagerly:

"Watanabe, fifth seat, did you see what that person did?"

At this moment, Mi Zhen's clone was ashen-faced, so it wouldn't be surprising if he were to pass away any second later.

—That's true. The blood loss from having your hand cut off is so great that anyone with a weak constitution would collapse on the spot.

He straightened up, panting, and replied, "...She pretended to be wounded...deceiving us, and then, while everyone was dealing with Kensei and Bai...she slashed everyone..."

Urahara immediately grasped the key point: "A slash wound? Are you sure it was a slash wound?"

Mima nodded: "That's right..."

"Watanabe, you've also been injured... Could it be that your 'Ability Creation' can't be made intangible? Damn it... I know too little information..."

Urahara muttered to himself as he pondered, while Tessai used some basic healing techniques on the wounded. Meanwhile, Mima laboriously moved to Lisa's side, and seeing her panting in pain, he swallowed a sigh.

If the Visoreds and Kisuke Urahara don't leave Soul Society, many things will fall into chaos.

He cannot afford to lose his "prophet" advantage until at least Ichigo Kurosaki is born, so this is... the right choice.

As for the pain that has been caused... we can only try to make up for it later.

Mima urgently interrupted Urahara's thoughts: "Captain Urahara, Lisa and the others..."

“I…can’t guarantee it.” Urahara lowered his head, his tone full of hesitation: “I have the methods, but this is the first time I’ve encountered a real case like this.”

"In that case, I'll leave this to Captain Urahara."

Mima weakly raised his arms, which had no hands: "But before that, please, Captain Urahara, take down this clone of mine... I'm sorry to have to trouble you, but I can't even lift a knife right now, so I have to ask you for help."

Urahara understood what he meant, nodded, and then picked up Benihime and walked over: "I'll trouble Watanabe, the fifth seat, to pass on the information."

"Of course, I went to the headquarters immediately as soon as I woke up."

“But there is one thing I need to remember, Watanabe, the fifth seat.” Urahara approached Mima. “Before I return, please keep the details of your injuries a secret for now—you don’t need to lie, just be vague. Otherwise, everyone’s situation will be very bad.”

Because of the hostile relationship with Hollows, "touching the power of Hollows" is undoubtedly a taboo in the Seireitei, let alone "becoming a Hollow directly." If Yama relays the situation exactly as it is, Yama will have to dismiss them all before the Chamber of Forty-Six even gives the order.

"I see."

Mima agreed, then turned her head to look at Lisa's profile and sighed with some reluctance.

It will be a long time before we meet again...

"Watanabe, the fifth seat, please forgive me."

Urahara raised his hand, then lowered it, a flash of light from the blade.

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Inside the Eighth Division barracks, Mima took a deep breath and straightened up abruptly as if she had just woken from a nightmare.

Upon seeing this, the guards were immediately alarmed and rushed over to support Yama, helping him catch his breath while anxiously asking, "Watanabe, what happened?"

At this moment, Mi Zhen was covered in cold sweat, her face was pale, and she looked completely drained, which was even a bit creepy.

—This isn't acting!

After expending a lot of spiritual pressure in his battles with Tessai and Kisuke Urahara, Yama finally had some free time, as his spiritual pressure had been strained by the divine sword. So he moved all his spiritual pressure to the other side, making it easier for the "main body" on the Seireitei side to show a weakened appearance due to the exhaustion of spiritual pressure.

Normally, he would just pretend to suppress his released spiritual pressure by holding his breath, but he had to go to the headquarters to report. If he did something wrong in his disguise and Old Man Shan and Chunshui noticed, all his previous acting would be for nothing.

"quick……"

Mi Zhen coughed twice, struggled to get up, and anxiously shouted to the surrounding soldiers, "Quick, take me to the headquarters! Something terrible has happened!"

"But Watanabe, the fifth seat, your body..."

"Stop talking nonsense! Take me there now! It'll be too late if we're any later!"

Chapter 61: The Non-existent Enemy

Seeing Mima's anxious appearance, the team members did not dare to delay and immediately went to notify the third and fourth seats of the Eighth Division. The latter two helped Mima up from the left and right and quickly ran towards the headquarters.

While acting like a terminally ill patient who is about to die, Mima was rapidly imagining what would happen next in her mind.

Aizen still has the "Kyoka Suigetsu" card to play, so it's a foregone conclusion that Urahara will take the blame.

The old man and his group will also see the evidence fabricated by Aizen. With "seeing is believing," Urahara and the Visoreds still have only one way out: to escape to the real world.

What he wanted to do was not to change the course of events, but to provide the Gotei 13 with information—the image of the "mysterious woman who defeated several captains"—before the "evidence" was exposed.

As originally planned, after tonight, the Visoreds and Urahara had been preparing how to deal with Aizen—but now, with his help, the hypothetical enemy has been replaced by a strange being that has never appeared in Soul Society before, and no matter how hard they rack their brains, they can't figure out what it is.

The benefits are obvious. Because of the intelligence error, no matter how brilliant Urahara is, his strategy will inevitably have oversights. As long as he manipulates things further and creates more misleading information, Aizen can completely go into the shadows and implement his century-long plan without any worries.

In this way, the damage he inflicted on the nobility and the Forty-Six Chambers system would likely be far greater than in the original story.

Mima may seem to have taken the blame, but he actually doesn't care at all.

Because his core support is "Watanabe Yama" rather than "Messenger", even if things get out of hand, he can just fake his death and never use the Moonlit Skin again.

This is the unique composure of those who are not afraid of death.

And one more thing--

In the original story, the Gotei 13 received news that "Kisuke Urahara had conducted evil experiments on several captains" without their knowledge, and they also saw the evidence, which led the 46th Chamber to unilaterally issue the order.

But now, he will deliver the intelligence to the Gotei 13 first—even if he can't change the outcome, he can still take the opportunity to plant a seed of discontent in the captains' hearts.

Soon... they arrived at the First Squad's barracks.

"Report——"

The 8th Division member who was sent to deliver the message knelt in front of the headquarters meeting room and shouted, "The 5th Seat of the 8th Division, Watanabe Yama, has important business to discuss with the captains!"

The meeting room was silent for a few seconds, then a series of hurried footsteps sounded, and the door was suddenly pulled open.

It is spring water.

When he saw Mima being supported by the team members, his face turned pale.

But he regained his composure in just a few seconds, immediately stepped forward, had the other team members let go, and personally took Mijin's shoulder.

"Captain... I'm sorry, I..."

"Don't rush..." Chunshui took a deep breath, making sure her tone was completely steady, "Let's go inside and talk."

"……clear."

Afterwards, Chunshui helped Mizhen into the meeting room where several team leaders were gathered.

Kuchiki Ginrei and Ukitake Jushiro were not there; they seemed to have gone on patrol. The four captains, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, Unohana Retsu, Shihouin Yoruichi, and Kyoraku Shunsui, remained in the meeting room.

Everyone is not stupid and has some understanding of Mi Zhen's abilities. Seeing him appear here in this state, they naturally already had a guess in their minds.

Yamamoto Genryusai tightened his grip on his cane, Unohana frowned and lowered her head, Shunsui helped Yama sit down in her seat, and Yoruichi's face showed obvious anxiety, as if she wanted to rush up and ask what was going on.

"Watanabe Yama, fifth seat".

Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni tapped his cane on the ground, and his tone was more anxious than usual, but it was masked by a stern expression and not easily detected: "What happened at the Ninth Division camp?"

"Captain-Commander, Captain Unohana, Captain Shihouin... I'm sorry, I'm not feeling well, please excuse my rudeness." Mima forced a bow, then stated the conclusion in a heavy tone: "The team... was attacked. Captain Hirako, Captain Aikawa, Captain Ootorihashi... Vice-Captain Yadomaru, Vice-Kido Master Yushōda... are all... seriously injured and unable to continue fighting..."