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“I know. When I gave the Substitute Shinigami Certificate to Ginjo Kūgo, I also told him about its purpose.”

Chapter 155 Bount?

"What? Did something happen to Ginjou Kūgo?"

Erin raised an eyebrow.

He remembered that the reason why Ginjo Kugo betrayed Soul Society was that, under the arrangement of Tsunayoshi Tokinada, he learned the true function of the Substitute Shinigami Certificate. Then, he was betrayed by Shinigami under Tsunayoshi Tokinada's command, who killed a group of Fullbringers who followed Ginjo Kugo, which led to his betrayal.

However, when Erin handed the Substitute Shinigami Certificate to Ginjo Kūgo this time, he clearly explained the purpose of the certificate to Ginjo Kūgo.

Could it be that this guy was still tricked by Tsunayoshi Tokinada?

However, Erin soon realized that it was not surprising that Ginjo Kugo was tricked by Tsunayoshi Tokinada.

After all, just as Kurosaki Ichigo was accidentally created by Aizen Sousuke, Erin suspected that Ginjo Kūgo was an experiment by Tsunayoshi Tokinada.

After all, the only person in this world who can simultaneously possess the powers of a Shinigami, a Hollow, and a Fullbringer is Hikomi, who was kept in a state of neither life nor death by Tsunayoshi at the Shinigami Academy.

It's perfectly normal for Gangya Daishida to want to create a new "Spirit King," since the current Shanjuan Yanmi is undoubtedly unqualified. He wants to create a new "Spirit King candidate."

Kurosaki Ichigo has Urahara Kisuke protecting him, while Ginjo Kugo is just a nobody, nobody cares about him at all.

Compared to Ichigo Kurosaki, Kugo Ginjo's situation is far more tragic.

Before Tsunayoshiro took care of him, Ginjo Kūgo was a cheerful and outgoing young man.

It was precisely because of Ginjou Kugo's personality that a group of Fullbringers who wanted to transfer their Fullbring abilities gathered around him, hoping to transfer their Fullbring power to him after he grew up, so that they could become ordinary people.

Unfortunately, their plan failed due to Tsunayoshi Tokinada's scheme, and the group was hunted down by the Grim Reaper, with only Ginjo Kūgo escaping unscathed.

From then on, Ginjo Kūgo felt that the Grim Reaper was not to be trusted.

Moreover, feeling betrayed, Ginjo Kūgo also became someone who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

"Ah."

Jushiro Ukitake nodded and said in a deep voice, "I recently discovered through the Shinigami Substitute Certificate on Ginjo Kūgo's body that Ginjo Kūgo has killed more than a dozen Shinigami."

"Then, I dispatched the members of the 13th Division stationed in the human world to find Ginjo Kugo and ask him what happened."

"However, before that team member could even begin questioning Ginjo Kugo, he was killed by Ginjo Kugo."

"Therefore, I suspect that Ginjou Kūgo has betrayed Soul Society and I want to hunt him down."

"But since you've been teaching him for a while, Captain Erin, I'd like to ask for your opinion."

"Is it?"

Upon hearing what Jushiro Ukitake said, Erin understood.

It seems that the current timeline is the period when Ginjo Kūgo was framed, his Fullbring companions were all killed, and this instilled in him a strong sense of rebellion against the Soul Society and the Seireitei.

Thinking of this, Erin said, "Fuzhu, give me the location of Silver City and open the interdimensional gate. I'll go to the mortal world and see what's going on."

"okay."

Jushiro Ukitake nodded; this was precisely the main reason he was looking for Erin.

In any case, Ginjou Kūgo had been taught by Erin for a period of time. If he were to label him a traitor, Erin might harbor resentment even if he didn't say anything.

The best course of action is to leave this matter to Erin.

Jushiro Ukitake believed that Erin's decision would certainly not disappoint him.

At that moment, Jushiro Ukitake took out a keypad phone from his pocket and handed it to Erin.

"Captain Erin, this is the 'command machine' newly developed by the Twelfth Division. It's much better than the Hell Butterfly."

"I've already asked the technical staff of the 12th Division to track the Substitute Shinigami Certificate. Once you arrive in the human world, the 12th Division will send the tracked information to this 'command device' so that you can find Ginjo Kūgo."

"Yes, thank you for your help, Captain Ukitake."

"It's me who's causing you trouble, Captain Erin."

Jushiro Ukitake shook his head, and then opened the portal to the mortal world right there in the courtyard.

"Then I'll head over first. Later, I'll need Captain Ukitake to ask someone to pass a message to my wife at the Kuchiki family, saying that I'm going to the human world for a short trip and will be back in a few days."

"Yes, Captain Erin."

After giving his instructions, Erin stepped into the portal.

It's that familiar spatial passage.

This time, Erin did not encounter any "deterrence" and arrived in the mortal world smoothly.

……

"Beep beep beep, beep beep beep..."

The moment they emerged from the portal, the communication device in Erin's hand sounded an alarm.

When Erin opened it, a radar appeared on the screen, and within the radar's scanning area, there was a small red dot.

"Oh? Silver City is here? I'm so lucky?"

Now that he had found traces of Silver City, Erin no longer hesitated. His figure instantly disappeared into the air and moved toward the location of the red dot on the communication device.

but……

"hold head high--"

Looking at the small Hollow beneath his feet, Erin couldn't help but slap his forehead.

"I made a mistake. I should have used my spiritual pressure to sense it."

Erin forgot that the greatest function of the Messenger was to assist the Shinigami in the mortal world in quickly locating Hollows and purifying them as soon as possible.

"Well, since we're already here, let's just take care of this Hollow while we're at it."

He shook his head. Although with Erin's current strength, it would be beneath his dignity to attack such a small Hollow, he had no choice but to accept that this guy had run into him.

Even if it's unlucky...

With that in mind, Erin prepared to make his move.

However, the next moment, Erin realized that something was wrong.

This Hollow is attacking a human, and it actually has spiritual pressure?

Moreover, this spiritual pressure is very strange.

So Erin stood in the air, not making a move for the time being.

This is a woman with brown hair, who keeps running towards a secluded place while being chased by the charlatan.

Once she sensed that no one was around, the woman stretched out her right hand and shouted, "Hellfire—Gate!"

As the woman shouted, a ball of flame condensed in front of her, eventually forming a humanoid fire creature.

"It turned out to be her."

Upon seeing the humanoid fire creature, Erin's memories resurfaced, and he quickly recognized the woman's identity.

More than a thousand years ago, the Soul Society researched "modifying souls" in an attempt to create "soul weapons." After the experiment failed, the laboratory exploded, destroying one-tenth of the Seireitei. A large number of experimental spiritual particles flooded into reality and were absorbed by people on a small island, thus granting these people the ability to live forever.

In order to eliminate these anomalies, Seireitei sent researcher Ranjima to the human world to resolve the impact of this experiment on the human world. Unfortunately, researcher Ranjima did not obey Seireitei's will to eliminate these humans who had absorbed the experimental spirit particles. Instead, he wanted to protect them and asked Seireitei to allow these people to live in Soul Society.

Unfortunately, this request was ultimately rejected by the Central 46th Bureau, which also exiled Lan Island for a thousand years on the grounds of improper operation of the Lan Island experiment.

During her exile, Lan Island protected the humans who had absorbed the experimental spirit particles on this island. However, as her lifespan was about to reach its limit, in order to continue protecting these children, Lan Island modified her soul to grant herself a longer lifespan.

While researcher Ranjima was undergoing a soul-modifying slumber, a boy named Kariyagami, adopted by Ranjima, discovered a box at Ranjima's residence. The "embroidered emblem" inside the box granted these humans, who had absorbed experimental spiritual particles, a power different from that of Shinigami and Hollows.

—A doll!

They call themselves "Bavents".

This woman is Yoshino Soma, the only one in the Bount who possesses "maternal power".

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

The fire puppet launched fireballs at the small Hollow, which dodged them, but the fireballs slammed into the ground with a series of booming sounds.

Occasionally, one or two fireballs would hit this small Hollow, but they would only injure it.

“So weak…”

Seeing the battle between Yoshino Soma and the small Hollow below, Erin couldn't help but let out a sarcastic remark.

Yoshino Soma at this moment may not have started absorbing human souls yet, so his strength is about the same as this small Hollow.

Of course, given the nature of her fire puppet form, this small Hollow has no chance of winning.

Sure enough, once the Hollow got close to the Doll Hellfire Gat, no matter how it attacked Gat, Gat would turn into a ball of flame, and its attacks couldn't hurt Gat at all.

Furthermore, its proximity to Gate made it much harder for it to dodge the fireballs, and it was quickly killed by the fireballs launched by Gate.

After tracking Yoshino Soma for a while longer, Erin discovered that Yoshino Soma had not yet started consuming human souls. At the same time, she seemed to be in a state of cold war with Kariyagami, and there were no other Bounts in the place where she lived.

"Never mind, he's a pitiful person too."

After thinking it over, Erin finally gave up on his plan to kill Yoshino Soma here.

"Let's go find Ginjou Kugo first and see what his situation is."

Taking out his communication device, Erin prepared to contact the Twelfth Division and have them send the location of Ginjo Kugo to his communication device.

but……

"I'm sorry, Captain Erin."

“We just lost the signal from the Substitute Grim Reaper. This is where the signal last disappeared. Captain Erin, you can go to this location and check it out. We will keep an eye on the Substitute Grim Reaper and notify Captain Erin immediately once we find it.”

"Alright, I hope you guys hurry up, I'm not going to stay in the real world for long."

Chapter 156 Reunion with Ginjo Kugo

After glancing at the location sent by the 12th Division on the communication device, Erin put the communication device into his pocket, and his body instantly disappeared into the air...