I'm in Bleach, starting with Unlimited Blade Works.

The voice of Captain Aizen had disappeared from his ears. Clearly, Captain Aizen had withdrawn the Kido that had relayed the message.

Kitada Yosuke's face was contorted with rage, and his eyes revealed a fierce glint.

He never expected that Captain Aizen would retaliate against him in this way.

He took advantage of the rescue team's compassion for Death and regained his eligibility for the assessment.

However, this also means that the number of casualties among the remaining trainees participating in the assessment will increase significantly.

After all, in the battle against the Hollows, people rarely have the energy to send out distress fireworks.

Because of Yosuke Kitada's actions, the rescue teams cannot rescue them until they see the distress fireworks go off.

After all, if they were to be bitten in return, Yuma Matsuhashi would serve as a cautionary tale.

No one would be willing to spend three months in the Ninth Division's prison just for a stranger. It's a losing proposition.

Sure enough, Kitada Yosuke encountered several small groups in the following period.

However, everyone's expressions turned cold the moment they saw Yosuke Kitada.

This Kitada Yosuke is pushing everyone to the brink in order to regain his eligibility for the exam.

When Kitada Yosuke requested to join the team, everyone just chuckled and said that since Kitada Yosuke could solo a medium-sized Hollow, then the weaklings like them wouldn't be a burden to him.

After being turned down several times, Kitada Yosuke had no choice but to leave with a dark expression.

He must find a safe place to hide and get through the remaining ten days or so.

After all, only those who know their own situation can truly understand it.

In order to regain his eligibility for the assessment, he told Captain Aizen and the others that he could kill the medium-sized Hollow before it could close its mouth.

But in fact, just as the Grim Reaper who saved him said, his legs went weak with fear that time, and if it weren't for the Grim Reaper's rescue, he would have died in the mouth of that Hollow.

However, for the sake of my future, I have no choice but to suffer for that Grim Reaper.

At worst, when I become the captain in the future, I can give him a position as a chief officer, as compensation to that Grim Reaper.

However, thinking about how that guy exposed his shortcomings in front of so many people, Kitada Yosuke secretly decided that when the time came, he would definitely send that Grim Reaper to the most dangerous place to carry out a mission.

However, all of this will have to wait until I pass this graduation exam.

……

"Hado #26 - Crimson Flame Lock!"

As the yellow-haired, shadowy student Kira Izuru chanted, a red flame was flung from his left hand, instantly transforming into a fire barrier more than five meters high and three meters wide in front of him.

"boom!"

A Hollow over four meters tall charged forward and crashed into the Flame Barrier, nearly shattering it. However, in the end, this medium-sized Hollow was unable to break through the Red Flame Barrier's defenses.

At this moment, behind the Crimson Flame Barrier, Hinamori Momo had finished chanting the Kido incantation. She leaped high from behind the Flame Barrier and aimed the volleyball-sized fireball in her left palm at the head of the medium-sized Hollow.

"Hado #31 - Red Fire Cannon!"

"boom!"

A red fireball flew swiftly from Hinamori Momo's hand, striking the medium-sized Hollow in the chest and instantly causing a violent explosion.

"hold head high--"

The immense destructive force blasted a huge wound into the chest of this illusory creature.

However, such a wound, while severely damaging to a beast-type Hollow over four meters tall, would not be fatal.

"Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes..."

Just as the Hollow was howling in agony, a red-haired boy, wielding a Zanpakuto in both hands, burst out from the shattered wall of flames, used Shunpo to move into the air, and slashed down at the Hollow's mask.

"laugh!"

"hold head high--"

This sword strike sliced ​​the illusory mask in two.

Instantly, the phantom let out a miserable howl and dissipated into spiritual particles.

"call……"

Seeing the Hollow die, Hinamori Momo breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Kira, Renji, thank goodness you're here, otherwise I would have been in real danger this time."

As the assessment period progressed, more and more virtual entities were attracted to the city, and the quantity and quality of medium-sized virtual entities also began to improve.

Even Hinamori Momo isn't sure if she can defeat the next medium-sized Hollow she encounters.

Under these circumstances, Kira Izuru and Abarai Renji approached Hinamori Momo and asked to team up with her.

The three of them were good friends when they were at the Shinigami Academy and knew each other to a certain extent, so Hinamori Momo agreed to team up without much thought.

Of the three, Hinamori Momo possesses the strongest Kido (demonic arts) and is the main attacker among them.

Kira Izuru's Kido is not as good as Hinamori Momo's, and his Slashing Technique is not as good as Abarai Renji's, but his Kido and tactics are not bad. He is the support among the three, mainly responsible for defense and restraining Hollows.

Renji Abarai's slashing technique is the strongest among this year's graduates. When facing Hollow attacks, Renji Abarai usually blocks the Hollow attacks, while Izuru Kira and Momo Hinamori seize the opportunity to use Kido to launch sneak attacks.

So far, the three of them have cooperated very well and have killed quite a few medium-sized Hollows.

It must be said that battles are indeed a catalyst for the improvement of geniuses' strength.

Over twenty days, they fought more than a hundred battles against the Hollows, which greatly improved the strength of Renji Abarai, Izuru Kira, and Momo Hinamori.

The three of them are now stronger than most ordinary Shinigami and are not far from becoming elite Shinigami.

"Don't say that, Hinamori."

Kira Izuru shook her head: "For us, Hinamori, you are indispensable too."

"Without your Kido, it would have taken Renji and me at least five minutes to kill this Hollow."

"That's right, Hinamori."

Renji Abarai rested the back of his Zanpakuto on his shoulder and agreed with Izuru Kira's words: "Your Kido attacks are much stronger than Kira's."

"It can inflict this level of severe injury in one go."

"If it were Kira, he would have to release at least three Destruction techniques to achieve this."

"Oh dear, Kira, Renji, you two are exaggerating..."

Hinamori Momo narrowed her eyes, waving her hands in denial.

But judging from the upturned corners of her mouth, Hinamori Momo was very happy to have gained the approval of these two companions.

"However, Kira, Renji, I feel that this test is very difficult. I wonder how many people can complete it."

"I don't know, but if it were that easy to become a Shinigami, we wouldn't have come to Seireitei from Rukongai."

"yes……"

The reason why people from Rukongai enter Seireitei to try their luck is simply to change their fate, isn't it?

However, their conversation caused Kira Izuru to lower her head even further.

At the Shinigami Academy, Kira Izuru never told his friends about his origins.

Because he always had a rather gloomy expression, only the carefree Renji Abarai, who was born in Rukongai, and the warm-hearted and cheerful Momo Hinamori became good friends with Izuru Kira.

Chapter 219 Shame

Because he cherishes Hinamori Momo and Abarai Renji, Kira Izuru fears that revealing his identity as a lower-ranking nobleman of the Seireitei would alienate them, so he has never revealed his true identity to them.

Hinamori Momo and Abarai Renji believed that Kira Izuru's gloomy appearance stemmed from his inferiority complex stemming from his birth in Rukongai.

Therefore, Hinamori Momo and Abarai Renji often talk about interesting things in Rukongai, and neither of them is ashamed of their involvement in Rukongai, hoping to cheer up Kira Izuru.

Kira Izuru could sense all of this.

On the one hand, he appreciated that his two friends cared about his feelings.

On the other hand, Kira Izuru felt that deceiving his friend was extremely shameless and often despised himself in his heart.

This psychological gap made Kira Izuru's outward emotions appear even more gloomy.

……

"Oh!"

Kitada Yosuke parried with his sword, but the immense force still sent him flying far away, smashing through a wall.

"puff!"

"hateful!"

"Why aren't those guys here yet?"

Kitada Yosuke spat out a mouthful of blood, cursing inwardly.

Because of the rule that Captain Aizen announced that day, all the trainees who participated in the assessment remembered Kitada Yosuke.

Whether they knew him or not, as soon as they heard his name, they immediately refused Kitada Yosuke's request to join their team and either expelled him or stayed away from him.

Even though Kitada Yosuke temporarily joined the team using a pseudonym, his identity would still be revealed by people he knew when he encountered other teams.

As a result, everyone disliked Kitada Yosuke even more.

Later on, almost all the trainees knew Kitada Yosuke, and they would forcibly expel him whenever they saw him from afar.

After all, everyone knows what kind of choices a shameless person who turns on their savior and impersonates another person would make when faced with danger.

In this crucial test that will determine their future, no one would want such an unstable factor by their side.

Thus, Kitada Yosuke had to hide, both to avoid being expelled by other trainees and to evade the charlatans' pursuit.

As someone who has managed to survive this assessment, which is more than five times more difficult, Kitada Yosuke's strength is comparable to that of previous graduates, who would have successfully joined the Gotei 13.

However, with his current strength, he can only kill a small Hollow on his own and escape from the mouths of relatively weak medium-sized Hollows.

If he encounters a slightly stronger medium-sized Hollow, or a medium-sized Hollow that excels in speed, Kitada Yosuke will definitely have to send him.

So, unable to find teammates, Kitada Yosuke resorted to a clever trick.

Unlike the other trainees, who would flee to open spaces when encountering the Void, he chose sparsely populated areas as battlefields to reduce casualties among ordinary people in the real world.