Death: Then stood in the sky.

"This...isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

Aoshi looked hesitant.

Upon hearing this, the gray cat breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Fortunately, although Rangiku, that old woman, has no bottom line, Ukitake Seiji is at least a person...

Then she heard it.

"You must help me hold her down properly." Qing Si said, while flexing his fingers as he stood up.

Gray cat: "???"

Are you a person too?

So your hesitation just now was just for show? Or were you just putting on an act?

"Don't worry." Matsumoto Rangiku patted her chest, her chest heaving, then looked at the gray cat with a cold smile.

"What...what are you going to do?" The gray cat backed away timidly, but its tone was still full of defiance. "If you come any closer, I'm going to grab you. I'm really going to grab you. My grabs hurt!"

"You'd better not move, or I can't guarantee he won't strip off something he shouldn't have," Matsumoto Rangiku sneered.

You like to call yourself an old woman, don't you?

You like to call yourself an "Auntie," right?

I'll let you call me that.

They like to make noise so much.

You'll be calling out soon.

The gray cat was enraged! You shameless scoundrels! Adulterers!

Inhuman!

The gray cat couldn't stand this despicable couple who were always ganging up on him.

His body was locked up.

Matsumoto Rangiku used both hands and feet to entangle with her.

He looked up.

The man cracked his knuckles, then looked at his own body, seemingly considering where to start.

A loud bang.

The gray cat was completely furious.

Son of a bitch!

"Female! Gender: Female!"

She shouted at the top of her lungs, looking aggrieved, "I'm a girl, is that alright now? Are you two satisfied now?!"

"You should have cooperated like this earlier," Matsumoto Rangiku said with a grin, giving the gray cat a little rub as she let go.

So soft.

The gray cat looked at her with a frustrated expression, gritting its teeth and filled with resentment.

Aoshi suspected that if he hadn't been there, there would probably have been a free-fighting match, the kind where they tear clothes off.

pity.

"Tell me, how did you materialize?" Matsumoto Rangiku sat cross-legged opposite the gray cat, arms crossed.

The gray cat pouted.

"Oh--"

Matsumoto Rangiku sneered, then suddenly called out in a sweet, childlike voice, "Seiji."

The gray cat clenched its fist.

All you do is fool people!

You're waiting for this man to leave!

I'm going to get a succubus tattoo on your body!

Swallow your anger!

She reluctantly replied, "I don't know."

"You do not know?"

This answer clearly did not satisfy Matsumoto Rangiku.

Matsumoto Rangiku stared directly at the gray cat and questioned, "You completely lost control of your Zanpakuto without your master's permission, and it even materialized on its own. You did all of that, didn't you?"

The fact that the Zanpakuto is out of control is already a significant problem.

For Shinigami, the Zanpakuto is even more important than the other three abilities: Kenpo, Shiro, and Oni. It is an important component of a Shinigami's combat power.

But compared to the physical manifestation of the Zanpakuto, it's nothing.

Many Shinigami, or more precisely, many Shinigami who have mastered Shikai, have seen their Zanpakuto more than once.

But that was in Dao Chan's spiritual space!

The spirits within a Zanpakuto should, in theory, never appear in the real world.

That's why Matsumoto Rangiku and Shiba Kaien were so surprised when they saw the Transcendental Body.

But at that moment, the gray cat suddenly materialized without warning.

Moreover, it also exhibited signs of being out of control.

This is a terrible thing.

"I did it," the gray cat replied reluctantly.

"Then how can you say you don't know!" Matsumoto Rangiku demanded.

“Why should I know!” the gray cat retorted. “Just because you bought the wine doesn’t mean you have to know how it was made or what ingredients it was made from.”

Rangiku Matsumoto fell silent.

The gray cat sneered.

See? Even you can't answer that.

Rangiku Matsumoto: "This... I actually do know."

Gray cat: "......"

Forgot that this woman is a notorious womanizer!

I should have said it differently!

However, Matsumoto Rangiku still roughly understood what she meant.

"So you mean you don't know how you materialized?" Matsumoto Rangiku asked curiously.

“That’s right.” The gray cat also crossed its arms, its posture exactly like Matsumoto Rangiku’s, and its size was just as large.

"I just know..."

The gray cat thought for a moment, "At that time, there was a voice that kept telling me something."

"Tell you what?"

"Tell me, you've been putting up with Matsumoto Rangiku for a long time, haven't you? Why keep enduring it? Since there are things you can't stand to see, why not try to take the initiative and do something about it yourself?"

The gray cat looked at Matsumoto Rangiku and said, "That's roughly what he said, and then I materialized."

Matsumoto Rangiku frowned, immediately catching a key word: "Him?"

In Japanese, "he" and "she" are pronounced differently.

"Ah."

The gray cat nodded, its voice low and muffled. "I only know it was a man's voice, but I don't know who it is."

"Speaking of which, Hozuki Maru and the others must have heard this voice as well, which is why they materialized like me."

"To control a Zanpakuto to break free from the Shinigami's control and even materialize it?" Matsumoto Rangiku's expression was grave, her eyes filled with horror. "There's... such an ability?"

Who is this guy?

What is his purpose?

Just then, a name popped up.

"Rotten wood echoes in the river."

"What?" Matsumoto Rangiku immediately turned her head to look at Seiji.

“Even if you hadn’t become a Grim Reaper yet, you should have heard of him,” Seiji said.

"Kuchiki Hibiki? The Kuchiki family... wait!"

Matsumoto Rangiku's expression changed slightly, and she suddenly widened her eyes, saying, "Could it be him?"

“If I’m not mistaken, it’s him.” Seiji nodded. “The materialization of the Zanpakuto should be his doing.”

"Or rather, it's his Zanpakuto—Muramasa."

Kuchiki Hibiki's Zanpakuto is named Muramasa, the same as the name of a demon sword, which gives it an ominous air.

Muramasa's abilities, like the legend of the cursed sword, are exceptionally terrifying.

This is an illusion-type Zanpakuto.

Its ability manifests as the ability to summon "Muramasa" whenever its master, Kuchiki Hibiki, calls out in his heart.

Then the materialized Muramasa will appear beside his master, wielding the Zanpakuto.

In this process.

Ignore distance.

Ignore space.

No matter how far away he is from his master, Muramasa will always come to his side.

In addition, Muramasa possesses the ability to communicate with the Zanpakuto itself and summon the Zanpakuto to the real world to materialize it.

By bewitching and hypnotizing the Zanpakuto, the Zanpakuto's dissatisfaction with its master is forcibly awakened, and its own desires are amplified.

A bewitched Zanpakuto will separate from its master, severing the connection between the two in a physical form, stripping the master of the Zanpakuto's abilities, thus causing the Zanpakuto to break with the Shinigami and become an enemy.

This terrifying power made Kuchiki Kyouga an absolute nemesis of Shinigami. Any Shinigami in his presence would have their Zanpakuto stolen, leaving them powerless to fight back.

With this power, Kuchiki Hibiki wiped out a large number of the Death Rebels, causing them to kill each other. As a result, he was valued by the Kuchiki family and became their son-in-law, and at one point even had the potential to become the next head of the Kuchiki family.

Can a son-in-law become the head of the family?

That's actually true.

In Japan, the status of a son-in-law is very high, which is completely different from other places.

Marrying into another's family does not make one inferior.

On the contrary, marriage is seen as an important mechanism for family succession and the selection of virtuous and capable individuals, and is extremely common, especially in high society, politics, and business.

Becoming a son-in-law proves one's exceptional abilities. Sons-in-law have clear inheritance rights and can directly inherit family property and even political resources.

Therefore, when the elders of the Shifuin family said they wanted Seiji to marry into the family, they weren't really trying to humiliate him. They genuinely valued his talent and wanted him to inherit the entire Shifuin family through a marriage alliance with Yoruichi Shifuin.

This is a very mature system.

"But wasn't he sealed away?" Matsumoto Rangiku frowned and asked in confusion.

When she became a Shinigami, Kuchiki Kyouga had already become a criminal in Soul Society, so he didn't know much about her.

But there's one thing Matsumoto Rangiku remembers very clearly: Kuchiki Kyouga drew his sword and killed a large number of Shinigami, and was then captured and sealed by the Seireitei.

She had heard about this when she was still a student at the Shinigami Academy.

"Who knows?" Aoshi replied casually, but inwardly he was pondering what was really going on.

The sound of rotten wood echoing in the river shouldn't have been brought up at this time.

Muramasa, who has been wandering around, will probably need at least another ten years to determine the location of the sealed place of the Kuki-no-Kage River.