The Alchemist in Bleach

At the same time, the giant snake opened its blood-red maw and lunged at Ichiro from the side and above!

His on-the-spot reaction was first-rate, however...

The same problem persists. Although the supporting character's spiritual pressure was reduced by less after extracting Ichiro's tail, she clearly lacked experience in combat at this intensity, and Orochi inevitably paused for a moment.

In that instant, Ichiro seized the opportunity and escaped using Shunpo, while the giant snake missed its target.

"Stop!" Back on the ground, seeing that the giant snake was still preparing to attack, Ichiro quickly called for a halt.

There's no point in continuing the fight. Ichiro has already figured out ***'s general strength. Simply put, her attack power, whether it's her Kido attacks or physical attacks, is extremely strong, and her combat awareness is also very high. It's just that her supporting character, her best friend, is too weak, a typical case of her body not being able to keep up with her mind.

So there's no point in continuing the test, because the weakness is too obvious, and Mob's best friend's spiritual pressure is so low that it can't withstand a high-intensity battle. Now Ichiro wants to test the special abilities of the Twin-Winged Serpent.

Generally speaking, biological Zanpakuto have some special abilities, such as the healing of Minazuki, the poison of Kinokisoku Jizo, and the number of Garakuro. There are very few ordinary biological Zanpakuto.

Of course, this doesn't mean it's weak. Usually, the combat capabilities of this kind of Zanpakuto are maximized!

Well, except for useless Zanpakuto...

Based on Ichiro's initial observation, the winged serpent of Mob's best friend clearly did not belong to this category. He could clearly sense the special power contained in the serpent's narrow eyes.

"Now, stop attacking and use the special ability of your Zanpakuto. Do it quickly, your spiritual pressure is probably running low."

"But that's very dangerous!"

"It's okay, just use it."

"Alright, let's go!" The extra's best friend's expression turned serious for once, the innocent look on her face vanishing completely, to the point that Ichiro even thought for a moment that this was her true nature...

"***! Petrification rays!"

Hearing his friend's shout, Ichiro subconsciously frowned. Why was she even calling out moves? This wasn't...

"Click-clack~"

Just then, a feeling of stagnation in his body interrupted Ichiro's thoughts. He was shocked to find that his body had begun to slowly petrify...

So, actually calling his name is just to dazzle him, and so is that ray of radiation also to dazzle him?

The clown was actually myself...

Fortunately, I didn't rush to reprimand him, otherwise he would have lost face big time...

"Ichiro, are you alright?" Seeing the scattered stone spots on Ichiro's body, the extra's best friend, who had never seen anything like this before, panicked. Just as she was about to look up and scold the two-winged serpent, Ichiro stopped her.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. It's nothing serious. You just need to work on your mentality." As he spoke, Ichiro exuded blue spiritual pressure, and the scattered stone spots on his body instantly turned into powder and disappeared.

"The battle between Shinigami is a battle of spiritual pressure. Petrification is a good ability, but it can't be used as a trump card, at least not with your current spiritual pressure. The most suitable method is to control the petrification and then take the opportunity to attack. However, it seems that your spiritual pressure is a bit insufficient?"

Seeing his friend, a minor character whose spiritual pressure was almost completely depleted, Ichiro raised an eyebrow. While he had somewhat anticipated the high consumption of his friend's Zanpakuto, he hadn't expected it to be this severe...

It's important to know that from the beginning until now, the Twin-Winged Serpent has only attacked three times: once with fire, once with its tail whip, and once with petrification. The petrification and fire attacks consumed the most energy.

But there was nothing she could do; her supporting character's spiritual pressure was a bit lacking. Even a Shinigami has to abide by the law of conservation of energy, and her combat awareness was too average, which caused a lot of waste in the process.

Based on this level of consumption, if Mob's best friend could improve her control over spiritual pressure consumption by one level, the Twin-Winged Serpent should be able to complete a full battle. Three attacks are too few.

She doesn't lack the ability to control her spiritual pressure; after all, she is a member of the Fourth Division, and the Dao requires a certain level of spiritual pressure control. What she lacks is the ability to control the overall consumption of spiritual pressure, which is a gap in combat experience.

There's no way around it, we can only take it slowly. Fortunately, the one thing Death has in abundance is time.

After sheathing her Zanpakuto, Mob's best friend stood prettily in front of Ichiro, head held high, and asked with a smile, "How was it? Not bad, right?"

"Alas, what a pity, how did it become your Zanpakuto? A waste of talent!"

"Hmph!" The extra's best friend tilted her head, puffing out her cheeks, and said, "Even if you're jealous, *** is still my Zanpakuto! Can I be your vice-captain now?"

"Hmm, for ***'s sake, I'll let you try, but if your skills don't improve, I'll replace you."

"I won't give you that chance!"

"Then I'll wait and see. Let's go to the Fifth Division and settle this matter."

"Um, but I'm still a member of the Fourth Division. Shouldn't I tell the captain?"

"It's alright, I've already informed the world. She's in charge of personnel allocation within the team."

"Oh."

......

In the Fourth Division's office, World, who was processing documents, suddenly turned grim. She had received a message from Ichiro—that wretched cat who stole fish again!

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Chapter 274 The Mastermind? The Blame Game!

Fei Yun** is considered by the world to be the most dangerous guy! Even more dangerous than Suzuran!

Although Suzuran has a strong desire to pursue him, at least she is open about it. If she likes someone, she likes them. She pursues him openly and honestly, which makes it hard for people to dislike her. Of course, more importantly, the world has confidence in this aspect!

But a supporting actress's best friend is different!

This guy is cunning!

Her greatest skills are taking advantage of confusion and slowly boiling the frog, always managing to get closer to Ichiro without anyone noticing, while her favorability towards him skyrockets.

And they also frequently raid other people's homes!

For example, when Urahara got married, Hiun took advantage of the time when she and Suzuran were fighting to win over Ichiro and secretly ran away with him!

This time too, after the world's attention was drawn to Suzuran, she quietly became the vice-captain of the Fifth Division, taking another step closer...

I'm one step closer to Ichiro...

And the most troublesome thing is that throughout this whole process, Ichiro didn't realize his extra best friend's feelings for him...

Or perhaps he discovered it, but Ichiro instinctively dismissed it as a delusion...

Meanwhile, because of her friend's successful attack, the world has begun to take notice of a clandestine organization. She is still trying to find out its name. The organization is consciously avoiding her investigation and seems to know all her actions!

Therefore, the world's understanding of that organization is very limited. It is only known that it is a private gathering similar to the Women's Death Association. The difference is that the discussions there are about her relationship with Ichiro, and a large part of it is about how to win Ichiro over...

However, the world did not come away empty-handed. At least, she roughly narrowed down the scope of the mastermind behind it all, since there weren't many people who knew Ichiro so well.

With only a few people around, the scope suddenly narrowed down. The first person we can rule out is Yue Ling. Given her personality, she wouldn't do something so pointless, and she almost never does anything to harm Ichiro.

Then there's the captain, because there are some things even the captain doesn't know, such as Ichiro's special attribute preferences.

After that, there weren't many candidates left: Urahara and Tomokazu!

Urahara has always enjoyed sabotaging Ichiro, so it's not hard to understand why he would do something like this. However, now that he has left Soul Society, will he soon have an answer? After all, doing something like this across worlds is easy to expose.

Besides Urahara, the person she suspected the most was Tomo!

As an intelligent life form, Zhi has significant shortcomings in handling human relationships and can easily cause social mishaps. Therefore, it needs a large amount of emotional data to improve its emotional modules.

Therefore, the motivation was there...

Recently, the development of Zhi's emotion module has accelerated considerably, and its data sources are highly questionable, requiring a thorough investigation...

……

Meanwhile, Ichiro arrived at the Fifth Division with his best friend, who was also a minor character, to hand over his duties and announce the change of vice-captain to the members of the Fifth Division.

As expected, this incident caused a great uproar among the members of the Fifth Division. They knew that the new captain would definitely replace the vice-captain after taking office, since the current vice-captain, while not lacking in any shortcomings, also had nothing outstanding.

In this situation, it's perfectly normal for the new captain to replace his deputy with someone he's familiar with.

But isn't it a bit much to change it right away...?

And it's so weak... and it looks rather clumsy...

They even suspected there might be some shady dealings involved...

However, all doubts vanished after the extra's best friend unleashed her Zanpakuto. In the face of strength, no doubt can stand up. You have to keep quiet even if you're not convinced!

After Mob's best friend impressed everyone in the Fifth Division, she and Ichiro led all the officers to the captain's office. Ichiro and Mob's best friend each flipped through a document, reviewing the general situation of the Fifth Division.

After a while, the extra's best friend nodded in satisfaction. It was clear that although the former vice-captain wasn't very good, the captain, Hirako Mako, hadn't slacked off. Everything was arranged properly, and even in this emergency, she only needed one day to take over and smoothly complete the handover.

At the same time, I felt more confident.

Although she didn't lie to Ichiro, she had indeed received professional training. Not to mention being a vice-captain, she was capable enough to handle even the captain's duties. After all, from the moment she entered the Shinigami Academy, her ultimate goal was to become the vice-captain of any squad.

Unfortunately, reality is rather cruel...

Her talent as a Shinigami was truly mediocre. Even studying day and night, she barely managed to catch the last train to Ichiro and the other top students. After joining the Fourth Division's chanting class, she discovered with even greater despair that her talent was completely outmatched. Even with relentless studying, making every minute feel like two, she was still slowly falling behind the others...

Fortunately, she met Ichiro and the others through Ichio, which not only allowed her to better learn how to chant the Resurrection Scripture, but more importantly, the spiritual pressure medicine that Ichiro gave them completely changed her life!

The original version of the spiritual pressure medicine might not have much effect on geniuses like Suzuran, but it was a treasure to her. It was with the help of this spiritual pressure medicine that her spiritual pressure steadily increased, reaching the standard for releasing her Zanpakuto.

It's fair to say that without Ichiro, she might have already gone home and become a tool for a political marriage.

So when she came to Ichiro to recommend herself for the position of vice-captain, it wasn't entirely because she wanted to get closer to Ichiro. A large part of it was also to help Ichiro, which is why she took the affairs of the Fifth Division very seriously.

She already has a general plan in mind regarding her future work arrangements.

However, Ichiro frowned. Ichiro's perspective was different from that of his friend, who was just an extra. The management structure was perfectly reasonable and could function normally for a while even if the captain was absent.

but!

If it's a matter of ability, then there's some problem.

The Fifth Division is a rescue team, specializing in rescue work, including going to Hueco Mundo for rescue, going to Rukongai for rescue, and most commonly, going to the human world for rescue.

Therefore, the Fifth Division is generally composed of small teams, which makes the rescue speed the fastest. At the same time, the composition of the team is the classic warrior-mage-priest combination from Ichiro's previous life in an online game: a "warrior" who restrains the enemy from the front, a "mage" who uses Kido to provide cover from a distance, and a "priest" who heals teammates.

The structure itself is not problematic; after all, it is the culmination of wisdom gained from countless practical experiences, and it can indeed maximize rescue efficiency.

but!

Before Ichiro created the Reincarnation Technique, the difficulty level was extremely high. Apart from the Fourth Division, only a few Shinigami could use it. Therefore, their "priest" was actually just a Shinigami who knew first aid but was relatively weak.

After the creation of the chanting system, healing abilities were improved, but those who took on this role were generally the weaker Grim Reapers. Those of normal or strong ability were basically "warriors" or "mages".

This selection method is very abnormal. Treatment of this position is very important because it largely determines whether your rescue can be considered successful.

If a person dies, what's the point of their spirit being annihilated?

They are a rescue team, and their purpose is to save people, not to kill Hollows. As long as the people are saved, it doesn't matter if the Hollows aren't killed; they can be handed over to other squads responsible for this task.

Therefore, the position of healer should be filled by someone with high skill level, rather than someone with weak skills.

and......