The Alchemist in Bleach

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The next day, Ichiro, who was handling some matters in the team, looked up at Isane in surprise.

"You said the captain wanted to see me? At this time? And he sent you over?"

Faced with Ichiro's three consecutive questions, Isane nodded helplessly: "Yes, and the captain is very angry. If you don't have anything else to do, you'd better hurry over. When I arrived, the captain was examining his Zanpakuto."

"!!!" Ichiro was startled. He exchanged a glance with his friend, who was also a background character, and immediately got up and walked towards the door.

"**, I'll leave this to you. I'm going to the Fourth Division now!"

The extra's best friend glanced at the document in her hand, then at the direction Ichiro had left in. After hesitating for a moment, she put down the document and followed behind Ichiro with Yuon.

"Dahe Sanxi, you can handle the team's affairs first. The captain and I have some urgent business to attend to!"

"Yes, Vice Captain Feiyun." A middle-aged Grim Reaper nodded, walked to the table of his friend, who was just a background character, and skillfully picked up the documents on the table to start reading.

Meanwhile, her friend, who was just an extra, had no idea what kind of changes her action of following along would bring to her...

.......

"Captain, you wanted to see me?"

A little while later, Ichiro rushed to the captain's office and saw the captain sitting upright with a serious expression, flipping through a post. He immediately stood respectfully in front of the desk.

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The extra's best friend, who followed Yongyin into the office, was shocked the moment she saw the post in the captain's hand. In an instant, any thought of pleading for Ichiro vanished without a trace; she wasn't prepared at all!

Therefore, faced with this situation, she could only stand obediently to the side with Yongyin. As for pleading on their behalf?

Let's forget about it then. We can barely take care of ourselves, how can we think about others?

The captain looked up at Ichiro, who was standing obediently. Her usually kind eyes were now filled with frost. She tossed the invitation to Ichiro and said, "Is this the surprise you told me about this morning?"

"Huh? What's this? I'm not ready for a surprise yet." With a puzzled look, Ichiro opened the post.

"Snapped!"

Then slam it shut!

His face was filled with disbelief!

Am I seeing things wrong?

With suspicion, Ichiro carefully opened the post again and focused his attention. He saw that the post had several large characters written at the top: "Invitation to Join the Tenshin Ichiro Strategy Sharing Association!"

"Holy crap! I've become the boss? Am I in a game world? What is this? A cheat code? But why didn't I get it for the captain?"

Ichiro stared at the post, completely bewildered.

Seeing Ichiro's reaction, the captain's icy expression melted away. She knew Ichiro; if he had done it, he wouldn't have reacted this way.

Even if it's an act, it would be a different expression. So the question is, who made this? And how did it end up in her hands...?

"What nonsense are you talking about? Don't get off topic. If you didn't do this, then who did it? Do you remember? As far as I know, this was only sent to female Shinigami, mostly from our Fourth Division and your Fifth Division. Moreover, it used the Zhi Space Teleportation Channel. I was teleported directly to it while I was walking down the street. Also, it seems to be consciously avoiding certain groups of people. I was teleported to it today right after I finished training and before I could release my spiritual pressure suppression."

Seeing Ichiro's habitual ramblings, the captain said in an annoyed tone.

"Wow, that's a lot of information~" Ichiro stroked his chin and suddenly laughed. "They're all women, and their names are all about 'conquest.' Ha, could it be that they're trying to 'conquer' me and make me their girlfriend?"

Captain, Yongyin, and her best friend (who was just a background character): "..."

"..." Seeing the silent crowd, Ichiro's smile froze. He looked down at the invitation in his hand, carefully examining the contents after the name. His heart sank. Oh my god, it really is a guide for this kind of thing!

"I didn't do this!" Coming to his senses, Ichiro looked up sharply and belatedly clarified to his captain!

"I know! Stop yelling!" The captain rolled his eyes, somewhat exasperated by Ichiro's slowness. This guy was a completely different person when he was serious. "Otherwise, I would have already brought down this knife. Now I'm asking you, do you remember anything? Or rather, can you use your intelligence to find out about this association? My team absolutely cannot have this situation! Neither can your team!"

Seeing the captain touch his Zanpakuto, Ichiro shrank back in fear and nodded frantically like a chicken pecking at rice.

"I understand, I understand, and my team will absolutely not allow this to happen! What's going on? Isn't this an office romance? How much corruption has started from here? It must be stopped!"

"You're getting off-topic. Stop talking nonsense. Who cares about your petty affairs in a normal relationship? This kind of thing won't work. Tell me, is it possible to find someone through Zhi's side?"

“No way~” Ichiro shrugged helplessly. “Within the Seireitei, spatial magic is forbidden, as it disrupts spatial order. This spatial teleportation system of Chi is a project that I negotiated with several noble families. While it facilitates our Fourth and Fifth Divisions’ rapid rescue efforts, it also provides extremely convenient teleportation methods for the various noble families. However, the price is that personal privacy is absolutely protected. Even I have no right to find out who the user is.”

"Even forcibly checking isn't allowed?"

“That works, but the alarm at Central Room 46 will go off. It’s very troublesome to get around it, almost impossible. Otherwise, those old men wouldn’t have let me through this thing.”

'Phew~~~' Hearing this, the extra's best friend breathed a sigh of relief. Yue Ling was really smart. Using this method of transmission, although it would cost a lot of money, it was indeed safe!

However, the captain's next words made the extra's best friend's heart sink again...

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Chapter 292 I'm sorry, Zhi!

“There seems to be a ghostly mark on this invitation to distinguish between real and fake ones. Try using this invitation as a medium to find the rest of the people. That way, we might be able to follow the clues and find the association.” The captain frowned and thought for a moment before saying to Ichiro.

"no!"

Before Ichiro could answer, his friend, who was playing a minor role, spoke up anxiously.

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at her in surprise. The extra's best friend hesitated for a moment, then quickly said, "Think about it, since they left this mark on the invitation, they must have left a countermeasure. I know Ichiro's Kido is very strong, but what if he fails? Wouldn't that alert them?"

Ichiro nodded, stroking his chin as he began to think.

"That makes sense, but how do we find it?"

"Anyway, just don't track this mark..." Mob's best friend whispered as she listened to Ichiro's puzzled mutterings.

"What did you say?" Ichiro looked at his friend, who was playing a minor role, with a puzzled expression.

*Slap!* The extra's best friend mentally slapped herself, her eyes darting around before she smoothly said, "Um... I mean... uh, we can stake out this party, yes, stake out this party! Look, isn't the time and address of the party listed above? We can just sneak over and find out, right?"

"Hiss~ That makes sense." Ichiro looked at the invitation in his hand and nodded thoughtfully. Let alone just following them, it wouldn't be difficult to sneak in. Tracking the Kido mark on the invitation might be discovered, but could copying it also be possible?

"When and where are we going? It won't be too late, will it?" The team leader, sitting in the chair, nodded in agreement with her friend's suggestion; they still had some time.

"It's not too late, it's tonight... or maybe tomorrow! Since they're sending out invitations today, it certainly won't be too late, right?"

'Snap~'

No sooner had she finished speaking than the extra's best friend mentally slapped her own lips. How could she have been so quick? She almost gave herself away! Haste really does make waste!

“It’s really close, tonight, at… uh, in our team?!” Ichiro nodded, so focused on this that he didn’t notice his friend’s odd behavior. He glanced at the time and location on the invitation and raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Where? The Fifth Division or our Fourth Division?" The captain, who was about to ask about Mob's best friend, was also stunned by Ichiro's information. He looked at Ichiro in surprise and put Mob's best friend aside.

Only Yongyin looked at her supporting actress best friend with surprise. She hadn't even looked at the invitation. How did she know that the time and place were on it?

It's worth noting that many private gatherings now use that teleportation system because it's so convenient, and it's one of the reasons why the Central 46th Bureau was able to pass the proposal.

After all, it is indeed very profitable, and it is the money earned from nobles, who are the least short of money and therefore even more lucrative!

Only large gatherings that require adherence to traditional etiquette resort to the "offline" route. Of course, there's another type that also goes "offline"—those absolutely secretive gatherings, such as rebellions, uprisings, and more uprisings...

Yes, that's one of the reasons for this plan—it greatly reduces the workload of covert mobile units.

Therefore, in Yongyin's opinion, it was very abnormal for her friend, who was just a minor character, to insist that the invitation had a time and place on it!

However, she was also stunned by the information that Ichiro had revealed, so she only glanced at her supporting actress friend before turning her attention back to Ichiro.

"Huh? Captain, didn't you receive it? Why didn't you see it?" Ichiro looked at the surprised captain with a puzzled expression.

"Do you think I could stand by and watch something like this happen in my team? Or do you think that if I had seen it all, you would still be standing here in good health?" The captain looked at Ichiro expressionlessly.

"Uh...we've gone off on a tangent." Seeing this, Ichiro instantly cowered. There were two expressions from the captain that he feared most, and this was one of them. It meant the captain wasn't really angry, but was going to joke with him—and those jokes...would draw blood...

The other expression is an extremely "kind" smile, which means the captain is extremely angry!

"Ahem~ Let's get back to business. The gathering will be held at our Fourth Division. Goodness... the most dangerous place is the safest place. Fortune favors the bold? This tactic sounds so familiar?"

'Don't you know him well? The kid you raised...' The extra's best friend looked at Ichiro and thought to herself.

"They're a lot like you, always courting death, but the difference is they're clearly very confident."

"Ugh, I don't like hearing that. What do you mean, 'like me'? Do you think I like to court death? I'm taking risks. Haven't you heard of 'taking a gamble and turning a bicycle into a motorcycle'?"

"Never heard of it. Stop getting carried away. This was probably done by someone close to you, most likely Zhi. The methods are too similar."

"Satoshi? Impossible! He's too honest to do something like this!" Ichiro instinctively rejected the captain's guess. Based on his understanding of Satoshi, that guy couldn't pull off such a plan. He was only good at logical calculations, so it would be difficult for him to make a decision outside of Ichiro's plan.

"You mean Zhi's thinking habits, right? Have you considered what if this was an order you gave him? Now I remember, didn't you previously order him to collect data on his own to improve his emotional abilities? Wouldn't this be a perfect opportunity to collect data? And just a few days ago, didn't you say that Zhi's emotional abilities had greatly improved and that you were going to assign him some independent thinking tasks? Don't you think these two things might be related?"

"Hmm~ Now that I think about it, it's actually quite possible..." Ichiro stroked his chin and pondered. If that's the case, Tomo could definitely do it!

"Um... could it be that Yue Ling did this?" The extra's best friend was watching with some heartache and couldn't help but speak up for Zhi Ming. As one of the founders of the association, she didn't want this hero to be wronged.

Although Zhi brought new development to the association, he was not the founder or initiator. To be precise, he was actually just stirring up trouble. Therefore, the extra's best friend's conscience made her speak up to defend Zhi, and at the same time, to defend her future "son"!

"Impossible!" X 2

The captain and Ichiro said in unison!

Extra's best friend: "......."

You're doomed, there's no way to save you, Mom is so sorry!

“Moon Spirit has no reason to do this. She wouldn’t do anything to harm me. She wouldn’t even think about doing something that could lead to me being killed by the captain!” Ichiro said with unusual determination.

'Have you ever thought that Yue Ling might not even know that you'll be killed by the captain because of this...' Listening to Ichiro's unusually resolute tone, Mob's best friend silently complained.

She doesn't dare to step forward rashly anymore; if she gets herself into trouble, she'll be finished. She'll repay him properly when she becomes his mother! I'm sorry you had to go through all this!

"Yue Ling is a sensible child. She knows what she should and shouldn't do. Although she is a bit cold, that's just her personality. She understands how to conduct herself in society very well."

Hearing the captain's words, Yuu-on couldn't help but nod. The Moon Spirit did indeed have a very good reputation in the team, otherwise there wouldn't be so many male and female Shinigami who still pursued Him even though they knew He was genderless.

"There's no point in saying this now. We'll find out when we get there tonight. If there's nothing else, we'll head back now and look into this matter." With that, Ichiro turned to leave, and his friend, who was just a background character, immediately started walking to follow him.

"Wait, one of the reasons I said the mastermind might be someone close to you is that I want you to stay here, or rather, we should all stay here and wait until that time to talk, so that you don't tip off others."

"Uh... really? You don't believe me?" Ichiro said helplessly, raising both hands.

"I don't believe it." The captain said with unusual decisiveness, without the slightest hesitation.

"...So you do believe me, right?"

The extra's best friend was shocked. She hadn't said anything yet, so how did she get dragged into this?

"I don't believe you. I don't even believe Yongyin now. People here could leak information at any time. So, just stay with me until tonight. Anyway, your stay-at-home order still has forty years left. Even if something urgent happens in the team, you won't need to take action."

"Fine, you decide." Ichiro shrugged helplessly, walked to the bookshelf next to him, pulled out a book, and started reading.