I Am a Heroic Spirit

Very good, the performance was very good. If you reveal certain abilities in the future, it won’t arouse too much suspicion.

Zhang Luo put down his hand, smiled at Inoue Orihime and Arisawa Ryuki, and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"Who cares if you're okay? You scared Orihime!"

Arisawa Ryuki said dissatisfiedly. Because it was the first time she saw Zhang Luo, who always looked gentle, suddenly become scary, the frightened Inoue Orihime showed panic on her face and a hint of water in her eyes.

"Um, I'm sorry, Orihime, it won't happen again next time, don't cry..." Seeing Inoue Orihime's look, Zhang Luo suddenly panicked and hurried forward to comfort her. But he never comforted girls, so what should he do now?

After thinking about it, Zhang Luo suddenly recalled the memory of raising a cat. He didn't know what was going on, but he put his hand on Inoue Orihime's head as if he was petting a cat.

"Hey, hey, hey!!! What are you doing? Even though Orihime likes cats, that doesn't mean she likes being treated like a cat!"

Arisawa Ryuki slapped Zhang Luo's hand away and said angrily that his action clearly treated Orihime like a cat.

"What should I do? I don't know how to coax girls."

Zhang Luo said awkwardly.

"Well, stop arguing. I'm fine. I'm just too timid. It has nothing to do with Brother Luo." Inoue Orihime wiped the tears from her eyes and said with a red face. It was the first time for her to be touched on the head by a man other than her family, and it was also the first time for her to have such sucking contact with a boy.

"Orihime, you were bullied because you had such a good temper and were too weak. It's not your fault. This guy is not an outsider. You should blame him where you should." Arisawa Ryuki said and glared at Zhang Luo.

"Yeah, yeah, it's all my fault."

Zhang Luo touched his nose and smiled bitterly.

"It's really okay, Longgui, there's no need to be like this. And Brother Luo, I'm really sorry for what happened just now." Inoue Orihime pulled Arisawa Longgui, then said to Zhang Luo with a blushing face.

"It's ok."

Hearing the apology, Zhang Luo subconsciously said it was okay, which once again attracted Arisawa Ryuki's glare. Zhang Luo could only put on a helpless look.

"The relationship is really good."

At this time, Yoko Okino showed a kind smile on her face. This was the beautiful friendship in their school days, the most pure emotion. Although she was versatile and did not need to rely on unspoken rules to become a star, Yoko Okino's appearance in the entertainment industry also made her the target of a lot of prying and jealousy. She saw a lot of darkness, which made her miss the pure friendship in her school days more and more.

"Really? Not bad," Zhang Luo smiled, turned his head to look at Okino Yoko, and said, "Forget about the topic of heroic spirits. You can't possibly understand it anyway. Do you have any other questions? I happen to have time and can help you answer them."

"Hmm..." Okino Yoko thought for a moment and felt that the next question couldn't be answered simply by having a lot of knowledge. She estimated that even if she asked, she might not get the answer. However, she still asked with a lucky mentality, "Well, can Zhang Luo help me solve this term?"

"Xu, can such feudal superstitions be broadcast on TV?" Zhang Luo feigned curiosity and looked at the camera pointed at him. "I'm new in Japan, and although I don't understand some things, these things shouldn't be broadcast openly, right?"

Yoko Okino was a little surprised. If that was the case, he really knew it.

"It doesn't matter. We Japanese don't care about these things. There are many supernatural programs and psychics. But isn't Zhang Luo a Japanese?"

"Well, my father and I are from the Celestial Empire, and my mother is Japanese." Zhang Luo nodded and continued, "As for the Void, they are evil souls that linger in the mortal world or are unable to ascend to heaven due to other obstacles. They wander around in places that attract them, and due to some special reasons, they become corrupted."

Okino Yoko then asked, "What about the God of Death?"

"There are gods of death in the myths of all countries, but the gods of death mentioned together with Hollows are the enemies of Hollows. In Japan, they did not fall into Hollows. Instead, they obtained powerful souls somewhere and used special swords to kill Hollows."

Zhang Luo's words were very vague. If he knew a little, he could explain it by saying that he was also a psychic and had some understanding of it. But if he knew too much, it would definitely arouse the suspicion of the Soul Society. If he, who didn't even have a gold card, was really caught by the Soul Society, he would not even have a chance to escape.

"Hmm..." After Yoko Okino thought about Zhang Luo's words in her mind, she found that there was nothing more to ask, so she said goodbye to Zhang Luo, asked the staff to pack up, and left.

Chapter 20 What Ye Yi Sees and Hears

On the other side, at Urahara Shoten, in order to welcome Yoruichi's return, Murin Tessai prepared a large table of dishes. Yoruichi also turned back into a human body and sat around the table with Urahara Kisuke, Murin Tessai, and Jinta Koyame. They ate and drank while talking about their experiences in the past few years.

"Hey, Yoruichi-san, what have you discovered during these years away?" Urahara Kisuke said with a smile, waving his small fan. Although Yoruichi said she was going on a trip when she left, he didn't think that Yoruichi was really just traveling.

"Some interesting creatures," Yoruichi's lips curled up. "All sorts of monsters, demons, and monsters, fighters who use ki, spirits that are neither human nor demon, enemies of the spirits who are ordinary humans using special equipment to fight the spirits, onmyojis, psychics, ghouls who eat human corpses, and demon exorcists. But their strength isn't very good, at most vice-captains. I saw a captain-level figure on a mountain. He was an old human, but I can sense that he's not much weaker than me, maybe even stronger in a fight. I saw a youkai in Ukiyo-e Town. He's the leader of a youkai organization. His apparent strength is only close to that of a captain, but I feel threatened when facing him. He must have hidden powers stronger than mine. There are also several youkai with vice-captain strength in that youkai organization. On the way back, I met a fat cat who claimed to be a fox. He also possessed captain-level spiritual pressure, but his strength was only at the bottom of the captains' group. I met someone outside a special family. He looked like a teenager, but I could sense that his soul was over five hundred years old, with spiritual pressure comparable to mine, and he controlled a spirit that was equally as powerful as mine."

"anything else?"

Urahara Kisuke's expression grew more serious.

"There are also several human families. I can't sneak in because their defenses are too strong, but there are many strong people inside." Ye Yi said.

"Oh, then have you heard of a kind of existence, a spirit similar to us Shinigami, but has nothing to do with evil spirits like Hollows, and can be seen by ordinary people." Urahara Kisuke mentioned the person he saw at noon before.

"The store manager is saying that at noon, there was a man called the Heroic Spirit Diarmuid?" Wuling Tessai thought of what Urahara Kisuke said.

"Heroic spirit? Diarmuid? Never heard of it. As for spirits, apart from those evil spirits or Japanese ghosts and gods, there are only elves. Among these spirits, only elves can be seen by ordinary people, but those elves are all female." Ye Yi thought for a while and then said.

"Is that so? It seems that this force is hidden very deeply. I hope it won't affect us." Urahara Kisuke shook his head and said in a heavy voice.

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On the morning of the third day, Zhang Luo just entered the school and found something wrong. The students and teachers around him were all staring at him with extremely fiery eyes, which made Zhang Luo feel a little uncomfortable.

After class at noon, Zhang Luo went to the rooftop to have lunch with Ichigo Kurosaki, Ryuki Arisawa and Orihime Inoue. He told them about this matter and got an explanation from Ichigo Kurosaki.

It turned out that at around 5:00 pm yesterday afternoon, in the variety show hosted by Yoko Okino, the question and answer session between Zhang Luo and Yoko Okino the day before yesterday appeared on TV, which made Zhang Luo very popular. You know, Yoko Okino is an extremely famous all-round artist. Although Zhang Luo, Ichigo Kurosaki, and Ryuki Arisawa are not very interested in these variety shows, and Orihime Inoue only likes to watch comedy shows, at least two-thirds of the entire Karakura Town watch Yoko Okino's shows. Among these people, there are not only students in the school, but also Ichigo Kurosaki's two younger sisters.

Listening to Ichigo Kurosaki's explanation, Zhang Luo suddenly had an idea and called up the system panel. Sure enough, there was an achievement prompt on the system panel.

[Achieve a one-time achievement: Celebrity. Reward: two Saint Quartz.]

[Achievements achieved: Heroic Spirit Legacy II, Heroic Spirit Legacy III. Reward: 5 Saint Quartz.]

Because he planned to collect ten Saint Quartz stones and then do a ten-pull series, Zhang Luo had not checked the system panel for the past few days. It was only last night when he was meditating that his fame reached a certain level and he completed this achievement, which resulted in Zhang Luo still not knowing about this matter.

It’s true that achievements can be triggered by doing anything. I already have twelve Saint Quartz, so I can do a ten-pull. I hope I can draw some good cards this time.

Zhang Luo sighed again.

But isn't it a bit slow? This is already the third day after the incident. In addition to Yoko Okino, there should have been other onlookers who filmed Diarmuid's existence and his own explanation of why he only completed this achievement yesterday.

In fact, there were indeed people who filmed Diarmuid, but the interview with Yoko Okino was stopped by the staff, so no one filmed it. It was just a video of a person with special abilities killing evil spirits, and it really couldn't make a splash on the Japanese Internet, which is full of supernatural videos and psychic programs.

It was because of Yoko Okino's show that people knew about the existence of the Heroic Spirit Diarmuid. Unfortunately, only a small number of people in Japan are interested in Western mythology, and few people in Western countries watch Japanese variety shows, resulting in only two achievements in the Heroic Spirit Legacy.

Chapter 21 The Assassin in the Night

Attending classes and practicing gun skills, the afternoon passed quickly. After returning home with Youze Longgui in the evening, after eating and washing up, Zhang Luo returned to the room to meditate. At nine o'clock in the evening, Zhang Luo opened his eyes, set up an illusion on the bed, and came out of the room. At this time, Youze Longgui was practicing the meditation method he taught in his room. Mrs. Youze had also fallen asleep, and the whole room was extremely quiet.

Zhang Luo also walked lightly in the dark, and walked out of Youze's house as silently as a cat.

Just like last night, he entered Okada Izo's body and, as an executioner under the cover of night, slaughtered the Hollows wandering around Karakura Town.

Because it seemed that some memories and skills of the transformed Heroic Spirit could be stimulated through certain things, Zhang Luo did not continue to transform into Diarmuid. Because the night was more suitable for Assassin, Zhang Luo acted at night as Okada Izo.

Half-crouching on the roof of a house, Okada Izo blended into the darkness, with only a pair of sharp eyes looking around.

A moment later, Okada Izo fixed his eyes, drew his sword, and suddenly jumped up from the roof without a sound.

"The thirteenth."

When Okada Izo put away his sword and fell to the ground, a huge Hollow split in half behind him.

The police patrolling this street witnessed Okada Izo appearing on the street with a real sword. In addition, there have been rumors in the past two days that a man with a samurai sword was wandering around at night, and Okada Izo's murderous aura as one of the Four Great Slayers gave the patrol police a strong sense of crisis.

"Hey, who are you? Don't move. Put the knife down."

The patrolman who was walking towards Okada Izo vigilantly saw Okada Izo move, and hurriedly took out his pistol and pointed it at Okada Izo, saying in panic.

"..."

Okada Izo was silent for a moment and did not move.

The patrolman breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Okada Izo did not move. Just as he was about to step forward, he heard a "swish" sound, a fleeting flash of light appeared in front of his eyes, and a breeze blew past him.

The patrolman was stunned for a moment, but found that everything was normal in front of him. Okada Izo was still standing there quietly. Just when he thought he was hallucinating, he saw the pistol in his hand completely shattered from the muzzle to the place where he was holding it, and then fell to the ground.

"Da da……"

The sound of the gun fragments falling to the ground was like a huge hammer hitting his heart, making the patrolman's face turn pale.

The passersby who were watching around were also stunned when they saw this scene. They originally just came to watch the fun, but they didn't expect to see such a scene while watching the fun. The timid ones quickly left, and the brave ones just retreated a few meters, keeping what they thought was a safe distance.

"Don't point your weapons at me. This is just a warning. I, Okada Izo, am not a kind and lawful person. Killing people is a daily routine for me, a human killer."

Okada Izo smiled coldly, releasing the murderous aura in his body without reservation.

The patrolman felt as if he was trapped in a sea of ​​blood, with hideous evil spirits grinning at him everywhere. He was so frightened that his body went limp and he fell directly to the ground, not daring to move.

Although the other onlookers did not face Okada Izo's murderous aura directly like the patrolman, they were also affected. They felt a cold breath invading their bodies, making them shiver.

Then the ground under Okada Izo's feet suddenly sank, and he soared into the sky, disappearing from everyone's sight in a few breaths.

Only then did the patrolman recover from his fear and quickly took out his walkie-talkie to inform his colleagues on patrol at the police station and other places that a dangerous person had appeared in Karakura Town.

The crowd of onlookers who had been quiet all this time also became noisy. Two days ago, evil spirits and knights appeared in Karakura Town, and today a seemingly powerful samurai appeared, which made the residents of Karakura Town begin to feel uneasy.

"Okada Izo? This name sounds familiar, I think I've heard it somewhere before."

"Okada Izou isn't a special name, but if you add the word 'man-slayer,' there's only one person. He was one of the Four Great Man-Slayers of the late Edo period, wielding the sword of Heaven's Punishment. He was known as an assassin of a rare generation, Okada Izou Yoshizuru."

"Lord Okada Izo! That's impossible! He must be an imposter. How could someone who has been dead for almost two hundred years reappear?"

However, unlike Diarmuid before, Okada Izo and Hundred Man Kill, two words that were extremely famous to the Japanese, quickly attracted the attention of the crowd.

Amidst the noisy crowd, an ordinary-looking man lowered his head and fiddled with his mobile phone. He quickly uploaded the video he had recorded to the Internet.

On the other hand, Okada Izo was still wandering in Karakura Town, killing the Hollows coming from Hueco Mundo, but he subconsciously avoided the Kurosaki family's clinic, Urahara's store, and the hospital where Zhang Luo had lived.

It was recently that Zhang Luo accidentally learned from Mrs. Arisawa that the hospital he had been staying in was Karakura General Hospital, which was the territory of the strongest Quincy Ryugen Ishida.

The next night, Zhang Luo meditated for an hour to adjust his state, then set up the illusion as usual, left home, transformed into Assassin and blended into the night.

But something seems a little wrong today.

Okada Izo stood on the roof and looked at the streets below. He saw that at this time when most people had gone to sleep and only a few were still rushing through the streets, there were now many more people, and they were not busy at all. They were all walking slowly on the streets. Even some narrow aisles had many people, and there were at least three or four policemen patrolling on every street.

This is not normal.

Okada Izo thought for a moment, and seemed to have thought of something. He took out his mobile phone from his body in the space and browsed the Internet.

As expected, the topic about Okada Izo has already been posted on the homepage of the Internet. A simple search will yield hundreds of related links, and this is because the time is too short.

Chapter 22 First Meeting with Yoruichi

"Okada Izo? One of the Four Great Slayers? Really or fake?"

"Nonsense, it's fake. Maybe this video is fake too."

"You even need to ask? It's definitely fake. It's been almost two hundred years. Okada Izo's bones must have rotted away."

"Regardless of whether the video is true or not, that person is definitely not Okada Izo. Although there is a saying about eight million gods, a swordsman is not qualified to become a god, and I have never heard of anyone worshipping Okada Izo."

"It doesn't matter whether Okada Izo is real or not. What matters is the authenticity of this video. He can swing a sword a hundred times faster than an ordinary person. This is not something a human can do. Even if this Okada Izo is fake, he is not human."

"The video is real. I'm a hacker. I know very well whether the video is fake or not."

"On the top floor, I am a doctoral student in computer science at the University of Tokyo. This video is not fake."

"If it's true, this person must be superhuman, with such a high sword-swinging speed."

"Is there any kendo expert out there who can tell me what style of swordsmanship this person uses?"

"What a joke! It was just a swing of the sword. What kind of swordsmanship is that? Who can tell the swordsmanship school from that one swing?"

"I heard that this person has appeared in Karakura Town three times at night. Each time he was found late at night. I plan to go check it out tomorrow."

"Aren't those people upstairs afraid of death? Didn't they see that the patrolmen's guns were destroyed?"

"But the patrolman is fine, isn't he? And so are the others who saw him."

"I'll go too. Maybe I can even learn swordsmanship from that master."

"Don't be silly, the guy above. That can't be just swordsmanship. Even if your swordsmanship is strong, how can it reach that level?"

……

It seems that except for a very small number of people, no one believes that the person in the video is the legendary Okada Izo. People are discussing the authenticity of the video, when the patrolman's gun was cut, and the swordsmanship of the person in the video. Especially after someone slowed down the video a hundred times so that the audience could clearly see Okada Izo's sword-wielding movements, it caused even greater controversy.

However, although this incident caused great controversy in society, it did not attract the attention of senior government officials. This was because there were too many people with special abilities. Except for particularly important matters, trivial matters such as a powerful swordsman appearing in Karakura Town at night would not attract any attention at all.

What's more, this is Karakura Town. Ever since the Japanese government and Soul Society started to have a dirty deal, matters related to the supernatural in Karakura Town have no longer been managed.

It seems that I will need to go online more often in the future.

Okada Izo put away his phone and made a secret decision. Because Zhang Luo spent all his time on meditation and practicing gunmanship, he rarely went online, which led to him knowing about this matter only now.

Just as Okada Izo was about to change his position, an inexplicable sense of crisis suddenly appeared in Okada Izo's heart, causing Okada Izo's body to stiffen and he dared not move.

Who was it? Urahara Kisuke? Kurosaki Isshin? Ishida Ryugen? Or Soul Society? Or was Aizen noticed?

Okada glanced around inconspicuously, but there was no one and no sound.

"Hey……"

The moment the deep male voice sounded, the roof under Okada Izo's feet completely cracked, and the whole person shot out like a bullet, rushing out a distance of nearly 100 meters in less than a second.

But before Okada Izou could land, a man's laughter reached his ears, as if it were right next to his ear. Okada Izou didn't stop for a moment. At the same time as he landed, he burst out at the fastest speed and rushed into the crowd almost touching the ground, causing chaos.