Death God: Sunny and Cheerful Boy

Even though Soi-Fong has "learned bad things" and can understand what Ichi-Long is thinking, she still can't bring herself to perform such an abstract thing as "slashing the anti-membrane" in public!

"Souza, this is what you said..." When Yoruichi was about to take the opportunity to ask Yilong about something, she found that Soouza's face was red and she looked like "I will commit suicide if you say that again", so she had to shut up.

Aizen: ...

Aizen was silent at this time.

For the last sentence, couldn’t you wait until I finish?

That being the case...

"Yilyuu, thank you for your hard work. It was the right decision to bring you to Soul Society. Although it was your wish to stay, but... Hueco Mundo welcomes you home at any time." Aizen said calmly.

Well, Yilong still took some risks. The anti-film can isolate everything, but... it's not soundproof!

But Ichiryu pretended not to hear and continued to scold Aizen - you, a traitor, reminisced about the past with Ukitake Jushiro before leaving, but insulted me, Shihouin Ichiryu. Isn't it clear who is the loyal minister and who is the traitor?

(End of this chapter)

82. Chapter 82 Interrogation

82.

On August 997, 8 of the Holy War Calendar, the Fourth Squad’s barracks, where the General Services Department was located.

Early in the morning, Ichigo woke up...

"This is...Ah! Rukia!" Ichigo remembered that he was in the Soul Society, but looked around in confusion.

"Kurosaki-san! Are you awake?" Inoue quickly called everyone over.

"Where...are you guys here?" Ichigo wondered.

"This is the General Service Department. Please rest here and stay until you fully recover." Unohana Retsu opened the door and walked in at the right time.

"Eh? You should be..." Ichigo vaguely remembered seeing this person at the "Hill of Double Death".

"I'm the captain of the fourth division, Unohana Retsu. Thank you all for everything you've done in Soul Society. There may have been some misunderstandings between us before, but they're over now." Unohana Retsu said with a smile.

Ichigo was puzzled when he heard this - he should thank me for this?

As the captain of the 4th Division, Unohana Retsu knows it best.

Although the travelers caused chaos in the Soul Society, in fact... not a single soldier died!

It can be seen that the other party must have deliberately held back, especially now that it has been proved that everything was Aizen's conspiracy, which means... stopping Rukia from being executed was the right thing to do.

"Misunderstanding? Ah! Where's Rukia?" Ichigo asked hurriedly.

"Don't worry, Rukia isn't seriously injured. It's just... because that thing was taken out, and because of the influence of the murderous stone before, she's resting and recovering her spiritual pressure." Unohana Retsu explained calmly.

"Um? What exactly happened...We are not enemies anymore, right?" Ichigo was also confused at this time.

At the same time, Ichigo had a vague feeling that the captain of the Fourth Division in front of him looked smiling, but seemed to be observing him all the time.

Just when Unohana was about to say something, Yamada Hanatarō hurried over and said, "Captain, the captain-general wants to ask you something."

"Well, I'll take my leave first. If you have anything, you can always tell us." Unohana nodded and said to Ichigo.

"Ah...thank you for your trouble!" Ichigo thanked him quickly.

Although I have no idea what's going on, but... this captain seems very polite. He must be a person with a good temper, right?

After Unohana left, Ichigo couldn't wait to ask what happened after he fainted...

"Calm down after listening to this. Actually..." After Uryu reminded Ichigo, he began to tell the story.

……

"What? Manager Urahara..." Ichigo felt a little uncomfortable when he heard that.

After all, according to this statement, from the very beginning, it was Urahara who caused Rukia to suffer so much in order to hide something that a "big bad guy" was looking for.

Of course, in the end it was undoubtedly Urahara who helped Ichigo, and... it seemed that Urahara also had his own difficulties.

"By the way, what about Yoruichi? She was also the captain of the Gotei 13, right?" Ichigo thought to himself that Yoruichi and Urahara might be returning to the Soul Society.

"Well, but Miss Yoruichi has returned to the human world...It is said that the Seireitei only cancelled the wanted notice for them, but did not pardon their crimes." Uryuu explained.

After a pause, Uryū said sarcastically, "This is the noble of the God of Death... How can you admit that you were wrong in the first place? Of course you have to blame Miss Yoruichi and Manager Urahara for not surrendering honestly and going through the procedures to redress your grievances."

Ichigo has little empathy for the Shinigami nobles, so Uryuu's sarcasm can't hurt him.

Inoue nodded and said, "Yes, the vice captain Shifengyuan who saved us twice before was also taken away. It seems that he was being interrogated. I don't know what happened to him."

Yu Long then said: "Well... I think that guy is really suspicious. The reason why he saved us is unclear!"

"Hmm? Shihouin? Isn't that Yoruichi's fellow clan member... He must be Yoruichi's friend!" Ichigo gave a perfect explanation.

"I see!" Inoue accepted it instantly.

But Yulong still felt something was strange...

At the same time, Shifengyuan Ichilong was indeed making excuses for Captain-General Yamamoto in front of Mao Forty-Six.

Just before Aizen and the other two left, Yamamoto questioned Ichiryu about what Aizen had said to him.

However, Yilong didn't care about the "traitor's nonsense" at all, and naturally shirked responsibility by saying it was "just a frame-up", "I have long drawn a clear line between us and him", and "Now I have reported Aizen the most times among the ten captains."

Although Yamamoto still had doubts in his heart, and even wanted to ask Ichiryu to hand over his Zanpakutō before conducting a detailed investigation, but...

At this time, people from the Shihouin family appeared and proved Ichryu's identity as the "Head of the Family" - and his "Head of the Family" had a completely different meaning from before. In terms of power, he was more like the "Steward of the House" of the Kasumioji family. It was only because Ichryu was also from the Shihouin clan that he was named the "Head of the Family" - the governor of all clan affairs!

And thanks to Yilong's usual diligent preparation, although the 46th Chamber was completely destroyed, the construction of the new term was basically completed overnight, and most of the seats were not controversial.

The new Forty-Sixth Chamber has more trust in Shifengyuan Yilong...

Of course it is impossible to arrest Shihouin Ichiryu because of what Aizen said before he left - after all, they were just the words of a "traitor"!

Instead, Ukitake Jushiro was interrogated in detail about his conversation with Aizen to analyze whether there was any possibility of collusion.

Yamamoto couldn't use this reason to arrest Yilong, so he just argued with him in front of the 46th room...

Although Captain Yamamoto doubted himself, Yilong was selfless and spoke up for him when Captain Yamamoto was criticized!

"No, no, no, everyone has misunderstood. Everyone, please understand that at that time, Aizen's three bastards were already wrapped in the [Anti-Membrane], and it was impossible to break it from the outside!

"At that time, I was thinking of the tragic deaths of the sages and judges, and of the Soul Society, so I was outraged and made a wrong judgment. In fact, I was doing useless work. Captain Yamamoto's approach of standing by and watching, preserving his strength, was the calmest and most correct judgment!" Yilong told the truth.

At this time in the underground meeting hall, the new forty-six chambers were sitting around, with Shifengyuan Ichiryu, Yamamoto Shigekuni, and Ukitake Jushiro standing in the middle.

The position facing the three people was the largest and highest row of main seats, on which sat six people - the new six judges!

Except for a passage behind the three people and the entrance through the main gate, there were forty sages sitting around them, making the three people seem to be in a basin surrounded by everyone. Just from the position, it was easy to put pressure on the person being interrogated.

However, whether it was Yamamoto, Ichiryu, or Ukitake, they all obviously ignored this pressure.

Although Yilong sincerely defended himself at this moment, the sages and judges of the 46th Chamber did not seem to be convinced...

(End of this chapter)

83. Chapter 83: Speaking Up for Justice

83.

"So... Captain Yamamoto is indeed calm enough, hehe." At the judge's seat, a skinny middle-aged nobleman with white powder on his face said in a sarcastic tone.

Well, if Ichiryu is not calm because he is "concerned about Seireitei", then Yamamoto is so "calm" that it must be because he does not take Seireitei seriously?

"Judge Tsunayashiro, cough cough cough... Captain-General Yamamoto was indeed the one who wanted to keep Aizen the most at that time, cough cough... it's just..." Ukitake was out of breath, but still wanted to defend teacher Genryūsai.

Before Tsunayashiro Murao could say anything else, another judge beside him, an old man who looked to be just over 1 meter tall, said, "Ah? What? Calm down? I am very calm..."

At this moment, Murao's mouth twitched, and he cursed the people of the Yagyu family in his heart. What was their purpose in pushing this old man to the position of judge?

However, he did not dare to question him directly. After all, this old man was the previous head of the Yagyu family and the father of the current head - Yagyu Toshikisai Muneyasu. The seniority was there.

Like "Yuan Liu Zhai", the "Min Mu Zhai" in the middle is his pseudonym.

"Mr. Minokusai, what Lord Murao said is..." Yushiro was standing by and kindly explained to Minokusai in his ear.

That’s right, three of the six judges in front of him were familiar faces—in addition to Yushiro from the Shihouin family, there were also Rurichiyo from the Kasumigaoji family, Nayura from the Amanmon family…

The former inherited the original seat of the house steward Yun Jing, and... with good preparation, when the bad news of the 46th room just came, the Kasumigaoji family stabilized the situation, made a smooth transition of power, abolished the house steward system, and with the help of some masked death gods, the emotions of the house steward's old friends were also very stable.

The latter inherited her father's seat...

Although the bad news came too suddenly, there were unexpectedly ambitious people in the Awanmon clan who, under the pretext that "the old patriarch had long wanted to change the heir", opposed Nayura and even wanted to continue hiding the truth from her while she was in solitary confinement... Fortunately, the supervisory forces upheld justice and took the initiative to maintain the orthodoxy of the Awanmon clan's power transfer.

The sixth judge, Ichiryuu was actually quite familiar with, and was none other than Masumi Kuchiki, who had been in the Kinyin Noble Council not long ago—also Byakuya’s aunt!

Originally, the Kuchiki, Tsunayashiro, and Yagyu families did not have many seats in the Forty-Six Chambers. They each had only one or two sages and no judges. Only the Shihouin clan had so many seats, but it was only after they had been able to make friends and operate between the great nobles and the small and medium nobles, the ancient nobles and the emerging nobles for more than a hundred years.

But now, with finally an opportunity to reshuffle the cards, the other three families would be too foolish if they didn't take the opportunity to push people into the Forty-Sixth Chamber, which had already become a powerful force...

The three ancient families seized the three judge seats in one go.

However, many of the other small and medium nobles, especially those who had originally held seats, seemed to have made preparations and immediately inherited power smoothly...

In the end, both sides took a step back. In the new forty-six chambers, the four major families had four judge seats, but each family could only have one seat. The other original sage seats could only be transferred to affiliated families.

For example, the Shihouin family, the most wealthy of the forty-six families, gave up the sage seat to the Feng family and the Ōmaeda family...

After the Rukia incident, Masumi decided that her nephew, the head of the family, was almost a fool!

For the sake of his intelligence, Masumi asked him to represent the Kuchiki family in meetings of the Kiniseki Noble Council in the future - normally the heads of the families would represent the meeting.

And Zhenchun works as a judge in the 46th room.

At this time, there are six judges seats, one for each of the four nobles, plus Amanmen and Kasumadaoji, all of whom are old nobles.

Although the small and medium nobles still lead in the proportion of sage seats, the great nobles have already "turned the tables".

With their interests intertwined, everyone in Room 46 took a step back. After all...

The ones who killed the last wave of Forty-Six Chambers this time were the members of the Gotei 13 - the nobles must unite and suppress these peasants!

Otherwise, a knife that is too sharp will hurt you...

"I see, Genryusai, you had a fight with two of your own students." It was obvious that Toshikisai's logic was not very smooth, and he did not understand the key points even after Yushiro's explanation.

"That's not the point, Your Excellency the Inquisitor. Aizen's rebellion this time was entirely because it happened suddenly, so the Gotei 13 were unable to react in time. However, all the captains were loyal and brave, and many captains and vice-captains were injured!" Yilong immediately excused his colleagues.

"But...it seems that no one here is hurt by rebellion, but instead they are all hurt by internal strife, right?" Nayura asked with a stern face.

Although Nayora looks small, she is very dignified when she is serious.

However, Tsunayashiro Murao had other things to say, and before Ichiryuu could explain, he changed the subject: "Wait, Captain Shifengyuan, if I remember correctly, you are also the captain of the Supervisory Corps, right? Captain-General Yamamoto was responsible for the Aizen incident, but..."

"That's right! Judge Murao, the biggest responsibility for this negligence should be on the part of the Supervisory Corps! Although the Supervisory Corps' power to supervise captains was restricted thirty years ago, I should not just be skeptical, but should decisively take more effective measures!"

Yilong immediately listed that it was during the "Room-Team Dispute" thirty years ago that the power of the Supervisory Force was restricted, and emphasized - It's not that I didn't report it, I wrote a letter to the 46th Room and criticized Aizen from time to time... It's just that no one listened to me!

Before Tsunayashiro Murao could make another attack, Ichiryu decisively added: "I, the Supervisory Corps, have an unshirkable responsibility for this matter! I have also reflected deeply on my negligence this time and found many problems within the Supervisory Corps... You can rest assured that this time I will be determined to cut off any worms and not let go."

"Well said! I've read Captain Shifengyuan's request, these scums must indeed be eliminated!"

"That's right. We are relieved to leave the inspection team to Captain Shifengyuan..."

"These people must not be let off! Captain Shifengyuan, do not show mercy."

……

Before Tsunayashiro Murao could say anything, the sages all cheered.

After all, Ichiryu now wants to eliminate the "worms", who are all the nobles he disliked before and who were placed in the supervisory forces. These people have two characteristics. One is that they have been killed by Aizen, and the other is... their competitors have long been on good terms with Ichiryu, and most of them have successfully joined forces to rise to the top!

At this time, Yilong was in Room 46 and proposed to clean up these "worms" in the team. How could they not give thumbs up? Upon seeing this, Tsunayashiro Murao pursed his lips and didn't say anything more on this issue.

And in this way...

Although behind the scenes, Yilong was indeed suspected of eliminating dissidents, but on the surface it can be said that he was "cutting off one's own arm to save a life", as if the Aizen incident really made the supervisory forces feel so guilty that they wanted to commit suicide to apologize.

After Ichilong put on this "show", the Gotei 13, whose responsibilities were just as great as those of the Supervisory Corps, suddenly became embarrassed!

At this time, Ruri Chiyo looked at Ichiryu and said, "Three captains of the Gotei 13 defected to Hueco Mundo at once... Let's not talk about how to hold them accountable. Captain-General Yamamoto, do you have any recommendations for replacements?"

(End of this chapter)