Death God: Sunny and Cheerful Boy

"Yeah, talk to mom about your junior high school tonight." Yilong would not discourage his daughter's enthusiasm.

Ichiryū was hit in the lower back by Masaki...

……

Yilong stayed in the human world for an unusually long time this time. Half a month passed quietly, and Ichigo, Youzi, and Xia Li had already started school.

Masaki, who was used to being a single mother, had begun to feel a little disgusted. One day, while hanging clothes, she asked, "Didn't something happen in Seireitei? Why are you so free?"

"I already told you it was because of the promotion..." Yilong said as a matter of course.

It sounds as if the captain can slack off blatantly.

"Eh? If it's you, shouldn't you make it even more severe?" Masaki asked deliberately.

“No, no, no, how could that be… I’m the kindest one. Before, those evil spirits mixed in Team 13, and the captain didn’t notice anything, so I had to shoulder the heavy responsibility.” Yilong immediately shook his head.

The result was, of course, a cold stare from Masaki.

However, Yilong did not return to the Soul Society at this time. In addition to the fact that he had more room to slack off after his "promotion", there was also a big reason that Yilong deliberately let him go...

At this time, Ichiryu has been "on vacation", which undoubtedly makes the soldiers of other squads and even the officers breathe a sigh of relief. At the same time, they are grateful to "Shifengyuan Ichiryu" in their hearts - especially under the leadership of the soldiers of the 9th squad, the pace is so fast!

More and more team members began to reflect on themselves.

Could it be that Captain Shihouin really discovered the conspiracy of Aizen and Tōsen from the very beginning, or had "some suspicions"?

The reason why Captain Shifengyuan has a bad relationship with them...

No, the reason why bastards like Aizen dislike Captain Shifengyuan is entirely out of vigilance and revenge!

Actually...Captain Shifengyuan is still very reasonable.

After Ichigo started school, Urahara started to stir up trouble again - he had clearly told him that as a parent, Ichiryu didn't want Ichigo to accept strange things in his little black shop, but...

It seems that Urahara Kisuke has already set his sights on Ichiryuu.

Not long after school started, Ichigo ran into trouble when three mysterious opponents with different abilities appeared.

Although Ichigo would not say this at home without knowing the true identity of his parents, but...

Yilong naturally knew that his son was running outside more and more frequently.

[In recent days, seven missing persons cases have occurred in our city. Clothes of the missing persons were found near the crime scenes. The police remind the general public to be vigilant, not to go to remote roads alone at night, and to call the police immediately if any suspicious situation is found...]

"Disappearance case? Seven people?" Ichigo was puzzled. This situation was a bit rare, but when he thought about it carefully, it didn't seem like the work of a "Hollow".

Ichigo didn't have time to think about it, just then, he heard outside...

"Kurosaki-san! Hurry, something's happened to Chad-san!"

Inoue hurriedly ran to Ichigo's door and called him. Upon hearing that, Ichigo quickly came out of his body, wearing a soul form of the Shinigami suit, and jumped directly from the second floor.

The "Soul" controls Ichigo's body, and thinks it is "flawless", so it "asks for leave" from Ichigo's parents.

"Go!" Ichigo shouted to Inoue after landing.

When Inoue left...

Through the window on the first floor of Ichigo's house, I saw the back of a man in an apron...

Is that Ichigo's father? I heard he stayed at home for a long time after returning this year?

Why...does it look familiar?

After Ichigo and Inoue left, the "Soul" followed them out of loneliness - to ordinary people, it seemed that Orihime left after calling out to Ichigo's door, and Ichigo took a long time to come out and chase after her...

"It's really lively." Yilong said with emotion.

"It seems like Manager Urahara is organizing some kind of event again..." Masaki said while cutting vegetables.

"Really... I don't know if I'll be back for dinner."

……

The conversation between Ichilong and Masaki was overheard by the two daughters, but Yuko and Xia Li did not suspect anything, but...

"Urahara Shoten? What kind of activities can there be in such a small shop?" Youzi wondered.

"Who knows, maybe it's collecting stamps to exchange for souvenirs or something like that." Xia Li guessed.

"Puchi! Brother, really, he is like a child. He is actually attracted by this kind of activity. I wouldn't do that!" Youzi said proudly.

As for Ichigo himself, he still didn't know the predicament he was facing. It was all arranged by Manager Urahara. After all...

Not to mention that the other party had already hidden his identity, and Ichigo could never have imagined that Urahara Kisuke, who had just sincerely apologized for the [Hōgyoku] incident, would shamelessly stir up trouble again so soon!

But Urahara does have his own plans...

He and Yoruichi discovered that a group of dangerous guys who were born thousands of years ago have recently "appeared in the world" to plot something bad!

So the troops split into two groups...

Yoruichi went to the Soul Society to warn the police, but neither Urahara nor Yoruichi would put their hopes on the Soul Society to make the right decision, so Urahara himself further transformed and loaded some functions on a batch of transformed souls remaining from the [Vanguard Project], preparing to let them "run in" with Ichigo and the others, so that they could help resolve this emergency!

Yilong had already noticed this, so he ignored it. Sure enough, within a few days, Ichigo and the others had dealt with the three "transformed souls" who were playing tricks on them. Now, each of the four of them had a "transformed soul" to assist them, and they were ready to deal with the "Soul Hunter"...

(End of this chapter)

97. Chapter 97 Soul Hunter is not a Soul Beast

97.

2023-09-04

"Manager Urahara! What are you doing?"

After Ichigo and his three companions defeated their opponents, they looked speechlessly at Urahara who walked out of the shadows.

"Hahaha, don't be angry! Because the three of them will be your companions in the future, so let them come and get to know you in the fastest way."

Urahara smiled and introduced Ichigo and the others, the three "companions" who had been the villains for several days.

They are Lilin, who looks like a little girl with short golden hair, a Tibetan dressed like a gentleman, and Zhiba, who is wrapped tightly with her face and hair covered.

Then Ichigo and the others also learned that they were actually "transformed souls" - the same "souls" that helped Ichigo preserve Kizuko's body!

"Transforming souls? So why do we need them? We don't need to leave the body." Uryuu looked at Manager Urahara in confusion.

They, the Quincies and Fullbringers, do not need to leave their own Soul Society bodies when fighting. Even when they enter Soul Society, they do so through the method of spirit particle transformation - that is, they add an effect of "transforming the Soul Society body into spirit particles" to the [World Gate] instead of "taking off" the body.

"It's not about asking them to keep the body, but... In fact, there are some terrible guys in reality now. They will suck the souls of humans. There have been some strange disappearances recently. You should have noticed it, right?

"Lilin and the others still have souls, and I have given them the ability to discover these people!" Urahara explained at this time.

"Missing case? Oh yeah... could it be related to Xu?" Yulong adjusted his glasses and recalled the news he had seen before.

"No, this time the opponent is not a Hollow, but... a Soul Hunter." Urahara said seriously.

"Soul beast?" Inoue seemed to have thought of something when he heard this.

"Eh? Inoue, you know?" Ichigo looked at Inoue in surprise. In his impression, Inoue should not have any knowledge channels in this area.

"Is it the kind that can explode soul rings?" Inoue asked a little excitedly.

Urahara: ...

"Spirit ring?" Ichigo was even more puzzled.

"Don't you know, Kurosaki-san? Ha! Revive, my love!" Inoue made a strange gesture.

Ichigo, Uryu, and Chad: ...

"What is this?" Yu Long asked speechlessly.

"It's a very popular novel and anime among kids. The peripheral products are selling very well, especially the cards. I recently bought a lot of them..." Urahara actually knew about it, since he owns a small shop after all.

But Urahara remembered that the people who bought these were all elementary school students!

Obviously everyone realized that this young lady with natural attributes had her thoughts wandering off to who knows where.

Seeing that everyone had a speechless expression and no one responded, Inoue said honestly: "Sorry, please continue." Then he knocked his head.

"But what I'm talking about now is the Soul Hunter, also known as the 'Soul Hunter', not the beast of the beast..." Urahara continued.

"Soul Hunter?" This time it was Yu Long who was stunned, as if he had thought of something.

"So what anime have you been watching recently?" Ichigo looked over speechlessly.

"No, if I remember correctly... it seems to be a special race that once had conflicts with the Quincies." Yulong said coldly at this time - as if saying "We noble Quincies are just more cultured than you."

"Yes, there was such a period, but that's not the point..." Urahara immediately slid past the topic and continued, "They were born a thousand years ago, the product of a failed experiment at the Seireitei Research Institute..."

Seireitei Research Institute, the predecessor of the current "Technical Development Bureau".

Before Urahara established the "Technical Development Bureau", the Seireitei Research Institute was the main research and development institution of Seireitei. However, compared with the current "Technical Development Bureau", it had even less research and development ethics and disregarded rules.

Urahara did not elaborate on the experiment, but continued: "These soul hunters were driven out of Soul Society and came to live in the human world. They look no different from humans, but they will not age or die naturally. They have special powers, but... they also need to feed on souls!

“Originally, they would only absorb the souls of people who had just died, and their numbers were already very small, so they posed no threat. However…recent developments have shown that they have begun to break the rules and directly absorb the souls of living people!

"This will greatly enhance their [Dolls], giving them greater power. The purpose of their sudden action is still unknown."

Uryuu showed some doubt at this time - the Quincies were massacred two hundred years ago, which means... the Soul Hunters and Quincies should have been enemies between a thousand years ago and two hundred years ago, but this was not reflected in Urahara's simple introduction.

"Sucking the souls of living people? That's no different from being a Hollow. It really must be stopped!" Ichigo's sense of responsibility exploded.

"So, Lilin, Zhiba and the others now have the ability to track the soul hunter's spiritual pressure. You have to cooperate well from now on! Soul also has this ability, so... let them be your three partners." Urahara said to the three people other than Ichigo.

Although Yoruichi had already gone to Soul Society to report the situation, given her status as the former head of the Shihouin family, since the wanted warrant had been lifted, it would be fine for her to return to the Soul Society occasionally, even if she was nominally expelled. However, Urahara had no confidence in the wise men of the Forty-sixth Chamber and the decision-making ability of Captain-General Yamamoto, so he made preparations for both scenarios.

……

On the same night, on the top floor of the Star Group headquarters building in Karakura Town...

A man with short white hair and a scar on his chin came here quietly. The guards along the way had their eyes wide open when he passed by, and it was obvious that they had fallen into an illusion.

It was Kariya God, the leader of the soul hunting group who advocated sucking the souls of living people!

When he arrived at the huge office on the top floor, Kariya Shin calmed down a little. After the door of the office opened automatically, he saw that there were already several people waiting for him inside.

In the middle of the office, which was more than ten meters wide, sat a young woman, with a floor-to-ceiling glass that stretched across the entire room behind her...

On both sides, there were four other people, two young men, one tall and one short, a middle-aged man with a violent aura, and a reserved old man.

"Kami Kariya, you rebel actually dared to come here. Are you finally tired of living?" The middle-aged man with a square face shouted directly at this time, and there seemed to be a flash of thunder in his eyes while he spoke.

Kariya God smiled slightly at this time, and said confidently: "Your Highness, Lord Dazai, it's been a long time since we last met. Can I not follow the old etiquette?"

At the same time, a young man looked at the fainted guard in confusion and came to the top floor in a daze...

"Mother, the security guard outside..."

(End of this chapter)

98. Chapter 98 The boy being hunted

98.

2023-09-04

In a blink of an eye, a month has passed since Yilong returned to the human world. It’s almost... he has reached his limit!

Firstly, Ichiryu had received a secret report. Although Yoruichi did not take the warning seriously after he alerted the Soul Society, as the commander-in-chief of the Secret Mobile Team, Soi-Fong directly applied to go into battle. She has now appeared in the world, but has not yet come to Karakura Town.

Secondly, Ichiryu also received news that the vice-captain of the First Division, Suzube, had "secretly" gone to the Hueco Mundo not long ago - that is, he did not apply for the [Gate] from the Thirteenth Division!

In this regard, Yilong did not doubt that Suzuki would "surrender to the enemy", and he even guessed what the old guy was doing in Hueco Mundo...

Aizen is the current king of Hueco Mundo, but Hueco Mundo is too big. Neither Bylergan nor Aizen can control the entire Hueco Mundo, let alone most of it.

Moreover, the Seireitei also has an "expeditionary force" in Hueco Mundo - the history of some of the "expeditionary forces" can even be traced back to before the establishment of the Gotei 13, and many of them have long lost contact with the Seireitei. Initially, only the Shinigami who had committed crimes would join the expeditionary force, which was like being exiled.

In essence, it is to adjust the amount of "virtual".

If Ichiryu guessed correctly, Suzuki should have gone to contact the expeditionary force. After all, when Ichiryu Shihouin was first brought back by Aizen, he was from the expeditionary force!

If there were only these two reasons, Yilong would not be in a hurry. However, at this moment, Yilong felt that Ichigo had returned, and... he brought back an injured and fainted boy!

This is not surprising, after all, Kurosaki Masaki is also a doctor, which is why she raised three children.

The Quincy clan has also done extensive research on the body of a Quincy - after all, the "Still Blood Suit" and "Moving Blood Suit" involve blood circulation throughout the body, and the "Random Heavenly Puppet Suit" involves the muscles and bones of the whole body... Every Quincy can easily achieve a high level of attainment in surgical operations.

Although Kurosaki Masaki does not run her own hospital, as a freelance doctor, she takes on high-difficulty surgical commissions from all over the place and earns a good income.