Death God: Sunny and Cheerful Boy

It's not surprising that Ichigo would bring the injured home, but after sensing the boy's aura, Ichiro discovered...

There is no way to stay in this house!

"Huh? Why are you in such a hurry? You don't even wait for Ichigo and Yuugo to come back..." Masaki looked at Ichiryu in confusion.

"No! There's an urgent matter in Soul Society... Hey, what will happen to Soul Society without me?" Ichiryu said as he transformed into a spirit body and stood on the window.

Before Ichigo could return, Ichiryu had already left in another direction.

It wasn't long before Ichigo's hurried knock on the door was heard.

"Here... Huh? What's this?" Masaki looked at Ichigo in confusion. Not only did he bring back a classmate who seemed to be called Inoue Orihime, but he also carried someone on his back.

"Mom, he's injured, please treat him urgently!" Ichigo hurried to the simple small operating room at home and put down the boy he was carrying.

"What's going on?" Masaki immediately took the boy over.

As soon as they touched hands, they immediately discovered that this boy was not an ordinary person, but a Fullbringer... No! He was not a "Fullbringer" either, but seemed to be... some kind of "replica"?

Wait, a replica of Fullbringer, isn't that...

And this breath...

Think about the "Lin" who just left in a hurry...

Masaki's eyes became sharp!

"Mom? What's wrong?" Ichigo was still urging.

"It's nothing, don't worry, you guys go out first, I'll suture his wound right away..." Masaki said with a smile.

Seeing his mother's expression, Ichigo couldn't help but shudder, and hurriedly pulled Inoue out of the only simple operating room in the house.

After the two of them went out, Masaki curled her lips, pushed the suture needle and thread aside, stretched out two fingers, and condensed the spirit particles between her fingers into a needle. Then, under her calm eyes, the spirit particles formed a thread and sutured all the boy's serious-looking external wounds neatly and efficiently.

Not only were his internal organs repaired, but... he also used spiritual pressure to help him repair the cracks on the lotus pendant.

……

At the same time, Uryuu and Chad, who received the news, also rushed to Ichigo's house to gather.

"What's going on? Did you also encounter a soul hunter?"

"Well, the method was indeed strange. They seemed to have something else to do afterwards, so they left without deciding the winner."

"It's almost the same here. I also rescued a young man. He seems to be a soul hunter. I don't know why he is being hunted..."

Ichigo and Uryuu discussed the situations they had encountered.

Because of the special "transformed souls", and the fact that the "Soul Hunters" are now frequently active in Karakura Town, Ichigo and Uryu have each encountered the "Soul Hunters".

Just as Urahara said, they can control [Dolls] and use them as combat power.

The "Soul Hunters" that Yulong and Chadu encountered were a pair of young twins - Peng and Pan. Their [Dolls] were based on two bottle caps. After they were transformed, they could control the surrounding water to form a huge body, and they could manipulate the water to attack...

In Yulong's feeling, the spiritual pressure of these two opponents was obviously not as good as his and Chad's, but because he did not understand the other party's methods, he was a little passive at the beginning.

The attacking "water stream" has no effect whether it is shot through or shattered by a punch.

Later, Yu Long vaguely sensed the opponent's weakness, but the opponent's reinforcements appeared - a muscular uncle who controlled the iron man and rescued the two "children".

In comparison, Ichigo's experience was even more bizarre...

At the beginning, Inoue discovered a soul hunter who controlled a "snake" and was chasing a child, so he rescued him. However, Inoue was no match for the soul hunter who controlled the "snake". Fortunately, Ichigo arrived in time.

After returning to the human world, Ichigo is no longer able to use his Bankai, which he was not proficient in...

The opponent, the Soul Hunter, used the snake as a whip and even briefly suppressed Ichigo.

After a hard fight, when the situation became tense, the boy who was being chased also released the [Doll] - a large meat ball that looked harmless, which blocked the opponent's attack, but he was also injured and fell into a coma.

Ichigo took advantage of this opportunity and, while barely in the state of [Complete Shikai], used the Torture Blade and the Killing Blade together to perform the "Star Shattering Strike", and only then was he able to repel his opponent.

Ichigo then discovered that this boy, who was also a "Soul Hunter", had been seriously injured.

Not only did he suffer external injuries from the snake whip, but more importantly, it seemed that when he used the [doll] to block the crucial attack for himself, he suffered backlash because the [doll] was injured!

Ichigo didn't know how to treat the Soul Hunter's "internal injuries", but he still carried him back and asked his mother to deal with his external injuries.

"Hunting? So, there seems to be a dispute within the Soul Hunters? That Fox store manager must be hiding something from us!" Yulong said angrily.

"Who knows..." Ichigo didn't care about that.

"By the way, the child can be sent to my hospital. That guy's medical skills are pretty good..."

The guy that Uryu was talking about was Ishida Ryugen - one of the two existing pure-blooded Quincy who had truly inherited the Quincy legacy, and also Uryu's father!

However, Yulong had no idea of ​​his father's strength. He only knew that his father was unwilling to inherit the duties of a Quincy and only wanted to open a hospital to make money...

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Dongdong: The background of the Soul Hunter chapter has been greatly changed, otherwise the plot would be boring. However, the existing settings in the original work remain unchanged and only supplemented, which is equivalent to a "butterfly effect" type of change.

(End of this chapter)

99. Chapter 99: Starry Sky Secrets

99.

2023-09-04

"There's no need to trouble Dean Ishida. If I can't cure him, Xiaolong will be useless." Masaki came out at some point and patted Ichigo and Uryu on the shoulders from behind.

The two of them were shocked!

"Ah! Mom? Of course we don't doubt you!" Ichigo laughed dryly.

After Yu Long was startled, he wondered, "Xiao Long?"

He had never officially been to Ichigo's house before. This was the first time he had communicated with Ichigo's mother, and... he could tell that this "Xiaolong" was not referring to himself!

In the first half of the sentence, Masaki still called him "President Ishida", but she used his nickname in the latter part - after all, she and Ishida Ryugen grew up together.

only……

Due to various reasons, in the end she and Xiaolong were just good friends, and she ended up getting together with some idiot.

"Eh? Didn't Xiaolong tell you? We have known each other since we were kids." Masaki said directly.

"You and Ishida Ryugen..." Uryuu looked at Ichigo's mother in surprise.

"Puchi... kid, you're even crazier than Xiaolong when he was a kid." Masaki couldn't help but laugh when she heard Uryu calling Longxian like that.

"Eh? I haven't heard of him either!" Ichigo was also surprised - he and Uryuu became acquainted after this guy challenged him and attracted a group of hollows to compete. Before that, he didn't know that the two families were "old friends".

Masaki was laughing secretly at this time, and deliberately whispered in a low voice that everyone could hear: "Because your father will be jealous! Can't you see? He is actually a very petty person..."

"Huh? Is that so?" Ichigo still felt something was odd.

At this moment, Uryu suddenly remembered something - when Ichigo was in Soul Society, he said a few words to him, which he couldn't understand at all at the time, something like "don't flirt with other people's wives"... But Uryu hasn't seen Ichigo's father now, so naturally he didn't connect the dots.

Before Yulong had time to think about it, he was interrupted. He only heard Masaki say: "That brat, just live in our house first. Although the environment of Ishida Hospital is better, it seems that he doesn't have much money. Xiaolong will definitely not welcome him."

This remark seemed to be a mockery of Ishida Ryugen's "money-grabbing" nature, but Uryu just nodded vigorously in agreement.

"That's great! I just don't know if Hong has any relatives." Ichigo breathed a sigh of relief at first, but then became a little nervous.

The "relief" was naturally because he could take this kid in first, otherwise he would have to send him to Urahara's shop, and the "tension" was because he remembered that other soul hunters seemed to be chasing him...

Will it be dangerous when I'm not at home? Or should I send it to Urahara Store?

But it was not easy for his mother to be generous this time, and because Manager Urahara did not tell the whole truth about the Soul Hunter, Ichigo was somewhat reluctant to send him to him.

"By the way, where's dad?" Ichigo wondered at this time.

"Go back to work!" Masaki said unhappily - after seeing the injured boy, she had some guesses as to why that guy left in such a hurry... at least she had guessed one of the reasons.

"What? Why are you in such a hurry? Yuko and Xia Li haven't come back yet, right? Did he... leave by himself?" Ichigo was surprised at first, then a little angry, and finally... a little worried - had he escaped from prison and been caught?

"What else? Do you need someone to carry him?" Masaki rolled his eyes at his son.

Then, let’s not talk about how Yuko and Xiali came back and learned that their father had left again. Yuko cried anxiously, and Xiali was stubborn but her mood was obviously not right. It took Masaki a long time to comfort her...

At night, the young man named "Ah Hong" woke up, but wanted to leave without saying goodbye and climbed out the window as it was raining heavily outside.

In the middle of the night, Ichigo woke up and found the window open, so he chased out.

Ichigo was worried, so he contacted Uryu, Chad and Inoue...

Finally, relying on the "transformed soul"'s induction of the "soul hunter", the four of them finally found Ah Hong who had sneaked out.

After being caught in the rain, Ah Hong's originally stable injuries worsened a little, but fortunately, he was not far from Urahara's store.

The four of them sent Hong to the store manager Urahara, where they at least changed his clothes and boiled some hot water for him...

While Jinta and Xiaoyu were busy, Ichigo asked Urahara Kisuke, "Manager Urahara, are you hiding something from us about the Soul Hunter?"

Before, Urahara only said that the "Soul Hunters" were the product of a failed research at the Seireitei Research Institute, and that they had suddenly begun to suck the souls of living people, becoming extremely dangerous. However... judging from Hong's situation, these "Soul Hunters" didn't seem to be a unified group?

"I see... this child is being hunted by the Soul Hunters? It seems... well, I'll tell you then. It's not that I didn't mean to tell you, but there was no need to before. Now it seems that they still have differences..." Urahara muttered at this time.

"What's going on? Can you please explain it clearly?" Ichigo hated Riddler the most.

Urahara then looked at Uryuu and said, "Actually, Uryuu-san might already know this, right?"

"Know what? Soul Hunter? I just vaguely remember that it seemed to have some entanglement with us Quincy..." After all, Yulong did not obtain the complete inheritance, and did not even go through the formal trial.

"Actually... the birth of the Soul Hunter is related to the Quincy. The original purpose of the Seireitei Research Institute was to fight against the Quincy, so they started the experiment." Urahara said at this time.

"Wait, didn't you say last time that it was a thousand years ago?" Yulong interrupted immediately - in his mind, the war between the Shinigami and the Quincy only took place two hundred years ago, and it was a one-sided massacre!

"That's right, listen to me first..." Urahara said this, but did not mention the holy war a thousand years ago.

Ichigo vaguely noticed that Urahara was talking about "fighting" the Quincy, but he didn't think much about it at the time.

"Originally, the Seireitei Research Institute wanted to develop a 'weapon' that could be mass-produced, but in the end it obviously failed. The explosion caused by the failed experiment directly destroyed one-tenth of Seireitei!

"The Soul Hunters of today are actually the residual power produced by some experiments after the explosion. They were scattered into the human world and were born after combining with human souls...and what period was the human world at that time? You have learned about it in history class, right?" Urahara asked back meaningfully.

"A thousand years ago...the Star Dynasty?" Ichigo and the other three reacted immediately.

Even Chad, who looks a little silly, and Inoue, who usually behaves in a dull manner, are actually "academic masters".

"That's right, and there is a part missing in the history of the present world... The Star Sky Dynasty at that time actually cooperated with the Quincies and took in most of the Soul Hunters!" Urahara said in shock.

"what?"

Ichigo and Uryu were both surprised.

if it is like this……

They couldn't think of any reason why the Xingtian Dynasty would perish!

"Could it be... that the princes involved in the civil strife also have the support of the Quincies and Soul Hunters?" Yu Long speculated at this time.

"That's not the point. What's important is... at that time, a part of the Soul Hunters were instigated by the God of Death to rebel against the Star Sky Dynasty and joined the battle against the Quincy in the human world.

"Originally, I thought that the Soul Hunters who were still loyal to the Star Sky Dynasty should have been wiped out. The ones who suddenly began to absorb souls this time were just the remaining faction. But now it seems that there are actually two camps of Soul Hunters..." Urahara was also amazed by this, as if he had really just found out about it.

"Wait, remnants? Shouldn't the rebellious faction have won? Could it be... that both sides suffered heavy losses as a result of the Quincy at that time?" Ichigo asked puzzledly at this time - after all, the Starry Sky Dynasty did perish a thousand years ago.

At this time, Urahara unfolded his small fan and covered his face, as if he was embarrassed and said: "Really, Kurosaki-san, don't ask about this kind of thing!"

"Huh?" Ichigo was still wondering, but Uryu had already guessed something when he saw this.

"So, the gods of death are the ones who are destroying the bridge after crossing it?" Yulong adjusted his glasses and had already figured out the reason.

Urahara just looked embarrassed, but in fact... it was none of his business, and he didn't have that much empathy with the nobles, so he said directly: "Yes, the nobles of the Soul Society originally tempted them to rebel by accepting them back to Soul Society.

"But... in fact, the experiment failed, but it destroyed one-tenth of Seireitei. If they were to accept them, wouldn't they have to admit that their decision was a big mistake? So the nobles exiled the Shinigami who negotiated with them, who was also the person in charge of the experiment, and then refused to recognize the agreement.

"The power of the Soul Hunters is greatly restricted by the environment. After being expelled from Soul Society, they lived in the low-spirit environment for a long time. Their power gradually weakened. Unlike ordinary people, they were persecuted by ordinary humans after they lost the protection of the dynasty. After a thousand years, there are only a few left."

Ichigo obviously couldn't understand the nobles' logic, and said angrily: "Those nobles are really too much!"

"We can only blame them for being tricked into rebelling, right?" Yu Long sneered, but then wondered, "But they can't even reproduce normally? After all, they have powers beyond those of ordinary people..."

As their strength deteriorated, they gradually became unable to fight against large numbers of ordinary people and could only hide their identities. But how could their numbers be reduced to this extent despite their long lifespans?

"Soul Hunters themselves cannot reproduce. Although new Soul Hunters are occasionally born among ordinary people, their number is destined not to increase but only to decrease. The newborns must be less than the dead Soul Hunters. And if these new Soul Hunters do not receive guidance, they will easily be killed when they just show their special qualities." Urahara revealed this.

"So, Ahong should be the new Soul Hunter..." Ichigo said suddenly.

But we still don't know which sect Ah Hong belongs to, and which sect is the one that wants to suck souls now...

Yu Long was puzzled and asked: "But... even if they are still divided into two factions, there is no need to fight each other, right? Their enemies now are all the gods of death..."