Death God: Sunny and Cheerful Boy

Yilong blocked out the sound of coughing, but he did not block out the sound of spitting blood. He saw Fuzhu spitting blood onto his handkerchief, and his eyes became dazed.

Apparently, the name "Ginjo Kūgo" made him very shaken.

"Captain Fuzhu, you have to pay more attention to rest..." Yilong said in a comforting manner.

At this moment, Sentaro and Toranomon, who heard the noise, rushed in together. They supported Captain Ukitake and pushed Ichiryu away angrily and cautiously.

"Vice-Captain Shihouin! How... can you say that... that guy's name in front of Captain Ukitake?" Sentaro Kotsubaki said angrily - he still heard a little bit of what was said later.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 17: Broken Bee's Order

"Eh? Ginjo Kūgo? I've already told you... when the people in the 46th Chamber were worried that Captain Ukitake was involved with him, I believed in Captain Ukitake and repeatedly vouched for the 46th Chamber! Is there anything I can't say?" Yilong said as a matter of course.

but……

"Shifengyuan Ichiryuu... Vice Captain!"

"Captain Ukitake is not feeling well, let me see you off!"

Seeing Ukitake coughing to death in front of him, and seeing Kotsubaki Sentaro and Kotetsu Kiyone about to draw their swords...

Yilong was also afraid that if Fuzhu was really dead, they would blackmail him, so he accepted the "farewell" and turned away.

“Then Captain Ukitake, take care of yourself. Whether it’s a travel disaster or a substitute Shinigami, I’ll handle it… huh? I didn’t mention Ginjō Kūgo this time? Okay, okay, I’m leaving now, don’t see me off…”

……

“[…Ask me what role I play? I look at my identity and say I’m a sunny and cheerful big boy~sunny and cheerful big…] Uh…” Yilong hummed a song as he returned to the second squad’s dormitory.

As a result, when I came back...

I could feel Captain Soi-Fong's spiritual pressure right in my own room. This kind of situation where one could directly feel the spiritual pressure was usually caused by the other party doing it on purpose.

Yilong felt a little guilty when he opened the door and came in. He saw Soi-Feng using Yilong's tea set to make tea for herself while saying, "What were you doing? Didn't you say you wanted to rest?"

"No, um... I heard that Captain Ukitake was very ill recently, so I went to visit him." Yilong's reasons were sanctimonious and came easily to him.

"Oh? So, Captain Ukitake and you had a good chat?" Soi-Fong asked sarcastically.

“That’s right, we were having a great time chatting and laughing today, if he hadn’t been coughing so badly…” Yilong nodded and took it over, not feeling embarrassed at all.

"If you're so bored, come with me to Rukongai tomorrow." Soi Fong firstly felt that this guy didn't understand what "low-key and cautious" meant, and secondly... Soi Fong really needed help, and the other team members couldn't help.

"Rukoundai? There's no need for that... Chamber 46 also said we don't have to leave Soul Society." Upon hearing that, Yilong immediately backed down.

In fact, Ichilong knew before that Soi Fong was going to leave Soul Society today - after all, the Supervisory Corps is not just for show.

This was contrary to the captain's order. After all, the "Order of the Forty-Sixth Chamber" conveyed by the captain was for the Gotei 13 to guard the Soul Society and wait for the travellers to fall into the trap or leave on their own, and not to worry about Rukongai.

Unlike the "rulers and commoners" in the real world, the "rectification" of Rukongai does not mean commoners for the Shinigami, and there is no such thing as "taxation" or "corvée" for Rukongai.

For the Shinigami, "cleaning" Rukongai only means "dealing with recyclables that can still be used" and "resources that would be in trouble if eaten by Hollows", so they need to "sort it out in general". Therefore, for the Rukongai areas farther away from the Soul Society, even "making rules" is unnecessary. They just need to patrol and make sure that too many are eaten by the infiltrating "Hollows".

They will only intervene if they are attacked by Hollows, or if the number of sudden deaths is too great and affects the balance between Hueco Mundo and Soul Society.

Although starting a thousand years ago, the "Zheng" of Rukongai also had the opportunity to become a god of death and enter the Soul Society, but... the ratio is here!

Therefore, when Byakuya wanted to marry Hime, everyone thought that this was a noble who had a serious fetish...

At this moment, Yilong could roughly guess what Soi Fong was up to.

The Bee family, to which Soi-Fong belongs, is a lower-class noble family and also a retainer of the Shihouin clan. Soi-Fong herself is the confidant of the previous head of the family, Yoruichi, and has deep feelings for the head of the Yoruichi family, so... she also "blames him harshly"!

Soi-Fong was very angry about Yoruichi's defection. It was not because of her loyalty to Soul Society, but because she was angry...you only cared about defecting with that bastard Urahara and didn't even take me with you?

In short, for Soi-Fong, Yoruichi's defection was a betrayal of herself.

Ichiryuu knew too well how Soi-Fong felt about Yoruichi.

At the same time, under the influence of Ichiryu, Soi-Fong made great improvements to the "Punishment Army", greatly enhancing its intelligence capabilities. Originally, the Punishment Army was the first legion of the "Secret Action Force", whose responsibility was to carry out internal executions, and its intelligence capabilities were slightly inferior.

But now it has been discovered that there is also a "black cat" coming with the "travel troubles"!

Therefore, neither the orders from Mao's Forty-Sixth Room nor the orders from Captain-General Yamamoto can restrain her now - as for the "travel disaster", she can follow what the Forty-Sixth Room said and eliminate it after entering the Soul Society, but "that black cat"... she doesn't want to wait even a moment!

But Yilong didn’t want to get involved in such matters, and even less did he want to meet the “old patriarch”.

"They must be in West Rukongai. Do you choose the first forty districts or the last forty districts?" Soi-Fong was determined to search for them in Rukongai.

"With such a large area, it's useless to send out the criminal army and the supervisory forces. How can the two of us possibly find it... Okay, I'll choose the first forty districts, and you'll have to take care of it." Seeing that Soi-Fong didn't give him a chance to refuse, Yilong had to agree.

But Yilong has made up his mind and will just do some paddling tomorrow...

The scope of Rukongai is indeed very large, so it is normal not to find those "traveling disasters".

The four Rukongai in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest are divided into eighty districts respectively, and each district has hundreds of millions of "whole souls", that is, ordinary souls.

The total number of "wholes" in Soul Society exceeds 1 billion, which is times the number of humans in the world today. (Note )

Only those who "died young" in the real world will come to Soul Society, and if they die of old age, they will reincarnate on their own without going through Soul Society.

Although souls in Soul Society also experience birth, aging, sickness and death, they are different from life in this world. Besides death, they have a better way to go - rebirth.

However, the number of “places” for rebirth is limited!

Although in this world, with the advancement of instrumental civilization, the population is increasing, but... the number of places for rebirth is not determined by this, but there are deeper reasons.

The lowest level spirits don't need to eat anything, they just need to freely absorb spirit particles in the air and drink water, but...

Such spirits have the weakest power and the shortest lifespan, and have no concept of "life". They are just waiting for "death".

At least a relatively strong spirit is needed to give birth to life. This has little to do with "Rukounda". More than 99% of the Rukounda in Rukounda do not have this opportunity. Most of the huge number of Rukounda have "died" in this world.

Moreover, the way "food" is produced is different from other necessities. It does not require farming or industrial production.

Therefore, the area of ​​each district is not that large, and they are basically "residential areas" and "wilderness".

Most of the residential areas in Rukongai are like the most crowded slums. Many Rukongas can be squeezed into any place, without considering arable land, industrial land, or even rationality, let alone comfort.

In contrast, in each direction of Rukongai, the higher the ranking, the closer it is to Seireitei, so the materials it can enjoy are richer and the rules are more complete - after all, no one wants to live in a garbage dump.

Now Soi Feng is going to divide the search range with Yilong. Yilong will of course choose a more comfortable area with a higher number, and then there will be some entertainment activities to do.

The poor mountains and bad waters behind are nothing for Yilong to enjoy...

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Note 1: The setting of the present world has been greatly changed and has nothing to do with reality. It is set in an imaginary modern city, so the population is not as large as that of the Earth and the area is not as large.

The setting of "The Dragon and the Witch" is not based on any reference and does not distinguish between the East and the West.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 18 Search Efforts

On August 997, 8 of the Holy War Calendar, in Soul Society, the day after the "Travel Disaster" alert was issued.

Because there was no news from the "Traveling Disasters" and the instructions from above were to just protect the safety of the Soul-Blocking Membrane, the Gotei 13 were now a little lax.

The entire Soul Society is now in a state of alert with soul-shielding membranes. Even if someone were to enter from Rukongai by some means, the alarm would definitely be triggered...

Just like Soi Fong and Ichiryu, if they want to go out at this time, they have to go through the Seireimon gate!

Because they were going to the West District, the two of them came all the way to Baidao Gate.

Seeing Soi-Fong and Ichiryu coming over, the big man guarding the gate immediately stood at attention, but still asked for a warrant as usual...

Even though Soi-Fong had already shown it yesterday!

In addition to being the captain of the Second Division, Soi-Fong is also the commander-in-chief of the "Secret Mobile Force", which is the unit that has the closest relationship with the nobles - in this respect, it is even more powerful than the Sixth Division.

Although the Sixth Division is the "Noble Command Team", its captain has always been a high-ranking noble, and now is personally headed by the head of the Kuchiki clan, one of the four great noble families, but... its duties are more like "the noble's guard of honor".

Especially Byakuya Kuchiki, who has always been regarded as an "outcast", and the nobles will not easily ask the Sixth Division to do anything.

The "Secret Mobile Team" is the one that really does the dirty work, and it is obvious who is close and who is distant. For Soi-Fong, it is easy to get the warrant.

As for Yilong... let alone! The "supervision force" he formed in the second squad was called the fangs of the nobility!

Although Soi-Fong didn't specifically remind Yilong yesterday, he didn't try to be clever and honestly applied for a warrant from the Forty-Six Corpses...

After seeing the warrant, the "hero" guarding the Baidao Gate let them pass readily.

"These heroes are really big guys." Yilong sighed softly after passing through the portal held up by the other party.

If it is their boss Sidanfang, it will be bigger than this one, even ten meters high.

Normally, a "reformed" spirit body cannot be so large. These gatekeeping heroes... are obviously the result of transformation!

"Ha, big but useless." Soi Feng sneered.

Indeed, these so-called "heroes" were transformed for show. They looked impressive, but their growth potential was completely locked. They were far inferior to normal Shinigami, and they were not members of the Gotei 13. Therefore, although the guy Shidanfang was suspected of opening the door for "Travel Disaster", he was not wanted...

As long as the Forty-Sixth Division does not give the order, the Gotei 13 will not easily take action against people from other departments, especially in recent years - someone has been constantly picking on the various divisions!

However, Yilong changed the subject and said, "Big has its advantages!"

Soi-Fong gave him a sidelong glance, and Yilong continued, "I mean the eyes... Captain Soi-Fong's big eyes are very beautiful, but mine are too small."

"Search carefully!" After saying this, Soi-Fong left in an instant, apparently going to the area after District 40 of West Ryuhun Street.

And Yilong...

I decided to search the shopping street of Runlin'an in Area 1 of West Ryukon Street first...

What if the “travel troubles” go to eat hotpot?

"Runlin'an" is the first district of West Rukongai, and its environment is top-notch in Rukongai. On ordinary days, you can even often see resting Shinigami coming here to relax.

Commoners who become Shinigami are usually born in the front and the very back of Rukongai - the former because they are well fed and can maintain their spiritual pressure, the latter because... they raise Gu!

But now, because of the martial law in Soul Society, the only person walking on the street wearing a Shinigami costume is Yilong.

Yilong has also decided to search thoroughly outside of the "Shiba family" today...

Even Yilong specially wore an armband and a haori, so that those who knew the goods could easily recognize him from the "team flower" on the armband - he was from the second squad, and from the rank insignia, it could be seen that he was a deputy captain-level officer.

As for the "Haori", in the organization of the Gotei 13, it is usually only for the captain level, and there is no "second division vice captain", but Ichiryu is not only in the organization of the Gotei 13...

Although the position of "Captain of the Supervisory Force" is on the same level as "Deputy Captain of the Second Division", it comes with a haori!

This way, it looks like he's not someone you want to mess with. Even if there's a wandering "travel trouble" or someone from the Shiba family, they probably won't approach him...

Seeing someone selling melons, Yilong came over and picked one to quench his thirst.

Although Ichiryu never paid for melons in Soul Society, he still put down the money in Rukongai after the stall owner refused.

Then Yilong searched for a hot pot restaurant with good reviews, and after lunch he went to search for the famous hot springs in Runlin’an…

Unfortunately, before we could find any trace of the "travel disaster", it was almost dark...

Yilong came out of the hot springs, stretched himself, and said to himself: "It may not be a good idea to go back like this, so I should bring the captain a big yellow croaker that she likes!"

Who would blame an adjutant who didn’t forget to bring his favorite fish while on a mission?

So Yilong came to the "Runlin'an" seafood market accompanied by the sunset...

There is no sea in Soul Society, and no one fishes, but there are seafood markets and seafood.

Although the seafood market may overcharge people, Yilong believes that his Death Tyrant Suit can allow him to get the most affordable price.

Soon Yilong saw a large yellow croaker of good quality hanging in front of a shop, so he asked: "Boss, why is this large yellow croaker..."

But at this moment, a black shadow flashed by, and the yellow croaker that Yilong was pointing at "disappeared" in an instant!

"Ah! Wait..." the seafood boss said anxiously.

But the "black shadow" has disappeared in a flash...

It was a black cat, and it ran away with the big yellow croaker in its mouth!

The boss was about to cry and said, "My dear, you saw it, that was the last one..."

Before the boss could finish his words, the guest in front of him also disappeared, and... he "disappeared" in the opposite direction of the black cat!

Yilong used his fastest "flash step" in his current state and ran towards the Baidao Gate along the shortest path...

At the same time, if you use a super-super-high-speed camera, you can find... a black mark is spreading on Yilong's arm!