You are very strong, but my painting style is better than yours!

The so-called [Zanpakuto] is the "incarnation of the soul and will of the god of death". It injects its own spiritual pressure into the white sword called "Asado", and eventually develops its own exclusive weapon.

Its nature is similar to the awakening of martial souls or innate fighting skills in fantasy novels.

The students at the Maou Academy of Spiritual Arts are all candidate Shinigami. After two years of basic training and screening and elimination, they will be able to obtain a Shōdachi in their third year and begin practicing to nurture their Zanpakutō.

Those with outstanding talents can even apply for shallow fighting right after entering school. In short, Soul Society is a very realistic society, and the strong have privileges without explanation.

Normally, Iori should have found a shallow fight earlier and tried to learn the Shikai as soon as possible, instead of waiting foolishly to be assigned one.

——But he also has his own concerns.

Because there is a hidden setting in "Death":

The "Shāra-dachi", which is the basic carrier of Zanpakutō, was forged without exception by "Sword God Nimaiya Oetsu", one of the Zero Division (Soul King Guards).

He and another member of Squad Zero, a great monk who claims to know everything in the world, work together to find out the true names of all the Zanpakuto in the world!

He even knew the release words of Shikai and Bankai earlier than the master of his Zanpakutō.

In the world of "Bleach", the real name is a very important thing, and the big monk even has the ability to "deprive people of their names", which means that Squad Zero has the ability to suppress any Zanpakuto. Even old man Yamamoto can't get past the big monk!

This is why Soul Society has existed for so long, with so many strong people emerging, but no one says, "The Soul King takes turns, it's my turn next year."

On the surface, Yamamoto is the one who is suppressing, but in fact, all the strong ones who come from the Death God system are completely defeated by Squad Zero!

In the original story, it would take about one or two hundred years for the original Aizen to say, "Does the Soul King have any kind of creature?"

——Then he was locked in a small dark room.

He didn't even make it to the Soul King Palace...

Iori was afraid of the legendary Zero Squad, so for all these years, Iori never mentioned going to find a shallow ace to start practicing Shikai.

Theoretically, as long as there is no threat to the "Soul King", the Zero Squad will not take action, and Iori has no intention of usurping the throne, so there is no need to worry too much.

But he knew that in this world view, if one wanted to become a top power, he would always have to have some connection with the Soul King, because in essence, no matter whether it was the God of Death or the Quincy, the source of their power was the Soul King.

If Iori becomes a "transcendent" in the future and accidentally takes into account multiple power systems, and the monk looks back and sees him, hey! He thinks this guy has a unique style and good qualifications, and is a good candidate for the Spirit King...

That would be a tragedy!

The Soul King claimed to be the ruler of the three realms, but in reality he was a lamb placed on the altar (although he volunteered), and was turned into a human stick by a group of ungrateful wolves... Even if he was only a substitute, Iori would not accept the offer.

Don't think that Squad Zero won't do such a thing because they belong to the "righteous camp". In the original work, the monk thought that if things got out of control, they would have to make Ichigo Kurosaki into a human pillar to replace the Soul King to support the Three Realms.

They have no traditional concept of good and evil at all, so they do things without any psychological burden!

Even without this concern, he would be able to get along very well with Squad Zero in the future, and the two sides would be as close as wearing the same pants...but whenever he thought that his Bankai weakness was always in the hands of the other party, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

As a Chinese soul, he knew very well what "beside the couch" meant...

Therefore, you must leave yourself a trick, at least you can't use the shallow punch issued by the official!

Find a suitable weapon as a carrier to avoid the perception of the Sword God, and then look for an opportunity to see if you can complete the training of Shikai in another world.

Your great monk claims to have named everything in Soul Society, so he can see through all real names, which is indeed amazing.

——But if I take out a Zanpakutō that was forged in another world, named in another world, and even fused with the energy of another world, I wonder how you will respond?

Volume 23: White Moonlight of the Seireitei: Chapter : How to Torture Scientists

"Zanaka" - Dangai - Soul Society - "Zanaka" - Soul Society...

After going through the tedious process of traveling through time, Iori did not do it half-heartedly and completed all the steps one by one. He successfully reset the flow of time in the other world and Soul Society to a one-to-one ratio. Only then did he feel relieved and slept soundly.

The next day, he wanted to go to class, but before leaving, he remembered that the normal school had given him a day off "yesterday" and he was still in the recuperation period, so he didn't have to go to class.

Suddenly he had nothing to do when he was free, so after thinking it over, Iori went to see Kurotsuchi Mayuri again, urging this crazy scientist to make the "matter to spiritism conversion device" as soon as possible, even if the power was a little lower, otherwise he would not be able to bring back to Soul Society the things he got in the other world.

By the way, he also placed an order for drug reverse engineering, but did not specify which drug it was and asked him to wait for the next notification.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi was very dissatisfied with this!

As a scientific researcher, although he has some problems with his brain and almost no moral values, his self-esteem is not weak at all. He is not a mediocre person who will obey others at will.

He does like to research various things, but only if they are projects that interest him!

He can't do things according to the rules, and he hates it most when others make plans for him, as if they are treating him as a tool rather than a free soul!

He had fallen out with the Soul Society many times in the past and was imprisoned. The first reason was that he was on the wrong path and the things he researched were too dangerous. The second reason was that he was unwilling to conduct research according to the ideas of those bigwigs and only chose some seemingly inexplicable projects.

The top management would not waste resources on these studies, so Kurotsuchi Mayuri could only take private jobs to earn some money to subsidize his main business, and he received many customers like Iori.

Considering his personality, it's already good enough that he's willing to help!

Who knows that every one of these people is a greedy person and a layman. They want to get something worth 100,000 yuan by spending 10,000 yuan, and they keep urging and questioning people. It's really annoying!

Today, Kurotsuchi Mayuri's emotions have accumulated to the point of exploding. Even though Iori is already a very good customer, he still wants to vent his anger once and for all -

"I will pay the balance now, and it will be counted six days from today. If you take out the conversion device a few days in advance, I will add a few percent to the payment.

The reverse engineering of that drug is another commission. It will take three days from the time you finish installing the device. If you can complete the antidote a few days ahead of schedule, I will pay you a few percent more than the market price.

how about it? "

——Kuroshita Mayuri suddenly felt that Iori was a handsome young man with a nice voice. He had a bright future. As an old senior, he should support young people more.

As for what Iori wanted to use the spirit particle device for and where the transformation drug came from, the crazy scientist had no desire to ask.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi: Isn't it normal to carry a hundred or eighty kinds of contraband on your person?

"By the way, since there is technology to spiritize matter, is it possible to do the opposite - to materialize spirits?" Iori asked casually, seemingly unintentionally.

"Didn't I tell you about the artificial body?" Kurotsuchi Mayuri didn't care. "It hasn't been successfully researched yet."

"No, I'm not talking about an artificial body like the coat, but the transformation of the Grim Reaper itself into flesh."

"..."

Mayuri Kurotsuchi stopped what he was doing and glanced at Iori in surprise, but Iori was still wearing his usual harmless smile.

"I just wanted to ask."

"As far as I know, no."

Kurotsuchi Mayuri said this coldly, but perhaps because of his intellectual desire to show off, he explained a little more.

"If it was just a dead object without life, then it wouldn't be that difficult to materialize or spiritualize it, but the 'God of Death' is different."

"Humans should be able to become spirits, right? On the other hand, can't the God of Death become material?"

"no!

Although it is taboo to leptonize humans, it is technically feasible."

Kuroshitani Mayuri said without hesitation: "But have you ever thought about the difference between humans and the gods of death?"

"...An extra body?"

"Yes, humans have both 'external (flesh)' and 'inner (soul)' existence. If they want to come to Soul Society, they just need to transform their flesh into a spirit body.

But the god of death doesn't have such a convenient body. All we have is the 'soul'.

If you want to have a real body like humans, you need to turn the "inside" into the "outside", that is, materialize.

The question is, our soul becomes a physical body after being materialized, but where can we find another soul in the physical body?

Some people have suggested using Zanpakutō to bypass this limitation, but Zanpakutō is not such a convenient thing... After all, most Shinigami can't even do Bankai, and they can't completely control their Zanpakutō, let alone merge or split it at will."

Hearing this, Iori's body trembled slightly, and a trance flashed in his eyes.

Kurotsuchi Mayuri ignored his reaction and continued, "I once looked through the library of a certain noble family. The Seireitei must have conducted related experiments in the past, but none of them were successful.

The souls of the experimental subjects either turned into zombies or disintegrated directly.

In other words, this is against objective laws, just like material bodies cannot exist in Soul Society, which is one of the laws that maintain the operation of the three realms. "

"...If what you said is true, then if the god of death wants to become a 'human', he cannot materialize directly, but needs to find a body that can serve as the 'outside' and then become the 'inside'?"

"This is the technical principle of the 'artificial body'!"

Kurotsuchi Mayuri grinned, looking strange and terrifying: "Do you want to know what material the artificial body is made of?"

"..."

In short, as a pure spirit, the god of death cannot transform into another body out of thin air, so he has to use artificial objects as "clothes" and then put them on himself.

After realizing this, Iori shook his head: "It seems that I am not suitable for this. You don't have to pay attention to the progress of artificial skeleton technology for me in the future."

What Iori wants is a body that truly belongs to him, one that can switch freely between the physical body and the spiritual body without losing his strength.

It’s not a reborn corpse!

He originally thought that, given the special nature of Death, it might be relatively easy to materialize the soul, allowing him to easily obtain a physical body.

But now it seems that this is a dead end in "Bleach"... No wonder in the original work, even if a captain-level Bleach comes to the world, he needs to use a prosthetic body to pretend to be a human.

From this perspective, the [Third Law: Heaven's Grail] in the Type-Moon world view is more in line with Iori's requirements... but he has no way to go to Type-Moon now!

Moreover, he would have to fight in the Holy Grail War if he went there. With his current strength, it would be difficult for him to survive to the end... I have to say it is still a bit difficult.

"Things in the world are really not that simple!"

Iori smiled freely. Although he was a little disappointed, he didn't care anymore after thinking it over.

As I said, the future is long and has infinite possibilities. How can he be discouraged by temporary disadvantages?

'This boy...'

Mayuri Kurotsuchi didn't expect that Iori would adjust his mentality so quickly. He looked at him in surprise, curled his lips, then looked away and continued to do his own thing.

He speculated... no, he was 100% certain that Iori was an uneasy guy, and he might be secretly planning some shocking conspiracy to harm the Soul Society.

——But what does this have to do with him?

Kurotsuchi Mayuri doesn't care, as long as it doesn't affect the balance of the Three Realms. Because without the Three Realms, he will have no place to conduct experiments.

Besides, even if all the people in Room 46 died, he would not frown at all, and might even be happy for a while.

Seeing that Kurotsuchi Mayuri stopped talking, Iori was also planning to go home with a dull mood, but he still felt a little uncomfortable.

How to say it, Iori felt a little depressed by Kurotsuchi Mayuri's arrogant attitude just now, which seemed to see through him but was full of disdain, as if he was the only wise man.

"Oh right, the reason why the Shinigami cannot materialize is that a Shinigami with only one soul cannot separate its body and soul. In other words, 1 cannot be split into 1+1, right?"

"Huh? You haven't left yet?" Kurotsuchi Mayuri turned his head with contempt. "Yes, I explained it very clearly. Why don't you understand?"

"No, no, no, I just had an idea."

Iori acted like a good kid who loved to study, and said casually, "Since '1' is not enough, why not just turn '1' into '2'?"

"What nonsense are you talking about... huh?" Kurotsuchi Mayuri's eyebrows twitched, as if he had thought of something, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"As far as I know, there is a mental illness in this world called 'split personality'.

Although they are just different aspects created by the deep consciousness for various reasons, they essentially belong to the same soul.

But there is no such possibility: not only consciousness and personality can be split, but the soul can also be split.

After all, isn't the Zanpakutō also infused with the spiritual pressure and spirit of the Shinigami? It just exists in a special form and cannot be used as a true clone.

But what if we don’t adopt the form of Zanpakuto, but actually create another independent self?

In this way, if a god of death splits the soul into two, can he create both the 'outside' and the 'inside' at the same time? "

"—!"

"Furthermore, if the soul can be split into more parts, or if multiple backups can be created through some technology, can the body be constantly replaced? Even if a soul is destroyed, other backups can be activated to continue passing on knowledge and will?"

Iori thought about it and said, "If I always have a backup soul, wouldn't that be equivalent to immortality?

It's really something to look forward to. Infinite time means infinite energy to observe the world... I guess after a thousand or ten thousand years, the entire universe will have no secrets for him, right?"

"you you you--"

"Okay, I have to go back to cook, bye~"

"Wait a minute! Boy! Explain it to me clearly!"

Kuroshio Mayuri chased out the door, but Iori had already left using Flash Step, leaving the scientific madman with blood boiling in his veins, helpless and furious.

"Come back! I can give you my money back!"

-

Cool, cool, this topic is enough for him to study for decades~

In the original work, Kurotsuchi Mayuri actually had the inclination to research in this area, and in a certain theatrical version he even created a brain storage device, which shows that he had this idea vaguely, and Iori just gave it a slight push.