half soul

The pale moonlight indifferently casts a layer of lingering light on the pure and boundless sandy plains, and those things that look like dead branches are all over the sandy plains, and there seems to be eternal silence in this world.Only when the weak Xu emerges from under the sand and then dives hastily, can people feel that there is still some freshness here.On this piece of land, there are those majestic and magnificent white buildings standing quietly.It used to be the palace of the king who was out of reach for many people - Xuye Palace.

At this moment, the huge Xuye Palace, which once accommodated those kings and subordinates, masters and servants, gods of death and bad faces, has really been wiped out by some intruders.No matter if it was a burial unit, a broken face with a certain number, or a certain powerful subordinate officer, anyone who resisted was wiped out cleanly.

four people.

There were only four people, but they overturned the entire Xuye Palace.

You can't say that what Aizen left behind are vulnerable small characters. Ichigo and the others have faced off against three-digit opponents, and they are all quite tricky.But those people achieved their goal easily.If the world of corpses and souls knows that there is such a thing, the situation will definitely change.However, in the Battle of Winter, both sides of Jingling Tingxu Night Palace suffered a lot of casualties, and their strength was greatly damaged.Without the leader, there will be no trouble in a short period of time.Kuchiki Byakuya didn't send anyone to the virtual circle to investigate.The most urgent task now is to consolidate the strength of the God of Death and re-support the Jingling Court.

So he didn't take into account the virtual circle, so these talents were able to occupy and grow.

At this moment, the green-haired boy belonging to one of these four people was leaning against the door of a certain room in Xuye Palace, chatting with the woman inside.The hair was obviously half-raised and unruly, but there was no arrogance in the slightest. Coupled with the inadvertent look on the corners of the man's eyes and brows, it brought out a trace of ecstasy and freedom.There was a little stream of light in those slightly narrowed eyes, which were light brown and vast like smoky crystals.The white loose robe also had a style on him, which perfectly set off his slender figure.The boy raised his eyebrows and looked at the people in the room.

The woman was sitting in the cold moonlight, with the narrow and dark window lattice behind her, giving her a sense of desolation.If you are not an insider, you will almost believe what you see.He smiled slightly. "Movet, do you want to continue playing? How long do you want to play?"

The woman called Mervet smiled, a sweet and innocent smile.In the dark night, her dark and shining pupils have a faint glow of joy and hope flowing endlessly.

"It's really boring. Do you think that person will definitely come?"

"This is my idea, of course I believe in myself..." The young man looked at her, then raised his chin thoughtfully, "But it seems that there is something wrong with this appearance."

"Eh?" Mervet looked down at himself, not feeling any regrets.

"Your ability is not dangerous at all..." The green-haired boy stared in the direction of the woman, and said softly, his smoky eyes seemed to be looking at someone else through her, "But what to say It's dangerous, I really can't slack off at all."

Like hallucinations, no, scarier than hallucinations, because... with a real heart.

It's an illusion, and it's not an illusion.So, should you believe it, or not?

The woman lowered her eyelashes and sighed softly. "You know . . . I can't lie to you, Lemmy."

He looked at her with a softer look, then turned his head and saw the person who had come behind him.He was taken aback.

"Sather, welcome back."

Standing there casually, that person is unstoppable, it is a kind of arduous oppression that will be smashed to pieces if you get closer.Inborn.Black hair and black eyes, clear gray windbreaker.It was the person Rukia met in the empty seat before.

Sather just hummed and walked past the door.The hem of the clear gray clothes flicked up behind him.His invisible yet domineering voice aroused echoes in the empty corridor.

"I'm going to see the lord. You two come with me." He paused, "... Ulquiorra is back."

Lemmy immediately followed him out.The woman also got up and walked out slowly through the door.The moment she walked out of the door, her gray eyes suddenly lifted up, her wine-red shawl and long hair rose behind her, and the girl's delicate facial features brought a warm smile.The black kimono was embellished with dark red iron thread flowers and arabesque patterns, and under such a smile, it was full of evil spirits.She raised her hand to put the short, nearly black blade into her bosom, and quickly followed the footsteps of the two people in front of her.

Amidst the sound of footsteps, Remy suddenly spoke. "Hey, do you know what I said just now, Merwitt?"

"What is it?"

The man turned sideways slightly, pointed at her left arm, and then raised his eyebrows and smiled.That kind of smile is full of brilliance in the gap of moonlight in the corridor window.

"Armbands."

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A pair of black phoenix-tailed butterflies flew forward, bringing Xia Li and Rukia to a courtyard gate.Standing outside the door, I couldn't feel the spiritual pressure inside at all.Xia Li raised her hand.A faint shadow appeared on the door, gradually becoming clearer.She stared at the shadow of that hand, and felt as if something was beginning to take shape in her heart, and some unpredictable feeling was emerging little by little, real.

There was a knock on the door.

Footsteps approached.Xia Li thanked Miss Luanju and Ichimaru Yin from the bottom of her heart, opened her mouth and was about to speak, but looked at the person in front of her without saying a word.

It was indeed that person who came to open the door.The moonlight cast a bluish-white light on Hitsugaya Toshirō's pure snow-colored hair.Leng Bi's eyes flicked past the black hell butterfly beside her, her expression indifferent.At first glance, it seems that everything about him is the same as before.The eyebrows and eyes remain the same, and the person remains the same.However, it seems that something...has changed.

Xia Li could feel it.

What the hell is going on.She questioned herself silently in her heart.Is it because of myself...

Hitsugaya reached out and invited them in.Calm tone as always.It seems that he no longer has the spiritual pressure, which will happen naturally, without explaining or explaining.He didn't ask why they visited late at night, let alone how they got here.He just said, grandma is already asleep, don't disturb her, you can just rest in that room for one night, and go back when we meet tomorrow morning.The snow-haired boy raised his finger and pointed to the room beside him, signaling them to rest there.Xia Li glanced lightly, and saw a piece of bracelet slightly protruding from the cuff of his bathrobe, and a light as calm as water slipped across the black edge.

She subconsciously caressed the chain with the murderous stone on her wrist.

...Sure enough...what is it all for?

Hitsugaya bowed his head slightly, turned around and was about to leave.

The girl thought about it. "Hey Dongshiro, what happened?"

Far more than the fact that you lost your Reiatsu.

Makes you need to be apathetic about it.

Hitsugaya paused and stopped.

"As you can see, Xia Li." He turned his head sideways, shrugged slightly, and the moonlight poured down from his left shoulder, "I am just an ordinary soul now. And you will become the god of death. These are two completely different paths. Once People from Liuhun Street understand the difference between inside and outside Jinglingting, don't you think so, Kuchiki Rukia?" The young man spoke lightly, looking at the person next to Xia Li without any trace.

Rukia was taken aback.She thought of the self she used to be, the young and ignorant self standing outside the circular wall, the self who would steal with others for a little food, the self struggling to survive in the chaotic world, the self who lost her partner In the end, he said that he wanted to be the god of death himself.Then there is the inside and outside of the wall, two days apart.

How could not know.

Rukia lowered her eyes, faintly bitter. "yes."

"Listen up. I will live in Liuhun Street again. According to the official order of Soul Soul World, new souls will be assigned to various districts in Liuhun Street, and I will probably leave here. Therefore, it is best not to try to find me .”

Hitsugaya's voice was very soft, but it sounded decisive in Xia Li's ears.And that is by no means a misunderstanding.

"No matter who told you anything, don't try to find me." This time, he walked forward without hesitation.Knowing that the two people were still looking at him behind him, he walked into the house without looking back and closing the door to block all sight.

Hitsugaya Toshirō leaned against the door, shivering in the slightly cool air of the autumn night.He knew it was only because one place was so cold that it made him shiver uncontrollably.Now how could he not know how could he not understand.Xia Li, she is the obsession that would be willing to be trapped and willing to sacrifice her life for him, Toshirō Tsugaya.

But.An obsession that is too persistent may eventually turn into despair that is too desperate.

so.So say Ah.

What if she knew she wasn't there?

What would happen if someone told her where she had actually been?

...how can it be.

The only thing I can do now, the most effective thing to protect her, is to stay away from her, let her stay in the world of corpses and souls, and stay by the side of the god of death.

Just because I have lost the strength to lift a knife, I cannot deprive her of the right to receive protection.

What matters is not who protects, but the person who needs to be protected.

While he was still thinking like this, there was an abrupt voice from outside the courtyard, it was Hanataro Yamada. "Miss Rukia, Miss Kurosaki, are you there?"

Then the door of the house over there opened.

"Captain Unokana asked me to pick up Ms. Kurosaki... Ahh, and this one seems to be Ms. Rukia's Hell Butterfly."

"Eh? What? Want me to go back immediately?" Rukia's voice.

"Captain Hitsugaya," Hitsugaya could hear clearly from inside the room, and Hanataro's voice came from here, "Then I'll take Miss Kurosaki back first. I'm sorry."

"Hey Dongshiro, I will definitely come again! You haven't made it clear yet!"

Hitsugaya leaned against the door and slowly closed his eyes.There's some joy somewhere, and then the pain rages on.If he can put aside the reality in a flash, he can happily think about that person really can't let go of himself. So what a happy thing this is, but Hitsugaya Toshiro has always been very rational and very rational.He could only feel a large area of ​​pain, constantly writhing and tumbling in the empty space on the left side of his chest, growing gorgeous flowers for no reason, spreading from the wound to the ground, broken and dripping.

Lo and behold.What can I say.

Can she stop looking for me and ignore me?

In that case, even if it hurts, I wouldn't be so desperate.

When Kurosaki Xiali left, she seemed to hear "Don't come again" from the room, but it didn't seem to be there.She stopped, and slowly blinked her black eyes, not knowing which one was her illusion.Then the people in front urged her, and she followed Hanataro and Rukia out of the small courtyard.And by the gods, if she knew that something like that would happen when she left, she would never have left.

Even if someone thinks the exact opposite of her.

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"Yo, little brother Bai Zai." The golden pupil burst into smiles, staring at the person who wanted to joke whenever he saw him.After coming to Soul World from Kongzuo, Yeyi first went to Sentaro and Qingyin from Division [-].But the information she got from those two people showed that what she wanted had to go directly through the captain, so she came to the current captain, Byakuya Kuchiki.

"I'm very busy, Yoichi Sifengin." Kuchiki Byakuya looked up from the table, he was looking up some historical documents.Those heavy and old documents were piled up high on the table, and it was not difficult to see that Kuchiki Byakuya was reading them attentively from the shelving of those files.

"I came to you this time for no other reason." Ye Yi neatly turned into the room through the window, "I need some information...you know, it might be very important."

"Oh?" Bai Zai responded lightly, and then lowered his head to look through the documents in his hand, taking notes from time to time, transcribing some words and sentences.Appointing a new captain is a very troublesome thing, especially when many captains have been lost.Standing still because of the scarcity of people who can conduct assessments is not an option either.The current Jingling Court has stabilized, and he needs to establish a new feasible plan to appoint the new captain of the thirteenth division of the Gotei without any objections as much as possible.

Yeyi sat down opposite him very rudely.When it comes to serious things, she always goes straight to the point. Those golden pupils firmly stare at the person opposite, faintly revealing a scorching brilliance.Putting aside the previous banter, her expression was extremely serious.

"I need a document written by the former captain himself."

The pen in Bai Zai's hand stopped.

In Jinglingting, only the most confidential events and materials will be written and kept by the chief captain himself.Absolutely not through other hands.As for the content, it may be any matter and truth that the public does not want to know.Not to mention why, maybe it's for the soul world, maybe it's for other reasons, in short, such a secret does exist, this is an irrefutable fact.

"reason."

"I want to investigate... the god of death who has never appeared in Jinglingting."

You and I both know that only the captain has the right to call the god of death without anyone knowing.It can even make a god of death completely disappear from the world of corpses and souls without leaving a trace.No one will find anything unusual.

This is the dark place of Jinglingting.

...and the only place we can start.

"Are you sure it's Death?"

"A quarter possible." Ye Yi blinked.This was a sly answer, but her intuition told her that Bai Zai would not keep asking to the end.It turned out that her judgment was correct.Bai Zai didn't look at her, but he didn't continue to write, he just continued according to his own train of thought.

"It's a pity." Kuchiki Byakuya's voice was calm, without a trace of waves, but what he said made Yoruichi's eyes widen suddenly, "All the materials were destroyed...before the Winter War."

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After taking the medicine and lying back on the snow-white hospital bed, Xia Li closed her eyes, thinking that she would go again tomorrow no matter what.She had already written down the location of that small courtyard, and she would never go the wrong way again next time.

"Hataro, aren't you going to sleep again tonight?" Looking sideways, the seventh seat of the fourth team seemed to spread a large piece of medicine on the table.Usually, following Xia Li's side is to ensure that she can be found immediately when she faints suddenly, so even at night, there will be someone in Xia Li's ward.The girl looked at Hanataro's back, and couldn't help thinking of the time when Hitsugaya was by her side.The snow-haired guy always ended up falling asleep on the edge of the bed clutching his hands.When he woke up at night, he could see the moonlight shining between his eyebrows, which was a gentle color.

Then, imperceptibly, it hurt like something shattered.

"Ah, did it bother you, Ms. Kurosaki?" Hanataro turned around and waved his hands in a panic, "I'll be gentler. This is work for this week, I just want to finish it sooner."

"It doesn't matter. Let me hear a little sound and sleep at ease." Xia Li turned over on the bed and buried herself in the snow-white quilt.After a while, her lazy voice came from under the quilt, "Good night."

"Good night, Miss Kurosaki."

Xia Li closed her eyes and fell into a familiar darkness.No, not night, not sleep.She could feel that it was that world, the world with bubbling spring water.her inner world.This time, there was no sense of fear or oppression, and she calmly opened her eyes to face the darkness.The spring water, as always, rolled up at his feet.

"Welcome back, Xia Li."

She froze for a moment.It seems... the sound of the spring water has changed a bit, but she doesn't think it's a big problem.After all, it is not a person, and I don't know why it can speak.

But I always feel that there is something... evil?

"Welcome me next time, at least give me a wider place, no matter what, give me a room or a small courtyard." It's better than that, the endless darkness that can't see the border clearly.

As soon as the voice fell, she stood in a room.It is a very simple and clean cabin.Xia Li only took a look around, and her expression became complicated.Because this is the room where Hitsugaya said not long ago that she and Rukia were allowed to rest.Furniture, style, size, nothing is wrong.She pursed her lips, took a step back unconsciously, and leaned her back against the wall.For a split second she was on the verge of laughing out loud, wondering why this room at all.

why.

"Isn't that what you want?" The spring water was churning unobtrusively in the middle of the room.But a voice suddenly echoed in Xia Li's heart.That voice was deeper, more familiar, nicer, and colder, and the words he spoke emptied someone's heart, and sprinkled salt on the softest wounds one by one.

it says. "I'm probably going to get out of here. So, it's best not to try to find me."

it says. "No matter what anyone tells you, don't try to find me."

There is one more sentence.Xia Li was still not sure...whether it said anything or not. "Don't come again."

Don't come to me.Do not come again.don't want.don't want.Don't... I'm getting out of here.

……leave here.

She closed her eyes, aching from what flashed before her eyes and in her head.

"Are you sad? Painful? Why?" Quan Shui asked softly, the voice seemed to ring in the girl's heart.It fell silent, waiting for Xia Li to think for herself.

Xia Li, the more painful you are, the more you can understand my existence.

The most deeply hidden, heartbroken, hard to let go...

……

And then... that person's present...

"Is it gone. Is it not coming back? Can't find it? Is it lost?" A little bit closer to a thought that I don't want to touch, wear away the firmness, and swallow up the hope.

I am dead end, I am despair, I am darkness, I am your evil Zanpakutō.

Xia Li closed her eyes tightly and even covered her ears with her hands.But... the ears may not listen, but the voice in the bottom of my heart cannot be escaped no matter what.She told herself that it was he who said not to come again, he said it himself.Every word seems to be engraved on the softest heart, and every single sound is painful.

Such a wound can never heal, right?

"Xia Li, Xia Li, call me by my name." The voice sounded like comforting, more like bewitching.

Only you can really understand me, please call me by my name.

I won't lie to you and say something that can set you free, because my ability is the real despair.

And I know...

You won't like that ending.

...but I am you.I am here for you.

"Call me by name."

Finally, the girl raised her head, her eyes were full of dryness.She opened her mouth and uttered the broken syllable that connected her heart.

"fragmented."

-To be continued