half soul

Toshiro Hitsugaya kept moving forward in the most familiar scenery.Going around the short mountain in front, it is the place where Hirinmaru has been entrenched.The coldness he hadn't felt for a long time slightly raised a strand of snow-colored hair on his forehead.Although he is the person recognized by Hirinmaru, but in this place at this moment, Hitsugaya suspects that the one who really controls everything is probably not him, nor Xia Li, but the Zanpakuto called Zhili.

He remembered what Xia Li had just said.

"I want your ice ball."

How...how can it snatch another Zanpakutō from the hands of Death God?

Is there such a relationship of subordination among Zanpakuto?

Another ten thousand steps back, is it possible that the haughty guy in Hirinmaru will honestly listen to the words of Fragmentation?

Hitsugaya thought about it for a while, and decided that he should ask it directly anyway.Turning this corner, the familiar figure appeared in front of him.The pale blue crystal color casts a huge dragon body, crouching with its back facing itself, the subtle twists and turns are the supreme majesty exclusive to the king of the ice and snow department.

When Hitsugaya was overjoyed, he called it by its name.The moment he opened his mouth, the raging wind swept the snowflakes and drowned the scene in front of him almost suddenly.Every feeling is very strange.The words to say were strangled in the throat.The young man gritted his teeth, knowing that this place was indeed not his inner world.

"Hirinmaru." Even in the wind and snow, Hitsugaya would still call out this name.However, the moment these few syllables were blurted out, there was a feeling of calling it for the first time in my heart.Such a sudden strangeness made Hitsugaya startled in his heart.

The wind and snow couldn't stop his voice, and the giant dragon slowly turned around.

It overlooks the teenager who is gradually approaching him.Bingxue's hair color, slightly gentle eyes, are the same as before, and there is no slight difference from any time I saw him before.What it does understand, however, is that some things have long since changed.When Zhili found himself and told himself that he could continue to be his Zanpakuto, he felt a little relieved.It believed in his ability, believed that with his strength, it could once again sign a contract with itself.

...but the chances are slim.

"Hitsugaya Toshirō..." Hirinmaru said, his vigorous voice echoed in the empty ice field like ice from a cliff, "I am, no longer your Zanpakuto."

"What!" The emerald eyes cast an extremely shocking light.The boy immediately calmed down, raised his eyebrows and asked it in a deep voice, "Is this what you mean by fragmentation?"

Is this the so-called "want" by Zhili? !

Cut off the connection between Shinigami and Zanpakuto? !

After symbolizing the Zanpaku Knife and capturing its world? !

Hirinmaru looked at him regaining his composure, knowing that he was not provoked, and nodded at an indiscernible angle.This is the most sensible approach.As his Zanpakutō, of course it knows his weaknesses.The most troublesome thing is his impulsive and irritable character, which tends to blind his eyes and heart.He won't change after suffering a loss. I don't know when he will grow up a bit... But at this moment, it seems that there are probably... signs of growth.

"So I want to give you a chance to sign a new contract." Ice Dragon's eyes seemed to reveal deep and shallow cunning.

"How can I sign it?"

"It's very simple. If you win against me, it will be fine."

The boy looked around. "Can you fight in this place? As far as I know, this should be a fragmented territory?"

"That's right. It has specially opened up a space to accommodate you and me... Here, you can do whatever you want, including releasing all spiritual pressure."

"Okay." Hitsugaya congealed his expression.The light blue spiritual pressure light suddenly exploded.The wind and snow all over the sky suddenly exploded around the young man, and several spiritual pressures flowed continuously, and the momentum was mighty.

How could Shinigami, who was able to control Hirinmaru, lose to this guy?

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"Ai." Xia Li watched Hitsugaya Toshiro disappear in front of her eyes, not surprised at all, but instead looked at the gray-haired boy who was imprisoned by her, Mervet's servant.

The boy raised his eyes and stared at the master of this world.

"Come out with me." She sighed.

"I will definitely refuse." Ai shook his head lightly, "Because this is Miss Movit's order. Just now His Highness Hitsugaya has told me what happened outside, and my choice has not changed."

"But if you stay here, you will only lose everything."

"That's my fate too." He smiled with a clean and clear expression.

"Ai, I know how it feels to be locked up in my inner world." Xia Li bit her lower lip, "At that time, I had his Zanpakuto with me, and he also said that he would take me away. If it wasn't for this Faith supports it, and it is impossible for me to wait any longer. You should go back, because I will never come back again."

"Won't come back again?" What to say, this is your own inner world.

The black-haired girl smiled lightly.

"You still remember what I just said, I made a deal with Zhili. Actually, the condition is not to ask for Binglun Wan." The gray-haired boy noticed that Xia Li in front of her eyes suddenly became calm, and she continued, " Zhili needs a stronger and more ambitious master, not me. So the condition I negotiated with it is to let it take my Reiatsu. As for the Dongshiro matter, it is only because he temporarily lost Hirinwan, Provide him with a condition to re-sign the contract with his own sword. He said that he wanted his Zanpakuto, but he hoped that he would have a sense of crisis and go all out. Zhili told me that it was not an easy task. Maybe he You will lose your knife and your name."

Ai finally discovered that this mediocre little girl also had scheming plans.

"Now you understand why I want you to go back. If you are here, you may be imprisoned until you die. In that case, your death will have no meaning and value. If you go out, you want to follow Moweite again naturally No problem. What's more, she can give you other tasks, not when you want to use someone else but can't find anyone at all."

Ai began to show obvious hesitation.Obviously Xia Li's words had an effect.

Knowing that he has always been loyal to Mervet, he just prescribes the right medicine.Observing the young man's expression, she felt that what she had said was almost done, and it should be no problem to have a finishing touch at the end.Standing in the wind, she raised her eyebrows slightly, and the tumbling wheat light behind her also dyed her hairline with a faint golden halo.When the wind blew up, Kurosaki Natsuri suppressed her flying hair and raised her eyes to look at him with a little smile.

"Okay, if you don't plan to go out, I'll beat you until you do. Even if you know you're going to be arbitrary, don't forget that this is my place. As long as I'm standing here, it's still mine knife."

"...Okay, I promise you."

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Frozen.Han Shuo.Snowstorm Wasteland.

"Dongshiro, that's not enough to watch." The huge ice dragon shook Bingling's tail, and lightly swept away Ritsugaya's astonishing blue fire pendant.

Both sides are very aware of how powerful their opponents are, and they hardly need to think about it when dealing with it.Just because they are too familiar with each other.The icy green eyes of the snow-haired boy gradually ignited a layer of extinction in the light of the ghost way.He wasn't sure he could go on killing it like this, and every second he procrastinated could prove fatal.Who knows if the world-passing chain will suddenly awaken at this time and destroy everything? !

"Hirinmaru, I don't want to delay any longer. Let's use the next move to decide the winner."

Seeing that the ice dragon had no objection, Hitsugaya stretched out his hands and raised them flat to the front. In an instant, the blue and white spiritual pressure turned into a bright and clear blue, creating an unbelievable sense of oppression.The space around him was twisting and struggling faintly like pupils tearing apart.Hirinmaru watched him move his lips calmly, his low singing voice piercing through the wind and snow.

"Long branches of bones and trees that do not know their crimes, the spiers of gray tops are dead and sinking into the sea..."

As the boy chanted, the huge ice dragon gradually turned serious.Ever since he called out his name, the captain of this young genius has never used this ghost way.It is clearly breaking the way, but while possessing strong destructive power, it also almost has the highest level of binding the way.However, it is ranked above 70, the only path that is so compassionate that it has almost no actual combat value.As long as there is a trace of pity or the intention to cherish each other, it is the door to each other's life, otherwise it will only die together.

Therefore, when actually confronting the enemy, this ghost way is almost never used.To really deal with difficult enemies, who only wants to kill them, who would have any idea of ​​keeping their hands?

"...Dimlight statement, the nightmare of ten thousand wells returning to the void. Red stunned. Bright light. Broken neck. Ghost monster. The head of a thousand nights overflows the prison, the power of teeth and sharp claws roars into the sky, and the darkness seizes and blocks it. Reincarnation. Let the flames be reborn, let the tide of anger surge, and scream through the sky with the blood of the most hope and despair. The 98 of breaking the way, white extinction!"

This is, I'm betting that I won't kill him.Are you really planning to die?

The huge ice dragon can be seen clearly.

Flames of the same color as the snowstorm exploded from the young man's fingertips layer by layer, like fresh vines, striking Hirinmaru with lightning from different angles.There are 72 snow flames in total.The moment they appeared together, the raging wind and snow dodged one after another, allowing the youth's ghostly way to howl and entangle them.

It is not that there is no possibility of resistance, but that it is impossible to fight.Otherwise, we will die together.Really dare to use it, kid.It's not like you don't know what the consequences will be if you use this ghost way.

Hirinmaru closed his eyes.

The white flame wrapped it around the sky and the earth, and the white light gradually became stronger.When it was so dazzling that it was about to cry, it suddenly became dark.It was as if the whole world had jumped from polar day to polar night, into an unbearable blindness.The mass of white ghosts annihilated into blackness that filled the eyes, filled with the dizziness of weightlessness in the mind.

The snow-haired boy closed his emerald eyes, and stretched out his right hand far ahead.He knew that Hirinmaru would definitely make such a choice.He imagined in his heart the posture and temperature that Zanpakuto should have.Until... an icy blue light slid out of the chaotic black lightly, and obediently fell into his palm.There is a half-moon-shaped tail attached to a slender and delicate chain.The appearance of beginning to understand.

It's his Zanpakuto.

Toshirō Hitsugaya stretched out his hand and gently brushed the blade, the long-lost feeling was very familiar.Finally came back.A white light suddenly peeled off from the blade, wound around the arm a few times, and penetrated into the wrist.He vaguely heard Hirinmaru's voice running along his blood, telling that the contract was signed.

It Hirinmaru is still the Zanpakuto belonging to Toshiro Hitsugaya.

In the next second, dripping blood gushed out from his whole body.The temperature flowed with the blood, and the biting chill and pain invaded the bone blood slowly and irresistibly.Deadly heavy.

...the price of white extinction.

Hitsugaya clearly remembered how similar the bloody ending was to the cost of recalling a half-soul.

It was the pain that Xia Li had suffered.

It's also... the dripping experience that I once felt in order to bring you back.

Right now it's just a re-enactment.That's all.

I will still live to go back to see you.

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Kurosaki Natsuri stared blankly at Toshirō Hitsugaya walking step by step from a distance as far away as the corner of the sky, with a warm and sweet liquid dripping from his body, leaving a shocking redness on the tips of the golden wheat awns, Finally called out his name.

"Winter Lion!"

It takes a lot of effort to keep your voice from shaking.Xia Li gritted her teeth.His eyes were focused on the Zanpakutō tightly held in the boy's hand, and it was exactly the same as he remembered.Seeing Hitsugaya looking at her and slightly curling the corners of her lips, she knew he had succeeded.

She couldn't resist thinking of the scene that Hitsugaya Toshiro brought her back that Brother Yi had described to herself.That figure that was bleeding, leaving a dripping dark road behind him.Such a picture has never been seen because he fell into a coma.Even though I have pictured it hundreds and thousands of times in my mind, it is still not as straightforward and painful as the scene in front of me.

Zhili was right.

It is necessary to hold the heart of death in order to complete the contract.

The boy looked at the anxious Xia Li through his blood-stained eyes, showing only a relaxed expression. "I'm fine."

Xia Li's heart ached, she opened her mouth but swallowed what she wanted to say. There are more important things to do right now.She changed the subject. "It's not too late, I'm going to open the other world now."

He was seriously injured and must receive treatment as soon as possible. He must end the matter here as quickly as possible and return to Xuye Palace.What's more, the current boundary chain is the most dangerous factor, and it may happen at any time.Now that Ai also agreed to leave, he can finally concentrate on studying how to open that alien world.

Of course, Hitsugaya was also aware of these causes and consequences, and nodded to continue.

"Fragmented." The girl took a deep breath and said the name as if accepting a judgment.

The black spring water suddenly appeared at her feet, springing up, and then disappearing into an unknown space.The snow-haired boy looked at the spring water in amazement.Unexpectedly, this is the body of her Zanpakuto... It turned out to be an invisible spring water? !

"Don't forget our promise, Xia Li. Are you ready?"

Kurosaki Natsuri blinked and nodded firmly.

"Now it's up to you to imagine a world, which is what the 'world' looks like in your mind. I will help you materialize that 'world' when it is completed. Note that it is best not to involve any creatures, which will affect The result." Quan Shui explained to her patiently and meticulously.

"Don't involve...any creature?!" The girl frowned, lost in thought.

What kind of place is enough to become a 'world', but it is empty? ...It must be wide enough, there may be various environments, but there must be no people, and no animals...I think...that place must be very lonely...

……Lonely……

Lonely……

I used to stay in one place for countless days and nights, wanting to help and save those half-souls who were forever trapped in loneliness.It was as if to accompany them, even exiled himself.Walk around those deserted streets and alleys, write down the words to convey to them, and communicate with them with a simple phonetic map... The city that left time and effort, except for the half-soul, almost only has itself.

...Empty Model Seats!

"Ah!" Xia Li cried out suddenly, because she suddenly realized that the place where she was standing was no longer a golden wheat field, but an empty seat of a model.The familiar streets, the familiar sense of emptiness, the high-hanging crescent moon, and even the sound of the wind wandering high in the sky, all tell how close this is to memory.The only thing that told her that this was not that place was the bubbling spring water at her feet and the two people beside her.

"Xia Li, what are you... going to do?" Hitsugaya looked at the place.When he became a half-soul, he also wandered around this place countless times, and avoided her search countless times.So he saw where it was at the first glance when he saw it.Hitsugaya thought with a little pain in his heart, this is really the case.

This lonely, empty city without any creatures is the whole world in her mind.

... No one will really understand, a world exclusively for those who are suitable.

Kurosaki Natsuri clenched her fist, and her voice was slightly nervous.

"I think... I know what to do..."

It's a cherry tree.

Almost without stopping, she ran to the cherry tree where she had been performing rituals to call back the half-soul.Hitsugaya and Ai also ran under the tree after her to watch her look up at the huge canopy.The trees had lush green branches, and it was not the season for flowering.However, both Xia Li and Hitsugaya knew that when the ceremony started, there would be countless pink petals that would wither and bloom into vacant night cherry blossoms.

Then... at the end of the moment, it disappears like the most intense firework, and the world ends.

The black spring water that had never been far away suddenly turned into a stream and flowed into her slowly raised right hand.Xia Li closed her eyes and then opened them abruptly, holding her own knife and a white silk in her hand.And around the cherry tree, murderous stones were quietly placed at some point.

Knowing... what to do... She cut her fingertips with a branch without hesitation, and wrote two words on the silk cloth with blood.

"world".

Believe!

Believe in your own power, believe in the power of fragmentation, the world is real!The alien world will definitely open!

A piece of pink cherry petals fell leisurely from her eyes.

Xia Li raised her head in a daze, followed by Hitsugaya and Ai.All three looked up, and the green treetops began to rot into large groups of powder at a visible speed.The second piece, the third piece...the cherry blossoms fell like rain.Kurosaki Natsuri turned her head and glanced at Toshirō Hitsugaya, he was looking at herself intently, with a faint and gentle light in his emerald eyes.Her nose was sore for no reason, as if she had gotten some kind of response.

Also because of believing.

This time, he finally believed me.

Starting from the ground under the feet, there is a golden light, spreading outward like a layer of waves.Hitsugaya and Ai felt an indescribable sense of fullness at the same time. As the ray of light continued to spread, it seemed as if the heaviness of history had passed, and it went straight through their bodies.

In an instant, they all understood...the creation of the alien world had been successful.

-To be continued