Return of the Mask

"Ha, that kind of place?"

A voice sneered in his mind, with the excitement of the battle.

A night sky appeared before him.A cold white moon hung in the sky.

It was surrounded by endless white desert in all directions, and occasionally there were rough quartz branches sticking out of the sand.

She raised her head slowly, looking at the sudden white buildings in the white desert.

The building towers high and keeps looking up, only a little bit of it can be seen blending with the dark sky.However, even such an eye-catching existence did not add any vitality to this space, but instead added a breath of death.

This is the case here, the surrounding air is tightly pressed against the chest like a lead block, making it hard to breathe.

"In there," a ghost next to him took a step forward, raised his head and squinted at the building, and said, "there is a lot of food." Its eyes should be sky blue, but now they are more bloody.The excitement infected her, and she felt as if they could swallow this place up.

This feeling is dangerous, but she seems to feel this emotion for the first time, and she sinks into the depths of this emotion without hesitation.

Maybe she will never be able to climb up, but she didn't think so much at the time.

But that feeling...what the hell is it?

It's like losing your heart and then losing your instinct.

Yin Shu stared at the ground with his eyes wide open, cold sweat dripped down his cheeks, and he kept panting.

"Varied……"

Xu looked at Yinshu in surprise.

Otoki blocked the knife with one hand, but bled profusely because the blade was embedded in the flesh.

Raising her head slowly, she pursed her lips tightly, and squinted her eyes to look at the bird.

Still holding the blade firmly with his right hand, he stretched out his index finger.

He looked at her warily.

"What do you think you can do with your appearance like this?!" Instinct made his left hand clenched into a fist and smashed hard at Yinshu!

Yinshu stretched out his left hand, gritted his teeth and said:

"Broken Path No. 31——Red Cannon!!"

The huge fireball hit its left hand straight!

"—Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Xu cried out in pain.

Taking a breath, Yinshu tried to focus his eyes on Xu's head, and then said:

"Fourth Breakthrough—Bai Lei!!!"

A beam of silver light directly penetrated Xu's eyebrows.

The shouting stopped.

A crack appeared in Xu's mask.

Yinshu took the opportunity to snatch its knife directly from its hand, and then kicked it to the ground.

When Xu Xu reacted, Yinshu had already held its knife against its neck.

Its whole body was stiff, and it glared at Yinshu angrily.

"This knife," Yinshu's voice was hoarse, "what is it?"

"Hmph, don't think I'll tell you!" Xu Xu gritted his teeth.

Yinshu's bent left knee slammed into its stomach!

Howled in pain.

Yinshu moved the blade closer to its neck, and she knew that she didn't have much energy to deal with it now.

The image that popped up in her mind just now made her almost be hit by this false slash.And what came to mind at that time?Has she ever been to that kind of place?

Also, what is that Xu who talks to her?

What is that strange, weird, frightening emotion that keeps rising in my heart?

If it wasn't for the pain of blocking the knife with one hand at that time, which brought her consciousness back, she might not even know how she died...

It's so dangerous...

"Is this sword a Zanpakuto?"

"Isn't it, don't you gods of death know the best?" Because the mask was torn, Xu obviously had no strength to resist, and he still refused to relax verbally.

Yinshu sneered: "It's really a good backbone, but you said that it is the Zanpakuto, right? The reason why you are caught by me like this but you can't start to untie the Zanpakuto is because you are an unfinished product. right?"

"Don't be too complacent about Shinigami!" Xu opened his eyes wide, with blood rushing into his eyeballs, and it said ferociously, "We Xu are different from your Shinigami!! Your Zanpakuto can't beat us!!"

Yinshu frowned.

It wants to say that Xu's Zanpakuto Liberation is more powerful than Shinigami?

If you consider that the god of death is as powerful as the god of death, then the Zanpakuto Liberation of the general god of death is indeed no match for them, but if it is a character at the captain and vice-captain level, there should be no problem, right? ?Why does it speak such big words?

Even if Yachukas and Valstord, who are more powerful than Killian, have been turned into gods of death, then Hirako and the others—the captain-level characters can still be dealt with after they are blurred?

Sure enough...she shouldn't take such words to heart...

Raising his eyebrows, Yinshu glanced at the door of the shop.

If they don't solve the problem here and go back, they will probably come out.

Exhaled a little tiredly, just as she was about to press Zanpakuto down, the appearance of Xu in front of her eyes changed!

Yin Shu was startled and stopped moving.

Under her eyes, Xu's body gradually shrank, and smoke rose from all around.

Yinshu closed her eyes and waved away the smoke, and when she was able to open her eyes again, the scene in front of her made her eyes widen in surprise.

Wearing a domineering attire, the silver-haired boy lay under her knife, looking at her with a pair of lake green eyes in astonishment.

Yinshu stared at him blankly.

"……noob?"

In the next second, the young man frowned slightly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Why are you here?" He propped his upper body up on the ground with one hand, and tried to swing the sword that Yinshu put on his neck with the other hand.

Yinshu was slightly taken aback, then raised his eyebrows, and pressed the knife back to his neck.

"It's you, shouldn't you be in the soul world?"

The silver-haired boy was taken aback for a moment, then hesitated and said, "I... don't know what's going on."

"Ah, ah, that's how Xiaobai became the captain?" Yinshu laughed, "Not only was he sent to the present world without knowing anything, but he didn't even wear the captain's haori. Did you get kicked from the captain's position?"

"Whispering!! And can you move this strange knife away, isn't this your Zanpakuto?"

"Of course it's not mine, this kind of strange knife," Yinshu sneered, "I even despise my own Zanpakuto, poor you think you can fool me by doing this?"

"Hitsugu" was stunned for a moment, and his expression changed.

"What are you talking about? I said, I don't know why I'm here, but can you talk well?"

"I don't have that much time to play with you." Yinshu's smile faded completely from her face, and she said coldly, "It turns out that you turned into something else and escaped from under my nose Bar?"

"Hitsugaya" gritted his teeth and stared at her fiercely.

"It's a good choice to become Xiaobai, but there is one thing you made a mistake." Yinshu's hand trembled, and then he slowly pressed the knife on his neck, and the blade sank in. "As long as it is an enemy, no matter what you become Who, how similar you have become, I can still kill you."

In the next second, the silver-haired boy turned into spirit particles and dissipated.

The Zanpakuto in Yinshu's hand also gradually disappeared.

"Because I'm never the type to let my emotions take over my mind."

Standing up slowly, the evening wind blows, the skirt is slightly raised, the bangs on the forehead are blown off, and fall to the eyes.

Yinshu lowered his eyes.

Closing her eyes and stroking her hair behind her ears, she turned around and walked back to the ramen shop.

Lifting the curtain and looking at the innermost table, Chidori Monobe was already sitting in her original position.

Hearing the sound of the wind chime, some customers looked towards her, and then their eyes widened, their faces became very strange.

Yinshu raised his eyebrows, somewhat puzzled by their gazes.

The people from the tennis club also looked at her, but their faces became as weird as those people's.

"Sister!!" Zhishu stood up in panic, and then covered his mouth with his hands.

Everyone looked at her in astonishment.

Yinshu frowned, and walked over with some doubts.

The jackal stood up and said in a panic, "Gennai, what happened to your hand?"

Yin Shu was taken aback, looked at his hand, and then remembered that he was injured.

Because he directly blocked the blade with his hand, the cut that melted was not too small, and it was very deep.At this time, the blood was still flowing out.

But this kind of injury is already a minor injury to her, so she just walked back without noticing it for a while.

"What happened?" Yukimura asked, frowning.

"Why did you suffer such a serious injury when you went out to get some air?!" Marui Fumita said in shock.

"You need to bandage it quickly," Liu said solemnly, "Speaking of which, Yuan Nai suffered such a serious injury, didn't it hurt all the time?"

"..." Yinshu silently glanced at the monster-like gazes of the surrounding people, and said helplessly, "Well...it still hurts..."

"...It's so hard to say..."

Yagyu raised his gaze, then he seemed to feel something, turned his head, and looked at Nioh who was sitting next to him, who was eating the sushi on the table without even looking over there.

"Didn't you notice anything strange when you went out just now?"

King Ni glanced at him, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Gennai is a strange person, isn't he?"

Liu Sheng remained silent.

"Is...that thing?" Monobe Chidori whispered tremblingly.

Everyone fell silent and looked at her.

Yinshu raised his eyebrows and looked at her. "What are you talking about?"

"It's just..." She stopped, then pursed her lips tightly, her face was pale, but she didn't seem to intend to say any more.

Normal people would not dare to speak out when they saw that kind of thing, because they were afraid of being regarded as a monster by others.

Let Liu take out the bandage from the tennis bag to bandage her wound, Yin Shu sat on a chair that Zhi Shu moved from another place, and said: "If you are talking about that big black dog , I’ve already chased him away, this wound was caused by the broken glass when he accidentally fell on the ground.”

Chidori Monobe looked at her in astonishment.

Others also looked skeptical.

"Will glass...can cause this level of injury?" Liu very politely did not use declarative sentences directly.

"Of course." Yinshu said with a smile.

"..."

Monobe Chidori is a smart person, so he immediately shut his mouth and didn't mention "that thing" again.

After that, because Yinshu repeatedly emphasized that it didn't matter, the group of people finally relaxed again and chatted about other things.

Sitting next to Yinshu, Monobe whispered: "Are you back?"

Yinshu nodded.

"I..." She hesitated to speak.

Yinshu looked up at her strangely. "What's wrong?"

When Monobe met her gaze, he lowered his head abruptly.

Biting her lower lip, she seemed to have hesitated for a long time, then raised her head and said stiffly, "Thank you for this incident, I won't ask you what happened."

"Heh, it's been a while since I haven't seen you, but I've become a lot smarter." Yin Shu said bluntly.

Monobe's face turned pale.

After a long silence, she slowly said: "I know you still mind the matter of spreading rumors back then." After a pause, she whispered, "I apologize to you."

"I won't do that kind of thing in the future."

"Also, thank you for saving me in that car accident."

The sushi fell from the chopsticks.

Yinshu stared blankly at Monobe Chidori, and after a while, he only uttered a single sound: "...Huh?"

Monobe Chidori was stunned when he saw Otoki's reaction, and then seemed to have misunderstood something, explaining: "Because it was on that occasion, in front of so many people that afternoon...and that kind of thing happened, I really felt that I don't know what to do. I've been trying to find time to thank you, but I didn't expect you to disappear as soon as the holiday was over."

Yinshu twitched the corner of his mouth and thought about it.According to this time speculation, could it be that she was referring to... the time she met Xu at Ichigo's school?

That's right... She used Kisuke Urahara's memory converter that time...

"I thought I had paid back what I owed you," Chidori Monobe said after a pause, "You saved me again today!"

Yinshu tried hard to restore her face to normal, turned her head back and took a sip of her drink stiffly, she whispered: "Never mention that kind of thing to others."

After a long time, she raised her head, looked into Chidori Monobe's eyes, and said slowly:

"Then, I, Gennai Otoki, and you Monobe Chidori will never have anything to do with each other."

After returning to the Urahara store, Otoki lay on the bed for a long time.

Closing her eyes, she thought carefully about the place she had dreamed about in the past few days, and what happened with that dog just now.

When there was a knock on the door and the door was opened with her permission, she asked in surprise, "What are you doing?"

Yin Shu opened his eyes and looked at him.

After a long silence, she stood up and said to him, "Speak to Kisuke Urahara for me...I'd better go home first."