Return of the Mask

"I said you, is this something from the god of death?"

"...Reaper? What's that?"

The people around her narrowed their eyes and looked at her, as if trying to judge whether she was lying.

They were surrounded by many animals that fell on the ground, but all of them were dealt with by the person beside her.They sat on a sand dune for a short rest after eating.

"Reaper, it's just a bunch of bastards!" The person beside him snorted coldly, his face full of disdain.Glancing at her, he became even more hostile: "I said, you'd better throw away your knife, or if you don't like it, I'll kill you too!"

She trembled, and immediately untied the knife tied around her waist, and held it in her hand.

He raised his hand, wanting to throw it away, but hesitated in his heart.

She pursed her lips and looked at the knife in her hand with some doubts.

"Reaper...is Xu's enemy?"

The person beside him snorted and turned his head, as if he didn't want to answer such an obvious question.

"I..." She opened her mouth, and said slowly as if confirming something, "I'm Shakalis..."

"Ah forget it," the person beside him seemed a little impatient, stood up, looked down at her, and frowned, "Anyway, you are an unknown thing, as long as..."

She didn't hear the words clearly after that, but only saw the man's mouth opening and closing.

The world suddenly became very quiet, she simply gave up listening to what the man said, but lowered her head, looking at the knife in her hand.

With her fingertips lightly stroking the blade, she could feel the familiarity.

After an unknown amount of time, as if feeling something, she suddenly raised her head, only to see two ghosts standing in front of her.

"Hey, I said you are the god of death, right?"

"Death? I'm not that kind of thing..." she said a little confused.

"No?" The two Xu Xu looked at each other, and then they all set their eyes on the knife at her waist.One of them sneered and said: "I have fought against the god of death in this world, the one on your waist is obviously Zanpakuto!"

"Hey! Why did the god of death appear here in the virtual circle?!"

"Did you betray the soul world?"

"Haha, but the virtual circle is not where you should come, God of Death!"

"I……"

She looked around, there was no one else but them.

Those two ghosts were approaching her, and all she could do was keep backing away.

"No matter how much you look like Xu," the Xu pointed at the bone mask on his face, "but the disgusting smell of death cannot be concealed, destroying your mask will make you Are you dead?"

"Just treat it as today's lunch, haha!"

One Xu jumped in front of her, then stretched out a long and huge hand, and waved towards her!

Subconsciously, she leaped high, turned over in the air, and landed behind that Xu.

She seemed to have never done this kind of action before, but she was extremely familiar with it.

Not only this kind of action, but also this kind of situation.

Xu...with her?

She frowned, watching the two ghosts rushing over, drew out the knife at her waist in an instant, and stabbed forward!

Another one attacked from behind her!

She jumped into the air, turned her body, then stretched out her hand, facing the bird, narrowed her eyes.

"Broken Path 33——"

She heard herself say so coldly.

"——Blue Flame Pendant!!"

When the last sound landed, her hand was suddenly grabbed!The head was hit hard!

"Hmm—" Yin Shu covered his head, groaned in pain, and opened his eyes.

The world is sunny, and there are crisp birdsong outside the window.

And what's more--look at her teacher and all the classmates.

There was silence in the classroom, and everyone stared at her.

She raised her head stiffly and slowly, looking at the person holding her hand.

Short, straight, blond hair, downcast eyes, and that dead fish expression.

Although he no longer wears the deadly costume, although he has not seen each other for 100 years, this person...

"... Hirako?!" Yinshu called out his name, and stood up in astonishment!

"Yo," Hirako looked at her, drooping the corners of his mouth, "Long time no see, you still like daydreaming so much, Gennai Otoki."

"..."

"Wait, wait—" the teacher on the podium suddenly reacted, pointed at Pingzi in disbelief and said, "Student, you are not a student of Lihai University, are you? Why do you suddenly appear here? Or crawl out of the window?" came in?!"

"Who is that person?"

"Why, why did you suddenly appear in the classroom?"

"This is the third floor!"

"That Gennai Sound Tree again? Who the hell is she..."

"It's terrible, it's terrible."

People around whispered.

"Gennai, wouldn't it be better to sit down now." Beside him, King Ni reminded helplessly.

Yin Shu froze for a moment, then frowned and sat down slowly.

However, the moment she sat down in her seat, the get out of class bell rang.

The teacher petrified standing on the podium.

After class, Yinshu immediately took Hirako to the roof of the school, closed the door, turned and walked towards him.

"Pingzi? Why are you here?!" She asked excitedly and puzzled, but the next second the other party poured cold water on her.

"It was there yesterday," Pingzi leaned against the wall, turning his head away, "You just didn't realize it, idiot."

"You..." A vein protruded from Yinshu's forehead, "It's been more than 100 years since I've seen your sloppy way of speaking and it still hasn't changed, bastard." She sneered.

"Huh? Are you still the same?"

"What did you say?!"

"Won't you listen to what I say, idiot?"

"You are really getting flatter and flatter! And what is your wicked hairstyle?!"

"Are you dissatisfied with my hairstyle, Gennai Otoki?"

The two stared at each other, put their hands on their waists, and made a movement to draw their knives, but suddenly remembered that they didn't have a knives with them, so they froze.

Lowering his hand, Yinshu looked at him, pursed his lips, and asked: "Tell me, why did you suddenly appear here today after not showing up for so long? And anyway, you should choose a place with fewer people, right? "

Hirako turned around and looked at her.After a while, he said slowly: "You just wanted to release the Cang Huo Pendant?"

Yin Shu was taken aback, frowned and said, "That was in a dream..."

"It's really a daydream, you." Hirako glanced at her, "Sometimes the things in the dream will act the same in reality."

Yinshu clenched his lower lip and lowered his head.

The dream she had just now... was it...

"If I hadn't stopped you just now, your whole class would have suffered." Pingzi looked at her and frowned slightly, "Have you lost even this bit of control?"

Yin Shu was startled, then looked at him angrily, gritted his teeth and said, "I will pay attention next time!"

Pingzi was taken aback for a moment, then scratched his cheek with his fingers, and murmured in a low voice with a stiff face: "...so obedient all of a sudden will make people not used to it..."

"...Go to hell, bastard..."

During the break, there are many students coming and going on campus.

I don't know if it's because what happened just now has spread, Yinshu looked downstairs and could see many students looking up at them and pointing.

The corner of her mouth twitched and she turned around, sat on the ground, and rubbed her forehead.

"Well, if it's the purpose of looking for you," Pingzi said with his hands in his pockets, sitting on the roof of the small house next to the rooftop, looking down at her and raising his eyebrows, "how did you survive? Didn't you come back to life at 100? Did you already die years ago?" An expressionless face just made Yinshu feel that he seemed very disappointed.

"Can you stop talking about other people's life and death so simply?" Yin Shuhuo said to him, "And it really annoys me to be asked the same question by so many people."

She let out a breath and lowered her head.

Can you tell Pingzi about the virtual circle...

Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi didn't even know about this matter, she hasn't told anyone yet, can she tell Hirako about this matter?

"That's why I asked you, how did you come back alive?" Glancing at Yinshu, Hirako turned his head away and repeated it lightly.

Yin Shu pursed his lips.

"I... I was resurrected in another world..."

"Another world?" He was clearly dissatisfied with Yinshu's vague answer, and Hirako raised his eyebrows.

"I can't explain these things clearly to you," Yin Shu put his chin on his hand and turned his head away, "Anyway, I was resurrected, and I didn't die, and the virtualization has also succeeded."

no respond.

Yinshu turned his head, looked over strangely, and met Pingzi's thoughtful eyes

After a while—

"Well, if you say so." He narrowed his eyes, got up, and stood up.

A strong wind blew by, and the door of the roof was suddenly pushed open!

Yinshu was startled, and looked over, only to see the math teacher glaring at her angrily.

"Gen, Gennai-san! Please explain what happened in class just now! Where's your friend?" He stared around Yinshu.

Yin Shu looked at him expressionlessly.

Behind the teacher, Uesugi Tensuke stuck out his head, and then pointed to the upper left of them in amazement: "That, that person!!"

The teacher looked over and stared straight.

"So, actually standing on the roof!"

Pingzi made a "cut" sound, rubbed his hair, and said impatiently, "Have you been discovered...well, forget it."

He took a step forward, jumped lightly, and landed in front of Yinshu.

Uesugi Tensuke and the math teacher were completely shocked when they saw his bold action, and they were completely speechless.

"If you want to solve the problem."

Yinshu looked into his eyes, frowned, and remained silent.

"Find me at Kurosaki Ichigo's school."

Glancing at her, Hirako walked behind her and jumped off the roof.

Tone tree turned around in surprise.

He... went to find Ichigo?

"——jump jump jump jump building?!!!"

"Hey! Isn't it? Can't think about it?!"

The math teacher and Uesugi Tensuke ran forward, lowered their heads with pale faces, but they didn't see the bloody corpse of Hirako as they imagined, so they were stunned.

"……what?"

"……what?"

Yin Shu turned around and walked towards the entrance of the rooftop, thinking deeply.

The question that Pingzi mentioned... What does it mean?

As far as virtualization is concerned, she has successfully blurred it.

As for the question about her dream, she has already got the answer.

It is impossible for Pingzi to say such a thing for no reason, so what exactly is the question he is talking about?

As soon as he stepped out of the rooftop, he felt the presence of another person, Yinshu stopped thinking and raised his head.

Seeing Masaharu Nioh, she raised her eyebrows. "Are you here too?"

"Because I think there is a good show to watch." King Ni said leisurely.

"You are interested in too many things." Yinshu reminded him.

The most dangerous person in the tennis club right now is him.

Although Yukimura once faced Xu with her, and because of this experience, he would be more familiar with her during that time, but after being transformed by the memory converter, she and him are strangers.And Yukimura Seiichi himself has no interest in Gennai Otoki.

However, Masaharu Nioh is different.

Not to mention after using the memory converter, even before, she could feel his curiosity about her identity.

If he was sensitive to discover something... It's not impossible, even if he can't see the soul.

"I always feel that Gennai is different from other people, so I wonder why this change happened suddenly," Nioh Masaharu said as he walked behind Otoki, "Didn't Gennai realize that he has changed a lot?"

"People will always change." Yin Shu said coolly.

"But what exactly changed Gennai? It's like a different person," Nioh looked up at the sky, "But if you can't even answer this question yourself, just pretend I didn't ask it."

Yinshu was taken aback.

After a long silence, she raised the corners of her lips and said, "Everyone can see that I changed after I fell down the stairs."

"It was the Monobe who harmed you that time." King Ni said lightly.

Yinshu was a little surprised. "you know?"

"I can almost guess it." After a pause, King Ren looked at her and asked tentatively, "Is it because of that incident?"

"Well... maybe..."

In fact, Nioh guessed wrong.

Monobe didn't intentionally cause Gennai Otoki to fall down the stairs, it was a complete accident.But she doesn't want to explain this matter now, because a problem suddenly occurred to her.

As Nioh Masaharu said, everyone can feel her change.

And the so-called Xu smell on her body... Could it be that only Xu can feel it?

In memory, when she was in Xuquan, no matter who she was, she could feel the smell of death on her body.

And 100 years later, will everyone be able to detect the false smell on her body?After all, having destroyed so many Xu, the god of death should be very sensitive to Xu's taste...

But if that is the case, why hasn't anyone questioned her until now?

Has no one ever suspected her?