Return of the Mask

Ice particles slowly fell from the air, gradually settling down with a gust of cold air.

The two lying on the ground were motionless.Surrounding them was a large pit, but fortunately the surrounding buildings were not damaged at all.

"Toshiro, Gennai—" Ichigo uttered, just as he was about to go over, he was stopped by Hirako's outstretched hand.Ichigo was taken aback, and turned to look at him.

Pingzi looked at the two with a frown and said, "Let them calm down."

"but--"

"Don't forget," Pingzi interrupted him, turned his head, looked at him with downcast eyes, and said lazily, "You still have something to do."

"I..." Ichigo was stunned, then he clenched his fists and lowered his head.

"Hey, so the matter is over, Mako?" Jiu Nanbai said with his lips pursed, his hands folded behind his head, and his eyes widened.

"Idiot, don't use such a disappointed tone!" Kenxi couldn't help saying.

"But I haven't been able to help you, Kenshi!"

"What the hell are you trying to do!"

"This situation is considered the best..." Aichuan Luowu pushed his sunglasses and said.

Ross looked at the two, and after a while, he lowered his head and sighed slightly: "I really didn't expect everything to become like this..."

"Not only Yuannai, but also us..."

Aichuan Luowu glanced at him silently, then turned around and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Don't be like this, Ross. The time is coming, and then we will settle all the old accounts with that person Be clear."

"Mako, go back."

"Ah, it's almost time to deal with this kid." Pingzi said, resting the knife on his shoulder.

"Wait—" Seeing a group of people leaving, Rukia said, looking at them suspiciously, "Who are you?"

The Masquerade Legion and the others looked at her, and Ichigo fell silent.

After a while, I only heard Pingzi's faint voice: "People who are not companions with you Shinigami."

"Aren't you Shinigami? But you are holding Zanpakuto." Rukia frowned and looked at the swords of each member of the Masked Legion, and suddenly realized something in the next second, her eyes widened in shock, and looked at Ichigo.

Hirako glanced at Ichigo, said "Let's go", and turned to leave.

The rest left behind him.

Ichigo glanced at Rukia, and finally turned around and left.

Yinshu lay motionless on Hitsugaya, his eyes were out of focus.

Hitsugaya looked at the back of the Masked Legion, pushed the push tree, and tried to stand up. After trying for a long time to no avail, he frowned and asked softly, "Can you still stand up?"

However there was no answer.

He hesitated: "... Yinshu?"

The sound tree moved.

As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Yinshu cough lightly, and said in a hoarse voice: "...It seems to be the first time I've heard you call my name."

Hitsugaya was startled, his face turned red immediately, and he froze.

Yinshu coughed a few times, put one hand on the ground, and sat up with difficulty.

Although the mask on her face has been broken, it has not completely fallen off her face, leaving half hanging on her face.

Hitsugaya sat up, looked at her face, then frowned and stretched out his hand to take off the rest of her mask, and slowly held it in front of his eyes.

"Ah, I finally took it off." Yin Shu sat on the ground, glanced at the mask in Hitsugaya's hand, and said with a smile.

"...You haven't mastered blur?"

"I thought I had mastered it," Yin Shu said lightly, scratching his hair, "Probably because I'm special."

Hitsugaya looked at her, then at the mask in his hand, and let go slightly.

A gust of wind blew by, and the mask turned into dust particles in his hands and drifted away with the wind.

"Don't use blur again in the future." He said in a deep voice.

Yinshu looked at him.

"It's a fluke that you can get back to normal this time. I know it's not me who made you stop. If this happens next time..."

He didn't finish his words, but both of them knew what his unfinished words were.

Yinshu smiled indifferently, and just asked, "Xiaobai, do you want to kill Aizen?"

Hitsugaya was stunned, as if he didn't expect her to talk about it suddenly.

"Do you want to kill Aizen?"

He was silent for a while, but still admitted in a low voice. "Think." Very simply. "When I found out that he had betrayed Seiringting, I already wanted to kill him."

But in the end, he was almost killed by Aizen.

"Xiaobai, do you know that when I found out that all of us were killed by Aizen, I also wanted to kill Aizen, but I was worse than you. At that time, I couldn't even move."

Hitsugaya was startled, and looked at her.

"He didn't even draw his sword against us, he already defeated all of us with his plot," Yinshu said, his eyes didn't know where to stay, "And now...you know how powerful he is, even They may not be able to beat the blurred Pingzi, but if it's me..."

"Does it mean you after losing control?" Hitsugaya interrupted her words in a hurry, "There is no way for you to defeat him like this. The matter of Aizen should be handed over to Seireitei."

"You told me not to do anything?" Yin Shu asked with a smile, "Xiaobai, the first thing I have to explain is that although I haven't mentioned it explicitly, and I have also gone back to Seilingting to perform missions with you Shinigami, But I am now a member of the Masked Legion, and all the decisions of Seireitei cannot interfere with me."

Hitsugaya looked at her in astonishment, as if he didn't expect her to say such a thing.

"We have our own vengeance to avenge, and this will not conflict with any decisions made by Seiling Court."

Yinshu got up staggeringly, pulled out the Zanpakuto stuck in the ground, retracted it into the sheath, and turned to leave.

Hitsugaya got up and grabbed her hand, and said in a deep voice, "Is it because I didn't go to be the god of death with you at the beginning... If I were with you and did that kind of thing by Aizen 100 years ago, would you I can't understand how I feel right now."

"I also want to kill Aizen, and I want to avenge him, but what you are doing now is unwise. Once you persist, the only result left is death."

"I've already died once." Yin Shu said lightly.

Hitsugaya was startled, then frowned, and resolutely said in a louder voice: "Since this is the case, shouldn't we cherish this life even more?" I don't know if this tone is persuading her or himself.

"Treasure?" Yin Shu seemed to have heard something funny, then turned around and took his hand from him, and said, "Xiaobai, don't you understand, this life is like God trying to let me It’s the same as what was reluctantly given to me to fulfill my last wish, when Lan Ran dies, no matter who kills me, I will die in the end.”

"I'm not a mask, I think you should also know what's wrong with me. As long as I maintain this identity for a day, I will definitely die."

Hitsugaya was stunned, his lake green eyes were full of shock.

"This is what you've always wanted to know."

In the entire Seireitei, apart from Nirvana Mayuri and the captain, and perhaps the senior Captain Unokana, Uncle Harusui and Ukitake, no one understands what happened to her.

People with a little knowledge of the superficial thought that she, like Pingzi and the others, became a mask after being blurred, and possessed the power to surpass the god of death.

Even Xiaobai, even if he was told about her by Captain Unohana himself, obviously he doesn't know the complete truth.

In the past, she wanted to hide it from him, because she knew that telling no one would be able to change this matter. Even Kisuke Urahara, maybe what he could do was to study her body carefully after her death, just like Nirvana Mayuri.Xiaobai is her only relative after death. Even if she left the world of souls for more than 100 years, after returning she became a brigade and he became the captain. The relationship between the two is no longer as clear as before, but she knows that he Still the most important person to her.She didn't want him to worry, and it was better to quietly disappear into this world after doing what she wanted to do.

But obviously, after more than 100 years, Xiaobai's stubborn character in certain things has not changed in the slightest.

And after what happened just now, she doesn't want to worry about anything anymore.

She decided to tell him everything.

"After 100 years, I will come back here, and I don't know when I will disappear again after I kill Aizen. This will not have any impact on the lives of the people around me. Xiaobai, the Soul Soul World is now yours. It's time."

She went to Seireitei 100 years ago, and he went to Seireitei after her death.

If you miss it, you miss it. It's not a question of anything else, but life and death, and these two things are things that can never be changed in this world.

Letting out a breath slowly, Yinshu closed his eyes, turned around and was about to leave.

"and many more……"

Yinshu kept walking forward, stroking the hair that was hanging down on his forehead by the wind behind his ears.

The next second, she stopped in her tracks and opened her eyes slightly.

A figure suddenly appeared in front of her.

The silver-haired boy stood sideways in front of her, then slowly raised his head to look at her, those lake-green eyes made Yinshu feel a little afraid to look at her for a moment.

"It won't have any impact on the people around you. Is that how you judge everything subjectively?"

"Kurosaki Ichigo, Sifengin Yoichi, Urahara Kisuke, Suifeng, your team members from 100 years ago, and the group of people just now... and me, you really don't think it will affect us , or haven't thought about it at all?"

Hitsugaya spoke slowly, his hoarse voice seemed to be trying to suppress something.

Yinshu looked at him in astonishment.

"If you really want to retreat so cleanly," he said in a low voice after a pause, "then why can't you just stop appearing in front of us in the first place."

"I didn't know you became the god of death—" Yin Shu retorted subconsciously.

"Then do you know why I became the God of Death?"

"You said it before," Yinshu said coldly, "Because Vice Captain Hina Mori went to become a god of death like me, so I finally decided to come to Seireitei to see it?"

"Look? What do you think I want to see?" Hitsugaya said angrily, "Go and see how your second relative lives in Seiringting? Go and see why Seilinging is so attractive Is it? Important people disappeared for so long without a trace, even as if they disappeared in this world, why do you think I went to Seireitei?!"

Yinshu stared at him blankly.She had never seen Xiao Bai like this before.

"Hinamori said that she had never heard of Seireitei's deputy captain named Gennai Otoki, and also said that Seireitei did not have the captain Yoichi Sifengin at all... Were you joking with me before? In fact, you still A small team member in the Lingling Court is not the vice-captain at all, he just wanted to make fun of me..."

"Is it because I haven't come back for so long because I'm completely disappointed with the god of death, or is it simply because I'm so busy that I don't have time to come back?"

"If... I go to Seiling Court, work hard to climb up, become a team member, vice captain, or even captain, will it attract you, a person who has been working hard?"

"But... what if, you are already dead?"

"Do you understand how I felt when I stepped into Seireitei?"

"Xiaobai..." Yinshu subconsciously said.

The silver-haired boy stood in front of her, his eyes lowered.

"I've been looking for you for a long time. After graduating from Mao, I entered the Goutei Thirteenth Team, and then became the chief officer, and even the captain, but you never showed up."

"I didn't ask any of the captains about you, because I didn't know that you might know them. If I had asked the leader of the Beijing band before you reappeared here..." If I had already learned What will happen to him if she dies?

Improper death?Impossible, once Zanpakuto is picked up, it can never be put down until death.

Improper captain?Impossible, protecting Sei Lingting has become his responsibility. He is the captain, so he should do what the captain should do.

So what will happen to him?In fact, during that long search process, he had already given up the assumption that she was still alive, but until now he still couldn't imagine what would happen to him if he knew that she was already dead.

"You finally showed up after so long, and you came to tell me you'll be leaving soon...?"

"100 years ago, I was an ordinary gangster, and I couldn't do anything. 100 years later, I will be the captain, but I still can't keep you?"

"I..." Yin Shu was stunned, she didn't expect Xiao Bai to say these words.

When she saw Xiaobai and Chisen in Seilingting Court, although she felt uncomfortable, it is always a good thing for Xiaobai to have new relatives, so that when she died, it would not have any impact on him.She really thought so...

Now it seems... things are beyond her expectation?

Yinshu smiled wryly.Whether it's Xiaobai or her...

"But I can't help it, Xiaobai," Yinshu sighed, "Niri Yuri said that I have crossed the boundary between Shinigami and Hollow, and this kind of existence is not allowed to exist, so the soul will die at any time. It disappears without external force. However, I and Pingzi conducted an experiment to test how far I exerted my power and it would disappear."

"The test results are somewhat inconsistent with the time when I was fighting with Grimmjow." She remembered that when she was fighting with Grimmjow, she only used the Swastika's right hand under the blurred situation, and something happened, " So I think it may be more likely that I will disappear when fighting the real void or face-to-face."

"However, Xiaobai, the enemy of the god of death can only be Xu. As a... I used to be the soul of the god of death, do you want me to hide behind you obediently and not attack when Xu circle attacks?"

Hitsugaya was startled, pursed his lips, frowned and remained silent.

After a while, he whispered: "...I won't let you die..."

Yin Shu was startled and looked at him.

His hands were hanging by his sides, clenched into fists.Yinshu smiled helplessly.

"what……"