Alchemist in Death

Chapter 289: You don’t want to pick me up, do you?

After returning to the Seireitei, Ichiro and Byakuya separated. Byakuya was going back to the Kuchiki family to report the good news of finding Rukia to Haizhen. At the same time, he was going to explain what happened this time to the elders of the Kuchiki family and give them a Account.

Ichiro, on the other hand, has to rush back to see what happened to the missing Shinigami, and to see if it was Aizen who did it, or if there were other forces secretly involved.

When Ichiro returned to the fifth division, the sky had darkened, and before he knew it, he and Byakuya had been operating outside for most of the day.

When he came back, he happened to see his best friend walking out holding a document, and Ichiro quickly stepped forward.

"**,are you free tonight?"

The best friend was taken aback for a moment, then she was slightly happy, and forced to calm down her excited heart, nodded: "I'm free!"

"Okay, then work overtime with me."

"Huh! Huh? Working overtime?" The best friend in the role suddenly reacted and looked at Ichiro's leaving figure in confusion. Was she too worried?Or is that just how you ask people to work overtime?

No one told my best friend, who was a sidekick. She sighed and walked inside holding the file.

To put it another way, even if they work overtime, it will be just him and her at night, which can be regarded as a date in disguise!
"You go to the fourth team now, and help me adjust the latest physical examination data of this god of death."

"." The best friend in the role was slightly speechless as she looked at the document handed over by Ichiro, wondering what she was expecting.
The best friend who was the best friend sighed deeply, took the document and read it carefully.

Ichiro on the side looked at his best friend in a puzzled manner, not understanding why she sighed.

But at this time, he had more important things to do, so he didn't think deeply. Instead, he lowered his head and looked at the life of the Death God he had applied for from the Second Division on the way, and looked at it carefully.

Here, after opening the file, the best friend who was the best friend frowned: "Is this the missing God of Death?"

"You know? That's right. I need to verify it with you first. Well, you go get a copy of his recent physical examination information."

"Physical examination? Do you suspect that he was caught for experimentation?"

"It's possible. Also, let's check who reported the disappearance."

The best friend in the role raised her eyebrows slightly. When Ichiro said this, she also realized. How long had she been missing? Why was she directly deemed missing?And it even reached Room 46 in the Central Committee.

Under normal circumstances, even if the Thirteenth Division's daily inspection found that the Death God was not at the corresponding post, the news would usually be kept for three days. After all, the God of Death was not surprised to encounter anything. Due to some emergencies, delays A day or two is normal.

Although this is likely to lead to problems such as untimely rescue and delayed news, there is no way. The Thirteenth Squadron does not have enough manpower, so we can only compromise like this. Moreover, there is a clear rule that once the Thirteenth Squadron is stationed in the real world, the Shinigami will encounter something. In the event of an emergency, you need to contact Soul Society as soon as possible. They will arrange support personnel based on the reported information, which is Ichiro's fifth division.

If you don't follow the rules, you will die. If you follow the rules, the calculation will not be based on three days. However, they have not received any news.

Logically speaking, it should not be considered missing now. The God of Death does not have a bug like the soul lamp in fantasy novels to confirm life and death.

So this whole thing seems very abrupt, including the previous things.
The face of the best friend in the role was a little solemn, and some of the charming thoughts that were still left in her heart disappeared. She always distinguished the importance, closed the file, nodded to Ichiro, and quickly turned around and walked towards the Fourth Squadron.

As for Ichiro, after summoning the people from Division [-] to prepare the documents, he continued to look at the life of this god of death. This god of death was not ordinary either.

Koichi Manaya's strength is average, and his spiritual pressure is not even comparable to that of the last seat officer of the Thirteenth Division. He is only above average among the ordinary team members, but he is very capable!

He is one of the very few Shinigami from the original Thirteenth Team who has survived to this day. The number of such Shinigami is very small.

After all, although the life span of the God of Death is long, there is still a limit after all, and the stronger the person, the longer the life span. People with average strength like him generally won't live too long even if they don't die in battle.

But he didn't. He survived many large and small battles since the establishment of Team Thirteen.

There is no pretense in terms of strength. It is indeed just an average level. There is a special note in the document. The captain has personally tested him. The result is really average.

He is just very capable and has a little bit of luck.

Ichiro browsed through his thick stack of biographies as quickly as possible, frowned, and fell on his chair.

Nothing.

After reading the entire article, only two words came to Ichiro's mind - outrageous!
What a thief!
It's scary to be lucky. For example, in a battle against Daxu Kili'an, a false flash passed by him, and the teammates behind him were turned into ashes, but he was just blown away by the air wave .

Do you think this is over?

Do not!
Even more outrageous is yet to come!

There were several other Shinigami who were thrown away together. One of them was killed by the shock wave, and another hit his head on the gravel while rolling and died. Most of the others suffered injuries, but he was the only one who was unscathed!
They were also blown up, others were either killed or injured, but this guy was just covered in dust!

There were countless such outrageous things in his life!
He finally got injured. A second ago, there were teammates who couldn't get the medicine supply. As soon as he came, the medicine was just transported.

Life is like cheating!
Overall, apart from being ridiculously lucky, there seems to be nothing special, except for this.
Ichiro tapped his index finger on the document. It was recorded here that because he lived for too long, all his relatives and friends around him were almost dead. He had experienced life and death again and again, so he no longer wanted to experience it again.

So he took the initiative to apply to stay in the present world for a long time. It has been more than 400 years ago!

For 400 years, he has been stationed in the present world for almost most of the time. This is very suspicious.

In other words, what Ichiro suspected was not that this matter was suspicious, but that this person was suspicious!
What is the concept of 400 years?
Most of the dynasties in China do not have a 400-year-old dynasty. The only ones with more than 400 years are Xia, Shang, Zhou and Han. It is difficult to guarantee his loyalty to Soul Society after being outside for such a long time.

After all, he has almost nothing to do with Soul Society!

Therefore, Ichiro is very suspicious that this Death God is probably one of Aizen's vests. It may not be the earliest one, but after he goes to the present world, it may be one!
Because the commander-in-chief tested him before he was stationed in the world for a long time.

But this is just a guess, an unfounded guess. If it is a vest, what is the meaning?What is the purpose of taking it back at this time?
A god of death with his strength is just a little lucky, so what's worth replacing him?
There are too many doubts in this.

Also, the biggest doubt is the reaction speed of Jinglingting!

From discovery to punishment, this series of information transmission was like a cheat. It was quickly transmitted to the Central Room 46, and Ichiro was quickly convicted!

This scene reminded Ichiro of the verdict against Rukia in Central Room 46 in the original work, which was also so quick.

But the situation in the original work is that Aizen killed everyone in Central Room 46, using Kyoka Suigetsu's orders.

Ichiro doesn't think that Aizen now dares to take action against Central Room 46.

"Crack~"

After thinking for a long time, but still having no clue, Ichiro threw the document on the table.

"What's wrong?" Seeing this, the best friend who came back from the sidekick frowned slightly and asked with concern.

"It's nothing, I'm just a little annoyed that I can't find any clues, did you get the medical report back?" Ichiro said as he wiped his hair. "Here." The good friend handed the medical examination report to Ichiro, and then introduced, "According to the records of the fourth team, he will come back to participate in almost every physical examination, so his medical examination reports are all recent. "

"Well, I just forgot to mention it. Do you have his physical examination report from 400 years ago?" Ichiro asked casually while flipping through it.

"400 years ago? Well, this one doesn't exist. It's been too long. There may be ones from a few years ago."

"Really? Then you can make another trip tomorrow and collect all of them. Forget it, I'll pick it up myself tomorrow."

"Ichiro, do you suspect that he was dropped?"

"Well, after all, there is no Death God who is familiar with him in the Quiet Spirit Court, right?"

"That's true. If it was really switched, it really can't be found out without checking the physical examination data. But, what's the point?" The best friend who was a sidekick thought for a while and asked the most untenable part of this conjecture.

Ichiro spread his hands and said that he didn't know either.

Not long after, Ichiro threw Maya Koichi's physical examination report on the table, but still found nothing. His physique was nothing special. Even if the factor of spiritual pressure was excluded, he was not suitable for incorporation.

Moreover, because of his old age, the spiritual pressure medicine will not be able to work on him, which will intensify his death, unless he can use Dutian to reshape his life form.

However, even Ichiro would have to prepare for a long time to perform Duotian on a Shinigami who was very old and weak in Reiatsu, not because he looked down on Aizen.

But Ichiro doesn't think that in the current Soul Society, besides him, there are other people who can use Seitian like this!
There are only a few who can use Duitian.

The simple part of the return path is just the basic part. Compared with the bound path and the broken path, the further back the return path is, the higher the difficulty level.

But like this, the clue was broken again.

Leaning on the chair, Ichiro saw the hesitant expression of his best friend, sighed, and said, "Do you have any ideas? Just tell me, it's all guessing now. Maybe you will guess right."

The best friend in the role hesitated for a moment and said, "Then I'll tell you Ichiro."

Ichiro nodded.

"You said, is it possible that the entire incident this time was just to set this punishment for you?"

"A 50-year prison term? But this is useless. If I want to go out, who will find out? Even if I find out, who can stop me?"

"But, Ichiro, can you do it?"

"I'm kidding, of course." Ichiro narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, "Of course I won't."

"Yes, Ichiro, your personality is, in your words, more of a Buddhist type, so facing this punishment, you will probably do nothing, or even argue with the superiors when your support is needed. And this is probably what the other party needs."

"So, what you are saying is that this whole incident, including the appearance of the Great Hollow in this world, was just to lure me out, and then you expected that I would definitely go to Urahara instead of returning to Soul Society immediately, so I took advantage of this gap to attack He killed Koichi Shinya, and then worked hard to make the punishment come very quickly, confine me to Soul Society, and buy myself time and space?"

"Well, I don't have that much detail in mind, but that's pretty much what it means. I feel like this is the most likely thing."

"Just for this? To be honest, I don't really believe it. I don't even believe in my own character. If you think about it a little bit more, what if the other party is doing this to induce you to think so, and then cover up your true self?" What’s the purpose?”

"Well, I didn't think about it that much, but if that's the case, wouldn't it be possible to keep it going? What if the other party just wants you to think that he induced you to think this way?"

"." Ichiro looked at his best friend who was playing a supporting role speechlessly, "Aren't you talking about this in a roundabout way?"

"But if you really think like you do, you can keep trying."

"So the most important task now is intelligence!"

"intelligence?"

"Yes, intelligence, the so-called link-by-link tactics, its essence is the gap in the amount of information. If I have more information, I can trap you to death, layer after layer. In turn, I You may be tricked layer by layer, so the most urgent task for the party now is to find enough information."

"Isn't this difficult?"

"Yes, so tomorrow you will connect with the Eighth Division and the Thirteenth Division, and set up an investigation team together to find more information."

"clear."

"Okay, you go back first and I'll think about it alone."

"Um, don't you need my help?"

"No, go back and rest quickly. There will be training for the captain tomorrow morning."

"Okay, then you should go to bed earlier."

"Yeah, that's right." Nodding his head, Ichiro stopped his best friend when she turned around and was about to leave, "Wait, this is for you."

With that said, Ichiro handed his best friend a bottle of pills.

"What is this?" Looking at the shiny pills inside, my best friend asked curiously.

"The new type of spiritual pressure medicine is much more effective than the one you are taking now. Now yours should be ineffective, right?"

"Well, it still has some effect, but it's very slight, so I'll wait!" Just as my best friend was about to accept it, her expression suddenly changed, and she took the spiritual pressure and asked Ichiro in surprise, "You mean, this is good for me?" Has it had a big effect? ​​On me now?"

You know, her current spiritual pressure level is not low, it has caught up with the average spiritual pressure level except for the deputy captain of the first team!

At this level, can you still improve by taking drugs?
"Otherwise, what would I do for you?" Ichiro asked with a smile.

"That won't work! I can't have it! It's too expensive!" The best friend in the role firmly put the pills on the table. In this regard, she is still a bit ethical. She can accept ordinary gifts, but this one is really too expensive. .

"It's useless if you don't give it to me. This is customized for your situation. It only works for you. It won't be of any use if I take it back. If you don't believe me, you can go to Suzuran to check. She understands this." Ichiro is quite rogue. He said, "Besides, your strength is also good for me. Accept it and become stronger so that I can save face. Otherwise, be careful and I will fire you!"

"." The best friend in the role looked at Ichiro helplessly. After a while, he sighed and took back the pills on the table, "Okay, but I can't take them for nothing. I'll treat you to dinner then. Well, I'll treat you to a few more." pause!"

"Eating again, you don't want to pick me up, do you?" Ichiro leaned back slightly and said with a bit of a joke.

"Tch~" The best friend in the role sneered, took out a mirror with her backhand and handed it to Ichiro. After smiling, she turned around and walked out, leaving a somewhat confused Ichiro behind.

"Am I being looked down upon for my appearance?"

(End of this chapter)