Playing With Other Supernaturals

Chapter 1263 The “Hyousube Ichibei” part 2

The moment Kisuke came to this wide cavern and was face to face with Ichibei, he already had a lot of things in his mind. Most notably, Soul King's last words.

He was certain that the Soul King was referring to Ichibei when he said something about 'the being that shouldn't have been born', but Kisuke wasn't so certain as to why the Soul King was making the effort of 'destroying' his work.

With the Soul King's power, there should be no way to have anyone compel him to create the three worlds and start the cycle of life and death by sacrificing himself. In other words, it was the Soul King's idea to create the world as it is. However, why does Ichibei want to protect it? And after all these years, why did the Soul King want to disrupt the balance that he created in the first place?

Of course, from the very start, Kisuke was just speculating all of this because he's not really sure if that's what the Soul King was trying to achieve.

In an attempt to search for clues about it, Kisuke spent most of his time gathering data on Ichigo, Aizen, and Yhwach secretly. It's also one of the reasons why he chose to free the latter two and allow Yhwach to restore his power for a bit. But even if he put so much effort into this, to the point that Kisuke had no choice but to leave the rest of 'migration' in Mayuri's hand, he had almost nothing.

It was then that he finally decided to look at another perspective. The perspective of the 'being that shouldn't have been born'. And to get into that, his first target of investigation was Kazui, the child who accepted Hell.

After that, it didn't take long for Kisuke to piece together the clues that he had gathered when he figured out that Kazui's mission was not to provide safe travel to Hell for the lost souls, but an experiment to increase the Hell's population and further breakdown the boundaries between it and the three worlds.

'If Soul King was the soul of this dead body, then Ichibei is some sort of Spirit that was born from its lingering powers... No... He's probably just a simple maggot or fly that gained sentience after eating and collecting this dead body's flesh. Now it thinks that he's the real thing and trying to 'revive' himself.'

Kisuke intentionally talked in a cryptic way because he wanted the final confirmation from the man himself. Since Ichibei had no more reason to hide anything, he managed to give Kisuke a bit of a straight answer.

Because Kisuke was loudly narrating his thoughts inside his head, Tiamat and Benihime could also clearly hear him, [You mean to say that he's just one of these insects?] Benihime asked, [I thought that you were just joking.]

[Then let's say that he's one of these insects. What's the point of pretending to be the Shinigami and how does this affect our situation?] Tiamat asked this time.

'Before I answer that, this is the overview of what I think happened. Once upon a time, an unimaginably gigantic creature swam through the endless dimensions for a countless length of time. It witnessed countless worlds and probably destroyed some of them intentionally or accidentally. But at some point, something happened to it and soon met its end.'

'Its soul left its decaying body and noticed that there were numerous creatures that were living on its body and most of them were already like it, a wandering soul with no purpose. Whether it's from the worlds it destroyed or somewhere else, it didn't know where they came from.'Fiind updated novels at wuxiahere.com

[Then the reason why you can't use your Shinigami and Hollow abilities is...]

'Because these abilities spawned from the Soul King's power and with its understanding of it, it's a trivial matter for it to seal them. It'd probably be the same if I had Quincy powers.'

Benihime and Tiamat finally understood why Kisuke said that Ichibei was trying to 'complete' himself. Since the three worlds are made out of the Soul King himself, he's now trying to devour everything.

[If you knew that, then why did you dive into this place!?]

At that moment, Kisuke smirked, 'It's because I knew exactly that, that I came to this place. This guy is setting up the same situation as Chaos did. You know what happens to people that just eat the food I prepared, right?'

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AN Aug 30, 2024: I apologize for being so late and sadly, I could only manage 4 chapters.

My sudden 'break' derailed a lot of things for me and that includes my momentum for this arc.

While I do have notes of what I want to happen, some of them look cryptic even though I'm the one who wrote them. I have a certain development in mind and just wrote down 'hints' for it for me to go back to in case I forget how it'll go.

But too much time has passed that those 'hints' can't get me back to what I was thinking a week prior. Thanks to that, it was hard to get back into it.

Oh well, enough of those excuses. Please enjoy and have a great day~!

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