Jun, far away in Soul Society, quickly received the message from the World of the Living. Seeing that the Undead had already begun to move, Jun was very pleased. Moreover, this time, the Undead didn't need Jun to say anything; they actively sought out their Fullbringers, without requiring Jun to give orders.
As for the test conducted by Isshin Kurosaki and Shin, Jun felt that the results were quite good, especially the unexpected positive results obtained regarding the Quincy's power.
As for Endless's insults towards the Kurosaki couple, I think they were justified. Those two genuinely thought they could rest easy, believing that retiring would make others leave them alone.
What happened? He really died. When did he die? Ichigo Kurosaki was nine years old. That was the year he gave birth to Shirley and Yuzu, his twin daughters. He died shortly after giving birth, attacked by a Hollow.
So, you're a woman from Quincy background, don't you know your place? A Soul Reaper and a Quincy, can't you see the high level of Spiritual Power in your own son?! You're acting like two idiots! If you want your child to stay away from these things, shouldn't parents have the power to protect their children?
So what did the couple do? We can't blame Isshin, because he lacked power as long as Isshin was pregnant. But what about Mi? As a mother, instead of diligently training her Quincy techniques, wasn't she just waiting to be devoured by the Ichigo?
That's harsh to say, but that's the reality. Mi died precisely because Ichigo could see Hollows, saw the Hollow that was feigning innocence and playing the victim to lure others, while Mi couldn't tell it was a Hollow. So, who else but her was going to die?!
Let's not even talk about Yhwach's Auswählen. The fact that Miyabi didn't die actually says a lot. Look at Ishida Kanae next door, and look at the other Mixed-Blood Quincy —they're all dead, aren't they? Miyabi's survival itself shows that Auswählen wasn't very effective.
Even if it did work, if you two run out of strength, just ask for help! Urahara isn't far from your house, what's wrong with asking for some protective measures? This couple has no concept of the afterlife; they don't think their family has anything to do with it. They think they're just an ordinary family, happy and carefree.
One of them died, and Mei died too. Not long after, Isshin regained his Soul Reaper powers. At this point, Isshin suddenly remembered he needed to protect his family. What were you doing all this time?!
So, Mei's death was entirely her own fault. That couple deserved to die. If they hadn't died, their child would have. They just don't understand the concept of life and death! They don't realize they're not an ordinary family!
Compare this to your Ishida, Ryūken Ishida. Even though Ishida Ryūgen disliked Uryū, he still responsibly taught him about Uryū. Why? Because if he didn't teach the child, something Quincy would happen! No matter how much Ryūken Ishida disliked this child, he wouldn't watch him die because he didn't know how to cope, right?! That's a parent's responsibility! That's what a Spiritual Power family should be like.
If you don't tell your child and aren't capable of protecting them, isn't that murder?! Yes, it's either the child or yourself; it's only a matter of time.
Meanwhile, Endless and his group waited at the station for a while until Kariya Jin and Tianci caught up. Tianci still had some problems with his left arm and wasn't moving very smoothly, indicating that the damage from Ryūken Ishida's attack wouldn't be easy to recover from.
The group went directly to Nara City. During their journey, Endless saw a cell phone and quickly arranged for everyone to have one. He then instructed Kariya Jin to urgently contact the Undead to ensure that everyone active in the World of the Living realm had a cell phone as soon as possible, and to prohibit bringing such modern communication devices back to the Undead's Secret Base.
After resting for a night, I arrived at Kūgo Ginjō's school the next morning. The reason I didn't go to Kūgo Ginjō's house was that he often didn't come home at night, and his parents didn't care about him.
Kūgo Ginjō spends less time at home than at school each week. He only goes home when he's out of money or his clothes are filthy. Even then, he fights with his dad, and sometimes he even manages to steal money from him.
However, Kūgo Ginjō wasn't a spendthrift. Although he was violent, he wasn't a gangster. He spent all his money on food and drink, sometimes sleeping in parks, and in winter, he would even live like a homeless person, setting up a makeshift shelter under a bridge with some planks.
"Tianci, give yourself a buff, then go ask someone about Kūgo Ginjō."
"Oh~", Tianci finished her set of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) moves and headed towards the school gate. Before she could even find someone to ask, she overheard someone talking about Kūgo Ginjō. She quickly perked up her ears to listen and then turned back.
"I heard someone say they saw Kūgo Ginjō going crazy in a small park in Sanjō Soigawa-chō last night."
"Going mad?" Endless pulled out a map of Nara City. The group left the school and headed towards Sanjō Soigawa-chō. However, there were three small parks in the town. "Split into three groups and head to the three parks. The so-called 'going mad' probably refers to the appearance of defeating the Hollow, but that's not necessarily true. Let's see. Contact each other by phone."
So, Endless and Yoshino Sōma one group, Key of Time with Spirit Breaker, and Tianci and Kariya Jin formed another. The three groups went to three different small parks. Endless's group arrived first but didn't find anything. Key of Time and Spirit Breaker received a call from Tianci before they even reached their spots.
"Found it!! It's right here, there's a very obvious residual Spiritual Power."
"I'm still on my way to the destination, please wait a moment," Key of Time reported.
"Okay, then you can continue," Endless, leading Yoshino directly to Tianci's location. A short while later, Key of Time and Spirit Breaker arrived; it was indeed the location Tianci had found.
"Now, spread out and search for Kūgo Ginjō, which side Tianci you choose?"
"Hmm, over there," Tianci was referring to the southwest direction.
"Everyone proceed in this direction; when you encounter a fork in the road, one person should scatter."
Following Endless's instructions, the group proceeded to the first fork in the road, where they branched off to the Key of Time. At the next fork, Endless left the group; at the third fork, Spirit Breaker left; at the fourth fork, Kariya Jin left; and then, before the fifth fork, Tianci and Yoshino Sōma found Kūgo Ginjō.
It was only then that Yoshino Sōma realized how Kongbu the Tianci luck was, but Endless's use of this luck was a bit too fantastical.
So the group regrouped. During the regrouping process, Tianci and Yoshino followed Ginjo. After a while, it became clear that Ginjo had discovered them. They quickly called for the group to change their strategy and surround Yincheng. Soon, the six of them blocked Ginjo's path.
Ginjo glanced around, clutching the Substitute Soul Reaper's badge in his hand, and clicked his tongue. "Which gangster is this? Why is someone bringing a big sister along? I don't hit women."
"Enough talk, this isn't the place to chat. Come with us."
Seeing Wujin's Endless manner, and then looking at Kariya Jin, Ginjo realized that although he Key of Time the remaining three women and the sickly man for a woman, the blonde and white-haired ones seemed particularly formidable. He'd met his match this time.
"Let's go then~"
The group arrived at the nearest abandoned house site. Kūgo Ginjō, however, wouldn't have it and refused to go any further, shouting, "Hey, hey~, aren't you guys going a bit too far? What's the meaning of this? I'm already here, don't be so ruthless!"
"It's nothing special, I just wanted to see what Substitute Soul Reaper really is."
"Who are you people!?" Kūgo Ginjō clutched his Substitute Soul Reaper Badge tightly, looking warily at the six Endless people.
"You've misunderstood," Endless Jin laughed dismissively. "Your brand name is meaningless to us. We're just here to see what kind of person you really are, understand?"
"What kind of person am I?" Ginjo's eyes flickered. Actually, he didn't quite understand what this meant. He was still a middle school student, only in his third year of junior high.
His Substitute Soul Reaper career ended in less than a year in the original work, seemingly because he killed a resident Soul Reaper, after which the Soul Society began hunting him down. Later, he discovered that his Substitute Soul Reaper Badge Substitute Badge the reason the Soul Reaper were tracking him, so he threw it away and ran off to an unknown city to fend for himself, where he found Shūkurō Tsukishima was also a homeless child.
Kūgo Ginjō is a typical good-for-nothing. He believes in and uses violence; he's a complete scoundrel. He's young and seemingly doing well in the underworld, but in reality, he's nobody.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that he doesn't live in the world of the living. From the moment he was wanted by the Soul Society, he believed that the Soul Society had betrayed him. They hired him as Substitute Soul Reaper, but he also had to be watched by other Soul Reaper, with no freedom and no access to many things.
Such people are incapable of learning gratitude, due to family, upbringing, education, and many other factors. They also don't understand the meaning of receiving help from others, nor do they understand that everything they gain is theirs, regardless of how they acquire it, and that what is theirs is theirs, and what belongs to others will eventually become theirs.
However, he's still young and can be trained, but this time it's Endless, which isn't something Endless likes to do. "I think he's hopeless, just kill him."
"Hey hey~" x2
One of them, Ginjo, shouted that. What does that mean? Is he going to kill someone?
The other is the Key of Time, "Endless, you're finding this troublesome again."
"Ha~ What's the point of saving such a scoundrel? His power is just so-so, nothing special and useless, just a piece of trash. He only became the first Substitute Soul Reaper because of the changing times. From head to toe, he tells the story of a scumbag."
"You fucking!"
Ginjo had barely uttered a curse when he was immediately slammed to the ground by an immense Reiatsu. The Endless output of Reiatsu was truly at the captain's level, a genuine release technique, and a pure one at that, retaining its pure power level. Even Ginjo after obtaining Ichigo's Ichigo technique wouldn't be able to withstand it, let alone the current Ginjo.
"Watch your mouth, or you might not just die. We'll chop your limbs up in front of you, shove your penis into your mouth and make you chew it, gouge out your eyes, ears, nose, and tongue, but we won't let you die. How about that?"
Lying on the ground, Ginjo cried out with difficulty, "Come on! Are you scared?!"
Ginjo had just shouted "Come on!" when his left hand was pulled in front of his eyes and then sliced off by a golden light. Several more golden lights followed, shredding it to pieces. Ginjo was completely dumbfounded. Then, his arm began to be sliced into pieces, one by one.
The pain was unbearable, but on the other hand, he never imagined that such a person actually existed. Shouldn't such a threat at least be a verbal threat?
"Stop!"
"Huh?" Endless continued his slicing work. "Do you even know what an apology is?"
"I'm sorry!! I was wrong!! I'm so sorry!!"
Endless stopped. Kūgo Ginjō was in so much pain he was almost fainting, but a surge of Spiritual Power filled his mind, keeping him incredibly clear-headed. At the same time, he heard Endless's voice, "Pick up your fragments and protect them; we can still heal you."
Because Ginjo remained conscious, despite being in excruciating pain, he managed to get up and use his only remaining right hand to painstakingly pick up the pieces and scraps of meat from the ground.
Just as he was picking up the minced meat, Endless squatted down and said to him, "You think you're so great? You think you're so arrogant? You think you're the only one with power? You think you can curse whoever you want? You think you're free to do anything, well, I'll let you know that I'm free to do anything with you too. Remember that! After you've picked it all up, come with us."