Chapter 76

The two people who walked over were carrying a pile of documents and complaining to each other as they went.

"Ah, it's the captain and Vice-Captain!"

The patrolling Bleach heard the sound, looked over, and quickly greeted them.

"You two have worked hard!"

"Oh, it's the patrol team. Thank you for your hard work."

The newcomers were none other than Tōshirō Hitsugaya, the captain of the Tenth Division, and his deputy, Rangiku Matsumoto.

The ones who greeted them were members of the Tenth Division. The Tenth Division is responsible for patrolling and guarding the Seireitei. Generally speaking, the Tenth Division is usually the first to spot the enemy.

"Hmm? Who is this person?"

After greeting his teammates, Tōshirō looked at Li Yue, the only person he didn't recognize.

"He's a new recruit in the Fifth Division. He ran away at night and got lost. We just told him to go back home right away."

"A new recruit from the Fifth Division?"

Tōshirō looked at Li Yue, frowned, and then added all the documents in his hand to the documents in Rangiku Matsumoto's hand.

"Matsumoto, can you hold this for me?"

"Huh? Captain, aren't you taking any?"

"Shut up!"

After giving a Tōshirō stared coldly at Li Yue.

"Although you may feel unlucky, I just brought out all the files of the Fifth Division. The top of this file is the personnel list. The personnel list shows that no new members have joined the Fifth Division in the last five years. If you are a new member of the Fifth Division, five years should be enough time for you to become familiar with the Seireitei."

"What?!"

The patrol team members realized what was happening and looked at Li Yue.

"Captain, you mean this guy!"

"It's Intruders!"

Tōshirō gripped the hilt of the sword behind his back.

"Current intelligence indicates that among the Intruders, there is only one guy named Ichigo Kurosaki who possesses the power of Bleach, but you are clearly not Ichigo Kurosaki. So there is only one possibility for your identity: you were spared and defeated by Ichigamaru at the White Gate, and you are the son of Aizen Sousuke, right?"

"Well!?"

Rangiku Matsumoto gasped in surprise.

"What are you sighing about!?"

Tōshirō looked at the astonished Rangiku Matsumoto with a speechless expression.

"No, I mean, I never expected him to be that unlucky kid."

"Yeah, he's just an unlucky kid," Tōshirō and Rangiku Matsumoto looked at Li Yue, their expressions and feelings both complicated.

Because they heard Aizen recount those events firsthand, the two of them knew that Li Yue was a product of Aizen's attempt to revive his beloved woman. He was essentially a discarded, failed experiment. However, this son seemed to know nothing about this and even thought that Aizen was his biological father, which is why he came to their door.

I wonder if this son knows that he was Aizen's test subject. If he does, his feelings must be very complicated.

"I didn't expect that I would still be discovered after hiding for several days. The captain of Seireitei is indeed amazing."

Now that he had been discovered, there was no need to pretend anymore. Li Yue lowered his body slightly, gripped the hilt of the sword at his waist, and prepared to fight Tōshirō.

"I advise you not to make a futile struggle. You can't even beat Gin Ichimaru, so you can't possibly be my match."

Tōshirō arrogantly elevates himself by belittling Gin Ichimaru.

"I'm sorry, I can't stop here. I need to find my father and find out why he left in the first place."

Li Yue, however, insisted on going her own way.

"I see."

In Tōshirō's opinion, Li Yue was still unaware of the truth and was still thinking of going to the Fifth Division to find Aizen, which made him a really unlucky kid.

"Regardless, as the captain, I have discovered you and I must stop you."

Tōshirō slowly pulled his Zanpakuto from his back a little bit, and the surrounding air suddenly began to turn cold.

"Oh no! The captain is about to unleash the Battle Soul Blade!"

The patrolling Bleach immediately sensed something was wrong and began to retreat. Rangiku Matsumoto also disappeared from the spot, clutching the documents.

"Given your status, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tōshirō Hitsugaya, and I am the captain of the Tenth Division of the Gotei 13."

"A captain like his father?"

Li Yue's expression turned serious.

"Don't worry, I'll end this battle in an instant!"

"My Hyōrinmaru is the strongest ice-type Zanpakuto in Soul Society. Even Captain level power is destined to be frozen before my Hyōrinmaru!"

Tōshirō instantly jumped up from his spot, his Reiatsu rapidly expanding.

"Sit upright in the heavenly frost, Hyōrinmaru!"

As Tōshirō chanted, the sky instantly filled with dark clouds. After he swung his sword, a crimson dragon made of water and ice appeared around him, encircling him and staring coldly at Li Yue from above.

"This is!"

Li Yue's eyes widened.

As Tōshirō swung his sword, the Crimson Dragon surrounding him charged directly at Li Yue, its target being Li Yue's feet.

Li Yue quickly jumped up to dodge, but the Crimson Dragon exploded instantly upon impact with the ground, splashing water onto Li Yue's feet and immediately freezing them.

"How could it be so fast!"

Li Yue tried to struggle, but before he could do anything, a knife was already at his neck.

"Don't move!"

Tōshirō appeared beside Li Yue, his Hyōrinmaru pointed directly at Li Yue's throat.

Seeing Li Yue reluctantly lay down his weapon, Tōshirō felt a complex mix of emotions.

Not only did they stumble upon Aizen's feigned death, but now they've personally arrested this unfortunate kid who considers Aizen his father. This is truly...

Sigh...

With a helpless sigh, Tōshirō instructed Rangiku Matsumoto to control Li Yue.

The invincible genius Captain Hitsugaya successfully arrested an Intruders.

129. Kenpachi Zaraki

Inside the Ninth Division's the Jail, all the arrested Intruders are gathered here. Although some were injured during the arrest, they are still sent here after receiving medical treatment, since the Ninth Division is the division responsible for managing the prison.

"I said, why aren't you hurt at all?"

After Li Yue was locked up, Ganju Shiba looked at the unharmed Li Yue and couldn't help but wonder.

Those who followed Ichigo Kurosaki into Soul Society have mostly been captured. Now, only Ichigo Kurosaki and Black Cat Yoruichi are still trying to break through the barriers outside.

Those who were captured were mostly in a state of serious injury. For example, Chad was seriously injured by Shunsui Kyoraku's sword and then fell unconscious. Ganju Shiba was instantly killed by Byakuya Kuchiki Senbonzakura Release. He was covered in wounds and was now wrapped in bandages like a rice dumpling, with only his eyes and mouth showing. Uryu Ishida and Chad were in better condition, at least their wounds were under their clothes.

Li Yue, on the other hand, was thrown in without even a scratch, let alone a wound, and without even changing her clothes.

"You're making this way way too easy. Did you just surrender?"

"Surrender? You could say that."

Li Yue pinched her chin, thought for a moment, and then nodded.

As a confused child searching for his father, he lurked in the Seireitei for several days, always being careful, until he finally met Tōshirō Hitsugaya by chance. When he was disguised as a member of the Fifth Division, he accidentally gave himself away and was discovered by the perceptive Captain Hitsugaya.

After all, it's a huge mistake for a member of the Fifth Division to not even know which direction the Fifth Division is in, especially since the Fifth Division hasn't recruited any new members in recent years.

The powerful Captain Hitsugaya unleashed his invincible ice-type strongest Zanpakuto, Hyōrinmaru, easily freezing Li Yue's legs before grabbing him. With a sword already at his neck, what else could he do but surrender?

Look, even the tree branches I casually break off are now being used as Zanpakuto by them.

"Hey, we all fought hard before we were captured, how can you just surrender like that!"

Ganju Shiba expressed his dissatisfaction, asking why everyone else had to get beaten up while he could have it so easy.

"It's probably related to his purpose."

Uryu Ishida pushed up his glasses and couldn't help but explain from the side.

"Although Li Yue entered the Seireitei with us, his goal was to find his father, while our goal was to rescue Rukia from the hands of the Bleach. There is a fundamental difference between us. If it weren't for the fact that the gate wouldn't let him in, there would be no need for him to fight the Bleach at all. Besides, Li Yue's father is the captain, so the Bleach in the Seireitei would give him some face, wouldn't they?"

"Cut!"

Ganju Shiba scoffed in annoyance. He hated the Bleach, so when he heard Uryu Ishida emphasize that Li Yue was the Bleach's son, he was very unhappy and plopped back down on his hospital bed.

"Speaking of which, why were we all arrested?"

Seeing the atmosphere become tense, Uryu Ishida couldn't help but speak again.

"Logically speaking, apart from Li Yue, we should have been killed directly, right? After all, Li Yue's father is the captain, so he couldn't have been killed. But we are a group of intruders who have nothing to do with them. Bleach is not a group of easy-going guys."

"Well, I heard from the guards outside that one of their captains died before, so they suspect it was us. That's why they've kept us here so they can investigate later."

"A captain has died?"

Uryu Ishida looked at Chad in surprise. He had entered not much faster than Li Yue and had been hiding his identity, so he was unaware of the situation.

"If that's the case, then it makes sense, but it's impossible for any of us to have killed the captain. Could it have been Kurosaki?"

"I don't know, but a captain was killed."

Chad shook his head.

"But I later heard that the captain seemed to have been resurrected. His original death was a fake death. The captain planned to fake his death to escape, and his purpose seemed to be to obtain some kind of power to resurrect his beloved woman."

"Hey, what kind of weird setting is this? Is he some kind of tragic male protagonist from some melodramatic comic?"

Uryu Ishida couldn't help but complain.

"I'm not entirely sure either, but in any case, we've been cleared of suspicion for killing the captain. At least for now, we can be sure that the captain didn't die because of us."

Chad, helplessly bound by the shackles, spread his hands and explained.

"Wait, doesn't that mean we're going to die soon?"

Ganju Shiba couldn't help but shout.

"Shouldn't we have known this from the beginning?"

Uryu Ishida adjusted his glasses, remaining remarkably calm.

From the moment he entered Soul Society, he was prepared to die. After all, it was simply wishful thinking for a few people to fight against the entire Seireitei. Moreover, even if he didn't die, he had already lost his Quincy powers, and he could be said to be the only ordinary person present.

"Damn it, so in that case, only this guy won't die?"

Ganju Shiba jumped up, pointed at Li Yue, and shouted.

"You could say that."

"Yes, that's right."

Ishida and Chad both nodded in agreement, leaving Ganju Shiba speechless. He had been hoping that these two would help him criticize Li Yue, but they were surprisingly calm.

Li Yue watched the others' behavior without saying a word from beginning to end.

Even if they are cleared of suspicion, they will not die, because a brute will come and rescue them all. In order to fight Ichigo Kurosaki again, Kenpachi Zaraki is completely indifferent to everything else.

What Li Yue had to do was, in these final moments, accompany the Group Leader to the execution site.

Then, on the execution ground, they would put on their final performance.

Kenpachi Zaraki didn't keep Li Yue waiting for long. Early the next morning, the cell door—no, the wall—was kicked open.

"What's wrong? What happened?!"

Ganju Shiba screamed as he saw the wall suddenly break open.

"Hey, it's you guys, Ichigo's companions."

A towering figure, over 2 meters tall, appeared amidst the smoke and dust. Kenpachi Zaraki emerged.

"Come out, come with me!"

"This is..."