Dangai Encountered Danger, System Activated!

"But Captain, compared to Reikawa Seki, I'm the real newbie here, and I don't have any experience fighting Menos Grande either..."

Don't think going to the Human World is a cushy job—free food and drink, sightseeing on the public dime. In reality, Soul Society requires a mountain of paperwork to head to the Human World, and after returning, there are all kinds of reports to file. Aside from greenhorns who don't know any better, there really aren't many Shinigami willing to go to the Human World.

"Well, you said it yourself earlier—Reikawa Seki is at least a woman, and Kaien strongly recommended you, saying your strength is more than enough."

The sudden assignment of this task to Yoru Machi wasn't because Reikawa Seki was a young lady, so Ukitake gave her special treatment, nor was it due to Kaien's particular endorsement of Yoru.

Rather, in their earlier conversation, Ukitake noticed Yoru was way too laid-back. Here was a promising young member of the squad, yet he seemed ready to coast into retirement—how could that be allowed?

Stepping out of Uchidan Hall, Yoru Machi wore an expression of utter annoyance. He'd originally planned to drink with Rangiku tonight.

The big-chested girl was roughly his same year. One of them joined the Thirteenth Division, the other the Tenth. Lately, with the Tenth Division missing a captain, a mountain of duties had fallen on her alone, and she often drowned her workplace frustrations in alcohol at night.

Rangiku had only a few close friends she could talk to in Soul Society, and Yoru barely counted as one of her rowdy buddies.

Rangiku had terrible drinking manners and often pretended to be drunk to skip paying the bill. She'd claim to treat ten times, but at least nine out of ten, Yoru ended up footing the bill. Still, Yoru was more than happy to drink with Rangiku.

No other reason—her chest was generous, and even the loose Shinigami uniform couldn't hide its grandeur. Rangiku drank with such boldness that she'd occasionally treat Yoru to some pleasant little surprises.

After finishing all the tedious procedures, Yoru finally prepared to head to the Human World.

For the Thirteenth Division, known as the "Purification Squad," going to the Human World wasn't anything rare. In fact, the Shinigami stationed in every city were all members of their division.

A Shinigami's body is composed of Spirit Particles, and the Human World also has some Spirit Particles, so for a Shinigami to go to the Human World, a guiding Soul Butterfly and a Senkaimon were usually enough.

The Senkaimon in Soul Society was a tall, mountain-gate-style structure with two towering square wooden pillars at the entrance. But when the Senkaimon appeared in the Human World, it was just a simple wooden sliding door.

For this mission to the Human World, Yoru didn't feel much pressure. A Gillian-class Menos Grande could bully most rookie Shinigami, but with his current strength, killing a Hollow of that level was more than doable.

Yet what puzzled Yoru was that, as he entered the Senkaimon, he faintly sensed a strong unease!

Minutes later, gripping his Zanpakuto, Yoru stared at the dim corridor he was in and the Kōtsu almost right in front of him, his face turning extremely grim.

Using a Senkaimon wasn't entirely without accidents. After all, it was a means of transport connecting two worlds. If the positioning was slightly off, problems could occasionally arise—like the "Dangai" Yoru now found himself in!

The so-called "Dangai" was the gap between the Human World and Soul Society, a space completely surrounded by a torrent of time.

Because several severed spaces overlapped, surrounded by a torrent of time, the time density inside was overwhelmingly higher than outside. Converted into numbers, it was about 2000 times.

That meant the flow of time here—if two thousand years passed inside, only one year would pass outside.

And that wasn't even the worst part. The Dangai contained Kōryū and Kōtsu, and most Shinigami who encountered them would face certain death.

The Kōtsu appeared only once every seven days, acting as the "janitor" of the Dangai. It didn't rely on Reiatsu to survive; when it appeared, it would destroy all matter in its path.

Shinigami were completely helpless against the Kōtsu, because this thing itself was the natural enemy of Spirit Particles. Since a Shinigami's body was made of Spirit Particles, they were especially vulnerable.

Aizen could one-shot the Kōtsu, largely due to the power of Hollows or his use of the Hogyoku.

But either way, for Yoru at this moment, it was clearly something he couldn't do at all.

The chance of the Senkaimon malfunctioning and landing in the "Dangai" was already less than one percent. And now, encountering the "Kōtsu," which only appeared once every seven days, in the Dangai—that probability was even rarer, one in a thousand!

If he didn't know for sure that he had zero connection with the big boss, Yoru would have thought someone was setting him up!

Bursting with all his Reiatsu and gripping his Zanpakuto tightly, Yoru mimicked "Getsuga Tensho" to slash out a high-density Spirit Energy Slash, which shot straight into the oncoming Kōtsu.

But the "Kōtsu" itself was the Dangai's janitor, capable of devouring and erasing all Spirit Particles. A powerful Reiatsu meant nothing to it.

The Spirit Energy Slash, strong enough to kill a Menos Grande, struck the Kōtsu, but it wasn't affected at all.

Seeing this, Yoru was about to turn and flee, but his body suddenly malfunctioned. In his mind, a flat, emotionless electronic voice rang out.

"Detected host currently in a special spatial environment. Conditions met. Dimension Hopping System officially activated.

System initializing. Current progress: ten percent, twenty percent... During system initialization, please keep the host stationary to avoid unexpected incidents."

Hearing the voice in his head, Yoru felt like cursing his mother. This Third-Party Illegal Software might have come late, but having a cheat was still a good thing.

The real problem was the timing—this cheat activated at the worst possible moment, and the forced immobility during startup was just too damn ridiculous!

To be fair, the Kōtsu wasn't fast. Even if Yoru couldn't beat it, he could still run. But now, unable to move, wasn't that just handing himself over on a silver platter?

No one knew what happened to a Shinigami devoured by the Kōtsu. After all, not every Shinigami was the world's favorite son like Ichigo.

Watching the "Kōtsu" get closer and closer, Yoru stared at the system progress bar, which had barely reached fifty percent, his face growing more and more anxious.

What kind of garbage cheat was this? Other transmigrators got their cheats by the first or second chapter, but his took over ten chapters to show up.

And it didn't activate earlier or later—it had to pick this exact moment, with that stupid immobility setting. Was his luck stat an E or something?

(Many people seem confused after the next chapter, thinking the protagonist in Bleach died. Not at all! This book has been about clone-style from the start! (￣▽￣))