You Were Played

Tsuna slowly sheathed his sword and said to Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, who had rushed over, "I couldn't stop them; they escaped."

"Cunning Yhwach!" Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's anger subsided slightly after habitually criticizing Yhwach, but being tricked was undoubtedly a disgrace.

Hearing the words "they escaped," Bazz-B felt as if the sky were falling. Looking around, the Wandenreich no longer resembled the Wandenreich; apart from the lying clone and himself, there wasn't a single Quincy left.

So it turns out that Lloyd Loyd wasn't the only one who could be discarded; even he could be easily abandoned?

Bazz-B could easily figure out who was behind this. He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and whispered, "Hugo!!!"

Haschwalth's full name is Haschwalth. Hugo is what Bazz-B has called Haschwalth since childhood, and he has never changed it over the years.

Even after joining the Sternritter, when he and Haschwalth had become estranged, he still considered Haschwalth his best friend.

Now, betrayed by his closest friend, he has been personally delivered into the hands of the enemy.

Hugo, are you really that loyal to that person? So loyal that you'd abandon our friendship, our promise?

Bazz-B's eyes turned bloodshot, not from anger, but from the bitterness of holding back tears. Just as he was about to sever ties with Haschwalth, a slap abruptly interrupted his emotions.

"Alright, stop making that ' Hachi being used as a butt wiper' face." Tsuna slapped Bazz-B on the back without any mercy, making him stumble.

"What do you know!" Unable to win a fight, Bazz-B could only erupt in impotent rage.

"It's not hard to understand. It's just that you feel betrayed by your best friend, right?"

Upon hearing Tsuna's words, Bazz-B's emotions froze once again. What was wrong with this Bleach? He always managed to pinpoint his emotional weaknesses and then strike them hard in the heart.

"Let's talk. What was your situation before Old Man Yamamoto attacked?" Tsuna wanted to see if he could find any clues about the Quincy's escape.

Bazz-B wiped his eyes and stubbornly said, "What state could I be in? I was suddenly attacked in the middle of the night, and I rushed out in my morning grumpiness. I didn't notice anything else."

"In the middle of the night?" Tsuna looked up at the blazing sun and suddenly realized what he had overlooked. It was already night when he entered Soul Society, so why was the sun shining brightly in the Wandenreich?

Noticing Tsuna's sidelong glance, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto explained, "This lousy empire is pitch black. I created a sun to illuminate it. What's the problem?"

Tsuna pressed his temples, feeling a bit of a headache. There was nothing wrong with Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's movements; the problem was that they were affecting his judgment. Nighttime was the true time for the Wandenreich.

"I really hate dealing with people like you who have so many tricks up their sleeves." Tsuna stared at Bazz-B and said something that Bazz-B couldn't understand at all.

The alternation of day and night is a normal phenomenon, but it is somewhat special in the Wandenreich. At night, when Yhwach is asleep, his the Almighty and omnipotence are transferred to Haschwalth.

In other words, today's drama was very likely orchestrated by the Almighty Haschwalth, who foresaw Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's invasion and even Tsuna's rescue in advance.

Haschwalth arranged for Yhwach's stand-in to free the Visionary Gremmy, and conjured a Quincy army. During this time, he put Bazz-B into the army, which shows that he foresaw a future where Tsuna wouldn't kill Bazz-B.

On the surface, Bazz-B is Quincy's outcast, but in reality, Haschwalth has found a way for him to survive.

That's why Tsuna doesn't like dealing with people who do things in a crooked and unorthodox way. These kinds of guys should be dealt with by the shopkeeper and Kyōraku, those two cunning guys who make up 90% of their weight.

The Quincy division was advancing in an orderly fashion.

A hot JK girl, Bambietta, the socialite of the Sternritter, sidled up to Haschwalth.

"Hey, Haschwalth, where are we going? And why are we running away? With our strength, we could easily take over Soul Society by force, right?"

The lively, fiery, and proud Bambietta could not tolerate such a humiliating escape, and her question reflected the thoughts of the vast majority of the Sternritter.

Under the cover of the dim environment, Bambietta failed to notice the strange pupils in Haschwalth's eyes; each eye had three pupils, symbolizing his ability to wield the Almighty.

"His Majesty's power has not yet fully recovered, and he needs a long time to slumber. We must not disturb him because of our impulsiveness." Haschwalth lowered his eyelids. "We have waited for over nine hundred years. All we need to do is find a quiet place and await His Majesty's return."

By first involving His Majesty, they can effectively silence the vast majority of Quincy.

Haschwalth concealed the truth. When he first realized that Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto might invade, his reaction was not to run away. However, under the influence of the Almighty, he saw a future where the Quincy would take the initiative to fight.

Besides Yamamoto Shigekuni, the strongest Bleach in a thousand years, there was a young figure standing beside him. The two of them alone turned the Wandenreich upside down.

This forced their emperor Yhwach to appear ahead of schedule, seize all the Quincy's power, and fight the two.

The final result that Haschwalth saw was that Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto died, while Yhwach took over the Soul King Palace and became an existence just like the Soul King.

The power of the Almighty is to change the future, so Haschwalth deliberately avoided the confrontations of Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and Tsuna, seeking a new territory for Yhwach to quietly recover all his power.

In Haschwalth's view, only by regaining all of Yhwach's the Almighty can one become invincible.

Haschwalth's current the Almighty are somewhat lacking, all due to the seal placed on him by the Unohana Monk. To regain true the Almighty, the nine years cannot be shortened at all.

Upon realizing this outcome, Haschwalth didn't hesitate and immediately chose the approach that best served Yhwach's interests, leading his troops to start anew.

"Wouldn't sacrificing two members be too much of a price to pay?" Lille Barro, with dark skin and a crosshair mark on his left eye, stepped forward.

"There are two enemies. By exchanging pieces, we gained the opportunity to leave, which I think is worthwhile," Haschwalth said.

In fact, Haschwalth wasn't lying; he used his the Almighty to see the future that Bazz-B and his companions were fleeing.

In that future, without Bazz-B delaying Tsuna, Tsuna immediately discovered that the large army was fake and began to trace Gremmy's trail in reverse.

Ultimately, Gremmy and the clone were left together in the Wandenreich. Tsuna even stared at Gremmy from afar in a way that Gremy couldn't understand, which directly blew Gremmy's brain out.

So no matter how much people around him questioned him, Haschwalth remained steadfast in his conviction that he had made the right choice, only in doing so inadvertently benefited Bazz-B.

As the first Quincy to be given Saint Letters by Yhwach, Lille Barro knew a thing or two. He glanced at Haschwalth's eyes, which were covered by his bangs, and said...

"I understand. It seems we need to add new members to the Knights."

Lille Barro did not believe that Bazz-B could survive. Of the existing Saint Letters, Y still had one heir; the problem lay with H—finding a new H.

"You select the personnel. I will report to His Majesty when he wakes up," Haschwalth said.

In the space of the Wandenreich, only three living people remain.

"You probably guessed it already, right? You were tricked by your own people. Everyone else left, except for you, oh no, and him." Tsuna pointed to the lying corpse.

Bazz-B's face was ashen, a Quincy Cross crossbow materializing in his palm. Even in death, shouldn't one die with some dignity?

"Why waste so much breath on the Quincy? These remnants of the Quincy, born evil, I will personally annihilate them..."

Just as Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto was about to raise his hand to Bazz-B, Tsuna stopped him, saying calmly, "Grandpa, he has a blood feud with Yhwach, a blood feud between close relatives."

Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto stopped his attack and looked at Tsuna with a questioning gaze. The current Gotei 13 really doesn't lack comrades with the strength of Bazz-B.

Bazz-B's eyes widened in confusion. How could this young Bleach know such a thing? Even Yhwach didn't know it.

Whether Yhwach was truly unaware of Bazz-B's hatred for him, or simply indifferent, only he himself knows.

But in Bazz-B's view, Yhwach must not know about Bazz-B's past, since he had been able to stay in the Quincy Corps for so long.

Tsuna turned and walked towards the crack. There were still a lot of people waiting outside, and it wasn't a good time to waste time here. He said, turning back as he walked.

"Hey, Bazz-B, our goal is to take down Yhwach. Want to come with us?"

The words, "Let's take down Yhwach together," echoed in Bazz-B's mind like a devil's whisper; the invitation was far too tempting for him.

Bazz-B knew that Bleach wouldn't treat him any better, just like Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto. If he agreed, he would probably suffer unimaginable torment.

But Bazz-B, who grew up in the Quincy kingdom, had never heard of such an invitation before, and the person he was to kill was the Quincy king!

For the Bazz-B felt that he was not alone on the path he had been pursuing, a feeling that even the taciturn Haschwalth had failed to give him.

In the endless darkness, as long as he sees a glimmer of light, he will chase after it without hesitation, even if the road ahead is a cliff.

"Fine! If I can kill Yhwach with my own hands, everything I have is yours! Body, soul, anything is fine with you, take whatever you want, Bleach!"