Bleach: My Death Qi Zanpakutō
Chapter 98

Aizen Perfected Kyoka Suigetsu

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Kyōraku didn't dwell on Hirako Shinji; instead, he stared at Tsukishima thoughtfully.

"Tsukishima -kun, your ability is to see things that happened in the past, right? Could you also share the past that you shared with Tsuna -kun with me?"

Tsuna was shocked. Someone was actually willing to stab Tsukishima in the back. If he hadn't found the weakness of the Book of the End, Tsukishima would probably have already returned to the embrace of Soul Society.

"Ahem, Captain Kyōraku, are you planning to use Tsukishima's abilities to investigate cases?" Tsuna immediately guessed Kyōraku's purpose. In a way, Tsukishima's Book of the End was indeed a bug. "I advise you not to overthink it. Tsukishima's abilities aren't suitable for everyone."

Seeing that Tsuna had given up his idea, Kyōraku said with some regret, "Really? That's a pity."

Tsuna said these words because he was afraid that Tsukishima would cause trouble in Soul Society, and also because he was afraid that Tsukishima would be too reckless and lead to the annihilation of Xcution by Soul Society.

After all, there are many ruthless people in Soul Society. Even if Tsukishima can insert himself into someone's past, there are quite a few like Byakuya, who would kill his own family for the sake of a mission, or Kenpachi Zaraki Kurotsuchi Mayuri, who stored his memories in the Squad 12's equipment. These are all incredibly Seireitei.

"Since we're on the topic, Captain Ukitake, if there's an opportunity, could you perhaps get Tsukishima into the Projection Hall? That would make investigating Ginjo's matter much easier," Tsuna said.

Ukitake's eyes lit up. According to Tsuna, the Tsunayashiro Clan had eliminated all evidence that could expose their purpose, but with Tsukishima's ability to see the past, they could find out the facts of the Tsunayashiro Clan's crimes most directly.

"Well done, Tsuna!" Ginjo excitedly patted Tsuna on the shoulder. He had thought he was just there to make a cameo appearance, but he hadn't expected to have such an unexpected bonus.

"The Projection Hall has always been controlled by Tsunayashiro, making it very difficult to enter," Kyōraku said. "Anyway, at least we have a direction now."

"Yes! We can work on it slowly." Ukitake was very excited. The Bleach Shinigami was directly connected to their 13th Division, and he bore an unshirkable responsibility for Ginjo's accident.

"Let's get back to the point, Sawada-sensei. Whatever Aizen's purpose may be, as members of the 13th Division, we should stop him," Kyōraku said.

"Have you made up your mind? Aizen faking his death shouldn't be considered key evidence, right?" Tsuna said, pointing at the corpse. This only proves that Aizen wanted to hide, not that Aizen was planning to cause trouble.

"Sawada-sensei, the predecessor of the Gotei 13 was a violent organization. We will have the evidence once we enter the Central 46. Hiding in the Central 46 is already a serious crime," Kyōraku said.

Kyōraku also made it very clear that whether or not evidence is needed is entirely up to them; the most important thing is the military force to defeat the enemy.

Tsuna slowly shook his head. "Excuse my bluntness, Captain Kyōraku, your intrusion into the Central 46 isn't enough. At best, you'll just be another Hachi."

Tsuna didn't mention the worst possible outcome, but all three captains present could imagine that the only result of losing control was death.

Kyōraku and Ukitake exchanged a glance. They had considered that Aizen was strong, but they never expected that Aizen would be this strong, as described by Tsuna.

"Is the ability of ' Kyoka Suigetsu, Water Moon' really that terrifying?" Ukitake trembled slightly at the thought of himself and Kyōraku being hypnotized by Illusion magic at the same time.

"The one who's strong isn't Kyoka Suigetsu, but Sosuke Aizen," Tsuna calmly corrected.

"Why do you say that?" Kyōraku asked. He believed that his biggest weakness was his inability to resist the Illusion, Kyoka Suigetsu. It was a pity that Tsuna was unwilling to go with them into the Central 46 to capture people, otherwise capturing Aizen would not have been a big problem.

"Let's put it this way, Aizen can be invincible with just Kido, even if he throws away Kyoka Suigetsu. What's strong is Aizen's spiritual pressure. He has already reached the boundary of Bleach. With that kind of spiritual pressure, what Zanpakuto wouldn't be powerful?" Tsuna said.

This was also the most discussed topic in the previous life: could exchanging Aizen's spiritual pressure for Zangetsu, a pure spiritual pressure output device, have led to a decisive victory in one strike?

"It's actually that strong?" Kyōraku pondered for a long time, then focused his gaze on his Zanpakuto. "If I use Katen Kyōkotsu..."

"Aizen to the death, using your adult drama?"

Kyōraku's eyes widened in disbelief. He hadn't expected Tsuna to be able to see through his Zanpakuto's abilities so easily. He'd rarely used Bankai, so how did Tsuna know that the Shikai of Katen Kyōkotsu was a child's game and the Bankai was an adult drama?

Tsuna ignored what Kyōraku was thinking and simply said to himself, "Your Bankai indeed very strong, but whether it will actually work is another matter."

"Aizen a theory that Bleach battles are battles of spiritual pressure. No matter how powerful your Zanpakuto's abilities are, you have no chance of winning against an opponent whose spiritual pressure far surpasses yours."

"Do you believe Aizen would dare let Soi Fon's Two-Hit Kill move be used so easily?" Tsuna even gave the group a simple example.

"That Captain Soi Fon's Two-Hit Kill?" Ukitake was at a loss for words to describe what he had heard from Aizen.

"That's right, that's why I said you might not be able to Aizen. You might end up dying after all your efforts, without even getting your opponent's company," Tsuna said.

"Reiatsu? Can Aizen's reiatsu be stronger than Captain-Commander Yamamoto's?" Kyōraku hardened his heart. "At worst, we'll just report to the Captain-Commander and gather the power of the entire Soul Society to capture Aizen!"

Kyōraku's statement actually makes some sense. If Aizen wasn't afraid of the entire Soul Society joining forces, he wouldn't have needed to fake his death to attract attention while secretly causing trouble behind the scenes.

"You can go find Aizen yourselves, but if you tell Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, I will stop you," Tsuna said.

"What's the meaning?"

Tsuna sighed and said, "I don't want to fight with Captain-Commander Yamamoto, who has lost his mind. I might accidentally get myself into trouble."

"You mean Aizen will control the old man? Don't worry, we'll bring plenty of people, not giving Aizen a chance to make a move. We'll have the old man hold the line and then seize the opportunity to eliminate Aizen." Kyōraku had even started thinking about a battle plan.

Tsuna had to bring up another fact to dispel Kyōraku's idea. "Do you know what the conditions are for the creation of the Kyoka Suigetsu Water Moon hypnosis?"

As expected, they all shook their heads.

"It's the Shikai process of witnessing Kyoka Suigetsu..."

"You've seen Kyoka Suigetsu Suigetsu's Shikai? Oh no!" Ukitake exclaimed. He had already figured out that Aizen, with his kind-hearted persona, kept finding opportunities to show people Kyoka Suigetsu Suigetsu's Bankai. He even went to the graduation ceremony every year at the Shino Academy as a senior to offer his congratulations. If he wasn't mistaken, there was no one in Soul Society who hadn't seen Kyoka Suigetsu's Shikai.

Kyōraku and Unohana Retsu also had strange expressions. They hadn't expected Aizen to have started planning so early. They had thought Aizen was just being kind by visiting the academy's graduates every year.

"In that case, you gentlemen who have never seen the Shikai Ryoka of 'Kyoka Suigetsu, Water Moon' are very important," Unohana Retsu suddenly said.

Even Kyōraku and Ukitake couldn't have imagined that the sinners who invaded Soul Society would now become Soul Society's lifeline in their fight against Aizen.

"This is of great importance, I need to report it to the old man," Kyōraku said. He regarded the Ryoka whom Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto despised as his savior, and in his view, this earth-shattering change had to be reported to Captain-Commander Yamamoto.

"Then you might as well just take Captain-Commander Yamamoto and fight Aizen directly," Tsuna said, somewhat speechless.

"Why? The Captain-Commander is quite reasonable," Ukitake explained.

"Captain Ukitake, don't tell me you don't know Captain-Commander Yamamoto as well as I do." Tsuna decided to explain a little to Ukitake, "Given Captain-Commander Yamamoto's arrogance accumulated over a thousand years, what would he do if he knew that Aizen was a junior who was using Soul Society as a chessboard for his schemes?"

Kyōraku and Ukitake exchanged a glance. In fact, even without Tsuna saying it, they could roughly guess what Tsuna meant.

"That old man only has one choice: to personally take action and completely annihilate Aizen!"

"If Old Man Yamamoto is hypnotized by Aizen, will you guys go to rescue him? At least the Sasakibe will, right? One after another, like the Calabash Brothers rescuing their grandfather, then we'll be facing the entire Seireitei as our enemy."

"Let me be clear from the start: if things really come to this, I'll just take my comrades from the World of the Living and run away. Facing the complete Gotei 13 is not something we, the Ryoka, should do."

Although Kyōraku and the others couldn't understand the allusion Tsuna used, it didn't stop them from understanding Tsuna's meaning: Tsuna and his group really had no obligation to let a group of outsiders save Soul Society.

"Aizen this ability, why doesn't he just hypnotize the entire Seireitei? Why bother faking his death and hiding behind the scenes?" Unohana Retsu asked.

"It's impossible to Complete Hypnosis all Bleach. Just dealing with Old Man Yamamoto alone is enough. That Zanpakuto that's said to be able to Zanpakuto Soul Society is troublesome enough." Even though he said that, Tsuna's face showed eagerness. Of course, he wanted to try the legendary Ryūjin Jakka.

"Tsuna seems to have a good understanding of the old man's abilities," Kyōraku said.

"It's all thanks to Manager Urahara." Without hesitation, Tsuna shifted the Urahara Kisuke.

"So, are we just going to let Aizen's scheme continue?" Ukitake asked.

"Actually, you don't need to be so wary of Aizen. Aizen's goal is just to manipulate the process of the Sōkyoku Execution. In other words, he will come out on his own two days from now on the day of Rukia's execution," Tsuna said calmly.

"The Sōkyoku Execution, what exactly is he trying to do?" Kyōraku knew the terrifying power of the Sōkyoku Execution Sōkyoku Execution; was he going to use it against Captain-Commander Yamamoto?

"It's that Urahara guy again. He hid his research results inside Rukia's body. Aizen is preparing to use the Sōkyoku to break Urahara's technique."

Upon Tsuna Tsuna's words, Kyōraku immediately understood why Aizen would manipulate Rukia Kuchiki, a relatively unknown Bleach, and why she would appear in the Central 46. It was all to push Rukia to the Sōkyoku punishment; the Central 46 were merely a tool Aizen used to advance the Sōkyoku Execution.

Thinking of this, Kyōraku's heart sank a little. This was still alright; if he hadn't expected it, the people in the Central 46 were already completely finished. From the time they started capturing Rukia, all the orders issued by the Central 46 during this period were arranged by Aizen.

If Kyōraku were to replace himself with Aizen, he wouldn't waste his spiritual pressure controlling the Central 46; he'd just kill them all and only need to control the Bleach who issues missions every day.

"So, the stage you mentioned for Tsuna -kun's grand entrance is the Sōkyoku that will execute Rukia in two days, right?" Kyōraku asked.

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