The character of Kyoraku Shunsui is by no means a simple and competitive kid from a rich family.
Especially in front of Lin Nan and Ukitake, he is just a smart but insecure person. Therefore, he has been using the mask of genius to cover himself up to avoid being seen through his inner uneasiness.
But in front of Lin Nan and Ukitake who were both from the same Rukongai, his background was the best. Therefore, in many cases, his uneasiness was hidden deep in his heart.
Until this moment, the death of my brother.
Lin Nan has never seen Kyoraku Shunsui, who has always been so eccentric, so sad.
However, he and Ukitake exchanged countless looks in private, but still could not find even one suitable word to comfort Kyoraku.
Kyoraku sat next to his brother's body, clutching the windmill hairpin tightly. The joints of his right hand turned pale due to the exertion, and the nails were almost embedded into the palm of his hand.
His body kept twitching, and he burst into tears, but he kept suppressing himself and made no sound.
Lin Nan and Ukitake stood aside, looking at Kyoraku's back in silence. At this moment, all words were as pale and feeble.
After a long time, Kyoraku's back gradually calmed down. He took two deep breaths, then lowered his head and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve. Then, he reached out and picked up Zanpakuto beside him.
At this time, the secret door suddenly opened, and Omaeda Marechiyo, who had been watching outside, poked his head in:
"It's time to go. Several rebels' spiritual pressure passed nearby just now. They should have escaped from Seijoto Kyorin. If we are discovered by them, we..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lin Nan, who had his back turned to him and raised his hand.
Lin Nan's eyes did not leave Kyoraku, he directly raised his left hand and stopped Marechiyo Omaeda's words. "Stop talking nonsense. You come in first."
Marechiyo Omaeda reflexively closed his eyes tightly, realizing that Lin Nan was not going to hit him, so he looked outside again, and then ducked into the secret door.
After closing the secret door, he asked Lin Nan with some anxiety, "Hasn't the matter about Amemiya been explained clearly outside? Aren't you going to beat me up..."
"Shut up, don't make a sound." Lin Nan didn't even look back.
Marechiyo Omaeda was stunned for a moment, and found that the two white-haired men in front of him had their eyes locked on the back of the one in the front.
"He... this is..." His pupils suddenly tightened, "Jinzen..."
At the front, Kyoraku is sitting cross-legged next to his brother's body, his whole body emitting a faint deep purple shimmer.
That is a slight manifestation of spiritual pressure, and it is also the soul background color of Kyoraku. Once spiritual pressure is manifested, other colors replace the usual light blue glow of spiritual pressure, which usually means that Jinzen has entered the final stage, and Shikai is about to fully evolve.
"In just one life, Jinzen was able to reach this level..." Marechiyo Omaeda looked at the situation in front of him in disbelief, with a burst of jealousy and sadness in his heart, and more importantly, envy.
During the Jinzen process, with in-depth communication with Zanpakuto, the whole person's spiritual pressure will gradually become one with the sword spirit.
Gradually, the soul contained in Asauchi will gradually feed back to the owner, further improving the owner's abilities.
More importantly, Shikai will evolve more abilities, making the knife more suitable for combat and closer to the mature Shikai.
However, this is only the ideal form in Jinzen's understanding. How many Soul Reapers, even if they have been working at Court Guard Squad for decades, still have not been able to fully develop their own Shikai!
As the leader among the six reincarnations, Marechiyo Omaeda's own Shikai has only begun to take shape, and the development of new abilities is still far away.
However, when the person in front of me came back to life, he suddenly...
Marechiyo Omaeda just felt that he had the urge to lie down on the ground and cry.
Lin Nan and Ukitake stared intently at Kyoraku's back, fearing that something unexpected would happen. As genius students in their first lives, they naturally knew what happened to Kyoraku.
"Pay attention to the outside and don't let the rebels disturb Kyoraku's Jinzen." Lin Nan stood up gently and came to the secret door to guard it personally.
At this moment, he regretted not leaving a little Spirit-Scattering Threads with Senjumaru, so that Kyoraku could cover up some traces of leaked spiritual pressure.
Kyoraku Shunsui was floating in darkness. He felt as if he was in a dark forest, with moonlight falling from the sky and mottled tree shadows on the ground.
"Kyoraku Shunsui, you are finally willing to meet me properly." A faint female voice sounded from behind him.
"You?!" Kyoraku was so frightened that he turned around immediately.
In front of him, stood a pretty girl with a hot figure wearing a robe. The girl had unique purple hair, which was casually tied into a bun on the back of her head.
"Flower Heaven? This is..." Kyoraku looked around in surprise.
In the previous Jinzen, he had also entered the spiritual world of Zanpakuto. But it had never been as dark and terrifying as it was now.
"Are you scared? Are you lonely?" Flower Heaven ignored Kyoraku's question and asked himself.
"What?"
Flower Heaven walked forward slowly and gently held Kyoraku's hand. "Your family has left. Are you afraid? Are you lonely?"
"Did you know that my eldest brother passed away?"
"I am your Zanpakuto, that is, part of your soul. I will naturally know what you know."
Flower Heaven's beautiful turquoise eyes looked gently at Kyoraku's face.
Kyoraku recalled the moment when his brother passed away and remained silent. He suddenly turned around and looked up at the mottled full moon in the sky.
Flower Heaven raised his head, put his hands around Kyoraku's neck, and hugged him tightly from behind.
"The sadness, fear, loneliness and helplessness I felt every day before, you finally fully experienced it today.
Shunsui, life is so painful, from now on, play with me! Use happy games to offset the bitterness of fate..."
Kyoraku's eyes were always fixed on the moon in the sky. Flower Heaven's whisper in his ear suddenly reminded him of the call he often heard in the dark night when he was a child.
"It turned out to be Flower Heaven calling me... At that time, she had no form and no voice. She could only rely on a weak connection with her soul to let me occasionally hear a little sound.
At that time, she must have been in a more panicked and lonely mood than I am now, right? After all, I still have her now; but at that time, she had nothing but me..."
With this thought in mind, he couldn't help but raise his right hand to his chest and gently hold Flower Heaven's small white jade hand.
"Xiaohua, I suddenly feel that having you is a very happy thing.
However, this destiny is so bitter, how much happiness is needed to fill it? What is the point of this destiny that needs to be filled with happiness constantly?"
Hearing this, Flower Heaven gently closed his eyes, and the hug became tighter. "I am your Zanpakuto. I live with my master and die with my master.
If you think so, then let's use games to decide our fate.
The moves of Kageoni and Bushōgoma are what you knew before you met me. So for the remaining games like 'Slash Demon', 'Irooni', 'Daruma Fell Over', I will make the rules fair to you and the enemy.
If you win in the game, I will accompany you to win; if you lose in the game, I will also accompany you..."
She murmured, and the hug became tighter and tighter.
"I have called you in the darkness for nearly ten years, but you have been unable to respond to me.
Now you and I finally know each other, no matter what happens in the future, I will be by your side! I will be with you in life and death!"
Kyoraku looked at the moonlight, and Flower Heaven's whispers and warm embrace made him feel warm in his heart.
He gently rubbed Flower Heaven's arm and sighed softly:
"However, I have now shouldered the heavy responsibility entrusted to me by my brother before his death... If I can die in battle, I don't have to take responsibility, which seems good... However, this is too selfish. Isn't it, Xiaohua?
It turns out that taking responsibility is such a terrible and troublesome thing... Even if you don't want to, you must live well and take it up..."
As the spiritual pressure light on Kyoraku gradually dimmed, Zanpakuto, which was lying flat on his knees, gradually lit up with the same deep purple light.
The light suddenly converged. Kyoraku's eyes slowly opened.
Lin Nan saw this and stepped forward quickly. "Are you okay?"
What greeted him was Kyoraku's deep gaze, "It's okay, I had a chat with Zanpakuto. Now, we have reached an agreement..."
Lin Nan nodded, understanding that Kyoraku had regained his fighting strength at this moment.
He stood up and said, "That's great. Let's leave Qingqiu's body here for the time being. We still have important things to finish right now."
"Yes! Such an important thing, if you don't do it quickly, others may get ahead of you!" Kyoraku handed Zanpakuto to his left hand and stood up.
Ukitake said nothing, but patted Kyoraku on the shoulder. The two looked at each other and smiled.
It was an important matter. Needless to say, the three of them had already reached a tacit consensus.
Marechiyo Omaeda looked at the three people arranging their clothes, and had a bad premonition in his heart.
"Aren't you going out to fight the rebels, right? We, we are just college students! Isn't the safest way now to hide here until rescue arrives?"
In a moment, the three people were ready. Three people, four knives.
"Revenge cannot wait! Especially tonight, if the enemy might be killed first by someone else.
Those murderous bastards owe Amemiya and Qingqiu two lives. Wouldn't it be too cheap to let them die like this?!"
Lin Nan had two swords attached to his waist and stood in the center of the four people. Although he was showing signs of fatigue, his gaze towards Marechiyo Omaeda was very intense:
"Don't wait for rescue. There will be no reinforcements tonight at Seireitei. We ourselves are the reinforcements!"