West Rukongai, deep in the jungle.
"Hey, don't be angry!"
"I was just joking, saying that the medicine can indeed restore your body quickly!"
"You can feel it yourself! Hey, Shadow, you..."
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"Stop being so wordy!"
Listening to the sound that kept ringing in his ears, Shadow, who was already in a bad mood, yelled out loud.
"Hey, I finally saved you!" Ran'Tao said with his hands on his hips.
"I said it too!" Shadow's voice gradually became lower; "No one asked you to save me!"
"You..." Ran'Tao shouted angrily; "You idiot, bastard, hopeless man..."
"Thanks for the compliment!"
Before he finished speaking, the cold voice of Shadow came to his ears. Ran'Tao gritted his teeth and raised his hand to greet Shadow. However, after thinking about it, he finally put it down. Hesitatingly, he took out a delicate wooden knife from his arms and handed it to Shadow.
"Okay, I was wrong. I shouldn't have done that. I will lend you this knife first. I see you are always thinking about your knife..."
"I don't need it!"
"Hey, don't be ignorant. This is what I have brought up since childhood. If others want it, I won't give it to you!"
"I said, I don't need it, don't you understand?"
"Shadow, you..."
"You are so noisy!"
Taking the knife, Shadow ignored the wounds and pain on his body and threw it out without any hesitation.
"You..."
"Leave me alone!"
"Okay, okay!" Ran'Tao gritted his teeth and turned his head away. He didn't want Shadow to see the tears in her eyes, so he turned around and ran away.
"Alas!"
Sighing, Shadow looked at the figure of Ran'Tao disappearing from the corner of his eyes, and a bitter smile appeared on his lips; "I'm sorry! But, you shouldn't have saved me in the first place!"
His hand slowly touched his chest. There, under the tightly wrapped bandage, Shadow could already detect the faint, unusual feeling of heat. The corners of his eyes were slightly closed, covering up the traces of strange red.
"The gradual recovery of my body has unexpectedly accelerated the devouring of Purification Seal's power from my Reiatsu. From this point of view, perhaps when my body recovers completely, it will be the time for Purification Seal's power to explode. However, we cannot rule out the possibility of it happening earlier!"
"I really don't have much time, Ran'Tao, you stupid woman, I hope you won't come to me again, I... really don't want to... hurt you!"
It seems that when I can walk, it will be the time for me to leave! Shadow thought, but suddenly he felt a few fierce collisions of Reiatsu not far away. Was it Bleach and Bount who were fighting!
Shadow frowned, helpless, Reiatsu, Byakuya Kuchiki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida and Kariya Jin, did they meet them!
Is it a coincidence? Something happened, Shadow thought, but suddenly someone else helped him up. He turned around and saw that it was Ran'Tao, Ran'Tao's eyes were still a little red.
"What are you doing here again..." Shadow said in a deep voice, the sharp look in his eyes getting darker.
"Let's get out of here and talk!"
Throwing such words away coldly, Ran'Tao didn't even look at Shadow. Although she didn't recognize the other Reiatsu, she would never forget Reiatsu and Ran'Tao of Bount.
After returning to the underground cave, Shadow settled down, Ran'Tao turned around and was about to walk out again.
"Hey, woman, where are you going!" Shadow asked, but in fact, how could he not know where Ran'Tao was going.
"You know and you still ask. Besides, you don't need to worry about where I'm going, right?" Ran'Tao didn't look back, and his cold voice was just like the first time we met.
"..." After a moment of silence, Shadow's voice deepened; "Be... careful!"
The steps forward suddenly paused for a moment, and Ran'Tao turned back in disbelief, "You... are worried about me!"
"Don't think too much, woman!" Shadow tilted his head, closed his eyes, and said in a cold voice; "It's just that Lady Yoruichi has been looking for you, and if you die, I won't be able to explain to Lady Yoruichi!"
"That's right... that's it!"
Silent, without saying another word, Ran'Tao turned around and left, but no one saw the complexity and sadness in his eyes at the moment he turned his head.
No one saw the trembling of Shadow's body when Ran'Tao's figure disappeared into the cave, and the almost rich, mysterious flash of red in his eyes.
Lady Yoruichi, are you okay! Shadow smiled in a different way, but he didn't know at all that Yoruichi Shihōin at this time had also made up his mind to die. Once Bount's matter was over, he would go to the so-called Hell to accompany him. If he knew, where did so many ifs come from...
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When Ran'Tao came back again, he unexpectedly brought back two people, Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, um, Modified Soul, and Lirin in puppet form.
I saw Shadow lying on the bed with bandages all over his body. Both of them looked like they had seen a ghost. They could open their mouths and put an egg in without any problem. Their eyes were so wide that they could be compared to cows.
"Dark... Mr. Shadow, you... how could you..."
"Stop being so wordy!"
Shadow said loudly, but he accidentally touched the wound. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth in pain so that he could not scream.
"You guys know each other!" Ran'Tao looked at Shadow, then turned to look at Ichigo Kurosaki, leaning on his chin, he said.
"Ah! Of course I know you, this is Mr. Shadow!" Ichigo Kurosaki said, looking around strangely, and said, "But, by the way, Mr. Yoruichi is not here anymore! Also, Mr. Shadow, what's the matter with your injury?"
"I've already said it, could you please be less wordy!"
After coughing twice, Shadow's face suddenly turned pale, and his tone became slightly weaker. Damn, this feeling of weakness is really infuriating! Especially when there is such an annoying guy like Ichigo Kurosaki in front of him.
"Shadow!" Ran'Tao was startled and took a few steps to Shadow's bedside.
"It's okay!" Shadow closed his eyes and his voice gradually dropped until it disappeared.
"Miss Ran'Tao, Mr. Shadow, what happened to him!"
Ichigo Kurosaki lowered his voice and asked, staring at Shadow. Ran'Tao could not take his eyes away. His tone was full of concern. Uryu Ishida and Lirin on the other side did not speak, but they had the same look in their eyes.
"You have a very good relationship!" There was no answer, but Ran'Tao asked an irrelevant question; "He said you so rudely, but you still care about him so much!"
"This is not the same thing!" Uryu Ishida pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and replied helplessly.
"That's it!" Lirin flapped his little puppet wings and muttered; "Although we have only been together for a short time, and I don't know him very well, let alone how good our relationship is, he is with us, is that enough?"
"Really!"
"Actually, Mr. Shadow is very lonely!" Ichigo Kurosaki lowered his head, was silent for a while, and then said calmly; "Although I don't know why, I can feel it. Apart from Mr. Yoruichi, Mr. Shadow has no one he can talk to, just like me when I was a child!"
"..." Patted Ichigo Kurosaki on the shoulder, Uryu Ishida said calmly; "Although Mr. Shadow has never admitted it, for us, he is our companion and our friend, and this has nothing to do with the level of strength!"
"By the way, Miss Ran'Tao, you haven't told us what happened to Mr. Shadow!"
"It's okay, it's just that my body was severely injured and I'm exhausted!"
Although he said this, Ran'Tao always had a feeling that something was wrong. Shadow's health was getting better and better, but why did he always feel like he was becoming less energetic!
I shook my head, maybe I was overthinking it! Ran'Tao smiled silently and looked at Shadow who was falling into a deep sleep. This guy was still saying that he didn't have any friends, and the feeling of loneliness was very uncomfortable. However, he couldn't hear these words!
However, when Ran'Tao turned around to talk to Ichigo Kurosaki, no one noticed that at that moment Shadow's frown gradually relaxed.
He was asleep, but who can guarantee that Shadow he didn't hear it!