She had studied medicine with Kirinji for only a short time, but even so, she could tell that the jerky hanging there was not pork or venison at all—it was the flesh of young children!
"It's fine, it's fine. You're so cute, how could Uncle bear to kill you? Uncle still needs to trade you for money! Hahaha!" the sleazy man laughed maniacally.
Just then, a gentle, clear voice came from the cave entrance.
"After chasing you around for so long, I finally found your hideout."
Gen'en Kinra
The sleazy man hurriedly turned around and saw a man standing at the entrance of the cave.
He looked to be around forty, wore glasses, had a thin face and slicked-back hair, and carried a sword at his waist. He was smiling warmly.
The sleazy man hurriedly drew his sword, his face full of panic. "Why have you been following me? Do you like this little girl too? If you do, I can give her to you!"
The man smiled gently, but there was a bone-chilling coldness within that smile. "Of course I like her, but I like you even more. I've been looking for you for a very long time!"
The muscles on the sleazy man's face began to twitch, terror showing in his eyes. "Why are you looking for me? You murderer! Gen'en Kinra! Haven't you killed enough people already?!"
The smile on the man called Gen'en Kinra became even more terrifying. "Please do not confuse me with someone like you. You kill for desire. I kill for pleasure!"
Delia cowered in a corner, pitiful, weak, and helpless!
"So that means only one of us is walking away alive!" The sleazy man grinned viciously and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly.
Gen'en Kinra spoke calmly. "If possible, please do not resist. You will only increase your own suffering."
"Screw your suffering!" The sleazy man instantly rushed before Gen'en Kinra, thrusting the tip of his sword fiercely toward his enemy's throat.
But Gen'en Kinra merely extended two fingers and pinched the blade as though plucking a flower.
"Please do not make me repeat myself! Do not resist! That will only..."
Gen'en Kinra slowly drew his sword.
"...increase your suffering!"
His blade flashed like a white rainbow!
For the first time in his life, the sleazy man saw a blade this fast. He only felt a chill in his left hand and hastily retreated.
Gen'en Kinra slowly raised the sword in his hand. Something hung from its tip. The sleazy man looked closely and was frightened out of his wits—it was a piece of human skin!
He looked down! The skin on his left hand had been flayed off in that instant of exchange! His entire left hand was a bloody red, and then agonizing pain struck!
"Ahhh!!!" The sleazy man's hard-won fighting spirit was shattered by a single slash. "Don't you like this child? I'll give her to you! There's plenty of meat here too! I have lots of money! I'll give it all to you, all of it! Just leave this place now..."
Suddenly, the sleazy man felt a chill at his neck. Gen'en Kinra's blade was already pressed against it. Yet Gen'en Kinra did not cut off his head. Instead, he gently used his sword to pry open his armor.
"Although you are thoroughly filthy, I'll take this skin of yours! I'll try to be as quick and gentle as possible. After I've peeled off your skin, you should still be alive!" Gen'en Kinra described it in an exceptionally gentle tone, as though speaking to his beloved lover.
The sleazy man's expression twisted. Where the hell had this lunatic come from?!
He suddenly swung his sword wildly at Gen'en Kinra, but the gap in their strength was simply too vast. In an instant, the sword in the sleazy man's hand was cut in two!
Gen'en Kinra's sword was like an incredibly nimble wire, its gleam enveloping the sleazy man's right hand.
Amid miserable screams, the skin from the sleazy man's left hand was peeled off whole!
"I do not like the sound of your screams! Please be quiet!" Gen'en Kinra stabbed his sword into the sleazy man's neck. He did not kill him, only severed his vocal cords so he could no longer make a sound!
Then he casually severed the tendons in all four of the sleazy man's limbs.
"As a reward for what you have done, I will not let you die so quickly. I will peel away your skin bit by bit, then hang it outside and let you slowly dry in the wind! Oh, right, I have a gourd here, and it's filled with saltwater! Care to experience it?" Gen'en Kinra poured the concentrated brine from the gourd over the sleazy man's wounds, causing his body to twist and convulse violently.
"This has only just begun. How can you already be unable to endure it? The night is still long. Let's take our time!"
Half an hour later.
The sleazy man, whose vocal cords had been destroyed, limbs crippled, and body completely skinned, was somehow still alive. He had merely been nailed to a tree, while Gen'en Kinra sat quietly beneath it, watching death descend little by little.
From time to time, he sprayed a mouthful of saltwater at him!
Delia had witnessed the entire process of this man's violence. She cowered at the deepest part of the cave entrance, too afraid to come out.
"Little sister, don't be afraid. I'll take you home in a moment. Where do you live?" Gen'en Kinra asked.
Delia trembled. "I came with Teacher. Teacher will come looking for me soon."
"There are wild beasts around here! If I leave you alone here, you might get eaten. Come with me. I'll take you down the mountain!" Gen'en Kinra carried Delia on his back and headed down the mountain step by step. As for that sleazy man...
He could just suffer slowly here.
But after they had walked less than twenty meters, Gen'en Kinra sensed two powerful streams of Reiatsu rushing up from below.
"Hm? Someone's here?" Gen'en Kinra lightly pushed up his glasses.
The two people rushing up from the foot of the mountain were none other than Yamabuki Chidori and Tenjirō Kirinji.
As soon as Yamabuki Chidori approached, he smelled an extremely strong scent of blood. His expression grew increasingly grim as he gripped the hilt of his sword tightly.
When he reached the cave, he happened to see a bespectacled beast in gentleman's clothing carrying Delia down the mountain!
Not far away, a bloody, mangled mass was nailed to a tree trunk.
At once, Yamabuki Chidori felt Shinigami Elementary Student possess him. Based on this string of clues, he had already pieced together the rough outline of what had happened!
So you're the murderer, huh?
Delia was all right? Great!
I'll leave you an intact corpse!
His blade was drawn!
Under the faint moonlight, the blade's gleam turned into a silver rainbow!
A hint of surprise appeared in Gen'en Kinra's eyes. What a fast blade! In his urgency, he did not dare let his guard down and hastily drew his sword!
The two blades collided!
Yamabuki Chidori's heart jolted. The other man's Reiatsu was actually above his own! He was no weaker than that violent woman Saito!
Were there really this many experts in the Soul Society a thousand years ago?
Why did he keep running into all of them?
Delia hurriedly cried out, "Big Brother Yamabuki, this is a misunderstanding..."
Gen'en Kinra put Delia down and looked at the young man before him with a gentle, kindly expression. "It is rare to encounter an expert. Let us have a spar!"
In an instant, the sword in Gen'en Kinra's hand became like iron rain falling from the heavens—impossible to guard against and impossible to break through!
Yamabuki Chidori had not expected his opponent's Reiatsu to be so powerful, nor his swordsmanship to have reached such a transcendent level. He did not dare slack off in the slightest!
He hastily used Flash Step to widen the distance between them!
"I don't care who you are. There will be no good end for anyone who opposes our Gotei 13! Since you insist on remaining stubborn, I can only use my ultimate move!" Yamabuki Chidori said with a stern expression.
Gen'en Kinra looked at the young man before him. That had not been his full strength just now?
Yamabuki Chidori took a deep breath and suddenly roared, "KIRINJI!!! Hurry up and help! Let's beat the hell out of this guy together!"
Gen'en Kinra: "..."
P.S. There is too little information from a thousand years ago, so I can only figure out the story and the personalities of the First Generation Captains myself. Also, I think Gen'en Kinra, the first captain of the Third Division, is somewhat like the compassionate Xiao Zizai! 0
If you have any thoughts, leave them in the comments. I'll reply to every one.
Master of Empty Promises
Tenjirō Kirinji had been sneaking around, preparing to rescue someone, when Yamabuki Chidori's shout startled him into shuddering. When he looked up, he found that everyone, including the half-dead person nailed to the tree, was staring at him!
Why was his teammate such a liability?
"I do not mind if the two of you attack together! Please!" Gen'en Kinra said, narrowing his eyes.
These two were indeed not weak, but even if they joined forces, they still would not be his match.
At that moment, Delia shouted, "Teacher Kirinji, and Big Brother Yamabuki, you've misunderstood! This uncle isn't a bad person..."
Tenjirō Kirinji and Yamabuki Chidori froze.
Delia hurriedly explained everything that had just happened in detail. Only then did Yamabuki Chidori understand. So the murderer who tortured and killed children was not this bespectacled uncle before him, but the one who had been skinned alive and nailed to the tree!
At first, Yamabuki Chidori had not paid much attention to it, but when he thought of Gen'en Kinra's meticulous swordsmanship, chills immediately ran down his spine!
Just how practiced was this guy at flaying people?
He could peel off someone's skin and still keep them alive!
You were the real murderer, weren't you?
"Since you are this child's friends, take her away. I still need to wait here for a while! I want to personally watch this pervert die slowly!" A white gleam flickered in Gen'en Kinra's eyes as he stared unblinkingly at the sleazy man.
Now that was a ruthless man!
"I haven't had the chance to ask..."
"My name is Gen'en Kinra, an ordinary resident. I have no particular hobbies. I simply enjoy killing people!" Gen'en Kinra curled his lips into a cold smile that made one shudder.
Wait!
Gen'en Kinra?
The first captain of the Gotei 13's Third Division?
The expression in Yamabuki Chidori's eyes changed as he looked at Gen'en Kinra.
No wonder everyone always joked that the captains of the First Gotei 13 were thirteen lunatics!
He did not look normal to me either!
Still, with the ideal of making the Gotei 13 bigger and stronger, Yamabuki Chidori tried to invite him.
"Uncle, you seem pretty strong. Would you like to join our Gotei 13?" Yamabuki Chidori asked cautiously.
"No. I will not join any organization. I like this carefree life." Gen'en Kinra stared fixedly at the sleazy man nailed to the tree.
"Please hear me out first. Our Gotei 13 is not some random organization. We are officially recognized by the Seireitei, responsible for maintaining the balance of the Three Realms and protecting the Soul Society..." Yamabuki Chidori was preparing to continue selling him on the dream, but before he could even sprinkle on the finishing touches, Gen'en Kinra interrupted him.
"I have no interest in protecting the Three Realms."
"Then let's talk benefits. Food, lodging, and wages are all covered, and missions and business trips come with bonuses. Looking at your personality, I can roughly guess what you want to do. You like killing people, but you carefully choose your targets, like this bastard..." Yamabuki Chidori grabbed a handful of sand and threw it onto the sleazy man's skinless body, making him convulse in pain.
"Even if this kind of scum died a hundred times over, it would not be enough. That shows you do not want to slaughter innocents. You only kill scum you consider sinners. But think about it—how slowly can you search alone? Once you join the Gotei 13, if you have the ability, you can become a Captain and lead hundreds of subordinates to help you find people. Wouldn't that mean you could kill as many as you wanted?" Yamabuki Chidori knew that as long as someone lived in this world, they would inevitably have needs and desires.
Even those eminent monks who ate vegetarian meals and chanted scriptures ultimately sought enlightenment. Was that not a kind of desire as well?
Gen'en Kinra's expression gradually turned serious. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Tell me more."
"How about this? Join the Gotei 13 first. If you are dissatisfied, you can leave at any time! We absolutely will not force you to stay. There is nothing to lose anyway!" Yamabuki Chidori spun his tale.
No matter what, he needed to talk the man into joining first.
However, he could not promise him the position of Captain right now.
After all, he had already established the rules. He could not very well break the rules he had made himself.
To become a Captain of the Gotei 13, one had to possess unquestionable strength.
And so, after Yamabuki Chidori's mix of coaxing and bluffing, Gen'en Kinra agreed to remain with the Gotei 13 for the time being.
On their way back, they happened to run into Saitō, who had come to support them.
"You finished that quickly?" Saitō Fubōfu looked unhappy. She had thought she would get to have a good fight, but before she even arrived, the fight was already over.
Yamabuki Chidori was also somewhat surprised to see Saitō. He had thought Shunshun Shidō would be the one coming to support him. After all, if that crazy girl started causing trouble, it would be difficult to contain her.
"You mean Old Man and Shihōin? They're both busy right now! You have no idea how many people are rushing to sign up for the Gotei 13." Saitō looked displeased. "I only ran out because I couldn't stand all that slow, tedious work! Oh, right, hurry back and help too. Aren't you our Chief Strategist?"
Yamamoto had only casually mentioned his position as "Chief Strategist" back at Central 46. Why were they taking it seriously?
Still, the Gotei 13 was so busy right now, and it did not seem right for him to be slacking off outside. It would be terrible if someone used it against him later and delayed his retirement!
The group hurried back to the Seireitei.
The moment he entered, Yamabuki Chidori was nearly shoved back out.
The Gotei 13 recruitment area was packed with people. Most were nobles, while some were commoners. These commoners had never seen the Seireitei in their lives. Even if they were not selected, they treated it as a chance to see the sights!
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