In Soul Society, Only Wanting to Coast into Retirement

Yamabuki Chidori lay on a roof beam not far away, watching. "Old man, you're really good at teaching disciples! Why don't you start an academy and take in more students? That way, we can expand the Gotei 13 and spread our name."

Yamamoto pondered for a moment. It did seem like a good idea, but they had no money, no manpower, and no territory. They could not keep relying on the Shihōin Clan forever.

"I'll consider it. Didn't you say you were going to study Kido? Have you been slacking off here all morning?" Yamamoto stared at Yamabuki Chidori.

"Well... I was... I... Goodbye!" Yamabuki Chidori immediately used Flash Step to flee. What else could he do after getting caught slacking off at work?

Yamamoto laughed and cursed at him.

The construction of the Gotei 13 still had a long way to go.

But what could they do if they wanted to build an academy and had no money?

Yamamoto was worrying over it when he saw Yamabuki Chidori return.

"What are you back for, brat?"

"Captain, don't be angry. As your Lieutenant, of course I have to ease your worries. I have a way to get money—and take it from the nobles fair and square," Yamabuki Chidori said.

Most of Soul Society's resources were in the hands of the nobles. It would not be easy to pry money out of them.

They could not simply rob them outright, and Yamamoto could not think of a good solution for the moment.

Yet this brat claimed he had a way to make the nobles obediently hand over their money.

"Tell me in detail," Yamamoto said.

"Captain, true hearts have never held anyone since ancient times; only tricks win people over. If we want them to hand over their money obediently, we have to play some tricks on them," Yamabuki Chidori said.

"Tricks?" Yamamoto was even more confused.

This was precisely what the old man was worst at. He could only listen carefully to what Yamabuki Chidori had to say.

"Captain, lean closer. Here's what we do..."

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Bankai! Blazing Fire Sword

Yamabuki Chidori leaned close to Yamamoto's ear and explained his plan.

It was a vicious scheme. To be fair, the old man from a thousand years later would never have agreed to it. But Yamamoto at this time was ruthless and merciless, willing to use any means to achieve his goals. Forget one vicious scheme—if he truly went mad, he would not even care about the safety of all Soul Society.

"You're sure this will work?" Yamamoto asked.

"How will we know if we don't try? It won't do us any harm anyway," Yamabuki Chidori said quietly.

"Fine. We'll do as you say." Yamamoto agreed without hesitation.

If Yamabuki Chidori's plan truly succeeded, the Gotei 13 would become the biggest winner.

Afterward, Yamamoto summoned every member of the Gotei 13 to gather in his room.

The current members of the Gotei 13 were Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Shunshun Shidō, Saitō Fubōfu, Tenjirō Kirinji, and Yamabuki Chidori.

As for Sashō Chōjirō, he only counted as half a member, and he was still young. They could not tell him about this matter.

"Everyone, this is the plan. What do you think?" Yamamoto looked at his subordinates.

Yamabuki Chidori did not care in the slightest what they thought of his plan. What kind of people were the original Gotei 13? A pack of utterly deranged lunatics, every last one of them villains!

A thousand years later, Yhwach had described Yamamoto from a thousand years ago this way: "He would not hesitate to sacrifice his subordinates for victory."

And Retsu Unohana, who had not yet appeared, was even known as the unprecedented great villain of Soul Society. Even now, Yamabuki Chidori had no idea how Sister Hana had earned that title!

"I have no objections! We're just looking for some fun anyway." Shunshun Shidō smiled. He had joined the Gotei 13 purely for amusement. As the head of one of the Five Noble Clans, he had possessed everything from the moment he was born. The meaning of life was simply to keep finding new fun.

Saitō Fubōfu looked excited. For that crazy girl, as long as someone was willing to fight with her, nothing else mattered!

"Tenjirō Kirinji, as the medic, take those two children and leave the Seireitei temporarily tomorrow. Come back a little later. As for the rest of you, be ready for battle at any moment," Yamamoto barked.

Tenjirō Kirinji did not say much. In this chaotic era, good people could not survive.

And so, the plan was unanimously approved, and everyone went off to prepare.

Early the next morning, Tenjirō Kirinji took Hanako and Sashō Chōjirō out of the Seireitei. They publicly claimed they were taking the two children up the mountain to gather herbs. Neither child suspected a thing and followed Tenjirō Kirinji away.

At this time, the Seireitei was still peaceful. The nobles were enjoying their leisurely, tranquil lives—drinking tea, arranging flowers, or chatting about which young and beautiful girl they had married again.

Shunshun Shidō stood at the highest point in the entire Seireitei, looking down at the nobles' rotten way of life with great pleasure.

He wondered whether those people who normally held themselves so high and mighty would wet themselves in terror shortly.

He took out an egg-sized pill from his clothes and flicked it fiercely into the air. The pill exploded in midair!

What he had thrown was Hollow Lure. Its greatest use was attracting Hollows. In the future, Uryu Ishida would use the same method to lure in a huge number of Hollows in order to settle things with Kurosaki Ichigo.

However, Shunshun Shidō had used an enormous dose of Hollow Lure. As for what sort of monsters it would bring in, everyone would soon find out!

For the first few minutes, the Seireitei remained calm. Nothing happened.

Yamamoto sat in his room practicing calligraphy, paying no heed to anything outside.

But very soon, the first Hollow was drawn in.

In this era, Shino Academy had not yet been established. Apart from a few elite nobles, most Shinigami had received no formal education and possessed poor combat ability. Many guards employed by noble families were only trying to make a living. They could frighten the troublesome commoners of the Rukon District, but asking them to fight Hollows was practically asking for their lives!

Soon, the first scream rang out in the Seireitei.

A high-ranking noble was holding his newly married concubine while throwing his weight around before his subordinates. Then a Hollow pounced directly onto his face and bit off half his body in one bite.

The scene immediately descended into chaos.

Most nobles did indeed possess higher Reiatsu than ordinary citizens, but high Reiatsu did not mean strong combat ability. Without special training, they knew nothing of swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat, footwork, or Kido. No matter how much Reiatsu you had, before a Hollow, you were only a larger piece of meat!

When the guards around them saw their master being devoured by a Hollow, their first reaction was to turn and run.

What a joke! Why risk their lives for a few hundred coins a month?

And there was more than one Hollow. The second, the third, and then they filled the sky!

Yamabuki Chidori looked stiffly at Shunshun Shidō. "How potent a dose did you use? Why did you bring in so many Hollows?"

Shunshun Shidō smiled. "I threw out all the Hollow Lure the Shihōin Clan had. Isn't it lively?"

As he spoke, he leaped up and kicked an approaching Hollow into pieces.

Those nobles who normally believed themselves above everyone else were chased by Hollows until they wailed and cried. Of course, there were quite a few powerful fighters among them, but they were already struggling just to protect themselves, let alone protect anyone else.

"Hahaha! What a sorry sight! They call themselves the nobles of Soul Society, yet they're this useless!" Shunshun Shidō threw back his head and laughed at the miserable scene before him.

Sure enough, every member of the original Gotei 13 was insane. Not one of them had a normal mind.

When Saitō Fubōfu saw so many Hollows, she burst into manic laughter, grabbed her sword, and charged in. She slaughtered wildly, hacking without restraint as flesh and blood flew everywhere. She tore through the Hollow horde back and forth seven times!

Yamabuki Chidori also drew his sword and joined the battle.

His Reiatsu was now more than twice as strong as that of an ordinary Lieutenant. Ordinary Hollows were no match for him at all.

However, more and more Hollows were being drawn in. Looking around, there were at least several thousand, perhaps even tens of thousands!

The three of them could kill until nightfall and still not finish them all.

Yamamoto still sat in his room practicing calligraphy, turning a deaf ear to the screams outside.

His goal in founding the Gotei 13 was to suppress this chaotic age. These self-righteous nobles were also part of that chaos, and they too had to be suppressed!

At that moment, a Hollow smashed through the Captain Commander's room. Yet before it could get close, it was crushed by the Reiatsu around Yamamoto.

Fierce battles erupted throughout the Seireitei. The Shinigami gradually came to their senses, and the major noble families joined forces to barely resist the Hollows' attacks.

"Captain! It's about time for you to make your move," Yamabuki Chidori called from outside the room.

Yamamoto finished the final stroke of his calligraphy, slowly rose to his feet, strode outside, and drew his Zanpakuto.

"Bankai, Zanka no Tachi!"

P.S. I got it wrong before. Thanks for the correction; it has been changed.

I Alone Suppress the World

"Wait, old man! Don't use Bankai yet, I'm still here!" Yamabuki Chidori cried in terror. He then used Flash Step repeatedly to get away from Yamamoto. The next second, an incomparably terrifying pillar of fire shot into the heavens. Yamabuki Chidori had been only slightly too slow, yet his hair and eyebrows caught fire, his clothes were scorched black, and his skin burned painfully from the heat. Had he been a few seconds later, he might have been roasted alive!

The instant Yamamoto unleashed his Bankai, the sky over all Soul Society changed color. The originally clear heavens were baked crimson by the Blazing Fire Sword, triggering a celestial upheaval!

Huge numbers of Hollows were roasted alive and fell from the sky before they could even approach the pillar of fire!

Reiatsu hundreds of times more terrifying than a volcanic eruption swept across the entire Seireitei with unstoppable force. Whether Shinigami or Hollow, everyone stopped fighting and stared at the monster before them with utter terror.

"What... what is that thing?" The head of the Tsunayashiro Clan, one of the Five Noble Clans, trembled all over under the pressure of that invincible Reiatsu. In his hand, he held Kyōten'en, the treasured sword passed down through the Tsunayashiro Clan for generations.

At that moment, he felt that his inherited sword was nothing but a fire poker. No, it was worse than a fire poker!

Most Hollows had no intelligence. Upon sensing that unmatched power, they immediately fled. A massive Garganta opened in the sky, and every Hollow desperately rushed toward it, hoping to escape this terrifying place!

Yamamoto watched the Hollows in the sky with cold eyes. He did not even take a step. He merely slowly raised the Blazing Fire Sword in his hand.

He lightly swung his blade!

Flames capable of effortlessly incinerating everything immediately enveloped the entire sky as far as the eye could see. Every Hollow in the sky was vaporized in an instant. They died so quickly that they felt not the slightest pain!

The flames of the Blazing Fire Sword covered an area larger than the entire Seireitei!

The sky turned blazing red. The Shinigami on the ground stared blankly upward, unable to imagine what would happen if that slash struck the ground!

The entire Seireitei would be effortlessly erased from the map, leaving behind not a trace!

Dead silence!

Dead silence!

Still dead silence!

Yamabuki Chidori swallowed with great difficulty. When he watched the anime in his previous life, he had always wondered how the old man had defeated Yhwach, who possessed the All-Knowing All-Powerful, a thousand years ago.

After seeing that slash, Yamabuki Chidori began to feel a little sorry for Yhwach!

Yhwach was incredible! He had actually survived beneath the Blazing Fire Sword, even though he had been beaten into paralysis for a thousand years! Still incredible!

If it had been Yamabuki Chidori himself, getting just a little closer might have gotten him roasted alive!

Shunshun Shidō's eyes were filled with shock and admiration. As expected of my boss. I picked the right person to follow.

"I am Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Captain Commander of the Gotei 13! With us guarding Soul Society, those who offend us shall be punished, no matter how far away they may be!"

Yamamoto's voice resounded throughout the entire Seireitei!

Yamamoto had possessed some fame before, but he had not yet reached the point where everyone knew his name. However, after today's battle, there was not a single person in the Seireitei who did not know who Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto was.

Reverence for the strong was carved into the bones of human beings.

The same was true for these Shinigami. Even nobles could not change the DNA in their bones.

A great number of Shinigami had already begun planning how to follow Yamamoto and join the Gotei 13!

"Your plan was pretty good!" Shunshun Shidō looked at Yamabuki Chidori with a smile.

"Not at all! I merely did my part to ease the Captain Commander's worries!" Yamabuki Chidori smiled.

His plan was very simple, but extremely practical.

In short, it was to first suppress, then elevate.

Take the same loaf of bread.

If you casually handed it to someone walking down the street, they would call you crazy.

But if you waited until they had starved for three or four days, were dizzy with hunger, and on the verge of death, then gave them that loaf of bread, they would treat you as their savior and thank you with all their heart.

The bread you gave was the same, but the different circumstances produced vastly different results.

Of course, the core of this plan was Yamamoto's absolute combat power.

First, Shunshun Shidō used Hollow Lure to attract a huge number of Hollows, creating chaos and destruction in the Seireitei and making the nobles feel crisis and despair.

When they believed they were certain to die, Yamamoto would step in, save the entire Seireitei, and conveniently advertise the Gotei 13.

Yamabuki Chidori had also told the Captain Commander that if he was going to act, he had to create an absolutely shocking effect. Ideally, he would kill every Hollow in a single strike.

Both might defeat an opponent, but which was more satisfying? Fighting an enemy for three hundred rounds before barely winning, or killing them instantly with one strike? Which left a greater impact?

To display Yamamoto's power, Yamabuki Chidori had set the goal that Yamamoto must turn the entire battlefield around with a single blow. Even if he could not kill every Hollow, he had to let the other Shinigami and nobles witness Yamamoto's unmatched strength.

In the end, the old man went even further and directly used Bankai.