"The problem we're facing now is how to get in touch with Sōgo Shihoin!?" Ichigo Kurosaki asked the group. "We've always contacted Soul Society through Kisuke Urahara, but now that Kisuke Urahara him, what are we going to do?!"
"Why don't we ask Uncle Kurosaki?" Orihime Inoue suggested after thinking for a moment. "Uncle Kurosaki is Soul Reaper too, right?!"
"That's a good idea!" Ichigo Kurosaki nodded slightly, "Although I don't think that idiot will be of any help."
After everyone reached a consensus, they quickly returned to Ichigo Kurosaki's house.
"Huh!? A way to contact Soul Society!?" Isshin Kurosaki shook his head immediately upon hearing this. "Sorry, there's no such thing."
"Uncle Isshin Kurosaki, aren't you Soul Reaper!?" Orihime Inoue was a little surprised by Isshin Kurosaki's words. "As a Soul Reaper, you must be in contact with the Soul Society, right!?"
" Soul Reaper!?"
"I stopped doing that kind of thing a long time ago!" Isshin Kurosaki waved his hand at Orihime Inoue. "Ever since I met Masaki, I've given up being Soul Reaper!"
"Yes!" At that moment, Masaki Kurosaki, carrying a bowl of sweet cookies, nodded slightly as she walked towards the group. "I remember~ that day, my dear, you shouted loudly..."
Masaki Kurosaki paused briefly before her tone shifted abruptly, "I'm quitting being Soul Reaper! The Shiba Clan!"
"That's it!" Isshin Kurosaki nodded slightly and explained to his son, Ichigo Kurosaki, and his classmates.
"With parents like these..." Uryū Ishida looked at Ichigo Kurosaki with a pitiful expression, "You've had a tough time too!"
"You'll get used to it." Ichigo Kurosaki sighed helplessly, but thankfully his heart was strong enough that he had already gotten used to his parents. "This isn't the time to talk about anything else. I told you he was unreliable, right? Now that we can't contact them, how are we supposed to contact Soul Society?"
"Why don't you go find that idiot Kisuke Urahara? That guy has something that allows you to contact Soul Society directly!" Isshin Kurosaki seemed to remember something. "If we go to her, we can contact Soul Society directly."
"If we could find Kisuke Urahara, do you think we would still be looking for you?" Ichigo Kurosaki frowned deeply after hearing Isshin Kurosaki's words. "We found Kisuke Urahara before, but unfortunately... unfortunately, Kisuke Urahara stayed behind to fight the enemy alone to save us. I think he's probably dead by now."
"What!?" Isshin Kurosaki's eyes widened in shock. " Kisuke Urahara is dead!? Is this for real!?"
"No, I didn't say he died." Ichigo Kurosaki. "I meant he's probably in grave danger!"
"Damn it..." Tears streamed down Isshin Kurosaki's face. " Kisuke Urahara, you just left like that... This isn't right..."
"You've made me so happy!?" Isshin Kurosaki's expression suddenly changed from sorrow to joy. "Honey! How about we go eat sushi today!? To celebrate, that swindler Kisuke Urahara is finally dead! Honey, you have no idea how much money that bastard swindled from me when I first World of the Living!? Now he's finally got his comeuppance and is dead!"
"Father, how can you be so cold-blooded!" Ichigo Kurosaki said angrily, looking at Isshin Kurosaki, who showed no sadness but rather excitement after Kisuke Urahara's death.
"I don't just want to be happy alone!" Ignoring Ichigo's angry expression, Isshin Kurosaki Ichigo Kurosaki pulled out his phone. "I'm also going to call Sōgo Shihoin and make him happy too."
"Wait..." After hearing what Isshin Kurosaki said, Ichigo Kurosaki grabbed Isshin Kurosaki's wrist.
"What are you doing!?" Isshin Kurosaki's eyes flashed with anger as he watched his son's outrageous behavior.
"Didn't you say you couldn't contact Soul Society?!" Ichigo Kurosaki pointed at Isshin Kurosaki's wrist. "So what do you mean by saying you're going to call Captain Sōgo Shihoin now?!"
"..." Upon hearing this, Isshin Kurosaki looked at Ichigo Kurosaki with an expression as if he were an idiot. "I don't remember my son being so stupid. Listen, Ichigo Kurosaki, my foolish son! I only said that I couldn't contact Soul Society, I never said that I couldn't contact Sōgo Shihoin. Contacting Sōgo Shihoin and contacting Soul Society are two different things, do you understand?!"
"..." Ichigo Kurosaki fell silent. Fine! To conflate contacting Sōgo Shihoin with contacting Soul Society was just Ichigo Kurosaki's wishful thinking, and it had nothing to do with anyone else!
"Beep beep beep..." Isshin Kurosaki said as he pressed the dial button.
"Hello!?" A moment later, the phone in Isshin Kurosaki's hand was connected. A slightly calm voice came from the other end—it was Sōgo Shihoin...
"That won't do!" Just as Isshin Kurosaki was about to say something, a clear, melodious female voice rang in everyone's ears. At the same time, the phone in Isshin Kurosaki's hand suddenly exploded...
"What!?" Ichigo Kurosaki stared wide-eyed at the suddenly appearing Aura Michibane. "Since you're here, it means... Manager Urahara is finished, right!?"
"Yes!" Aura Michibane smiled, "He passed away peacefully."
"Damn it!" Ichigo Kurosaki's eyes flashed with rage as he unleashed his Bankai right in front of Aura Michibane's Bankai, " Bankai: Tensa Zangetsu!"
"By the way~" Aura Michibane suddenly laughed as she looked at Ichigo Kurosaki who Bankai, "Mr. Ichigo Kurosaki, you just died..."
"Heh, you think I'd listen to your nonsense!?" Ichigo Kurosaki's eyes were resolute; he would absolutely not listen to Aura Michibane. "I'm right here, alive and well."
"No, no, no!" Aura Michibane waved his hand. "I wasn't talking about your soul state! I was talking about your physical body! When you saw me, I remember you went straight into your soul state, right? And when you ran away, you didn't take your physical body with you, right!?"
"..." Ichigo Kurosaki suddenly fell silent after hearing what Aura Michibane said. "No way!?"
"Yes!" Aura Michibane nodded slightly, "When you left, Mr. Kisuke Urahara used the Ninety-Nine Hadō Five Dragon Destruction to defeat me! Your body, along with the Urahara Shop, flew into the sky and turned into dust!"
" Kisuke Urahara! What are you doing?! Kisuke Urahara!" Ichigo Kurosaki knelt down and clutched his head after hearing Aura Michibane's words. "Didn't you boast that you were the smartest Soul Society?! Why are the enemies still alive, but I'm dead?!"
"Cheer up, Ichigo Kurosaki! You're only dead! Kisuke Urahara lost the whole store!" Aura Michibane gently patted Ichigo Kurosaki's shoulder and whispered words of comfort.
"If you can't speak human language, then please don't bother, thank you!" Ichigo Kurosaki's eyes twitched slightly after hearing Aura Michibane's words, and he spoke coldly.
"Hey! Aren't you happy!? Isn't this how young people think these days?" Aura Michibane said, pulling out a novel called "The Brainless CEO Falls in Love with Me." "That's what it says~"
"Enough with the nonsense!" Ichigo Kurosaki Zanpakuto once more, aiming it at Aura Michibane. " Aura Michibane, I will utterly defeat you here!"
"You can't beat me, so save your breath~" Aura Michibane looked at Ichigo Kurosaki, "In the face of absolute power, there's nothing you can do, Little Ichigo ~"
"Just hand over that girl," said Aura Michibane, pointing at Riruka Dokugamine was huddled in the corner trembling, "And I'll let you go! Otherwise, everyone here will die, including your father and mother."
"You're dreaming!" Ichigo Kurosaki Zanpakuto, his body ablaze with Spiritual Pressure, and shoved Aura Michibane out of the room! "Take Riruka and get out of here!"
Before leaving, Ichigo Kurosaki turned back and shouted to the people behind him...
However, when Ichigo Kurosaki turned around, he found that everyone behind him was staring at him coldly.
"Huh!?" Ichigo Kurosaki knew he had never seen such a cold gaze before. Beads of sweat trickled down his forehead. "What kind of looks are those!?"
"Hello, Ichigo Kurosaki!" In the room, a handsome man holding a katana and wearing overalls greeted Ichigo Kurosaki with a smile.
"You are..." Ichigo Kurosaki looked at the handsome man in front of him, his eyes filled with confusion.
"Speed!" Uryū Ishida didn't speak, but instead unleashed a barrage of Reishi arrows at Ichigo Kurosaki. "Sorry, Ichigo Kurosaki!"
" Ishida, what are you doing!?" Ichigo Kurosaki kept avoiding my gaze, his eyes filled with confusion.
" Giant's Right Arm!" Just as Ichigo Kurosaki dodged, Yasutora Sado, wielding the power of a giant, leaped into the air and punched Ichigo Kurosaki down from the sky...
" Yasutora! What are you doing!?" Ichigo Kurosaki stared at Yasutora with disbelief in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Ichigo Kurosaki!" Yasutora Sado silently walked to the side of the handsome man.
"Hello, Ichigo Kurosaki! My name is Shūkurō Tsukishima ~" The handsome man smiled slightly and introduced himself to Ichigo Kurosaki, "I am a Fullbring user, the culprit behind all the disasters before you~"
"You bastard! What have you done to them!?" Ichigo Kurosaki, after hearing the handsome man's words, gripped his blade and charged at him. "Why are they all like this!?"
"Hehe~" Shūkurō Tsukishima smiled slightly at Ichigo Kurosaki, "I simply turned all of them from your friends into my friends~"
"What!?" Ichigo Kurosaki's eyes trembled. "What... did you say!?"
"Look at my sword!" Shūkurō Tsukishima said, picking up the knife in his hand. "Look, this knife in my hand is called the NTR Sword. Whoever stabs me with this sword will become my friend. Similarly, whoever I want to forget will forget me. Look, it's like this~"
As Shūkurō Tsukishima spoke, Orihime Inoue, Yasutora Sado, Yuzu Kurosaki, Karin Kurosaki Shūkurō Tsukishima surrounded him in the center.
"You..." Ichigo Kurosaki's body trembled uncontrollably as he looked at Orihime Inoue, who was taking Inoue Orihime, Yasutora Sado, Yuzu Kurosaki, and Shūkurō Tsukishima Karin Kurosaki prisoner.
"Pfft!" And then, at that moment, Kūgo Ginjō stabbed Ichigo Kurosaki through the chest with his sword.
"..." Ichigo Kurosaki stared in disbelief at the hole in his chest that had been pierced through. "What!?"
"Hello~" Kūgo Ginjō stood behind Ichigo Kurosaki, smiling slightly, "Long time no see~"
"You are...?" Ichigo Kurosaki blankly at Kūgo Ginjō behind him, "That old man!?"
" Ichigo Kurosaki, are you in despair!?" Kūgo Ginjō whispered in his hoarse voice in Kūgo Ginjō's ear, "I intend to reap your power when you are at your most desperate!"
The instant Kūgo Ginjō finished speaking, Ichigo Kurosaki's power vanished completely...
"Hahaha..." Kūgo Ginjō, having completely plundered Ichigo Kurosaki's power, laughed loudly, "This power is simply too strong!"
"..." After all the power disappeared, Ichigo Kurosaki changed from his original Soul Reaper state to a figure dressed in a white robe.
At this moment, Ichigo Kurosaki was like a wandering soul, devoid of any Spiritual Power, drifting in the wind...
Come, everyone!
I will give you my strength!
Kūgo Ginjō waved to the crowd.
The next second, Riruka Dokugamine, Giriko Kutsuzawa, Yukio, Jackie Tristan, and Shūkurō Tsukishima, along with Aura Michibane, a total of six people, walked up to Kūgo Ginjō's side.
"I bestow this power upon you..." Kūgo Ginjō hesitated for a few seconds, looking at Aura Michibane, before finally transferring the power to Aura Michibane...
In an instant, everyone present, except for Aura Michibane, saw their power double, and each person's strength surpassed their own limits...
" Riruka..." Ichigo Kurosaki looked at Riruka Dokugamine with a complicated expression, "You..."
"I'm sorry..." Riruka Dokugamine knelt down, standing in front of Ichigo Kurosaki, a complicated smile on her face. " Ichigo Kurosaki, I'm a liar. I deceived you."
At that moment, Riruka Dokugamine realized she had lost her love...
" Ichigo Kurosaki, you're so pathetic!" Kūgo Ginjō looked at Ichigo Kurosaki and let out a mocking laugh. "Now you have nothing left, your friends' power, everything you had has become mine..."
(End of this chapter)