MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 182 The Character's Self-Perception

Location: Inside the Seireitei in Soul Society, in a hidden underground facility...

A huge screen was meticulously divided into more than a dozen different angles, all focusing on the same scene—Ichigo Kurosaki's brief encounter with Grimmjow.

During the interactions between Kurosaki Ichigo, controlled by Fang Zheng, and Grimmjow, every action and dialogue was repeatedly fast-forwarded, rewound, and paused on this screen, analyzed meticulously as if dissected.

"Then I'll go now... see you next time..."

"Then...I'll be going now, see you next time..."

……

The sound of the same scene at different times is overlapped, compressed, and played quickly, like chaotic noise, hoarsely coming out of the speakers.

To avoid being detected by the technology development zone, the size of the interdimensional spiritual particle signal receiving station built inside the Seireitei was limited, resulting in a poor signal. Some hoarse and distorted sounds overlapped, making them sound even worse.

However, the noise had no effect on the elegant and handsome man in front of the screen.

He wore black-rimmed glasses, his brown hair was neatly combed, and his face was gentle and handsome. At this moment, he was crossing his arms, striking a contemplative pose similar to that of Gendo Ikari.

Possessing superhuman reflexes, he can perceive his opponent's movements as slow as a snail's crawl in battle, easily crushing them. This also allows him to process the information before him with composure.

The lenses of his non-prescription glasses reflected the dim light from the screen, obscuring his eyes, and his face showed no emotion.

However, the composed smile that had always been there had vanished from the corner of his mouth.

He murmured softly, "Ichigo Kurosaki... player... control... real-time rendering... changes... completing the backstory..."

"Oh, interesting..."

"This is truly... a very, very interesting theory..."

Aizen suddenly turned off the screen, staring at his reflection on the black screen. Looking at those brown eyes, a faint smile returned to the corners of his mouth.

In that hazy, gray acting space, Aoki Kazuya's expression was conflicted. He stared intently at the face reflected on the large screen in front of him—Aizen Sosuke.

At the same time, a series of options appeared simultaneously, constantly switching in front of him, allowing him to choose between talking to himself or taking other actions, but Aoki Kazuya never made any choice.

Among the numerous options, there are many that deviate slightly from or significantly from Aizen Sousuke's character profile, such as remaining silent, chuckling, roaring, hysterical, laughing out loud, and applying hair gel to the hands...

Except for a few options, all other options require at least 10,000 E-level world origin points to offset the backlash from the world's will.

Kazuya Aoki had saved up for quite a while before finally buying the Aizen character card. In order to seize the opportunity to make a fortune, he naturally stored up a lot of Origin Points for future use. However, looking at the numbers behind these options, he was still very hesitant.

He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "What the hell happened today?"

"I was watching the surveillance footage and found a Kurosaki Ichigo who seems to be either a self-awakened or an intruder. After listening to all this nonsense he's spouting, now it turns out that Aizen, the character he's playing, wants to talk to me, the actor playing him?"

"Truly... no wonder he was designed to be a highly intelligent character in the original story."

“However…” Aoki Kazuya’s expression was complicated.

If the surveillance footage we just saw is accurate, the actor who played Grimmjow was forcibly separated from Ichigo Kurosaki by that mysterious, incredibly powerful, and unidentified being. And simultaneously, he managed to keep the character from immediately going offline.

However, when Ichigo Kurosaki tried to communicate with that guy, the connection was suddenly cut off.

From an ordinary otaku who died in an accident to becoming a wanderer of the heavens, Kazuya Aoki can be considered a seasoned veteran.

Whether it was the dozens of safe role-playing missions, large and small, in different types of plots such as romance, comedy, and war, or the more dangerous missions that required his true self to descend, he had never encountered or heard of such a situation.

"An omnipotent space, it couldn't possibly have forcibly taken that guy offline because it was afraid of the guy inside Kurosaki Ichigo, right?"

"Then, it's possible that the guy inside Grimmjow, while trying to communicate with Ichigo Kurosaki, rapidly exhausted his source points. Either he ran out of points and stopped on his own, or he was directly devoured by the world's will and died?"

Although he couldn't be 100% certain, he dared not try it and see if he had enough Origin Points.

If you're not careful and get completely drained, or even killed by the backlash of the world's will, then you're really in deep trouble.

Moreover, to be honest, Kazuya Aoki also felt that Ichigo Kurosaki's strange theory of constantly filling in the backstory seemed quite reasonable.

If this theory has some degree of correctness, then even if Aoki Kazuya himself tries to consume a large amount of Origin Points to do something that is somewhat different from Aizen's character design, it would be acceptable.

For example, if he suddenly starts singing, dancing, and rapping on the spot, wouldn't that just add and complete a bit of backstory for the character Aizen Susuke?
For example, let Aizen's unrecorded backstory include a scene where he went to the human world, watched some strange TV program, found it interesting, and then suddenly felt like singing and dancing.
Perhaps, in order to truly enable the actor and the person being portrayed to have a certain degree of independent communication, it would be like the mysterious being portraying Ichigo Kurosaki in the video just now, temporarily severing the actor portraying Grimmjow's control over him, thus creating two independent entities.

In this situation, it's as if one has transformed from a performer back into an independent being, which makes some kind of communication possible.

……

Looking at the reflection on the screen, Aizen didn't expect his reflection in the mirror to make any strange reaction.

He simply murmured to himself, “Grimmjow is indeed like a beast, weak and illiterate. After establishing Las Noches, I set up special cultural classes to give the generally illiterate Arrancar a little more knowledge, but most of them never bothered to attend.”

"Naturally, he wouldn't be able to understand what Kurosaki Ichigo was saying."

"Of course, I am Aizen Kokusuke. If there really is some kind of backstory, although I don't consider myself a smart person, I am at least not a stupid person. I can understand and comprehend what this concept is all about."

"However, this theory can neither be falsified nor confirmed to be true."

"If, within some kind of 'inside' of Aizen Sosuke, there are also so-called players manipulating things, then, according to Kurosaki Ichigo, even if I believe I am aware of your existence, it is still impossible for me to have any communication with you."

Aizen placed his hand on his chest and smiled calmly. "If what Ichigo Kurosaki said is true, then no matter if my past has a detailed backstory, no matter how many loopholes and errors such a backstory has, or how brief it is, it is still impossible for me to have any related knowledge."

"Even if I were to extract all my memories and examine them one by one through some means, I still wouldn't be able to detect any logical errors or monotonous blanks in my memories or background stories."

He recited the mantra in a low voice, then stood up and slowly walked out of the room.

He leisurely walked up the circular staircase and calmly returned to the Fifth Division's room.

Aizen sat calmly at the filing desk, picked up his brush, and quickly processed the various documents that had accumulated in the team that day. When he heard light footsteps outside the door, he smiled slightly and put down his brush: "Perfect timing."

"Captain, today's dish is stewed tofu!" The door opened, and Hinamori Momo, the vice-captain of the Fifth Division, smiled as she brought in the carefully prepared dinner.

(End of this chapter)