I'm in Bleach, starting with Unlimited Blade Works.

The next moment, Hirako Shinji felt himself in complete darkness. His sight, hearing, smell, spiritual sense, and taste all disappeared, leaving only his sense of touch to perceive a Zanpakuto piercing through his body.

"laugh!"

The next moment, Hirako Shinji regained his senses, swayed slightly, and then collapsed to the ground, blood gushing from his chest and staining the ground red.

A man walked past Hirako Shinji, slowly sheathed his Zanpakuto, and returned behind Aizen Sousuke.

"Third Seat of the Ninth Division, Tosen Kaname?"

Upon seeing the man wearing an eye patch, Shinji Hirako's pupils contracted.

He never expected that the person who had just ambushed everyone was actually the third seat of Kensei Muguruma's 9th Division.

Moreover, this man has hidden himself far too well.

Based on the ability he just used to ambush me, his strength is already no less than that of Kensei Muguruma.

"hateful!"

"Kaname Tosen, if I remember correctly, Kensei has always treated you well since you joined the Ninth Division, right? Why would you betray Kensei?"

"Please don't blame him, Captain Hirako."

Aizen stepped forward and spoke in a gentle tone, but his words were terrifying: "I sent Tōsen to the Ninth Division. So, Tōsen did not betray Captain Kensei Muguruma. From the very beginning, Tōsen has been my subordinate."

"Your subordinates?"

Hirako Shinji glanced at Ichimaru Gin. Given Tosen's fate, he assumed that Ichimaru Gin, like Tosen Kaname, had always been Aizen Sousuke's subordinate.

"Aizen..."

"As expected, you did all of this."

"Ah, as expected of Captain Hirako, your words make it seem as if you are not at all surprised that I did this."

"Could you tell me when you noticed it, Captain Hirako?"

"Is that even a question? Of course, we already discovered it when you were still in your mother's womb!"

Aizen Sousuke tilted his head, closed his eyes, and sighed, "I see..."

Aizen Sousuke has always carefully cultivated his public image. He is gentle and approachable on the outside, strict with himself and lenient with others on the inside. He selflessly teaches advanced knowledge to the students of the Shinigami Academy. Even when Shinigami from other divisions come to ask him questions, Aizen Sousuke patiently answers their questions.

It's safe to say that if there were an award for the most popular Shinigami within Seireitei, no one but Aizen Sousuke would be the winner.

However, this carefully cultivated persona, built up over hundreds of years, seemed to vanish entirely in the face of Shinji Hirako.

When he was with Hirako Shinji, Aizen Sousuke could always sense that Hirako Shinji was wary of him.

It was as if Hirako Shinji had been watching him, waiting for him to make a mistake, and then simply eliminating him.

Over the years, he had always thought that he had revealed a flaw somewhere that allowed Hirako Shinji to discover it, but he never expected that the final result would be like this.

"From the first moment I saw you, I knew you were a very dangerous and untrustworthy man."

"I've taken you into the Fifth Division and made you my vice-captain, all for the sake of better monitoring you, Aizen!"

"Hum..."

Aizen Sousuke chuckled softly from his throat: "I'm very grateful to you, Captain Hirako."

"It's thanks to your suspicion of me that you haven't noticed..."

"Didn't I say I noticed it from the beginning?"

Chapter 141 Aizen Sosuke

“No, Captain Hirako Shinji, your suspicion and wariness of me are exactly what I need for my plan.”

"So, in other words, it wasn't you who chose me, but rather I who made you feel like you chose me, Captain Hirako."

"Cough cough..."

Shinji Hirako coughed up a mouthful of blood. "Aizen, you bastard..."

"Do you understand, Captain Hirako?"

Looking at Hirako Shinji lying on the ground, Aizen Sousuke emphasized again: "It wasn't you who chose me, but me who chose you."

"Aizen!"

Enraged by Aizen Sousuke's humiliation, Hirako Shinji was furious. The next moment, a large amount of white substance began to gush out from Hirako Shinji's wound.

However, compared to the others, the rate at which white substance oozed from Hirako Shinji's wound was much slower.

Looking at Hirako Shinji's wounds, Aizen Sousuke let out a sigh.

"Captain Hirako, the more excited the person conducting the phasing experiment is, the faster they will phasing out."

"Others quickly completed their Hollowfication after being invaded by the Hollow's spiritual pressure."

"Captain Hirako knew the truth of all this, yet he was still able to suppress the speed of his intangibility, which is astonishing."

"You guy..."

Upon hearing Aizen's words, Hirako Shinji took a deep breath and suppressed his emotions.

Sure enough, the white substance gushing from the wound slowed down considerably.

However, it still covered Hirako Shinji's body at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"In that case, I'll say something to Captain Hirako that will stir your emotions even more."

"Captain Hirako, over all these years, do you know how much time I've truly spent following behind you?"

"what?"

Shinji Hirako looked up, not understanding what Aizen meant.

Because of his wariness of Aizen, Hirako Shinji did not want Aizen to leave his sight.

Under normal circumstances, he would take Aizen Sousuke with him wherever he went.

It was only after having a long chat with Erin, the captain of the 11th Division, that he began to trust this guy a little.

"Captain Hirako, the ability of my Zanpakuto, Kyoka Suigetsu, is not that it can turn into mist after being released, making it impossible for the enemy to distinguish friend from foe."

"Instead, it's complete hypnosis."

"What? You mean, complete hypnosis?"

"Yes."

"What does something look like? What sound does it make? What does it feel like to touch? What does it smell like? What does it taste like to eat?"

"Smell, taste, sight, hearing, and touch are the five senses that humans use to understand the world."

"The ability of 'Mirror Flower, Water Moon' allows me to manipulate the enemy's five senses at will, and to reveal all things and phenomena to others at will."

"It makes people see flies as dragons, deafening roars as the buzzing of mosquitoes, and the pain of a scratch as a fatal wound to the heart..."

"I call this ability—complete hypnosis."

“Captain Hirako, because of your wariness of me, you completely avoid communicating with me, yet you never let me disappear from your sight.”

"So, all I need to do is let any person follow you and make you see that person as me."

"Later, Captain Pingzi, you suddenly valued me highly, confided in me, and even trusted me a little, which almost made that person give himself away."

"After all, I can teach him how I speak and how I respond when I'm dealing with other people, but I can't teach him to clearly express my thoughts in his communication with Captain Hirako."

"Therefore, for the past few decades, I have had to personally follow Captain Hirako, and we only had time to operate at night..."

"Captain Hirako, the time I've spent following you is only these last few decades."

"If it weren't for Captain Hirako's care over the past few decades, I might have been able to complete this experiment twenty years earlier."

"hateful!"

After sheathing his Zanpakuto, Aizen continued to say to Shinji Hirako, "Captain Hirako, now, perhaps you should apologize to your comrades who have been implicated because of you."

"Because you are the one I chose, Captain Hirako's companions were all implicated by you, Captain Hirako, and were chosen by me to become my test subjects, ending up in this situation."

"Aizen!"

If Aizen's previous words had managed to keep Hirako Shinji calm, it was this last sentence that finally broke him down.

These people, it turns out, are all because of me...

After shouting, Hirako Shinji instantly stood up, ready to attack Aizen.

but……

"laugh!"

A large amount of white substance poured out from Hirako Shinji's mouth, eyes, and ears, and quickly condensed into half of a holographic mask on Hirako Shinji's face.

"Only with this level of provocation could you, Captain Hirako, complete the Hollowfication, allowing me to collect more results. Captain Hirako, thank you so much."

"hateful!"

Hirako Shinji felt his vision begin to change, and at the same time, a violent killing intent surged in his heart.

"Oh no, this is... my body is undergoing accelerated mutation..."

"Oh right, I remember Aizen just said that the more excited a person is, the easier it is for them to become Hollowfied."

"So, if I keep my mind calm, the rate of this alienation will slow down."

With that thought in mind, Shinji Hirako quickly calmed himself down and then launched an attack on Aizen.

"clang!"

Unfortunately, the sword strike did not actually hit Aizen, as it was intercepted by Tosen Kaname halfway through.

"Dang-dang-dang-dang..."

Next, Shinji Hirako brandished his Zanpakuto and launched a frenzied attack on Kaname Tosen, sending him flying with just a few sword strikes.

"What... what does this feel like?"

"This doesn't feel like my own fight..."

Although he easily defeated Tosen Kaname, Hirako Shinji felt little excitement.

On the contrary, he had many more doubts at this moment.