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

Especially after Ise Nanao graduated from the Shinigami Academy and became a true Shinigami, and joined the "Women Shinigami Association" through Haruko's introduction, their feelings for each other did not fade, but instead deepened.

"Well……"

Kyoraku Shunsui crossed his arms and walked with Erin toward the Kuchiki family's house.

"Captain Erin, when you went to arrest Captain Urahara, did you find any trace of Captain Hirako and the others?"

"Captain Kyoraku, what you really want to ask is whether I've seen any trace of Lisa Yagimaru, the vice-captain of the 8th Division, right?"

Erin chuckled and teased Kyoraku Shunsui.

Although the captains of the Gotei 13 all belong to Captain-Commander Yamamoto, if there is no interaction between the captains and they are not from the same cohort, then there is no real friendship between them.

Take Erin for example. Most of the Grim Reapers who graduated from the Shinigami Academy with him in the same year have probably died over the past hundred years. Erin has never met any of his familiar classmates.

Of the thirteen divisions, the ones who had dealings with Erin were initially the second division captain Yoruichi Shihouin, then the sixth division captain Byakuya Kuchiki, and later the twelfth division captain Kisuke Urahara.

These three are the captains who have the best personal relationship with Erin.

Next is Kensei Muguruma, the captain of the Ninth Division. He was saved by Erin several times and they even carried out a mission together to escort the royal seal. For Kensei Muguruma, Erin was his savior.

Then came Kyoraku Shunsui.

This friendship was brought about by Ise Nanao.

Further down the line, the captain of the 7th Division, Aikawa Raobu, suffered a defeat in his battle against Hoshino Hibiki, and could be considered to have been saved by Erin.

The captain of the 13th Division, Jushiro Ukitake, also had two or three encounters with Erin.

Just like today when Erin went to arrest Urahara Kisuke, the captain of the 12th Division, apart from Yoruichi Shihouin of the 2nd Division who planned to go to the 12th Division to help, the other division captains did not show any action.

However, the hundreds of golden spatial ripples that Erin created in the sky above the Twelfth Division caused Yoruichi Shihouin to abandon her plan to confront Erin head-on.

After Erin led Urahara Kisuke and Tetsusai away from the 12th Division, he sensed that Shihouin Yoruichi had entered the 12th Division. Presumably, Shihouin Yoruichi had already transferred Hirako Shinji and the others from the experimental tower to Urahara Kisuke's underground base.

Although Kyoraku Shunsui was born hundreds of years earlier than Erin, he had very few captains with whom he interacted.

As for the four captains, Rojuro Touhashi, Rabu Aikawa, Kensei Muguruma, and Shinji Hirako, they didn't have much of a relationship with Shunsui Kyoraku.

The only person Kyoraku Shunsui could worry about was his vice-captain, Yashimaru Lisa.

"Hey, Captain Erin, let's not say anything since we've seen through it all. We're still good friends."

Mimicking Erin's tone, Kyoraku Shunsui retorted, "And then?"

"I'm sorry, Captain Jing..."

"My mission is to issue arrest warrants for the 12th Division Captain Kisuke Urahara and the great demon master Tessai Katsuhiko."

"I returned after arresting Kisuke Urahara and Tessai Tsukabishi, but I didn't see Lieutenant Lisa Yagyuumaru."

"That's it..."

Kyoraku Shunsui let out a sigh.

He believed what Erin said.

As Erin had said before, given the bond between them established by Ise Nanao, Erin wouldn't lie to him about this.

"Alright then, I'll go check on the Twelfth Division first. If you make any progress here, please let me know, Captain Erin."

"Ah."

……

"Bang bang bang bang..."

Erin, who returned to the Kuchiki family, didn't get much rest at all.

Less than ten minutes later, he heard the captain's signal to assemble.

Not long after parting ways with Kyoraku Shunsui, Erin and Kyoraku Shunsui met again in the captain's meeting room of the First Division.

"Captain of the Jing Band, have you made any progress on your end?"

Upon seeing Kyoraku Shunsui, Erin walked over to stand beside him and asked in a low voice.

"Wow, we've had quite a haul."

Kyoraku Shunsui sighed, "When I arrived at the 12th Division, the people from the Back Garden Division were investigating Captain Urahara's experimental tower..."

"Then, I overheard them saying that Captain Urahara's experimental tower had discovered a lot of evidence about the Hollowfication of Shinigami..."

Kyoraku Shunsui wanted to say something more to Erin, but Captain-Commander Yamamoto had already arrived, so he kept quiet.

"Boom!"

Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni slammed his cane heavily on the floor and said in a solemn tone, "Gentlemen, I just received some news from the Central 46 that has made me very angry."

Looking at the five captains standing below him, even though Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni had lived for over three thousand years, he was still so angry that he almost vomited blood.

The Gotei 13 was the culmination of his efforts.

However, look at the present situation: the Gotei 13, which he painstakingly built, has lost most of its members because of a single case of a missing soul.

"The Great Demon Master of the Demon Path, Tetsuzai Kōhō, was sentenced to imprisonment in the third level of the underground prison for three thousand years for using forbidden techniques that were prohibited by the Seireitei without authorization."

"Urahara Kisuke, captain of the 12th Division, conducted experiments forbidden by the Seireitei, deceived his colleagues, and caused serious injuries to four captains and three vice-captains of the Gotei 13. He was sentenced to be stripped of all his spiritual power and permanently exiled to the human world."

"As for the 3rd Division Captain Rojuro Otohashi, the 5th Division Captain Shinji Hirako, the 7th Division Captain Rabu Aikawa, the 9th Division Captain Kensei Muguruma, the 8th Division Vice-Captain Risa Yagimaru, the 9th Division Vice-Captain Shiro Hisanami, the 12th Division Hiyori Sarugaki, and the Kido-shu Vice-Captain Hachigen Ayushoda..."

Erin sensed that Kyoraku Shunsui's body visibly trembled when he heard the name Yagyu Maru Lisa.

"Because they have been completely virtualized, the Central Bureau of 46 has decided to deal with them strictly, in accordance with the methods used to deal with virtual entities!"

The so-called way to deal with the void is to kill them, purify their souls, and let their souls reincarnate in the world...

"Captain Ukitake of the 13th Division."

Upon hearing Captain-Commander Yamamoto call his name, Jushiro Ukitake stepped out from the ranks.

"Lord Captain."

"Fukitake, you are the captain of the purification squad. The purification mission for Captain Hirako and the others will be carried out by you personally."

"Yes, Captain."

"Then, the meeting is adjourned!"

Unfortunately, before Erin and the other five captains could even leave the First Division Captains' Meeting Room, a Shinigami pushed open the door and appeared in the meeting room on one knee.

"Captain Yamamoto, news just came from the Central 46 that thugs have broken into the Central 46's trial chamber, injured all the guards protecting the trial chamber, and kidnapped the criminals Urahara Kisuke and Katsuhiko Tessai."

"Even the already blurred Captain Hirako and others seem to have been abducted by that thug beforehand, and no captains or vice-captains were found in the Central 46."

"The senior members of the Central 46th Bureau have issued an order, requesting Captain-Commander Yamamoto to apprehend the perpetrator as soon as possible."

"Humph!"

After listening to the guard's report, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni snorted coldly.

What kind of thug?

The captain of the Second Division, Yoruichi Shihouin, who should be here but is not, and Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, all understood what had happened.

"I now order all members of the 8th, 10th, 11th and 13th Divisions to be mobilized and capture Urahara Kisuke and all his cronies."

"Yes, Captain."

……

After leaving the First Division, Erin returned to the Eleventh Division, had the remaining members relay the Commander-in-Chief's orders to the other members, and then ignored them.

Anyway, it's just going through the motions.

It was impossible for them to find Kisuke Urahara and his group.

"Qiang!"

Erin slightly unsheathed his Zanpakuto at his waist and placed his index finger on the blade.

Aizen Sousuke's Zanpakuto, Kyoka Suigetsu, can completely manipulate the five senses of anyone who witnesses the moment the Zanpakuto is unleashed.

If Erin were to unleash his spiritual pressure, Aizen Sousuke's current spiritual pressure and his Kyoka Suigetsu ability would have no effect on Erin at all.

However, Erin did not want to expose his true strength to anyone, so the method he used to break the illusion was a secret he had discovered after Ichimaru Gin had been an undercover agent for over a hundred years.

Simply touching the blade of the Kyoka Suigetsu (Mirror Flower, Water Moon) will allow one to experience its complete hypnotic influence.

This is true, whether it's through Gin Ichimaru's personal experience, Erin's memories through the Zanpakuto Kyoka Suigetsu, or all the people in Erin's past life memories who were attacked by Aizen and saw Aizen's figure.

"Yes, everything in the outside world is no different from everything I perceive."

"It's still uncertain whether my five senses have been affected by Aizen Sousuke's Zanpakuto, but at least for now, I haven't been affected."

Once he was certain that Aizen wasn't paying attention to him, Erin's figure flickered a few times and disappeared from Seireitei.

……

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Inside Kisuke Urahara's underground base, the great demon master Tessai Kōhiko sat cross-legged on the ground with his hands clasped together.

In front of him was a golden, semi-transparent barrier that imprisoned Urahara Kisuke, Yoruichi Shihouin, Shinji Hirako, and others within it.

Last night, Kisuke Urahara used the Hogyoku, but ultimately failed to remove Aizen's Hollowfication from Shinji Hirako and the others.

Chapter 146 Sword Slashes the Black Coffin

In fact, it's not that the Hogyoku couldn't remove the Hollowfication of Shinji Hirako and the others, but rather that the Hogyoku read Urahara Kisuke's mind and, instead of removing the Hollowfication, simply stabilized their state.

Although the Hogyoku was created by Kisuke Urahara, the current Kisuke Urahara has no idea about the Hogyoku's true abilities.

He always believed that the "Hogyoku" he created had the ability to break the limits of the Shinigami's spiritual pressure, allowing the Shinigami to become Hollow and master the power of Hollows.

Furthermore, Kisuke Urahara was a researcher, and when he created the "Hogyoku," he must have used some of the Shinigami in the Second Division prison to conduct experiments on the Hollowfication of Shinigami.

But there certainly won't be any vice-captains or captains or higher-ranking experts to become experimental subjects.

In Aizen's eyes, the four captains and four vice-captains were all "extremely valuable experimental materials," and he even thanked Hirako Shinji and the others for "providing him with more experimental data"...

If Kisuke Urahara said he didn't want to continue researching the situation of Shinji Hirako and the others, he would definitely be lying to himself.