Bleach: Starting with Marrying Retsu Unohana

"Just pretend you didn't see it!"

A few seconds later, Soujiro forcibly turned his head away, pretending not to see Saito.

"Yo, Shuangye, you're back~"

"You look so energetic, it seems like everything is alright in your family~"

Araki looked at Soya Azashiro, who had returned from visiting relatives, and said with a smile.

"Reporting to Araki-sensei, everything is fine at home, and my sister is in good health."

Upon hearing this, Soujiro Mochi smiled and replied to Araki.

"That's good……"

Araki nodded slightly upon hearing this.

"Since you have passed your teacher's wife's test..."

"Then from today onwards, you will officially begin my training."

Araki looked at Souya Azashiro and spoke calmly.

"I understand……"

As he spoke, Mochishiro Sōya drew his Zanpakutō.

"Let's begin our Shikai!"

Araki looked at Souya and spoke in a commanding tone.

"Reporting to Araki-sensei, I have already achieved Shikai."

Upon hearing this, Mole City Shuang also answered seriously.

"very good."

As Araki spoke, he gave Mochijo a faint smile.

"puff!!"

The next second, a huge wound was ripped open on Mole City's chest, from which countless drops of blood gushed out.

"Eh?"

Confused, Zhicheng collapsed to the ground.

"Buzz!"

As the azure light in the sky continued to flash, Zhicheng's body gradually recovered.

"What happened just now?"

Mochi City stared wide-eyed in confusion, looking at Araki in disbelief as he asked.

"Souya, I have only one mission: to teach you how to use your Zanpakuto and how to unleash beautiful slashes. So, Soouya, your mission now is only one: to keep running away from my slashes! Or to unleash slashes as beautiful as mine and neutralize them!"

Araki looked at the bewildered Souya Mochi and said with a smile.

"Isn't it?!"

Upon hearing this, Zhicheng revealed a bitter smile. He had just passed his master's wife's test and was no longer going to be killed by his master. Now, it was his master's turn to kill him. When would this life of being killed end?

Yes, Souichi no longer had time to feel smug about the arduous training he had endured to pass under the tutelage of his master's wife, Ueno Retsu. What awaited him next was the training from his master, Araki...

"Shh!"

Before Zhicheng could think any further, several more huge wounds appeared on his body.

"Strive to live on, Xiao Shuang!"

Araki looked at Soya Mochishiro, who kept falling down, and said with a smile.

"what!!"

On this day, Mochishiro Shuang once again recalled the fear of being dominated by death.

Time flies, another hundred years have passed...

Inside the captain's room of the 'First Division'.

"Araki-sensei! This is my strongest slash!!"

Sōya roared and swung his Zanpakutō with all his might.

A towering slash hurtled straight towards Araki, its terrifying spiritual pressure enough to crush everything in its path into dust...

"Not bad!"

Even Araki smiled with satisfaction after seeing Souya Azajo's slash.

"boom!"

Then, Araki simply waved his sleeve, easily deflecting the slash.

"what?"

To be honest, Souichi was prepared for his attack to be shattered by Araki, but he never expected that it would be shattered so easily by Araki. That was his full-force attack at that moment...

"Pfft!"

And Souichi, unable to fight any longer, knelt down in front of Araki, staring blankly ahead.

After undergoing a hundred years of grueling training in the Castle of Spots, where Araki had grown up, he still discovered that his strikes were incredibly fragile, and he gradually began to despair.

"Congratulations, Xiao Shuang! You've passed my test!"

"From today onwards, you've officially graduated!"

Araki looked at the collapsed Soya Mochishiro and said with a smile.

"Eh?!"

Upon hearing this, the originally disheartened Zhicheng Shuang was first taken aback, then the corners of his mouth kept turning up.

"Haha, hahaha..."

Souya Azashiro lay on the floor of the 'First Division' captain's room, chuckling softly. His eyes were filled with joy at having successfully passed Araki's test.

"I've finally graduated!"

Zhicheng wanted to shout out loud to vent the complex emotions in his heart.

Unfortunately, Araki had no intention of giving Azashiro Souya any rest time...

"Now that you've completed your apprenticeship, Xiao Shuang, this task is yours to handle."

As Araki spoke, he tossed a task sheet to Souya Mochijo, who was lying on the wooden floor.

"what is this?"

Shi Cheng Shuang also stared blankly at the task sheet in his hand.

"Recently, those Quincy in the modern world have become a bit too arrogant."

"Their extermination of 'Hollows' has exceeded the control of our 'Soul Society'..."

Therefore, the Central 46 ultimately decided to eliminate all Quincy in the present world.

Araki looked at Souya Azashiro and spoke with icy coldness.

"Eh? Why…"

Souichi was also stunned. He looked at Araki and asked in confusion, "Araki-sensei, wouldn't it be better to let those Quincy destroy the Hollows? Once all the Hollows in this world are destroyed, we Shinigami won't need to go to Hueco Mundo to fight them anymore, right? Isn't that a good thing?"

"Ha ha……"

Araki couldn't help but sneer after hearing what Souya Azashiro said.

Araki was not surprised by the doubts surrounding the Castle of Spots. Over the past few hundred years, the newly born Shinigami had long forgotten the hatred between Shinigami and Quincy...

Because both Shinigami and Quincy view Hollows as enemies and often unite to fight Hollows, some Shinigami don't even hate Quincy; in fact, they are on good terms with them.

He didn't object to these things from Araki, but sometimes he wished these Grim Reapers could distinguish right from wrong.

"If the Quincy have wiped out all the Hollows, what's the point of having us Shinigami?!"

"What awaits us in the Soul Society in the future is a massive layoff of the Gotei 13..."

Of course, Araki only thought these things in his mind and didn't say them out loud.

"The Quincy's method of destroying Hollows is different from ours as Shinigami! After they destroy a Hollow, the Hollow does not transform into spirit particles and enter the great cycle of spirit particles. Instead, they simply and completely erase the spirit particles called 'Hollows'..."

"If they only eliminate one or two on ordinary days, then it doesn't matter! Because besides the cycle, spiritual particles are still increasing in a positive way thanks to the efforts of us Death Gods!"

"However, once they launch a large-scale, organized sweep of Hueco Mundo, the depletion of Hueco Mundo's spiritual particles will become severe, and the spiritual particles will be unable to complete their normal cycle. The balance of the three realms may be broken as a result!"

"At that time, the Three Realms that His Majesty the Spirit King has worked so hard to stabilize may perish. Everything we know, including the Soul Society, will vanish into nothingness. Is this the result you want to see?!"

Araki looked at Souya Azashiro and spoke calmly.

"This! I understand..."

Even Soya Mochijo hadn't expected that a mere Quincy could have such a huge impact on the world.

"But Araki-sensei, if we eliminate all the Hollows in Hueco Mundo before the Quincy, wouldn't we avoid conflict with them? Wouldn't that make our 'Three Realms' peaceful?"

Not long after, Souya Azashiro seemed to have thought of something again, and he looked at Araki and asked.

"Ha ha……"

"A very interesting idea~"

Araki couldn't help but laugh after hearing Azajo's words. It seemed that even Azajo, whom he had trained, would ultimately, like in the original story, dream of eradicating all 'Hollows' once and for all.

"Shuangye, have you ever thought about why people in the mortal world have two choices after they die: one is to become a whole, and the other is to become what people call an evil spirit, or a Hollow?"

Araki looked at Mole City in front of him and asked.

"Forehead……"

Upon hearing this, Zhicheng paused, clearly having not considered this question.

"Whether it's Hollow or Shinigami, they all start as ordinary souls, and in essence, there isn't much difference!"

"It's just that one side unleashed the instincts deep within our souls, while the other chose to maintain our rationality."

"Whether they are Hollows, Death Gods, or ordinary humans, they are all part of maintaining the balance of the 'Three Realms,' and part of maintaining the spiritual particle cycle! They are an extremely important component of these 'Three Realms,' and none of them can be missing..."