Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 359 Urahara Kisuke’s call

A few days later.

The courtyard of the Ubuyashiki family in the southern part of Rukongai.

Inside the spacious Japanese-style room facing the courtyard, Asuka sat cross-legged on the tatami mats, sweating profusely.

...Concentrate your mind, don't think about how to unleash your spiritual energy, but rather how to stabilize it...

""

Sitting beside him, Shinobu Kocho was holding a small folding fan and gently guiding him.

"Imagine spiritual energy as layers of silk threads, gently wrapping those turbulent forces around your fingertips."

Upon hearing Shinobu's words, Asuka gritted her teeth and slowed her breathing once again.

From the perspective of spiritual vision, one can clearly see a raging, chaotic spiritual energy, rampaging through the spiritual network of a flying bird like a wild horse.

This spiritual energy carried a deep blackish-red hue, as well as a brilliant gold hue, intertwined and restless.

They originate from the life-and-death struggles of birds, and are a force squeezed out from anger and battle; they are not so docile.

This is also why his progress in the demonic path is slow.

one second.

two seconds.

Five seconds.

Finally, the chaotic spiritual energy that had been struggling violently at the fingertips gradually stopped its outward expansion.

A faint yet pure pale blue halo painstakingly peeled away from the chaos and lit up on the bird's fingertips.

The halo was only about the size of a soybean, flickering on and off, and seemed as if it could be blown out by a gust of wind at any moment.

But it did indeed take shape, and it did not produce any destructive explosion.

"It's a success!"

Shinobu's purple eyes lit up instantly.

This is the prototype of Hakuryuu No. 4: Byakurai.

"Did you see that, Mr. Asuka! You did it! A perfectly pure beam of spiritual particles!"

"I knew it! As long as you put in the effort, the ways of the demons will be no challenge for you!"

Seeing Shinobu's genuine joy, Asuka gave a wry smile and carefully maintained that glimmer of light for about ten seconds...

puff.

In the blink of an eye, the pitiful blue light vanished into the air like a punctured soap bubble.

"call..

""

Asuka let out a long sigh, slumping weakly onto the tatami mat, her voice filled with disdain: "What...what's the point of this thing anyway?"

He raised his right hand, his fingers spread and then clenched: "With this hour or so, we could have chopped the enemy into pieces long ago."

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"I really don't understand why the Spirit Arts Academy insists on making me learn this kind of time-wasting, fancy skill."

Seeing Asuka's utterly dejected expression, Shinobu covered her mouth and let out a soft laugh: "After all, you are the Soul King's appointed substitute Grim Reaper."

She took out a clean white handkerchief and gently wiped away the fine beads of sweat from Fei Niao's forehead and temples.

"The duties of a substitute Shinigami are not only to slay Hollows and powerful enemies, but also to perform soul burials on lost souls, and to carry out missions in the fragile environment of the human world."

"I think the practice of Kido is more about giving you the power to destroy while also having the control to avoid harming innocent people."

"This is an essential training method to protect everyone."

Hearing this, although I still found those obscure incantations and precise control troublesome...

But looking into Shinobu's gentle and expectant eyes, Asuka's pent-up complaints ultimately turned into a helpless sigh.

Beep beep beep—ring ring ring—

A sudden burst of electronic chord ringing broke the silence of the room.

Upon hearing the sound, Shinobu Kocho quickly reached into the inner pocket of her shihachi uniform and pulled out a square metal object.

As soon as the bird saw the green and white striped shell, the veins on its forehead twitched twice.

That was a Gikai phone that Kisuke Urahara had specially asked Yoruichi to bring to her a few days ago. It was capable of cross-world communication without delay between the Soul Society and the human world.

The purpose was simple: to be able to contact the birds in a timely manner.

"Moshi moshi, this is Shinobu Kocho."

"Oh my, what a long-lost gentle voice~"

The phone immediately answered with Kisuke Urahara's frivolous voice, which also carried a hint of deliberate flattery.

Even across two worlds, the bird could imagine that unscrupulous merchant waving his folding fan, grinning like a fox.

"I'm so sorry to interrupt your loving time on this beautiful morning."

"Um... Is Asuka-kun over there? I have a very urgent matter and I'd like to ask him for help."

Shinobu glanced at Asuka, whose face seemed to say, "I'm not here, I'm dead, don't look for me," and reluctantly handed over her phone.

"Mr. Asuka, it's Manager Urahara looking for you."

Feiniao reluctantly took the phone and held it to her ear: "Speak quickly if you have something to say, or shut up."

"Hey, Asuka-kun, don't be so cold~ We're practically brothers who fought side-by-side at Urahara Store..."

"If you keep talking nonsense, I'm hanging up." Asuka interrupted him mercilessly.

"Cough cough... This is so hurtful." Kisuke Urahara coughed twice on the other end of the phone, quickly dropping his joking tone.

His voice lowered, revealing an unusual seriousness.

"Asuka, could you come to Karakura Town now?"

"I'm not going."

"Don't refuse so quickly, this is very simple for you..."

"I have Kinpachi-sensei's class this afternoon," Asuka said matter-of-factly, offering an excuse that even he found absurd. "As a student at the Shinigami Academy, skipping class is bad behavior. I'm very busy."

There was a full three seconds of silence on the other end of the phone.

puff....

From the other end came Kisuke Urahara's barely suppressed laughter: "...Asuka-kun, you're using class as an excuse? Did I hear that right?"

"...If you laugh again, I'll crush this piece of iron." Asuka, feeling a bit embarrassed, threatened.

"Alright, alright, I'm not laughing anymore." Kisuke Urahara took a deep breath, his tone becoming serious again.

"Asuka, I'm not kidding, there's... a problem here in the real world."

"In the past two days, Karakura Town and the surrounding area have frequently experienced extremely unstable spatial fluctuations."

"My monitoring network shows that this fluctuation does not belong to the Hueco Mundo's Black Cavity, nor to the Soul Society's Transcendence Gate."

Kisuke Urahara's voice was filled with deep apprehension: "That aura... it was filled with an extremely chaotic feeling. If I'm not mistaken, the rift leading to the [other world] has once again intersected with the present world."

Upon hearing the words "another world," Asuka's previously nonchalant expression turned serious.

He instinctively gripped the edge of his phone tighter.

A rift in another world?

He knew what this meant, of course, having experienced both Tsubasa no Oka and Fuyuki City firsthand.

Why are you here again?

Is Aizen secretly plotting to bring in an even more terrifying power from another world?

Or was it because Aizen's previous act of exiling Captain-Commander Yamamoto caused the world's barrier to become even more fragile, triggering spacetime turbulence?