Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 361 The Restless Crying Valley

In the present world, Karakura Town.

The weather is bad today; the afternoon sun is blocked by thick clouds, making it feel gloomy.

The secluded alley in front of Urahara Department Store, which is usually rarely visited, was unusually quiet at this moment.

In mid-air, the space suddenly rippled like the surface of water.

Immediately afterwards, a simple, old-fashioned Japanese sliding door appeared out of nowhere.

The door was roughly pulled open from the inside, and Fei Niao, exuding a gloomy aura, strode out of the portal.

The moment his feet touched the ground, before he could even take in his surroundings, he heard a burst of extremely cheerful applause, as if it were a welcoming round of guests.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!

Several fireworks tubes sounded in response.

"Oh my! Welcome, welcome! A warm welcome to the esteemed Asuka-sama, the strongest Shinigami substitute and savior of Karakura Town, the Imperial Envoy of the Spirit King Palace, for your visit to our humble establishment!"

Kisuke Urahara, wearing his ever-present fisherman's hat and holding a small colorful flag he'd somehow acquired, was standing on the steps in front of the shop, waving it.

Behind him, Xiaoyu and Shentai were holding up a crooked banner with extremely messy handwriting that read:

[A warm welcome back to Asuka-sama!]

Wōrō Tessō pushed up his glasses and stood expressionlessly to the side, holding a tray with some dried fruit and candied fruit on it.

Asuka looked at this exaggerated and mocking welcome...

I just felt my fists getting harder.

"Urahara Kisuke..." Asuka's voice sounded like it was being squeezed out through clenched teeth: "If you went through all that trouble to bring me here through the Zero Division just to give me this kind of lousy trash talk... I'll tear your shop down right now..."

"Hey, Asuka-kun, don't get so angry!"

Kisuke Urahara used a folding fan to cover the lower half of his face: "After all, you are an imperial envoy from the Spirit King Palace, so our shop will naturally offer you the highest level of hospitality."

Jinta, holding up the crooked banner, curled his lip in dissatisfaction: "Tch, what's so great about it? He was just summoned here with a single phone call from the manager..."

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"Shinta, you must be polite to your guests." Tessai Goriya, expressionless, pushed up his reflective glasses and placed the tray in his hand...

Pan Weiwei stepped forward and said, "Lord Fei Niao, Miss Butterfly, you must be tired from your journey. Please come in, hot tea has been prepared."

Asuka ignored the sweet dried fruit and strode past Kisuke Urahara without any politeness into the familiar yet troublesome general store.

As Shinobu Kocho passed by Urahara, she gave a graceful, slight bow: "Excuse me, Manager Urahara... Mr. Asuka has been a bit irritable lately because of his studies, please bear with me."

Although it was an apology, there seemed to be a faint smile on her lips, clearly finding Asuka's discomfiture somewhat amusing.

"Not at all, Miss Butterfly, it would be an honor for our shop to have you here." Kisuke Urahara smiled and closed his folding fan, gesturing for us to join him. "Well then, let's get down to business."

A moment later, inside the underground training ground of Urahara Store.

"Alright, let's get straight to the point."

Asuka sat cross-legged at the low tea table, nodded her thanks to Tessai for pouring the tea, and then glared at Urahara with annoyance:

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What major event has happened in the world that even you can't handle?

Upon hearing this, Urahara placed his folding fan on the table, took out a spirit particle monitoring chart emitting a faint blue light from his wide sleeve, and spread it out in front of Asuka and Shinobu Kocho.

The drawing is a topographical map showing the distribution of spiritual pressure in Karakura Town and its surrounding area.

Within a red-marked area on the east side of Karakura Town, numerous spiritual pressure points are densely packed.

"Before I explain the situation, I'd like to ask you both a question."

Have you ever heard of the word "valley"?

"Call it Valley?" Asuka frowned; this touched upon another area of ​​his knowledge.

He turned his head and looked at Shinobu Kocho beside him.

Shinobu Kocho paused slightly, then earnestly recalled the countless ancient books and secret scrolls she had consulted over the years in her search for Asuka.

"I seem to have seen this record in a document about the analysis of boundary spaces."

She gathered her thoughts and slowly began to speak: "In this world, not all souls can successfully pass through the Soul Burial of the Grim Reaper to reach the Soul Society, nor will all resentful souls fall into Hollows."

"A very small number of souls, due to some special obsession or unexpected spatial turbulence, miss the opportunity to be reincarnated."

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"They linger between life and death, gradually losing their memories, personality, and even self-awareness as souls as time goes by."

"These blank souls that have lost their memories are referred to in the literature as—【Souls Lacking Souls】."

She stretched out her fair finger and pointed to the sky above: "It is said that these missing souls gather in large numbers in the severance between the human world and the Soul Society. Their instinct to fill the void caused by emptiness will cause the distortion and collapse of the spatial structure."

"Over the years, it eventually formed a closed and unstable temporary space, which is called the Valley."

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Kisuke Urahara clapped his hands gently, his eyes full of admiration: "As expected of Miss Butterfly, you are truly knowledgeable."

Although Asuka understood Shinobu's explanation, she didn't understand: "This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the interdimensional rift you mentioned. Do you want me to go on duty in the Broken Realm? I don't want to encounter those things again."

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"Brother Flying Bird, the problem lies in Miss Butterfly's description just now."

Kisuke Urahara picked up a folding fan and pointed with the fan ribs to the red area marked on the map: "Just as Miss Butterfly said, the Valley of Calling is a gathering place for souls that only exist in the Void Realm."

"Under normal circumstances, they and our lives are like two parallel lines, which should never, and should never, intersect with the present world."

"But now..." Urahara's eyes became extremely serious: "The real space of Sarayashiki City, which is adjacent to Karakura Town to the east, is overlapping with a huge valley."

"In other words, the barriers of the present world have been torn apart."

"Thousands of souls are breaking through the barriers of the severance and flooding into the streets of Sarayashiki like a tidal wave."

"The real world and Kageya have intersected?" Shinobu asked with some concern. "Is this Aizen's scheme?"

"The reason is still uncertain... Aizen Sosuke's actions have indeed tilted the balance of the three realms, but this phenomenon seems to have an undetected gravitational force at play behind the scenes."

Kisuke Urahara sighed: "If it were just a matter of lingering souls, that would be fine. At worst, our shop can work overtime to develop some spirit particle generators that can forcibly expel them back into the Dangai..."

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"Or we could have the Soul Society send someone to exorcise the spirits, or have the Kido sect set up a protective barrier. There's always a way..."

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He looked up at the bird: "But the real problem now is... someone is engaged in an extremely fierce battle with those vengeful spirits in that overlapping area."

"A battle?" Asuka raised an eyebrow. "Is it a Shinigami stationed in Sarayashiki City? Or a Substitute Shinigami like Ichigo Kurosaki?"

Kisuke Urahara shook his head, a strange look on his face.

"Neither."

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...He's a spirit detective.