Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 384 The Fine Tradition of Subjugation

"Okay." Shinobu Kocho took Ruri Chiyo's little hand: "Ruri Chiyo, the cotton candy in the real world is very sweet and very soft, just like a cloud."

"You'll definitely like it, shall I take you to buy it?"

"Cotton candy? Yay! I've been wanting to try it for ages!" Ruri Chiyo was just a child after all, and as soon as she heard there was food, she immediately threw all her worries to the winds.

She turned to the dog-dragon and the monkey-dragon and commanded them imperiously, "You two idiots, stay here and chat with Uncle Asuka, and don't you dare wander off! I'll come back for you after I've eaten!"

"Yes...yes! Lady Rurichiyo, please be careful!" Inuryu and Enryu responded repeatedly.

As Shinobu Kocho led the bouncy Ruri Chiyo away and disappeared around the corner of the street, the gentleness on Asuka's face vanished without a trace.

"Alright, that little girl is gone now."

Asuka turned around, crossed her arms, and stared coldly at the two people in front of her: "Stop with your pathetic acting."

"What exactly happened at the Kasumi family's house?"

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As soon as Asuka finished speaking, the two of them knelt down heavily in front of Asuka again in the most standard dogeza posture without any hesitation.

"You two... can you please stop doing this all the time..."

However, the two seemed unconcerned about how humble their posture was, and simply bowed their heads deeply in sincere sincerity, pleading in trembling voices: "Lord Asuka has such discerning eyes... we... we did indeed conceal the truth."

Inuyuki pressed his forehead against the cold asphalt: "We're not out for a stroll with Lady Rurichiyo...we're on the run."

"Escape?" Asuka frowned. "According to Shinobu, the Kasumioji family is a high-ranking noble family, second only to the five great noble families... Who would dare to hunt down your young lady?"

"They are members of the Kasumioji family."

The previously silent Enryu spoke in a soft, delicate voice: "Lord Asuka, the Kasumioji family... has been usurped."

As darkness fell, the two loyal guards choked back tears as they revealed to Asuka the appalling bloodshed and darkness hidden behind the noble families of Soul Society.

The Kasumi family has forged special weapons for the Spirit Court and the five great noble families for generations, thus accumulating enormous wealth and power.

However, Lady Ruri Chiyo's parents, the former head of the household, both died in a mysterious accident several years ago...

Without the head of the Kasumioji family, although the family is nominally owned by Ruri Chiyo, she is not the one in actual power.

"Yo-kaku Kumoi..." Inuyu gritted his teeth and uttered the name: "Lady Ruri Chiyo is too young to manage such a large family."

"All of this gave that wicked bastard... the head of the Kasumi family, Yosuke Kumoi, an opportunity to take advantage of the situation."

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"That old fox, on the surface, is pretending to assist the leader, but in reality he is frantically eliminating dissidents and installing his own cronies."

"Although Lady Ruri Chiyo is the nominal head of the household, she has actually been kept under house arrest in the deep mansion and has become a puppet controlled by him."

"Those retainers who were truly loyal to the previous head of the family were either assassinated by him on various fabricated charges or exiled to the lowest levels of Rukongai."

Yuanlong added, "And recently... not content with controlling the family's finances, he's even secretly allied with other nobles, plotting something... I wonder what they're up to..."

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"To become like those nobles, that old scoundrel Yun Jingyao... can't hold back any longer!"

"He wants to completely erase Lady Rurichiyo's existence and rightfully usurp the position of head of the Kasumigaoji family!"

Inu-ryu's voice trembled even more violently, even carrying a hint of fear: "Our spies within the clan risked their lives to send out news that Yun-jing has issued a secret order to assassinate the master!"

"To protect our master, we had no choice but to fight our way out under the cover of night, and escape to the real world with him, who was still completely unaware of everything..."

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After listening to their stories, Asuka's eyes grew even colder.

Power struggles, conspiracies and assassinations, usurpation of power...

These vulgar and bloody dramas seem to be playing out endlessly in every world.

"So that silly girl thought this was just a thrilling escape game?" Asuka glanced in the direction Shinobu and the others had left, and a sense of sorrow welled up in her heart.

"Yes..." Inu Ryu closed his eyes in anguish: "Lady Ruri Chiyo has lost both her parents one after another, she is so pitiful."

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"We couldn't bear to tell her the truth, we couldn't bear to let her know that the man she used to call Grandpa Yunjing was actually the enemy who killed her parents and is now coming to kill her."

"This isn't a solution either."

Feiniao clearly disagrees with this self-deceptive method of protection: "You can hide for a day or two, but can you hide forever?"

"This is a last resort, Lord Asuka!"

Yuanlong kowtowed sharply: "Our strength is too weak; we are no match for Yunjing's subordinates..."

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At this point, the dog dragon and the monkey dragon suddenly straightened up and looked at the bird with fervent eyes burning with hope.

"Lord Asuka!" Inuryu pleaded loudly, "Please, whatever you do, have mercy and take in Lady Rurichiyo during this time, and protect her safety!"

"If you would protect you, sir, and allow us to contact those loyal and righteous men still in hiding, and expose Yunjing's conspiracy, we, the retainers of Xia Dalu, are willing to serve you like cattle and horses, repaying your great kindness with utmost devotion!"

The two men banged their heads heavily on the ground again, as if they wouldn't get up until the birds agreed.

Faced with this morally manipulative plea, Asuka did not agree.

"I do not understand."

"If what you're saying is true, the Kasumi family has experienced such a serious rebellion, even involving the grave crime of assassinating the head of a noble family."

"Why don't you seek help from the Gotei 13?"

Asuka frowned, scrutinizing the two: "Doesn't the Soul Society have the Sixth Division, specifically responsible for maintaining order among the nobles? Isn't Kuchiki Byakuya the most law-abiding?"

"At the very least, you should go to the newly appointed Captain-Commander Kyoraku Shunsui and expose Kumoi's crimes to him. Once the Gotei 13 intervenes, what does the rebellion of a mere clan head matter?"

"You've abandoned the powerful and legitimate Gotei 13... and instead come to the human world to beg me, a nobody who isn't even a Shinigami?"

Asuka chuckled. "Do you think I look easy to fool, or do you believe my strength has grown so great that I can disregard the rules of the entire Seireitei?"

Upon hearing Asuka's question, the fanatical expressions on the faces of the Inu-Dragon and the Giganotosaurus froze.

The two exchanged a glance, and finally, it was Inuryu who spoke with bitterness, revealing the deepest fear in their hearts that they could not tell anyone else.

"Lord Asuka, you don't know... it's not that we don't want to go to the Gotei 13, it's that we... dare not."

Inuryu's voice was so deep it almost blended into the spreading night: "The situation in Soul Society is far more complex than you imagine."