The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

In just a moment, the light and spiritual energy on Ishida Ryugen's body disappeared without a trace.

Then, Ryugen Ishida opened his eyes, pushed up his glasses, turned around and sat down at the desk next to him.

Shortly afterward, several men who appeared to be hospital security guards, along with a few male doctors from the hospital, appeared outside the director's office, looking with concern at Ishida Ryugen, who appeared to be unharmed inside.

"Dean, are you alright?"

"What are you all doing crowding around here? Don't you have work to do?" Ryūgen Ishida frowned and asked the security guards and doctors at the entrance in a cold voice.

"And you, go to the logistics department later and have them send someone over to replace the door. As for the rest of you, go back to your posts. I don't have anything to do here, so you don't need to come and check on me."

"Yes."

Subsequently, the security guards and doctors, as if granted a pardon, left the area near the dean's office and relayed Ishida Ryūken's words.

Then Ishida Ryūken stood up again, left the director's office, and went to the hospital's rooftop...

……

Much later.

With the appearance of a radiant light, Ishihara Akira's figure reappeared in front of Ishida Ryugen.

"Who exactly are you?" After a while, Ishida Ryūken, who had finally regained full control of his body, questioned Ishihara Sho with a grim expression.

“Then you don’t need to know.” Ishihara Akira chuckled. “You just need to know that I have no ill intentions towards you Quincy.”

"You took the entire legacy of the Quincy from me and now you claim you meant no harm? Do you think I'd believe that?" Ishida Ryūgen sneered.

"That's none of my business. Anyway, I've already achieved my goal. As for what you think or do afterward, that's up to you. But please remember, don't mess with me, or I won't show any mercy to you or your descendants just because I took your knowledge." Ishihara Akira laughed freely.

"Alright, I have other things to take care of, so I won't bother you any longer. Goodbye."

After saying that, Ishihara Akira leaped into the air and used the Shinigami's method of walking on air—that is, creating spiritual footholds under his feet—to quickly head towards the general store that Urahara Kisuke had just obtained in the human world.

Yes, the reason why Ishihara Sho approached Ishida Ryugen was not only to complete his Quincy legacy, but also to obtain Urahara Kisuke's shop location.

As one of the three most powerful pillars in Karakura Town, it's impossible for Ryūgen Ishida, a local resident, not to know Kisuke Urahara's identity and his hidden location! Otherwise, it would be a disservice to the centuries-old heritage of the Ishida family.

So soon after, Ishihara Sho also successfully arrived near Urahara Kisuke's old-fashioned general store, which was located in a remote area.

"That's Yoruichi?" Ishihara Akira chuckled as he looked at the black cat that had suddenly appeared nearby.

Chapter 185 Urahara Kisuke

Then, Ishihara Sho leaped into the air and, as he fell, used his Tenma Illusion ability to transform himself into a black cat that was, if not exactly the same as, Yoruichi's, appearance. He landed next to Yoruichi, who was leisurely strolling toward Urahara Kisuke's general store.

Yoruichi was startled, jumped up, landed on the ground next to her, and turned to look at the cat that Ishihara Sho had turned into.

"Meow." Ishihara Sho imitated a cat's meow.

Yoruichi stared at him, neither leaving nor responding, like a statue.

Ishihara Akane didn't care about any of that. After meowing at Yoruichi again, she decisively ran towards her. Yoruichi dodged, and Ishihara Akane chased after her, as if she had made up her mind about this cat, leaving Yoruichi speechless...

So after running for a while, Yoruichi decisively turned around, unleashed her spiritual pressure, and intimidated the cat that Ishihara Sho had transformed into.

"Meow!" Ishihara Sho was stunned. His body sprang up like a real cat, and without stopping, he ran out at lightning speed and disappeared from Yoruichi's sight.

Yoruichi then withdrew her gaze and strolled leisurely toward Kisuke Urahara's general store.

The speed was noticeably faster, a stark contrast to the leisurely demeanor from before.

Then, Ishihara Sho transformed back into a human, exhaled, shook his head, and walked out from the corner, following closely behind Yoruichi towards Urahara Kisuke's general store.

……

"Clanging and jingling"

"Welcome." A tall man, who appeared to be from the shop, lifted the curtain and came out to greet customers. "This customer seems unfamiliar. Is this your first time visiting our shop?"

"Yes," Ishihara Akira nodded with a smile.

"Would you like me to introduce our products to you?" Woriya Tessai asked enthusiastically.

"No need. I'm not here to buy anything, I'm here to find someone," Ishihara Akira waved his hand.

"Oh?" Tessai pushed up his reflective glasses, hiding his changing gaze behind the lenses, and began to observe Ishihara Sho in front of him—

They seem to be no different from ordinary humans...

However, this doesn't mean anything. After all, as long as you wear a cybernetic body, even a Shinigami can look like an ordinary person.

However, Ishihara Sho didn't have that strange sense of disharmony that Gikai possessed...

After all, the principle behind the creation of prosthetic bodies is to harmonize spiritual wave fluctuations, which can transform the wearer's spiritual wave characteristics into light wave signals that ordinary people can receive, that is, see. Therefore, each prosthetic body requires the user's spiritual wave frequency before it is created.

To put it simply, it's personalized customization.

But as the saying goes, if you pretend to be a pig for too long, you might actually turn into one. If the spirit wave frequency of the artificial body is too synchronized with that of the Shinigami, there is not only a risk of turning the user into a real human, but it will also cause unimaginable tearing pain when putting on and taking off the body.

Therefore, to avoid these drawbacks, each artificial body, while striving to be as synchronized as possible with the Shinigami's spirit wave frequency, will also intentionally retain some differences—

This is what some Grim Reapers use to distinguish between real humans and those who wear prosthetic bodies.

In other words, a sense of disharmony.

However, Ishihara Sho didn't have that. In other words, if Ishihara Sho wasn't wearing a Gigai that could perfectly synchronize with the Shinigami Reiha, then he was just an ordinary human!

But then again, if they were just ordinary humans, how could they have discovered the existence of Kisuke Urahara's general store?

To prevent ordinary people from accidentally entering, Kisuke Urahara set up a shielding barrier outside the general store! Only ordinary people with the relevant qualifications—that is, those who can become Shinigami—can discover the location of the general store.

However, judging from Ishihara Sho's behavior, it seems that he did not enter this place by chance.

"Then I wonder who the guest is looking for..." Tetsuzai asked with a sliver of hope.

"The owner of this shop, Kisuke Urahara. Could you please take me to see him?" Akira Ishihara asked with a smile.

"Well, I need to go in and ask the manager first before I can answer your question," said Wō Rin-tsai.

"Then could you please ask for me?"

Afterwards, with a somewhat somber mood, Tetsuzai went back into the depths of the shop, escaping Ishihara Akira's sight.

……

Not long after, a disheveled young man wearing a gray kimono outer robe, a green kimono inner robe, and a hat with white and green stripes came out of the general store and came to the entrance, where he met Ishihara Akira, who was waiting there.

"So, you're the one who wanted to see me?" Kisuke Urahara sized up Akira Ishihara for a moment, and when he realized that Ishihara wasn't someone he knew, he spoke up.

"Yes, it's me," Ishihara Akira confirmed with a smile.

"We don't seem to know each other," Kisuke Urahara replied calmly.

Regardless of Ishihara Akira's intentions, he was not afraid, even though he was alone!

Because of his own strength—a seasoned captain-level fighter—plus Yoruichi hiding in the shadows and Tessai Tsukasa who had previously appeared, there were three top-tier fighters. Apart from Aizen, they were not people that any Tom, Dick, or Harry could threaten.

"Yes, I don't know him," Ishihara Akira continued, confirming.

"Then I wonder what brings you here, sir..." Kisuke Urahara asked, puzzled.

“I want to make a deal with you,” Ishihara Akira replied.

"A trade?" Kisuke Urahara asked in surprise. "What do you wish to trade with me?"

"The Hogyoku." Ishihara Akira composed himself and uttered the name of something that was enough to cause Urahara Kisuke's expression to change.

Without hesitation, Kisuke Urahara's expression changed, and he stared intently at Sho Ishihara, as if trying to discern from his face how he learned of the Hogyoku's existence.

"What are you talking about, sir? Hogyoku? I've never heard of anything with that name. Have you come to the wrong person?" After a moment, Kisuke Urahara resumed his frivolous demeanor, covering half of his face except for his eyes with his open fan, and retorted with a chuckle.

"Do I really have to tell you everything?" Ishihara Sho smiled noncommittally before continuing slowly, "For example, the Kido-sama who entertained me before, and why you, as the former head of the Twelfth Division and the Technology Development Bureau, didn't stay in Soul Society but hid yourself in the human world? Or... the whereabouts of those captains who disappeared around the same time as you and Yoruichi Shihouin."

"Who exactly are you!?" Upon hearing this, Kisuke Urahara could no longer suppress his killing intent. His killing aura, mixed with spiritual pressure, was released as if it were a tangible force, enveloping Ishihara Sho's body and intimidating him.

Chapter 186 Treating a Fool as a Fool

On the other side, perhaps sensing the unusual situation in front of the shop, Yoruichi, still in her black cat form, quietly emerged from the back of the shop.

Next came Tetsuzai Goryu, who appeared behind the curtain but did not show his face, looking as if he was ready to rush out at any moment, giving any potential intruders a strong sense of psychological pressure.

"Is this Captain Urahara Kisuke's way of treating guests?" Despite being enveloped by the captain's spiritual pressure, Ishihara Akira, who had his own unique way of dealing with it, did not show the usual difficulty a Shinigami would face when facing a captain's pressure. He still looked at the cold-faced Urahara Kisuke with a calm expression.

"Hospitality is for friends. As for strangers, especially a weirdo like you, I don't think there's anything wrong with my reaction right now," Kisuke Urahara said with a cold laugh, closing his fan.

"Even if that thing eventually falls into Aizen's hands, it's still the same?" Ishihara Akira asked with a smile.

At that moment, he finally realized that he seemed to have arrived too early...

Because the Hogyoku is actually in Urahara Kisuke's hands right now!

Because the current storyline hasn't started yet, Rukia Kuchiki hasn't met Ichigo Kurosaki yet, and hasn't lost her Shinigami powers. She needs to come to him to buy a Gikai, and he takes the opportunity to hide the Hogyoku inside the Gikai to avoid Aizen's pursuit.

That's why his mention of the Hogyoku caused such a huge reaction from Kisuke Urahara...

"I was reckless. In that case, I'll have to find another way to achieve the Divine Body Transformation," Ishihara Sho thought to himself.

"Damn the sin of pride! Damn the beast of Satan!"

Urahara Kisuke remained silent, frowning as he stared at Ishihara Sho for a while. In the end, he chose Aizen over Ishihara Sho's threat! He then suppressed his killing intent and said calmly, "Come in with me."

"Then I'll have to bother you," Ishihara Akira said with a smile.

After taking off his shoes at the entrance, he followed Kisuke Urahara to the back of the shop and sat down in a Japanese-style room.

Ishihara Sho glanced at the black cat Yoruichi beside him, then reached out and grabbed it.

Yoruichi naturally dodged and jumped into Kisuke Urahara's arms to thwart Ishihara's inappropriate thoughts about her.

"Now you can tell me what you meant by what you said before." After Tessai Tsukasa brought the tea, Kisuke Urahara finally stopped trying to outlast Sho Ishihara and took the initiative to ask.

"Before we get to that, I'd like to ask you a question, Mr. Urahara Kisuke, in all your years in this world, have you ever learned anything about Buddhism?" Ishihara Shō put down the tea he had just picked up but hadn't yet drunk, and asked with a smile.

“Buddhism? Of course I know about it,” Kisuke Urahara affirmed.

Leaving aside his Bankai, Kannon Kai is a name that seems to have a significant connection with Buddhism. In Japan, where Karakura Town is located, Buddhism is a religious group that holds a very important position, just like Shintoism!

Not to mention, Buddhism itself is one of the world's three major religions.