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Mashu looked around, but Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't appear. She sighed inwardly. Had she lost track of time again while practicing...?

Shaking her head, Mashu decided to go to the training grounds herself to see if she could find Fujimaru Ritsuka.

brush--

Just then, a gentle breeze came from beside me.

不 ...

That wasn't the wind.

I saw it—

That's him, senior! But... someone bypassed Mashu and stood on the wall to the side.

Mash quickly turned around and saw the silver-haired boy: "Hello, Mash Kyrielight, I have something I'd like to talk to you about... How about we come together?"

"Ugh?"

brush--!

The next moment, Gin Ichimaru had already taken Ritsuka Fujimaru and left in a flash.

"Why?" Mashu asked, puzzled. Why would Gin Ichimaru target his senior? And... so openly at that? Wasn't he afraid of being exposed?

......

"Captain Aizen, really... is he trying to make me the bad guy?" Gin Ichimaru said, turning around with a puzzled look. "Didn't they chase after us?"

“Mash...she won’t be fooled so easily.”

"Hmm? You're surprisingly resilient; you actually woke up so quickly."

"Ha...haha, maybe I'm just a little bit tough..." Fujimaru Ritsuka said, then slammed her elbow down hard on Ichimaru Gin's head: "But, I don't know how many people are stronger than you!"

That's right, we've encountered crises far more severe than this one before, and we've overcome them all successfully. This time is no different!

"Oh...it seems I underestimated you." Gin Ichimaru smiled but didn't let go at all. Fujimaru Ritsuka's attack was nothing to him. However...Mashu caught up.

......

"That's... Rukongai—"

Mashu looked in the direction Gin Ichimaru and the others had left and said in surprise, "Although there is no wall in front of us and we can just go out like this, the invisible barrier still exists. According to the teachings of the Shinigami Academy, Shinigami who want to go out need to apply to their respective squads in advance, while students apply to their teachers and can only go out after they have been approved."

Otherwise, the barrier could automatically detect whether someone is there, and who has entered or exited...

Someone like him would definitely be—

"No alarm?"

Mashu paused before the barrier, looking at Gin Ichimaru in disbelief as he asked, "The alarm didn't trigger? Was it because... a mistake in the teachings at the Shinigami Academy? Or was it because..."

What caused Inazuma's death?

Come to think of it... He went out to Rukongai so many times to conduct experiments, if he didn't have a way to hide from the barrier, he would have been discovered long ago.

But in reality, no one noticed... until she herself exposed it.

Mashu gritted her teeth and rushed out as well, but the alarm was not triggered, as if the barrier over this area had broken.

'Calm down, Mashu... the shield is still working.'

“Ah…” Mashu nodded, glanced at the distance to Seireitei, and then shouted, “Manifest! 'Lord Camelot, the Ideal City Now Far Away'!”

boom----!

"Huh? What's this—?" Gin Ichimaru, who was carrying Ritsuka Fujimaru, suddenly felt an immense spiritual pressure and a tremendous impact emanating from his hand—

A necklace gleamed around Fujimaru Ritsuka's neck; it was a shield-shaped necklace.

Something appeared—

Those are massive city walls!

A towering city wall stood between Gin Ichimaru and Ritsuka Fujimaru, creating a barrier between them.

"Hmm...interesting."

Gin Ichimaru smiled and placed his Zanpakuto under his arm: "Shoot him."

"Sharpshooter".

The white light streak instantly pierced through the city wall ahead, crackling sounds—

The barrier is crumbling; countless cracks are slowly appearing on the wall.

"Oh my god...it actually blocked it! That's amazing."

Gin Ichimaru looked ahead. A transparent wall stood in front of Ritsuka Fujimaru, shielding him from his attack. Although cracks appeared, at this speed...

"I can't just slack off... it wouldn't be good if Captain Aizen saw me," Gin Ichimaru said with a smile. "By the way, this is a technique I just mastered recently, so I'll use you as a test subject..."

"Solution—"

"Sacred Spear...Butoh."

Chi-

In an instant, it seemed as if most of the city wall was about to crumble.

I can't stop the second one, I absolutely can't stop it—

Fujimaru Ritsuka was fully aware of this: "Damn it... I need to think of something... what kind of thing..."

"Hmm... then how about this? Divine Spear—Dance of the Blades—"

Countless rays of light shot forward, and facing Fujimaru Ritsuka, the castle wall shattered before it could even hold out for a moment—

However, before that could happen, Mashu had already arrived, her Zanpakuto transforming into a shield to block the rain of light—

......

"Oh......"

Aizen, who was standing not far away, watched the scene before him with some amazement and said, "Amazing... Both Gin and that girl are like this. One awakened her Zanpakuto in less than a week, and then mastered Bankai within two years..."

"The other one, whose Zanpakuto was also released at some unknown time, and more importantly, the Zanpakuto in its Shikai form actually... blocked the blade after its Silver Bankai."

Aizen said this and walked in that direction.

This is partly because Gin's current Bankai is not yet fully developed.

It's barely usable, after all.

However, even so, being able to block Gin Ichimaru's attack is enough to prove how troublesome that Shinigami named Mash is.

"In that case, I'll have to do it myself." Aizen said, preparing to step forward, when suddenly something shot towards him!

The sword was stuck in the ground in front of him; it was a Zanpakuto.

Almost instantly, a person with an unfamiliar spiritual pressure appeared in front of him—

"Who are you?"

"Who I am is none of your business," the stranger said to Aizen. "What you should be thinking about right now is none of this."

The stranger pulled the Zanpakuto from the ground: "I'm very sorry, but you can't get through here."

Chapter 1038 Unknown

“How interesting, a complete stranger, yet you seem to know me very well…” Aizen paused, then continued, “No, not just seem, you really do know me very well… Who are you?”

Aizen's words went unanswered; the person in front of him simply stood there.

but--

Aizen sensed the unease and realized where it came from: "You are... a traveler? A human?"

The person in front of me was neither a spirit nor the Grim Reaper.

Although he wields a Zanpakuto, he is human!

It wasn't some kind of artificial body; that physical body... was undoubtedly human—

"So that's how it is. You're the Ryuka who broke into Soul Society two years ago, right? You've managed to hide until now, and even obtained a Zanpakuto..."

"This is none of your business, Aizen."

"Ok?"

Aizen was startled. The tone, the voice... even the face of the person in front of him suddenly changed to someone he knew well—the Fifth Division Captain, Hirako Shinji!

But it wasn't him.

Absolutely not!

Chi-

The person wielding the Zanpakuto slashed at him, but...

"too slow."

Aizen smiled and his Zanpakuto slashed at the man, cutting from his shoulder down—a potentially fatal wound. But—

"Is it too slow?"

"Ok?"

The blade is stuck!

The man dressed as Shinji Hirako said with a smile, "How about this then—!"

boom----!

Aizen retreated rapidly, barely managing to draw his Zanpakuto at the last moment to dodge the attack from the unknown person, but the wound on his chest... inflicted by Ryougi Shiki during the day, began to bleed again.

"...Super-fast regeneration...Are you a Hollow?"

The wound healed instantly, leaving no trace of the injury.

A person with superhuman regeneration and wielding a Zanpakuto...

“This is truly intriguing,” Aizen said, sheathing his sword.