togophonebook #231 - Grasp the authority of God! The ability to subvert the world!
#231 - Grasp the authority of God! The ability to subvert the world!
Karakura Town.
Although it is already after school hours.
But in the island nation, school ends at 3 PM. Except for students who haven't joined any clubs and go home immediately after school, most of the rest will participate in their respective club activities at school.
Just not far from Karakura First High School.
Orihime Inoue and Tatsuki Arisawa are surrounded by several people dressed like they're in cosplay.
“Um…” Orihime Inoue clearly didn't understand the situation.
She glanced suspiciously at the people protecting her and Tatsuki Arisawa, and asked Uryu Ishida, who seemed to be the leader, with a puzzled expression, “Ishida-kun, what do you want from us?”
Tatsuki Arisawa's lips twitched and said, “Orihime, haven't you noticed? These people's target is us!”
As she spoke, Tatsuki Arisawa's gaze turned to the Shinigami that ordinary people couldn't see.
That's right.
At this moment, blocking Tatsuki Arisawa and Orihime Inoue were not only Uryu Ishida and the others.
Uryu Ishida, as a Quincy, has a real flesh and blood body. But Shinigami are different.
Now, the two of them are actually surrounded by Shinigami and Quincies at the same time.
“Why?” Orihime Inoue was stunned for a moment, and looked at Uryu Ishida in surprise, “Ishida-kun, you… you actually…”
Because of Luo Fu's appearance, Orihime Inoue wasn't even a member of the Ryoka group at all. Naturally, she hadn't established any bonds with Uryu Ishida. At most, they were just ordinary classmates who knew each other, but didn't have much affection for each other.
Uryu Ishida looked at Tatsuki Arisawa and Orihime Inoue with a blank expression, and said, “Arisawa-san, Inoue-san, I'm sorry, but could you please come with us for a while?”
“Go where?” Orihime Inoue, who hadn't figured out the situation yet, or rather, whose brain was half a beat slow, looked at Uryu Ishida in surprise.
“Don't say so much.” Gin Ichimaru glanced around and said, “We need to make a quick decision, otherwise, once Luo Fu notices that we are taking action against his subordinates, and he appears from Hueco Mundo, none of us will be able to escape.”
The moment his voice fell, Gin Ichimaru directly drew his Zanpakuto.
As someone who is trying to redeem himself, Gin Ichimaru now places all his hopes of saving Rangiku Matsumoto's soul on the Soul Society and the Gotei Thirteen. This is his only hope, even if it is slim.
Even at the cost of his life, Gin Ichimaru absolutely cannot accept a failed ending.
Having witnessed Luo Fu's terrifying spiritual pressure, Gin Ichimaru knows very well that if they want to capture Orihime Inoue and Tatsuki Arisawa, it must be before Luo Fu reacts.
Otherwise, once it drags on until Luo Fu appears, then whether it is the Shinigami present or the Stern Ritter members composed of Quincies, every single one of them will die in Luo Fu's hands. Even escaping will be a luxury.
Gin Ichimaru no longer cares about his own life, but he cannot accept the ending where Rangiku Matsumoto cannot be saved.
Seeing the Shinigami side, at Gin Ichimaru's command, directly preparing to attack.
The Stern Ritter, led by Uryu Ishida, also revealed their respective weapons.
Compared to the Shinigami's side, with their uniform Zanpakuto, the Stern Ritter members' weapons appear much more diverse.
However, the mainstream, including Uryu Ishida, mainly uses bows and arrows, and most of these bows and arrows are condensed from spiritual power.
They are called weapons, but in fact, they are more like a means of using spiritual power.
“Are you going to attack?” Tatsuki Arisawa flipped her hand, and a small, exquisite sleeve hammer instantly fell into her hand.
Although this can be regarded as Tatsuki Arisawa's first real encounter with an enemy.
But before that, after Luo Fu entered Hueco Mundo, Tatsuki Arisawa had also joined forces with Sora Inoue, Orihime Inoue, and others to exterminate the Great Hollow Forest.
Although she lacks combat experience, she is not really a newbie.
Especially under Luo Fu's guidance, Tatsuki Arisawa is now able to unleash the power of a Shinigami in a state of spiritual and physical unity.
With the sleeve hammer in hand, Tatsuki Arisawa began to stimulate her own spiritual power, while saying to Orihime Inoue, “Orihime!! Be careful!”
Kisuke Urahara, wearing a green hat and holding a cane, couldn't help but say to the black cat squatting on his green hat after seeing Tatsuki Arisawa's sleeve hammer power from afar, “Ara ara, it seems that the Soul Society and the Wandenreich are going to suffer! Yoruichi-san, what do you say? These two little girls' abilities are so terrifying.”
Yoruichi, in her black cat form, said in a rough voice, “Kisuke Urahara, are you just going to watch like this?”
Pulling down his hat brim, Kisuke Urahara said, “We haven't been pardoned by the Soul Society yet. If we take action, it's uncertain whether these people are targeting us or those two girls.”
In fact, the Soul Society has pardoned Kisuke Urahara, Yoruichi Shihouin, and Shinji Hirako, or rather, tacitly pardoned them, but they haven't announced it in writing.
After all, the situation of Kisuke Urahara and the others is really special.
Not to mention that Kisuke Urahara himself researched the Hogyoku, which caused a great disturbance, just the identities of Shinji Hirako and the other Visored are destined that the Soul Society cannot easily publicly announce their pardon.
Don't forget that Shinigami and Hollows are mortal enemies.
Even the purpose of the Soul Society's establishment is nominally to eliminate the hidden dangers caused by Hollows and firmly restrict Hollows in Hueco Mundo.
But now, every member of Shinji Hirako's Visored group has the ability to Hollowify.
This is equivalent to transforming from a Shinigami into a Hollow.
Even if they know that they are innocent, the Soul Society cannot openly wash away the crimes on their bodies.
Seeing Kisuke Urahara, with his detached identity, not intending to intervene in the battle outside Karakura First High School.
Yoruichi Shihouin, in her black cat form, jumped down from Kisuke Urahara's head.
The moment she landed, the black cat went straight towards the battlefield.
Seeing this, Kisuke Urahara said with a hint of worry in his tone, “Yoruichi-san, what are you going to do?”
“It's not clear from here, I want to get a closer look.”
Yoruichi Shihouin's voice came from afar.
Kisuke Urahara smiled bitterly. Of course, he guessed that Yoruichi Shihouin was doing this because it was a little inconvenient to watch the show from the rooftop of this building, but more importantly, the distance was too far, and even if she wanted to intervene, it would take a certain amount of time.
But deep down, Kisuke Urahara really didn't want to openly become enemies with Luo Fu so early.
He didn't know if it was because Luo Fu had severed one of his arms, but deep down in Kisuke Urahara's heart, there was a sense of crisis that came from nowhere. As soon as he had the idea of becoming enemies with Luo Fu, this sense of crisis would make him feel cold all over.
That feeling of being easily crushed was almost becoming Kisuke Urahara's nightmare.
More importantly, Aizen.
Don't forget that Aizen alone forced Kisuke Urahara and Shinji Hirako to defect from the Soul Society and wander in the human world.
And that enemy they regarded as a great enemy, after hundreds of years of constant planning to thwart Aizen's conspiracy, Aizen turned around and obediently submitted to Luo Fu.
Simply from the point that Luo Fu can subdue Aizen, it is enough to make people feel the terror of Luo Fu.
Before figuring out Luo Fu's background, simply relying on the understanding of Luo Fu, which seems like looking at flowers in the fog, made Kisuke Urahara feel a strong sense of unease and dread in his heart.
Without figuring out Luo Fu's trump card, Kisuke Urahara was unwilling to become enemies with Luo Fu so early.
Unfortunately, Yoruichi Shihouin has already left. No matter how much planning Kisuke Urahara has in his heart, he cannot sit idly by now.
“Yoruichi-san is really troublesome.” Kisuke Urahara glanced tangledly at the billowing smoke and dust that splashed up due to Tatsuki Arisawa's sudden strengthening and then canceling the gravity effect. After a sigh, Kisuke Urahara jumped up and chased after the black cat's direction.
Outside Karakura First High School.
At this moment, the surrounding area has completely turned into a scene of ruins.
The school next door was completely turned into ruins because it was too close to Tatsuki Arisawa.
Looking around, whether it was the teaching building or other buildings, all had vanished into nothing.
The instigator, Yasutora Sado, was completely stunned.
She only wanted to use her ability to fight the enemy, but she never thought about blowing up the school.
Especially since it was just after school, there were many students participating in club activities, and numerous teachers were still present.
Now, they were all sent away by Yasutora Sado in one fell swoop.
"Ah!" Orihime Inoue screamed, flustered, "Yasutora, the school... the school..."
"I... I saw it..." Yasutora Sado, panicked, suddenly her eyes lit up, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, and hurriedly grabbed Orihime Inoue's shoulders, saying, "Orihime, hurry, quickly restore the school."
When practicing in Hueco Mundo's Forest of Menos, Yasutora Sado and Orihime Inoue had cooperated a lot.
Even their cooperation had almost reached a seamless level.
But that was in the situation of targeting enemies, and now, Yasutora Sado wanted Orihime Inoue to restore the entire school.
Of course, Orihime Inoue also understood that Yasutora Sado's real purpose was to have her save the students in the school.
But with such a large-scale death, Orihime Inoue didn't have much confidence at all.
That's right, as someone who could see the spirits of the dead.
At this moment, whether it was Orihime Inoue or Yasutora Sado, they had both seen countless spirits in the school, standing blankly on the ruins.
"Orihime, what are you still doing? Hurry!" Yasutora Sado urged again.
In theory, Orihime Inoue's ability could revive the dead.
After all, the essence of Orihime Inoue's ability was the rejection of phenomena, and death could also be regarded as a phenomenon.
Snapping back to her senses, Orihime Inoue quickly nodded and said, "Oh! Oh! Oh! I understand."
The hairpins on her head instantly lit up with spiritual power.
The members of the Shun Shun Rikka flew out one after another.
But when they saw the scene in front of them, and the place that Orihime Inoue conveyed to them that she wanted to restore.
The members of the Shun Shun Rikka were all dumbfounded.
Tsubaki exclaimed, "Orihime, it's impossible, you can't do it to this extent right now."
"Yeah," Lily said with a bitter face, "If it were Lord Luo Fu, maybe there would be a way, but Orihime can only use the power of four of us at most now, and there's no way to cover such a large area, and reject the reality of so many people's deaths."
Just when Orihime Inoue and Yasutora Sado were panicking about the destroyed school and the countless collapsed buildings around them.
Gin Ichimaru said with lingering fear, "What a terrifying move, but it seems like this ability is being used in the wrong direction. If such a method is purely used to target one person, I think even the Captain-Commander would be in danger of sacrificing himself."
After a slight pause, a cold light flashed in Gin Ichimaru's squinting eyes, and he said, "Now, you have no chance. Sayonara!"
Along with a farewell, Gin Ichimaru directly aimed his Zanpakuto at Yasutora Sado.
"Shoot to kill! Shinso."
Along with the release command, the Zanpakuto, which seemed like a dagger, instantly swelled up, expanding and contracting.
Under Yasutora Sado's sudden inspiration, although she dodged in time, she was still pierced through the shoulder by Shinso.
Fortunately, she had dodged in the nick of time, and although she couldn't completely avoid it, she avoided being pierced through the throat by Shinso.
Painfully clutching her shoulder, Yasutora Sado gritted her teeth and looked at Gin Ichimaru. Although the left shoulder was injured, it seemed that it would not affect her performance since she was not left-handed.
But in fact, having never suffered such a serious injury, it really affected Yasutora Sado's performance.
"Yasutora," Orihime Inoue exclaimed, and without bothering to research how to restore the school with the Shun Shun Rikka members.
Orihime Inoue hurriedly came to Yasutora Sado's side, and Orihime Inoue clasped her hands together.
"Soten Kisshun! I reject."
Among the Shun Shun Rikka, Shun'o and Ayame flew out directly, coming to Yasutora Sado's surroundings one after the other.
Immediately following the power of the shield, Yasutora Sado's pierced shoulder recovered in a very short time.
At the same time, from the rubble of the school, a disheveled figure wearing a Shihakusho rushed angrily towards the crowd.
Obviously, now in this Karakura First High School, the only survivor left was Ichigo Kurosaki.
Even Ichigo Kurosaki's body was crushed into a dying state by the collapse of the school.
After placing his body properly, he glanced weakly at the ruins of the school, where countless familiar souls kept emerging.
Ichigo Kurosaki angrily held his Zanpakuto and rushed towards the instigator.
Yasutora Sado had just recovered from her injury.
When she directly saw Ichigo Kurosaki rushing towards her.
"Ichigo, you..."
Before Yasutora Sado could finish speaking, Ichigo Kurosaki said angrily, "Yasutora, why have you become like this? Why did you destroy the school?"
This question immediately left Yasutora Sado speechless.
Although destroying the school was indeed not Yasutora Sado's intention, she mistakenly ignored that the human world was not like Hueco Mundo, which was not only barren for thousands of miles, but also the Hollows themselves could withstand several times, or even dozens of times, the gravity beyond their own limits.
This method, which was used as a preemptive strike in Hueco Mundo, when used in the human world, did not have much impact on the enemy, but first destroyed her own school.
Seeing Ichigo Kurosaki and Yasutora Sado looking at each other with swords drawn, Orihime Inoue, who had just restored Yasutora Sado's injury, quickly said, "Ichigo, you... don't misunderstand, Yasutora didn't do it on purpose, this is..."
"Enough," Ichigo Kurosaki interrupted Orihime Inoue angrily, and said, "I just thought that even if you followed that Luo Fu, at most we would each be loyal to our own master, but I didn't expect that you would attack innocent classmates and the school."
Swinging his Zanpakuto in front of him, Ichigo Kurosaki said in a deep voice, "Let's fight."
Although everything was indeed caused by accident.
But undoubtedly, Yasutora Sado couldn't wash away her guilt.
After all, the school had indeed been destroyed.
Under the guilt, Orihime Inoue helplessly shouted, "Nii-san, Lord Luo Fu, please help us."
Orihime Inoue's sudden help immediately made Gin Ichimaru's eyes condense, and he said urgently, "Hurry, attack, otherwise, once Luo Fu appears, we will have no chance."
At the moment when Gin Ichimaru's voice fell.
A spatial ripple instantly rippled around Orihime Inoue and Yasutora Sado.
Along with the ripples flashing.
Luo Fu's figure suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.
What made the Soul Society's side most unexpected was that the one who came with Luo Fu was actually the Captain of the Fourth Division, Retsu Unohana.
Gin Ichimaru's heart skipped a beat.
He blurted out, "Captain Unohana, you... why..."
Retsu Unohana smiled sweetly.
The hairstyle that originally had braids hanging in front of her, covering the scars, was now quite dangerous, as if she had untied the braids and casually tied them into a ponytail, hanging from one side of her shoulder to the front.
"There is no why," Retsu Unohana glanced at Gin Ichimaru with a smile and said, "Gin Ichimaru, you can choose Aizen from the captains of the Gotei 13, and now you have returned to the Soul Society again, so why can't I make my own choice?"
Don't look at Retsu Unohana, who seems to have a low presence among the captains of the Gotei 13 in the Soul Society.
But in fact, as the captain of the Medical Division, Retsu Unohana's prestige is almost second only to Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto.
It was precisely because of this that when they saw Retsu Unohana actually choosing to betray the Soul Society and defect to Luo Fu.
Including Gin Ichimaru and many Shinigami, they were so incredulous at first.
"Shinigami? Hmph, as expected, a group of people without loyalty!" As Yhwach's personal guard, Uryu Ishida's assistant this time, Jugram Haschwalth, glanced coldly at Retsu Unohana and said directly to Uryu Ishida, "Your Highness, the people of the Soul Society are no longer reliable."
Uryu Ishida nodded slightly, seemingly a little tangled about what kind of decision he should make.
In the final analysis, if it weren't for Luo Fu's sudden appearance, the current Uryu Ishida would at most be a remnant of the Quincy.
Because Luo Fu revealed the existence of the Wandenreich and Yhwach in advance, Yhwach had to order the Wandenreich to be born.
And the final result was that Uryu Ishida also became the heir to the Wandenreich in advance.
But in a short period of time, even if his strength had been greatly improved due to Yhwach's reasons, in terms of mentality, Uryu Ishida had not been able to quickly complete the process of growing up from a student.
When dealing with Hollows, he naturally adhered to the Quincy's ancestral teachings, decisive in killing. But when it came to matters requiring him to make decisions, he felt somewhat lost.
“Lord Loewe.”
Loewe's appearance gave Orihime Inoue and Tatsuki Arisawa a sense of support, as if they had found their backbone.
The two girls hurriedly came before Loewe, Tatsuki Arisawa looking particularly guilty as she said, "Lord Loewe, I… I've caused trouble."
“It's alright,” Loewe waved his hand, saying, “You just need to familiarize yourself more with your power.”
The instant Loewe's voice fell, the surrounding landscape, which had been reduced to rubble by Tatsuki Arisawa's gauntlet amplifying gravity several or even dozens of times, visibly disappeared as if it were a dream bubble.
Everything was like a great dream in the void, whether it was the completely destroyed school, the surrounding buildings affected, or the innocent people who died within the collapsed structures.
In this short period, everything seemed to have undergone a reversal of time.
Everything was restored to its original state once more.
Even those who had just died tragically remained in their previous state, with no memory of the process of dying.
“Amazing,” Orihime Inoue said, her eyes shining, “Is this Lord Loewe's power? It's just like Kami-sama.”
“If you can truly master your own power, then you can also do such things,” Loewe reassured.
However, in Loewe's view, Orihime Inoue's Shun Shun Rikka did indeed have this potential.
To some extent, Loewe believed that the power of Shun Shun Rikka was in no way inferior to the chaos magic of the Marvel Universe. At least in terms of concept, Shun Shun Rikka was almost a world-shattering ability.
The rejection of all things was not something that could be explained by ordinary time reversal or spatial restoration.
Instead, it was a power of the essence of the world.
The chaos magic of the Marvel Universe was about rewriting reality.
While Orihime Inoue's Shun Shun Rikka was about rejecting all things. To some extent, Shun Shun Rikka could be seen as half of a conceptual chaos magic.
After all, chaos magic included rejection itself, and it could change the reality according to one's own will, making things happen according to one's ideals.
While Shun Shun Rikka could only reject reality, it could not change what had already happened according to one's own thoughts.
Shun Shun Rikka could only negate, but could not affirm. Chaos magic possessed both.
However, even so, if Shun Shun Rikka could break through its limits, it would surely be an ability capable of contending with chaos magic.
No wonder even Aizen was curious about Orihime Inoue's abilities. In reality, this ability had truly touched upon the authority of the gods.
At this moment, Loewe casually restored everything around him, resurrecting the dead, and even making these resurrected people completely forget everything that had happened before.
In essence, it was his ability to localize chaos magic, thanks to his research on Orihime Inoue's Shun Shun Rikka.
It was just that the upper limit of the Soul Reaper world itself was not high, not comparable to the Marvel Multiverse.
Otherwise, Loewe would not have been able to do it so casually.
Although everything was restored.
In Ichigo Kurosaki's eyes, Tatsuki Arisawa, his childhood friend, and Orihime Inoue, his classmate, had already become typical examples of being stubbornly deluded, irredeemable enemies.
Gripping his Zanpakuto, Ichigo Kurosaki silently arrived in the Soul Reaper camp.
Seeing the conflict between the two sides about to erupt.
A black cat leaped into the air, drawing a graceful arc, and landed between Retsu Unohana and Gin Ichimaru.
“Captain Unohana, it's been a while.”
Accompanying the deep voice, the black cat suddenly transformed into a girl with chocolate-colored skin and muscles like a cheetah amidst a burst of spiritual energy.
Witnessing all of this, Loewe's heart flashed with a hint of suspicion.
If he remembered correctly, Yoruichi Shihouin was unable to wear clothes when switching between human and black cat forms, right?
That's right.
At this moment, Yoruichi Shihouin, in full view of everyone, transformed from a black cat into a Soul Reaper, and she was actually wearing clothes.
Moreover, it was a rather form-fitting outfit.
Perhaps Loewe's gaze was too obvious.
After greeting Retsu Unohana, Yoruichi Shihouin looked directly at Loewe.
“Loewe-san, we meet again.”
Loewe nodded slightly, and before he could speak, Yoruichi Shihouin continued, “Loewe-san, I didn't expect that in such a short time, you would have grown to such a terrifying level. Even Captain Unohana has chosen to side with you.”
“So?” Loewe looked at Yoruichi Shihouin with amusement. Although Yoruichi Shihouin and Kisuke Urahara had defected from the Soul Society together.
In fact, Yoruichi Shihouin's crime was not very serious. After all, the Shihouin family was one of the nobles of the Soul Society.
Even if they couldn't protect Yoruichi Shihouin, they could still make a big fuss about the sentence imposed on Yoruichi Shihouin in the Seireitei.
Of course, this was also because Yoruichi Shihouin was completely the head of the Shihouin family, unlike Byakuya Kuchiki's family, which had many constraints.
The Shihouin family was much more united.
To some extent, Yoruichi Shihouin's defection, under the operation of the Shihouin family, could become an undercover agent who could infiltrate the side of Shinji Hirako and Kisuke Urahara at any time. Not only would the crime disappear instantly, but she could also return to the Soul Society with glory.
This was also the reason why Loewe was behaving like this at this moment.
As if being stared at by Loewe made her a little uncomfortable.
Yoruichi Shihouin chuckled and said, “At least we were friends before. How about we let it go this time? I guarantee that these guys won't bother you in the future.”
“Your guarantee is worthless.” Loewe sneered.
The moment Loewe appeared, including those Sternritter members who were loyal to Yhwach, were very clear that their mission this time was impossible to succeed. In fact, to put it bluntly, Loewe's appearance meant the failure of this mission.
It was just that although the two sides had not yet truly fought, how could Loewe personally appear and easily let this matter go?
Feeling Loewe's determination, Yoruichi Shihouin looked unwillingly at Retsu Unohana and said, “Captain Unohana, does Captain-Commander Yamamoto know that you have betrayed the Soul Society?”
“I think Captain-Commander Yamamoto will know soon,” Retsu Unohana said nonchalantly.
A thousand years ago, to be able to become an unprecedentedly great villain in the history of the Soul Society, Retsu Unohana would definitely not be a kind person.
After losing to Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Retsu Unohana chose to become Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto's subordinate, assisting him in building the Seireitei, and even personally serving as one of the captains of the Gotei 13.
And now, having lost to the even more terrifying and powerful Loewe once again, it was not surprising that Retsu Unohana made a new choice.
The key point was that Retsu Unohana felt an unprecedented new world of swordsmanship on Loewe.
The latter was the key to Retsu Unohana's choice.
If it weren't for this, Retsu Unohana might not have easily sided with her former subordinate.
Yoruichi Shihouin, who was unaware of this, felt Retsu Unohana's firm attitude.
She secretly said in her heart that this time was troublesome.
Yoruichi Shihouin looked back at Gin Ichimaru and the others and said, “I will buy you time. You must seize the opportunity and escape back to the Soul Society as soon as possible.”
“Loudly plotting in front of me?” Loewe's mouth twitched and said, “Is Yoruichi-san underestimating me too much?”
“No,” Yoruichi Shihouin grinned, her face gradually filled with madness and said, “I would never dare to underestimate Loewe-san.”
The moment the voice fell, Yoruichi Shihouin's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.
Shunko.
This was a special combat technique that combined hakuda and kido in the Soul Society. It could be said that it brought the concept of "unbreakable and only speed" to the extreme.
Yoruichi Shihouin, who had disappeared in an instant, was preparing to capture the leader first and attack Loewe.
The next moment, Yoruichi Shihouin, who had just disappeared, was in a state of disarray and fell heavily back.
Just as Yoruichi Shihouin was about to fall to the ground.
Kisuke Urahara, wearing a green hat, appeared in time, reaching out to help Yoruichi Shihouin relieve the force on her body.
The two stumbled and staggered back several steps before barely stabilizing their figures.
“This guy… is much more terrifying than Aizen,” Yoruichi Shihouin said with lingering fear.