Kurosaki Ichigo looked at the monster in front of him solemnly.
His body couldn't stop shaking, and he couldn't help but reach out and pinch his arm, trying to use pain to cover up the inexplicable emotions that were constantly pouring out of his heart. This was fear - fear from instinct.
He originally thought that the so-called 'empty' and so-called 'evil spirits' should also look like humans, but the guy who appeared in front of him now was obviously a complete monster.
Human beings always feel fear when facing unknown and terrifying creatures.
But now is not the time for him to be afraid!
"Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid of it! I've been used to seeing things like ghosts since I was a child! There's nothing to be afraid of!"
Kurosaki Ichigo kept comforting himself.
Veins popped out in the hand holding the baseball bat.
"Wanderer!"
He shouted his sister's name loudly, and then rushed forward desperately.
"elder brother……"
The wanderer caught in Xu's hand weakly turned to the source of the sound.
"idiot!"
Rukia Kuchiki looked at Kurosaki Ichigo's actions and cursed.
How could anyone suddenly attack and shout loudly at the same time!?
If Wanderer can hear such a desperate cry, so can the Hollow.
The huge Hollow slowly turned around, and the ferocious pale white mask looked at Kurosaki Ichigo who was rushing towards him. His open mouth and tall figure gave people a terrifying sense of oppression.
"!!"
Kurosaki Ichigo's sprinting figure stopped.
Because he found that he had no idea where to start.
Facing such a huge monster, both himself and the weapons in his hands seemed small and powerless.
The Kyon opposite him would not consider what Kurosaki Ichigo was feeling.
The moment he saw Ichigo Kurosaki, the twinkling pupils under the pale mask shone with excitement.
"call--"
He held Yuzi's arm and roared towards him, hitting Kurosaki Ichigo hard.
"Click——"
At the critical moment, Kurosaki Ichigo subconsciously blocked the violent blow with a baseball bat, but his entire body was sent flying backwards.
Of course, the reason he was not killed on the spot was not because of how tough his body was, but because Rukia Kuchiki arrived in time and slashed Kyon's arm with a Zanpakutō, weakening part of the strength.
Even so, Kurosaki Ichigo was still smashed against the wall and spat out bloody spit.
"Ahhhh——"
Angry screams sounded.
It was the roar that Xu made when he was struck by the Zanpakutō.
The arm that was holding Youzi was mostly cut off, and its palm was slightly loosened.
"Wanderer!"
Kurosaki Ichigo didn't have time to care about the pain in his body and quickly got up to catch his falling sister.
"Wanderer! Wake up! Are you okay!?"
He anxiously asked his injured sister, but Youzi's condition was not much better than Xia Li's, and he also lost consciousness.
"Little devil! Don't worry, as long as the soul has not been eaten, there is still a way!"
Rukia Kuchiki held her Zanpakutō tightly and stood in front of the two of them, "This guy didn't eat the souls of your two sisters. Even your fallen father is still alive."
"Not yet...wait a minute! Didn't you just say that the purpose of attacking humans is to devour souls?" Kurosaki Ichigo noticed something was wrong in an instant, "It attacked my family not to devour souls, but also to devour souls."
What?"
"What do you think? Idiot!"
Kuchiki Rukia cursed without looking back, "In order to obtain a soul with a higher concentration of 'reiko', Kyon will wander around the world. This kind of thing involving unrelated people often happens..."
"You mean..."
As if he realized something, Kurosaki Ichigo turned pale.
"Yes, this guy is here for you! That's why I told you to stay still! Idiot!"
Rukia Kuchiki scolded angrily, "You...with your human body can crack the ghost path that only Shinigami can see. I have never seen a human with such a high concentration of souls. It is natural that you will become this guy's target."
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"Wait... So..."
Kurosaki Ichigo's face became extremely ugly, "Did I bring this terrible guy here? Is it all because of me that my family was attacked and their lives were hanging by a thread? All of this... was caused by me?"
"So you understand now? If you continue to stay here, you will only become a burden to me."
Perhaps sensing Kurosaki Ichigo's depressed mood, Kuchiki Rukia couldn't bear it and turned her head to look at him.
And it was this glance that put her in danger.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"
Fierce roars continued.
Xu slowly raised his arm that was hit by the Zanpakutō.
Although it seems that the cut was very deep, for a monster like this that only relies on instinct to act, pain will only become the power for its actions.
The fierce fists swept towards Kuchiki Rukia mercilessly.
"grim Reaper!!"
Kurosaki Ichigo suddenly raised his head and wanted to remind him, but it was already too late.
boom--
He watched helplessly as the 'girl' who called herself the God of Death was smashed into the wall beside the road, and he didn't know whether she was alive or dead.
it's not finished yet.
After this 'god of death' was knocked away, it continued to move in its own direction without even looking at it.
It seems that it is only interested in itself?
“Ahhhhh——”
The harsh roar seems to penetrate the human soul.
The huge shadow slowly approached.
The target of this Hollow from beginning to end is only Kurosaki Ichigo.
"Should I say he is worthy of being the son of the world?"
Upstairs, Xuanhao, who had just treated Xia Li's injuries, looked down at everything happening on the street at this moment.
While Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki were dealing with Hollow, he came over to check if there were any soul fragments in Xia Li's body.
Unfortunately, this girl doesn't have it.
But it's not a big deal for him to get some treatment.
He gently put down the girl's unconscious body and sighed while walking downstairs.
You know, under normal circumstances, the soul of the god of death is a great tonic for Xu. Compared with human souls, Xu should naturally prefer to devour the god of death.
However, the attacking Hollow only saw Kurosaki Ichigo.
From this point alone, we can completely see the specialness of Kurosaki Ichigo.
"You guy! Don't bully others too much!"
Ichigo Kurosaki leaned his unconscious sister aside, gritted his teeth and stood up, facing the terrifying creatures that were approaching him alone.
He didn't know whether it was because of injury or fear, but his whole body was shaking, but he didn't take a step back.
"Damn...so careless."
On the side, Kuchiki Rukia, who was struggling to get up, complained.
"During the battle, I was actually cloned and didn't notice the attack from behind. It's really embarrassing..."
But from Xuan Hao's point of view, this actually doesn't seem to be her fault.
Because the entire area around here was shrouded in the huge spiritual pressure inadvertently coming from Kurosaki Ichigo.
Compared with the huge spiritual pressure in Ichigo Kurosaki, this Hollow seems insignificant and can even be easily ignored.
In other words, the presence of Ichigo Kurosaki really hindered her fight.
"Hey, what you want is my soul, right?"
Kurosaki Ichigo roared angrily at the oncoming Hollow.
"Then come at me! Don't involve others! You idiot!"
"Roar--"
No matter how angry and roaring he is, in this virtual eye, it is just a full meal.
After getting close, Xu suddenly pounced on him, biting at Kurosaki Ichigo with his ferocious mouth, as if he could swallow him whole in one bite.
However, Kurosaki Ichigo thought that this Hollow understood what he said.
He didn't even take a step back. He even clenched his fists and tried to punch the giant creature in front of him.
"idiot."
Two curses sounded out in unison.
One is full of anger and anxiety, while the other is just calm.
One of the voices came from Kuchiki Rukia. She was scolding Ichigo Kurosaki for being stupid and trying to defeat the Hollow with a human body.
The other one belonged to Xuan Hao, and he was scolding both of them as idiots. One was overestimating his own capabilities, and the other was completely unable to exert his own strength. It was obvious that he couldn't defeat this Hollow, but yet he was in such a mess.
"!?"
"puff--"
Dark red blood was sprinkled on his face, and Kurosaki Ichigo could even feel the warmth coming from the blood.
"grim Reaper!?"
He stared blankly at the petite body standing in front of him. At this moment, Kuchiki Rukia was standing in front of him with a knife, and half of her body had been bitten in her mouth.
The Zanpakutō was deeply embedded in Xu's mouth, and perhaps because of the pain, the angry roar sounded again.
Kyon released his grip on Kuchiki Rukia's mouth, subconsciously covering the injured mouth and retreating.
"Roar ah ah ah ah ah -"
It roared angrily, and was about to pounce on him again, tearing apart and swallowing all the souls together with the God of Death in front of him.
However, at this moment, a terrifying aura locked onto it, making it unable to move at all and could only struggle wildly.
Staring expressionlessly at Xu not far away, Xuanhao slowly approached.
He felt a little strange about the scene before him.
Logically speaking, it was impossible for Kuchiki Rukia to lose to the pitifully weak Hollow in front of her.
But everything that happens now seems to be destined and inevitable.
But this didn't make sense, because he vaguely remembered that the encounter between Kuchiki Rukia and Kurosaki Ichigo was arranged by Aizen.
So the question is, how did Aizen determine that Rukia Kuchiki would definitely lose to this Hollow and pass on the power of death to Ichigo Kurosaki?
And the biggest problem is that according to the current situation, if he hadn't appeared, then these two people would probably be killed directly by this virtual one.
Because according to the current situation, if he didn't suppress this void, those two idiots wouldn't have time to discuss how to deal with such a situation.
Xuan Hao felt that it would be impossible for anyone in this world to be able to calculate his trajectory, because even the 'omniscient and omnipotent' Yhwach could not control his future, so it seems that all this can only be explained by the 'will of the world'
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"If this is really the case, then am I considered a pawn in the world's chessboard that cannot be broken free?"
Xuan Hao raised his head and looked at the sky and murmured to himself.
On the other side, in the sight of Kurosaki Ichigo and Kuchiki Rukia, they only saw the virtual image struggling painfully due to injury.
They completely failed to notice that at some point, another person had arrived.
"Idiot, don't you already know that you are no match for this guy?"
Kuchiki Rukia, who fell to the ground, complained, "You don't really think that if you feed yourself to this guy, it won't hurt others, do you?"
"I'm sorry...I just..."
Kurosaki Ichigo seemed to realize how stupid his behavior was.
"Okay, now is not the time to talk nonsense."
Kuchiki Rukia leaned against the wall with difficulty, looking at Hollow struggling in pain in the distance.
It was a blessing that the Hollow didn't attack the two of them right away, but she knew that this situation wouldn't last long.
"Unfortunately, as you have seen, I can no longer continue fighting now."
She said to Kurosaki Ichigo.
"That doesn't mean... we can only wait to be eaten by it?" Kurosaki Ichigo punched the ground with regret, because because of him, everyone would be eaten, "You all blame me, yes
I hurt everyone..."
"Now is not the time to hold people responsible. If you want to regret it, wait until you are alive."
Kuchiki Rukia's firm voice sounded, "Do you want to save your family?"
Such a voice made Kurosaki Ichigo realize that maybe everything was not over yet.
Yes, the guy in front of you calls himself the ‘God of Death’!
"Of course I have! Please tell me if you have any ideas!"
Kurosaki Ichigo leaned over excitedly.
"Yes, there is. No, to be precise...this should be our only solution now."
Kuchiki Rukia raised the Zanpakutō in her hand, her eyes slightly focused, looking at Kurosaki Ichigo standing in front of her.
"This method is - you become the God of Death!"
"What!!?"
Kurosaki Ichigo was stunned, "What are you going to say? Is this kind of thing possible?"
He looked at the 'girl' in front of him with some confusion.
Is becoming a ‘god of death’ just something you can talk about?
He saw the God of Death in front of him slowly extending his knife in his direction.
"I will pierce this Zanpakutō into your chest, and then I will inject half of the Death God's power into your body. In this way, you can temporarily possess the power of the Death God... and you can compete with it!"
"Stab in the chest?"
Kurosaki Ichigo pointed to his chest hesitantly, "Is this... reliable?"
Just now, he saw with his own eyes what kind of effect this knife had on Xu's body, piercing his own chest? Isn't this fatal?
"have no idea……"
What Rukia Kuchiki said next made Ichigo Kurosaki even more panicked.
"I have never tried to turn a human into a god of death. This is the first time."
"Hey, hey, now is not the time to joke."
Kurosaki Ichigo was a little ashamed.
"I'm not kidding you," Kuchiki Rukia said with a firm look, "I said this is the only way now. Your soul qualifications are very high, so I want to give it a try. Although it may not succeed, but anyway
We are all going to die now, aren't we? If we succeed, we can survive, and if we fail, we won't lose. There is no time for you to hesitate."
"..."
Kurosaki Ichigo looked at the Zanpakutō that had been handed to his chest in silence.