At one o'clock in the morning, in the silent night, only the sound of running footsteps and dim street lights were left on the streets.
This small town turned out to look like this in the dead of night. Ichigo Kurosaki thought as he ran along the somewhat dim road in the given direction.
He rarely goes out at such a time on weekdays. Although his orange hair usually leaves a bad impression on others, in fact he has kept a low profile in order not to make his family worry. Of course, staying out at night is also a problem. Rarely do it.
"It's so quiet...no one is talking."
Ichigo Kurosaki thought that he was ready for this lonely trip to Soul Society. But when it was time to leave, he looked at the dark night sky in the distance, which seemed like an abyss that could swallow everything. He didn't know why, but he felt a little lonely.
Looking back now, it seems that when he performed the duties of the Shinigami on behalf of Rukia, he did not act alone every time.
It's lively every time.
Inoue, Sadatari, Ishida, Rukia... Whenever something happened, there would always be people around who would make a lot of noise. It was a bit unaccustomed to become so quiet all of a sudden.
But it’s better not to involve them in such danger again? Whether it’s to go to Soul Society to save people or to find my mother’s soul, it’s all my own decision.
Thinking of this, Kurosaki Ichigo shook his head, threw all distracting thoughts behind his mind, and quickened his pace.
Along the familiar road, he finally saw lights that were brighter than street lights in the distance, as well as illuminated signboards.
The door of Urahara's shop was open, as if to welcome him.
"Good morning, Kurosaki, hehe..."
When Ichigo Kurosaki ran closer, he was somewhat surprised to hear a familiar voice coming from the door.
It may be too early to say good morning at this point in time, but she seems to be such a person.
"Inoue, why did you..."
Looking at Orihime Inoue who poked her head out of the door, Kurosaki Ichigo was slightly stunned.
"It's not just me."
Inoue Orihime pointed toward the room.
Under the dim light, a burly man sat silently in the shop with his back against the door. After seeing Kurosaki Ichigo walk in, he slowly raised his head, with a faint smile on his face.
"Long time no see, Ichigo."
"Chadu...even you..."
"You are so slow, Kurosaki Ichigo."
"Ishida? Are you there too? What's with your strange clothes? I almost didn't recognize you."
"Damn it, why is this weird? Please explain it to me clearly!"
Ishida Uryū had veins popping out on his forehead. This was because he took out the combat uniform he had made in order to make this trip to Soul Society go smoothly!
"Ahahaha...Sorry, sorry..."
Kurosaki Ichigo smiled awkwardly. For some reason, he felt inexplicably moved in his heart.
These guys were all silent and didn't mention anything about Soul Society or Rukia. He thought no one would go with him.
No, it should be said that he is too stupid.
How could these nosy guys leave him alone? It was just his wishful thinking that they should not be involved.
At this moment, Kurosaki Ichigo realized that he had never fought alone.
He saw that the aura of these people was obviously completely different from before, and he roughly knew that not only himself, but others must also be secretly working hard for today's moment.
"hey-hey."
Inoue Orihime put her hands behind her back and watched Kurosaki Ichigo bickering with Ishida Uryu energetically, with a smile on her face.
The same was true for Sadatora Taihu on the side. He smiled and looked at Kurosaki Ichigo who was more energetic than before. He felt that his decision to come here was the right one.
The originally deserted Urahara store became lively with the arrival of Kurosaki Ichigo.
After hearing the movement in the outhouse, gentle footsteps also sounded in the room deep in the shop.
"Okay, I don't want to disturb you, but I think it's almost time."
Urahara Kisuke opened the door to the inner room and walked out, laughing, "We already have time to bicker. It seems that you are almost ready?"
"Of course."
Several people stopped arguing and responded in unison, with a languid smile on their faces.
"Very good. Then come in with me."
Urahara Kisuke smiled and turned around to lead everyone into the dark room.
A faint light projects from the ground, which is the entrance to the underground.
"Go down first and I will tell you how to get to Soul Society. Don't be distracted and miss it, otherwise you may die before you reach Soul Society."
Urahara Kisuke stopped and pointed at the hole under the tatami.
"..."
Without any hesitation, a few people slid down the long vertical ladder and entered the wide underground space below Urahara Store.
"Wow, there is so much space down here?"
Inoue Orihime looked at the surrounding environment curiously, "It's so cool! It's like a secret base!"
"Yeah, right?"
Seeing someone praising the space he created, Urahara Kisuke chuckled.
"Okay, let's quickly tell you how to get to Soul Society! Don't get carried away!"
Kurosaki Ichigo kicked Urahara Kisuke angrily, but the opponent easily dodged it.
"Well~ don't be anxious~"
Urahara Kisuke fanned gently with one hand and snapped his fingers with the other hand.
I saw strong spiritual energy fluctuations coming from behind him, and the entire space seemed to become distorted. Four stone pillars filled with talismans suddenly protruded from the distorted space.
Bang-bang-bang-bang-
With several collision sounds, four stone pillars were pieced together, and a seemingly simple door frame-like device appeared in front of everyone.
"Okay, this is the door to Soul Society - the Realm Crossing Gate."
Urahara Kisuke lowered the brim of his hat and said in a serious voice, "Listen carefully, Soul Society is a place that only souls can reach, which means that generally you can only reach there if you die, and next I will teach you how to pass
The way to avoid death is through this door."
As he spoke, Urahara Kisuke flashed and instantly came behind Kurosaki Ichigo.
"!?"
Before Kurosaki Ichigo had time to react, he raised the cane in his hand and stabbed the opponent violently.
Kurosaki Ichigo's spirit body was immediately separated from his physical body.
"Wow! Is this how Kurosaki turned into a Shinigami?"
Inoue Orihime poked Kurosaki Ichigo's body, which fell down as if he was asleep, and then looked at the spirit body wearing a Death Overlord outfit standing beside him, with a somewhat surprised expression on his face.
This was the first time she saw Kurosaki Ichigo's process of leaving the body, and she didn't expect it to be so simple and crude.
"There are no chains? Kurosaki, can you still come back in here?"
Inoue Orihime asked curiously.
Because she seemed to remember that when she left the body before, her soul and body were connected by a chain.
"Um...of course! I'm not dead yet! The souls of the God of Death are different from those of ordinary people!"
Kurosaki Ichigo scratched his head, then he looked at Urahara Kisuke aside, "Why are you poking me so suddenly?"
"Of course I have to poke you out."
Urahara Kisuke explained, "It is impossible for a human body to reach Soul Society, which only allows spiritual bodies to exist."
"So this is the way to get to Soul Society?"
Ishida Uryu frowned and asked, "But it's impossible for us to leave the body and go to Soul Society like Kurosaki? In that case..."
"In that case, you won't be able to use your strength at all."
Kisuke Urahara answered, "So what I want to say next is the key point, listen carefully!"
As he said that, he just wanted to introduce the world-transmitting gate behind him in a grand manner as if he was introducing a 'great invention of the new century'.
"Although it is temporary, I spent a lot of effort to finally complete this special world-traveling gate! This is not an ordinary world-traveling gate connecting the real world and Soul Society! It has the function of converting souls.
The world-crossing gate!"
"Spirit transformation?" Inoue Orihime tilted her head to express that she didn't understand at all.
"Actually, the principle is very simple. I temporarily pretended to be a spirit conversion machine on an ordinary boundary-traveling door, and then covered it with a talisman to fix it."
Urahara Kisuke then explained, "As I said just now, Soul Society is a world of souls. If you want to enter, you must become a soul. However, the only person who can move to Soul Society with soul resources and still exert his own strength is the one who
Even if the people of the God of Death and others leave the physical body, they will be bound by the chains of cause and effect and cannot go to the Soul Society, and even if they go, they are just ordinary 'souls'. So the soul transformation is necessary! This thing can make up the world.
All material 'vessels' are all converted into 'spirits', the main component of the soul! In other words, your body is directly transformed into a complete spirit son state, so that you can directly go to the corpse soul in this posture.
It’s over the line! How’s it going? Isn’t it awesome?”
"Yes, yes, it's amazing..."
After getting along with each other some time ago, Kurosaki Ichigo seemed to have become accustomed to this guy's way of speaking, and he agreed perfunctorily, "Okay, now that you've finished explaining, let's go, shall we?"
"Shut up, why are you so anxious? The next thing is the point!"
Urahara Kisuke knocked Kurosaki Ichigo to the ground with a stick and continued, "Indeed, there is no difficulty in passing through this door. I am confident that there will be no problems with the spirit son conversion machine I made, but
The problem is 'time' and the potential danger behind this door."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Ichigo Kurosaki got up from the ground as if nothing had happened and scratched his head, "It's just stepping through a door. I didn't expect that there are so many exquisite things. It's really troublesome."
"boom."
Something hit Kurosaki Ichigo on the head again.
"I told you to shut up."
The black cat stepped on Kurosaki Ichigo's head, licked the cat's paws, and said calmly.
"Asshole, you two deliberately collaborated to make things difficult for me, right?"
Ichigo Kurosaki felt embarrassed, but he still kept his mouth shut.
After staying here for so long, he has naturally seen the black cat ‘Mr. Yoichi’ who often comes here.
This cat and the clog hat in front of me are simply in cahoots!
"The gate that leads directly to Soul Society is only open for four minutes."
Kisuke Urahara said with a serious expression, "The door will be closed as soon as time passes, and you will be forever locked in the 'several realm' between the present world and the Soul Society."
"Border breaking?"
Hearing this word, Sadatora Taitora and Inoue Orihime looked at each other, with the same doubt flashing in their eyes.
This place... they seem to be very familiar, right?
"What's wrong?"
Urahara Kisuke looked at the two of them with some confusion.
"No, it's nothing. Just keep talking!"
Inoue Orihime waved her hands, thinking that maybe it was just a coincidence that the names were the same? In short, it would be better not to speak until the matter was clarified. From Mr. Urahara's tone, this seemed to be a very dangerous and serious matter, so you should not interrupt randomly.
"oh……"
Although Urahara Kisuke was a little confused, he didn't pay much attention to it and continued to explain, "In addition to the problem of time, in order to prevent the invasion of foreign enemies such as 'hollows', the world is also full of 'juryu' that can prevent the soul from moving.
Air flow, it can make the soul lose its way in it, and eventually be crushed and cleared by the scavenger 'Jutu' in the broken world."
"that……"
Chadu Taihu raised his hand to signal.
"What's wrong?" Urahara Kisuke asked with a frown, wondering if what he said was not clear enough?
"I would like to ask, is the flow rate of time in the broken world different from that in the real world?"
Chadu Taihu asked weakly.
"Yes. It's said to be four minutes, but the time flow rate inside is about one-two thousandth of that in the outside world. In fact, if you just pass through, then there is still plenty of time. The point is that the 'flow' will interfere with your actions, and it will also
There is such a threat as 'Jutu', so I say it is very dangerous."
Saying that, Urahara Kisuke was stunned, "By the way, how did you know?"
"Well...actually...I think it won't be very dangerous."
On the side, Orihime Inoue also raised her hand weakly.
Just now she thought it was just a coincidence of the place names, but after listening to Mr. Urahara's explanation so clearly, she and Sadat instantly understood... wasn't this the place where they had been training for nearly a year?
"ha?"
Urahara Kisuke scratched his head, looking confused, "What's going on?"
"Kutu is probably that giant worm-like thing, right? In fact... Chadatari-san and I were in the 'Boundary Break' during our special training... Brother wanted to allow us to train in peace..."
Inoue Orihime explained awkwardly.
She had seen the so-called 'Jutu'.
It does look terrible.
But it also seems very pitiful...
Even if the Jutu in the broken world is destroyed, it will be resurrected after a period of time. She has actually seen it more than once.
And every time the 'Jutu' came not far from their special training location, they would be wiped out by a force.
From what Sister Nilu said, it seemed to be the 'aura of destruction' that her brother left there so that their special training would not be disturbed.
That aura seemed to still remain when they left after training. If nothing else happened... Mr. Kutu should still be dying repeatedly...