In front of Kūkaku Shiba's residence, it was a scene of crimson, stained with a large amount of blood.
Kugo Ginjo lay in a pool of blood, his body largely dissolved, completely dead. Shūkurō Tsukishima had his heart pierced and was also cleanly killed. Like Ginjo, his body was dissolved, with only some incomplete pieces scattered on the ground.
Giriko Kutsuzawa's body was cut in half at the waist and had been dead for a long time. She was the one whose body was the most intact of the three.
Ganju Shiba was not dead, but his abdomen was pierced and he had lost a lot of blood, currently unconscious.
Lying beside Ganju were two burly men and a wild boar. As for his sister, Kūkaku Shiba, she was not lying on the cold ground outside like her brother. Instead, she was alone in the house, having been filled like a cream puff and passed out multiple times, only to charge back into the fray again.
With her personal courage, heroic spirit, and great, fearless sacrifice, she had successfully saved the lives of her brother and her servants.
By the time the members of the Zero Division arrived at Kūkaku Shiba's residence, Kūkaku, leaking fluid, was sitting at her doorstep, smoking a pipe and puffing out clouds of smoke.
Although Kūkaku's whole person was glowing with radiance, her skin tender and rosy, her tired and恍惚 (dazed/haunted) eyes and her melancholic and sad aura made people feel sorry for her.
Ganju Shiba, on the other hand, had gone a bit mad. He was frantically using his family's secret technique, 'Sekibo', on the blood-red mud, destroying the spiritual particle connections of all matter before him, turning everything in sight into fine white sand.
The two burly servants, Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko, had red, moist eyes. They clutched their freshly bandaged wounds and stood on the side like ants on a hot pan, not knowing what to do.
"What a naughty little brat," the Monk said, no longer smiling, looking troubled at the scene.
"Hmph, a bold and reckless fellow who doesn't know the meaning of death," Senjumaru Shutara's face was also as cold as frost.
It wasn't that the members of the Zero Division sympathized with the Shiba family's plight, but that they felt provoked. The dignity of the Zero Division had been despised and trampled upon. And they were very displeased that Kugo Ginjo, a Soul King candidate, had been destroyed.
Because all of them could feel that the culprit had just left the crime scene not long ago.
In other words, the daring culprit had committed the crime right under their noses. They had leisurely cleaned up the scene a bit just before their arrival, and then patted their asses and left.
"What an arrogant bastard. Does he think this is more exciting? But his movements are really fast," Tenjiro Kirinji said, with a toothpick in his mouth. He first knocked out the frenzied Ganju Shiba, then knelt down and wiped up some of the residual blood and unknown liquid on the ground with his index and middle fingers to analyze it. "This poison... it's a bit scary. But don't you think the effect of this poison is very similar to something?"
In just a moment, a wisp of smoke rose from his fingers. A part of the residual liquid he had specifically extracted had corroded the skin on his fingers.
Even though the main body of the poison had already been released and was almost imperceptible after being diluted by the blood, mud, and fine sand, and further destroyed by Ganju's frantic actions, a part of the residual degraded derivative in the liquid, something similar to a corpse poison, still possessed such power and corrosiveness.
Ganju Shiba, on the other hand, had dumb luck. By using the Shiba family's secret technique to destroy the structure of the spiritual particles, the residual corpse poison in the ground was basically all turned into pure white sand, with no risk of harming anyone else.
"A potent poison that dissolves cells... I see, so that's what it is, ne," Ōetsu Nimaiya said in his broken rap. "Oh, this is a headache, ne. Yo~ A Zanpakutō with this kind of effect is probably only—Kamishini no Yari."
"Gin Ichimaru's Bankai? Wasn't that guy already killed by Aizen?" Kirio Hikifune frowned.
"The guy who attacked us, the move he used was indeed Kamishini no Yari. But the user was not Gin Ichimaru, not even a Soul Reaper," Kūkaku Shiba said, exhaling a puff of smoke. She slowly stood up, seeming to have composed herself and temporarily regained her spirits.
"It was a Quincy named Bai Yuetong, wasn't it?" Ichibē Hyōsube already knew who the culprit was when he arrived.
"You know him?" Kūkaku was a bit surprised.
"Who's that?" Kirio Hikifune was unfamiliar with the name.
"A Quincy? Was he sent by Yhwach to provoke and demonstrate his power to us? To think that he could embarrass people in this way, what a disgusting fellow," Senjumaru Shutara said with displeasure.
She thought that all of Bai Yuetong's disgusting and cruel actions were under Yhwach's orders, specifically to disgust and humiliate the Zero Division. She didn't know that these were all his own actions.
"To be noticed by you, Monk, that bad boy must be very unusual, yo~" Ōetsu Nimaiya, on the other hand, noticed that the Monk seemed to be very interested in this Quincy himself.
And the fact that the other party could use the Bankai of a dead Soul Reaper greatly interested Ōetsu, the creator of the Zanpakutō, who was known as the God of the Sword.
"A 'black' that does not belong to this world. Where on earth did he come from? This matter has been troubling this old monk for a long time," Ichibē Hyōsube said, with his arms crossed, gazing into the void, as if searching for something, but also as if he could see nothing, having gained nothing.
"A 'black' that does not belong to this world? That's unbelievable," Senjumaru Shutara raised an eyebrow. She had never heard the Monk mention this before.
It seemed the Monk had been holding back and had not told them about this matter.
All the "black" in this world belonged to the Monk. If someone had a "black" on them that did not belong to him, then they must not have originally belonged to this world.
In other words, a visitor from another world had arrived.
This was a huge event!
No one knew if the other party was some kind of invasion vanguard, or if there were some evil people with ulterior motives in the other world. And the intersection of two different worlds itself was an extremely dangerous thing.
But at the same time, it was also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
However, whether it was an opportunity or a disaster could only be judged after obtaining enough intelligence and comparing the strength gap and resource compatibility between the two sides.
But in any case, the sudden appearance of an outsider would have an unknown and significant impact on this firmly established world.
As the guardian of the world, the leader of the Soul Reapers, the oldest and wisest monk in the Soul King Palace, Ichibē Hyōsube did not deal with the situation immediately after discovering it, nor did he share the intelligence with everyone to prepare in advance...
Undoubtedly, there was a problem with Ichibē Hyōsube's thinking. His personal desires and greed must have, at some point, overridden his responsibility to protect the world.
However, Senjumaru Shutara could also understand. For the Monk, who had already mastered all the "black" in this world, the excitement of seeing a new prey when he encountered a "black" that did not belong to this world would inevitably give rise to greed. If it were her, she would have felt the same.
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