Death: No cheats, take refuge in Aizen

Chapter 289 287. A shocking conjecture

What kind of place is hell?

No one can give Urahara Kisuke an answer.

Even those first-generation captain souls who were temporarily called back from hell were subject to certain rules and could not tell Urahara Kisuke about that magical place.

As far as Urahara Kisuke knows, there is only one god of death in the entire Soul Society who has successfully been to hell and returned from hell.

And the name of that god of death is Higashino Hideichi.

Urahara Kisuke does not expect to get the answer he wants from Higashino Hideichi.

Because even if Higashino Hideichi is really willing to tell, Urahara Kisuke certainly cannot afford the reward.

But there is one thing Urahara Kisuke can be sure of.

That is, the current hell has accumulated for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

It is almost reaching its limit.

This should be a fact that can be believed.

After all, the source of this news is Sayako Kabuto, who was one of the five nobles at the time and was specially sent to guard the existence of hell.

Sayako Kabuto's words must be worthy of trust.

And Hell only accepts the souls of powerful captain-level Shinigami.

In order to make Hell reach its upper limit as soon as possible.

Urahara Kisuke must speed up the process of absorbing souls.

So this is why Urahara Kisuke's subsequent series of operations.

Just as he said to Nemu before.

He Urahara Kisuke and Higashino Shuichi are fundamentally different in their actions.

The purpose of letting those first-generation captains attack the Soul Society is just to train the Shinigami in the Soul Society.

It is nothing more than this to force the growth of seedlings.

It is true that in this process, many Shinigami will inevitably die.

But the Shinigami in the Soul Society have also gained rapid strength in this process.

He wants to make the number of Shinigami in the Soul Society who can reach the threshold level of strength to enter Hell become more.

Therefore, it is not a bad thing to let Kabuto Takuya, a powerful Quincy, enter the Soul Society to train those Shinigami in advance.

After all, in that shadow world, there will be more powerful Quincies waiting for those Death Gods in the future.

So Urahara Kisuke agreed.

But this was unexpected and unreasonable.

Because Urahara Kisuke did not make any requests or arrangements to himself.

Higashino Hideichi felt that this was unreasonable.

Even though his reasons seemed to make sense.

But he was Urahara Kisuke.

Did he really believe that a Quincy would go to Soul Society alone for a Death God?

Or did Urahara Kisuke want to see him go to Soul Society and fight those Death Gods?

But this was contradictory to Urahara Kisuke's previous actions.

At least in Higashino Hideichi's view, although Urahara Kisuke had some tentative elements for himself before, there were also many elements of winning over and gaining trust.

If it were any other person, Higashino Hideichi would believe that they were just confused for a while.

But for Urahara Kisuke, Higashino Hideichi felt that there must be a reason driving him to do so.

For example.

"Training?"

After returning to his room, Higashino Hideichi suddenly had this word pop up in his head.

Then, in an instant, some of the questions that had troubled Higashino Hideichi before were suddenly answered.

Could it be that Urahara Kisuke's real purpose was to improve the strength of the Shinigami in Soul Society?

Is it because he went to the Invisible Empire in the Shadow World in advance and learned about Yhwach that he came up with this idea?

Higashino Hideichi shook his head and denied it.

Definitely not, because the time doesn't match.

When Urahara Kisuke sought the spirit body that hosted the power of the first generation captain from Miyazaki Sakai Masato and began to consciously let them come to interfere in Soul Society, Urahara Kisuke hadn't even got the key.

At that time, it was impossible for him to know about the Invisible Empire.

Why is that?

In the original plot, Urahara Kisuke didn't have as many scenes as now. It must be because of his butterfly effect that Urahara Kisuke had the current idea.

So what kind of influence did he bring to Urahara Kisuke?

Higashino Hideichi sat on his bed and thought hard.

He felt vaguely that he seemed to have grasped the key to Urahara Kisuke's current situation.

And if we say that in this timeline where he exists, the biggest difference between Urahara Kisuke and the original plot line should be that there were once more people like Higashino Hideichi in his team.

But whether it is Higashino Hideichi himself, Kisaragi Shusuke, or Matsumoto Rangiku, they are actually not familiar with Urahara Kisuke.

The influence they can bring to Urahara Kisuke is almost negligible.

But there is an exception.

"Sayako"

A figure suddenly appeared in Higashino Hideichi's mind.

This is the head of the Kabuto family who should have died long ago in the original plot line, and this is one of the five nobles who may have been destroyed long ago in the original plot.

Their disappearance brought about a gap in the entire Soul Society's understanding of hell.

But now.

Urahara Kisuke can learn a lot of knowledge and content about hell from Kabuto Sayako.

"And the minimum threshold for entering hell is that the spiritual pressure must at least reach the level of the middle captain, or even higher.

Ordinary captain-level Shinigami do not even have the qualifications to enter hell."

Hitano Hideichi felt that he seemed to have grasped the key to the problem.

This can indeed explain everything that Urahara Kisuke has done from before to now.

With Urahara Kisuke's personality, if he really wants to do this, he may not care about the lives of individual Shinigami.

For Urahara Kisuke, it is a necessary sacrifice that must be made for the ultimate goal.

In this regard, Urahara Kisuke and Higano Hideichi are very similar.

But this brings up another question.

That is why Urahara Kisuke did this.

If it were Higano Hideichi before the time travel, if someone told him that Urahara Kisuke had an idea about hell.

He would definitely point at that person's nose and scold, are you sick?

But now, for Higano Hideichi, this is most likely a bloody reality.

He has to think about such a possibility.

Because this is the answer that best explains all of Urahara Kisuke's actions so far, in Higashino Hideichi's opinion.

For a long time

Until the next day, just before he was about to leave for Soul Society, Higashino Hideichi thought of an answer.

An answer that is a bit outrageous, but may be the closest to the truth.

That is, since Higashino Hideichi knew about the world of death, he has been troubled by a term.

That is the will of the Soul King.

He knows that this thing exists in this world, and many people have accepted this will.

But he has never seen, heard, or felt it.

So what about Urahara Kisuke?

The members of the Zero Squad can feel the will of the Soul King because all the parts of their bodies have been replaced by the King Key.

Hyoshubu Ichibei was once a guard-like existence beside the Soul King.

So it is not surprising that they can feel the will of the Soul King.

And Zaraki Futari can also feel the will of the Soul King because what Zaraki Futari was going to do at that time was enough to threaten the situation of the Three Realms that the Soul King had worked so hard to leave behind.

That's why the Soul King's will was actively sensed by Zaraki Souya.

In addition, in Higashino Hideichi's impression, no other Shinigami could clearly sense the Soul King's will.

But how could Urahara Kisuke sense the Soul King's will?

If he couldn't sense it, how could he have predicted the future in the original plot, cooperated with Aizen appropriately, and prepared for the Soul King's substitute early.

In the current timeline, how did he coincidentally appear in some occasions that gave Higashino Hideichi a headache or were unexpected?

These are all doubts, and these are also clues.

They all point to a result together.

That is, there may be an unspeakable connection between Urahara Kisuke and the Soul King's will itself.

Maybe Urahara Kisuke is the incarnation of the Soul King's will, or maybe Urahara Kisuke is another executor of the Soul King's will.

It is also possible that Urahara Kisuke is a safety belt chosen by the Soul King.

In short, even if Urahara Kisuke cannot directly represent the Soul King, he should be able to represent the will of the Soul King to some extent.

To describe it in a more popular way, Urahara Kisuke's position in this world may be similar to the existence of an inspector.

It is possible that Urahara Kisuke himself does not know.

But what he did was indeed patching up the world left behind by the Soul King "after his death".

In the original plot, whether it was the Aizen Rebellion or the attack on the Soul Society by the Invisible Empire led by Yhwach.

Urahara Kisuke was silently playing the role of a supporting role behind the scenes.

Until the end of Tsunayashiro Tokinada's life, Urahara Kisuke had never really demonstrated his strength.

If the existence of the Zero Squad is to help the Soul King to conduct a macro-level regulation of the entire world, the Zero Squad will come forward to deal with major events.

Then, whether the whole world can continue to advance perfectly according to the script designed by the Soul King, it still needs a controller of details to help the Soul King deal with many variables like the former Zaraki Fuuya and the later Higashino Hideichi.

For someone like Zaraki Fuuya who is obedient, it is still easy to say.

But for someone like Higashino Hideichi, who can't communicate at first glance, just looking at the illusory will, it is definitely impossible to fully control everything.

Therefore, there must be a powerful and intelligent existence like Urahara Kisuke to help the Soul King plug all possible gaps.

Even further, to complete the great cause that the former Soul King failed to complete-complete the unified transformation of this world and incorporate hell into the circulation system!

"Huh"

Higashino Hideichi thought of this and didn't dare to think about it anymore.

He didn't know what the Soul King in the original plot saw before deciding to die in the hands of the five nobles.

But the Soul King in the timeline he is in now, couldn't he have seen the fact that he had traveled through time a long time ago?

Higashino Hideichi already felt a chill on his back.

It's not impossible.

Because he had once experienced something that seemed like he had the aura of a protagonist.

That was when Higashino Hideichi went to hell for the first time.

In that place, which was full of dangers, even if Higashino Hideichi was there now, he would not be able to come out of it safely.

Just by chance, he met Kenpachi Kurayashiki.

Not even any other senior in Soul Society, but the famous, very good to his subordinates and juniors, and extremely powerful Kenpachi Kurayashiki.

Even though he was killed by his subordinate Zaraki Souya, he stopped other Shinigami who wanted to avenge him at the last moment of his life, and personally passed the title of Kenpachi and the position of captain of the 11th Division to the latter.

What if all this was not a coincidence?

What if the captain of the 10th Division, Maki Kurato, who had given Higashino Hideichi the idea of ​​going to hell, had not accidentally run into him?

What if the battle between the West and East Bureau and the people who showed off their muscles in the East Bureau did not happen on the day when Higashino Hideichi took Matsumoto Rangiku and others to the picnic in the real world?

Higashino Hideichi also thought of what he said to Aizen before, that he wanted to find a way to change the current world in hell with Aizen.

Is there a big hand behind all these things silently pushing?

He thought he was not affected by the will of the Soul King at all.

But in fact, the Soul King has used various psychological hints and the promotion of events to make him actively move in the direction expected by the other party.

But things have come to this point, and Higashino Hideichi found that he has no way back.

"I hope it's not like this."

Higashino Hideichi felt that his idea was a bit too shocking and conspiracy theory.

But he was very afraid that this was the truth of the matter.

He has been trying to become a chess player, but in the end he was still a chess piece calculated by the Soul King.

Such a result would make everything he had been in for the past few hundred years seem very clownish.

However, Higashino Hideichi felt that even if it was true, he was still not without a chance to turn the tables.

Hell, still that damn hell!

That was the only place that the Soul King could not reach.

That was also the only place he could count on to completely control his own destiny!

"I must go there, and... control it!"

If Higashino Hideichi had only considered hell as one of his choices before.

Then now, hell has become a place that Higashino Hideichi must go to no matter what.

But before that, he still had to "appease" Aizen and solve the worries in Soul Society.

After all, only Aizen was the best helper for Higashino Hideichi to analyze and master the power of hell.