Death: No cheats, take refuge in Aizen

Chapter 59 59. Incomplete interpretation of Swastika

The time goes back to the day after Higashino Shuichi got the Soul King's nail fragments.

Just after returning home from Kasumioji's house, his Zanpakuto took the initiative to contact Higashino Shuichi.

Sinking into the inner world, here is an antique bookstore. The bookshelves are filled with books made of bamboo slips. In the innermost part of the room, there is a middle-aged man wearing a white cloak and a white and green jade hanging around his waist. The man sat elegantly on the straw mat, holding a half-open bamboo slip in his hand.

This is not the first time Higashino Shuichi has entered here. When he had just acquired captain-level spiritual pressure, he excitedly wanted to visualize his Zanpakutō. As a result, the Zanpakutō did not materialize, but he himself was pulled in. This so-called inner world.

It was here that Higashino Shuichi experienced the most brutal and inhumane torture in his life. His Zanpakutō relied on the flow of time in his heart to be different from that in the outside world. Higashino Shuichi who appeared in the inner world was just a projection of the original body, forcibly created in the inner world. I killed Higashino Hideichi a thousand times here.

And almost every time it was a different way of dying.

It was not until the end that there was nothing left to kill and no law to use, and this one-sided massacre ended with Higashino Shuichi's complete defeat.

That time, Higashino Shuichi's Zanpakuto did not tell Higashino Shuichi its real name. He only slightly praised Higashino Shuichi's actions in Soul Society, and then told Higashino Shuichi that Higashino Shuichi could use the name "Art of War" in the future. Communicate with him to obtain a portion of the Zanpakutō's swastika usage power.

From then on, Higashino Shuichi's Zanpakutō completely closed the communication channel between the two.

No matter how Higashino Shuichi called after that, there was no response from his Zanpakutō.

And that time, Higashino Shuichi's Zanpakutō only gave Higashino Shuichi the right to use the swastika ability.

That is "a smile hiding a knife".

Using this ability, Higashino Shuichi can take the enemy's attack by himself and respond with an equal attack from the enemy that cannot be avoided by any means.

Quite tasteless.

This is Higashino Shuichi's only evaluation of this ability.

Because he may not be able to withstand a strong attack, and his opponent probably won't care if he returns with a weak attack.

Being unable to avoid does not mean that it cannot be neutralized or defeated.

So much so that after Higashino Shuichi learned this incomplete interpretation of swastika, he never wanted to use it once.

However, this swastika ability, combined with his own Zanpakuto's behavior in the inner world, also gave Higashino Hideichi some speculation.

That is, if his swastika ability is to be further released, it is likely to be related to what he has done in reality.

Because this so-called smile conceals a knife, doesn’t it coincide with the things he usually does?

Therefore, Higashino Shuichi kept making some attempts, and he didn't give up until he never got a response from his Zanpakutō.

Unexpectedly, after he personally set up such a big trap and obtained the Soul King's nail fragments after all the hard work, his Zanpakutō finally responded.

"Looking at you, you seem to know why I brought you in."

The man had his back to Higashino Shuichi, but he seemed to have everything under control.

"If I'm not wrong, it's because my actions this time coincide with the art of war."

Higashino Shuichi was not a fool. After receiving the contact from his Zanpakutō, he quickly figured it all out.

It's not that his previous ideas were wrong, but that the pattern he used to test was too small and could not penetrate his Zanpakutō's discernment.

"Do you know which one it is?"

The man said slowly.

"If you have something useful, don't borrow it; if you can't use it, borrow it; if you borrow something you can't use, use it."

Higashino Shuichi closed his eyes, and his favorite book "The Art of War: Thirty-six Strategies" in his previous life appeared in his mind.

"Strategy of attack, borrowing corpses to bring back souls!"

"I could have just gone to get the Soul King's nail fragments and asked Aizen to fuse them into my body, but I didn't.

Because I know that doing this will only consume Aizen's trust in me, and this process is full of unreliability. I don't know at all whether Aizen is targeting Matsumoto Rangiku.

I am bound to be caught in a mirror, so there is no need to take such a meaningless risk.

This is for use and cannot be borrowed."

"Kasumioji's family wants to solve the problem of using the tapiraya sword, Aizen wants to do a virtualization experiment, Yamamoto wants to investigate the tapiraya sword, etc.

None of these had anything to do with my goal of obtaining the Soul King's nail fragments, but I cleverly used them to achieve my goal without arousing Aizen's resentment.

I can't use this, please borrow it. "

"The combination of the two is to resurrect the soul through the corpse!"

Higashino opened his eyes. At this moment, the entire process formed a clear image in his mind.

At the same time, the man who had turned his back to Higashino Shuichi also turned around.

"Then, from today on, you can borrow 'Borrowed Corpse Resurrection' from me~"

"What's your real name?"

Higashino Shuichi has not forgotten that knowing the true name from the Zanpakutō is the most important step in unlocking the Zanpakutō's swastika.

"You want to know my real name?"

The man seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

"Who wouldn't?"

Higashino Hideichi replied.

"Two options. First, you gain my full approval and gain the right to use all the art of war from me."

With that said, the man stood up from the straw mat, his original scholarly aura disappearing, and a Zanpakutō with a fiery red color and eighteen pairs of wing-like scales on the back appeared in his hand.

Higashino Shuichi had seen this Zanpakutō last time, and there was no doubt that it should be what his Zanpakutō looked like after it was completely swastika-knotted.

"Second, defeat me and I will tell you my real name!"

"Attack, soldiers! Good soldiers, clever planners!"

What responded to the man was Higashino Shuichi's thrusting strike that was like thunder without any hesitation.

He has long been eager to come in and fight again.

This time, he wants to wash away the shame of last time.

At least this time, I can't be killed a thousand times again!

The result is gratifying. This time, Higashino Shuichi was indeed not killed a thousand times. He only died.

Nine hundred and ninety-nine times.

"Haha, haha, hahahaha!"

Being ruthlessly driven out of his inner world, Higashino Shuichi threw his head back and fell on the bed, laughing heartily.

He should have thought that his Zanpakutō abilities, from the beginning, were somewhat beyond the normal specifications of the original owner.

He only inherited the ordinary spiritual pressure talent of the original owner, but his soul and his Zanpakutō are still unique and are not affected by the original owner's talent.

This wealth he brought from the previous world is his greatest reliance.