Chapter 56: New Shikigami Rokudo Mukuro

Ichigo Kurosaki has lived to the age of a high school student. In his early years, he was just a gangster who picked fights and picked quarrels. But when he got older, his targets of battle all became Hollows more than three meters away.

The little girl on the hospital bed is at most a junior high school student. Because she has been relying on nasogastric feeding for a long time to supplement her nutrition, her arms and legs are as thin as firewood.

This fragile look was actually quite shocking. Ichigo was very careful when he used his spiritual power on her. Before he was enveloped by the illusion and was about to lose consciousness, he even changed his falling posture - he would rather fall straight to the ground than crush her!

In fact, Ichigo Kurosaki didn't know yet that this method of attack was called illusion. Before he fainted, he remembered that the ghost said something like "Look at what you fear the most."

To this end, he was even mentally prepared to have the scene of his mother's death replayed over and over again.

However, the next second, the sky was clear and boundless. Standing in the center of the vast space, Ichigo Kurosaki had to admit that his understanding of himself, at least in terms of what he feared, might have been a little biased.

The so-called "nightmare" was similar to the situation that occurred when he practiced Bankai, but when he should have seen the Soul-Zanping Sword, the one who appeared in front of him was not Zangetsu, but another hollow version of himself.

This white Kurosaki Ichigo sneered, and without saying a word, he kicked him, mocking him as a waste while kicking him.

This taunt contained all sorts of malicious words that made people physically uncomfortable. Ichigo dodged for a long time, breathlessly, before he finally realized, in between his difficult counterattacks, that he was not just scolding himself.

To be precise, the only word used to insult him was "waste". Most of the greetings, including "idiot", "old fool" and "garbage", were directed at Yato.

Yuanzi was treated better by him, but at the beginning she was just called a "stupid woman".

——Although he said he saw the most terrifying thing in his life, in the end Ichigo Kurosaki was just beaten up madly by his other self, and then kicked him without saying a word, kicking him out of his inner world.

Bai Ichigo raised his foot and cursed, "If you fall for it so easily next time, you might as well die with that idiot!"

As a result, when Kurosaki Ichigo opened his eyes, he saw the idiot Yato stepping on his calf for personal gain.

The back of Ichigo's head hit the floor tiles and he felt a little dizzy. He rubbed his forehead and turned to the side, and vaguely saw Suzuki Sonoko not far away.

She was sitting quietly in a chair opposite the bed, legs curled up. She looked physically unharmed, but...

Ichigo rubbed his eyes and checked again carefully: although there was blood on the clothes, there was indeed no wound. His skin was white and his cheeks were rosy, making him look very healthy.

Then, Kurosaki Ichigo followed her shining eyes and caught sight of Yato at the end of his sight.

Yuanzi's eyes were shining and her face was about to turn red with excitement. The target turned out to be the shameless god of their family?

The dizzy artifact Hei Yinjiang raised her hand to hold the edge of the bed and prepared to stand up. Her legs were weak and she couldn't help but think seriously: It seems that she has no injuries on her body, but the way she looks... it looks more like her brain is broken!

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At this time, the artifact has awakened and the Lord God is on standby. The battle scene is about to break out!

Before they could get into position, a soft moan suddenly came from the bed. Before anyone could react to the kitten-like sound, a beeping sound came from the ECG machine next to them.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the beating electrocardiogram staggered steadily and was about to be pushed into a straight line in a minute.

In an instant, the ward fell into a deadly depression. The three people near the door turned around in unison and looked at the little girl sleeping on the bed.

Two seconds later, Kurosaki Ichigo moved his foot away with a horrible look on his face.

——Before he fell into the illusion, he still remembered to avoid it, but when he woke up, he was so dazed that he just stood up. With that kick, he stepped on the power of an unknown machine...

You clearly said you were here to save people, so why did you torture them to death?

With another beep, everyone present gasped.

Ichigo Kurosaki made a quick decision and squatted down on the spot, taking the plug and trying to plug the socket.

As a result, after the machine was restarted, it needed to be manually reset as if the file had been cleared. Ichigo covered the machine and dared not move. He kept reaching for the alarm in the lower left corner with his toes, trying to summon a knowledgeable medical staff from the nurses' station.

Suzuki Sonoko was no longer infatuated with the girl and started to frantically take out her cell phone.

The palm-sized device fell from her bag onto her skirt. She opened the address book with trembling hands, looking for the name while stammering to comfort the sweaty Kurosaki boy.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'll call the professionals right now and we'll find the best experts!"

Yuanzi trembled as she looked for Feng Jingye's name: "We'll take a helicopter and transfer him directly to another hospital. Ichigo, you've also been in those research institutes, haven't you? They can even preserve dead bodies, so he'll be absolutely fine..."

At this moment, Ichigo Kurosaki finally stepped on the call button in the ward, but the red light flashed for a long time and the nurses' station did not respond.

He turned around and wanted to find Yato to call a doctor, but when he looked up, he saw the shameless God Lord standing there unmoved.

"Yato?"

However, Yato heard his shout, but just glanced at the flashing machine as if nothing had happened, and turned back as if nothing had happened. From beginning to end, he did not even glance at the little girl lying on the bed.

There might not be any obvious difference between his eyes and usual ones, but Ichigo Kurosaki inexplicably felt a chill.

Suzuki Sonoko was so focused on making a phone call that she didn't pay attention to Yato's reaction. She came back to her senses when she heard Ichigo's shout.

——If we can’t call a doctor for emergency treatment, the girl will die soon. How can we wait for her to call for a helicopter to transfer her to another hospital?

So she quickly threw her phone to the ground, stood up from her chair and prepared to rush out.

However, there were too many pleats on her skirt, and she tripped after only two steps.

This time, before she fell, Yato used one arm to lightly support her waist and caught her falling momentum. Sonoko raised her head and wanted to say thank you, but the guardian angel lowered his eyes quietly, and naturally pushed her back to the chair where she had rested at the beginning.

His strength is actually not that great.

After experiencing various battles, Ichigo Kurosaki would occasionally lose control of his strength unconsciously. Fortunately, he was usually more careful, and the objects that were damaged were usually teacups, pencils, refrigerator handles, etc.

Yato had already passed this stage hundreds of years ago. Although his aura was very funny and lively, and he seemed to be careless, at some moments when he touched Sonoko, his actions could even be said to be gentle.

But at this moment, when he gently supported Sonoko's waist and put her back on the big chair for the caregivers to rest, although he did not use any force to force her to obey, Suzuki Sonoko involuntarily curled up obediently because of the oppressive feeling that came from nowhere on his body.

"Yato."

She raised her toes and gently nudged the young man's knee, then asked tentatively, "Aren't we here to save people?"

Why did they get her into the spectator seats?

Yato's voice was as light and energetic as ever, but it was much lower than usual.

He didn't even look at the girl on the hospital bed the entire time. He just stroked Sonoko's hair and sighed, "With her abdomen collapsed like this, there's no way she could survive. Calling a doctor would just mean she'd have to get another critical illness notice."

Moreover, there is no parent accompanying the child in the hospital. Even if the doctor issues a critical illness notice, there may be no one to sign it.

Yuanzi thought about it and it made sense.

Seeing that no medical staff had come for half a day, she strongly suspected that the people placed on this floor were all poor little ones who had resigned themselves to their fate and were waiting to die of illness.

so……

Was she just going to sit here and wait for Yato to finish the fight before going back together?

Suzuki Sonoko thought for a while, then slipped down from the chair again, ran to the bedside using her hands and feet, and grabbed the little girl's hand with great courage.

Ichigo Kurosaki, who was holding the machine, saw the broken line on the screen jump again, and suddenly felt hopeless.

"What are you doing?"

The little girl cooperated well and moaned after the questioning.

Suzuki Sonoko looked up with a confused look on her face and explained, "Because Yato said that technology doesn't work, I wanted to try to see if supernatural methods would work. Look at that guy—"

She pointed to the window.

Rokudo Mukuro, with blood all over his chest, was staring at his palm with a strange expression, his face as cold as Yato's.

Sonoko didn't know what the two of them were arguing about, so she turned around and continued, "Wasn't he a dark shadow at first? Why do I feel like he's getting better now that I've touched him? I'm thinking maybe I have some extraordinary healing abilities—"

"Even if you really have a garden."

During the confrontation, Huo Jinshen took the time to press the top of her head and said, "That extraordinary healing ability only targets souls."

Sonoko: "What does this mean?"

"It means that after five minutes, this little girl will completely lose her... "

Yato turned his head to look at her and said helplessly, "If you had held her hand like this at that time, her dead soul would have become very powerful, and there would have been no danger of her falling into the Hollow."

But is he still dead?!

Suzuki Sonoko carefully let go of her hand, feeling so conflicted that she wanted to jump up and down on the spot.

——They had only wanted to save an innocent patient possessed by a ghost, but they had no idea that the patient was already dying, and before he died, he didn't even have a family member...

What is going on?

However, before she could actually jump up, Rokudo Mukuro finally lowered his arms slowly, interrupting the currently frozen scene with interest.

"Actually, I can save her."

"ha?"

Facing the intimidating spiritual pressure of the hot-tempered young man Kurosaki Ichigo, Rokudo Mukuro curled up his fingers calmly, his lips curled up calmly, "Are you surprised?"

A few minutes ago, when he was still holding Miss Nightingale, her body was real and even the blood that flowed out was exactly the same as the real thing, but after leaving her...

Rokudo Mukuro bent his little finger at an angle that no one could see: his physical body began to slowly weaken, and the little finger part had lost its clear outline and sensitivity.

The wind blew past the window, gently lifting the strands of hair on his forehead. Rokudo Mukuro turned his gaze to the girl in front of the window and explained to her with a smile, "There's nothing to be surprised about. I appeared here earlier to save Nagi, and you suddenly showed up and interrupted me."

Suzuki Sonoko looked back at him with an indescribable expression: Do you think I believe it?

Rokudo Mukuro still smiled and shrugged at the alert Karatsu God.

Yato's survival goal since childhood was actually very simple, just one word: "live".

As long as he can survive, he is willing to kill with a knife, he is willing to linger on, and he is even willing to devote himself to doing trivial things for mankind.

——As long as there is a glimmer of hope to be remembered by others, he wants to live on this basis, and the same applies to how he treats others.

If the girl had absolutely no hope of continuing to live, he would tend to kill her directly and let her quietly embark on the road to the other side, but once there was a possibility of survival, Yato would never let her die.

But he felt that Rokudo Mukuro was a liar.

It just so happened that Yuanzi felt the same way.

She looked at the girl on the hospital bed with pity, wondering whether she should have Ichigo escort her directly to Soul Society. It would be even better if she could go through a back door and be arranged to be with Run Linan outside the Seireitei!

If she still doesn't want to die...

Suzuki Sonoko thought about it and finally made up her mind. Without even turning back, she told Yato, "Let's kill this ghost first. If she still wants to live, we can ask Urahara-sama to get her a smuggled corpse!"

So what if you're incurable and abandoned by your family? With a healthy body, you can be a hero in no time!

Ichigo Kurosaki leaned on the big machine tiredly, and the guilt in his heart was finally relieved to a certain extent.

Rokudo Mukuro didn't understand what the artificial corpse was. He just gently rubbed the blood on his little finger. In response to Sonoko's words about letting Yato defeat him without hesitation, he sighed meaningfully, "Ms. Nightingale is really cruel."

He asked with a look of sadness, "Is it so easy to decide not to want me?"

etc.

Yuanzi turned around in horror: What did you just say? !

She shuddered under Rokudo Mukuro's carefree smile: "What do I want from you? Mr. Devil, please think carefully before you speak, and don't spit blood at me casually..."

Although she's been looking for a husband for years, every time she dates one, she'll end up looking for the next one - please don't make it sound like I have any previous experience with you, okay! ?

The indigo-haired girl standing by the window seemed to find the rich expressions on her face very interesting. She rarely showed a real smile and slowly stretched out her palm and spread it in front of her.

Because of Yato's stress reaction, Rokudo Mukuro's clothes from the side of his neck to his chest were almost all covered in blood. The wound above his collarbone looked very much like it had been bitten by a zombie, and his elbows and palms were also stained with a lot of blood during the action.

If it weren't for his current special condition, the amount of blood loss alone would almost take his life.

Yuanzi saw the blood on his hand from a distance, and suddenly remembered that she had been in his arms for a long time, and subconsciously touched her face.

There was no blood on her face originally, but now there were three half-dried red marks and a white scratch.

The scratches were caused by the paper folded in her palm.

Before rushing into the ward, she carefully drew a few talismans on sticky notes and stuck one on each of her left and right hands.

The palm that had been pressed on Rokudo Mukuro's chest was stained with blood, so much so that it soaked through the talisman she had drawn on the note paper, and even the part with the glue was lifted up.

Before I noticed it, I was so busy worrying about other things that I didn't feel anything. But once I noticed it, even my palms seemed to start to itch.

Yuanzi originally wanted to tear the thing away, but when she lowered her head to check, she stared at the softened talisman in her palm, and her pupils began to dilate with fear.

"What's wrong?"

Sonoko looked back at Ichigo Kurosaki, helpless and could only shake her head.

She was also confused now: hundreds of years ago when she was in the Vongola study group, even though she knew that Asari Ugetsu was probably fooling her, driven by curiosity, she completed her homework every day as carefully as if she was tracing a red character, and carefully drew various talismans.

Precisely because she was extremely familiar with all the patterns of the talismans, she clearly remembered the direction of every stroke on the note paper in her palm, as well as the word "乱" in the center of the pattern, which she had no idea what it meant.

But now…

Sonoko looked at the paper in her hand, then looked up at Rokudo Mukuro, then looked down at the paper in her hand, then looked up at Rokudo Mukuro again.

She looked sad and asked the illusionist standing by the window, "What's wrong with you?"

Rokudo Mukuro smiled and opened his other palm towards her. The blood-red rune on his palm was spinning, exactly the same as the center of the transformed spell in Sonoko's hand.

"Actually, I'm also curious about what's going on."

Rokudo Mukuro had actually been observing for quite some time: "But judging by the current situation, isn't it you, Miss Nightingale, who has bound me?"

"I……"

Yuanzi swallowed the word "no" and apologized reluctantly.

"I didn't mean to do that."

——No, this is a haunted ghost. Why should we apologize to him?

So she shook her head again in annoyance.

In fact, Rokudo Mukuro didn't need to think too much, or even use the experience he gained in the Six Paths of Reincarnation, he could easily judge what she was thinking by the changes in her facial expressions.

How to say it.

Simple people are not necessarily happy, but happy people are always simple in some ways.

After sighing, the illusionist let out a long sigh, took a few steps forward, tilted his head and smiled under Yato's emotionless gaze, then under Kurosaki Ichigo's nervous gaze, he touched the girl's hair almost gently.

He lowered his head and stopped beside the girl's ear, whispering softly, "Sleep peacefully, my Chlorum. You won't feel any pain when you wake up."

The girl hummed softly as if she understood.

Kurosaki Ichigo is not in a hurry now. Now that this girl has become a spirit, her life can be considered a fresh start!

His attention then turned to the man's hands covered in blood and patterns.

"I say," he said with a click of his tongue, "have your hands become transparent?"

"It's okay."

The illusionist with heterochromatic eyes raised his eyes, only to see Suzuki Sonoko standing alone, mourning her life.

"Miss Nightingale, don't you feel it? My condition is much better than expected, and it's getting better and better."

Sonoko looked up with despair, and was about to say, "How would I know whether you are comfortable or not?", but she was horrified to find out the next second: although Rokudo Mukuro had slowly turned transparent starting from his hands, she could really feel from another sense that she didn't know how to describe that this person's spirit was very active!

Sonoko looked down at her hands again.

Connection, binding, induction, is this a talisman to capture Shikigami?

But she clearly wanted to draw the one that restrained the evil spirits!

Did I remember it wrong?

Sonoko shook her head and pushed the thought out of her mind.

Even if the spell to collect the Shikigami is broken due to a mistake in memory, the Onmyoji needs to bite his finger and smear blood on the talisman before he can wake up!

According to Chao Li Yuyue, that drop of blood is the price for activating the formation, and it can also be regarded as a promise made by the Onmyoji to the lured Shikigami, allowing the Shikigami to remember the Onmyoji's breath forever.

Now she activated the spell, but at the critical moment it was the Shikigami who bleed!

The point is this magical yet playful bond-making ceremony, and it seems to have been successful!

There won't be any dire consequences, right?

Suzuki Sonoko felt like her head was about to explode.

Although Chao Li Yuyue mentioned to her a few methods of liberating Shikigami intentionally or unintentionally, that was under the condition that the Onmyoji signed a blood contract, and he never mentioned the reverse situation!

On the other side, Rokudo Mukuro was almost completely transparent. He said that he had to sign a contract with Chrom to save her, and then he could directly use illusion to make a set of internal organs for her.

Ichigo Kurosaki and Sonoko, who were holding the oxygen tube, watched him become completely transparent. As soon as he disappeared, the little girl on the hospital bed whose heart was about to stop began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A minute later, the girl slowly opened her eyes and let out a slow "ah".

Chlorum's eyes are naturally big, and her thin body makes it seem like there are only a pair of big eyes on her small face. Especially when she looks up at people, she is particularly adorable.

The little girl with big eyes took a deep breath like a kitten, and standing timidly in front of Suzuki Sonoko in a hospital gown.

"Mukuro-sama said he wanted to go with Sonoko-san."

The sound became quieter as time went on, until it was almost an inaudible muttering.

Sonoko stared at Chrom for a long time with an indescribable expression, and reluctantly discovered that although the person had changed, she could still feel that connection.

"Where are your parents?"

The girl shook her head. "Except for Mukuro-sama, I don't have anything like that."

——Even though I had anticipated her condition, it still made me sad to hear it spoken out...

Because of this unspeakable sense of closeness, when Yuanzi looked at the little girl, he couldn't help but feel like seeing an abandoned kitten and couldn't help wanting to adopt it.

What else can I do now that it has come to this?

Miss Suzuki sighed and called someone to use the back door to get the neglected little girl out of Namimori Hospital.

On the way home, Sonoko folded her hands and began to mutter: "So, how many Shikigami did I get for myself?"

It was a pity not to eat sushi. Ichigo changed his route and went to Urahara's shop. He always felt that there seemed to be some changes in his Hollow self. Yato was left staring at Chrome unhappily the whole time. The oppressive gaze made the girl want to find a box to hide in.

Yuanzi discovered magically that she thought she was super cute from the bottom of her heart.

It felt like an old farmer seeing the cabbages in his own field. Yuanzi didn't know if this was a sequelae of the Shikigami's contract, so he could only worry about himself getting into trouble while silently feeling so cute in his heart.

That night, Sonoko found a new set of clothes for Chlom and pulled her to squat on the same bed to talk about life.

"What's going on between you and Rokudo Mukuro now?"

Chrom pursed his lips and replied seriously, "I am a part of Mukuro-sama."

Yuanzi suddenly had a cold expression on his face.

"Yes."

Chrom nodded cautiously. "The connection is still between Mukuro-sama and you. His situation is getting better and better because of it."

However, Yuanzi didn't want to care about this. She felt this inexplicable sense of closeness and always felt that the blood relationship her parents often talked about was probably just like this.

That night, Sonoko watched Chloe drink a glass of milk like an older sister and fell asleep with her.

When he woke up, it seemed to be just dawn. Yuanzi didn't know what day it was. He looked at the curtain above his head and turned to the side lazily.

She found someone lying next to her.

Oh, because my brain, which was a little slow in sleeping, realized belatedly: she slept with a kitten last night.

However, the next second she was suddenly awakened by the shock.

The pillow is still the same pillow, the blanket is still the same blanket, but the person sleeping in the quilt is one size bigger.

The same indigo hair was disheveled, and the boy's handsome face was only a finger away from her. His eyes of different colors were brightly open, and there was no sign of sleepiness on his face. It was obvious that he had been awake all the time.

Seeing that she finally turned her head, Rokudo Mukuro leaned forward slightly and placed his lips against her brow just right.

"Are you finally awake, lazy Miss Nightingale?"

"I've been waiting for you for a long time," he said softly, stirring a tingling sensation in the small of my ear. "Aren't you going to discuss the marks on your palm with me?"

Suzuki Sonoko looked at him expressionlessly and turned over swiftly at lightning speed.

With her back to Rokudo Mukuro, Ms. Suzuki made a hysterical expression: Rather than studying the inexplicable blood contract, I would rather know—

——I was clearly hugging a girl before going to bed last night, how come I turned into a man after waking up! ?

The author has something to say: Let me explain to those who didn't follow the ending of Bleach, Haku Ichigo, also known as Hollow, is Ichigo's real Zanpakutō. He exists to protect Ichigo, but his true form is the Hollow that entered Ichigo's mother's body decades ago, and he has a very bad temper.

He blocked Rokudo Mukuro's illusion, and then, feeling unwilling to give up, he slapped his master to vent his anger.

Rokudo Mukuro is not a backup option for the artifact. It is impossible for all teammates to be bound to Yato. Currently, apart from Ichigo, there is only one backup option for the artifact, and the other is Yukine.

Finally, as usual, please leave a message. If there are any typos, please tell me and I will correct them when I wake up. Mmmmm＾3＾