As the area with the highest serial number, West Seventh District, even in the suburbs, still has a broad road leading directly to the Seireitei.
There are dense forests on both sides of the avenue, spreading into the distance along the ridgeline. The ridgeline on the horizon is connected to the "Lifu Mountain" in the West 3rd District, forming a vast mountain, covering the five areas from Districts 3 to 7.
Inside.
Although the vast mountains are vast, generally speaking, you cannot get lost. After all, several areas are located in the basins of the mountains. As long as you go lower, you can encounter residential areas. There are also many cultivated fields in the mountains.
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Quietly, accompanied by a breeze.
Four figures appeared on the path next to the fields on the mountainside. It was Duan Mu and the four who rushed here immediately after receiving the news.
"Are those little brats just talking about this place?"
Madarame looked at the fields where the autumn harvest had ended, and smiled: "This landscape is really nostalgic. In recent years, it has been rare to see large-scale planting of fields like this in Seireitei."
"Haha, isn't this great?"
Ayasechuan personally touched the feathers at the corners of his eyes with his hands: "If the God of Death wants to farm, then I really should consider whether to learn from Boss Duan Mu, because a beautiful person like me will never do this.
A dusty job!"
"It's dirty, so don't eat it."
Duan Mu replied casually, looking at the field.
He is no stranger to this place, because the crops in this large area are harvested by Duan Mu alone.
According to the children who played with Xiaojie, they were playing kicking the can in this field. The boy with the strongest physical strength among them kicked the can into the woods adjacent to the field, and
Xiaojie went in to pick up the jar and never came out.
Duan Mu raised his head and glanced at the sky. The sun was already setting in the west, which made him frown slightly.
Hopefully there are still traces left.
Xiaosuke's disappearance was in the morning, but it was already the afternoon when she received the news. This is actually not Emiri's fault.
After discovering that Xiaojie was missing, she should have searched for it by herself at first. When she found that she could not find it, she thought of contacting herself. From West 7th District to West 38th District, even if you take the fastest route by carriage, you need at least
half a day.
From this point of view, she has found herself as quickly as possible.
"I don't feel any residual spiritual power. Do you want to look for it separately?"
Abarai Renji looked around. In his opinion, it should be the fastest way for everyone to spread out and search for the entire mountain range in an instant. Even though nearly a day had passed, with an ordinary spirit body and a small
At the child's speed, it is impossible to go very far.
"It doesn't need to be that troublesome."
After Duan Mu said this, he squatted directly on the ground and carved a circle formation on the ground with one hand.
"The heart of the south, the pupil of the north! The fingertips of the west, the toes of the east! Gathered by the wind, dispersed by driving away the rain..."
The ethereal chanting sound slowly came out, not in a hurry, and the spiritual pressure on Duan Mu's body rose up. At the moment before the spiritual pressure rose, his face could not help but turn pale.
Even if you sing it completely, is it still a bit forced?
Fifty-eight of the Binding Path: Slapping the Toes and Chasing the Birds is originally a binding path that consumes a lot of spiritual pressure. However, after Duan Mu created the prototype and perfected the system of 'Slapping the Toes and Chasing the Birds', the loss of spiritual pressure is increased.
Several times, which made it extremely difficult for Duanmu, whose spiritual pressure core was damaged, to use it.
Fortunately, Duan Mu adjusted the scope in time, only including a few nearby areas, and then stabilized the magic circle and finished the following chant word for word.
"...Returning to the ground, lying at night, in the sea of clouds! - Fifty-eight of the Dao of Binding·Slapping the toes to chase the sparrow·Change!"
Buzz~~
An invisible wave suddenly spread out around Duan Mu with Duan Mu as the center.
"Change it?"
Except for Madarame Kazuo, who was completely uninterested in ghost ways, Gongshin, Renji and others couldn't help but look at the improved magic circle on the ground.
But he did not approach rashly, but held his breath at the same time, because it can be seen from the fluctuation of the spirit around Duan Mu that Duan Mu is not in a very good condition at this time. If he interrupts rashly, he is likely to interrupt the ghost path.
of release.
No traces were found around it.
Regarding this, Duan Mu was not disappointed, because he did not think that he could track the whereabouts of Xiao Jie by chasing birds with his toes. Although he had a certain talent, Xiao Jie himself did not know how to use this power. Even if he had
The remnants of the spirit child had long since disappeared after half a day.
"Um?"
Duan Mu raised his eyebrows, the spiritual pressure around his body converged, and the magic circle that lost the support of spiritual power immediately dispersed.
"Did you find anything?" Ayase River asked personally.
"Follow me."
Duan Mu did not explain, but rushed straight out into the distant woods.
Upon seeing this, the three people followed Duan Mu one after another.
In the blink of an eye, the four of them entered the woods and finally stopped in front of a bush with lush vegetation.
Duan Mu squatted in front of the bushes, looking at the bushes in front of him, frowning.
"What are you doing so mysteriously?" Madarame asked impatiently: "Even if a kid gets lost, he can't run very far. Instead of trying so hard to explore, it's better to spread out according to Renji's method.
Looking for.”
"He was not lost, but was taken away."
Duan Mu opened the bushes with his hands, and a ball made of rattan came into view.
"What's this?"
"The 'can' in the kicking can. The kicking can usually uses an iron can or a tin can with a height of 10cm-15cm as a can. However, it is difficult to find a suitable can in Soul Society, so I made a vine for Xiaosuke.
Ball, this is the sepak takraw ball I made for him."
"In order to increase the toughness of the Sepak Takraw ball, I carved spiritual patterns on the Sepak Takraw ball to increase its toughness after weaving it."
"You mean someone cleaned up the spiritual remnants around?"
Ayasechuan frowned, already understanding what Duan Mu meant.
"ah?"
Madarame Ikkaku and Abarai Renji looked at Ayasekawa with some doubts.
Ayase Chuanqin sighed slightly: "Look carefully, are there any traces of spiritual patterns on the ball?" After that, he pointed to the sepak takraw ball in Duan Mu's hand.
"Low-level spirit patterns have extremely weak spirit seeds. Although I don't know much about inscriptions, the inscriptions drawn by Duan Mu should be weak in effect. They do not carry spirit seeds themselves, but rely on the high spirit seeds of the Soul Society.
Density as a complementary spiritual pattern.”
"One advantage of such a spiritual pattern is that there is almost no possibility of wear and tear unless it is in a low spiritual environment...that is, in an environment like this world."
"So there is only one possibility for the spiritual pattern to disappear, that is, the spiritual pattern in this area becomes weak at a certain moment, or even disappears. After the low-level spiritual pattern on the sepak takraw ball loses the spiritual pattern to maintain, the spiritual pattern on the surface will naturally
It will then disperse."
Ayase River sneered in person: "However, the high density of spirit children in Soul Society is almost everywhere. It is impossible for the spirit children in a local area to disappear at a certain moment, unless someone destroys the entire area in order to eliminate their own traces.
His spirit and his own aura have been eliminated."
Duan Mu glanced at Ayase River's bow, nodded and said: "Ayase River's fifth seat is right." I have to say... among a group of members of the 11th Division who only know how to chop and chop, Aya
Segawa Yu's relatives are really an anomaly.
"The only one who can do this is the Shinigami, and ordinary soldiers can't do this at all."
A trace of doubt appeared on Renji Abarai's face: "Does such a strong person really need to capture a child from Rukongai? Even after arresting him, he carefully cleared away the traces of his having been here. How is this possible?
!?"
Although it was inappropriate for him to say this, if the missing child was not the child of Duanmu's friend, the Gotei 13 would not know what happened here at all; to take a step back, even if they knew, one or two people were missing
There will be no Death to investigate.
Only the large-scale disappearance of Rukongai residents would attract the attention of the Gotei 13th Division, so there was absolutely no need for them to be so cautious.
"It's not as difficult as you said. There are many spiritual tools developed by the Technology Development Bureau that can do this."
Duan Mu shook his head. When he followed Ōmaeda and others to the present world, the defecting officers of the Third Division had used similar spiritual tools.
Having said that.
But what Renji said is also very reasonable. If you just capture a child, there is really no need to clear the traces of his presence, unless the other party is sure that someone will come to look for the child, and that person may also find traces of his presence.
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That is to say...
Own!
The other party most likely knew that he had a connection with Emiri's family, and also thought that he might come to look for the missing Xiaosuke, so he was so careful to clear away traces to avoid being discovered by himself.
"I thought it was a boring job at first, but now it seems it has become very interesting."
Madarame Ikkaku obviously also reacted, and said with a strange smile: "Have you offended anyone recently? The other party is not coming after you, right?"
"If you really came after him, you wouldn't have cleared the traces, but used that child to lure Boss Duan Mu over." Ayase Chuan shook his head personally: "Is there anything special about that child? There is actually someone there.
At the risk of being discovered by Boss Duan Mu, take that child away."
"Could it be someone from Division 12...uh..."
Halfway through Renji Abarai's words, he found that three people were looking at him at the same time, and he couldn't help but feel guilty: "Well...Boss Duan Mu...didn't he just say that the Technology Development Bureau has this kind of spiritual tool, so...I have it"
This kind of speculation..."
Having said that…
But he would think that the reason for Division 12 was not only for this reason, but also for the feeling that those people gave him. They had always been crazy... studying spiritual bodies, and being spiritual bodies with the talent to become a god of death. Such a thing...
It's entirely possible for Captain Nirvana to do it.
Although I don't know whether it is true or not, there are often rumors that Nirvana is experimenting on members of the 12th Division.
"It's not entirely impossible."
Ayasechuan smiled and turned to Duan Mu, who looked thoughtful: "What do you think?"
Duan Mu hesitated for a moment and said, "That kid is actually a little weird."
"Weird?" The three of them were stunned.
"He died a year ago and came to Soul Society."
Duan Mu organized his words and continued: "When he first became Ms. Emiri's child, the spiritual power in his body was not strong, but when I saw him not long ago... he already had the qualifications to become a chief officer.
But I didn’t think much about it at the time, I just thought that after coming to Soul Society, a world with a high density of spiritual beings, his talent would gradually become apparent.”
"But I just suddenly had an idea..."
Duan Mu paused, frowned and said: "Is there a possibility that his original talent was only the talent when I first met him, but what happened to his spirit body in the year after he came to Soul Society?
Or maybe something was incorporated into it, so that his spiritual body’s talent has grown.”
"How come you have such an idea?"
Ayase Chuanqin said with some confusion: "Did you find something on him?"
"That's not true, but he gives me an inexplicable weird feeling."
Duan Mu shook his head: "I once fought against a big villain in the 80th District of the South. His aura was extremely unstable. Even during the battle with me, his spirit body showed signs of collapse, and just before his death
At that moment... I suddenly felt an inexplicable strange feeling in my heart."
The big villain that Duan Mu mentioned was none other than Genuchi Kura, who had fought with him once.
After that battle, when Duan Mu recalled the battle after the war, he noticed something... Genuchi Gura seemed to have regained his mind at the moment before his death. The reason why Duan Mu remembered this was precisely because he was
There was a strange feeling in my heart.
That feeling is extremely weird, if you really have to use any words to describe it.
Somewhat similar to...a sense of presence?
A sense of existence that is too weak to be noticed, but cannot be ignored.
But at that time, Duan Mu, because his condition was too bad, just wanted to kill the opponent blindly, and did not care about the existence of the only one who appeared in the short moment from the time when he woke up to death in Gennai warehouse. After all, he himself gave people a sense of presence.
It feels like it's been pieced together forcibly, which is a little weird but also normal.
But now that I think about it...
Duan Mu found that the feeling Xiaosuke gave him was very similar to the moment when Genuchikura woke up, and both gave Duan Mu a strange sense of existence.
If Xiaojie had not been kidnapped, Duan Mu would not be able to connect the two people together, because the sense of existence is completely integrated with the surrounding environment and cannot be discovered through exploration. Looking at Xiaojie now, it is impossible to
Nothing unusual at all.
but……
If Kosuke, who had just arrived in Soul Society, was put together with the Kosuke he met a few days ago, and compared with each other, Duan Mu would once again have the same feeling that Genuchi Kura had felt before he died.
At the moment Gennaikura was about to die, his body had disintegrated, and the things that had been forcibly integrated into his body had also dissipated. In other words, Gennaikura, who woke up at the moment of death, was the original him.
The feeling Xiaosuke gave Duan Mu was somewhat similar to that of Genuchi Kura at that moment.
"What exactly does that feel like?"
Duan Mu frowned, his instinct told him that the feeling was strange, but his senses were not aware of it at all, otherwise Duan Mu would have felt this way when he saw Xiaojie a few days ago.
But if it's really as he suspected...
The person who kidnapped Xiaosuke should be able to detect the things that both 'Gennaikura' and 'Xiaosuke' have through some method, instead of being like himself, who can only distinguish them by feeling like an 'illusion'
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The most important point is that Duan Mu once heard from the members of the supervision team that after the battle between him and Genuchi Kura, someone had cleared away the traces of the battlefield, and when he went to check in secret, no trace of aura was found.
Is there a possibility that the person who removed the traces did not do it to remove the traces of the battle, but to recover something that originally existed in Gennaikura's body?
