Soul Society. It was pouring with rain.
In the devastated Seireitei, after the enemies had all retreated, the Soul Reapers began to move the wounded and collect the remains of their colleagues.
"Group Two, Squads 11 to 16, go to West 56th District! The rest of you, with me!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Deal with the bodies last! Transporting the wounded is the top priority!"
"Emergency transport, requesting instructions."
"Alright, please send them to Ward 203."
"..."
In the 4th Division barracks, watching the bustling soldiers outside, Isane Kotetsu hesitated, but finally couldn't hold back and said to Captain Unohana, "They're finally starting to transport the wounded... In the end, we couldn't even bring in a single wounded person during the battle... Captain Unohana, is it really okay for us to just stay here in the 4th Division barracks? If we moved around the Seireitei, we might be able to save more wounded."
"Isane, you must not speak rashly based on emotion. When driven by anxiety, it is indeed tempting to want to leave here. But to think that I still have to explain to you why we cannot leave... the usual you is not so shallow," Retsu Unohana stood quietly by the window, gazing at the cold rain in the dark night outside.
"Yes! I'm very sorry..." Isane Kotetsu finally broke down and cried.
She knew that Captain Unohana must be even more saddened than her and must want to save everyone even more. Yet she was still so weak. It was truly unbecoming.
"There's no need to cry, Isane. 'No matter what happens, you must not leave the 4th Division barracks.' This was the final order the Head-Captain gave us." Retsu Unohana still looked out the window without turning back. Her facial expression still held its usual gentleness, but her eyes were filled with gloom.
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1st Division.
Several injured captains gathered here, looking sorrowfully at the shattered Zanpakutō.
"We couldn't find the Head-Captain's body. It was all completely destroyed by the enemy," Jushiro Ukitake said with a low spirit.
They couldn't even find a body to mourn Head-Captain Yamamoto. All they found was a broken Zanpakutō.
Without a body, holding a proper funeral for Head-Captain Yamamoto, like they did for Lieutenant Captain Chōjirō, was a luxury that Soul Society couldn't afford right now.
Thud—!
A messenger knelt on the floor and said, "Report... Captain Byakuya Kuchiki of the 6th Division, Captain Kensei Muguruma of the 9th Division, and Captain Kenpachi Zaraki of the 11th Division have all been saved, but they may not be able to perform their duties as captains again... They may not even wake up..."
"Get out!" Suì-Fēng suddenly turned and roared.
"Uh..." The poor messenger was at a loss.
"We don't want to hear this kind of report right now, don't you understand? The Head-Captain is dead, what else do you want us to hear?" Suì-Fēng couldn't suppress the grief and anger in her heart, venting her emotions freely.
Although her reaction was understandable, as everyone was grieving the Head-Captain's death, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Onmitsukidō, she couldn't calm down and control her emotions. Instead, she acted like a shrew, taking her anger out on an innocent subordinate who was just reporting the situation. In the eyes of the other captains, it was quite unseemly.
"That's enough, Suì-Fēng! Do you think you're the only one who wants to scream?" Sajin Komamura rebuked. In terms of grief, he was no less than anyone else present.
"Alright, alright, alright, no fighting," Shunsui Kyōraku, with his one-eyed look, walked in clapping his hands.
He had just stood alone in the heavy rain in front of the huge crater for a long time, silently mourning old man Yama. He had now completely composed himself before walking into the 1st Division barracks.
"If we keep fighting, we'll all get a fist from old man Yama. Crying and venting over his remains, I'm shaking with embarrassment," Shunsui Kyōraku said with his hands spread, no longer hinting, but directly calling out Suì-Fēng.
"Kyōraku, you..." Suì-Fēng glared at him angrily.
"The duty of the Gotei 13 is not to mourn the dead, nor to cry over the destroyed Soul Society, but to protect Soul Society," Shunsui Kyōraku first stared at the shattered Zanpakutō, his heart a mix of emotions. Another important person had left him. Then he looked up and said, "Let's look forward. We are the Gotei 13."
…
R&D Department.
Mayuri Kurotsuchi was furious because his vice-captain, Akon, was dead.
Akon had been with him in the 2nd Division's prison, the 'Maggot's Nest'. When Urahara got him out to join the R&D Department, he had also brought Akon with him.
They had the bond of having been in prison together, and Akon could be said to be the person who understood Mayuri Kurotsuchi best. He could even guess some of Mayuri's 'Nemu Project' and some of his subtle, unexpressed emotions.
So, Akon's death was different from the death of an ordinary Soul Reaper.
His death, even for an evil scientist like Mayuri, who usually played with life at will, who could mercilessly wipe out twenty-eight thousand residents of Rukongai, who saw living people as mere numbers, and who had a tasteless penchant for torturing test subjects and listening to their screams, was still a sad event.
He was a scoundrel and a villain, not a desireless machine. On the contrary, his desires were extremely fierce, so he would still have emotional fluctuations.
And after Mayuri investigated the communication records, he found that Akon's death was more or less related to the man he hated most.
If it weren't for Urahara telling Akon, 'If the situation is too dire, perhaps you can have Captain Kensei Muguruma of the 9th Division try to fight with his Bankai', then Kensei Muguruma and Akon would not have become the targets of everyone, and Akon would not have been blown to bits by the enemy-controlled Kensei after meeting up with him.
After activating his Bankai, Kensei Muguruma could infuse the explosive power of his Shikai into his fists. And during his attack on the enemy, the explosive power would continuously pour into their body.
This was an extremely dangerous Bankai, capable of destroying the enemy from their soft insides, and it wasn't a one-time attack, but a continuous barrage until the enemy was completely blown to bits.
This guy, Kensei Muguruma, couldn't do much damage when fighting the enemy, but after being controlled, he was extremely strong when attacking Soul Reapers. The losses he caused to the Soul Reaper side were even greater than some of the Quincy.
Akon was one of the many Soul Reapers who were blown to bits by Kensei Muguruma's Bankai.
And Akon's death was extremely gruesome. He was blown apart into countless small pieces by Kensei, some parts were turned into meat paste, and some parts were even dissipated into nothing by the hurricane caused by Kensei.
The small pieces of his corpse that Mayuri collected amounted to less th
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