Chapter 155
Haruto followed Hikifune's instructions and lightly brushed the pan-shaped object on the side of the door.
"..."
After a brief silence.
"Boom-boom!"
Haruto took a half step back and listened quietly to the huge movement inside the laboratory, which was like Optimus Prime deforming.
Two minutes later.
"laugh!"
The heavy wooden door slowly opened with steam that was inconsistent with its style.
A plump lady with the same curly hair and a spatula-shaped hair ornament on her head (that was her Zanpakutō), who was exaggeratedly large in every sense of the word, walked out of the door.
"Um?"
"!?"
Haruto's eyes couldn't catch when this person took the card from the door.
"Didn't Cai Hui come to see me?"
"you--"
On the outside, it can be said to be harmless and amiable, but the huge spiritual pressure that is not suppressed at all makes Haruto deeply feel how powerful the second-class spiritual power monster is——
Haruto's spiritual pressure compared to hers was like the fluorescence of rotten grass compared to the bright moon in the sky.
"I am the fourth seat of the Thirteenth Division, Haruto."
Haruto announced his identity.
"I'm here to ask for advice this time..."
"oh!"
Hikifune Kiryu clapped his hands hard, and the powerful sound waves vibrated the eardrums from outside to inside, even causing Haruto to lose consciousness for a moment.
"Uh-huh."
Hikifune Kiryu bent down and stared at Haruto seriously for a long time.
"The Tenzuki Pills are working very well on you."
"?"
This was the first time for Haruto to meet Hikifune Kiryu, and he never expected that the other party would know about him.
"Captain Hikifune has seen me?"
"No no no."
Hikifune Kiryu smiled and patted Haruto on the shoulder... The force of these two strokes almost prevented his flesh and blood from being separated.
"This is our first time meeting~"
Hikifune Kiryu doesn't fit in at all with Shuugai Sugo's evaluation of otaku, but her enthusiasm is really difficult to adapt to in another sense - take off the two palms just now and replace them with those below the deputy captain. Death, I am afraid that he has been sent to the Fourth Division for emergency treatment at this moment.
"But your reiatsu...the food aura I created, how could you admit it was wrong?"
"Well."
Haruto keeps his spiritual pressure at all times.
Being able to discern spiritual pressure from what the other person eats, and it's food from so long ago... This special perception ability is a bit exaggerated.
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a powerful and heavy push on the back, Haruto almost failed to stabilize his body.
"Okay."
"You look so thin, you probably haven't had a good meal... This is not the way I treat guests here, come on, come on~"
Hikifune Kiryu brought Haruto into the laboratory without any hesitation.
"If you have anything to do, let's talk about it after we eat!"
————
Two hours later.
Haruto turned into a veritable ball--
He was originally tall and thin, but after one meal, he immediately turned into a fat man with equal height and width: looking at Hikifune Kiryu's unchanged body shape, you can tell that he didn't use much spiritual pressure at all to make this food.
"Miss Kiryu."
This is how Hikifune Kiryu asked him to call him.
Because there is another Hikifune in the team, she also uses this method to allow outsiders to better distinguish her from her sister; and compared to the role of captain, Hikifune Kiryu seems to be more inclined to be a researcher and chef.
"What is the main ingredient used in Tenzuki Pills?"
It doesn’t take that long to eat.
The reason why Hikifune Kiryu invited Haruto into the laboratory is also very simple; since this place is called a laboratory, it is of course to see the status of the test products.
During the formal meal, Hikifune Kiryu adheres to a completely silent style, but when it comes to dessert after the meal, he can talk about anything——
During this period of time, Haruto had already told Hikifune Kiryu about Tenzumaru's performance and the special characteristics after learning bone fighting:
Although these things were confidential, Haruto thought that he couldn't hide his condition from the doctor.
"Didn't the Kuchiki family provide you with a medication guide?"
Hikifune Kiryu was taking a bite of a small cake.
"The main material is Vastod's spiritual pressure fragments."
The elegant and fast eating posture perfectly explains what the whirlwind chopsticks are.
"I know this."
Haruto nodded.
"What I want to ask is, does Kiryu-san know which Vastod it is?"
"Um......"
Haruto's words made Hikifune Kiryu slow down his eating speed slightly.
"no name."
"no name?"
"right."
"Although there was no specific name in the first place, after it was blackened by the great monk, it became de facto that there was no name."
"!"
Hikifune Kiryu just mentioned Ichibei of the Military Chief Division?
She hasn't been promoted to Division Zero yet. Even Aizen doesn't know this kind of information. How could she...
Hikifune Kiryu ignored Haruto's shock and continued:
"But after being made into a Zanpakutō by the Sword God, it seemed to be called -"
"Jiji jiba?"
"It seems to be a strange name."
"!!"
The ancient Great Void's attack on the Soul King's Palace happened a thousand years ago, and Hikifune Kiryuu was not even born at that time!
"Miss Kiryu...where did you know these names?"
Haruto couldn't help but ask.
"Is it weird?"
Hikifune Kiryu asked rhetorically.
"I am the captain of the Thirteenth Division and the director of the Seireitei Research Institute."
It's obviously just a normal statement, but it makes people feel inexplicably convincing.
"There is a lot of knowledge here that has been preserved since the Shutara era. Even though I don't have access to the Great Soul Scroll Corridor, so some of the information is not that detailed, it can still be regarded as one of the top five most knowledgeable among the Gotei Thirteen Team. Captain?"
"..."
Hikifune Kiryu was right.
Urahara Kisuke and Niryuri both had their own ways of obtaining information related to the existence of the Soul King and the Soul King Palace; now it seems that the Seireitei Research Institute, the predecessor of the Technology Development Bureau, had preserved this information from the beginning.
It's strange that Hikifune Kiryu didn't know.
"That's it."
Haruto was still nodding to himself, but Hikifune Kiryuu had already added from the side:
"Haruto-kun, it's okay to say this in front of me, but you can't spread it casually - I know that Captain Ukitake knows a lot more information than me, but he trusts you so much... "
"Isn't it Xiao Haiyan who is going to inherit his position as captain?"
"..."
Haruto remained silent.
Hikifune Kiryu's guess was in the wrong direction, but Haruto would definitely not leave any trace of such a lie that could be easily exposed.
"Or is it that Captain Kuchiki is ready to abdicate in favor of someone better?"
"..."
He chose to remain silent.
Haruto didn't know how to answer this question at all. He just wanted to strangle a certain "vice-captain" who provided Hikifune Kiryu's wrong evaluation.
Hikifune Kiryu's keenness is more than enough even if he is placed in the eighth division.
"Okay."
Hikifune Kiryu regained control of the topic.
"Since Captain Kuchiki didn't give you a medication guide, that means you didn't have captain-level spiritual pressure to help expel the power of the void when you used Tenzuku Pills?"
"......Yes."
Although the initiative was not on his side, Haruto still responded cooperatively.
"That's weird."
"Um?"
Hikifune Kiryu's curious expression stunned Haruto.
"The Tianzhen Pill can only be regarded as a nutritional supplement. As for the Vastod part, it only retains the purest restorative power of Daxu."
"You should know that the boundary between Hollow and Death is not that easy to break. A rash combination of the two will only give birth to a monster that cannot even be controlled by oneself."
Hikifune Kiryu explained.
"The Tianzhen Pills I made have transformed Xu's soul power into simple food supplement materials. After taking it, 90% of the medicinal effect will be released at once, and the remaining part will be used to slowly nourish the body. ”
"As for the instinct engraved in Daxu's soul, the captain with the same level of spiritual pressure as Vastod helped to exorcise it."
Hikifune Kiryu explained the original usage of Tenzuku Maru very seriously.
"but......"
"Haruto-kun, you are different."
Hikifune Kiryu changed the subject.
"The medicinal effect of Tianzhen Pill is still maintained in your body, and the intensity of the medicinal effect released is only much greater than that released at once when you just took it."
"That's why I can see the clues at a glance."
"Not only that."
Hikifune Kiryu's speaking speed is getting faster and faster, and her eyes are gradually shining... Her research interest is rising.
