Chapter 189 187 I'll Give You a Chance, Pretend!

Chapter 189 187. I'll give you a chance, pretend!

It was late at night when Higashino Hideichi left Koizumi Izakaya.

The Grim Reapers in the hall had already left, leaving only a few drunken Rukongai civilians still shouting nonsense in front of their tables.

Rukia had already left work, and the owner of the izakaya seemed to know something, and was very respectful to Higashino Hideichi and Ichimaru Gin, who was also in casual clothes.

He didn't even let Higashino Hideichi and Ichimaru Gin pay for the drinks.

Looking at Ichimaru Gin who was going back to the Seireitei alone, Higashino Hideichi paused for a while, then turned and left in another direction.

The big villains of South Rukongai wanted to join the Sword Hunters. As the chief sword hunter, Higashino Hideichi had the responsibility and obligation to examine the strength, background, and loyalty of those people.

No matter who asked about it afterwards, it was the same answer.

But it is obvious that tonight, or even tomorrow, there will not be a qualified person among the big villains of South Rukongai.

Because an Arrancar attacked them, Higashino Hideichi naturally regarded this incident as a test for them.

However, these big villains really disappointed Higashino Hideichi, and none of them could survive the hands of the Arrancar.

"So, recently, not only in Soul Society, there have been frequent deaths of Shinigami, but also in Hueco Mundo?"

Standing in the rebuilt new Hueco Mundo, Higashino Hideichi looked at Aizen and said.

Outside the room, the current No. 2 of the Ten Blades, Harribel, and her three subordinates were responsible for guarding to ensure that no strangers would enter by mistake.

"It was just some unpresentable Gillians who were killed, but for the current Hueco Mundo, it is also a big loss."

Aizen flipped through the information sorted out by Ichimaru Gin that Higashino Hideichi gave him, and nodded in response.

This matter was indeed done by him at the behest of Gin Ichimaru. Seven years ago, in order to see the quality of Higashino Hideichi and give him a great gift, and to reorganize the entire Hueco Mundo into a force that is more obedient to his own arrangements, Aizen personally designed it and destroyed half of the Hueco Mundo's combat power at that time.

For this reason, he even started a killing spree in Soul Society to barely maintain the stability of both sides.

Therefore, in the Hueco Mundo, which is now recovering its vitality, those Killians who were not presentable in the past have become particularly important.

The unexpected disappearance of some Killians has attracted Aizen's attention.

And according to Ichimaru Gin's investigation for a period of time, the target was finally locked on the unremarkable izakaya in Rukongai.

However, now it seems that this izakaya is indeed not as simple as other residents of Soul Society imagine.

"A izakaya that has only been established for less than seven years has far surpassed those old shops that have been operating for hundreds of years in the first area of ​​South Rukongai. Is this reasonable?"

Aizen snorted coldly while checking the information.

"Whether this is reasonable or not is secondary. The main point is that the preferential policy of this izakaya is that any god of death who has shed blood for the Soul Society can enjoy the privilege of one ring (the currency unit of the Soul Society) of free drinking in this izakaya as long as they can prove themselves.

What's the difference between this and free?"

Hitano Hideichi pointed out a point that he felt was very unreasonable.

In the real world, people generally call this kind of behavior patriotism, but in the Soul Society, Higano Hideichi prefers to evaluate it as either treason or theft.

Because among the ranks of the god of death, how many god of death have shed blood for the Soul Society?

He has not counted them, but in this world with Higano Hideichi's intervention, it's not 80%, right? At least half of the group of god of death, right?

Not to mention that in order to distinguish the degree of contribution of these people, Koizumi Izakaya has also thoughtfully set up annual limits and a number of times for these god of death.

The earlier you shed blood for the Soul Society, or the more times you shed blood, the more preferential treatment you can receive. For example, you can get a new wine named after yourself, or you can pack a corresponding amount of wine from Koizumi Izakaya every time.

All these are charged!

That is, free!

If there were not many Shinigami who like to drink, and most of them just come to see the gimmick, then Higashino Hideichi would not know how much money the boss behind Koizumi Izakaya could afford to make.

So combined with the doubts of Koizumi Izakaya itself, Higashino Hideichi has reason to suspect that the reason why Koizumi Izakaya sets so many conditions is nothing more than accurately positioning the target population.

The group of people he wants to find must be in one or more of the many divisions it has drawn.

In other words, as long as he knows which area of ​​preferential policies Ukitake Sasama and others enjoy, then Higashino Hideichi can also follow the clues and find the common points of Ukitake Sasama and the reasons why these people are targeted.

The good news is that for a Shinigami like Higashino Hideichi, it is not difficult to know this information.

The bad news is that the scope is a bit wide, and they are all a group of lucky people who have been shining in the Gotei 13 before Higashino Hideichi defected to the human world.

"So, Hideichi, is this all you have seen?"

However, after listening to Higashino Hideichi's speech, Aizen closed the information in his hand and looked at the one in front of him, the new throne that Sal Apollo specially built for him.

People are always confused by the appearance in front of them, thus losing the opportunity to break away and see the whole picture.

Although Higashino Hideichi often shows extraordinary wisdom and is definitely the best among all the Shinigami, Aizen found that Higashino Hideichi still makes this mistake.

But this is also good, at least in this way, he can still maintain the same style in front of Higashino Hideichi.

Little did he know that after learning from Aizen the real reason why Ichimaru Gin went to Koizumi Izakaya to investigate, Higashino Hideichi had actually vaguely guessed part of the truth.

It's just that in front of Aizen, he can't act too smart, and he has to leave some room for Aizen to play. Otherwise, he will find Aizen in the middle of the night and not give Aizen the opportunity to show off. Higashino Hideichi feels that even if Aizen may not say it, he will definitely make a note of it in his little notebook in his heart.

But now is different from the past. In the past, before Gin Ichimaru joined Aizen's camp, Higashino Hideichi could strengthen the relationship between the two by frequently interacting with Aizen.

Now, due to the identities of the two and the fact that Gin Ichimaru is in the middle, it is very troublesome for Higashino Hideichi to meet Aizen.

So much so that the two will not meet unless there is a major event, and they will contact each other directly through special means of communication for general matters.

Therefore, even if such a big thing happened in Hueco Mundo recently, if it weren't for the coincidence of meeting Gin Ichimaru, Higashino Hideichi would not have heard of it at all.

"Is there anything else I haven't discovered? Lord Aizen."

Higashino Hideichi frowned and showed a confused expression.

Very good.

This is Aizen's evaluation of Higashino Hideichi's demeanor at this time.

Higashino Hideichi still doesn't handle this kind of non-combat details well as always.

This is in line with Aizen's stereotype of Higashino Hideichi.

However, he was also happy to train and instruct such a Higashino Hideichi.

"Although Gin didn't write it in this document, Hideichi, you should also think about why Gin has clearly locked his target on this izakaya, but has not locked any suspects."

Higashino Hideichi made a look of sudden enlightenment,

"Lord Aizen, you mean that Gin tracked the culprit all the way to this izakaya, and then lost the trace of that person, is that right?"

"To be precise, it is not tracking the murderer, but tracking the captured Killian.

We marked those Killian, but they still disappeared in that place.

Do you know what this means, Hideichi?"

"This means that either the person has discovered and knows the means by which Lord Aizen personally set up the marks;

Or, he used some method to completely hide those Killian."

This is Higashino Hideichi's original speculation.

And Higashino Hideichi did not make such a multiple-choice question at all, but directly excluded the first option.

After all, if that person really has the ability to remove the mark carefully arranged by Aizen, then that person should simply not do such sneaky things. Just pick any captain of the Gotei 13th Division to do it.

Higashino Hideichi fully believes that he has this ability.

As for the only option, Higashino Hideichi actually has his own guess in his heart.

The word "different dimension"

If it was put in a few decades ago, it would probably be a novelty.

But since Higashino Hideichi brought back the gem from the West Shoku Bureau and threw it to Urahara Kisuke and Kurotsuchi Mayuri for joint research, the different dimension has become not so far away and tall from many Shinigami.

It is said that now even some Shinigami of the 13th Division can arrange a small different dimension when performing tasks in the real world, so as to prevent the battle between themselves and the hollows from having a greater impact on the real world.

However, the share distributed through this channel is clearly recorded in the Gotei 13th Division.

Even if it is one of the five great nobles, the Tsunayashiro family, which is now in its heyday and arrogant, in principle, if they want to use the alternate dimension, they must first apply to the first team.

However, whether Kurotsuchi Mayuri can resist the pressure from the Tsunayashiro family privately is another matter.

So, is the mastermind behind this matter the Tsunayashiro family?

Higashino Hideichi thought carefully. If it was just aimed at himself, then this really seemed like something the Tsunayashiro family could do.

After all, giving yourself sweet dates while constantly throwing dirty water on the sword hunters is a basic principle that the Tsunayashiro family has always adhered to for a long time.

The purpose is to make it impossible for Hideichi Higashino and the Gotei 13 to have any room for easing, forcing Hideichi Higashino to be tied to their Tsunayashiro family.

However, this matter does not only involve Hideichi Higashino. For the Tsunayashiro family, there is no need to provoke a group of lunatics in Hueco Mundo at this time.

Therefore, Higashino Hideichi looked at Aizen, hoping to get more information from him.

Aizen, who wanted to teach Higashino Hideichi, naturally would not hide too much in this regard.

“It is a space, even if it is hidden, there will be traces of spiritual pressure left, but Ichimaru Gin did not find similar traces inside and outside the izakaya.

Therefore, I asked Tosen to check the product distribution list of the 12th Division in recent period, and there was nothing abnormal in it."

When Aizen said this, he seemed to leave a blank intentionally, wanting to give Higashino Hideichi some room to play.

Hgashino Hideichi also understood what Aizen meant. In this Soul Society, except for Higashino Hideichi and other Shinigami who are closely related to Aizen, it is almost impossible to perform space-related operations without the help of the 12th Division.

So, is the culprit really the Tsunayashiro family?

After Now all the evidence shows that the Tsunayashiro family is behind the whole thing.

But looking at the faint smile on Aizen's lips, Higashino Hideichi suddenly thought that he and Aizen had been talking about the alternate dimension here, even including some of its new applications created by Kurotsuchi Mayuri.

But they all seemed to have subconsciously overlooked one thing.

That is, the ability to create alternate dimensions is not only in the 12th Division, but also in those products that have been developed with different effects and kept strictly confidential. Many of them are in the conquest or other spaces.

There are also high-end combat power and original shares that have created the current power structure of Soul Society space.

The special gem that Higashino Hideichi intercepted from the enemy in the West Division.

When Higashino Hideichi followed Urahara Kisuke and others to escape to the human world, Higashino Hideichi did not choose to take it with him, but left it to the captain of the 4th Division, Unohana Retsu.

Later, even though Higashino Hideichi had returned to Soul Society in a normal way, he did not try to take the gem back, but chose to let it The gem continued to accompany Unohana Retsu.

Even Higashino Hideichi had never seen Unohana Retsu wearing the gem.

Because at this stage, he no longer cared about the meager benefits that the gem could bring.

Even if he needed to build a different dimension to help him do some special things, Higashino Hideichi had all the abilities and props to choose from.

There was no need to possess the gem.

So, the gem should still be with Unohana Retsu now?

With such questions, Higashino Hideichi seemed to have seen his future.