Chapter 235 Don't Let Me Down

Cold...

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This is the only feeling that Hitsugaya Toushirou has unconsciously.

It is like being thrown into an ice river while sleeping. Endless coldness seems to be enveloping him, invading him, devouring him, and making his life and even his soul sink.

Hitsugaya Toushirou does not know how long this coldness will accompany him, and how long it has accompanied him.

He only knows that when the coldness is gone and the warmth begins to return to him, his consciousness can finally float up, allowing him to gradually regain consciousness.

"Pah... Pah..."

Suddenly, Hitsugaya Toushirou heard such a movement, as if something was burning and breaking.

"Are you awake?"

Then, Hitsugaya Toushirou heard the voice of a familiar person again.

"Since you are awake, get up quickly."

Hearing this, Hitsugaya Toushirou opened his eyes and sat up suddenly.

"Hyorinmaru!"

The first thing Hitsugaya Toushirou shouted when he woke up.

Because his last memory was the moment when Hyorinmaru's Bankai was forcibly released, so he shouted like this the first time he woke up.

However, the battle was over long ago.

"Why are you nervous? No one stole yours!"

The familiar voice came from the side again, and a Zanpakutō was thrown over.

"Here, I give it back to you."

Hearing these careless words, Hitsugaya Toushirou quickly caught the Zanpakutō thrown to him.

That was his Hyorinmaru.

After getting Hyorinmaru, Hitsugaya Toushirou felt relieved, and only then did he have the energy to observe the surroundings.

He was surprised to find that he was still in the same place, on the border of the 80th district of the Northern Ryukon Street, the Zaraki District.

However, there was no ice and snow here, and there was no dark sky. Whether it was the earth or the trees, they were all the same as when they first came, and they were not frozen into ice at all.

The blizzard was gone, and the coldness disappeared without a trace. A warmth flowed between heaven and earth, as if nothing had happened. It was a sunny day.

Aize sat next to Hitsugaya Toushirou, and a bonfire was lit in front of him. The firelight shone on Hitsugaya Toushirou's body, making him understand where the warmth he felt at first came from.

He lay next to the bonfire, very close to it, and his body was baked warm, and there was no more coldness before.

"Is it okay?" Aize looked at Hitsugaya Toushirou, roasting the fire, and smiled with evil humor: "Do you feel like waking up from a dream?"

"I..." Hitsugaya Toushirou frowned, holding his Zanpakutō, and after a moment of silence, he murmured: "Was everything that just happened a dream?"

Hitsugaya Toushirou actually had such a feeling.

"So, how does the dream taste?" Aize didn't confirm or deny it, but just said lightly: "Did it give you any inspiration?"

Hearing this, Hitsugaya Toushirou looked at Aize and finally asked the most important question.

"Captain Ai, why do you have a second Hyorinmaru?"

Hitsugaya Toushirou asked Aize in an extremely complicated tone.

However, Aize blinked his eyes.

"Second Hyorinmaru? What second Hyorinmaru?" Aize said innocently: "How could I have Hyorinmaru? My Zanpakuto is here!"

Aize lifted up his sleeveless white haori and showed his Zanpakuto tied around his waist to Hitsugaya Toushirou.

But Hitsugaya Toushirou was anxious.

"You just used Hyorinmaru and froze me!"

Hitsugaya Toushirou's accusation only earned Aize a more innocent expression.

"Young man, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want." Aize said seriously: "My Zanpakutō doesn't have any freezing ability, and it's not called Hyorinmaru. You can't blame me for being frozen, you should blame Hyorinmaru, right?"

Hearing this, Hitsugaya Toushirou didn't understand what was going on?

The man in front of him didn't intend to admit what happened before, and he planned to deny that he used Hyorinmaru!

"No... How could you do this?"

Hitsugaya Toushirou was dumbfounded.

"So, what are you talking about?" Aize spread his hands and said helplessly: "Didn't you say you wanted to practice using Hyorinmaru here, but you accidentally made a mistake and froze yourself?"

"I didn't do anything. Let alone the second Hyorinmaru, I don't even have the second Ryujin Jakka."

"The God of Death can only have one Zanpakutō. This is common sense. Didn't you learn it in the Shin'o Academy of Spiritual Arts? Vice Captain Hitsugaya?"

Seeing that Aize was refusing to admit his fault, Hitsugaya Toushirou's eyes twitched and he almost pulled out his Zanpakutō and chopped him off.

But thinking of the previous defeat, Hitsugaya Toushirou knew that even if he took action, he would definitely be the one who suffered in the end.

"...You don't have to admit it."

Hitsugaya Toushirou took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and said to Aize.

"But you have to teach me how to use Hyorinmaru."

This battle with Aize made Hitsugaya Toushirou realize what he lacked and why he could not master the power of Hyorinmaru.

Just as Aize said, he was too eager for quick success and completed a road that a Shinigami could not figure out even if he spent his whole life thinking about it in a short time, which led to his steps being too big and too fast, and he ignored the scenery that he might encounter on the road and the scenery that he should have seen.

When he didn't have a Zanpakutō, he was listening to the sound of his Zanpakutō and was about to call its name. Not long after he had a Zanpakutō, he mastered the Shikai. As a result, as soon as he mastered the Shikai, he began to study Bankai, and did not stop at all to get familiar with the power of Hyorinmaru.

Thinking about his past life, although it has always been smooth sailing, he has not been stumped by the Shikai that stumped most Shinigami, let alone the Bankai that stumped 99% of Shinigami, but he really just practiced them, not practiced them.

Successful training is just a beginning, but I took it as the end, completed, and impatiently began to move on to the next step. How could I master everything?

"I will start again from the first release." Hitsugaya Toushirou looked at Aize and said seriously: "Please teach me how to do it."

Hitsugaya Toushirou's words made Aize smile slightly at first, and then said.

"I don't mind helping you, but I think you might as well ask Hyorinmaru instead of asking me."

This made Hitsugaya Toushirou stunned.

"Ask Hyorinmaru?"

It seemed that he had never thought of this before, so he couldn't react for a long time.

Seeing this, Aize continued to roast the fire while speaking leisurely.

"The person who knows your Zanpakuto best is not me, nor you, but itself."

"It knows better than anyone how strong its power is, and it knows better than anyone how to use its power."

"Whether it is Shikai or Bankai, isn't it based on their own permission to complete it?"

Shikai requires hearing the voice of Zanpakuto and being told its name by Zanpakuto.

Bankai requires first materializing Zanpakuto and making it submit to oneself.

Whether it is Shikai or Bankai, it needs to be completed by Zanpakuto itself.

In this case, why not listen to the opinions of Zanpakuto?

"If you want to master the power of Zanpakuto, you must first understand Zanpakuto itself." Aize glanced at Hitsugaya Toushirou and said, "Let me ask you, how many times have you talked to your Zanpakuto?"

Hitsugaya Toushirou naturally couldn't answer this question.

So, he fell into silence.

"It is better to rely on yourself than on others. You should start with a conversation and understand Hyorinmaru step by step."

After saying this, Aize himself was a little emotional.

Thinking carefully, it seems that there is very little conversation between him and his Zanpakuto.

Because they are of one mind and one body, they are one entity after recognizing the master. They can understand each other's will without dialogue, and there is no problem of not understanding each other.

All special weapons will submit to Aize equally, obey Aize, take Aize's will as their own will, and entrust everything to him without the slightest reservation.

Thanks to this, Aize can know the name of Zanpakuto without listening to its voice, and can make it submit without the materialization of Zanpakuto. Whether it is Shikai or Bankai, it can be fully mastered at the moment of recognizing the master, without familiarity, running-in, or training, and can perfectly display its power in an instant.

In other words, although Aize knows how to gradually master his Zanpakuto and knows how to do it best, he has never done it himself.

He knew what to do the moment he touched the Zanpakutō, but the process was skipped by his own authority, and the result was achieved quickly.

"This golden finger is cool, but the enjoyment of the process is gone."

Aize thought about this shamelessly.

And Hitsugaya Toushirou, who didn't know what kind of cheater was sitting in front of him, fell into deep thought.

"I know what to do."

After a while, Hitsugaya Toushirou clenched his Zanpakutō and nodded to Aize solemnly.

"That's good." Aize smiled and said, "This way I can explain to Hinamori."

"Hinamori?" Hitsugaya Toushirou was stunned.

"Why do you think I went to the 10th Squad's barracks to catch you and teach you a lesson? Am I too idle? Or is there too little work for the 3rd Squad?" Aize rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Isn't it because my vice-captain is too worried about her childhood friend and is afraid that her childhood friend will be upset, so she came to me for help?"

"When you were still in the Maou Spiritual Academy, didn't that girl often do this?"

"Why? Have you forgotten?"

Hitsugaya Toushirou pursed his lips, thinking of his childhood sweetheart, his heart was mixed with mixed feelings, but his body somehow became warmer.

"If you understand, I'll go back."

Aize stood up, letting Hitsugaya Toushirou come back to his senses and quickly stand up with him.

"Thank you for your guidance, Captain Ai." Hitsugaya Toushirou looked directly at Aize, bowed solemnly, and said, "I will remember what you said today."

"Don't be like that. You are older than me. How can you say such a thing?" Aize teased Hitsugaya Toushirou jokingly, and then suddenly said, "If you can really remember what I said today, then hurry up and finish what you should do."

"After a while, there may not be such time left for you."

This made Hitsugaya Toushirou stunned again.

"What do you mean?"

Hitsugaya Toushirou looked puzzled.

"Don't ask. If you ask, I don't know how to explain it to you." Aize shook his head and said, "You just need to know that soon, the Soul Society will be in chaos."

Since Shiba Isshin has disappeared and the captain of the 10th Division has been re-elected, the original plot should be about to officially begin, right?

Others don't know where Shiba Isshin has gone, but Aize knows it very well, and knows what his disappearance means.

You know, the protagonist of this world is Shiba Isshin's son.

Now, Isshin Shiba has been missing for a while, and his son should be able to go out and play, right?

Perhaps, in a few years, Rukia Kuchiki will go to the real world to settle down and meet the protagonist of the original work.

At that time, in order to defeat the hollow that attacked her, Rukia Kuchiki had to give her own spiritual power to the other party, making the other party a god of death.

It was also from that moment that the real wonderfulness and danger of this world would gradually be revealed.

"I have been in the Soul Society for a long time, and I have obtained the fame and status I should have. If I want to make this life experience more exciting, then those who make big moves need to appear as soon as possible."

Aize looked at the horizon and smiled suddenly.

"I have tolerated you for a long time, okay? Don't let me down..."

Aize's muttering was heard by Toushirou Hitsugaya, but he didn't know how powerful it was.

"Captain Ai?"

He could only speak tentatively and called the other party.

"Let's go, it's time to go back and eat."

Aize retracted his gaze and various random thoughts, and stretched lazily.

"I wonder what delicious food Hinamori made for me this time..."

"Tempura? Or hamburger steak?"

"I'm looking forward to it."

After saying that, Aize took a step forward, activated the flash step, and his figure disappeared.

"Make delicious food? The vice-captain is still in charge of this?"

Hitsugaya Toushirou was a little confused. Seeing Aize activate the flash step and leave, he hurriedly followed, thinking silently in his heart while using the flash step.

"Go back and make it for Captain Ichimaru..."

At this time, in the captain's office of the 10th Division, a handsome guy suddenly shuddered.

"...Is it Rangiku who is still scolding me?"

He muttered to himself in confusion.

It's a pity that the answer to this question will never appear...