"To actually use herself as bait, that is truly reckless!"
After seeing the method the Quincy girl used to deal with the bull-horned Hollow, Isshin Shiba couldn't help but click his tongue.
However, he quickly sensed the abnormal Spiritual Pressure fluctuation radiating from the bull-horned Hollow.
After the bull-horned Hollow's neck was pierced by the arrow, the tumor inside its Hollow hole swelled rapidly.
The Spiritual Pressure inside the tumor was extremely unstable; it would probably turn into a massively powerful Spiritual Pressure bomb very soon.
However, after the Quincy girl pushed away the bull-horned Hollow biting her shoulder, the tumor swelled to a size even larger than the Hollow's original body.
She couldn't dodge it!
Isshin Shiba's expression changed slightly. He couldn't just leave this Quincy girl who had saved his life alone.
Fortunately, after the recovery from the Nōreitan, his Spiritual Pressure had recovered quite a bit.
Whoosh—
Isshin Shiba used Shunpo to get next to Masaki Kurosaki and tackled her to the ground.
"Bakudō #81. Dankū!"
In the next instant, the tumor on the bull-horned Hollow exploded suddenly.
Boom—!!!
A mushroom cloud rose in the dark night of Karakura Town.
In the air, Professor and Sōsuke Aizen quietly watched the mushroom cloud rising in Karakura Town.
"It seems White's development progress was a bit overdone!" Professor scratched his face.
After White was born, it was basically raised by him.
To avoid White's strength falling short of expectations, Professor was very generous with White's nurturing, later even using Menos Grande strengthened by the Hōgyoku as its fodder.
However, it seemed now that White's current strength had already exceeded the original version of White.
It was so strong that Isshin Shiba didn't dare to tackle White, choosing instead to tackle Masaki Kurosaki.
"The Hollow's Spiritual Pressure flowed into this Quincy's body..."
Sōsuke Aizen watched the changes below, detecting something neither of the two parties involved had noticed.
White seemed to have detonated its Spiritual Pressure, becoming a dangerous Spiritual Pressure bomb.
But in reality, after being pierced through the neck by the Quincy, it transferred a part of its Spiritual Pressure into the Quincy's body through the wound it just bit.
The explosion happening right now was actually the explosion of the unstable residual Spiritual Pressure after White lost its core.
"Is this its will to survive?"
Sōsuke Aizen seemed to have guessed some of White's thoughts.
White was a Hollowfied creature created from dead Shinigami. Excluding the strength factor, its current state was inferior even to ordinary Hollows; it wasn't truly alive. Its consciousness was extremely chaotic, possessing only survival instincts and hunting instincts.
Therefore, in Sōsuke Aizen's view, White transferring the power containing its will into the Quincy's body was likely driven by its survival instinct.
As the firelight dissipated, the 'Dankū' hastily released by Isshin Shiba had been shattered by the explosion.
Isshin Shiba had fainted from the shock of the explosion.
"Are you okay?"
"Such heavy injuries!"
Seeing the scorched blackness on Isshin Shiba's back, Masaki Kurosaki couldn't help but cry out repeatedly.
"He fainted... What should I do!"
Masaki Kurosaki gritted her teeth and actually carried Isshin Shiba up.
There was medicine for treating spirit body injuries at home, so she decided to carry Isshin Shiba home for treatment.
"Is she taking him home..."
The direction of events had deviated slightly. If Professor weren't already trying to set up Isshin Shiba and Masaki Kurosaki, a drama of beating up the interloper might have unfolded.
A moment later, Masaki Kurosaki brought Isshin Shiba to the Kurosaki Clinic.
"What should I do... Stop the bleeding first? No... this is a burn wound..."
Masaki Kurosaki muttered while recalling how to treat such injuries.
She had mastered Blut Vene since childhood and had rarely been injured, but growing up in a hospital environment, she had learned by osmosis. Although a Shinigami's spirit body was somewhat different from a human's physical body of Kishi, the basic principles of treating injuries were still similar.
Masaki Kurosaki went upstairs and took some medicine used by Quincies from the pharmacy.
"Hiss—it hurts..."
"You're awake?"
Coming down with the medicine kit, Masaki Kurosaki saw that Isshin Shiba had already woken up.
"How embarrassing. As a Captain, I was actually saved by a girl..."
"Not at all, I'm the one who was saved... If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have suffered such serious injuries..."
"Hahaha, then we're even!" Isshin Shiba laughed a few times, then pulled at the wound on his back. "Hiss—!"
"I'll help you treat it, don't move!"
Masaki Kurosaki took out medicine from the kit and began applying it to Isshin Shiba.
"I thought applying the medicine would hurt, but it feels cool and refreshing!"
Isshin Shiba was ready for the pain, but unexpectedly, when the medicine was applied, it didn't hurt and even felt quite comfortable.
"Of course, this is a secret Quincy medicine..."
Masaki Kurosaki paused slightly after speaking. Only then did she remember that this person was a Shinigami, and she was a Quincy.
Although the number of Quincies had been relatively scarce in recent years and conflicts with Shinigami were rare—and this was Masaki Kurosaki's first time communicating with a Shinigami—Shinigami and Quincies were still in a hostile relationship.
"Is it a secret Quincy medicine? No wonder it's so amazing!"
"I'm really lucky this time to have met a kind-hearted Quincy, otherwise I would have been in trouble!"
The smile on Isshin Shiba's face was sunny, infecting Masaki Kurosaki with his mood and causing her to let go of some of her reservations.
"Don't move, I'm not done applying it yet!"
On the other side, Professor and Sōsuke Aizen also arrived at the clinic.
Professor found Isshin Shiba's Reishi space pocket from his tattered Captain's haori.
Isshin Shiba's Denreishinki must have fallen outside, and the spiked wine should also be swapped out to avoid him discovering any flaws.
...
Two days later.
Isshin Shiba lay on his stomach in the hospital bed for a whole day. By the third day, his injuries were mostly healed.
"No abnormalities in Karakura Town today. No further Spiritual Pressure fluctuations of Menos were found..."
Masaki Kurosaki went to pick up the Denreishinki Isshin Shiba dropped outside today, so he used it to report the encounter with the abnormally strong Menos.
However, considering the relationship between Shinigami and Quincies, and unsure of other Shinigami's attitudes towards Quincies, he chose to conceal Masaki Kurosaki's existence.
"Finally I can get out of bed. The Quincy secret medicine is really amazing; such heavy injuries healed in a day!"
After reporting the intelligence, Isshin Shiba felt a bit hungry.
But thinking of the indescribable food Masaki Kurosaki made for him yesterday, he couldn't help but shiver and decided to get out of bed to make something to eat.
Isshin Shiba arrived at the kitchen on the second floor, only to see Masaki Kurosaki lying on the ground.
"Miss Masaki! What happened to you!"
Isshin Shiba hurriedly stepped forward, only to see a pitch-black hole below Masaki Kurosaki's neck.
"Is this... a Hollow hole?!"
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