"In the original timeline, who helped Ginjō Kūgo awaken his Shinigami powers, and who gave him this unique cross pendant, allowing him to use it as a medium to perform Fullbring?"
"Why is everything I do converging towards the original, predetermined plot?"
Ito Makoto instantly caught a whiff of a conspiracy.
"Could it be that the timeline can self-correct?"
"Is the world instinctively repairing itself because my existence interferes with its original development trajectory?"
"Or is there an invisible hand behind all of this, ensuring that these events unfold in the originally predetermined direction?"
"If there truly is human intervention, then among the Three Realms, the only one who could currently achieve this seems to be the one in the Soul King Palace, who has become a human stick..."
"The Soul King—Adonai!"
At this thought, Ito Makoto's hair instantly stood on end. If his hypothesis was true, it meant that everything he was experiencing now was premeditated and arranged in advance.
But the next moment, he calmed down. If it truly was as he imagined, then he was completely powerless to resist. The only thing he could do now was to quickly grow stronger, so strong that no one could scheme against or control him.
If there was any problem, he could simply cut it down with a single strike!
"I hope I'm overthinking it!"
Just like that, Ito Makoto quickly adjusted his mindset.
"Makoto-Nii, what's wrong?"
A tender voice suddenly sounded in his ear.
Ginjō Kūgo quickly noticed Ito Makoto's abnormality and asked with concern.
"Nothing, let's go back!"
...
Time flew by, and two months quickly passed. There were three days left until Ito Makoto completed his mission handover in the Human World.
"The Human World is truly comfortable!"
Ito Makoto lay on the small sofa in his rented room, a straw in his mouth, continuously sipping ice-cold happy water.
"Beep beep beep"
Suddenly, his phone, placed on the bedside, rang. He looked closer and saw that his alarm clock was ringing.
"It's already time!"
So, Ito Makoto directly flopped onto the bed. Immediately, Ito Makoto, dressed in his soul reaper uniform, burst out of his gigai, leaving only the seemingly sleeping gigai lying on the bed.
Ito Makoto headed straight for the unfinished building. He was going to give Ginjō Kūgo his final 'graduation' special training.
Since Ginjō Kūgo was just a seven-year-old child, he was under the supervision of the teachers and caregivers at the orphanage during the day. To avoid attracting attention, Ito Makoto specifically scheduled the special training for the middle of the night.
After everyone was sound asleep, he and Ginjō Kūgo's spirit bodies would go to the unfinished building for special training.
Before long, Ito Makoto skillfully arrived at the unfinished building, only to find that Ginjō Kūgo had not yet arrived.
"Strange, this kid is always here before me. What's wrong today?"
"Could he have fallen asleep?"
Just as Ito Makoto was wondering, he suddenly sensed a familiar spiritual pressure erupting somewhere in Yuhua Town.
"So that's it!"
Sensing the fluctuations of spiritual pressure ahead, Ito Makoto finally understood. He stepped out with a Shunpo and rushed towards it.
Above a one-story house in Yuhua Town, a powerful, snail-like Hollow was spitting corrosive acid at a freckle-faced girl, about twenty years old, below.
"Sizzle!"
The yellowish-green acid dripped onto the concrete wall, corroding a large pit!
"Help!"
Just as the girl shrieked, a small figure suddenly appeared in front of her. He pulled her with a Shunpo, narrowly dodging an acid attack.
The girl looked at the large pit on the ground where she had been standing, created by the acid, and was instantly filled with lingering fear!
"Tha..."
Just as the girl was about to say thanks, she suddenly realized that the small figure had already drawn the long sword from his back and was battling the snail Hollow in mid-air.
This small figure was naturally Ginjō Kūgo. He held his sword with both hands, directly using a Shunpo to rush close to the snail Hollow, and a horizontal slash directly cut off one of the snail's tentacles.
"Roar!"
The snail Hollow immediately roared in pain, opening its mouth and spitting a water arrow made of acid towards Ginjō Kūgo. Ginjō Kūgo saw this and directly retreated using Shunpo. At the same time, he extended his tender palm and pointed forward.
"Hado Number Four—White Lightning!"
A finger-thick, pure White Lightning bolt directly collided with the acid water arrow.
"Bang!"
After a violent explosion, a black smoke suddenly rose. The scattered water arrow splashed everywhere, corroding the originally flat road into a bumpy mess, and a choking smoky smell simultaneously wafted.
And Little Ginjo's eyes were like knives, staring at the snail Hollow. He continuously stepped with Shunpo, directly getting close to its face, holding the Zanpakuto, which was almost as tall as him, with both hands and piercing through the mask on the snail Hollow's face, embedding it in its forehead.
"Roar!!!"
The snail Hollow let out an unwilling roar. It seemed that he had not expected to be killed by this child in front of him.
The rescued woman on the side looked at Ginjō Kūgo holding the sword, then timidly said:
"Um, thank you, little brother!"
At this, Ginjō Kūgo turned his head in surprise, looking at the young woman.
"Oh, sister, you can actually see me?"
So, Ginjō Kūgo directly took out the memory converter that Ito Makoto had given him and directly zapped her on the forehead.
"Huh?"
Amidst the young woman's cry of surprise, a puff of black smoke rose, and then the young woman directly fainted.
"Clap clap clap"
At the same time, a rapid round of applause sounded, and Ito Makoto slowly walked out from the alley behind.
"Well done, Little Ginjo!"
With Ito Makoto's Shunpo, he had naturally arrived much earlier. The reason he hadn't made a move was because he wanted to see how much Ginjō Kūgo had grown under his nearly two months of special training.
Practice proved that his special training was indeed very useful!
"Makoto-Nii, you're so sly! You arrived so early and didn't even come out to help!"
Ginjō Kūgo pouted and looked at the composed Ito Makoto with dissatisfaction.
Ito Makoto merely smiled faintly and ignored Ginjō Kūgo's complaint.
But the next moment, what happened utterly astonished Ito Makoto.
He saw Ginjō Kūgo rubbing his small hands, walking over to the unconscious young woman. With a squeeze of his hands, a glowing white light point was pulled out of the woman's body.
At the same time, Little Ginjo said to the young woman lying on the ground in a childish tone:
"Without this little light point, sister, you won't be targeted by Hollows anymore!"
Meanwhile, Ito Makoto, with a Shunpo, rushed to Ginjō Kūgo's front, taking the glowing white light point in his hand and examining it carefully.
"This is..."
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