Karakura Town, inside the delivery room of a certain hospital.
A swaddled infant slowly opened his eyes, then looked around excitedly.
"Have I... have I been reincarnated?"
He remembered working overtime at his company, writing code, when his computer suddenly had an electrical leak. He felt his body tremble, and then he lost consciousness.
"Hahaha, I never thought I'd get a second chance. This time, I'm not going to be a programmer. I'm going to start a business, I'm going to be a tycoon..."
The baby in the swaddling clothes excitedly waved his small hands, imagining a beautiful future.
Just then, he suddenly noticed a virtual interface appear before his eyes, visible only to him, with black text constantly scrolling across it.
[Kyōkai: Unlimited Stat Points]
[Currently available attribute points: 100]
[Spiritual Power: 1]
[Strength: 1]
[Speed: 1]
[Recovery: 1]
[Vision: 1]
[Hearing: 1]
[...]
"Isn't this the game program I was in charge of in my past life!?"
The infant stared in pleasant surprise at the virtual screen before him.
In his previous life, he was responsible for programming a mobile game called Kyōkai, handling things like character leveling, attribute enhancements, skill upgrades, and so on.
He never expected that after being electrocuted, he would not only be reincarnated but also bring this program with him.
"There's even a 'Spiritual Power' attribute on the interface. Does this mean it doesn't want me to be a tycoon, but a modern-day immortal king?"
The infant was exceptionally excited and, without hesitation, said to the system:
"Add points to Spiritual Power for me. Put everything into Spiritual Power!!!"
"..."
Fifteen years passed in a flash.
Karakura Town.
Near Karakura First High School.
The infant from back then had now grown into a handsome young man, one meter seventy tall, with short, black, tousled hair, dressed in a school uniform.
But at this moment, he was covered in a cold sweat, sprinting forward while saying to Ichigo Kurosaki beside him:
"Ichigo, you have to believe me. As long as we stick together, we can overcome any danger."
The corner of Ichigo Kurosaki's mouth twitched. He glanced back over his shoulder and said, drenched in a cold sweat:
"Ye Yun, are you sure we can overcome any danger?"
Behind the two of them, deafening roars echoed continuously.
A closer look revealed a monster, three meters tall with greyish-black skin, a gaping hole in its chest, and wearing a ghastly white mask.
Due to the monster's massive size, every step it took left a huge footprint on the ground.
The power lines in the air were snapped by its body with a crackling sound, emitting a shower of sparks.
But even so, it didn't stop. Instead, it stared greedily at the two figures ahead, letting out ear-piercing shrieks.
Ye Yun swallowed hard and said:
"Of course. This isn't the first time we've been through something like this. Have we ever not survived?"
"Crap, that doesn't sound like something to be proud of," Ichigo couldn't help but curse.
"Stop with the nonsense, turn!"
As Ye Yun shouted, the two screeched to a halt and veered into a small alley.
The ferocious monster behind them couldn't turn in time and, with a loud crash, smashed a large hole in the wall in front of it, continuing its pursuit as if nothing had happened.
"Damn it! Is anyone going to save us? Isshin Kurosaki, Kisuke Urahara, Tessai Tsukabishi, Yoruichi Shihouin, Shinji Hirako..."
Ye Yun felt the urge to curse his mother.
The huge Hollow behind them had definitely devoured seven or eight of its own kind; it was not an opponent he could handle at all.
Just as the two were running for their lives, a silver glint suddenly flashed across the sky.
Swish!
The狰狞-looking Hollow abruptly stopped in its tracks. A pure white crack appeared, running from its ghastly white mask down to its groin.
With two loud thuds, the huge Hollow fell heavily to the ground, having been split in two by some unknown power.
Hearing the sound, the two finally stopped running. Seeing the scene behind them, they couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief and wipe away their cold sweat.
"It's finally over!"
"But what in the world is going on?"
Ichigo Kurosaki was completely bewildered and couldn't help but look at Ye Yun. "Why do these monsters always die for no reason just as they're about to catch us?"
For a full five years, he had encountered these kinds of monsters almost every other day.
Not only were they huge and hideous, but their strength and defense were also terrifying, like demons from legend.
But the ridiculous part was, these monsters always died the second before they could catch them, as if someone was protecting them.
It must be Isshin Kurosaki... Ye Yun thought to himself as he watched the Hollow's body gradually disappear.
Over the past few years, a total of over a hundred large Hollows had been slain by this person. The only one he could think of was Ichigo's goofy old father.
As he thought this, Ye Yun looked at the Kyōkai system he had brought with him from his reincarnation.
Having absorbed the spiritual power from the large Hollow's corpse, the attribute points on the system interface had increased by another hundred. Adding the passively absorbed spiritual power from today, his attribute points had reached over two hundred.
[Kyōkai: Unlimited Stat Points]
[Currently available attribute points: 200+]
[Spiritual Power: 28,000]
[Strength: 4,100]
[Speed: 560]
[Recovery: 12]
[Vision: 12]
[Hearing: 12]
[...]
Looking at the familiar interface of the Kyōkai system, Ye Yun was reminded of his tragic past.
When he first reincarnated, he thought adding points to Spiritual Power would enhance his cultivation aptitude, so he always added his attribute points to it.
This led to him possessing an astonishing twenty thousand points of Spiritual Power at the tender age of ten.
He thought he was about to embark on a journey of cultivation, but then, by chance, he had a "meet-cute" with a large Hollow around a corner at dusk.
At that moment, as he stared at the Hollow's hideous mask, his mind went completely numb.
It was only then that he realized he hadn't reincarnated into a cultivation world, but into the world of Bleach, the source material for the Kyōkai mobile game.
So what was the point of him increasing his spiritual power so much?
A Shinigami might get stronger by increasing their spiritual power, but for a human to increase it... was he trying to make himself taste better?
That day, he was chased by the large Hollow for twelve hours and nearly died from exhaustion several times.
For the next few days, he encountered large Hollows coming to give him their "love" almost every day, forcing him to become a parkour master in Karakura Town.
After countless near-death escapes, he discovered that only by increasing his Spiritual Power and Strength could he inflict even a tiny bit of damage on the Hollows. So, he had no choice but to continue enhancing his Spiritual Power and Strength.
But this created a vicious cycle.
The stronger his spiritual power, the stronger the Hollows it attracted. To stay alive, he could only continue to strengthen his spiritual power, which in turn attracted even stronger Hollows.
He lived like this for a full six months until he found the Kurosaki Clinic.
After paying a hefty price, he successfully became a boarder at the Kurosaki Clinic, finally managing to avoid nightly private meetings with Hollows.
Thinking back on his history of blood and tears, Ye Yun gritted his teeth as he looked at the system interface:
"Kyōkai, add the points!!!"
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