"I think... the instrument might be malfunctioning. I'll take it to be repaired."
Kisuke Urahara stood up, intending to leave.
Sora placed a hand on his shoulder and said with a smile:
"No, your instrument is not malfunctioning."
Urahara's face was filled with disbelief, his mouth agape wide enough to fit an egg.
"You're a Reigai?!!"
"That's right. This body of mine is a Reigai."
Urahara felt the pressure on his shoulder and tried to shake it off, but he couldn't break free.
"Don't panic. What's there to panic about?" Sora patted his shoulder, signaling him to calm down.
"I'm not panicking..." Urahara's right hand quietly moved to the hilt of his Zanpakutō.
"You can't beat me anyway, so what's the point of these little moves..." Sora glanced at Urahara's right hand.
"I think I can hold out until the captain gets here..."
Urahara's thoughts were in chaos. Several questions flashed through his mind.
How could this Katori Sora be a Reigai?
He clearly had captain-level spiritual pressure!
Had Katori Sora been replaced by a Reigai, or was he one from the very beginning?
After a few moments, he sorted through his thoughts and calmed down.
"To possess a Reigai body and still be able to grow to the captain-level... it's truly incredible, Lord Katori."
Urahara felt that this Katori Sora was the same one he knew.
Otherwise, he certainly wouldn't have agreed to be tested by his instrument.
"Miss Kirio also knows about this..." Sora told Urahara about Batsu'unsai Katori's spiritual pressure core cultivation plan, but he did not mention the Royal Guard or the Soul King's Shadow.
"I see. Reigai technology is well worth investigating... it's practically a miracle," Urahara said, his eyes filled with curiosity as he looked at Sora.
To allow him to develop the reishi detection instrument, Kirio had granted him permission to view the sealed data on Reigai technology.
Therefore, Urahara also had some understanding of it.
According to his knowledge, the Reigai produced by the 12th Division's technology had two flaws—incomplete minds and the inability for their spiritual pressure to grow naturally.
But Katori Sora had broken both these rules. He had a sound mind, and his strength had grown to the captain-level.
Sora smiled faintly. "It was just a series of coincidences... Miss Kirio has also said it cannot be replicated."
"That's a real pity. However, the unknown faction that's secretly making Reigai has also upgraded their technology. They've solved the problem of the Reigai's mind."
Urahara thought of the 'Hiyosu' that had been lurking in Kirio's lab. He continued, "Based on my observations, they can collect the spiritual pressure of the original and create a Reigai with a considerable level of power."
"That 'Hiyosu' Reigai's spiritual pressure was no weaker than an ordinary Shinigami's. Whether it can release a Zanpakutō like a Shinigami, I don't know."
"These guys hiding in the shadows have a high level of technology... it's not something that can be achieved in a short time..." Sora stroked his chin and suddenly thought of a possibility. "Could it be that the Reigai you found in the Rukongai were actually their previous experimental subjects?"
Urahara quickly understood Sora's idea and frowned.
"It's not impossible..."
"If they started using the souls of the Rukongai for Reigai experiments long ago..."
"The number of souls in the Rukongai is vast, providing them with an almost endless supply of experimental material..."
"In that case, their Reigai technology could have iterated very quickly..."
Urahara felt he was getting close to the truth, but his face soon fell. "Thinking about this doesn't change the reality that we need to screen out the Reigai mixed into the Rukongai. These guys were previously trying to replace Shinigami to secretly control the Gotei 13, and even Captain Takezuna was killed because of it. We can't just ignore the Reigai in the Rukongai, or they will always be an unknown threat."
Urahara's head throbbed just thinking about the terrifying workload.
"With so many souls to check, we need a more efficient instrument," Sora said, picking up the reishi detector. "I'll be taking this with me for now."
After Sora left, Urahara breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took out his Denreishinki to contact Kirio.
He had a cautious personality and wouldn't believe Sora's side of the story alone. He needed to verify it from multiple sources.
"Captain! There's a major problem! The barracks hall has been invaded by a Reigai!"
"What?! Stall for time! I'm on my way!"
"The intruder is Katori Sora."
"..."
"My reishi detection instrument has found a similarity of over 90% between Katori Sora's and Batsu'unsai Katori's reishi!"
...
After Sōsuke Aizen finished his daily training, he went to the laboratory alone.
As soon as he arrived, he felt something was wrong. The lab door was open, but he had closed it when he left yesterday.
The professor was out with the Head-Captain, and Rii Hoshino had been at the 4th Division for the past two days. Yet someone had come to the lab.
However, the person inside seemed to have sensed Aizen's arrival and released a familiar spiritual pressure fluctuation.
Aizen walked into the lab and was very surprised. "Professor, you're back?"
"Something came up that I had to deal with temporarily," Sora said, pointing to the reishi detector on the table. "This is a reishi inspection instrument. It can be used to distinguish Reigai."
"However, its data collection efficiency is a bit low and needs to be optimized."
Aizen flipped through the manuscript on the table. "It's a bit complicated. Is this matter very urgent? I'm currently trying to create a Reigai from the remains of the ancient Menos the professor brought back."
Their Hollowfied Reigai experiments had hit a bottleneck in recent years. The power of a Hollow was too great and highly aggressive, while the Reigai they created were too weak and simply couldn't withstand the corrosion of Hollowfication.
Now, they were planning to change their approach.
First, create a Hollow's Reigai, then supply it with a Shinigami's spiritual pressure.
Shinigami spiritual pressure was relatively calm and not as corrosive. Perhaps through this method, they could create a product that combined the powers of both.
Sora said, "This research topic has a very high priority. We must deal with this problem first."
Then, Sora revealed his true purpose for taking on this task. "This instrument has recorded the reishi data of the Shinigami of the Gotei 13 and the nobles of the Seireitei. First, let's extract this data."
Sora wanted the reishi data that Urahara had collected. That's why he had Urahara demonstrate the instrument's use on the spot.
If the instrument hadn't contained the data, he would have asked for a copy of the collected reishi data under the pretext of optimizing the detector's function.
However, since the instrument already had the data, it saved him the trouble of asking for it.
Sora needed the reishi information data because of something he had received as a feedback reward before—Surveillance Bacteria.
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