Thirteenth Division, reception room.
"Ito Fourth Seat? Are you sure you want to participate in the Human World Garrison mission? The Station mission is already full, and it's not time for rotation yet!"
Ozawa Renzaburo, who was responsible for issuing Station missions in the Thirteenth Division, looked at Ito Makoto, a glint flashing in his eyes. He knew that this was another person who was using the excuse of a Station mission to enjoy himself in the Human World.
"Please, Ozawa Squad Member, mainly because I heard there are many novel foods and comics in the Human World that Soul Society doesn't have..."
As Ito Makoto spoke, he pulled out the few spirit coins he had in his pocket and stuffed them all into Ozawa Renzaburo's hand.
The latter gave Ito Makoto a knowing look and quietly slipped the spirit coins into his sleeve.
"Ito Makoto Fourth Seat, I just suddenly remembered that it seems the Garrison Shinigami in one area just came to change shifts yesterday, and I was just about to reassign Shinigami to go there!"
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Human World, Yuhua Town.
A white light flashed, and a beautifully designed sliding door suddenly appeared in the air. As the door slowly opened, Ito Makoto slowly walked out.
Looking at the modern city below, Ito Makoto sighed helplessly.
Ito Makoto had spent his remaining spirit coins and finally exchanged them for a three-month Garrison mission from the Thirteenth Division.
"This place is actually a modern society!"
Although it wasn't the first time Ito Makoto had seen the Human World, he was still surprised. After all, it should still be nearly a hundred years before the original plot begins, and he didn't expect the Human World to already be filled with towering buildings and a modern atmosphere.
Although it was late at night in the Human World, it was still bustling with lights and traffic. Feeling the hustle and bustle of the city and the constant honking of cars, he felt a sense of d jà vu, as if he had returned to his previous life!
"Roar!"
Suddenly, a roar interrupted Ito Makoto's thoughts.
"A Hollow is here?"
Ito Makoto followed the sound and arrived at a parking lot a few kilometers away. A powerful Hollow, shaped like a cockroach, was perched on a bus, staring at a terrified little boy below, drooling all over the ground.
"Help... ah!"
Watching the monster constantly approaching him, the little boy let out a desperate cry.
"Bang!"
The cockroach Hollow's six legs heavily stepped on the roof of the bus, then it leaped high, directly crushing the bus's roof.
Dark yellow saliva flowed all over the ground as the cockroach Hollow raised its large claw, intending to tear the little boy in front of it to shreds.
"Hado Number Four—White Lightning!"
A White Lightning bolt, as thick as a thumb, suddenly appeared and directly pierced through the Hollow's forehead.
Just as Ito Makoto finished off this powerful Hollow and was about to leave, a childish voice came from behind him.
"Thank you... for saving me!"
Hearing this, Ito Makoto turned his head and looked at the snot-nosed, dirty little boy in front of him with some disbelief.
"You can see me?"
He was surprised at first, but quickly recovered. Calming down, he carefully sensed the little boy's spiritual pressure and was surprised to find that the little boy's spiritual pressure level had actually reached Eight-Grade Spiritual Power, which was comparable to that of a regular Gotei 13.
"No wonder it attracted a powerful Hollow..."
One must know that this was the Human World, where spiritual particles were scarce, so it was rare to have someone born with Eight-Grade Spiritual Power.
It was much rarer for an Eight-Grade Spiritual Power human to appear in the Human World than for a Seven-Grade Spiritual Power soul to appear in Soul Society.
"Sigh, what a hassle!"
Ito Makoto helplessly rubbed the back of his head, pulled out the memory conversion device Ozawa Renzaburo had given him from his In arms, and just used it on the little boy's face.
"Bang!"
After a muffled sound, a puff of black smoke emerged from the memory converter.
As a result, the little boy in front of him still stood there calmly.
"Hey, seriously, shouldn't you be unconscious by now?"
Ito Makoto looked at the memory converter in his hand, feeling quite speechless.
"Is this Technological Development Bureau even competent?!"
Ginjō Kūgo looked at the strange man in strange clothes who had saved his life. Although he didn't understand why the other party wanted him to faint, he still obediently fell to the ground and pretended to be unconscious, after all, the other party was his savior.
Seeing this scene, Ito Makoto's mouth twitched helplessly.
"Kid... I didn't tell you to pretend to faint!"
The little boy's series of actions made Ito Makoto's face darken. He then spread his hands and turned to leave.
"Forget it, if you remember, then you remember!"
Just as Ito Makoto was about to leave, the little boy's timid voice came from behind him again:
"Big brother, thank you for saving me. My name is Ginjō Kūgo, may I ask your name...?"
He had already been about to step out with a Shunpo, but he stopped himself.
He turned his head with a somewhat surprised expression and looked at the little boy in front of him.
"Say it again, what's your name?"
Ginjō Kūgo looked up at the strange man who was looking at him with a strange expression, and timidly said:
"Um... my name is Ginjō Kūgo..."
After some conversation, he learned that Ginjō Kūgo was seven years old this year. Not long after he was born, there was a gas explosion at home, and both his parents died. He was sent to the Yuhua Orphanage and grew up there.
Because he often said he could see monsters, the other children in the orphanage didn't like to play with him much. And people who got close to him would always get inexplicably injured. Therefore, even the caregivers at the orphanage didn't like him much, so he secretly ran out during dinner when everyone was in the dining hall.
He originally wanted to wander alone, but he hadn't even gone two miles before he was targeted by that cockroach Hollow, which was why he ran into the parking lot alone.
"I didn't expect Ginjō Kūgo to be born a hundred years before the plot began?"
Then he thought about it again. A soul with only one Shinigami power can live for hundreds or thousands of years without a problem. It doesn't seem difficult for Ginjō Kūgo, who possesses Hollow power, Shinigami power, and Fullbring, to live for hundreds of years in the Human World, a place with scarce spiritual particles.
At this moment, Ito Makoto was 100% certain that the Ginjō Kūgo in front of him was precisely the first Soul Reaper Agent who had taken Kurosaki ichigo's Fullbring power in the Fullbring arc.
This was one of the three major Soul King Candidates in the original work!
In the original work, his combat record seemed to be poor, but in reality, his opponent was too strong, because Kurosaki ichigo, at the time of his battle with him, could already be selected by Yhwach as one of the five major special war powers.
Moreover, this was the only existence in the original work that made Kurosaki ichigo 'cry'.
Therefore, Ginjō Kūgo was definitely an existence severely underestimated in the original work.
"If I can bring him under my command, he will definitely become a great help to me in the future!"
Thinking of this, Ito Makoto's expression towards the little boy in front of him instantly became much kinder.
It's just that his childhood was truly tragic, no wonder he grew up so gloomy.
As for the true cause of his parents' deaths, Ito Makoto estimated that they most likely died from a Hollow attack, after all, the so-called Fullbringer are actually carriers of spirit king fragment, which are truly great tonics for the low-level Hollows wandering in the Human World.
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