While Chika Shihōin was chatting enthusiastically with Yoruichi on one side, Kisuke Urahara was getting beaten black and blue on the other.
In only a short while, several more wounds had appeared on Entetsu Kumoi's body.
It was not that Urahara was absurdly strong.
It was simply that the bastard was too damn slippery!
Every now and then, he would hit Entetsu with Kidō, or pull out some strange invention to disrupt his attacks.
As a first-generation captain, Entetsu relied on refined Zankensoki and high-density reiatsu. Against this sort of scheming, tricky fighting style, he found himself deeply irritated.
The longer Entetsu fought, the more frustrated he became.
Suddenly, he noticed an opening in Urahara's movements and immediately charged in.
However, this was an opening Urahara had deliberately shown him.
The figure Entetsu struck with his mace suddenly swelled up, then exploded, blasting him until his face was covered in soot.
Urahara's figure appeared far away, smiling smugly.
"This is my newly invented special portable gigai. It contains the user's reiatsu, so it works just like a clone. Ordinary people can't tell the difference at all. Oh, and it explodes too."
Entetsu's face was pitch-black, and even his glasses had been blown apart.
At that moment, his composure as a senior could no longer hold.
He roared furiously, "Kisuke, you idiot! Idiot! If I don't beat you half to death today, I'll take your damn surname!"
Urahara, however, did not care at all.
He smiled and said, "Victory in battle requires using every method available. This doesn't really count as anything unfair."
As he spoke, he prepared to attack again.
Then Entetsu's reiatsu erupted with a thunderous surge, and a powerful pressure instantly spread across the battlefield.
Urahara, who had still looked relaxed a moment ago, could no longer smile.
Reiatsu at this level was not something his current self could withstand.
His legs buckled, and he was pressed straight down onto the ground.
He struggled to crawl back up, but several attempts ended in failure.
Entetsu walked toward Urahara step by step, and each step seemed to make the ground tremble.
Urahara's face turned pale, large beads of sweat sliding down his forehead.
"Kid, you've pissed me off."
Entetsu put away the short mace in his hand, grabbed Urahara, and lifted him up. Then he began punching him in the face, one blow after another.
After only a few punches, Urahara's face had already become bruised and swollen.
"I'll teach you to play tactics! I'll teach you to show off your inventions!"
He kept beating him while cursing.
Even after being beaten until his face looked like a pig's head, Kisuke was still mumbling something under his breath, as if saying that they had clearly agreed this was only a test of strength, and tactics and inventions were also part of strength, so why couldn't he use them?
And wasn't using overwhelming reiatsu to bully people just because Entetsu couldn't handle his tricks a bit too much?
After beating him viciously, Entetsu finally felt much better.
He had originally planned to keep going, but Kazuma sent a retreat signal.
Seeing the signal, Entetsu did not waste time. He tossed Urahara onto the ground.
"Kid, next time I see you, I'll beat you again!"
Then, with a Shunpo, he rushed back into the building to regroup with Kazuma and the others.
"Why are we leaving already? I haven't beaten him enough yet," Entetsu complained.
Kazuma spread his hands.
"Isn't it because that idiot Kensei used Bankai without caring about anything? Then you unleashed your reiatsu just now too. Soul Society has definitely noticed by now."
"If this continues, it'll be troublesome once Soul Society sends people over. Everyone here is carrying the title of Soul Society traitor—except for you guys, of course."
Chigiri Shijima became worried about Chika.
"What about Chika?"
"I can sense his reiatsu. We'll go find him and leave right away."
Kazuma led the captains toward the direction where Chika and Yoruichi were.
Urahara's group also supported one another and quickly left the scene.
Aside from broken walls and ruins, nothing remained.
...
Before long, the covert Shinigami stationed in the World of the Living arrived at the location, but they found absolutely nothing.
When Kazuma and the others found Chika Shihōin, he was still happily chatting away with Yoruichi.
Seeing Kazuma, Rukia, and a group of unfamiliar faces suddenly appear, Yoruichi merely froze for a moment. She had already learned everything that had happened recently from her ancestor.
Kazuma called out to Chika, preparing to leave.
"Tanned Guy! We're leaving. Let's settle down first, then talk."
"Ancestor.... then I'll head back first."
Yoruichi was just about to leave when Chika stopped her.
"Leave? Where do you think you're going? I already told you so many things, and you still think you can just walk away?"
If a cat's face could show expressions, Yoruichi's current look would definitely have been hilarious.
At this point, aside from Rukia, there was not a single person present she could beat.
It seemed she really was doomed today!
Chika grabbed her and lifted her up, completely ignoring whether she agreed or not.
Just like that, he carried her away together with the others, heading toward Kazuma's secret base in Karakura Town.
...
Knock, knock, knock.
The sound of knocking rang out.
Batsu'unsai guessed that Kazuma had probably returned and hurried over to open the door.
"You're back?"
Batsu'unsai looked at the large group of people behind Kazuma and was visibly stunned.
"What? It's been too long, so you don't recognize them anymore?" Kazuma teased, looking at Batsu'unsai's shocked expression.
"Batsu'unsai, long time no see."
What followed was a greeting spoken almost in unison.
"Long time no see! Everyone, come in quickly!"
Batsu'unsai welcomed everyone into the house.
"Saitō, come out and meet some of our old friends."
After Kazuma shouted toward the inner room, he began arranging seats for everyone to rest.
Saitō and Hiyori, who had been inside, also came to the living room after hearing the noise.
The small living room was now packed with people.
"Dear, looks like we need to find a bigger house. Otherwise, what are we supposed to do with this many people?"
Kazuma had never felt the room was small before, but now he understood it deeply.
"How did you all…"
Saitō perfectly served as Batsu'unsai's mouthpiece and asked the question she had not managed to ask earlier.
"This brat Kazuma fished us out of Hell! I guess this counts as a different kind of resurrection now," Chika Shihōin said simply.
He made "fishing people out of Hell" sound easy, but the difficulty behind it was obvious.
Kazuma looked at everyone with great interest.
Among the first-generation captains here, they were only missing Old Man Yama and Yachiru.
Otherwise, the whole group would practically be complete.
He could not help recalling the days when they had once drunk and laughed together in Seireitei.
At that moment, Chigiri Shijima made faces at Rukia.
"Rukia, didn't you want to know who your teacher's wife was? Well, there she is. What do you think?"
Chigiri's words made Rukia's face turn bright red, and for a moment, she did not know what to say.
Saitō came to Rukia's defense.
"Haha… Shijima, is that any way to tease a junior?"
At that moment, Batsu'unsai suddenly noticed Chika holding a black cat.
"Chika, when did you start liking cats?"
"Hahahaha…"
The group burst into laughter again.
Kazuma hurriedly smoothed things over.
"Dear, that cat is Yoruichi!"
Batsu'unsai had not noticed this at all.
"Ah! How did you end up bringing Yoruichi here too?"
"You'll have to ask Tanned Guy about that." Kazuma pointed at Chika.
"I told her everything. How could I possibly let her go back after that? Of course I have to keep her by my side. Besides, Yoruichi really likes being with me."
After saying that, Chika looked at Yoruichi with a faint, eerie gaze.
"…Yes. I do quite like staying with my Ancestor."
After a long silence, Yoruichi forced out those words against her true feelings.
Everyone burst into laughter once more.
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