The country of lightning (2)

''speak''

'Thought'

[Zanpakuto speech from the inner world]

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After running for 10 minutes, Karmine and Yachiru stumble upon a small village, causing them to slow down and start to look around the area.

When people see Karmine, they seem to whisper toward each other, and some start to go back inside their houses.

''What a warm welcome.'' Karmine mutter

''Oi Yachiru,'' Karmine said, looking toward Yachiru, who is still hanging from his shoulder.

''Yes, K-chan?''

''Can you go and ask this villager where we at right now? There is no way they will talk to me because they are avoiding me.'' Karmine ask

''That what's I do,'' Yachiru answered before using shunpo disappearing from Karmine shoulder.

After a few seconds, Karmine can hear-

''AHHHHHHH''

-scream from inside one of the houses.

'What the hell did she do? No, in fact, how the hell did she get in there without breaking anything?' Karmine thought

[Do not underestimate her master. Her stealth is so impressive that she can probably sneak up to everyone except a few people. In fact, my previous master had been one of her prank victims because of her stealth skill.] The voice of the mask zanpakuto echo in his head

Karmine is dumbfounded after hearing the mask zanpakuto, and he cannot just believe some like Yachiru actually know how to stealth.

After a couple of minutes, Yachiru finally returned with a shunpo.

''Your back, what did you learn?'' Karmine ask

''Well, this place is called Konta village, and we are a country call Inazuma, but that is all I learn from them,'' Yachiru said cheerfully before jumping back on Karmine shoulder.

''What do you mean that is all you learn? What happened to people in the house?'' Karmine asks while starting walking again.

''Well, they fainted.'' Yachiru answer

''What the hell do you mean they fainted? What did you do!?'' Karmine asks in disbelief.

''Well, when I get inside, I said, I want to ask some questions, but they start streaming. So I said, if they don't stop screaming, I will cut them down, then they stop and start answering my questions, but I can only ask them 2 questions before all of them faint.'' Yachiru said matter of factly.

''Hold up!! You said you were gonna cut them down!? Are you serious?'' Karmine said, looking toward Yachiru, who just looked back at him with a smile.

''Of course not!!'' Yachiru answered with a pout ''Also; I found this!!''

Yachiru then proceeds to pull a piece of paper out of nowhere before opening it in front of Kamrine face, causing him to stop walking.

When Karmine looked at the paper, he was surprised because of a map in front of him. And on the map are words that seem to be the name of different locations.

''See this K-chan, now we will know where are we going!!'' Yachiru said

''That's good'' Karmine answer

''But I cannot read it though, K-chan.''

''That's bad.''

''But don't worry, K-chan!! I'm pretty sure some other zanpakuto spirits can probably read it!!''

''That's good.''

[None of us can read it, master] The mask zanpakuto voice rang out

''That's bad,'' Karmine said before realising something

''Wait, what do you mean, you can't read it? These letters clearly look Japanese!!''

[The letter looks Japanese master, but the order they wrote is weird, and there are even some letters we have never seen before] The mask zanpakuto answer.

''Damn, I guess we will playing the guessing game then,'' Karmine said before looking at the map intensely

Karmine can see that he can make up where he is right now by looking at the picture. He can also see a very big city on the map, which he assumes is the place that he is going t right now, so when he keeps looking, he can speculate where the Konta village is and where it is right now.

''Well, at least the map is well drawn.'' Karmine said before start running again, and Yachiru put the map back somewhere?

Finally, Karmine and Yachiru arrive at the city that they saw, and the first thing they see is the big sakura, and near it seems to be stairs that seem to lead up toward the main part of the city.

''Yachiru, why don't we spread up? You go around and explore the city. Also, please don't cause trouble.'' Karmine said

''Hehehe, ok!!'' Yachiru said before using shunpo disappearing again.

[That is clearly a red flag, master. There is no way she will not cause trouble] A female voice rang out. This time it sounds like a more mature version of Yachiru.

'It's fine', Karmine thought while walking. 'Also, who are you? Her sister? Considering your voice is very similar to her, you are like her sister, right?'

[You could say that] The voice answer before going quiet again.

While Karmine was walking around, he noticed that people seemed to start to whisper and when he was near, they started to walk away, and some even ran away, but Karmine couldn't care less.

'Hm now, what should I do?' Karmine thought, 'I could try to find someplace to rest, but I have no money, I have no idea what this country is like, and people seem to avoid me like the plague, what the hell is going on?'

When he was walking up the stair leading to the main part of the city, 2 guards were guarding the main part of the stair, and they seemed to notice him. With eyes wide in fear, they used all the courage that they had to approach him.

''Halt!! You rebel scum!!'' One of the guards said before he turned to another guard, ''Quick go and report this to the Tenryu commission, look like the rebel send a scout toward here.''

'Rebel? Scout? What the hell is going on?'

[Look like there is some rebellion going on in this country, master. And they seem to mistake you as one of the rebels?] The mask zanpakuto voice rang out

'Yeah, but how? I mean, is it the way I dress? My face? Or is it because I carry a sword around? It's because of the sword, isn't it?' Karmine thought

Suddenly the sky turned very dark and, far away, the tall castle that stood in the deepest of the city, the castle that Karmine can see from a very far away got strike by lightning!!

Not once, Not twice, but thrice!!

Lightning starts to rain down on the beautiful castle, and everyone seems to panic and start to run in fear, including the guard.

Then just like the sudden lightning, a pink-haired child can be seen running toward Karmine with a huge smile on her face, while she also seems to be laughing simultaneously. Not only that, but she is also dodging lightings that come from the sky like child play.

''Of course, it's her. It has not even been more the five minutes.'' Karmine mutter while looking Yachiru who seem to be jumping from rooftop to rooftop doging the lighting.

[I told you so master.] The mature Yachiru voice rang out