Chapter 157: Destined Encounter

(T.L Note: About the less number of words, I omit many useless words which are used by the author purely for increasing the word count plus some of the explanations about nature and so on which will probably cost my hair if I try to translate them)

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It was an extremely quiet night with the star-dotted sky and the moon which sprinkled the moonlight on the earth.

Compared with the Karakura Town of the past, the current Karakura Town has become identical to the appearance of the modern city in Mazuru's memory.

On both sides of the road, there are street lights. At the top of the slender pole, bright lights illuminate the road for passing pedestrians.

Suddenly, a pitch-black butterfly flew by, and then there was a night wind that blew by gently. At some point in time, a figure wearing a Shihakushō with a long sword hanging from her waist appeared on a telegraph pole.

The girl has black hair, and the hairstyle is somewhat similar to that of an onion.

Her dark eyes looked at a small clinic called "Kurosaki Clinic" below.

The girl with black hair stood quietly and looked at the empty surroundings, and then whispered softly: "That strong reiatsu... it should be nearby."

The black-haired girl's voice was soft and her body looked very small and thin, but her dazzling eyes shone brightly against the moonlight, like flames in the dark.

After a while, a dark cloud floated in the sky, slowly covering the moon, and when the dark cloud dispersed, the figure on the telegraph pole had already disappeared.

*Tap*

*Tap*

*Tap*

On the streets not far from Kurosaki Clinic, there was a sudden sound of footsteps, and not long after that, an orange-haired boy hurried through the dark alleyway and came under the street lamp.

He was a slim boy about 15 years old, who because of his natural orange hair, was often misunderstood as a bad boy. But in fact, he is very kind. He even gets top grades in all subjects in school. An out-and-out top student.

"What was there just now?" The orange-haired boy suddenly stopped and looked back at the night sky.

Just now, he had a feeling, as if someone was watching him from the endless darkness.

'Tch, it must be some kind of ghost making trouble again.'

The orange-haired boy spat, thinking to himself.

He doesn't know when it started, but he found out that he could see ghosts. At first he was afraid, but later, as time went by, he gradually became used to it. At the same time, he also found that those ghosts are actually no different from living people and they are even more pitiful than living people.

Today, because he helped a girl who became a ghost, he came home late, and is still unsure if his incomprehensible father left him dinner or not.

The boy named Kurosaki Ichigo thought so, and then he returned home with his schoolbag on his back.

"I'm back." Ichigo said listlessly. He took off his shoes and entered the dining room.

"It's too slow." With a gust of wind, something suddenly hit Ichigo's chest, and Ichigo fell to the ground with a cry of pain.

"You kid, don't you already know that the daily dinner time is at seven o'clock in the evening?" A middle-aged man in a white coat land on the ground and asked loudly. It was this man who attacked him just now.

But judging from Ichigo's reaction, such a thing should not be surprising, after all, there was no surprise on Ichigo's face, and this man is Ichigo's father, Kurosaki Isshin.

Ichigo got up from the ground, and stood face to face with Isshin and started arguing endlessly, but although they seemed to be arguing, they didn't paid heed to each other's words at all. It seemed that they had become accustomed to it.

"Well, Ichigo nii-san, someone came back with you." At this moment, a little girl with black hair beside suddenly put down the rice bowl and said to Ichigo.

'Sure enough.' Ichigo saw a phantom of a man appearing beside him. After two glances, Ichigo sighed, and simply ignored him, because he could see ghosts, they deliberately go out of their way to pester him.

After all, after becoming a ghost, it is very lonely, and it is rare to meet a living person who can talk with them, so of course they don't want to let it go.

But because a ghost followed him to his house, Ichigo didn't even feel like eating.

He didn't respond to his younger sister Kurosaki Yuzu who called him to eat, and went back to his room on his own and laid down on his bed. The ghost that followed him just now hid somewhere, but Ichigo didn't thought much of it. Right now, he couldn't help thinking about what happened during the day.

During the day, when he was helping the ghost girl, he caught a glace of a ferocious monster figure and an onion-headed girl in black clothes.

It was also because of the fact that the monster was chasing the ghost girl that it took him some time to bring the ghost girl back to her original place, making him come home late.

"That monster, and that onion-head girl in black, what exactly are they..." 

Seeing ghosts since he was very young, Ichigo thought he was used to weird situations, but now he found out that he seems to have never really understood the real world.

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In the Soul Society.

Mazuru, Aizen, Gin, and Kaname gathered together.

Among the four people, there are three captains, and the remaining one is a vice-captain, but he also has captain-level strength.

"Thinking about it carefully, it's been a long time since the four of us got together like this."

Aizen glanced at the three people in front of him, and said lightly.

Normally, it would be Mazuru, Aizen, and Kaname, or Mazuru, Gin, and Aizen, or Aizen and Kaname.

It is really rare for all four of them gather together at the same time.

"Mr. Aizen summoned us all, probably not just to reminisce about the old days, right?" Mazuru glanced at Aizen and said lightly.

Aizen smiled mysteriously and responded, "I want to show you guys something interesting."

Immediately, he brought Mazuru, Gin, and Kaname to the secret underground room of the Fifth Division.

Here, there was a special instrument, through which Aizen observes everything that interests him in the world of living, to be precise, everything in a city called Karakura Town.

Ever since he discovered that surprise that year, he has been observing everything in Karakura Town.

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