
Kisuke awakens and sees the wooden ceiling, "Where am I?"
"You always wanted to say that, right?" A woman's voice sounded beside him.
Kisuke turned his head to the bottom right and saw Yoruichi using his arm as a pillow while naked with only a white blanket covering them both, "Yep.~" He then proceeded to give her a light peck on her lips.
Yoruichi tightened his embrace before he sat down and stretched his hand while the blanket slid through his delicate skin. He then went down to the bed and picked up his clothes to get dressed.
"How long have I been out?" Kisuke also sat down and went down to the bed. He went straight to the closet and opened it. Inside the closet were her usual clothes in large quantities. He got a set and started getting dressed.
"Now it's 6pm, so it's about 5 hours." Yoruichi wore the *********black and started working on a bra of the same design, "Help me hold my hair."
Kisuke, who was already wearing his Shihakushou stopped what he was doing and went behind him and did as he was told. Kisuke thought for a moment and asked, "You didn't do anything to me when I was cold, right?"
"Sufuku.~ I'm curious." Yoruichi finished putting on her bra and proceeded to put on her orange outfit while giving a seductive smile to Kisuke.
"So you didn't do anything" Kisuke replied. Based on Yoruichi's response, he was sure that Yoruichi had not done such a thing.
"Hmmph, you're not fun." Yoruichi snorted and finished putting on his clothes.
"You're wearing underwear now." Kisuke commented lightly while continuing to dress up.
"I have to get used to it now." Yoruichi chuckled.
"But you still have the same outfit from then on, don't you want to wear something different as the speed changes?" Kisuke wore his hat as a final touch to his clothes.
"Maybe I should do it next time. I didn't bring any other clothes." Yoruichi comes out of the room and Kisuke follows him. They were on the second floor of a log cabin in the southern part of a secret training ground in an exclusive room reserved only for the two of them.
They arrive at the living room of the cottage and Yoruichi walks directly to the kitchen area right beside him to prepare some snacks and tea.
"Let's go on a date next time to buy you clothes." Kisuke suddenly said behind him, which surprised him to stop what he wanted to do.
"Well, you plan on it." Yoruichi turned around and gave her a warm bright smile. He then went and picked up tea and snacks and placed them on the table in the living room.
"Understanding, but I don't think it's anytime soon because there are some things I need to prepare." Kisuke nodded and sat down to sip some warm tea.
"Because of what happened before." Yoruichi did the same and asked curiously. He is not angry that he will delay their date because they have all the time in the world they need. Instead, he thought that this kind of speed was right for him as it was not too busy like him and his past life and not too slow to just laze around.
"You're right. I think trouble will come looking for us no matter what we do." Kisuke smiled wryly, but thinking about it again, if he did not reincarnate together with Yoruichi in this strange and troublesome world, they might not be able to be together.
"What Kidou did you just use on that guy?" Yoruichi put down his teacup and took some cake to bite as he recalled the Grim Reaper who was shouting before he exploded.
"It's called 'Soul Search'." Kisuke began to explain, "This is a technique I developed these past few months. It uses mana flexibility to extend Reiatsu's use beyond its usual offensive, defensive, healing, binding, and tracking."
Kisuke sipped his tea before continuing, "Soul Search, in particular, is a technique that uses the incompatibility of Mana and Reiatsu by pumping both of them into the soul of the target. I used Mana to guide Reiatsu and make him wreak havoc within the soul. The soul body would then be destroyed quickly and use the Mana chance to read the information that came out as the soul body collapsed."
"What an evil and merciless technique you have there." Yoruichi interrupted Kisuke's explanation.
"Hahaha, I've told you before that it's not a good technique. Well, of course, there will be big losses. In addition it is only in the early stages of development, it poses a danger to the user if he is not strong enough, both mind and body, he said, because it will also wreak havoc on your body if it is not properly controlled and the information can sink you making you forget yourself completely." Kisuke chuckled at Yoruichi's words and continued.
"At a time like this you are very careless, even more so than Ichigo. You'll never change, yeah." Yoruichi looked at Kisuke's happy face and sighed.
"That's how I work." Kisuke shrugged his shoulders and continued explaining, "Even if everything is out of the soul, I cannot read and keep everything. Most of it was lost in the process so the information in my head ended up being crap most of the time. "
"Then? What did you get from that guy?" Yoruichi stops thinking about the absurd techniques he developed that could lead to his execution if they were in Seiretei.
"Hmm, let's see." Kisuke thought hard for a few minutes before he spoke again, "Only a few things seem to matter."
Yoruichi did not interrupt her this time and just waited for her to speak while biting her cake.
"First, I can confirm that he is indeed working for an Olympian God named Hades."
"God, yes. I was really skeptical about their true existence, it turns out that there are true Gods in this world."
"Well, the actual definitions exist so the possibility of them actually existing in this world is great, no need to be surprised."
"This makes it more complicated. In our world, we only have the Human World, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo."
"Have I explained to you how the world works?"
"Only basic information about the Human World, the Underworld, and the Dimensional Gap."
"Then before we continue, let's study for a while." Kisuke took out a fan and whiteboard measuring 4'by 6' and hurriedly drew a simple illustration.
Kisuke drew a large square that covered most of the blackboard, and inside were small bubbles of different sizes. Three bubbles are larger than the other and he writes something in them and connects the two bubbles on the side to the middle bubble with three lines.
The bubble on the left side is labeled as 'Underworld', the middle bubble is 'Human World' and the last of the three big bubbles on the left is 'Heaven'. Small bubbles are also labeled by several names. 'Nature of the Dead', 'Takamagahara', 'Asgard', and 'Olympus' are just a few names. Kisuke also drew a line between these tiny bubbles and the 'Human World'.
"Well, to explain all this," Kisuke pointed to the bubble that contained the 'Human World'. "This is the space we live in today." He then went on to point to 'Underworld' and 'Heaven', "This is where the so-called Three Factions are located. Demons and Fallen Angels in the Underworld, and Angels in Heaven. They are the strongest because they are the most densely populated group because of the large space they live in, well, at least in the past Note that the size of the bubbles here represents the size of that space.
"These three lines represent the strong relationship of the Underworld and Heaven with the Human World. That was also why they could come and go easier to the Human World than other factions which made their strength more prominent. Smaller spaces are also connected to the human world. The Human World and some other spaces. Although I don't know how this relationship was made, and why it's all connected to the Human World."
"Yes, and this big square is the Dimensional Gap."
"So you mean if we had a way to navigate in this Dimensional Gap, we could go anywhere?"
"Right, but it's almost impossible because there's no concept of distance and direction in the Dimensional Gap."
"Almost? So you have a plan for that?" Yoruichi finds hidden meaning in Kisuke's words.
“Well, that's just a theory for now so I'm going to need more time to experiment and research this topic. To explain it, didn't I tell you that all the Mana in this world came from the Dimensional Gap that spilled into various spaces, how and why? I don't know. But I think we can navigate it if we can determine and study the flow of Mana in the Dimensional Gap, and I will need a lot of equipment and time to do that." Kisuke excitedly explained.
"Hoho~~. As expected of you. After all, you said Where, but where did all the other types of energy come from?"
“Ahem, as I said before, Ki (Strength of Life) comes from every living being, and Reiryoku (Spiritual Power) comes from everything that has a soul. Demon Power, Sacred Power, and other types all came from Mana itself. So you could say that there are only three main types of energy."
"Wait, Where? How's it?"
"It has to do with their physique and how their individual space accepts Mana. Demon Power, for example, when a Devil absorbs Mana and his body automatically converts it to Demon Power that he can use, and the Underworld itself converts it. Some Mana that comes from the Dimensional Gap into Demon Power. It's the same case for Fallen Angels, Angels, Heavens and all who use Mana."
"Then how could that human use his own Sacred Power?"
"They changed it manually by themselves or made a contract with the Angels to give them Holy Power, the same case with the Humans who used Demon Power."
"Hmmm, is that also why the Sacred Power is the curse of Devils because fighting the Demon Power in their bodies makes it a neutral and unrestrained Mana that destroys their bodies from within?"
"Yes, it also applies the opposite if the Demon Power is stronger."
"That makes sense now. Last question. What's outside the Dimensional Gap?"
"I don't know. That's also one of the things I want to find in this life." Kisuke shrugged his shoulders again and smiled wryly.
"It seems you'll be busy again." Yoruichi sighed at his impossible lover.
Kisuke approached and hugged her while whispering into her ear, "Of course I won't cut the time I can spend with you."
"If that's the case, then fine." Yoruichi smiled with relief.
Kisuke sat down next to him and sipped again his already cold tea, "Now back on what I got about that Grim Reaper, the second one is, they seem to need a blood sacrifice for a certain ritual. As for what kind of blood sacrifice and what ritual it was, it was all nonsense or he might not have known it in the first place."
"They're watching the kids, so maybe there's something to do with it?" Yoruichi pondered Kisuke's words.
"Maybe. That's why we have to be prepared. But to be honest I have very few ideas to prepare for, we don't know their ways other than their stealth abilities that we can't show unless they move." Kisuke furrowed his brows. All along, he had been thinking about countermeasures, but the information he had in his hands was so small that they might as well be blind.
"I'll patrol the whole city when I'm free. That would reduce our chances of being stabbed in the dark." Yoruichi.
“Thank you for the hard work.~ Move to the third and last point, they also have the second priority order, and that is to search for the humans of the divination of some Gods. I don't know the details either, and I don't want to sound arrogant, but it could be us they're looking for. This is the reason why I said trouble would come looking for us no matter what we do." Kisuke pats Yoruichi on the head and returns to his serious expression.
"Pregnancy? Is that a thing? Sounds dubious and stupid." Yoruichi furrowed his brows. He could not believe in something that predicted the future in the long run. Yhwach is the only one who can match this with the ability of 'The Almighty' that can be the future in all its branches, even though he has the power to change the future itself, which makes him a more terrifying enemy.
"I know, right? They will take precautions and even attack us for something so obscure, but we really don't know how the 'God's Divinity works. It should also be based on Mana, but I don't know how it turned into a concept that Gods used." Kisuke rubbed his chin and kept thinking of ways to avoid this, but he really needed more time to research this topic.
"Then we can't do anything for now?" ask Yoruichi.
“No, and maybe suspecting me now because I should just be an ordinary human in their eyes and somehow, low-class demons continue to rule in my place. They'll probably do some sort of surveillance on me, directly or indirectly. I can handle direct surveillance, but indirect surveillance will be hard to realize."
"What are you planning now?"
"Hmmm... I think I should shift some of my research time to the Sacred Gear, it might help us in the future."
"It was pretty blurry. Although I can't think of anything else either..."
"Therefore, we throw the matter into our minds for now. And for bonus points, this guy really likes Hades' illegitimate wife, Persephone."
"Harrable wife? What does that mean?"
"I don't know either, but it could be useful information so I'll take it out. Come aboard. The girls are probably waiting for a while now." Kisuke cleaned the table and dishes before exiting the inn with Yoruichi.
"I'll go out to patrol, I wonder if they'll send another team after the one that's lost." Yoruichi precedes Kisuke.
"Okay, be careful." Kisuke reminded him and went up.
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'I finished my work earlier than expected, I should be able to cook dinner today.' Sakura opened their door and said, "I'm home." Koneko's voice replied from the living room, "Welcome back."
Sakura then took off her shoes and went to the living room, "I'll cook today, Kone-...!" He stopped when he saw the others in the room, 'What is Princess Sitri doing here!?'