Just half an hour before Nirvana met Yami and Ulquiorra, the scene switched to Karakura Town and Honmachi——

In the silent sky above the city, Ichigo Kurosaki, wearing a Death Tyrant costume, raised his Zangetsu sword and beheaded a pig-faced hollow. Then he heard someone shouting in the distance: "Hey! You... what are you?

Man? He’s dressed like the God of Death, it’s very suspicious!!”

"Huh?" Kurosaki Ichigo put his right hand on his forehead. He heard the sound and looked over. He saw a shinigami with explosive curly hair running over quickly on tiptoes, pointing at him and shouting:

"My name is Zennosuke Kurutani, and I am an elite who replaced Miss Saito who was dismissed for making a mistake. I am also the Shinigami stationed in Karakura Town! Who...are you?!"

"Uh... my name is Kurosaki Ichigo, the agent of death! Hey, here is the agent's certificate!" Ichigo Kurosaki took out the agent's death certificate given to him by Jushiro Ukitake and waved it in front of Kurutani Zenosuke and said.

"What? Agency certificate? Hahahaha... I have never heard of that kind of thing! Boy, hurry up and recruit me! Who are you?!"

Zennosuke Kurutani didn't believe what Kurosaki Ichigo said at all. He put one hand on his waist and pointed at Kurosaki Ichigo with the other and asked loudly.

"Tch...it's obviously a proxy card issued by Soul Society, so why does it have no effect on the Shinigami?" Kurosaki Ichigo took the Shinigami proxy card in his hand and looked at it carefully, but he didn't notice a familiar figure behind him.

The figure came quietly.

"Hey~", the figure came quietly behind Kurosaki Ichigo, then pressed his right hand on the rectangular handle of the Zanpakutō Niifushi, and then slowly drew out the Zanpakutō and pointed it at Kurosaki.

Ichigo Saki!

"!!!" Kurosaki Ichigo suddenly felt a faint murderous aura approaching, and hurriedly turned and jumped to the side for a few steps. After seeing the figure's face clearly, he immediately exclaimed: "Hirako Mako, it's

you--"

"Shh~ don't make such a fuss, Kurosaki Ichigo!" Mako Hirako jumped up in front of Kurosaki Ichigo, then raised his Zanpakutō and hit the latter's Zangetsu sword hard, and immediately let out a cry.

Crisp sound!

"What? Is that a Zanpakutō too? Who...are you? Why...I've never seen you in Soul Society?!" Kurosaki Ichigo stared at Hirako Mako in shock and shouted.

After all, not long after Kurosaki Ichigo returned to Karakura Town from Soul Society, this strange Hirako Mako suddenly appeared as a "transfer student" in Class 3 of Karakura Town No. 1 Senior High School!

Moreover, this guy named Mako Hirako seems to have known about Ichigo Kurosaki’s identity as the acting Shinigami from the beginning, and then approached and tested him with purpose at every turn——

But... Mako Hirako possesses a Zanpakutō and has the power of a Shinigami, but he doesn't seem to be the Shinigami of Soul Society's Gotei 13th Division at all! So... who is he? Why is he here?!

"Hey... I told you not to make a fuss, Kurosaki Ichigo! Don't you really understand?"

Hirako Mako looked at Kurosaki Ichigo seriously and said: "For a guy with huge spiritual power like you, if you casually reveal a little bit of spiritual pressure, it will be perceived by others!"

"Being sensed... by whom?!" Although Kurosaki Ichigo already had the answer in his heart, he still couldn't help but ask.

"By whom? Are you... really a rough idiot? Have you even ignored your enemies?!"

Hirako Mako exuded majestic spiritual pressure and rushed Kurutani Zenosuke who was watching the battle aside from a distance, and then continued to say to Kurosaki Ichigo:

"Look up at this beautiful afternoon! Just because of you...several disharmonious guys have come here! And you don't feel anything about it..."

"What?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! Are you scared out of your wits by that thing inside your body? The skeleton is pissed off - a chicken bone!!" Mako Hirako said with a long drawl and a smile.

"Nani?! How could you..." Kurosaki Ichigo was shocked: Why did Hirako Mako know that there was a Hollow hidden in his body? And... it seemed that he knew everything?!

"Ah? Why do I know about you, right?" Hirako Mako suddenly swept back, and after putting some distance away from Kurosaki Ichigo, he raised his left hand and put it on his forehead, and then said with a smile.

: "Because... I am also your kind!"

"What? What are you talking about... I ask you who you are -" Kurosaki Ichigo's voice suddenly stopped, probably because he had seen a piece slowly condensing in the palm of Hirako Mako's left hand.

The all-white Hollow mask with intertwined teeth!

"Hey! Zanpakutō plus Hollow's Mask - now do you understand who I am?"

On the surface, Mako Hirako seemed to be in an understatement, but a trace of loneliness and gloom quickly flashed through his eyes, and then he said word by word: "I... stepped from the realm of death into the realm of the void.

People, you can call it 'virtualization'!"

"Void... transformed? Could it be... the voice and mask that appeared when I fought Kenpachi before?"

Kurosaki Ichigo suddenly recalled the Shiron that he had seen in his mind and in the Blade Zen space during the life-and-death battle with Zaraki Kenpachi in Miqiu Mountain -

And as time goes by, the white Xu appears more and more often, and becomes more and more powerful, which makes Ichigo Kurosaki feel more and more horrified, and he does not dare to use all his power anymore!

"I have already said, 'We will get along well in the future'! So... join our Masked Army, Kurosaki Ichigo!"

Hirako Mako took off the Hollow mask and played with it in his hand, then looked at Kurosaki Ichigo with a solemn expression and said with burning eyes:

"You...shouldn't belong to the 'human' camp, nor should you belong to the 'Soul Society' camp! And you shouldn't belong to...that guy Aizen's camp, right?!"

"Nani?! Aizen... Do you also know Aizen?!" Although Kurosaki Ichigo didn't help in "Aizen's Rebellion", he also learned about Aizen's fraud from Seireitei.

The deadly conspiracy and defection from Hueco Mundo!

So when he heard the name "Aizen" from Mako Hirako, he was particularly surprised: after all, the latter was a "God of Death" who had never appeared in Soul Society. Why did he mention Aizen for no reason?

"Hey...why don't we know about Aizen? Your question is really crazy?! Ichigo Kurosaki——"

Mako Hirako crushed the mask in his hand with a "click", then a strange smile appeared on his face and said: "The bastard who made us look like this...isn't it Aizen?!"

"Me, we...we? Do you...are there many...like you?" Kurosaki Ichigo asked hesitantly.

"Idiot! I told you, I belong to the 'Masked Legion'! A force that neither belongs to humans, nor to the God of Death, nor to the Hollow..."

The moment Hirako Mako finished speaking, several "swish", "swish" and "swish" sounds were heard through the air, and seven black figures suddenly appeared around Kurosaki Ichigo!!

"Nani! You...you are-", Kurosaki Ichigo glanced at the eight people surrounding him in astonishment, and an extremely shocked expression appeared on his face!!

"Hey, I said bald guy! It's been so long and you still haven't figured this guy out!! It's really annoying~"

As an unruly voice sounded, a little blond girl with two pigtails suddenly raised her right knee, kicked her right slipper into the air, and then reached out to hold it——

Then I saw her rounding her arms and using the sole of her slipper to slap Mako Hirako hard on the face. Immediately, she heard a loud sound from the sole:
Chapter completed!