Demon Slayer: The Journey That Began When I Became Yoriichi's Sister

Chapter 653 Not a simple woman

"Hey! Slow down!"

On the playground, Ichigo, carrying his Zanpakuto, and Rukia behind him frantically rushed towards the classroom.

"There's no need to panic."

"I'm worried. Is that kid any good?" Ichigo returned. "If Aunt Yuko catches him, my life is over."

"Is it really that exaggerated?" Rukia retorted, then added, "Don't worry..."

"I've had a bad feeling since just now..."

Ichigo followed the spiritual pressure that was altering his soul all the way into the teaching building and ran up to the third floor.

At the corner on the third floor, he peeked out and then quickly pulled back.

Rukia, who was behind him, couldn't brake in time and crashed into the scabbard on his back, her forehead and nose turning red on the spot.

Rukia lowered her head, covering her nose, tears glistening in the corners of her eyes. She looked up and muttered, "What are you doing? Idiot!"

Ichigo remained motionless.

"Rukia, who are you talking to?" A cold voice rang in her ears, causing Rukia to shiver involuntarily.

"Huh?" Rukia looked up at the stairs with a blank expression. Yuko's figure blocked the sunlight coming through the window, and it took her about a second to make out her cold, red eyes.

At this moment, Rukia finally remembered... no, she finally understood Ichigo's fear.

"No, no!" Her body tensed instinctively, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Yuko holding the back of her collar with one hand...

Rukia nearly screamed. Wasn't that altering a soul?!

In the end what happened? !

They were only gone for a short while!

Ignoring the surprise in Rukia's eyes, Yuko said calmly, "So you're talking to me?"

Rukia broke out in a cold sweat even more profusely: "No, it's not!"

"You seem to be getting quite close to Kurosaki-san, don't you?" Yuko sighed, casually tossing Ichigo in front of her. "This guy's probably lost his mind. You'd better take him to the infirmary."

Just now, Yuko was only standing at the entrance of the stairwell, and Ichigo's body was still mostly behind the wall. Now that Yuko had thrown him out, Rukia finally saw the horrific sight on his face.

Half of her face was red and swollen, and five finger marks could be faintly seen.

horrible……

Receiving no response, Yuko tilted her head: "Didn't you hear me?"

"Yes, I heard you!" Rukia straightened up. "I promise to complete the mission."

Yuko nodded slightly and walked past Rukia downstairs.

She still had to go buy bread and milk for Ochi Miyu, it's all this guy's fault for wasting time.

Rukia didn't come to her senses until Yuko walked down the stairs, and subconsciously looked at Ichigo, who had been standing silently in place since earlier.

"Hey! Ichigo! Are you alright?"

“…It’s over.” Ichigo muttered to himself.

Rukia couldn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"

"I said I'm doomed!" Ichigo clutched his head in his hands, looking utterly miserable. "What did this idiot do to deserve being beaten up like this by Aunt Yuko?"

"It's alright, this kind of injury will heal quickly..."

"That's not the problem!" Ichigo's face remained filled with fear, his pupils trembling. "If Mom finds out, I'm dead."

"Anyway, let's get this guy to the infirmary first." Rukia sweated and helped Ichigo up. "Then let's find out what he did."

"Hey, Ichigo, stop standing there like an idiot."

The two took the modified soul of the corpse to the infirmary.

……

"I forgot to ask Miyu what kind of bread she likes, and I don't even know if she eats pineapple bread." Yuko came back from the convenience store, holding a piece of bread in one hand and munching on it.

boom! !

Just then, an explosion was heard from the nearby infirmary.

Yuko turned her head and saw that the glass window of the infirmary had been smashed open, and the modified soul, controlling Ichigo's body, jumped out of the window. After making eye contact with her, it ran away without stopping.

Behind him...

"stop!"

Rukia and Ichigo, dressed in Shinigami attire, jumped out of the window and chased after them.

Yu Zi couldn't help but facepalm. What the hell are these people doing?

How could they have gotten away like that?

Yuko shook her head, showing no intention of getting involved. That modified soul didn't seem bad, and its strength wasn't as great as Ichigo's; it just had excellent leg mobility, so it shouldn't be too difficult to deal with.

She had done everything she could.

Let Kisuke Urahara worry about the rest.

……

In the afternoon, the two of them caught up with the first class.

"That's great, Ichigo, Rukia-chan~" Yuuko heard the school bell ring, tilted her head to look at the two who were running back panting at the door, and said with a smile, "I was thinking that if you two skipped class, I would make sure you died a horrible death."

Ichigo and Rukia hung their heads listlessly: "We're...we're sorry..."

Yu Zi's expression didn't change much. She raised her chin and said, "Come in, class is about to start."

"Yes."

As the two entered the classroom, they noticed that the people inside were looking at them strangely.

No, to be precise, the way he looked at Ichigo was very strange.

This strange atmosphere continued until get out of class ended. Yuko left with her water cup, and Ichigo couldn't help but find Tatsuki.

"Hey, Long Gui, why are you all looking at me like that?"

Long Gui remained silent, only turning his head to look at him expressionlessly, uttering a few words.

"Damn, scum, trash."

Ichigo's eyes widened, a bad feeling rising in his heart. Could that idiot have done something terrible with his body?!

Worried about missing class, the two rushed back as soon as they finished modifying the soul, without even having time to ask what had happened.

"Hey, what did I do?!" Ichigo asked, but got no answer. He then turned his gaze to Inoue Orihime, who looked inexplicably gloomy to the side.

"Hey, Inoue, what exactly...?"

Orihime Inoue turned around with a gloomy expression, almost startling Ichigo: "Kurosaki-kun... so that's what you're like..."

After she finished speaking, she turned back and continued to feel depressed.

What kind of person are you anyway?! Please explain yourself clearly!

This feeling is like being given a critical illness notice, having worked hard for a long time but not even knowing what disease you have.

At that moment, Mizuki, looking pleased, and Keigo, looking jealous, walked over and put their arms around Ichigo's shoulders, one on each side.

"Oh, you two!" Ichigo was so moved he almost cried. "Did you know...?"

With a bittersweet feeling, Keigo gave Ichigo a thumbs-up, saying, "You did what I've always wanted to do."

"What?" Ichigo was a little confused.

Mizuiro patted Ichigo's shoulder solemnly: "I never expected you to dare confess to Yuuko-sensei. I really underestimated you, Ichigo."

After a brief two-second pause, Ichigo mechanically turned his head and opened and closed his mouth.

"What did you say?"

"I say, you're a warrior!" Shui Se also gave him a thumbs up. "Although he was beaten up by Teacher Yu Zi, he was able to express his feelings directly. This forbidden love is already a model for us all."

Ichigo's face turned deathly pale instantly, and his body turned to stone.

"Ichigo?" Rukia poked his shoulder, which shattered at the slightest touch.

It's all over...

……

On their way home from school, Rukia and Ichigo squatted by the roadside.

Ichigo's face was ashen, and he kept muttering, "It's over, it's over, it's over..."

Rukia, who was waiting anxiously to the side, exclaimed, "Ugh, really!"

"Waiting like this, there's no way we'll see stray cats and dogs get hit by cars and die!"

That's right, the two of them are squatting here in order to modify their souls so that they can have a moving body.

However, if it is placed inside a living organism, its original soul will emerge.

Therefore, the two also set their sights on fresh corpses that had been hit by cars, but obviously, what are the chances of such a coincidence?

"I'm doomed, I'm doomed, I don't want to go home..."

Ichigo sat obediently by the roadside, hugging his legs with both hands, looking pitiful.

"Cheer up!" Rukia stepped forward and shook him.

Ichigo looked up at the sky, trying his best not to let his tears fall: "There's nothing left in this world for me to cherish."

Rukia patted his shoulder reassuringly: "Don't be silly! It's just the stirrings of youth. Adults went through the same thing."

"I want to die even more..."

After struggling for a while, Ichigo gradually regained his composure.

Rukia stood up, put her hands on her hips, and looked around at the passing vehicles. She didn't look like the kind of car that could run over an insignificant cat or dog.

"There's nothing we can do. It looks like we won't have any harvest this year. Let's go back."

Ichigo got up and his gaze inadvertently fell on a discarded, old doll by the roadside. He walked towards it.

Rukia looked at him with a puzzled expression as he walked past, her gaze gradually turning speechless.

"Hey, you don't mean to think... that it's impossible no matter how you look at it, do you...?"

Ichigo held the Soul-Soul Pill in his hand and stuffed it into the doll's mouth.

no response.

Rukia shook her head: "In the end, this is just an inanimate object, nothing..."

"Wow!"

The old, lion-shaped doll jumped up.

The modified soul stared blankly at the two of them: "Hey, how come you two suddenly became so big?"

Rukia was stunned. "That's ridiculous. It was placed inside an inanimate doll, yet it had absolutely no effect on it."

"Huh?" The modified soul paused for a moment, then crossed its arms and smugly said, "How about that? I'm pretty amazing, aren't I?"

"What are you showing off for?!" Ichigo grabbed it, his teeth clenched, and the modified soul finally realized its predicament.

"Hey! What did you guys do to me?!" The modified soul looked down at its body. "Ah! How did my hands become like this?!"

Ichigo grabbed the modified soul by the neck, looking like he was about to strangle it: "What the hell have you been doing with my body, you bastard!"

The altered soul seemed lost in thought, its mind beginning to recall: "What did I do..."

"Red hair..."

Ichigo instinctively stopped what he was doing: "Red-haired?"

"A terrifying red-haired woman." The modified soul recalled the fear of being dominated by Yuko and covered its mouth with its hands.

At this point, Rukia suddenly realized something.

This guy isn't your average modified soul; he's a low-quality one.

To be precise, it is a product of the Vanguard Program.

The so-called Vanguard Project involves injecting combat-ready souls into the bodies of those who have lost their souls after death, turning them into vanguards against the Void.

The modified souls developed for combat can, depending on the type of soul, enhance parts of the body to the point of being like Superman.

This guy is the type with enhanced lower limb function; the strength in his legs is quite exaggerated.

No... even if he didn't intend to hurt Ms. Yuko.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be possible for an ordinary person to knock this guy unconscious.

At first, Rukia thought it was a normal Soul Pill, and that the soul inside was only used to temporarily replace the Grim Reaper and did not have such strong combat ability, which is why she was knocked unconscious by Ikuko-sensei.

Thinking of this, Rukia looked at Ichigo seriously: "Ichigo."

"Ok?"

Ichigo's hands didn't relax, and he looked puzzled.

Rukia said seriously, "Don't you find it strange?"

"What do you mean?"

Rukia lowered her eyelids slightly: "Why was Ikuko-sensei able to knock this guy out?"

Ichigo looked bewildered: "Is there something strange?"

"Huh?" Now it was Rukia's turn to be confused.

Ichigo, sweating profusely, said, "Aunt Yuuko is already very powerful."

"..."

A flash of recollection crossed Ichigo's eyes as he said, "Back in junior high, Chad and I beat up a few thugs who were loitering outside the school, which offended a gang leader."

"They sent over a hundred people to block us."

"...And then?" A bead of cold sweat trickled down Rukia's cheek; she already had a vague idea of ​​what would happen.

"Then, after Aunt Yu bumped into us, she beat us up without saying a word."

Rukia froze, "Huh?"

How was this different from what she had imagined?

"Aunt Yu originally didn't intend to harm them, but the gang leader took a liking to her and said that if we wanted to be safe, we had to spend the night with him."

Ichigo wiped away his cold sweat: "Then, three minutes later, the only people left standing were Chad and me."

Rukia's lips twitched slightly: "Even so..."

There should be an unimaginable difference between a modified soul and an ordinary person.

Seeing that Ichigo had been terrified by Ikuko-sensei, Rukia grabbed the lion plushie by the ear and said, "Hey, you, did you notice anything wrong when you were interacting with Ikuko-sensei?"

“Teacher Yu Zi…” The modified soul suddenly realized, “Oh, I see! That woman is the red-haired woman you were talking about!”

"You just remembered?" Ichigo couldn't help but shake him again.

This guy, he clearly gave him specific instructions!

After a while.

"No."

He shook his head honestly as he tried to reform his soul.

Rukia's eyelids twitched: "Really?"

"Really! Although the strength was a bit exaggerated," the modified soul said defiantly, "but that's because I wasn't on guard. If I had to do it again, I'm sure I could successfully ask this beauty out!"

"How dare you say that?!"

Ichigo slammed it to the ground and stomped on it several times.