Chapter 114: Joining the Ranks of One Protector

  Inside the Urahara Shop, Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, Rukia and others were sitting there with gloomy faces. At the same time, a person who shouldn't have appeared originally had shown up - Muken.

  "Now that Rukia has vouched for you, I'll get straight to the point. Please state your business, mysterious girl." The original death god, Mr. Urahara, sitting at the table, began questioning Yume about her affairs.

  "First of all, thank you for your understanding. Let me introduce myself, my name is Shen Ruyue Mengling, from China. This time I came here, personally I like to travel around the world. This time in this place, I discovered a special race called Soul Hunter, so I stayed here and want to learn more about them."

  "Traveling the world? That's a pretty good hobby, isn't it? I've heard from Rukia that with your strength, you can easily fight against Soul Reapers. Since you're neither a Death God nor a Destruction God, why do you have such strength? Can you explain?" Mr. Urahara continued to ask.

  "I cultivate a very ancient profession, from the Five Elements Wizards of ancient China, to control all elements for attack and defense. Generally, Five Elements Wizards can only control one or two elements, but I'm special. And in China, there's nothing for me to do, so I travel around the world to see if there's anything that interests me. This time, my luck is pretty good, letting me meet the Soul Hunters, so I came to take a look." Meng Ling said with a smile.

  "Soul Reaper, you find this matter very interesting, but I hope it won't affect my work. The affairs of the Soul Reapers are quite troublesome for us right now," said Mr. Urahara.

  "Yeah, I'm aware of this, and I've encountered such things many times before. Similarly, this time won't affect you either, and when necessary, I'll take action with you, because that way, it's beneficial for both your affairs and mine. Maybe you don't quite believe me yet, so I'll just say it and leave it at that. Whether to agree or not is up to you." said Meng Ling.

  "Hmm, we'll consider that. So next, let's talk about Ishida's situation. Did you see Mr. Ishida being taken away by the female Shinigami who fought against you before?" Urahara asked.

  "Although you may not believe what I'm saying, let me tell you that I also have my own perception abilities. Your companion is currently safe, and the female Soul Reaper is now talking to Ishida about some unbelievable things regarding Soul Reapers, mentioning something about 'the key to everything being the Quincies'. So don't worry. The female Soul Reaper is now taking Ishida to the hospital."

  "Huh? How did you know?" Akane asked in surprise.

  "I've got my own way of sensing things, and it's quite broad. From the current situation where the female Soul Reaper is taking Ishida to the hospital, it seems that she doesn't seem to be interested in the Quincy's soul, but rather wants to tell Ishida something," said Mu Lin, then turned to Urahara-san and continued: "Urahara-san, don't you feel like there's something off about space? It seems like these things just started recently." As a huge anime fan on Earth, Mu Lin was very familiar with the plot developments of various animes, so he began asking questions about this Soul Reaper incident.

  "Uh, I'm also wondering whether to say it or not... just that..." Then Urahara brought up the key issue this time, which is that under the Soul Reaper's actions, some bad changes will occur in space, and as a result, both the Soul Society and the real world will be affected. These things are not well understood by everyone, so they ended this discussion with Rukia's unbelievable painting later on. At this time, the muscular man wearing square glasses also brought news that Ishida's location had been found. Everyone then rushed to the hospital."

  ————I am that gorgeous dividing line————

  " Ishida!" One-sided and impulsive Otori burst into Ishida's hospital room, shouting loudly.

  "It will affect the wound, so next time you come in, please be quieter." At this moment, Ishida Ryudou was sitting on the bed smiling and waving at everyone.

  "Is everything all right?!" Rukia also let out a sigh of relief, while her eyes were observing the calm and collected Momo beside her, thinking to herself: "How did this girl know about these things?"

  "That's great." Inoue Orihime also let out a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Chāto went to check if Ishida's body was 'complete'.

  "What a pity, but I still have legs." Looking at Cha's actions, Ishida said somewhat unnaturally, and the back of his head also sweated a bit.

  "Can you speak?" asked one of the nurses.

  "Hmm." As if he knew something was up, Ishida immediately responded with a single sentence.

  "What exactly happened?" the nurse continued to ask.

  "I heard something unbelievable from that Soul Reaper lady......" Ishida then told everything the female Soul Reaper had said, including the reason for this time's Soul Reaper appearance, the secret of the Soul Reapers' tribe, and the relationship between the Soul Reapers and the Quincies. Finally, he even mentioned the name of the Soul Reaper who was planning to lead the other Soul Reapers in doing something bad: "Kyouraku Shunsui". "...After that I lost consciousness, and when I woke up I was already in this hospital."

  "Why is it that the most crucial one would be the Destroyer?" Urahara muttered to himself in puzzlement.

  "That was never asked in the end," said Ishida.

  "Can this be believed?" Nurse Yu asked.

  "I don't know either. But..." Ishida said with some helplessness, suddenly having a moment of distraction, which was noticed by Meng and asked about by Ichigo.

  "Hmm, but since I returned safely like this, I think it's not malicious gossip," said Ishida.

  "In short, those guys are going to attack Ishida, so we have to do something." Ichigo said.

  "Ah, don't worry, Ishida, we've got your back." Lucchia said cheerfully.

  "Thanks." Ishida could only say thanks too, after all his current strength had temporarily disappeared, the only thing he could do was to believe in his companions.

  "So we'll head back to the store then. Think of something as soon as possible," said Urahara.

  "Then I'll go see Mr. Urahara off."

  Orihime: "It would be better if you took a little nap, Ishida-kun."

  Everyone left like that, and Ishida also fell into his own thoughts on his sickbed, slowly falling asleep.

  ————I am that gorgeous dividing line————

  It's already evening now. After seeing off Mr. Urahara, Ichika and others returned to Ishida's ward again, but now Ishida Ryūjin has been transferred to a special ward.

  "This is the bathing area and toilet, next to it is the washbasin. (The nurse walked a few steps forward pointing at something on the side) The refrigerator is here. Currently, there are no other patients on the 9th floor. We are at the nurse station on the 8th floor. (The nurse picked up a device similar to an intercom next to Ishida and said) If you need anything, please use this to call." After saying all that, the nurse left the room, walking out of Ishida's ward, leaving only Yume and others behind.

  "Is this a special ward? It's great, and since we're the only ones on this floor, it's very convenient. We don't have to worry about other patients getting caught up in an attack by enemies either." The nurse said, looking around.

  "That's just like him," said Ishida.

  "Ah?" Hearing Ishida's words, Naoki was somewhat puzzled.

  "This is where my father's hospital is," said Ishida.

  "What? Your family also runs a hospital? But it's totally different from mine." Yi Hu said with some embarrassment, because his family's place was only worthy of being called a clinic.

  "Ishida, take a good rest for now. Who knows, they might come again." Lucchia said with concern.

  "Hmm," replied Ishida.

  "Yes, yes, go to sleep, we'll be on watch tonight, you can rest assured." said the nurse.

  "This is so urgent, yet I couldn't sleep," said Ishida with some helplessness.

  "Focus your mind." said Yī Hù.

  "Concentrate?......" Upon hearing the nurse's words, everyone was speechless, especially Meng Leng. After hearing this sentence, he really wanted to laugh, "Concentrate? Is extinguishing the master's sleep learning how to meditate like a magician?"

  ————I am that gorgeous dividing line————

  At this time, Ishida had already entered the realm of dreams. Orihime and Rukia sat on either side of him, while Yammy stood by the window, gazing at the book of the world. Chad, Uryuu, Renji, and those modified souls were guarding outside.

  Not long after, Rukia suddenly quarreled with Ichigo in the room, completely unaware that Ishida had been unable to sleep due to their argument.

  "Hmm? Has it arrived already? But don't worry, there's plenty of time to play later." Meng Ling thought to herself and didn't make a sound. Just then, the faucet in Ishida's room started making a dripping sound.

  One minute...

  Ten minutes...

  Thirty minutes...

  "Ah, I've been worried about it just now. Is this faucet broken?" Luciya said, and began to prepare to turn off the faucet, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't close it, and the water started flowing more and more.

  "Go to Ishida's bed immediately, don't get close to this water. Ishida, stop pretending to sleep and leave here." At this time, Meng Ling said a sentence, and the crowd also did it in doubt.

  "Alright, when it comes to water, using lightning is the best way." As she said that, Meng Leng's right hand plunged into the overflowing water. At the same time, her right hand began to flow with electricity.

  "Lei Tui - Di Zou."