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The old man once helped a young man who wandered from the numbered block behind. Later, that man successfully enrolled in Maou, and after graduation, he joined the Eighth Division. Although he was just an ordinary member, he was also a real Shinigami. With the support of that Shinigami, he was able to sell items such as bamboo products here.

It is precisely because of this experience that although the old man does not need to eat himself, he always keeps some long-lasting food at home, which really came in handy today.

"Come on, young man, these are all for you, eat them quickly."

Old man Ishikawa's bamboo shop was not far away. When he arrived at the shop, he immediately took out all the food and placed it generously in front of Hayato.

Although Hollows eat humans, they do not only eat humans. Strictly speaking, they eat anything with spiritual power. It's just that under natural conditions, human souls have the richest spiritual power. The food in Soul Society is made entirely of spiritual power, so of course Hollows can eat it.

Hayato didn't bother to be polite with the old man. He grabbed the pancakes and senbei on the table and stuffed them into his mouth. The more he ate, the happier the old man laughed.

"Young man, you probably don't know this yet. In our Soul Society, most people don't eat. They can survive by drinking water. Therefore, there is very little food circulating in Rukongai. Basically, only restaurants and hotels that entertain Shinigami have food on hand."

While Hayato was eating, the old man began to explain the common sense of Soul Society to him in a serious tone.

Although he had heard these things from Gu Shi a long time ago, Hayato still fully demonstrated his reaction as if he heard them for the first time. He was stunned, as if he finally realized the preciousness of the things in his hands. He was struggling over whether he should just put the things down, and a guilty expression appeared on his face.

Seeing his reaction, the old man laughed. Of course he was willing to make friends with the future god of death, but the prerequisite was that the other party could not be a person who only knew how to ask for things and had no gratitude at all. The fact that Hayato felt embarrassed showed that he was obviously a normal person who knew how to be grateful, so the old man patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, I took these out for you to eat. My father Ishikawa has been taken care of by the God of Death for many years. After seeing it today, I can't let the future God of Death go hungry!"

Just like "judging people by their appearance", "being a know-it-all" is also a problem that most people have. When Hayato heard the "future god of death", he showed a confused expression at the right time, which really made the old man more satisfied, and he continued to speak with great interest.

"Being able to eat and needing to eat is proof that you are qualified to become a god of death. Hayato, you can become a god of death, and most likely you must become one. After all, only the Seireitei has enough food to allow you to have a full meal every day. If you are not a god of death, you are not qualified to enter there."

Hayato blinked and quickly asked in an excited manner.

"I want to have a full meal! Father Ishikawa, how can I become a god of death? Should I become a disciple of the god of death?"

Hayato's question may seem ridiculous, but it is just right for an "ordinary person" who should not know the common knowledge of Soul Society and the existence of Maou Spiritual Academy.

After all, in today's world, such advanced things as schools that recruit ordinary people have not yet appeared. Only the children of wealthy families and nobles are qualified to enter private schools. It is normal for ordinary people to want to learn skills and think about becoming an apprentice.

We have to say that it was truly extraordinary that Yamamoto Genryusai had the audacity to found a school that was open to students from the entire Soul Society a thousand years ago, when there were no private schools in Japan, so that every talented Ryukun would have the opportunity to become a Shinigami.

Even without considering his powerful strength, this achievement alone is enough to praise him no matter how much. It is no wonder that the captain enjoys a high reputation among all the death gods. Even those captains with distinct personalities will obey him as long as he glares at them.

It can be said that the captain-general has great favors for every death god who is not of noble birth, even the captains are no exception.

As expected, after hearing Hayato's "foolish" question, old man Ishikawa revealed a proud expression of a "city man" and waved his skinny hands vigorously, with a heroic look.

"That's not popular in Soul Society. How long will it take to train a new Shinigami just by relying on one-on-one teaching from a master? To become a Shinigami, all you have to do is sign up at the Maou Spiritual Academy. Not only will you not be charged tuition, but food will also be provided for free!"

Chapter 132 Class and Superiority

Seeing that Hayato was shocked by his introduction and looked stunned, the old man puffed out his chest with a sense of superiority, then patted Hayato's shoulder heavily.

"You are lucky, young man. You were assigned to our West 23rd District."

After saying this, old man Ishikawa stopped and picked up the water cup as if he wanted to drink some water to moisten his throat. Hayato was stunned for a moment, then quickly conveyed a message with a look of courtesy.

"Father Ishikawa, what do you mean by that? Is there something special about it?"

It's certainly satisfying to show off yourself, but it's obviously more satisfying to have someone to help you show off. Old man Ishikawa wiped his mouth with satisfaction, resumed his posture, and continued.

"Don't worry, you'll know after you listen to me slowly. Ahem, as a school that trains Shinigami, the Shinyang Spiritual Academy has a rule that it accepts new students at any time of the year. As long as you can prove that you can indeed become a Shinigami, you can enroll immediately.

"After all, people with the God of Death talent need to eat every day. If we only recruit new students at a fixed time every year, some of them might starve to death. The captain-general made the rule of recruiting students all year round for these people's consideration. However, there is always a but!"

At this point, old man Ishikawa seemed to sigh and shook his head, but he couldn't help revealing a proud smile. Realizing that this was not a good thing, he quickly cleared his throat and continued as if nothing had happened.

"There is a prerequisite for recruiting new students throughout the year, which is that you have to report to the main gate of the Shinyang Academy of Spiritual Arts in person. The address of the Shinyang Academy of Spiritual Arts is next to the Baidao Gate in the first area of ​​our West Ryuhun Street.

"The entire Rukongai is larger than you can imagine. There are 80 districts in the east, south, west and north. Each district is equivalent to a complete city. Just walking from the west end to the east end of our West 23rd District alone would take me half a day.

"Although travel between areas is not prohibited, think about it. How far do those people assigned to the later-numbered areas have to walk to West District 1 on their own? How much food and water do they need to prepare for such a long journey? Not to mention, the security in the later-numbered areas is also poor, and they will definitely encounter bad guys on the way!"

When he was excited, old man Ishikawa slapped his thigh heavily, as if this was not enough to express his high spirits. His skinny old face flushed a healthy red because of pride.

"So, those who are assigned to the later numbered areas actually have no ability to walk to the gate of Maou Spiritual Academy to register! They can only arrive at Maou Spiritual Academy alive when the teachers from Maou go to various areas to recruit students at a specific time every year and follow the teachers.

"The only ones who can really sign up at any time throughout the year are those of us with the highest numbers. This is a privilege given to us by the captain-general! To be more precise, it is a privilege given to those of us with the highest numbers in Xiliuhun Street!

"It's very difficult for people from the three districts, East, West and North, even those from District One, to go to District One West! Hayato, you must be wondering why. The answer is very simple, because Rukongai was built with Seireitei as its center.

"The Jingling Court won't let ordinary people enter. If the people from other No. 1 Districts want to go to West District 1, they have to go around at least half of the Jingling Court, which is much farther than going from West 20 to West District 1."

Hayato listened to old man Ishikawa's story, and while making an expression of "proud of it", he repeated everything he heard word for word to Lilinette on the other end of the soul link.

In fact, Gu Shi had no intention of completely monitoring the undercover agent Hayato. After all, he was just a stone thrown out to explore the way, and there was no need to spend too much energy on him. Gu Shi only needed to know whether he was alive and whether the god of death had discovered any flaws. If so, he would know where the flaws were.

Therefore, after confirming that Hayato had successfully entered Soul Society, Gu Shi no longer paid much attention to this matter.

However, Hueco Mundo is too boring. Lilinette is extremely curious about everything in Soul Society and strongly demands that Hayato tell her everything he saw. It feels like watching a text live broadcast.

It would have been fine for Lilinette to watch the live broadcast by herself, but she found everything Hayato said new and exciting. After listening to a few words, she couldn't wait to repeat them loudly to others to share her joy with them.

Gu Shi naturally heard all of this, and gradually, although he was not as excited as Lilinette, he also became somewhat interested.

Gu Shi really didn't expect that in addition to the two classes of nobles and commoners in Soul Society, the commoners also divided themselves into classes.

People with higher numbers and closer to important facilities of the God of Death actually think from the bottom of their hearts that they are superior to people in other areas. The area where they live is just randomly assigned during soul burial, so how can this be a source of pride?

But if you think about it carefully, soul burial is actually equivalent to reincarnation. It seems understandable that people who are born in a good birth and are born in a big city (with earlier numbers) feel that they are superior to those who live in war-torn areas (with later numbers) and are in danger of losing their lives.

If this situation is widespread, then perhaps in school, students will subconsciously form groups based on their region of origin in addition to their grades and talents?

What about after graduation? Can students immediately change their mindset from being differentiated by region of origin to being differentiated by squad?

If not possible, then form a "hometown association", define several adjacent areas as "hometowns", invite as many classmates and freshmen as possible, and after graduation, everyone will be assigned to different teams. Perhaps you can use the name of organizing a hometown gathering to fully obtain intelligence from other teams.

After all, all the Shinigami, including the captain, live in their respective squad dormitories, the only difference being the luxury of the dormitories.

A group of Shinigami who eat, live and carry out missions together will soon recognize each other as "companions", and the Shinigami from other teams will naturally become outsiders.

This can also be seen from the plot of the original work.

The members of the 11th Division generally look down on the "weak" members of the 4th Division;

The 12th Division thinks that everyone else is an idiot. When carrying out a capture mission, they can knock out the members of the 11th Division without hesitation in order to deceive Ishida Uryu and Inoue Orihime.

All the missions of the Second Division are basically related to assassination, concealment, and surveillance. It is a standard "internal" organization. When ordinary team members are on duty outside, they basically wear a full set of night clothes, without even showing their faces, let alone communicating normally with others.

It can be said that the organizational form of the "Death Squad" is actually naturally highly confidential. Which squad a person joins after graduation basically determines his future social circle and the scope of intelligence acquisition. If he wants to find out the intelligence of other squads, it will most likely arouse suspicion immediately.

Only someone like Sekiya Tetsuzaemon, who has experienced changing teams midway, can maintain a relatively close relationship with both the current and former teams.

Of course, the Shinigami who can reach the level of vice-captain or captain are already considered a privileged class, and they are naturally not subject to this set of rules. When the various squads take joint actions, or there are overlapping tasks and cooperation is needed, they will naturally receive intelligence from the corresponding squad, and there is no need to inquire specifically.

In short, if the "fellowship association" can be successfully established and developed into an organization that transcends squad restrictions like the "Female Death God Association", it will definitely greatly reduce the difficulty of obtaining intelligence.

Chapter 133: House Cat and Enthusiastic Classmates

[Yes, I have already set off for the Shinyang Spiritual Arts Academy. After I enroll, I will organize and build a hometown association as soon as possible. Please tell Master Gu Shi that I will definitely complete the task.]

After respectfully responding to Lilinette's arrangements through the soul link, Hayato curled his lips, swung the package in his hand, and strode eastward.

"After just a few words, he was able to come up with such a bunch of bad ideas. That Gu Shi is really full of bad intentions. It seems that whether I can return to Hueco Mundo in the end is probably decided by him. Damn it, if he pushes me to the limit, the worst that can happen is that I will defect while on a mission in the human world. The human world is so big, I can just find a mountain to hide in. I don't believe they can find me."

Although he complained quietly, Hayato had no real intention of escaping. After all, Lilinette's soul link was still connected to his brain. This kind of thing would most likely have a positioning function. Unless he could sever the soul link, escaping would be simply courting death.

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became. Hayato spat in a very rude manner and simply took out a baked potato from his bag and started to eat it.

According to the old man, he doesn't need to bring too much food. Too much food will only waste his energy. It is enough to prepare food for two or three days. Once he reaches the area within number 15, the security environment there will be significantly improved.

When the time comes, he only needs to find the patrolmen, tell them that he wants to go to Mao to register, and prove that he has spiritual power, and he will definitely get funding for food and accommodation.

"Stinky old man, it's obvious that you don't want to give out more food, so you use this kind of nonsense to fool me. If I get hungry after reaching Area 15, I will come back and eat him to fill my stomach."

After complaining in a low voice fiercely again, Hayato became more and more annoyed. Even though he was only an Arrancar at the level of a Hollow, he was still a real Arrancar. If he ran at full speed, even those newly graduated Shinigami could not catch up with him.

But for the sake of safety, Gu Shi required him to maintain his athletic ability within the normal limit before entering school, forcing him to move towards his destination at a slow pace.

The feeling of being required to move forward inch by inch even though he could clearly walk one meter with one step is no different from having his hands and feet tied. How could he not feel annoyed?

The most infuriating thing is that if Gu Shi was just making random requests, he would definitely ignore Gu Shi's words. After all, he is already in Soul Society, and as long as he agrees verbally, who can know whether he will do it or not? But Gu Shi's requests are very reasonable, and no matter how unhappy he is, he has to do it in order to save his life.

Sighing helplessly, Hayato stopped thinking about random things and started walking at an ordinary person's pace. He soon reached the junction of District 23 and District 22.

Even in the relatively prosperous first 25 districts, this "city" junction is still desolate. There is nothing interesting on the road, and there are not many signs of human activities.

Therefore, Lilinette on the other side of the soul link gradually felt a little bored, stopped Hayato from reporting everything he saw, told him to contact her after he arrived in Mao, and then decisively ran to find Tenpo to listen to stories.

Gu Shi has a bad habit of not wanting to tell a story again once he has told it. Even if Lilinette argues with him, saying that when Gu Shi told those stories, she was still a part of Stark and had never heard those stories, Gu Shi is still stubborn and unreasonable and refuses to tell the stories again.

Lilinette had no choice but to ask Tianpeng, who had heard those stories before, for second-hand advice. Although the stories told by Tianpeng always gave people a feeling of lacking some charm, they were at least better than Erlang, who always put his own spin on the stories and insisted on adding a few lines of poetry regardless of whether they made sense or were appropriate.

After Lilinette calmed down, everyone's life quickly returned to normal. Gu Shi was still working hard to practice spiritual power control, Erlang forced the big rabbit to practice martial arts, and Tianpeng continued to study the use of bone sand to make pills while telling stories to Lilinette.

A few hours later, Asido and Bai Ye, who had gone to the human world to help collect the chains of cause and effect, came back. Asido stayed for a while, chatted with Gu Shi casually, and then began to patrol the surrounding area again, hunting every Vulture he saw. Bai Ye consciously began to run around Gu Shi and the others in circles.

Everyone had their own things to do, except Stark, who lazily found a stone big enough, manually carved out a bench, and lay on it to rest with his eyes closed. Sometimes he would lie there for a whole day without moving at all.

Even when Lilinette danced on his belly, or Gu Shi was studying spiritual power control and tried to compress the Void Flash, but accidentally lost control and the sound of the Void Flash exploding rang in his ears, Stark still didn't even raise his eyelids.

During this period, Gu Shi created another small fake face using the domestic cat Xiaoxu that was captured in the same batch as Hayato.

Although the appearance of the cat Xu should be that of a domestic cat no matter how you look at it, unfortunately, as a Xu, she is also a standard small Xu size, more than three meters long, almost four meters. This size really cannot be considered cute.

It is worth mentioning that people find cats cute largely because cats have round heads, which are similar to babies in overall outline, and flat facial features, which are also closer to humans. When combined, these features can fully stimulate people's instinctive love for "cubs."

This should be a big advantage of domestic cats in front of humans. Unfortunately, in the case of the domestic cat Xu, it is completely the opposite.

The face of a domestic cat is relatively flat, similar to that of a child. When it is furry, it is obviously different from a human face, so it looks cute and not scary.

But when a bone mask with an overall human-like outline and no hair as a visual buffer is worn on a round human-like head, this head looks too similar to a human. When viewed together with the four-legged body behind the head, the sense of strangeness is greatly enhanced.

Gu Shi didn't know how other people felt, but when he looked at the domestic cat Xiaoxu, he felt the uncanny valley effect almost popping up and felt disgusted no matter how he looked at it.

In order to avoid further torturing his eyes, although a complete plan for researching the Hollow has not yet been formulated, Gu Shi decisively let the domestic cat become a Hollow.

After becoming an Arrancar, the house cat, Hollow, looks much more pleasing to the eye.

Overall, she is a slender woman with long legs and arms, vertical pupils, gray hair, and a mask fragment shaped like a cat ear headband on her head. Although there is a strange feeling of a mature lady wearing cat ears to be cute, at least when Gu Shi sees her, he no longer wants to smash her head with a punch.

Just when Gu Shihe was planning to have a good chat with this house cat Arrancar, Lilinette suddenly became excited again.

"Hayato has arrived at the Maou Spiritual Academy! Ah! An enthusiastic freshman has already started to familiarize him with the school. Hmm? Why is the name of this enthusiastic freshman so difficult to pronounce?

"Ai, Aizen, Aizen Sosuke? That should be the name, right?"

Chapter 134: A Bit Interesting