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Welcome to a new thread of Advent Soul Quest, first of 2021!

>What is this?
A quest based on the setting of Bleach. Deviation from canon depends on the MC’s influence, and some other additions are to be expected as well.
>Who are we?
Nakashiri Koharu, a former 10th grade (high schooler) trap that has just freshly joined the ranks of the Gotei 13 in the 5th Division.
>When are we?
Currently it is the start of Autumn 1982, ~19 years prior to the events of canon.
>Dice? Challenge?
Prompted after deciding on an action. Usually 3d10, best of 3 (Bo3), against a set DC and sometimes a crit-DC. Write-ins may affect the DC as well. If a character stat (in the char sheet) is directly related to the action, it will substitute the lowest die in rolls if it is higher (will be always explained when prompted to roll).
>Updates?
So far it’s been 20 minutes per post at best. Generally I promise an update per hour at the very least. I post whenever I start writing, or if I’m held up for some reason. My timezone is UTC+2.
>I have questions!
Ask away and I’ll do my best to answer.
>What do?
Have fun, vote on what feels the best, roll some dice and chill.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/QmTrippy
Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=advent+soul+quest
Char Sheets: https://pastebin.com/6FkNTn8E

Also, I forgot to mention earlier that the character sheet and social links have been updated!

>>4595058
>Tell Aizen about this. He might be able to help you, and at least he’ll know that a major noble family has their eyes on you.

>Go directly to the Shiraka Manor, confront them. If they’re going to threaten you, you’d like to at least know the demands.
>Find ice thot. Challenge her to a duel
If we win she leaves us alone or we tell the whole world she got punked

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4595074
>>4595098
A slow start, but a start nonetheless! Hope we get more on board as we warm up.

>tiebreaker (1 = first reply, 2 = second reply)
>Writing

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The night passes quite uneventfully, accompanied only by the snoring of your fellow shinigami. It’s a miracle you manage to get sleep in these barracks.

As much as you’d like to charge into their manor, you realize you’re out of your league here. So you turn to the only source of safety you have in the Seireitei: Aizen.

You hasten towards his humble office and just as you are about to announce yourself behind it, the door opens and you find yourself face to face with Lieutenant Hinamori.

>https://audius.co/qmtrippy/04-oh-so-tired-93770

“E-Eh?”
“E-Eh?”

You both exclaim and back off a little.

“How long were you there?!” she points at you with a slightly accusative tone.

“I just arrived,” you wave your hands in front of you. “I didn’t hear anything if that’s what you’re asking.”

Hinamori is at a loss of words, when Aizen laughs lightheartedly and comes closer. “Koharu-san really did just arrive, I sensed it,” he smiles and puts a hand on Hinamori’s shoulder.

“With you both here now, I’ve actually got a suggestion.”

“Y-Yes?”
“Y-Yes?”

You and Hinamori give each other a short side glare.

“Momo-chan here is an incredible kidō expert,” he says, patting the hand on Hinamori’s shoulder, and then extends it slightly towards you. “Koharu-san has quite the aptitude to take familiar abilities and apply them on new ones.”

“How about you both help each other?” he smiles.

Hinamori isn’t really that thrilled about it, but puts up a genuine smile somehow. “If Aizen-sama thinks it’s for the best, then it is!”

You scratch your cheek.

>”Right, that sounds like a great idea.”
>”I still need a lot of guidance, I don’t think it’ll work.”
>”I need to think about it.”
>Other?

>>4595144

>”Right, that sounds like a great idea.”

>>4595144
>”Right, that sounds like a great idea.”

>Other?
>Captain Aizen, I'm afraid I couldn't focus on training right now. You see I got this problem

>>4595144
>>4595150
>Captain Aizen, I'm afraid I couldn't focus on training right now. You see I got this problem
>I could help at a later time.

>>4595146
>>4595148
>>4595150
>>4595154
Going to combine these answers, as I was going to have you ask for a private talk anyway.
>Writing

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“That sounds great and all,” you start, “but Captain Aizen, I'm afraid I can’t focus on training right now. I’ve… I’ve got a problem on my hands, and I hoped you could help me.”

“A problem? What kind?” Aizen narrows his eyes and asks.

“A… personal one,” you scratch the back of your head, hoping for him and Hinamori to understand that you’d like privacy. However, based on how Momo’s face is slowly turning more red, you realize that she has very likely misunderstood the situation.

“Very well,” Aizen smiles and turns to face Hinamori again. “Be sure to keep in touch with Koharu-san, I’m sure you’ll find great progress together.”

Hinamori, although unwillingly, finally leaves, and you find yourself once again with Aizen. You glance upwards, sensing your surveillance, then back at Aizen. You think he realizes what you’re asking, and simply nods.

“I’ll cut to the chase, then,” you grasp tightly on your shihakusho. “A major family is threatening me, possibly blackmailing.”

Aizen’s face grows more serious. “You’re certain? Why do you think they would do that?”

“Because of a stupid rivalry that a girl from them had with me at the Shin’ō Academy,” you explain. “She hates my guts, and the fact that somebody from the Rukongai became a shinigami before her.”

“And you think that is motivation enough for them to threaten, or blackmail you?”

You consider that question. Sure, Yukiko is quite petty and stubborn. She’s not bright or resourceful enough though to do all of this however, meaning somebody else in her family is behind this.

“If I may ask, what did they threaten you with?”

>Answer truthfully, tell about the kids.
>Tell it’s something personal, but no details.
>Use a lie. (write-in required)
>Other?

>>4595174
>Tell it’s something personal, but no details.
We might need Aizen's help but giving him info about the kids is just plain stupid

>>4595174
>Answer truthfully, tell about the kids.
Got no reason to lie to him. And it's damned if we do, damned if we don't

>>4595174
>Answer truthfully, tell about the kids.
our only proof is the photo.

>>4595174

>Answer truthfully, tell about the kids.

>>4595174
>Answer truthfully, tell about the kids.

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>>4595178
>>4595179
>>4595181
>>4595187
>>4595204
Spilling the beans wins.

>Writing

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You think about it, and you can’t find any reason why you couldn’t tell him about the kids. Especially when the only evidence is the photographs with them. As such, you show them to Aizen.

“When I passed onto the afterlife, I met some orphans, after whom I started to look after. Kind of amusing that I was the most recent one to come there, yet I became something like an older sibling to them.”

You tell Aizen some more about your life in the Rukongai, of the hardships and the joys you experienced together.

“I.. I care for them, I do not want for anything to happen to them. Especially not because of me.” You find small droplets form at the corners of your eyes, despite being able to keep your expression quite composed.

A moment of silence passes between you two.

“The laws protecting the nobility of Soul Society are much stricter and comprehensive than those of shinigami,” Aizen sighs. “Without direct evidence of something that breaks their laws, nothing can be done.”

“I-I’m supposed to just sit by and watch?!” you burst out slightly, before shaking your head. “Sorry…”

“What I’m trying to say, Koharu-san, is that without careful consideration, action against them may make you a criminal.”

Hearing this makes you bitter. Especially when you’re supposedly here to help save Soul Society from a danger lurking inside. How can you do that, when this society itself works against you?

“Can’t.. can’t you help me?” you plead.

Aizen closes his eyes.

>1/2

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“If you wish to remove the Shiraka, I cannot,” he begins, sternly, “but I can help keep attention away from you.”

“You have to understand though, that just talking about this is justification enough to be condemned.”

You swallow hard. “I-I understand.”

Another moment of silence passes.

“I personally recommend to wait and see what they want with you. Every noble family wants more power, this also includes collecting shinigami in higher positions.”

“You think.. they would want to force me to become their retainer?”

Aizen nods. “You won’t have a choice, but consider it this way: you will have access to their manor, and given your sharp senses, there’s a lot of things you could find there. An enemy that thinks they have you under control is a great advantage, Koharu.”

“So become their unwilling servant, to find a way to get back at them?”

Aizen nods once more. “You already have a powerful tool at your side Koharu, more powerful than anybody in the Seireitei can imagine.”

“But if you do go about doing that,” Aizen narrows his eyes even more, “I recommend practicing first, on suitable targets.”

You don’t know how to respond to that, at all. So silence ensues, until you thank Aizen for his time and help.

>2/2

>Head to the Shiraka manor. If they want themselves a retainer, they can have one.
>Asato-senpai owes you practise, and you sure as hell could use it to blow off steam.
>Find Hinamori and see if you can live up to Aizen’s expectations for training partners.
>Other?

>>4595237
>>Find Hinamori and see if you can live up to Aizen’s expectations for training partners.
Keikaku man teaches local trap the arts of the trade, more news at 11

>>4595237
>Find Hinamori and see if you can live up to Aizen’s expectations for training partners.

>Asato-senpai owes you practise, and you sure as hell could use it to blow off steam.
Don't want to go into evil bitch-lair while we're still angy

>>4595237
>Find Hinamori and see if you can live up to Aizen’s expectations for training partners.
All else aside she's actually really competent when it comes to kido.
And it will be funny.

>>4595237
>>4595241
Just remembered another quote that might be appropriate

(Paraphrased) A predictable enemy is the next best thing after a reliable ally

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>>4595241
>>4595245
>>4595248
>>4595250
It's Momo time!

>Writing

>>4595255
Bingo! Though if Aizen's actions in canon are anything to go by, it's
>What is better than a predictable enemy?
>You impersonating the enemy
>While your sword impersonates you

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Everything feels quite surreal as you leave Aizen’s office and back into the mundane shinigami life of Soul Society. Life.. or rather, afterlife gets a whole different aspect to it when you have to be afraid for the safety of your loved ones.

You decide to focus on duty, and go about finding your division’s Lieutenant, Hinamori Momo. Who knows, maybe you’ll actually get an honest friendship with her with this training.

You find her tending to a garden of all things, though you do figure it fits her much more than sitting in an office. Though now that you look at it a bit closer, you realize this is a garden that Aizen personally put up, with special plants and herbs.

So even at work, she’s all over Aizen’s stuff, you sigh.

“Hinamori-senpai,” you say to catch her attention, giving her a light scare.

“K-Koharu-chan?” she blinks.

“Sorry, didn’t mean to startle you. So uhm, would you like to do some training now?”

“Ah, well,” Hinamori massages her neck as she looks around at the garden. “I’ve still got a lot to tend to, you see…”

You close your eyes. “Ah, I understand. Aizen-taichō will have to wait with our results then…”

“I-I can finish this later! Let’s go!” Momo-chan completely changes her mind and drags you off towards a courtyard with a shunpo.

>1/2

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As you arrive at the place, your head is swirling. Has Momo-chan always been this fast? Maybe her being a Lieutenant is no joke afterall, despite all the gossip in your division.

You dust yourself off and cough out some dust that got in your lungs.

“S-Sorry,” Momo-chan smiles sheepishly.

“It’s alright,” you cough some more.

The two of you start the ‘training,’ with the kidō first. Despite Hinamori’s aptitude and expertise in the field, things aren’t going quite well. You realize that it’s because she’s distracted, and you have a strong suspicion on what it is.

“Okay, just spit it out,” you finally say as you have enough of the charade. “Clearly something is bothering you, and we’ll get nowhere like this.”

“W-What? It’s nothing!” she denies.

“Momo-san,” you say, deciding to address her less formally, and more casually, “I’m quite good at sensing almost every possible thing. Please, just… be honest.”

Momo sighs. “I’m that obvious, huh?”

You nod. The two of you sit down on a bench, and look over at the sky.

“Koharu-chan,” Hinamori finally speaks, “Just… what is your relationship with Aizen-sama?”

So it is envy afterall.

>2/2

>”He is my captain, an admirable man I wish to follow and support.”
>”He is my mentor, somebody from whom I’ve learnt a lot and have still much to learn.”
>”He is my friend, who I feel safe and comfortable with.”
>Other?

>>4595293
>”He is my mentor, somebody from whom I’ve learnt a lot and have still much to learn.”

>>4595293
>”He is my mentor, somebody from whom I’ve learnt a lot and have still much to learn.”

>>4595293
>”He is my mentor, somebody from whom I’ve learnt a lot and have still much to learn.”
>Add-on that he's kind of like a father-figure

>>4595305
>>4595313
>>4595317
Loud and clear. Writein will also give a small bonus.

>Roll 3d10, Bo3, DC 17, crit 24, Social (5) may replace lowest die.

>>4595293
>”He is my mentor, somebody from whom I’ve learnt a lot and have still much to learn.”
And one of the few people who are not completely dicks with me

Rolled 10, 10, 8 = 28 (3d10)

>>4595321

Rolled 10, 3, 6 = 19 (3d10)

>>4595321

Rolled 4, 6, 4 = 14 (3d10)

>>4595321
Ah, it's been a while since the dice have been rolled

>>4595326
Holy moley that's a blessed roll if I've ever seen one

>>4595326
Of all the things to get a crit on

>>4595333
Clowning on Momo is always a good thing to get a crit on

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>>4595326
>Making friends was the keikaku all along
>Writing

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“If I’d have to pick just one word, it’d be… Mentor.”

“Mentor?” Hinamori asks, to which you nod.

“I’ve learned a lot from him, even while I was at the academy, and I truly believe there is much more that I can learn from him. But it’s not just a relationship of a student and a teacher,” you explain, after which Momo turns to look at you more intently.

You sigh and burst out in a small laugh. “He’s kind of like a father figure to me, you know? Somebody I can trust to be on my side and by my side, and not against me.”

“I… I know exactly how you feel, Koharu-chan!” she cheers up, and looks intently at you. “He’s amazing, isn’t he? There’s nobody better than Aizen-sama!”

You blink as she starts fawning all over Aizen in front of you. “R-Right?”

“He’s so charming, he’s so classy, he’s so caring!” she continues on. “I’m… I’m sorry I felt displaced with you, but I’m so happy now that we can share these feelings!”

Oh.

Oh no.

She’s dragging you into the Aizen fanclub.

Sure, you have utmost respect for Aizen, but not this childlike obsession that Hinamori has. Unfortunately though, there’s little you can say or do now that wouldn’t damage your relationship, so you decide to just be quiet and go along with her antics. Perhaps with this drive and connection, you’ll be able to actually train efficiently.

“Yosha! Let’s get to training, Koharu-chan! Let’s make Aizen-sama proud!”

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I’ll have to call it here for today. There’s a chance that I’ll be able to do some sporadic updates tomorrow, but on Thursday we’ll be able to continue properly. Stay tuned on the updates.

It’s nice to run the quest again after a short break, it definitely came in a good spot. I also can’t believe it’s already been three months since Thread #1, time sure flies, huh?

>>4595350
Thanks for the run Trippy, these three months of this quest have been pretty fun

>>4595350
Glad you're back

No updates today unfortunately, but we'll continue tomorrow at 16:00 UTC!

>trap
>unnecessarily large number of waifus dangled in front of him
>husbandos too

A cruel QM indeed.

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“Kidō… I see it myself more like molding clay,” Hinamori begins the training session by explaining her own view and usage of the art.

“The numbered kidō system is good, don’t get me wrong! But it’s restrictive in a way..”

“What do you mean?” you ask.

“Maybe it’s easier to put it this way: have you ever used an unnumbered kidō?”

Your eyes widen, partially remembering Urahara’s explanation of reishi in general. “Reishi pads,” you realize, to which Hinamori cheerfully nods a few times.

“Exactly! This means though that there’s no ready incantations for such techniques and they’re much harder to focus on, but I think they’re nice to use alongside numbered kidō,” Hinamori explains.

“It sounds like you have something figured out?” you probe with a soft smile.

Hinamori looks like she gets serious, despite her smile, and nods. “I can show you! But I need some targets!”

You help her bring some six wooden logs to the field, and then stand aside as you watch her performance. Wordlessly, but with a brief shout, she takes a few flash steps around the targets, weaving orange, thick string-like kidō between and around the targets, which soon interconnect by themselves, forming something like a chaotic spiderweb.

“I call this a kidō web!” Momo explains, “I know it’s not a very imaginative name, but it works quite nicely! Especially when you combine it with numbered kidō.”

“Hadō #12: Fushibi!” Hinamori exclaims, and taps a finger on the string still attached to her vice-captain badge, and the whole net immolates into a blazing inferno. There’s absolutely nothing left of the wooden logs she used as targets, not even ashes.

You whistle and clap your hands. “That’s amazing!”

“I-I guess it is!” Momo giggles awkwardly. “I’ll do my best to help you figure it out!”

“Right, let’s try it then!” you say.

>Roll 3d10, Bo3, DC 12, crit 19, special crit 25, Mental (7) may replace lowest die.

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>>4596862
It is my duty to provide you a suitable selection, anon.

Rolled 9, 8, 4 = 21 (3d10)

>>4597152

Rolled 5, 8, 10 = 23 (3d10)

>>4597152

>>4597155
One under a crit the tradition continues

>>4597156
>>4597157
Good thing you made up for my near crit

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>>4597155
>21(24)
Classical koha-

>>4597156
>23(25)

Wew lads, expect something quite nice.
Technically there's one more roll needed to consider but it's optional at this point since you passed the second crit threshold

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You don’t recall too well just what exactly Hinamori did, but you got a good feel of it through your reikaku. In a way, the whole idea of a kidō feels eerily familiar, so you decide to follow through on that instinct.

“Right, so uhm, what you need to do…” Momo-chan starts to slowly explain, but you’re already way ahead. You clench your hand into a fist, focus your reiryoku on it, and reopen, finding a similar type of sticky reishi material in it.

“Actually, Momo-chan, could you bring a pair of those wooden targets? I think I got it.”

“E-Eh?!” Momo exclaims, but does as you ask of her. Once they’re in place, you casually walk over to one and touch it with the same hand. True enough, the reishi sticks to it, and as you move towards the other, more of it is ‘pulled’ out of your hand, forming a similar thing like what Hinamori produced, only purple, and it doesn’t branch out on its own. Only after you apply some clearer focus to that aspect does the purple reishi string turn into a proper web.

Hinamori is stunned, enough that she falls on her knees. “I-It took me years to figure it out…”

“It’s… don’t worry about it Momo-chan, I’m just better with the ‘shapeless’ stuff than the orderly. If you didn’t show it as well as you did, I doubt I’d be able to do this,” you try to console her.

“Fushibi, right?” you wonder quietly, and speak the full incantation for it. “Hadō #12: Fushibi!”

The string starts burning, but doesn’t explode like Hinamori’s, so the effect isn’t exactly that useful. The net doesn’t even really break yet despite burning, though that might be because your Fushibi isn’t strong enough compared to the web of reishi. However, the more you feel the kidō net, the more you realize something, that you can’t exactly explain. You ‘feel’ the wooden targets much better as they are connected to you by string.

You put the theory to a test and send a focused pulse of reiatsu through the net, and true enough, the wooden targets splinter lightly.

Your eyes widen. “It.. conducts reiatsu!”

>1/2

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“Thank you, Momo-chan,” you say as you go help her up from the ground, “This was only possible because of you.”

“T-Thanks, Koharu-chan… I’m just… frustrated. To see you do so much progress in such a short time, while I…” she says as she quickly dries the little tears forming at the corners of her eyes, before lifting her face to look at you directly.

“Um… Koharu-chan? A-Are your eyes okay?”

“Huh?” you blink. Rather quickly Momo takes out a mirror from a pocket of hers. Where she managed to store that thing is beyond your comprehension.

Looking into it, however, you see that your eyes have lightly faded into the same color as when you use Hanran, just to a much lesser effect.

“Uhhhh-” you hastily search for an explanation, “I have this, uh, weird illness, but it’s nothing serious. Just ignore it, I’m okay!”

Momo-chan doesn’t look too convinced despite your smile and laugh. She doesn’t pursue the topic beyond that however.

“A-Anyway, allow me to help you out in turn!” you exclaim and pat her shoulder as she pockets the small mirror. “Maybe I can help you advance somehow. Aizen-taichō has great hopes for our training, right? I’m sure he knew something should happen by making us train together.”

“You’re right!” Momo-chan instantly cheers up, “Aizen-sama believes in us!”

“R-Right!” you nod, but then instantly get stumped. “I’m not sure what exactly I can offer though… maybe hakuda, but I'm not an expert in that.”

“Aizen-sama praised you for your innovativeness!” Momo points out. “Well… maybe you can help me with my zanpakutō?” she suggests.

“Zanpakutō?”

“My zanpakutō, Tobiume, she… well…” Momo hesitates, and sighs. “I’m not sure how to proceed with her.”

You scratch the back of your head. “What does your zanpakutō do?”

Hinamori pokes her index fingers against each other. “She.. shoots fireballs.”

You nod, sort of waiting for more details, but that seems to be it. Based on what you’ve read and heard about zanpakutō’s, there should be an array of abilities, or rather applications of the base ability, multiple techniques.

>2/2

>”Show me what you can do, and then we can think about what we can change.”
>”Let’s spar then, see how it works with a live target.”
>Other?

>>4597171
>>”Show me what you can do, and then we can think about what we can change.”

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I'll wait for thirty minutes more for votes. Hopefully by then we'll have enough people so that we can get some rolls too.

>>4597171
>Let’s spar then, see how it works with a live target.”

>>4597171
>>”Show me what you can do, and then we can think about what we can change.”

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Rolled 7, 2, 9, 8 = 26 (4d10)

>>4597175
>>4597214
>>4597225
Let's see how well you can help Momo-chan.
>Roll 3d10, Bo3, DC 19, crit 26, Mental (7) may replace lowest die.
Also rolling for Momo.

Rolled 10, 1, 10 = 21 (3d10)

>>4597230

>>4597235
And that is another crit

Rolled 9, 5, 10 = 24 (3d10)

>>4597230
Momo’s fired up after we one upped her based on that roll

Rolled 3, 8, 8 = 19 (3d10)

>>4597230
Just woke up

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>>4597235
>21(26)
>>4597240
>24(25)
>>4597241
>19(23)

This is like deja-vu. Suffice to say, you may have just made Momo more useful in the future.
>Writing

>>4597240
She may be more or less motivated.

>>4597241
Good morning anon-san.

>>4597244
Not that it matter but changing >>4597240's five to a seven makes it another 26 not 25

>>4597248
I mistyped, my bad. Good catch! It might've not mattered here, but it could matter another time!

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“Maybe you should show me first what you can do? Then we can think together about what can be improved or changed,” you suggest.

Hinamori agrees with a nod and unsheathes her zanpakutō, holding it to the side of her body.

“Snap, Tobiume!” she exclaims, and pink swirling around the blade transforms it into its shikai form. The traditional katana morphs into a double-edged blade, and two jutte-like prongs appear on it, on opposite sides of the blade. The release of reiatsu that accompanies her is good, but quite soft, somewhat mimicking her gentle nature.

This training session feels somewhat like a P.E. class from highschool, with you carrying more wooden log targets from the nearby storage. With them once again in place, Hinamori shows Tobiume’s ability. A fireball forms at the blade, and Momo sends it flying with it, like swinging a baseball bat. As the burning orb is flying, it releases a sound not unlike a seagull cry.

The target explodes into minuscule, burning pieces, before disappearing into dust, with a shockwave causing you to flinch.

“T-That was quite a blast,” you praise her. “What have you tried to do with it, on top of shooting it?”

Hinamori blinks as she tilts her head. You feel like facepalming. Has.. has she really even tried to do anything with it? One can’t really gain any progress if they don’t even try to do anything…

“I mean,” you try to get your bearing and to figure out a way to break it down to her, “your zanpakutō has those prongs, right? They look like you could catch a sword or two with them.”

“REALLY?” Hinamori exclaims in joy. “I never thought about it like that!”

>1/3

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“Would your fireball work if shot at point blank? Say, while your enemy’s sword is stuck in those prongs?”

Momo’s jaw drops. “That’s… I… uh…”

You raise your hands. “I’m not going to volunteer as a test subject for that, that’s for sure. I’d probably die. But you could bug somebody who’s tougher than me.”

“Your zanpakutō, it’s essentially a kidō type, right?” you continue with your thoughts. “I don’t know, could you maybe-”

“-control it like kidō?” Hinamori finishes your thought with enlightened eyes, and throws herself at you for a hug. “Koharu-chan, you are a genius!”

“I-If you think so,” you blush and avert your eyes. “You’re already really good with kidō. I’m sure you could shape that fireball in various ways, the sky's the limit for you.”

“You’re absolutely right! Oh by the Reiō, I haven’t felt this motivated since my academy years! Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

“I-It’s fine,” you say as you try to pry her off of your body. “I think this is good enough for today, but if you’d like, we can meet up again for training, see how we’ve developed?”

Hinamori nods. “That’s a promise!” Momo extends her closed hand with only her pinkie extended. You sigh with a smile, and extend your own hand.

“Promise.”

>2/3

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A week passes as you tend to your rather dull shinigami duties and continue to practice with Hinamori. On one morning, you are summoned by Aizen to his office.

“You called for me, Aizen-san?”

“Ah, Koharu-san, please, come in,” he welcomes you, and you close the sliding door behind you.

“I have a favor to ask of you. I wanted to visit our friend at the forest today, but my duties won’t permit me. Perhaps you would like to go in my stead?” he smiles at you. You find it slightly odd that he actually is busy, but shrug it off. It’s not like you know just how much work captain’s have, though you’ve heard that some like to dump most of it to their lieutenants.

“What would I do about my duties?” you ask.

“I can arrange for another officer to deal with that,” he waves off. “I think this would be a great opportunity for you as well, in more ways than one. There’s only so much you can learn from paperwork and patrolling.”

“Of course, this is only if you want to.”

>3/3

>”If you see it beneficial, I’ll of course do it.”
>”I don’t want to risk it. Last time I was safe thanks to you.”
>Other?

>>4597304
>”If you see it as beneficial, I’ll of course do it.”

>>4597304
>”If you see it beneficial, I’ll of course do it.”
>Do you have any general objectives or may I act fully at my own discretion?

>>4597304
>”If you see it beneficial, I’ll of course do it.”
He is up to something though

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>>4597305
>>4597306
>>4597307
>Writing

>>4597307
>He is up to something though
Whaaat? Whatever made you think of such a thing?

>>4597317
His name is Aizen

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“If you see it as beneficial, I’ll of course do it, Aizen-san. Is there anything… specific that you’d like for me to accomplish, or am I acting fully at my own discretion?”

Aizen shakes his head. “Only make sure our friend is secure. Otherwise… do as you please, Koharu, without reservations,” he says and glances shortly towards the ceiling, and back to you.

You bow in gratitude, and leave his office. Making sure you have Lizzy with you, you finally dare to take him a little more out into the open, now that you don’t have anyone tailing you.

“I want you to meet somebody,” you smile as you rub the lizard’s mask with your finger, as you soar through the air with flash steps.

The single digit districts go by, then the tens, twenties, until you’re finally home, in the fifties. Last time you went straight to the forest with Aizen, as it was very much a business trip, but now you are on your own, and at your own pace.

“Maybe,” you think aloud as you consider visiting the kids once more. Seeing them safe would bring you relief and joy, especially since you haven’t heard from the Shiraka since you got those photos.

On the other hand, would it be wise to go see them at all?

>Continue straight to the Wailing Forest, stick to your task.
>Make a detour, visit your adopted siblings. You were given freedom, afterall.
>Other?

>>4597344
>Make a detour, visit your adopted siblings. You were given freedom, afterall.

>>4597344
>do as you please, Koharu, without reservations,
We're not fucking a plant. It's not gonna happen. It'll never be a thing. Cease. There is a zero per cent chance. In no realms under or in heaven is there a possibility of lecherous physical intimacy. Probably?

>Make a detour, visit your adopted siblings. You were given freedom, afterall.
I mean come on. How could we not?

>>4597344
If we're going on a sidetrip to visit the kiddos, we need to be sneaky about it since there might be an agent sent to watch them.

>>4597367
That's why I wanted to visit actually. Not that confronting a spy would be productive but just knowing whether or not they're still being watched is important knowledge. That'll determine whether the photo was a scare tactic or a legit blackmail. Extortion? Threat.

>>4597344
>Make a detour, visit your adopted siblings. You were given freedom, afterall.
We'd have to be dead to not check in on our little bros and sisters

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>>4597355
>>4597356
>>4597367
>>4597375
Visiting family!
>Writing

>>4597367
>sneaky
This is doable, yes. If you have any other ideas on top of that on how to proceed with things, I'll incorporate them in the update.

>>4597356
>lewding
bonk

Oh, also roll for sneeki-breekiness.
>Roll 3d10, Bo3, DC 17, crit 23, Mobility (5) may replace lowest die.

>>4597377
Sometimes you just gotta think; "What would Aizen do?".

Rolled 10, 4, 9 = 23 (3d10)

>>4597378
bruh I know you didn't just eat my roll. Dammit Aizen.

Roll damn you.

>>4597377

Rolled 5, 6, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>4597377
I guess the first thing to do would be to make a general scan of the place to make sure no one's spying on them in person

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>>4597378
>>4597379
>23(24)
>>4597380
>16
>What would Aizen do
Looks like that line of thought keeps you on the crit train.

>Writing

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You haven’t seen the kids in almost a year, since December, you won’t pass this chance up.

However, you’re keenly aware of the possibility that the Shiraka family has set up something, either to monitor them, or to make sure you don’t meddle. You do your best at suppressing your reiatsu and entering the Nakashiri district. You even find some sack cloth that you wrap around yourself to hide your shihakusho.

The Rukongai is unchanging, a fact that is quite unfortunate. Ordinary souls live out their afterlife either in hard work to provide nutrients for the shinigami, or in poverty. It isn’t a wonder that children dream of becoming shinigami to escape either dull fate.

A fate that you were never destined for from the start, and a fate that your adoptive siblings too, wish to avoid by following in your footsteps.

As you approach the area with your house, you keep out of sight and use all of your senses to their full capacity. Some of the children are inside, but others are somewhere outside, based on their faint, but very familiar reiatsus. Nobody ever stops by the narrow alley which leads to the humble house you built together, so it became very quickly evident that there are four people standing watch.

You clench your fist, as you suppress the anger boiling inside of you. You swear, if they even as much as touch them, they will find no peace in this afterlife, or their next life.

These are regular souls however, with ordinary weapons. While they’re quite threatening to the commoners of Rukongai, they are nothing against a shinigami. One of them seems quite capable though, most likely the leader of this bunch.

If they go missing or get alarmed though, no doubt the Shiraka family will notice.

>Sneak through the rooftops and see the kids now.
>Deal with all four of them. They threatened you, now you’ll threaten them.
>This could be an opportunity to practice ‘that’ which Aizen hinted at.
>Other?

>>4597409
>>This could be an opportunity to practice ‘that’ which Aizen hinted at.
Slippery slope, what's that?

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I'll leave the vote open over night, it's getting quite late and my eyes are starting to close. I'll wrap up this session tomorrow with a few spaced updates. Have a good night!

>>4597414
Thanks for staying around, anon.

>>4597409
>This could be an opportunity to practice ‘that’ which Aizen hinted at.
Is it time to use Jorogumo/Hanran on a non-hollow target?

>>4597409
>This could be an opportunity to practice ‘that’ which Aizen hinted at.

>>4597414
>>4597443
>>4597447
I'll prompt the roll before I sleep in this case!
>Roll 3d10, Bo3, DC 21, crit 27, Mental (7) may replace lowest die.
Mediating the mind, and a little bit of Hanran spice.

Rolled 2, 4, 9 = 15 (3d10)

>>4597450

Rolled 2, 4, 2 = 8 (3d10)

>>4597450
Sheeeeiiiit

Rolled 4, 5, 6 = 15 (3d10)

>>4597450
AHHHHHH

Rolled 7, 5, 7 = 19 (3d10)

>>4597450

>>4597477
>>4597470
>>4597466
>Rolls go to shit the moment goes away
She was our good luck charm

>>4597483
Nah man you just need pep. Confidence. ENERGY.

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>being nice to Momo is good for us

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>4597734
Hey man why the long face? It's not like she's in danger or anything maaaan. Here have a percentile of how at risk she is.

>>4597739
I want the bad things to happen to her.
>78%
Not good enough

>>4597743
That's like super not chill man. How could you want such a kind and precious and not at all brainwashed little lady to suffer man?

>not good enough
>little does he know these are X-Com percentages where it's all made up and failure in inevitable

>>4597466
>>4597470
>>4597477
I guess we'll have to kick them around a bit first to loosen them up.

Rolled 1, 1, 8 = 10 (3d10)

>>4597978
Like any good pokesoul, you have to beat the shit out of them first.

>>4597241
>Wake up exited to read quest.
>Make post
>Forget about it for 12 hours.
Why am I like this?

>>4598076
Because you have a crippling addiction to methamphetamine and just barely long enough skirts.

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>>4597466
>15(20)
>>4597470
>8(13)
>>4597477
>15(18)

Oh fuck. It's time for consequences.
>Writing

>XCOM percentiles
That's why you mod the game into a form where it's a lot more dependent on the circumstances and environment than dice rolls.
>"Yes, fuck yes, I'll shoot this ayyy point blank in the face"
>Soldier proceeds to turn 50 degrees diagonally and misses
>"RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE"

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>>4598357
>Ah yes, my fifth 99% chance to hit, this will be child's pla-
>miss
>hits terrain nearby
>it's explosive and detonates
>kills nearby squad member
>squad death causes another squaddie to suffer a mental break and berserk
>berserking squaddie guns down nearby veteran with an 11% chance to hit
X-COM BABY WOOO

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>>4598361
>pic related

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As much as you’d like to just go and see your little brothers and sisters, you hate the idea of being possibly interrupted and putting the kids in danger.

So you make a decision.

Aizen talked about finding ‘suitable targets’ for practicing it, and you’re convinced these four bastards are just that. You find one of those crooks standing at the mouth of an alleyway, watching the entrance your kids always take to enter the house. It isn’t hard at all to get behind him.

“Mediate, Naimen no Daiza,” you whisper, and your zanpakutō transforms once more into the chalice hilt you’re accustomed to. With a short yank backwards and your other hand to the crook’s mouth, you place the flat side of the blade against the man’s body, letting what little reiatsu he has seep into the blade.

The familiar sensation pulls you into the lucid mind of this guy. The mindscape is changing, partially reflecting the actual place where you are standing with him, and his memories and thoughts twisting everything bit by bit.

“Zilya,” you call inwards, “that one time you implied you could help me make him a servant?”

Her voice slowly fades in with some echo. “Why, yes. You need only will it, darling.”

“Right,” you close your eyes, and focus on Naimen no Daiza to force your changes into this mind.

You want to make him your servant, to follow your every bidding, to become a tool of your revenge. You feel a cold shiver down your spine as you think about just what you are doing, the implications of it. You are overriding another being’s will, removing the freedom that you yourself coveted for all of your childhood.

Was this right?

“Idiot! Don’t hesitate!”

The mindscape starts to twist rapidly into darker themes, and you panic just enough to disengage your own mind with the crook’s.

>1/2

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Opening your eyes, you find the guy’s own eyes rolled back and his mouth foaming. Instinctively, you step back, and the man falls to his knees.

You have a really bad feeling about this, as you feel his emotions in chaos, and something sinister but familiar happening to his chest. He draws his sword as he gets up, and walks into the street, laughing like a madman, scaring the everloving shit out of civilians.

“Shit,” you curse under your breath. This isn’t at all what you wanted, especially not a volatile, dangerous madman close to your siblings’ house.

Dealing with him would be easy for you, but dealing with him directly would of course lead to questions. You could wait and see if the other three crooks will react in some way and deal with him, but can you really trust them to do that?

Especially when there’s a chance he’ll hurt your brothers and sisters?

>2/2

>Stay away from this, you can’t be seen here.
>Follow him. Act if he’s about to hurt any of your siblings.
>Follow him. Act before he hurts anybody.
>Deal with him now, you don’t want the blood of others on your hands through his.
>Other?

>>4598387
>Follow him. Act before he hurts anybody.
Panic?

>>4598387
>>Follow him. Act before he hurts anybody.
Just be sure to be quick about it. Nobody even needs to see us hit the guy. I hope. Hey maybe he's just super happy and has a positive outlook on afterlife?

>>4598387
>>Deal with him now, you don’t want the blood of others on your hands through his.

>>4598387
>Follow him. Act if he’s about to hurt any of your siblings.

>>4598387
>Follow him. Act if he’s about to hurt anyone, whether they're one of your siblings or not

>>4598389
>>4598391
>>4598394
>>4598421
>>4598428
>Koharu is actually being a responsible adult
>Writing

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>>4598667
Some stuff has actually come up, and I have to end this session here and continue with your decision next time. I'd run over the weekend, but I need to sort some shit out, so expect the next session to be on Monday 11th, 16:00 UTC as usual, same thread.

Sorry for the abrupt pause, but I'll make it up to you with the next one!

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>>4598705

>>4598705
Take care Trippy

So, all this talk about Waifus and Husbandos, but nobody's talking about such an obvious choice:

Yuushiro. Combines the best of both worlds, is cute, and they can be traps together. That'd lead to loads of shenanigans.

>>4599239
Nah. Flytrap lady is better. And we don't even know her. Yuushiro is bottom tier. Just like how he gets yeeted out of the story. RIP

>>4599246
Well that's just, like, your opinion man. But yeah a lot of the better characters didn't get a satisfying ending...

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>>4599239
>trap gang
Well, that certainly could be a possibility..

>>4599246
>>4599739
Good thing we can rectify those mistakes in this quest. At least I hope I'm competent enough to not fall into the same problems as kubo

>>4599780
The fuck did I miss since thread one? We're a trap now? Is Kekiku man still bad man?

>>4599920
>We're a trap now
>now
>since thread one

>>4599920
>Kekiku man is indeed still bad man, but we think he is good man

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>>4599926
>>4599935
but
why?>>4599920

>>4599937
It's like the entire premise of the quest
Trappy soul reaper infiltrates keikaku while maybe possibly being infiltrated by various meatheads

>>4599937
>mc is trap
>new hollow lady was a venus flyTRAP
Twenty bucks says another new character is either a trapper in life or a person who literally just makes traps.

It is inevitable.

>>4599920
>>4599937
>Who are we?
>Nakashiri Koharu, a former 10th grade (high schooler) trap...

It's literally been in the opening post of every thread so far. We are often described as girly, wearing girls' clothes, and being mistaken for a girl. The QM has constantly posts Astolfo reactions.

I'd say you missed quite a lot.

>>4599920
You usually incredibly dense?

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>>4599239
>an obvious choice
What about Charlotte Coolhorn

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You are Nakashiri Koharu, and you’ve just fucked up.

>https://audius.co/qmtrippy/07-creping-shadows-93774

Your aim was to make this man working for the Shiraka to become your pawn through the use of your zanpakutō’s shikai ability of mediation.

Hesitation however, caused it to go wrong. Very wrong.

You don’t know what changes exactly you’ve forced upon that soul’s mind, but he’s become volatile and a liability. He’s walking down the street with a drawn sword, eyes completely open and a menacing grin on his face.

Despite your instincts to panic, you manage to keep a calm head, stay hidden and observe for now, ready to spring into action if or when a civilian gets hurt. You’ve trained to fight hollows, not people, and you’re afraid of crossing that line.

Yet, if things get really bad, you resolve yourself to stain your zanpakutō with non-hollow blood if it comes to it. For the sake of your siblings, and the innocent.

The madman continues to seek a target among the remaining terrified and paralyzed rukongai citizens, when the three other men, tasked with watching the kids, finally show up to figure out what’s wrong.

“Sanjuro! Get a hold of yourse-” one of them approaches him, but gets a swing in return by the madman he tried to address, getting a shallow cut to his chest.

“Grab him!” another one of them shouts, and they grapple him from all sides.

However, you get a sickening feeling in your stomach as you realize that the madman’s, Sanjuro’s, reiatsu is rising.

And it’s rather malevolent.

>Go in and restrain Sanjuro. The three others may be your enemies, but they don’t deserve to die for your mistakes.
>Sanjuro is clearly becoming a bigger threat. It’s for the best of everyone that you go in and kill him now.
>Continue to just watch. Maybe… he will deal with those three for you.
>Other?

>>4602936
>Go in and restrain Sanjuro. The three others may be your enemies, but they don’t deserve to die for your mistakes.

>>4602936
>Continue to just watch. Maybe… he will deal with those three for you.

>>4602936
>Other?
>Observe briefly while remaining stealthed but if he’s going for a kill shot yoink him away with Hainawa then shunpo to a secluded area to try again/fix this.

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>>4602946
>>4602948
>>4602952
Unexpectedly, we're at a 3-way tie. I'll wait for a little longer for a tiebreaker, but if none comes, we'll go with the write-in.

>>4602936
>Other?
>Observe briefly while remaining stealthed but if he’s going for a kill shot yoink him away with Hainawa then shunpo to a secluded area to try again/fix this.

>>4602963
I think I’ll change to observe until there’s only one guy left standing/aware before yoinking him with Hainawa. Or at least until we could instantly KO everyone from a concealed position to preserve operational security. Harsh but necessary.

>>4602969
Nevermind someone picked up my vote. Maybe just add bonking everyone before we leave to keep identity secret.

>>4602946
>>4602948
>>4602952
>>4602966
>>4602969
>>4602971
>Hainawa-yoinking is a go.
These are general tier mooks who don't know shunpo, they won't really have the time to see what even happens.

>Writing

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You hesitate again, juggling between acting now and observing for a little longer. He’s contained for a moment, but as his reiatsu increases, he manages to push one, then another, and finally the third person off of him, as he screams and laughs incomprehensibly.

And as he’s about to strike his comrade, you spring to action.

“Bakudō #4: Hainawa!” you proclaim, as you shunpo behind the madman and bind him with the crackling yellow energy, binding him, and leave the same instant with another shunpo. You doubt they could get a proper look at you while on the ground and with your speed, so you just focused on removing the threat. There’s only one place that you can trust will have the privacy you need, and that is the Wailing Forest.

As you finally stop, Sanjuro’s body is half-conscious on the ground from all that rapid movement that an average soul is unused to. Unfortunately, your reikaku still shows that his reiatsu is building up. You swear his twitching body is larger than before, and you finally notice what’s been bugging you for a while now:

His chest.

It looks like a part of it is peeling away, with only blackness revealed underneath it.

“A h-hollow hole?!” you exclaim as you realize what it is. This man is becoming a demihollow, and at this rate he might become a full-on hollow, unless you do something.

You take a deep breath as you calm your nerves, and repeat words of wisdom.

What would Aizen do?

>Kill him. That is the most merciful thing you can do right now.
>Try to fix him once more with Naimen no Daiza.
>Take him to Lahela.
>Take him to the forest Queen.
>Other?

>>4602987
>Try to fix him once more with Naimen no Daiza.

>>4602987
>Try to fix him once more with Naimen no Daiza.

>>4602987
>Try to fix him once more with Naimen no Daiza.

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>>4602991
>>4602992
>>4602996
>Roll 3d10, Bo3, Mental (7) may replace lowest die
>DC 18 to stop the hollowfication
>DC 24 to unfuck the mind
>DC 27 to make him obey you

Rolled 5, 8, 6 = 19 (3d10)

>>4602998

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Rolled 2, 9, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>4602998

Rolled 8, 10, 4 = 22 (3d10)

>>4602998

Rolled 1, 1, 6 = 8 (3d10)

>>4602998

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>>4603007
>19(21)
>>4603023
>14(19)
>>4603024
>22(25)

Congratulations, you save the sorry lad from madness.
>Writing

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Drawing Naimen no Daiza, you release its shikai.

“Please, let this work,” you mutter as you press the flat side of the blade on Sanjuro’s head.

What you find inside his head is rather terrifying, but thanks to your experience with Lahela, it is quite mild. His memories and thoughts are a mess, shifting the mindscape from one scene to another, where he is killing and slaughtering others. Past victims, friends, even.. his family.

“P-Please… somebody… please, make this end!”

>https://audius.co/qmtrippy/10-will-of-the-heart-93781

You swallow hard. He’s going through a personal hell, thanks to your actions. With a resolve to save his life, you set out to heal the mental damage you’ve caused.

“Celaris, please… aid me,” you whisper as you approach Sanjuro.

“As you wish, Koharu.”

The source of his hollowfication is the lingering reiryoku linked to Zilya, which slowly corrupted his soul, twisting it and destroying his heart. With the help of Celaris, you draw it out of Sanjuro.

The mindscape shifts and finally shatters, leaving only pitch black. The sword in his hand falls from his grip and disintegrates, and he himself falls down on his knees, sobbing. You stand behind him, feeling pity and regret.

“Sanjuro, it’s… all over now.”

He turns his head slowly to look at you. “Y-You?”

“You are safe now,” you kneel beside him and put a hand on his shoulder. Sanjuro keeps weeping, as he puts his own hand on yours.

“T-Thank the Reiō, I was… I killed… so many…”

He tells you about all the people he has killed, justifying it as surviving himself, to get food for his sick son. How the threshold to kill only went lower, until after the death of his son he lost sight of why he was killing in the first place. Listening to this, you feel tears run down your cheeks as well. You are somewhat happy however, that somehow, you managed to turn a mistake that put him through hell into a cathartic resolution for him.

Of course, he does not know you were the cause of this peril, and despite your guilt, you do not tell him. However, you can’t find the resolution in your heart to tamper with his mind any more, despite the fact that he’s at his most vulnerable right now.

>1/2

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By the time Sanjuro comes to himself, you’ve dispelled Hainawa and sealed Naimen no Daiza, and have brought some fruit of the forest for both of you to eat, making sure they’re not the Queen’s berries.

“Here,” you offer him some of the fruit.

“You.. you’re-” he realizes as he speaks. “You’re that Nakashiri girl? We’re..”

“Supposed to be on the lookout for me?” you say, pushing the fruit into his hands. “I know.”

“Why did you save me?”

“I’m a shinigami. You are not my enemy, hollows are,” you explain despite that not being wholly true. “You may be doing something I don’t like, such as possibly being a threat to people I care about, but I’m no murderer.”

At that statement, Sanjuro looks to the side, in shame.

“I will never pick up a sword again,” he says as he clenches his fist. "Never."

You take a bite of a fruit as you consider what to say.

>2/2

>”That’s probably for the best. That’s the best way to honor your son.”
>”Carrying a sword should have a reason. I carry mine to protect others.”
>Other?

>>4603058
>”Carrying a sword should have a reason. I carry mine to protect others.”

>>4603058
>>”That’s probably for the best. That’s the best way to honor your son.”
Let the man alone.

>>4603058
>”Carrying a sword should have a reason. I carry mine to protect others.”

>>4603058
>”Carrying a sword should have a reason. I carry mine to protect others.”

>>4603058
>”Carrying a sword should have a reason. I carry mine to protect others. If you want to atone for your mistakes, maybe you can find it in your heart to look out for those children?”

>>4603060
>>4603064
>>4603070
>>4603072
>>4603074
Alright, let's see if you can convince the man to pick up the sword again, and possibly look after the kids.

>Roll 3d10, Bo3, Social (5) may replace lowest die
>DC 16 to motivate him

Rolled 9, 3, 6 = 18 (3d10)

>>4603079

Rolled 1, 10, 9 = 20 (3d10)

>>4603079
MOTIVATION you say?

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>>4603081
>18(20)
>>4603086
>20(24)

Well, it's a pass with flying colors, even without the third roll.
>Writing

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“Carrying a sword should have a reason, a purpose,” you offer him the thought. “I carry mine to protect others, especially those I care about.”

You find yourself thinking about your purpose in life, and afterlife. Yes, you’re protecting your adoptive siblings, but on the larger scale, you’re protecting a lot more too, as well as your dear friends from the living realm. By being with Akane and Chie, you put them at risk of being attacked by hollows, so when you were given the choice to go to Soul Society by Urahara, you took it. By having ties with the Rukongai children and defying the social and political norms of Seireitei, you’ve put them in danger.

Looking at your zanpakutō, you realize just how much weight it holds at the end of the day.

“I know the guilt you feel, I experienced it with you when I pulled you out of there. You can’t undo the past, but you can affect the future.”

You face him properly now as you sit, putting the peels of the fruit you just ate to the side. “Those children are important to me, Sanjuro. I would like to ask you to pick up your sword one more time, to protect them.”

“Do it to honor your son.”

Sanjuro is stricken by your words, and stays silent for a long while. Finally, you see him find his resolve.

“I will, shinigami from Nakashiri,” he bows his head.

“...You can just call me Koharu.”

“Very well, Koharu-san. I don’t know what will happen however. If… if I remember right, I attacked my comrades.”

He makes a point, he did attack them, something the three others will no doubt report to the Shiraka. If he returns, there’s going to be questions and possibly he’ll be moved elsewhere, or even punished.

>Ask him to return to them. Him going missing is a bigger alarm than trying to explain things.
>Suggest he hide and live with the children. It’s about time they get an adult in their life.
>Other?

>>4603117
>This is a tough one.
>Suggest he hide and live with the children. It’s about time they get an adult in their life.

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>>4603117
>QM shall take a small pause since there seems to be a pause in votes
Will do a few more updates today if votes come, otherwise we shall possibly continue tomorrow, just need to check my schedule with uni.

>>4603117

>Ask him to return to them. Him going missing is a bigger alarm than trying to explain things.

>>4603117
>>Suggest he hide and live with the children. It’s about time they get an adult in their life.

>>4603117
>Suggest he hide and live with the children. It’s about time they get an adult in their life.

>>4603117
>Suggest he hide and live with the children. It’s about time they get an adult in their life.

>>4603122
>>4603148
>>4603149
>>4603151
>>4603157
>Writing
>Parental figure get

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“You could live with the kids, perhaps move with them to a safer place,” you suggest. “They sure as hell deserve a proper parental figure, you know.”

Sanjuro scratches the back of his head. “A parent… Even though I was tasked with…”

You shake your head. “That’s in the past now. If the Shiraka were ready to threaten children just out of spite, I don’t want to imagine what they’d do with those who defy their wishes.”

Sanjuro shudders at the thought. “Good point. Maybe… maybe it’s not so bad, starting a new life, after all that madness. I guess I finally snapped after all those years.”

You remain silent about your part in this, feeling only a stone of guilt for orchestrating his temporary descent into insanity.

Returning back to the Nakashiri district from the Wailing Forest, you find that two of the three other bandits have gone. One most likely to inform their masters of what has transpired, while another is probably looking for Sanjuro. This is fortunate in that it leaves only one of them watching the house you built with the kids over a year ago.

Entering through the secret backdoor, the kids get scared out of their pants before realizing it’s you and being overcome with joy. It looks like everyone is present too.

“Onee-sama!” they all exclaim as they flock around you for a hug, and you just pat their heads with a warm smile.

“Hey there, I came for a visit!”

Toru-kun however goes on guard the moment he sees Sanjuro. “G-Guys! Be on guard, one of those thugs followed Koharu-oneesama!” he exclaims as he takes a knife from his pocket and aims it at him.

“Relax!” you calm him down, “He’s not an enemy… wait, you know who he is?”

“For sure! Him and three others have been creeping up on us for a while now!” Toru-kun explains, still keeping the knife pointed at Sanjuro. “I’m sure he wants to kidnap us… or something!”

You can’t help but sigh in relief. Maybe even if you didn’t do something, the kids could survive and adapt. “Well, this is Sanjuro, and… well?” you say and look at him.

“Hey, uh.. I’ve… I want to help you guys,” he says, looking especially at Toru-kun. Looking closer, you have a suspicion that the boy reminds him of his late son.

“It doesn’t look like we got off to a good start, but if you can, give me a chance, okay? I.. I want to do the right thing for once in my life.”

His speech is convincing enough for Toru-kun, as he lowers the knife. “Well, if oneesama thinks you’re okay, then you have to be… jiisan.”

“Jiisan?!” Sanjuro furrows his brows, but the room fills with laughter before he manages to say anything.

>1/2

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As the kids got to know Sanjuro a little more, it becomes apparent just how much of a dad he really is. The kids also really like him, and he’s great with all of them. Although they met only today, you already see that him and Toru-kun may become quite close in time.

This is good, as now you have somebody you can reasonably trust with the kids, even if this wasn’t your initial intention. You feel a little baffled too by just how easily you were going to brainwash and… enslave this man.

Is this.. really how you want to use your powers?

You shake off those thoughts for now. As much as you’d like to abstain from amoral acts, the Shiraka are a great reminder that you will have to use those powers against this system of overprotected nobles.

This brings you to another thought: Should you ignore the Shiraka now that you’ve somewhat secured the people they were threatening to hurt, or should you keep them in the belief that you don’t know about this happening? If you were to become their retainer, pretending to be afraid for the kids, you could keep them on their toes even more, and jump ship at any point.

You’re pulled out of your thoughts as Sanjuro walks up to you, and asks about the whole moving process. It’s best to do sooner than later, with only one person present, so you explain the situation roughly to the kids.

“I will figure out a way to find you, don’t worry, okay?” you assure them. With one last group hug, you send them with Sanjuro on their way while you see to their immediate safety from above. You’d have loved to spend even more time with them, but this will have to do.

Once you can guarantee their safety, then you can relax with them.

>2/2

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We’ll stop here for today. I’m still unsure about tomorrow, but unless something comes up, we shall continue this session tomorrow at 16:00 UTC.

Good night anons, I hope you enjoyed it!

>>4603245
Good night

>>4603245
Thanks for the run Trippy, goodnight

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With all that business out of the way, you can finally have some peace of mind. While you only met Sanjuro today, you have the confidence that he will really keep the kids safe after what he’s gone through mentally. Sure, you orchestrated it all and the whole thing leaves a bad taste in your mouth, but you justify it with the fact that other alternatives would have possibly been much more cruel.

Leaving a life of murder and servitude behind to become an adoptive dad doesn’t really sound that bad in the end.

Now you find yourself at the edge of the Wailing Forest, the place where Aizen primarily sent you off to, in order to check up on Lahela. You can somewhat sense her, quite faintly, amid the background reiatsu of the Queen’s roots and growth.

You haven’t seen Lahela in a week or so now, since her transformation into what Aizen calls an arrancar. You hope that regaining some of her humanity is serving her well. Aizen and you offered the same treatment for the Queen as well, but she was very skeptical. You’re also really worried about the possibility of her accepting it, as she is much, much stronger than you.

>Go find Lahela
>Go find the Queen
>Other?

>>4604046
>Go find Lahela
Business first

>>4604046
>Go find Lahela

>Go find Lahela

>>4604056
>>4604064
>>4604070
>Writing

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“Lahela?”

You announce yourself to her as she’s feasting on some fruit of the forest, and you find both of you being confused as hell.

“K-Koharu? You’re backss?” she swallows a piece after almost choking on it.

“Yeah… wait, you can.. you can eat that?” you ask, pointing at her food.

“Turnss out having human gutss allow me to eat more diversse stuff, whaddoyaknow!”

“That’s.. great!” you smile, feeling genuinely happy. You had been worried about how Lahela would survive in this place with her lingering hunger, but then again, she survived while being stuck in one place due to her old body.

“It’ss much better than hollow meat, at leasst.”

“I se- wait, hollows eat.. hollows?” you find yourself being surprised.

“Yup. That wass my only option back thenss.”

You continue exchanging news about your lives. Lahela tells you about her wanderings around the forest, and that she has even snuck out into the city a few times with a disguise. You on the other hand tell about your predicament with a noble family, the threats on your adoptive siblings.

“Aizen-ssama has vissited ass well. He evens helped me figure thiss out!” Lahela says with a confident smile as she shows you her ‘zanpakutō,’ the regular katana but with a white sheath of the same material as her bone fragment, and some actual little vines coiling around the hilt.

“What do you mean? As in, release it?” you ask.

“Yess! I can turns mysself back- er, partially, into my old form by abssorbing the ssword. Aizen-ssama callss it a resurrección.”

That’s… that sounds spanish?

>Ask her to just show how it works to you.
>Maybe this is a good chance for training for both of you.
>Other?

>Maybe this is a good chance for training for both of you.

>>4604094
>Maybe this is a good chance for training for both of you.

>>4604094
>Maybe this is a good chance for training for both of you.

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>>4604098
>>4604099
>>4604106
>Writing

>>4604094
>Maybe this is a good chance for training for both of you.

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“Well, how about we test it out then?” you suggest.

“What?” she asks. “Like a fight?”

You nod. “I don’t know about you, but I could use the workout to get this stress out of my system. You probably want to find out what you can do yourself too, right?”

“I-I do! Okayss, you’re on! Don’t regretss it though!”

“What’s this, concern from a hollow?” you jest. “Come on, show me what you can do!”

You both draw your swords and take a ready stance. You wait for her to make a move, which she’s clearly hesitating to do. Maybe she’s not used to being the active assailant? You take the first step and charge at her.

From your first exchanges of swings, the difference in experience is clear. She has no training with a sword whatsoever, but you find that your sword doesn’t even make a scratch on Lahela.

“That’ss Hierro!” Lahela boasts. “My sskin hass become hard as ssteel!”

“Neat,” you nod, and give her a kick coupled with hakuda. This clearly deals more damage to her than any swing. “Looks like it’s not that good against blunt attacks though.”

“Pessky little fly…!” Lahela groans as she raises up from the ground. “I-I will gets you!”

The battle continues, but even if her strength is quite good, enough to make you think twice about directly blocking her attacks, your quickness keeps you away from harm’s way by a long shot. And this is even without shunpo, which you use just as Lahela is about to hit you.

“N-No fair!” she pouts as she realizes you’ve teleported in her eyes.

>Use this as an opportunity to make her basics better. Maybe even try to teach shunpo.
>Urge her to release her zanpakutō. That should even the odds. Possibly.
>Other?

>>4604134
>>Use this as an opportunity to make her basics better. Maybe even try to teach shunpo.

>>4604134
>Use this as an opportunity to make her basics better. Maybe even try to teach shunpo.

>>4604134
>>Use this as an opportunity to make her basics better. Maybe even try to teach shunpo

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Rolled 5, 1, 3, 1 = 10 (4d10)

>>4604139
>>4604140
>>4604146
Koharu teaching mode activated.
>Roll 3d10, Bo3, DC 15, Social (5) may replace lowest die.
>Rolling for Lahela

Rolled 9, 4, 9 = 22 (3d10)

>>4604153
Dang that roll was rough

Rolled 5, 3, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>4604153

>>4604160
Yup, looks like she ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. But if you guys roll well above the threshold, it might balance out.

>>4604153
First time trying to roll from my phone

Rolled 4, 1, 9 = 14 (3d10)

>>4604169
Trying again

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>>4604160
>22(23)
>>4604163
>13(15)
>>4604173
>14(18) (You got it anon!)

Koharu manages to somewhat go around Lahela's deficiencies.
>Writing

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“Eh, I…” you scratch the back of your head as you realize just how wide the gap is right now between you and Lahela. “Okay. Let me help you out here, Lahela.”

You give Lahela a crash course on… well, a lot of things. The basics of reiatsu and coating one’s body and items with it to increase their destructiveness. One thing she clearly should learn though, is shunpo.

Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done.

“H-How?!” she keeps asking as much as you try to guide her. You feel a bit frustrated by now, with little progress she's getting with shunpo compared to hakuda and zanjutsu basics.

Then, you feel a nagging sensation at the back of your head, which you realize is Zilya. You haven’t yet found a way to communicate with those two outside of Jinzen or their respective Nikai’s, but it looks like she found one way.

By thrashing about in your inner world.

“Just one moment,” you tell Lahela as you sit down and close your eyes. The moment you get there, Zilya is in front of you, looking frustrated.

“How. Are. You. Not. Getting it?” Zilya groans.

You take an intuitive step back as she startles you. “W-What do you mean?!”

“Stop trying to teach the twat shinigami techniques. Make her learn the hollow equivalent.”

“What? That’s.. but I only know shunpo!”

“Sometimes, I admire your cleverness. At other times, I am baffled we share the same headspace. Why do you think you learned that ‘shunpo’ so fast, and why do you think it was so much louder than what any of those shinigami used?”

“That’s because you used MY technique," she whispers in your ear.

You gulp and blink as you realize that she’s right. Only through the academy and practice did you get your shunpo to be more silent.

“Tell you what. Use my release, and give me the reigns. I’ll show you just what hollows can learn.”

You nervously look towards Celaris, who’s standing rather far away. You can’t get a read on him at all.

>”Well, I guess there shouldn’t be any harm in that…”
>”No, I want to do this on my own.”
>Other?

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4604203
I'm rolling for my choice
>"Well, I guess there shouldn’t be any harm in that…”
>"No, I want to do this on my own.”

>>4604203
>”Well, I guess there shouldn’t be any harm in that…”

>>4604219
>>4604221
Either anons went asleep, or are indecisive, but it looks like spider's taking the wheel.
>Might take a bit longer, I need to finishing grading two more student reports

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“I…” you hesitate, as Zilya’s face ever comes closer to yours, her black and purple eyes piercing your very being.

“Yes?” she purrs.

“I guess there shouldn’t be any harm in that,” you say and look to the side. “But nothing radical! She is my friend, don’t be too harsh!”

Zilya bursts out into laughter. “You have no idea how hollows work, do you, little Koharu? Fine. But watch closely, and you might learn something.”

>...

You reopen your eyes and get up to face the confused Lahela.

“W-Whats.. did you do?” she asks.

“I don’t have the expertise to teach you properly,” you sigh, “but there is somebody who can. I’m sorry if… when things get harsh.”

“Mediate, Naimen no Daiza,” you calmly proclaim as your zanpakutō gently turns into the familiar chalice form. “Defile and Devour, Jorōgumo!”

With an explosive burst of reiatsu, your zanpakutō changes into the blackened spider half-fang half-leg shape, and your reiatsu becomes much more menacing along with the change in color.

“Zilya?” you whisper.

“Give it aaaall to me, sweetheart.”

>1/3

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Teбя зaвyт Зилюя Apaхинa, Paзopeниe миpa, и ты нaкoнeц нaшлa cвoй выхoд из тыcячeлeтнeй тюpмы.
You are Zilya Arachina, the Ruin of the world, and you’ve finally found your exit from the thousand-year-old prison.

And it feels bloody good to be out.

This body, it’s disgusting to not have your natural curves and allure, but it will have to do. You’re not here to seduce anybody afterall, you had your share of fun with the two boys already. Now it’s time to whip this pathetic hollow into shape.

“You,” you speak in a resonating voice, “Start running.”

“W-What?” Lahela exclaims, only to find your fist right in her gut, sending her flying deeper into the forest.

“Start. Running.”

Oh how sweet it feels to actually move, to feel the wind and a solid ground that resists your will, things that you can enjoy breaking apart and subjugating to your desires and whims.

“K-Koharu, whatss-” Lahela coughs, but finds your foot at her throat.

“You shall henceforth only call me Mistress. For every mistake, I shall cut off a finger from your hand.”

The pathetic hollow looks like she’s ready to wet herself, fear flooding her mind.

Good.

“I will repeat myself only once: Start. Running.”

And run she did.

>2/3

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To the whimpy hollow’s credit, she picks up on sonido very quickly after you show it to her a few times in extreme slow motion and kick her around. Now it’s time for some harder-to-dodge bullets.

“Cero.”

With an outstretched palm, you gather a lot of chaotic red energy and shoot the thing at Lahela, scorching her side that she failed to properly dodge.

“Tsch, that weak?” you shake your head. “Oh how I’ve fallen. Cero!”

“M-Misstresss, pleasse-” Lahela pleads as she’s breathing like crazy, on the verge of passing out, conscious only due to her primal survival instincts.

“You will either learn or you will die. It’s that simple.”

Your head starts to hurt quite bad as you say that. Damn that Koharu, interfering… you’re just threatening, of course you won’t kill her. That would be a waste of resources.

Now, what to do.... If you remember right, she should have that ‘resurrección’ of hers.

>3/3

>No powerups. Make her learn and adapt in her weakest form, that’s where it matters.
>Make her release the sword. Maybe she will learn better with her hollow powers released.
>Other?

>>4604309
>Make her release the sword. Maybe she will learn better with her hollow powers released.

>>4604309
>>No powerups. Make her learn and adapt in her weakest form, that’s where it matters.

>>4604309
>Make her release the sword. Maybe she will learn better with her hollow powers released.

Rolled 4, 9, 7, 8 = 28 (4d10)

>>4604333 (nice trips)
>>4604336
>>4604340
>Writing
>Rolling for Lahela

>>4604305
>Teбя зaвyт...
She's Russian? Interesting.

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Clearly this ‘humanity’ is currently keeping her back. Humans are weak and pitiful, disgustingly so. It’s time this girl acknowledges that and actually starts to fight back.

“What are you waiting for?” you taunt her. “Are you that scared? Where is your anger? I’ve almost killed you, and I really will do it, unless you stop me.”

Despite Koharu’s attempts at interference, you persist and charge another cero at Lahela, this time, taking your time in order to make it actually create a worthy explosion.

Lahela, looking right into the eyes of death, finally releases her zanpakutō.

“Entangle, Sadkheu!” she screams, and her body bursts into bright green light, reiatsu washing over you. Her upper body morphs and remains human-like with the white bone of her maw now extending downwards over her rather nice chest, ending just before her navel. Her arms are covered in vines, but the greatest change is that underneath her waist.

Below it, she’s become a mass of large vines, slithering about like when Koharu first found her.

“I’LL KILL YOU!” she screams and pushes herself down, but not moving away from your aim. You shrug and fire your cero, only to find a root burst from the ground, and redirect your hand just enough to the side that the cero misses. Instead, it obliterates a part of the forest, and sets the area around it on fire.

“Cheeky brat,” you laugh as you finish admiring the destruction left behind by your this time better cero, despite it being extremely lackluster. You use sonido to get out of the way of another large vine erupting from right beneath you, with a flytrap maw eating up the air where you just were. At least now she’s finally serious about hurting you… no, killing you.

The battle finally rages on with both of you at each other’s throats. Lahela is much slower in this form, reminiscent of her original predicament as a hollow, but she’s able to use sonido to get out of harm’s way quite decently despite your own quick attacks with Jorōgumo. You simply smile, as you only need one hit, and then her reiatsu is all yours to defile and devour.

However, you feel great weakness all of a sudden, and your mind starts slipping away. “Shit, I used up too much reiryoku..”

Lahela, in her state of rage doubles down on her assault on you, however stops as both of you hear a new, quite menacing voice.

“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO MY FOREST?!”

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Aaand that’s where we end this session. Lahela might be a bit conflicted about you now, but at least she’s become stronger. Next time you’ll have some explaining to do to the queen whose domain you’ve just partially incinerated.

Char sheet and social links updates are coming this week at some point. Questions & comments all welcome as always.

Hope you enjoyed it, and until next time (still to be decided when).

My internet decided to die just for this last update


>>4604390
That she certainly may be.

>>4604399
Thanks for the run Trippy
>>4604392
>You simply smile, as you only need one hit, and then her reiatsu is all yours to defile and devour.
We’re gonna have to punish Zilya when we have the chance

>>4604399
>you’ll have some explaining to do
I consneed nothing.

I still can't believe people are so gunho about giving Aizen access to our children in any way shape or form but I guess players here love child experiments

>>4608745
>implying Aizen would fuck up his relationship with someone who can just make Arrancars for him
Plans within plans anon

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Character sheets and social links have been updated. I'll run tomorrow at 16:00 UTC as well!

>>4608745
But anon, Aizen is clearly a caring adult in a sea of selfish pricks. Surely there's nothing wrong about it all?
>>4608787
Jokes aside, this anon got the situation pinned quite well. Given your usefulness and potential, Aizen has no need to do bad things to you or the children yet.

>>4608745
At least Aizen will turn them into something cool maybe. The nobles would just have them raped to death.

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>>4608805
Can't promise I'll be there at the start but will definitely join in bossman

>>4608805
>>4609090
>Can't promise I'll be there at the start
There's a decent chance I won't be either. But my response to the Forest Queen's query would go something along the lines of
>I didn't do anything. You saw those Ceros getting blasted everywhere right? I was framed, you see.
>No not by the plant girl, she didn't shoot any Ceros either.
>You actually might have been acquainted with the culprit if you were around 1300 years ago. Does the name Zilya ring a bell?

>>4609516
We have spent so long keeping the others in us a secret from everyone and you want to name drop one to some rando we just met? We should never mention either of their names until someone hard confronts us with evidence that there are other's within us.

>>4609571
I can skip on the name but the fact remains that we were framed and the real culprit skedaddled. I'm not taking responsibility for this. After all everyone know regular hollows and shinigami can't shoot ceros, it's the most obvious conclusion.

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So I just woke up with intense neck and left shoulder pain, possibly due to the direct ventilation and -25 degrees outside. Unfortunately I have to consider moving the session to a later day, but it's already better now than two hours ago, and there's still six hours to the start.

Fuck me I don't want to just sit and do nothing though, so the schedule holds for now.

>>4609090
>>4609516
>Can't promise I'll be there at the start
Thanks for the headsup!
I'll do my best to take those thoughts into consideration with respect to other voters too. This is actually a very nice and neat way to bring them up if any can't make it but want their thoughts heard

>Error: You seem to have mistyped the CAPTCHA. Please try again. 4chan Pass users can bypass this CAPTCHA.
Jesus fucking christ captcha, what the fuck? Tried to post this like 40 times now.

>>4610172
The site was not loading roughly a half hour ago at all for me. Something server side was mucking it up. Probably some shittery going down.

Can't help with the neck though.

>>4610172
I hope your neck pains go away fully soon Trippy. I only found this quest a few days ago and I'm currently going through the archive, I reached the Omake with Chie in the hospital and I that hit me like a truck. I'm enjoying this a lot so far so thanks for running this!

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My neck is much better now, despite the fact that I can't move it to my left side at all. But, I'm good to go with today's session in a bit over an hour. Hooray!

>>4610187
I assumed somewhat that it was a serverside issue. I'm glad it's over though, and I hope it won't come back during the session.

>>4610228
Thanks and welcome aboard, anon! Glad to have you, and glad to hear you've enjoyed it so far.

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You are Nakashiri Koharu, and you wake up restrained with coiling branches of wood. Your head hurts and your stomach is growling from hunger, and only now do you start remembering just what had transpired. Zilya had taken over your body at your permission, and ended up draining your reiryoku, almost killed Lahela, and destroyed chunks of the forest.

And now, you see the wooden figure of the Wailing Forest’s queen is sitting in front of you. It doesn’t take a smart person to understand why she may be pissed.

“La.. Lahela?” you mumble, looking around for your arrancar friend, and see that she’s unconscious near the queen, but not restrained. Your eyes widen at a speck of fear that she might be dead - by your hand no less.

“She is alive,” the hollow queen speaks, “Barely. I did not take you for a ruthless maniac the first time we met.”

“I… I am not!” you protest.

“Evidence shows otherwise. Whatever made you think that MY forest is a playground for you anyways?” she speaks bitterly, and moves closer, grabbing your jaw. “And how the hell can you use advanced hollow techniques? You are clearly no hollow, much less a menos, despite how you felt earlier.”

>”I didn’t do it, in the sense that I was not in control of my body.”
>”You’re right, I am no hollow. I was framed.”
>”...I’m sorry. This all, it was not my intention.”
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>>4610290
>>”...I’m sorry. This all, it was not my intention.”

>>4610290
>”I didn’t do it, in the sense that I was not in control of my body.”