Rangiku

Xin looked around and felt weird again, he felt that he did not come back to his origins timeline at all.

When he finally found the portal made by Hougyoku and hoped to come back to his origins timeline, who thought that he would appear in the North Rukongai.

How Xin know that he did not come back in his timeline? Well, he can't open the door again, helpless, he can only walk around to see if he can find another portal back to his own timeline.

Just like when he first sees the Rukongai, the palace is still pretty por, souls walking everywhere, poverty can easily be seen in their faces and it seems that he heard that the yearly harvest for more than 200 years seems lacking for the entire population.

Kids, older generation starts to die fast because of hungry, he can even see dead body everywhere start to disintegrate to particles.

As he walks around, he suddenly notices a tin girl lying on the ground, he looks like a stick while her life force is starting to consume fast.

Xin took bread from his inventory and walked to the girl, he passed it to her.

"Eat this, you will die in hunger if you don't eat."

"Did she collapse due to hunger? Lot of people start to collapse around due to hunger and lack of Spiritual Power."

Xin turns around and sees a young boy with a gentle looking face and closed eyes, he looks at him and the girl.

"Spiritual… Power?" The girl said.

"That's right, because of the lack of grain and food in the past years, the government can't sustain every one of us so there are people who start to die because of hunger."

Xin then took an apple from his inventory and passed it to them," Here take this, one to each of you, i think this thing will help you guys to feel full for a year or two based on how much you use your Spiritual power?"

"T-This! This is a spiritual fruit!! How can you have this, do you know that hidden food like this is dangerous? Because of lack of food, the Nobles did not let any Soul to store or hide any fruit much less to a fresh high-grade spiritual fruit."

"If someone finds you giving us this, you will surely be arrested on the next day."

"Don't worry about them, I still have a bunch of that," Xin then showed them a different kind of fruit.

"T-Then, i will take it, thank you." The boy said.

Xin then sits down and checks the condition of the girl, she is so weak that she can't even close her mouth due to weakness and hunger.

He takes a knife, peels the skin of the apple, removes the core and puts it inside of a container, with his Reiatsu, he squeezes it into liquid and tries to feed it to the girl.

The girl slowly consumes it while her Spiritual Power starts to recover fast, but still, she looks pretty skinny for her age.

"Okay, you're fine now, try to find food and store it before you feel hungry again,"

The girl nodded and watched Xin start to walk again, she looked at him and while thinking something.

The boy also looked at Xin walking away from them slowly until he diapered their sight.

...…

A couple of hours of walking Xin still can't feel the Hogyoku or any portal back, he starts to feel distressed because he already missed his timeline for the whole day.

Then days pass, there is still no sight of the portal, weeks, months and then Xin realizes that the portal seems to appear randomly.

Without any choice, Xin builds a small house in the outskirts of Rukongai, to relieve his boredom, he starts to make a wood figurine.

As days pass, Xin starts to stop thinking back, he doesn't know when or how he will go back but he knows that there's always a reason for everything.

....

One day, early in the morning, Xin is busy making a wooden helmet that can cover your entire head and neck.

For a couple of days, Xin started to fascinate making a mask, helmet and some head accessory using wood that he got from the forest from the back of his house.

The finished product is hand in a wall that he made, he doesn't know if someone will buy it but he will try and maybe someone will buy the thing he made.

While using his nimble hand and finger curving some extra pattern in his new project, he suddenly heard a sound that came from far, a running sound, and a heavy breath.

Not far from that nervous soul, there's a group of people who seem to chase that poor soul. Xin can easily detect that the people chasing are not ordinary people, they all have spiritual power.

With a large noise, the small wooden gate he made is violently open, and a petite figure dash inside of his yard.

When he looks at the visitor he realizes that it's the girl he helped last time, she seems haggard and weak, her arms and legs are full of a purple mark from beating.

"It's you Mister," The girl excitedly walked to Xin but she suddenly said,

"You need to escape from here, there's a group of people trying to find the source of the fruit that you give to us, they are trying to find you!"

"What's the matter?"

"Weak ago, someone discovers that I eat a high-grade spiritual fruit, and that person is able, because of greed they try to hunt me to find the source of the fruit but I escape before they get any information from me."

Xin looks at her and clearly sees the high purity spiritual energy coming from her skin, he then realizes why they can easily identify her.

"Go inside, I will help you to fend them."

"But they are vicious! I see them killing some normal civilians when they are chasing me!!"

Xin gently patted her head and said," Don't worry, just go inside and hide, don't come out until I call you."

"O-Okay…" The girl walked inside of the house and hid inside.

Xin the walk inside the wooden gate, close it and walk back to his working bench and continue his project.

A couple of minutes later, a group of men holding different weapons arrive in front of Xin's house, they really look vicious as the girl describes.

Omen man notices Xin and arrogant asks," Hey kid, do you see a girl passing here?"

Xin looked at him and said," No."

"Are you sure?! I will kill you if you even lie to us!"

"I said no!."

"Boss, it seems this kid is pretty tough, I think he's lying to us."

The boss looks at Xin and waves his hand," Let's go, maybe the kid will run in the other direction."

They then disappear running to other direction trying to find the girl, Xin said," they are gone now, you can go out now kid,"

The girl peeks inside and finally sighs, she then gratefully bows to Xin and says," Thank you very much Oniichan, I forgot to introduce myself to you last time. My name is Rangiku, nice to meet you."

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