Chapter 229: Kensei's Challenge

'Makes sense… Wait no, it doesn't!'

Mazuru almost believed in Lisa's nonsense, moreover only in this country, such books and even video materials would appear in stores in a grand manner, well, maybe some countries does the same, but Mazuru was not much interested in those countries even in his previous life.

Lisa would say such a thing, obviously she also never went to other countries.

She hasn't still seen how big the world was and how vast this topic was.

But it's not surprising, after all, she came from a place like the Soul Society. In the world of living, the times were progressing rapidly, but in the Soul Society, it's still like a thousand years back, and it's so rigid that it makes people wonder whether time had truly past or not.

Aristocracy, noble rule? It's ridiculous.

The so-called world order and Soul Society's good and bad, in the end, all depends on the behavior of those nobles.

Behind the seemingly fair decisions, it was nothing more than the nobles' decision. Central 46 was nothing more than just an organization erected as a justice monument to deceive foolish people.

'Having said that, after many of the nobles have sorted out their interests, the new Central 46 seems to have been formed.'

Mazuru suddenly thought some messy thoughts from here and there, but immediately eliminated the distracting thoughts in his mind to wake himself up and not delve further in them for the time being.

"Speaking of which, have you been stuck just reading all these years?" Mazuru asked Lisa.

"What do you want to say?" Lisa looked at Mazuru.

"I want to say, don't you plan to practice it? If you just keep on reading, would you feel like you have experienced it yourself?"

"Hey, you bastard, can you not have such perverted thoughts?" Lisa scorned Mazuru unceremoniously.

Mazuru doesn't care about her despise either, as if she was doing something noble herself, she reads and walks with adult books in her arms every day, and there were even those heavy-tasting books for the passionate types.

Mazuru just asked a question about converting from theory to practical.

Since she didn't wanted to talk about having practical experience, he continued to pick up the books that Lisa had collected for a long time and read them. He just explained Rangiku that morning that he didn't have those things in mind and didn't do anything the last night. Now he was reading this kind of books, the turn of events seemed a bit weird.

What he didn't notice was that Lisa seemed a little absent-minded while continuing to read the books. Although she despised Mazuru for asking that question, that question really echoed in her mind and heart. After all, after reading so many books of this kind, he was very familiar with this kind of thing in theory, but it was precisely because she was too familiar with it that she was more curious.

'Is it really that good?'

However, due to certain reasons, although she had the habit of reading adult books all the time and had earned the name of a pervert in the eyes of the Visored, but she had never dared to reveal her deeper tendencies.

…

Mazuru spent most of the day with Lisa on the roof of the factory, and when he returned to the underground training ground, he saw every one of the Visored doing their own things, of course, not all of them were doing serious things.

Hiyori and Mashiro were playing together, and they glanced at Mazuru and Lisa, a couple of kindred spirits and said nothing.

On the other hand, Hachigen, Love, and Rojuro were discussing the Kidō enchantment. Although Shinji dumped the blame on Hachigen before and said that he believed that the enchantment arranged by Hachigen was not strong enough to keep their place even as private as a public toilet, but he didn't meant much of it. But for Hachigen, it made sense to him.

As the former deputy-chief of Kidō Corps, Kidō was what he was best at, but the barrier he set up was broken through more than once and so effortlessly, it really made him feel ashamed.

On another side, Shinji, who did not know from where he got a toothpick and put it in his mouth and looked like a hooligan, was patrolling around, and then when he passed by Hiyori, he was kicked down by her.

"Are you guys always this… free?"

Mazuru couldn't help but ask Lisa.

Lisa said, "We didn't have such free time before, and we still went out occasionally, but now you also know that the decisive battle against Aizen is coming, so we have to enter a state of combat readiness... Of course, they all are this idle, there is another reason, that is, Kurosaki Ichigo did not come today."

"Everyone had prepared for Ichigo's special training, but they didn't expect him to not come during the day."

'So, in the end, is it Ichigo's turn to bear the blame?'

The return of Mazuru and Lisa also attracted the attention of the other Visored members.

Kensei with a straight face walked to Mazuru's side and said to Mazuru, "Are you interested in a spar? I'd like to know what the current Gotei 13 is like."

Mazuru was stunned for a moment due to the sudden invitation for a spar, but feeling Kensei's fighting spirit, he did not refuse and readily replied, "Okay."

Hearing this, the rest of the Visored members were not bored anymore, and immediately became interested.

Although they don't know why Kensei challenged Mazuru, they also wanted to know whether the Gotei 13 today was stronger than when they were still present.

Mazuru was a good candidate to check it out. Although not everyone could become a captain of Gotei 13 but the current captains might be a bunch of weaklings that were forcibly pulled up to fill the captain's vacation after they had to leave.

Hachigen also stopped discussing the Kidō enchantment with Love and Rojuro, and then set up a battle-specific enchantment for Kensei and Mazuru.

After all, both of them were captain-level shinigami, and during their fight, no one knows how much commotion will be caused.

Inside the barrier, Mazuru and Kensei stood facing each other.

Kensei took out a dagger-mounted Zanpakuto, and it seemed that, while holding the dagger, he seemed a little contemptuous but Mazuru didn't think so.

"Have you liberated you Zanpakuto directly? You really are combat-ready, I must say."

He looked at the Zanpakuto in the hands of Kensei and sighed.

"I always do this to deal with emergencies. I'm worried that while facing an enemy, I will not be able to liberate Zanpakuto in time, so I made it a habit." Kensei responded, since he was backstabbed by Tousen Kaname that year, he kept his Zanpakuto in the state of shikai all the time. The feeling of being brought down by the enemy without any preparation or resistance was really uncomfortable. If he could liberate Zanpakuto at that time, it would be another situation.

"Maintaining Zanpakuto in the shikai state is quite exhausting." Mazuru asked.

Kensei's Zanpakuto was not the kind like Ichigo's Zanpakuto which had remained in its liberated form even without Ichigo's initiative. The reason why Zangetsu had been maintained in its shikai state was because Ichigo's reiatsu was too powerful, and he lacked precise control over his own reiatsu, resulting in his reiatsu leaking all the time and so his Zanpakuto could not be changed back to its sealed state after it was released.

But it was not the same with Kensei, who could seal Zanpakutō into a sealed state but deliberately kept it in a liberated state.

"It indeed causes a bit of consumption, but this is also a kind of training."

As Kensei answered, he also asked Mazuru, "Aren't you liberating your Zanpakuto?"

"Not needed yet."

Mazuru responded, and Kensei said nothing more.

Then, Mazuru moved first, holding his sword, he slashed at Kensei.

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