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"Hello handsome soul reapers, do you want me to guide you" A women asked she was revelling a little too much skin.
"No thank you we have company, but we would like to have two rooms please" I said, trying to make the situation a little less awkward.
"It will be 5000 kan per room, bigger room is 10000 kan" a old lady said while sitting at the reception.
"It is too much" yaisuke said, "We will take it" I said and paid the money.
This is mostly because in my previous life I was definitely not good at bargaining and also, I wanted to avoid the drama.
"Also please send some food to our rooms" I said with a smile, "Sure" the old lady said, and a pretty girl guided us to our rooms.
The other three went to gambling as it was just down stares "Please adjust for the night, I don't think we can skip the searching for clues in the road to reach naruki early" I said to the ladies and then entered the men's room.
'The reason why I choose to stay here was because it is suspicious; no one from the Okinawa village seemed to know about this gambling house, also there is a high possibility that there is some relation between this gambling house and the missing people'.
I pretended to be asleep, it was mid night when the three others returned back hyoguro was fully drunk, while azuma and yaisuke have also drunk a little.
Seeing that I was asleep they left hyoguro to sleep on the ground and stood outside since one person has to stay guard.
It was almost 3 PM when the place become dead quiet. I was observing the spiritual energy of everyone secretly but suddenly I felt everyone moving and before I knew I was thrown into some kind of pit.
"Ouch, what is happening" Kurenai and yumiko woke up and immediately their guard went up.
"kukukuku these time I am extreme lucky I got 6 soul reapers" a creepy voice sounded and I knew whatever the voice came from was not human.
"You are the old lady at the reception" the two girls said surprised. "Is that so" the creepy voice said and suddenly the girls screamed.
"Ahhhhh!, how can you be awake. I was sure only the girls and your leader was not drunk" the creepy voice spoke, I opened my eyes a little to see what is happening.
In front of me was a huge spider and on its back was the old lady and the girls, they seemed to be mindless now.
"I am not stupid enough to drink something so suspicious" azuma said, "now it is time for you to die, burn them REKKA"
Azuma's sword turned into a double edged sword, it was very fantasy type sword with a dragon carved on the sword.
Then he attacked, the attack was swift and with a single strike he cut down one of its leg and then the spider leg was mummified.
"Damn you" the spider screamed.
"My ability lets me burn anything my blade touches, the heat it generates can melt any metals or rocks. A strike to your body should be enough to kill you" azuma said.
The spider jumped on to the selling then launched something like a web. The three avoided it but it fell on me, it was very sticky and suddenly it started to drag the web and made a cocoon with me trapped inside, I made a small hole to observe the situation.
"Those three are finished, and your idiot leader is not even worth fighting. I shall slowly kill you three and eat you" the spider spoke in creepy voice.
"Rise, Seiryuu" yumiko said and let go of her zanpakuto as it was sucked into her shadow and then a blue coloured creature with a dragon head human body and 2 giant wings appeared from her shadow.
"WEEhehehe finally it is my turn" the dragon spoke and hit the spider.
"Man these two are crazy powerful" I secretly thought, as the blue creature continued to pound the spider until it was crushed. Then azuma finished it off with a single strike to its head.
"This hollow must be the reason for the missing cases" yumiko spoke as the others started to bring down the cocoons, 'there were multiple cocoons'.
Suddenly many small spiders started to appear and then a cold breeze was blown sending chills to my back.
"My my you have killed my precious chef, now who will cook for me" an alluring voice was heard but it was enough to make me remember the feeling of death.
"Now sweaty who will be my first meal" the new creature had a upper body of a female and lower body of a spider, the spider was extremely beautiful.
"Seiryuu" "flame blast" azuma and yumiko both realized the danger quickly and attacked.
But a wall of small spiders formed and blocked their attacks. Seiryuu was stronger and hit the new hollow face but, the spider did not move even a little back.
"Now how shall I kill you" the hollow asked as several spider treads were formed to completely seal of the seiryuu.
"Flame blast" "Hado #31 shakkaho" azuma and kurenai attacked. And freeing seiryuu in the process.
"You are all very annoying" the hollow spoke with irritation and huge number of spiders filled the pit.
The three attacked restlessly but the numbers of spiders were too much, and finally the hollow overpowered them. But the hollow was also clearly tired from all this fighting as beads of sweat rolled down her face.
"I had to complete use up all my children, you better taste good" the hollow said while capturing the three in her web, it was now right bellow me.
"Hado #4 byakurai" I got the perfect chance to attack causing a hole right through her head, and cutting the web coccon of azuma.
Azuma immediately attacked giving it little chance to think or dodge, causing its head to separate.
"Phew finally it is over" azuma saighed but suddenly a leg pierced his stomach.
Azuma was shocked, "Nice try, you almost had me, but you also feel for my trick" the spider said as a face appeared on its back.
"I fight with my back faced the enemy for situation like these, it was a splendid trap but you missed it" the hollow said and started to pierce azuma even more.
"Hado #31 shakkaho" I know the hero's arrive right on time.
"Hado #31 shakkaho" "Hado #31 shakkaho" "Hado #31 shakkaho" "Hado #31 shakkaho".
I made multiple kido blasts since I knew my attack power was low, until I blew up the hollow stomach.
I cut of the hollow leg and brought him along with other two cocoons to a safe distance as the hollow was screaming in pain.
"Azuma are you ok" I asked, he nodded his head. I cut opened the cocoons to free yumiko and kurenai.
"Yumiko I think you can finish her off" I said and she nodded, while I used Kaido technique to heal azuma.
"Raise Seiryuu"
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"The victims of missing people were only those who were leaving the village so I thought there must be a trap set on the road. Hence we searched through the road to naruki which the previous soul reaper have took. On the way we came to know about this newly opened gambling house in the new road. Being suspicious we went to secretly observe for a night, as we suspected the gambling house was a trap set by a hollow, with some minions of its. In total there were 2 big hollow and 5000 small hollow they were all spider hollows. Azuma and yumiko were brave and powerful enough to fight the whole hollow group themselves, with help from us, those two were able to kill the hollows. In the process mister Azuma was injured he is admitted in squad 4 for treatment, his health his stable and should recover after few days of rest. That concludes my report Captain Aizen" I said.
"Very well done in figuring out the culprit, even I was thinking of other involvement. It is a valuable experience remember it well" Aizen said with his signature gentle smile.
"I was just lucky with guessing that's all, captian aizen" I said, after some flattery I went to home for a good sleep.
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