Serafall returned to their house and saw that Kisuke and the girls were waiting for her and were raring to go, "Alright, calm down. Let's wait for things to develop first before moving on our own... And Ki-tan... Are you thinking of appearing too?"
"I already called Tiamat and she should be here after cooking late-night snacks for Benihime."
Serafall was stunned silent for a moment before saying, "...I think Beni-chan is having way too good of a life. Make sure you ask her to do some work too, alright?"
"I have already a few things lined up for her."
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Benihime, who was already on her third day of nonstop gaming sessions, was disturbed when the door to her room opened and the smell of potato fries and its sauce. Immediately turning around with shining eyes, Benihime gratefully received the very appetizing plate, "Just in time~!"
"Kisuke is summoning me." said Tiamat, who was still in her child-like form but without her giant horns and with her long light blue hair freely swaying down her back.
Benihime started munching on her fries while saying, "I figured. With a commotion that big, he'll probably take this chance to confuse everyone. Imagine a very strong Shinigami with unknown abilities suddenly appearing? He longs for that kind of chaos."
"Are you not coming too?"
"Nope, no way. He's probably about to ask me to do something unreasonable so my free time is about to end so I'm going to be enjoying the remaining time I have left."
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Three hours later, within the 1st Division's barracks, an emergency meeting was called when the sensors within the Research Institute started going off sometime earlier.
"Now that we're all here, Captain Kurotsuchi, brief us on the current situation."
Mayuri stepped out of the line and went into the middle of the room filled with heavy silence, "I've sent scouts to determine the real identity of these 9 pools of strange energy and as of now, we're able to confirm that these are indeed the precursors to the Doors of Hell manifesting. I've estimated that these doors will fully open within the next 10 hours."
"Why is it taking this long to open?" The Captain of the 8th Division, Yadoumaru Lisa, asked while fixing the position of her glasses, "All the previous instances of these only took an hour at most to open after they were detected. Well, the door that Shinji dealt with some time ago might be an exception."
Mayuri turned his head to her before answering, "It has to do with these doors' scale. If the previous doors only allowed 10-20 Beast of Hells to go through these doors may let hundreds or even thousands of them. Not to mention, the possibility that someone or some people would be leading them."
"You mean those Arrancars?" The Captain of the 4th Division, Kotetsu Isane, muttered.
Mayuri slowly turned his head towards her, but this time, with a slightly fed-up expression, "Don't be naive. Everyone who has reached Hell could be leading this horde."
Isane's eyes widened as a certain someone emerged from her mind, "W-wait... You don't mean..."
"Yes. That includes the former Captain who received the ritual to have their Reiryoku-dense bodies to be broken down." Mayuri immediately ignored her after saying his piece and turned back his head to Shunsui who was also making a difficult expression, "We've already confirmed former Captain Ukitake's existence beyond the door so it wouldn't be weird that either former Captain Unohana and former Captain-Commander Yamamoto to make their appearance."
With a glare, the Captain of the 7th Division, Iba Tetsuzaemon, asked, "Why are you implying that the former captains will be hostile?"
Mayuri didn't immediately answer him and instead talked to Shunsui while taking out his bug-themed smartphone, "With your permission, I'll release the information."
Shunsui nodded after looking at everyone.
And with a few presses, Mayuri sent out a document to everyone's assigned terminal while saying, "This testimony was taken by Lieutenant Abarai and was sent to Captain Kuchiki first before it was sent out to the Captain-Commander and me."
All the captains aside from Shunsui, Byakuya, and Zaraki took out their phones and opened the document that Mayuri sent to them. Since it isn't an unnecessarily long statement, it didn't take too long for everyone to finish going through it once or twice.
"I-is this true?" Asked the current Captain of the 13th Division, Kuchiki Rukia. However, she's also very curious about the last part which mentioned Ichigo's son, Kazui.
"The source of the testimony is the individual known as Sitri Serafall. I trust that everyone in this room already knows about her and the extent of her actions? I don't know how accurate her words are and I don't really trust them without seeing it for myself, however, the information she has provided us proved to be valuable enough that even the Zero Division took interest in it and are currently actively exploring it on their own."
"Sitri Serafall..." Soifon, the current leader of Onmitsukidou and Captain of the 2nd Division, muttered to herself, "We tried searching for her background and those around her in the Human World, however, we couldn't find anything. It's as if they suddenly appeared in Karakura Town one day. But that's not important right now. How's the threat analysis?"
"Very high." Mayuri answered, "Humans who are killed by the Beasts of Hell are sent directly to Hell. As you know, Hell is not included in the cycle of Souls. If too many Humans are killed by them, the balance of Souls between Soul Society, Human World, and Hueco Mundo will be disrupted once again and we'll be forced to do something drastic… again."
"Should we send a Captain to each door?" asked Hirako Shinji.
"No." Byakuya immediately refused, "We'll leave Soul Society too defenseless and if that's what they are aiming for, it'll be disastrous for us."
"But we can't have them rush out of these doors. Even if we can deal with all of them, it won't matter if they devastate the Human World." The Captain of the 9th Division, Muguruma Kensei, chipped in, "If we can't deploy a Captain to each door, then our next best option is to barge into these doors and contain the threat on the other side."
"But Hell's Punishment will immediately react the moment someone who's not supposed to be there comes in." Soifon pointed out, "A few of the Onmitsukidou sacrificed themselves to get this information."
"And that's where Kurosaki Kazui comes in." Mayuri joined their discussion.
Editors:
28th00: Ah, the Evil Monk Squad is interested. That’s usually a bad thing.
It was before noon and Serafall was currently in the Kurosaki's household. After hearing the threat that the doors posed to the world and Gotei 13's plan, Ichigo decided to participate in the effort. However, only after he received their promise that they won't use Kazui apart from giving them the 'blessing' to go through the doors of Hell.
The ritual to grant the 'blessing' is just a simple prayer from Kazui that summons the 'Eyes of Hell' to look at everyone who wants to go through the doors of Hell. After seeing those eyes, everyone was able to confirm that Kazui has an intimate connection with Hell and Mayuri also noticed the slight change in everyone's Reiatsu after the ritual. As there's no need to open a door, any location for granting will do so Shinigamis, Quincies, and Hollows took turns to receive it which took the whole morning.
While Inoue would be staying behind and his father came to their home as an additional security, Ichigo still couldn't shake the bad feeling he was having. Without much choice, Ichigo directly went to the address Renji gave him first thing in the morning.
"So your name is Serafall? Nice to meet you! I'm Kurosaki Isshin! This stubborn guy's father!" Isshin energetically introduced himself while his black-haired daughter shook her head with a sigh.
The other daughter with light-blonde hair, however, followed Isshin's footsteps and also cheerfully introduced herself, "I'm Kurosaki Yuzu and this one is Karin! Pleased to meet you."
"It's a pleasure to meet everyone too~! I'm Sitri Serafall but you can all just call me Sera-chan~!"
"Alright, Sera-chan. Did you have your lunch yet?" Isshin asked while taking out his apron.
"No, I haven't."
"Well then~! I'll whip up the best lunch!" He then went to the kitchen with Yuzu following him to help out.
Meanwhile, Karin sat down beside Serafall and apologized, "I'm sorry that they're so loud."
"It's fine. I really like people like them."
With all of this happening, Inoue, Ichigo, Uryu, and Chad were all outside with the latter three about to leave, "Be careful."
"We will... Take care of Kazui. I have a feeling that he's also going to be of importance to those who were resurrected in Hell, so they might come attacking." Ichigo gave Inoue a peck on the forehead.
"Why not just stay behind, Ichigo?" Uryu suddenly said.
"You know well that I can't. Soul Society can't muster enough strength that you also had to ask other Quincies for help. If they flood the Human World, it'll be a disastrous scene."
"Well, I guess it's a good call to ask for Sitri-san's help," Chad commented.
However, the skeptical Uryu couldn't agree, "But the 'cooperation in the future' is too vague. Who knows what she's going to ask."
"That's indeed a problem... But let's discuss that later. We have to go. Inoue, be careful. Don't let Kazui go out of your sight."
"Kazui also seems to understand the situation so he's behaving right now. Kon also promised me that he'll stop Kazui if he tries to leave."
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There were a total of 9 doors that were about to open so the attacking force would be divided into 9 groups or individuals. While three of these doors are within the Karakura Town, the rest of them are scattered through the whole of the Greater Tokyo Area and one of them was even outside of it.
The attack group consisted of forces from the Gotei 13, Hueco Mundo, Quincies, and Ichigo's group. Although it became an issue when all of this contrasting group gathered, a simple threat from Mayuri was enough for everyone to 'get along'. Both the Hollows and Quincy groups had already suffered immensely from his hands and they didn't want to deal with him anymore and give him any nasty ideas that might cost them their lives.
Of the Gotei 13, the 2nd Division's SoiFon and Marechiyo Omaeda, the 5th Division's Shinji Hirako and Momo Hinamori, the 6th Division's Byakuya Kuchiki and Renji Abarai, the 8th Division's Lisa Yadoumaru, Yuyu Yayahara and Tatsufusa Enjouji, the 11th Division's Kenpachi Zaraki, Ikkaku Madarame and Yumichika Ayasegawa, and finally, the outliers, Hachigen Ushouda and Hiyori Sarugaki were tasked for this operation.
From Hueco Mundo's side, Tier Harribel, Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, and Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez came.
For the Quincies, Giselle, Liltotto, Bambietta, Candice, and Meninas. While they mostly only came because Uryu promised them a big monetary reward, they were also curious if there were any former Quincies who reached Hell. Although they were pretty sure that none of them were resurrected because their power came from Yhwach and was taken away, they wanted to make sure of it.
Lastly, Ichigo's group, which consisted of Ichigo, Uryu, and Chad.
After a short discussion, the distribution became;
1st door, Byakuya Kuchiki and Renji Abarai.
2nd door, Ichigo's group.
3rd door, the Quincy girls.
4th door, SoiFon, Marechiyo Omaeda and Yumichika Ayasegawa
5th door, Kenpachi Zaraki.
6th door, the Hollows.
7th door, Lisa Yadoumaru, Yuyu Yayahara, and Tatsufusa Enjouji
8th door, Shinji Hirako.
And finally, the last and 9th door, Hachigen Ushouda, Hiyori Sarugaki, Momo Hinamori, and Ikkaku Madarame.
As the strange energy pooled around each gate, everyone got ready to enter the doors the moment they manifested.
[Zaraki, fix the camera on your chest. And don't block it on purpose.] Mayuri's voice was heard by everyone on each and every communicator that was distributed before the operation.
[And always remember the designation of your doors to make sure that you can react whenever I make a call.]
"Hey, why are you here instead of going with your Captain?" In front of the 9th door, Hiyori asked Ikkaku.
"Do you really need to ask that? We'll only hold back the Captain if we're around." Ikkaku replied while thinking, 'If there's a large number of enemies, instead of helping, we'll be too worried that he'll accidentally kill us.'
"The door is about to open. Get ready." The leader of the group, Hachigen, reminded everyone.
As they all pulled out their weapons, a single black line appeared in front of them before it opened like how the Hollows opened the Garganta. But instead of a simple opening, its boundary was lined with Human teeth, making it very creepy.
Nevertheless, they didn't have the time to admire it as all of them plunged themselves into the dark void.
The dark void only went on for an instant and the group soon found themselves in a world very much like the forested area of the Human world but with a bright purple sky. However, they didn't have attention to spare and admire the scenery as all around them were thousands of Beasts of Hell littering the sky, and it seemed like they were shocked by their sudden appearance.
"I'll set up a sanctuary as planned! All of you, intercept all of those who are trying to cross the door!" Hachigen immediately commanded while making gestures with his hand to activate the Kidou he prepared.
But just as they were about to battle, Akon's panicked voice rang out from their communicators, [Door 6 and 7! Retreat! I repeat! Doors 6 and 7! Retreat! As fast as possible!]
The group shuddered and unconsciously looked at the door that they went through, wondering what the hell happened. But as they did, they saw the door slowly shut and disappear, trapping them in a foreign world with thousands of hostile enemies around.
Editors:
28th00: And so begins the fuckery.
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