Playing With Other Supernaturals-Chapter 1404 Blut

Kisuke, Benihime, and Tiamat arrived at their temporary hideout, which was under the sea, several tens of miles away from the Japanese southern coast. It was a hideout within the seafloor, the size of a house and completely furnished. "Finally home~!" Benihime removed her helmet and stretched her limbs before using Magic to clean herself and diving into the sofa in the living room.

Tiamat, on the other hand, turned to Kisuke as she removed her helmet. She first looked at his shredded right arm before asking, "Did you underestimate her?"

Kisuke didn't need to remove his helmet, as a few taps on it broke it into pieces. "I sure did." Despite his answer, however, he still had a small smile on his face. "They're pretty good. As expected of their kids."

Tiamat was confused and asked, "You're proud of them even though they are strangers to you?"

"Why not? They're strangers, including those with the same faces. But I still have overall positive feelings for them, more specifically, Issei's generation." Kisuke's auto-regeneration, which he had been suppressing, was kickstarted and began restoring his arm. "It's true that they tried forsaking our world, but I can guess that's mostly Ajuka or Azazel's idea with Restoras' help, and Gasper-kun was only forced to participate.

"As far as I can see, those guys still have the same personalities, so there's already a pre-built trust from me, and that extends to their kids, who seemed to grow up well. I only showed hostility to Kanzaki-san to let him know that I'm not that easy to fool or please. Giving Restoras the wrong impression in case our relationship goes south was a plus too."

Benihime peeked from the edge of the sofa and asked, "How was that fire, by the way? Was it that bad?"

"Way more potent than our Kuroka's," Kisuke answered while also walking toward the living room to take a seat. "I was forced to use the third level of my Shunkou, so you can imagine what it can do. However, I did discover something nice from that."

Benihime and Tiamat curiously looked at him as he lifted his now fully healed right arm, and a faint blue pattern tracing the veins beneath the surface of their skin could be seen.

It was something Benihime was very familiar with, so she exclaimed, "Blut Vene (Stilled Blood Guise)!?"

"It would seem that I can now let Spiritual Power directly flow into my blood veins," Kisuke explained.

"Wait, are you a Quincy now too!? How does that even work on you!? Aren't you cheating too much!?" Benihime further asked.

Kisuke shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. It'll probably take me some time to explore that possibility. Besides, it's not as nice as it sounds. I can only activate it on its own. I can't use it whenever I'm in Hollow Form nor when I'm using Shunkou. And I don't know about Blut Arterie (Moving Blood Guise) because I can't gauge it without directly testing it, but this Blut Vene is weaker than my Hierro."

"Then is that useful for anything?" Tiamat wondered.

"Actually, yes. If I can extend this outside of my body like how Yhwach does it, I can present this as some sort of unique Spiritual Ability and use that as a disguise. And since I can use this technique, maybe I can learn more Quincy Arts? Unlike Shinigami and Arrancar Arts, Quincy techniques closely resemble that of Etoulde techniques, and it shouldn't gather any unnecessary attention as long as I don't use something as exaggerated as [Vollständig] or spells like [Kirchenlied]."

Because Quincy techniques rely more on Reishi (Spiritual Particles) than Reiatsu (Spiritual Pressure), it could be mistaken as an Etoulde ability or just some rare mutated ability that doesn't break Etoulde's logic of Spiritual Power like the Shinigami or Arrancar Arts. 'Since I studied Quincies extensively back then, I should be able to learn their basic techniques as long as I can increase my control of Reishi.'

Benihime was staring at him for a moment and asked, "Do you think he saw this coming and granted you a way?"

Kisuke thought about it for a bit, but in the end, he couldn't come to a conclusion. "Maybe? There's no way of knowing that right now."

"So what now?" Tiamat asked again.

Kisuke didn't answer immediately and took out his phone. He fiddled with it for a few minutes before finally finding what he was looking for. On the DarkNet, there was a certain article locked behind several paywalls, and written in it was the incident they caused earlier.

The main takeaway was that Kuroka of the United Armies issued a search and hunt order for the recently active 'Crimson Apocalypse Thieving Group' and classified them as "Class-B" criminals and danger level "God" as a whole.

"What? Just Class-B?" Benihime felt wholly dissatisfied. "And what's this 'as a whole' thing? Were they underestimating you?"

"I'm surprised that they didn't elevate us to Class-A, but I guess that's just how much we'll get for not killing anyone," Kisuke answered while scrolling down, but he could only see fluff in the article. "And the latter part is just a form of information control. They knew this would be leaked somewhere and didn't want to cause panic with an unknown individual with a mass destruction ability. If they could lie about our danger level, they would, but we changed the terrain with our fight, and there should be various organizations monitoring the discharge of energy, so they can't deny that a 'God' level battle occurred."

Kisuke browsed the DarkNet for a bit more before losing interest and tossing the phone on the table. "I guess it's time to convert everything we've got. It'll take some time, but we should have enough for a proper base of operations and pretty convincing identities."

"Oh right." A light bulb went on in Benihime's head. "What are we going to do with our identities? We can't be hiding forever. It doesn't sit right with me, and that should be the same for you."

There was another smile on Kisuke's face when he said, "Wouldn't it be funny if a suspicious 'Urahara Kisuke' appeared now of all times?"

. . .

Six months later, the three were standing on a certain almost unpopulated and underdeveloped corner of Kuoh Town, and in front of them was a very familiar shop. "Urahara (雨原) Shoten's 4th branch opening~!"

"...You're never letting this go, are you? Can you really call this the 4th branch if it has a different name?" Benihime said with a slightly fed-up face. "And what's up with 'Urahara Kisuke (雨原 希透)'?"

"I can't use 'Urahara Kisuke (浦原 喜助)' now, can I?"

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Editors:

28th00: Time to open translation programs...

Goyya: So this is from my notes. I should have included it in this Chapter:

Kisuke's name:

Original version:

The name "浦原 喜助" (Urahara Kisuke) is composed of the following kanji:

浦 (Ura): This can mean "bay," "seacoast," or "shore," depending on the context.

原 (Hara): Means "plain," "field," or "origin."

喜 (Ki): Means "joy," "delight," or "happiness."

助 (Suke): Means "help," "assist," or "support."

The full name "浦原 喜助" (Urahara Kisuke) can be interpreted as something like "joyful helper" or "delightful assistant from the shore/origin."

雨原 希透

In this version:

雨 (Ura): This means "rain."

原 (Hara): This still means "field" or "plain," keeping a familiar sound while changing the imagery.

希 (Ki): This means "hope" or "rare," adding a sense of rarity or aspiration.

透 (Suke): This means "transparent" or "clear," giving a sense of clarity or openness.

So, the name "雨原 希透" (Urahara Kisuke) could evoke imagery of "a hopeful clarity from a rainy field" or "a rare, clear presence from the rain."

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