Chapter 5: Investigation Outcome

Chappy! Where have you been all this time? And why did you go off on your own?!

This isn't the time to explain! There're Hollows over there and Ginnosuke's about to be toast!

Who's that?

My Soul Candy!

Yours?!

We have to go! Now!

Seriously, what the hell is going on?!

Grrrr!

Ahh! What was that?!

We found the Hollow, but where'd your Soul Candy go?

How should I know?!

Chappy, where's Renji's Soul Candy?

Over there!

I'm gonna hide here until my master arrives and hope things go well, meow!

What the hell are you doing?!

If he doesn't plan on moving, we can deal with him later! The Hollows take priority!

Well, that was a mess.

Yeah, I have to agree with you there.

I guess entering your Gigai does keep them from running around on their own, but...

...how do you plan to fight like that? We still have Hollows to take care of.

Shut up. We're trying to think it through right now.

It's hard to say since we have no idea what's causing this.

Maybe our safest bet would be to not use any Soul Candies and keep our Gigai hidden for the time being.

There's no guarantee the Hollows aren't gonna pop up again.

Actually, we know now what's causing the Soul Candy problem as well as the abnormal Hollow occurrences.

Rangiku, you were able to find your Gigai?

Luckily.

Captain Hitsugaya, please tell us what's causing this.

The Department of Research and Development came to us with the results of their analysis. There's a possibility that the Hollows are somehow attracted to a certain soul.

They say this soul was detected in Karakura Town about a week ago.

A soul?

Ichigo, you said there was no sign of the soul near the river where those flowers were, right?

Yeah, but... Hold on, are you suggesting that the soul left that area and is causing all this?

I can't say for sure, but the timeframe matches up.

So the only choice we have is to find this soul.

*Beep Beep Beep*

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