Tatsuma led Sho and Yuuma to the other cells.
Compared to Yuuma, the other prisoners in the underground prison were not so lucky.
For those who hadn't committed many evils and were willing to surrender, Tatsuma would conduct a lie detection test.
If they passed the lie detection, he would educate them with his fists to burst out traits, and then give them a servitude contract.
Those who failed the lie detection, along with other unqualified criminals, would be cleared out by Tatsuma.
After a large-scale massacre, Tatsuma gained over two thousand new traits, while Akatsuki gained over a hundred new members.
"Leader, I'll leave first."
Sho took Yuuma and the over a hundred new members who had passed the test out of the prison and went upstairs for identity registration.
Parting ways with the others, Tatsuma returned to the top-floor office and opened his Trait inventory to sort out his gains.
Perhaps because of LCO, the quality of the wanted criminals caught by Akatsuki in the past ten days had been very high. During the cleansing of the criminals, most of the traits that burst out were Green Traits and Blue Traits.
Tatsuma glanced over these traits and wasn't in a hurry to synthesize them.
At this moment, Grayfia was still clearing out the inventory in the warehouse.
Because she had to protect the sealed containers, she couldn't carry out large-scale massacres like Tatsuma. Doing it one by one, the efficiency was a bit slow.
However, Tatsuma was not in a hurry about this and patiently sat in his chair to wait.
Another half an hour passed, and the traits in the inventory finally stopped increasing.
Including the gains from Tatsuma's hunting of wanted criminals, there were now almost eight thousand traits in the inventory.
After synthesizing them, Tatsuma gained 666 Blue Traits in one go.
Including the previous blue traits in the inventory, the number of Blue Traits he currently held was as high as 1447.
If he used all of them for upgrades, he could get another Gold Trait. However, Tatsuma didn't do that.
He currently had 17 equip slots but the number of Rainbow Traits and Gold Traits he possessed added up to 20.
Compared to continuing to acquire Gold Traits, upgrading Gold Traits to Rainbow ones or increasing the equip slot was more cost-effective for him now.
And between the two, Tatsuma chose the former.
After fusion, Origin Fruit only needed five gold traits to upgrade to a Rainbow trait.
With one more Rainbow trait, not only would his strength undergo a qualitative change, but he could also recruit one more power leveler.
In all aspects, upgrading Origin Fruit next would be more profitable.
Click!
The sound of the door opening rang out, and Grayfia walked in.
"Tatsuma, according to your request, all the enemies in the warehouse have been cleared."
"Mm, I already know."
Tatsuma nodded slightly and stood up from the chair.
"Let's go, we'll head to the next destination."
Buzz!
Buzz!
Buzz!
A vast demonic power fluctuation emerged from Tatsuma's body, and a Teleportation Magic circle quietly formed.
Regarding this, Grayfia, who already had several experiences, didn't mind and silently stood in place waiting.
A few seconds later, the surrounding scenery changed, and she and Tatsuma arrived on an empty street.
"Where is this?"
"Karakura Town."
"Karakura Town?"
A look of thought appeared in Grayfia's eyes.
She had some impression of this name. After quickly sifting through her memories, Grayfia soon remembered where she had heard this name.
"This is where Rukia went missing not long ago, right? What are you doing here?"
"Looking for someone, recruiting muscle."
And most importantly, farming traits.
After adding a sentence in his heart, Tatsuma led Grayfia forward on the street.
The time was six in the morning, and there weren't many pedestrians on the street.
Taking Grayfia with him, the two arrived in front of a residence and pressed the doorbell.
Ten-odd seconds later, a clear inquiring voice came from the doorbell.
"Um... may I ask who this is?"
"It's me."
"Huh? Okay, please wait a moment."
Recognizing Tatsuma's voice, the residence's main door was quickly opened, and Orihime poked her head out.
"Tatsuma, have you finished your secluded training?"
"Yeah, I finished yesterday."
"Oh, I had an exam yesterday so I didn't go to your place."
Orihime opened the door and let Tatsuma and Grayfia in.
A month had passed since she first met Tatsuma.
After being recruited by Tatsuma as a member of Akatsuki, Orihime obtained items that allowed her to quickly travel between Karakura Town, Kuoh Town, and the Akatsuki Headquarters.
According to Tatsuma's request, Orihime basically went to Kuoh Town to train every day. As time went on, she became a regular guest at Tatsuma's home.
Aside from not living at Tatsuma's house, she basically spent her time after school there. Because of this, Orihime not only knew about Tatsuma's seclusion but also had some interaction with Grayfia.
"Grayfia, good morning. I didn't expect you would come with Tatsuma. This is your first time at my place, right?"
Grayfia nodded slightly. "Mm, it's the first time. "Your home is actually in Karakura Town, I didn't know that before."
"Hmm... maybe it's because I didn't say anything."
Orihime scratched her head, a hint of an awkward smile appearing on her face.
The first thing she did every day when she went to Tatsuma's house was train with Yukina and the others.
Usually after training, her attention would shift to eating, enjoying the hearty dinner.
As for the free time after eating, she spent it chatting about everyday topics with the others. She hadn't mentioned anything about introductions like where she was from at all.
"Sorry, I accidentally forgot. When I go to Tatsuma's house later, I'll add a self-introduction."
Grayfia raised her hand and gestured. "Compared to a self-introduction, I think you should pay attention to your attire right now."
Perhaps because she had just woken up, Orihime was wearing a set of ill-fitting pajamas. Her curves stretched the pajamas, revealing a pleasing glimpse through the gaps.
"Wait for me, I'll go change clothes."
Orihime also noticed her attire problem at this moment, and a blush appeared on her face.
Covering herself with her hand, Orihime left Tatsuma and Grayfia in the living room and ran upstairs herself.
A few minutes later, the sound of footsteps echoed, and Orihime, having changed her clothes, reappeared in the living room.
"Grayfia, is there something you need to do today?"
"I'm not sure about the specifics either." Grayfia shook her head and looked to the side.
"Let's hear what the person involved has to say."
"I received some intel yesterday, and it recorded the locations of the thirteen branches of the Hero Faction."
"To avoid wasting this intel, I've decided to lead people to attack these thirteen branches today and capture the Sacred Gear users of the Hero Faction alive."
Tatsuma briefly and concisely introduced the main purpose of today.
After listening, Orihime tilted her head, a thoughtful look appearing on her face.
"Hero Faction... are they those terrorists who attacked Kuoh Town a few days ago?"
Tatsuma nodded. "Mm, the purpose of me coming to see you today is to test your strength. If you're qualified, you'll also participate in this operation to accumulate combat experience."
"No problem."
Orihime nodded, a serious expression appearing on her face.
"When does the test start?"
"Now."
Tatsuma's reply sounded.
At the same time, a faint demonic power fluctuation rose, and a bullet fell from behind Orihime.
"Whoa!"
Orihime reacted, rolling to the right to dodge the bullet attack.
However, when she raised her head again, over ten new bullets attacked from all directions.
Can't dodge!
A month of training took effect, and Orihime made a judgment immediately.
Mobilizing the Reiatsu within her body, Orihime raised her hands and aimed at both sides.
Along with the rise of Reiatsu fluctuations, a semi-circular golden barrier appeared around her. The bullets fell frantically, creating ripples on the golden barrier.
Just as Orihime thought she had blocked this round of attacks, there was a bang as something exploded from beneath her feet.
A bullet broke through the ground and landed on her body.
"So painful..."
Orihime let out a muffled groan, and was blasted against the wall, her consciousness temporarily going blank.
When she came back to her senses, over ten bullets that had appeared at some unknown time were already close at hand.
Staring blankly at these bullets for two seconds, Orihime finally reacted.
"I lost."
[Congratulations on successfully defeating Orihime Inoue, you have obtained the gold trait: Myriad Phenomenon Rejection.]
[Myriad Phenomenon Rejection (Gold): Consumes a certain amount of energy to reject and negate events that have occurred, restoring them to the state before the event happened.]
Not bad.
Glancing at the newly acquired gold trait, Tatsuma was in a very good mood.
He had already granted Orihime a trait a month ago. It was precisely because of this that he clearly knew Orihime had high-level traits on her.
However, Tatsuma wasn't an unreasonable person. Recruiting Orihime as a member of Akatsuki one moment and then immediately beating her up was a bit cruel.
So Tatsuma used the name of training to have Orihime come to his house to train.
According to the plan, Tatsuma was prepared to first have Rias and others train Orihime for half a month, and then see her to get her traits after the Three Factions conference ended.
However, after the conference ended, Tatsuma was either fighting or on the way to fight.
Later, he finally managed to rest, but then entered a training state, and ten days passed in an instant.
This caused the gold trait he should have obtained half a month ago to be dragged until now.
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