Hogyoku,
A ceiling-level item from the world of "Bleach"!
Both Urahara Kisuke and Aizen had spent immense amounts of energy researching and developing it.
And both men completed their respective Hogyoku around similar times.
However, even the Hogyoku created by someone as brilliantly intelligent as Urahara Kisuke was not completely mature.
Only after fusing with Aizen's Hogyoku did it reveal its perfect form.
Urahara Kisuke once believed that the Hogyoku was an item that could break the boundary between Shinigami and Hollow.
Thus, enabling Shinigami to master Hollow powers, undergoing Vizardification; or, enabling Hollows to master Shinigami powers, which is Arrancarization.
However,
The truth was not so.
The reason the Hogyoku possessed this power was entirely because Urahara Kisuke wished for it in his heart.
The Hogyoku's true ability,
Was to materialize the desires within the hearts of those around it, thereby granting power to realize dreams.
Aizen wished to evolve into an existence surpassing all.
Thus, after fusing with the Hogyoku,
He began to progress towards the ultimate evolution.
In other words,
The Hogyoku possesses the ability to guide reality towards one's wishes.
This power to interfere with reality is, without a doubt, in any world, an absolute ultimate bug!
It could be considered... an existence that trespasses upon the realm of gods!
Kyo couldn't help but swallow nervously.
He never expected,
After the system shop was upgraded to the max level this time,
The Hogyoku would actually appear as the final hidden item...
But,
Come to think of it,
What's with this price...?
1,000,000???
A full one million points?!?!
Is this poisonous?!
Kyo immediately looked at the balance in his upper left corner.
There, it very simply displayed a number of 130,000...
And this,
Was what he had accumulated bit by bit over several years.
"..."
After seeing it clearly, the corner of Kyo's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.
If calculated based on an average of 200 points per side mission, he would have to do 50 consecutive side missions to get 10,000 points...
He would have to do over four thousand side missions to accumulate enough points to buy the Hogyoku...
What the hell...?
Isn't this just bullying an honest person?!?
The worker of the Shinobi World... turns out to be me???
"..."
After being frozen for a long while,
Kyo, with a strange expression, started looking at other hidden items.
Sure enough,
Strange shop items had increased again.
This time,
There were even magical items like the "Superhuman Drug" developed by Kurotsuchi Mayuri and the "Tenshintai" developed by Urahara Kisuke...
However,
For the current Kyo, they were all things of little use.
Looking around,
After a long time, Kyo's gaze returned to the Hogyoku.
Indeed,
He still wanted to buy this...
Kyo felt helpless in his heart.
At this point,
In the Shinobi World, he was basically in the strongest position.
It could be said,
The only ones who could fight him now were basically existences at the Six Paths level.
Even if someone at the Super Kage level came, they would almost only be qualified to be instantly killed.
Therefore,
Buying other items was fundamentally meaningless.
After all,
As long as he activated Bankai, defeating anything was easy and pleasant.
It was the Hogyoku instead.
This item possessed infinite possibilities...
Although the price was expensive, it could still be considered the most cost-effective item in the entire shop.
Perhaps, in the future, other functions could be developed...
...
A flower blooms in two places, each branch tells its own story.
At this moment,
At the same time Kyo was studying the system shop,
Far to the east of the Land of Rain,
In the Land of Fire, outside Konoha.
Within a forest.
Two figures in black robes with red clouds were swiftly moving through it.
They were Kisame and Itachi.
Both of their clothes had varying degrees of damage, as if they had just experienced some kind of battle.
And at this moment,
Kisame's expression was strange as he stared at Itachi beside him, puzzled:
"What's going on...?"
"Itachi-san, you clearly still have strength left, right? Why did we retreat?"
"..."
Kisame was naturally puzzled.
After all,
They had finally found the location of that Kyubi Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Naruto!
And also discovered the legendary Sannin who was training him... Jiraiya.
As a result,
They had only exchanged a few rounds,
This guy Itachi,
Directly took him and retreated!
Now,
They were in the process of fleeing!
This was too unreasonable...
Kisame frowned, gazing at Itachi.
If he didn't get a reasonable explanation, he naturally wouldn't be convinced.
And at this moment,
Itachi still remained indifferent, just slightly lowering his eyes, and said:
"Very simple."
"Because... I can't beat him."
"...Eh?"
At these words, Kisame's expression froze.
Wh...what?
Can't beat?
The always proud genius Uchiha Itachi, actually said he couldn't beat someone???
This...
Kisame's expression froze.
Clearly, the last person this guy said he couldn't beat was that burning Dojutsu user in Akatsuki, Kyo...
This Sannin Jiraiya, although truly very strong,
From the few exchanges just now, he didn't seem to be at Kyo's terrifying level yet...
Was this enough to scare him off?
A strange look appeared in Kisame's eyes.
He naturally knew how fearsome that Kyo was.
After all, he had heard too much about it through hints from Itachi here.
Even,
That Uchiha Madara was wary of him.
It was normal for Itachi to admit he couldn't beat him,
But... this time with Jiraiya, Kisame really found it suspicious.
After thinking for a moment, he spoke again:
"No... no way,"
"Itachi-san, as long as you use your Mangekyo Sharingan like you did against that mercenary group last time, you should still be able to surpass Jiraiya, right...?"
Kisame probed.
However, upon hearing this,
Itachi, the master actor, didn't move a muscle in his expression, just said flatly:
"Useless."
"Didn't you just see,"
"My 'Amaterasu', released twice in a row, was both sealed by him with a mysterious scroll. It was useless."
"Even if I continued using the Mangekyo Sharingan, it would just increase fatigue."
"My stamina can't support it anymore now."
"I don't have much Chakra left either."
"On the other hand, Jiraiya,"
"His Chakra Reserve and stamina are both unimaginably large."
"Plus his powerful summoning technique and various mysterious techniques."
"If we really kept fighting, it would probably never end, and we might even be besieged by the entire Konoha Shinobi..."
"This isn't our purpose for coming, right?"
"We came to capture the Jinchuriki, not to declare war on Konoha."
Itachi's expression was calm, speaking unhurriedly.
Very logical.
Very rational.
Also, very persuasive.
"...Uh."
After listening to Itachi's speech,
The honest man Kisame beside him was stunned.
Then,
Itachi raised his eyes, looked ahead, and said indifferently:
"Since the Kyubi Jinchuriki has such a strong protector, it's temporarily... not suitable for capture, easily alerting the enemy."
"Let's return to Amegakure first."
"After discussing with Pain, we'll decide on the operation."
"..."
Kisame was surprised for a long time, then helplessly said:
"...Alright."
Although he still wanted to go back and try to capture the Jinchuriki again,
For now,
There was no help for it.
He couldn't beat Itachi, so he had to let him have the final say.
"..."
However,
What he didn't know at this moment was,
Beside him, Itachi's heart was also filled with thoughts.
Sigh,
I wonder if this time,
My intelligence was delivered effectively or not...