Let the Truth Be Unknown
Chapter 9 Rukia, Angels, Eliminated Power
(Seen from Rukia's perspective) "How could you read that stone?" Ichigo asked
"How? Euh… I don't know… It was like spontaneous reading I think." The strange girl answered. She looked a bit confused with Ichigo's question. Yes, I also had hundreds or even thousands of questions to be launched at her inside my mind. How could anyone read this type of symbols except he or she had something connected to it? Was she an angel also? If not how could she even read this stone? Maybe, I should just kept this questions inside my mind until the truth was revealed.
The room was a complete reticent after she answered the question. The situation perfectly altered as the first time I was coming in, the room's ambience was so tense. However, then it was full of confusion and thought after she answered Ichigo's question. Urahara was thinking with all his might, he set a very serious face and winding eyebrows which looked as if they were the bodies of snakes. Ichigo was also thinking. Nonetheless, he was not too serious as usual, taking matters a bit too lightly. His hand holding his other hand, he stood still as if the sands of time had stopped. There, in front of him, the girl sat elegantly on the fluffy white bed with her straight purple hair and the brilliant red eyes which looked innocent. Her face was straight forward. Did she even know the matter we were discussing? She looked innocently emotionless and empty. At least, no emotion could be detected from her white snow-colored face until this very moment. It was the first meeting actually.
"So… How could you read it, Yui? The case is that you didn't even know how to read it." Urahara questioned, breaking the stark reticence inside the room after what that seemed to be eternity.
"It is enough for now, Urahara san. She was still very blur. It could be that she was still not fully recovered yet after that incident. Asking her the in-depths later will do, I think." Instead of the girl, Ichigo answered it, protecting her. "Rukia, could you please continue the news you want to tell us?" Ichigo continued.
"All right, the hollows we fought yesterday was not really hollow actually. To be specific, it was actually the combination of different beings. The soul society is still working on the sample DNA that I took yesterday. It also revealed that the mysterious thick fog we were in yesterday was not coming from the meteor, instead it was from the modified hollow's body. The fog…" I explained with the information I had previously before Urahara cut it.
"Strengthened the power and the resistance of the hollow from attacks which means that it passively increased the hollow's power as well as their ability to defend. This method of modifying hollows for different activities was actually invented by the angels." Urahara continued.
"Once again, it was about the creature called angel?" Ichigo asked.
"Yes, they lived in the valley of scream before the soul society realized their existence. They were invited to live in soul society for many researches because of their intelligence and unique powers." Urahara explained.
"So, was the guy we fought yesterday the angel? If he was, it would be easier to defeat them, right? Moreover, we had known their place in the soul society. This would not be too hard, right?" Ichigo said with smile on his face. He felt that the problem had already be solved. Nevertheless, it was just the beginning of the complication. Not even the climax if it was a narrative story.
"The thing is that, the angels had extinct thousands years ago." I answered.
"What? They had extinct? How could it be? Did not you say that they were invited to move to soul society?"
"Yes, exactly. Nonetheless, due to their unknown power and their last research which enables them to make a pact with a hollow, the soul society had considered them to be a threat that should be erased completely. Thus, that time, in the middle of the scorching sun when the angels were doing their normal activity, they were attacked suddenly. They could not run nor attack back as they were outnumbered. That bloody day was erased from the history. Only senior shinigami knows this story. You don't know it right, Kuchiki?" Urahara san asked.
"Yeah, I had just heard it from you. It is true, no history book had ever mentioned that day. I knew the angels had ever existed also just hours ago. It was also because of this urgency." I answered. I had never imagined that such a very miserable and bloody day had ever happened in the soul society. "But, why? Why should a race be eliminated just because of the different power they had?"
"The answer is simple. Their power was not 'legal'. In other words, their power was forbidden."
The girl just listened to the conversation quietly. I wondered if she actually knows something about this angel. Yet, just that moment I started to realize that actually the girl possessed a spiritual power. Just like the first time I met Ichigo, her spiritual power was bursting as if without control.
