Warning: I am not an archaeologist or a tomb raider. Please excuse any inaccuracies (if there are any) in the story. Also please take into consideration that I am merely taking a creative license.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.
Fifteenth Day of the Fourth Month, Thirteenth Year of Kunshu's Reign
Toushirou, Rukia, and Ichigo aren't doing so well. They all have high fevers and it just seems bad in general. Thankfully, Orihime and Ulquiorra feel fine after a good night's rest… If they weren't… I wouldn't know what to do anymore.
Breakfast was simple again. Meat soup with bread. It was still tasty, especially after yesterday's fiasco. But it was nothing big. Just simple. But simple is nice.
Since I needed to do part of the official excavation today to some extent as yesterday's was just a preliminary exploration, Ulquiorra, Orihime, and I went back to the dead-end of the non-golden leaf pathway.
Strangely enough, we couldn't find the bush that I found yesterday at all… It's as if it never existed before. How could this happen?
We couldn't even find the Jizou Statue or the tunnel that I fell into either.
Was it all a dream?
But that's impossible since everything was recorded in the video camera…and the pictures clearly showed that we were inside of the tomb yesterday too.
Speaking of which, I thought that the pain in my cheek would go away, but it's annoyingly getting worse.
Anyways, this spells bad news for me. All paths to the tomb in Doku Mori are lost and now I am not sure if it'll ever be discovered in the far future as well.
That reminds me…
I keep thinking about his words... Kurotsuchi Mayuri's words.
"You are asking the wrong questions."
But my questions weren't wrong… At least, I didn't think they were wrong…
Maybe listing them down will help me figure it out.
-What is Reiatsu? Is that where the special power of the Shinigami soldiers come from?
-What is wrong with Toushirou? Why did Kurotsuchi Mayuri call Toushirou a genius?
-What does the necklace (Yami no Kage) have to do with the tomb in Arashi Rikujou? (And also… Why can't I take it off at all? I tried everything but nothing works! And now I have to shower with this damn necklace on. Do you know how uncomfortable that is?)
And this is the most important question that remains unanswered:
How did Kuchiki Byakuya know that we would eventually come to Kurotsuchi Mayuri's tomb in advance?
And then there is the answer that Kurotsuchi Mayuri gave me for one of my questions:
"The future is the past and the past is the future. You will find the answers to your questions during your journey in time… So do not stop your pursuit at the final tomb because there is more in store for the ambitious seekers."
Could that be the answer to the most important question of all?
But what could it possibly mean? And why were my questions wrong? (I still couldn't figure it out.)
I suppose I won't have a clear answer for all of my questions until the end of this long expedition…
How frustrating...
quod erat demonstrandum.
Megumi
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