Chapter 1504.1: The Dark Horse
— A secret? Su Xiao asked, not even intending to ask about Saejin's death. It wasn't meant to hurt him. After all, they didn't even know each other, so he shouldn't have reacted to this captain's death in any way.
— This is between you and me, " Nanke said softly and moved closer to Su Xiao. A pleasant faint fragrance of flowers immediately reached his nose. — I overheard it by accident. You are the fifth suspect in Captain Aizen's death.
— … Su Xiao looked at Nanke in surprise, and it wasn't an act, he was really confused. There were only two possible explanations for this accusation. The first was that Nanke was lying, and the second was that someone had decided to point a finger at the sky.
But soon, Su Xiao understood why such a guess had appeared in the first place. He had only recently joined Seireitei, and the first person to be killed after joining was Aizen, so it was obvious that such a death was the first thing anyone like him would be suspected of..
In addition, Su Xiao and Aizen communicated well, and it was quite possible that they might have had an argument during one of these meetings, which eventually led to Aizen's death.
Thinking about this, Su Xiao felt relieved, but his expression didn't change.
— I understand, but that's fine. After all, I've only recently arrived in Seireitei.
— … Nanke's eyes flashed with disappointment. This wasn't the reaction she wanted to see in response to such a provocation.
— Mr. Byakuya, should we go to the place where Captain Sajin was killed...
— And what are we going to do there?
— Nanke scratched the back of her head.
— I didn't know him, and Aizen's death hadn't been investigated yet. I don't have time to deal with this case.
— Looks like... You're right, " Nanke said, and dusted off her clothes. "Master, don't worry, I'll protect you," and after saying that, she nodded and returned to her usual cheerful appearance.
— Don't worry, I don't want to die yet, so I won't leave the house at night. I thought it was safe in Seireitei, but as it turns out, it's not.
After chatting for a while, Nanke left the room, and after she left, the smile disappeared from Su Xiao's face.
When he first saw Nanke, he felt that there was something wrong with this girl.
Nanke made him feel very familiar. Although it was a feeling that she masked very well, Su Xiao quickly recalled who else he had previously felt something like this from.
The similarity between Nanke's temperament and that of his assistant from the previous world was more than 40%.
Of course, the temperaments of two people couldn't be exactly the same. If the similarity was more than 20%, the person would definitely pay attention to it, because in his eyes, two different-looking people would feel very similar.
As for the similarity of 80% or more percent, this was found only in twins.
Nanke was very talented, but unfortunately, at critical moments, she became timid, so no one paid any attention to her and chose to ignore her.
Of course, this was only a superficial impression of Nanke. In the past world, Su Xiao's assistant also had a cheerful personality, but sometimes she would have a short circuit in her brain that made her completely different, and if you add to that her life experience in the form of direct presence on "zero" battlefields... She had the kind of bravery and courage that many men didn't have.
His assistant could blow an opponent's head off with a pistol shot, even without changing her face, and in the next moment happily eat her lunch or a modest snack, without paying any attention to the corpses nearby..
The similarity between Nanke and the assistant lay not in their joie de vivre or sometimes short-sighted brains, but in their indifference to the lives of their opponents.
Su Xiao was sure that Nanke had killed a lot of shinigami and hollows, but since most of those kills were custom-made, her aura wasn't as heavy, although even with her disguise, some of her habits gave her away.
For example, when Nanke was just drinking wine from a jug, she first touched the wine with her lips, and then with her tongue. After she realized that the wine wasn't poisoned, she began to devour it greedily.
Without professional training, it was impossible to do all this so quickly, imperceptibly and naturally.
A skilled assassin, always alert and able to completely disguise herself as a completely different character... it was becoming obvious which faction Nanke belonged to.
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