Soulbound

I decided to add to my thoughts when talking with a zanpakuto. So, to sum it up, you have:

" - used for talking

' - dialogue using thoughts (telepathy etc)

I woke up feeling refreshed. The last few days were stressful for me. First It appears that everything from the game is real and we were transported somewhere. Then I get to know that in this new world, somehow I am worshipped as some sort of goddess, which is not necessarily wrong, it's just surprising. The good things that happened are also numerous like my zanpakuto being friendly or that suzuki is around.

'Hey! I have some news for you!'

I heard the well-known voice in my head at this point.

"Good morning Yasuragi."

Normally I would be irritated or something due to a hangover, but it seems that my new body cannot have it. I wonder how that even works. I shouldn't have drunk that much yesterday. It's all Kyouraku's fault anyway, or at least that's what I am gonna say if anyone asks. Noone would believe him anyway hehe.

I stood up and noticed that I had not changed or taken my clothes off. I am an idiot. I am lucky. Otherwise, he might have taken a nice look to appreciate it.

'My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.'

'Shut up, perv!'

'Huh? Who is a perv? Someone who by accident takes a peek or a girl who gets drunk at the bar possibly sleeps naked?'

My imagination started working wild, which made me embarrassed, especially with what I learned yesterday.

'Ok. What do you want.'

'Want to get rid of me that quick? You hurt me. :( '

Did he just send me a sad smiley face through telepathy...

'㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ - ( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°) - (𖦹ᵥᵥ𖦹)'

...

I almost tripped at that bullshit.

'What the hell are you trying to convey?'

'That Shalltear will meet some dudes with world level item that could mind control her.'

I went completely wide-eyed at that and shunpoed as fast as I could to the only person who was the

closest to matching me in speed.

"Soul Queen, what's the issue?"

Said Yoruichi, captain of 2nd division seemingly not caring for my unkempt hair looking more like overused broom than anything.

"No time to waste! Come with me. We need to move fast!"

I didn't really doubt what ke said to me for a few reasons. First, why would he lie? There is nothing to gain for him from that. Second, when a literral conceptual being says to you that something is happening you believe it. I wouldn't be surprised if he could manipulate time if fed enough souls, much less divine the future.

While quickly getting through the soul society towards the senkaimon, she notified a few shinigami that we were passing by about us leaving. Makes sense, we don't want everyone to wonder were we went to.

Damn it. It is taking way too long!

Running to senkaimon would take some time, even if it's convenient and way more proper method, I decided to do something I haven't done in a while. I cast a 'gate' spell, the same one that Ainz used to get to the village from Nazarick. Or at least that is what I think it was, thanks to those two soldiers' descriptions that were his victims.

Going through the purple portal, we arrived right in front of Nazarick. The reason why I had not opened the gate inside it is that the place has measures that make it impossible, and even if I succeeded, guardians would get alerted, possibly treating me as an intruder.

Very quickly traveling thorugh the mud and dirt covered walls that were made such by the resident to mask themselves from the world. Most likely done right after appearing here due to unknown dangers that could possibly wait around.

Once we got closer to the entrance, the massive doors opened, revealing a swirling energy inside. It seems that skeleton got notified about our presence and connected the entrance directly to the floor he is on.

We, of course, went through it and arrived at the room with the statue. I looked blankly at the floor covered in blood and guts with a lot of human corpses lying around. If not for the different races of the bodies, I would have thought they just didn't clean after the last time. Near the statue, I saw a smug-looking albedo with her outfit covered in blood, which didn't prove her innocence. Next to her was Ainz, who looked barely able to hold back from facepalming.

It's gonna be a thing occurring regularly, isn't it?

My friend sighed and turned to me.

"Aren't you weirded out or angry at her killing people as sacrifices?"

I tilted my head, thinking about it.

"I don't think so; I mean, I am not about justice, protection or other bullshit, but the balance of the circle. So unless you won't kill the majority of a population or start messing with souls too much, I am fine."

I then remembered why I was even here. Stupid, fanatical succubus and her over-the-top reactions.

"That's not important! Get Shalltear back to Nazarick. There are some people with world-level items that can mind control her!"

He didn't even bother to ask how I knew that and instantly used a message spell to contact her. I took a few minutes until he was done. From the lack of reaction, it seems to have gone well.

"They are coming back cautiously while travelling the shortest road."

Good, at least this will be taken care of, but the fact that the locals have some items from the game and, to top it off, of such a calibre means that there were other players in the past or might still be around. That is concerning, without a doubt.

"Now, Albedo, please clean around after your... activities. Ainz, we need to figure out the defences in case they use this kind of items or other players come knocking."

He seemed confused at first but caught on to the meaning.

Then I felt something. Like something big is going on in the zanpakuto.

'Hey, what's up?'

'Some idiot decided to spy around. No idea why, but they seem to be using divination on you, so I took the liberty of trapping the girl here. Let's just say she will not bother us again. hehe'

Great to know that he is keeping tabs on what is going on around. Divination, a type of magic that allows to litteraly peek at designated locations or being. I am a target now most likely because I got their attention due to what happened in E-Rantel.

'Do you know who she is?'

'Yeah, she was screaming all the time, trying to make me stop cutting her. Did you know that directly harming the soul is more painful? Very useful information.'

I shuddered a little bit; I didn't want to know what he was doing with the intruder.

"Someone was trying to use divination on me."

"This might be bad. You never really bothered with countermeasures to that."

I nodded at Ainz and shrugged.

"Big guy there captured the soul of the intruder and is getting information out of her."

Albedo, at this time, decided to ask a very confusing question that, at the same time, is very valid.

"How does the master capture her soul while she is just using divination?"

That is a good question.

'It appears that when using divination, you make a connection with your soul. That is also the reason why you can potentially get harmed when spying on someone who is prepared with countermeasures. I was able to grab her and pull her soul through that connection.'

The more I hear him talking about such things the more get amazed and fearful of his powers. The fact that he can identify such seemingly hard to notice thing and has such an amazing control over souls is fearsome. I can't do such things much less knwoing about it and here he explains it as if it was basic thing.

'Done. I let her go back.'

Although I wasn't expecting him to do that, I knew he had a good reason.

'Why?'

'She told me everything I wanted, and it would be funny to see the reaction of her country.'

Or maybe he doesn't.

'So who is it?'

'Ah, yes. She is one of the black scriptures of Slane theocracy. How about we pay them a visit? If we don't, they will think we are nothing important and will come again.'

I squinted my eyes. He is slightly right; if we just let go after they tried to spy on me, then they will get more annoying in the future. We should show them that we are not to be messed with. I am only wondering what the reaction of my NPCs will be, we were always protecting the balance, and all then suddenly, we are broadcasting to the mortals while causing bullshit.

"Ainz, I am going back. I need to talk with the old man about it."

His eyes brightened in wonder.

"Eh, About what?"

"About beating a well-known theocracy."