Chapter 19: Training

At my fearful muttering, Aizen didn’t pay much attention. Rather, he slowly reached out to Rukia as if to focus on his task.

Aizen’s current goal is not Ichigo’s growth or anything else.

He wants to obtain the incomplete Hogyoku created by Urahara Kisuke, and that incomplete Hogyoku is inside Rukia’s body.

“Black! Rukia…!”

“Shut up and watch.”

In that urgent situation, Ichigo urgently called me, but I just frowned and couldn’t act.

There are two burdens here, Ichigo and Renji. If I step in, of course, the two will be defenseless, and even if Aizen somehow passes, I don’t know how his subordinates, Gin and Tosen, will act.

Aizen intends to raise Ichigo as his rival, but he also has the mindset that if he can’t overcome this level of ordeal, he’s useless, so I can’t be sure that he won’t kill him.

Aizen’s hand turns green and penetrates Rukia’s chest.

Ichigo was startled by that, but I stopped him.

It looks like an instant kill on the surface, but it’s not.

Before long, Aizen pulled his hand out of Rukia’s body, and Rukia rolled on the ground without a scratch.

Her spiritual power seems to have dropped somewhat, but she doesn’t seem to be in danger of dying.

“Is this the Hogyoku that Urahara Kisuke made?”

Aizen looked carefully at the Hogyoku he had taken out of Rukia. As someone who has also created a Hogyoku, as a scientist, another Hogyoku must be interesting.

Aizen, looking satisfied with the Hogyoku he had obtained, slowly met my gaze. That gaze was creepy.

“F*cking hell! Are you a pedophile mixed with a homosexual?!”

Was there a reason why there were only men among his subordinates?!

Come to think of it, considering that Harribel was the only Espada he slashed, doesn’t he also have misogyny?!

The subsequent development was not much different from what I knew.

The captains appeared and tried to restrain Aizen, but the sky cracked and yellow Negacion fell and moved to protect the three.

With Aizen Sosuke’s full-scale rebellion, Ukitake Jushiro frowned and muttered that they had fallen.

Aizen responded properly to that cry for the first time.

“It’s a strange word. Do you think that the small sacrifices being sacrificed for the current cause are natural, but the small sacrifices caused by my cause are wrong, Ukitake Jushiro? Don’t you think it’s ridiculous?”

“Now those wrong principles are over. From now on.”

-I will stand in the heavens.

With those words, Aizen Sosuke and his party disappeared, leaving behind the words that they would meet again. It was a signal to announce the start of a new war following the long invasion of Seireitei.

“Uh, so.”

“”

“It’s Black, right?”

“You were shouting so much earlier, why did you suddenly lose your confidence?”

“No, I wasn’t in my right mind earlier. Thinking about it again, it’s amazing that I came out like this.”

The commotion caused by Aizen was over, but that didn’t mean things ended quickly.

Just as it’s more difficult to recover from the damage caused by war than to wage war, considering the death of the Central 46, the defection of three captains, and other confusions, they had to spend a very busy time.

In the meantime, we gathered among the members who had invaded Seireitei and had a brief chat.

Ichigo was dying, but Orihime healed him, so he quickly recovered.

And he’s a little bewildered by my appearance.

“Can White and the old man come out too?”

“Who knows?”

“What’s that?”

“You’ll know when you try?”

Ichigo looks dumbfounded at my answer, but that’s the truth.

The reason I can come out like this is because Fullbring has awakened like that. Fullbring in the form of emission literally emits me.

So I can move and talk in this form. But White and the fake Zangetsu are not Fullbrings, so it’s hard to say for sure that they can do it.

Maybe they can later, but at least for now, it’s difficult.

“Kurosaki-kun, so this person is…?”

“Oh, you all haven’t met. Black is.”

“….?”

“Uh, so…?”

Ichigo hesitates for a moment. Then he looked at me with a troubled expression.

Come to think of it, he doesn’t have much knowledge of Shinigami, so he wouldn’t know about Fullbring or anything else.

Until now, I’ve just been lending him my power, and I haven’t given any detailed explanations other than that.

“Just say it’s your power, you b*stard. Me, White, and the hairball are all part of your power.”

“Uh, I don’t like that. We’re all comrades fighting together. Saying power makes it sound like I’m treating you like tools..”

“Just go with the flow, go with the flow.”

I waved my hand roughly.

“So, I’m Black. Nice to meet you, Ichigo’s friends.”

“Nice to meet you.”

“Hmm.”

“You certainly look like your name.”

Orihime, Chad, and Uryu, in that order.

“And you two there, come with me for a moment.”

“What’s the matter, Black?”

“There’s something, you idiot. You just take care of yourself.”

“Your words are a bit harsh?!”

“You got your waist twisted in one shot, and you’re talking back?”

“Ugh?!”

“Just take lessons from White, you fool.”

I roughly brushed off Ichigo and took Orihime and Chad with me. I wanted to take Uryu too, but I can’t do anything for Uryu, who has almost completely lost his power.

Besides, he’s a Quincy, so he’s outside my role. When I thought it was enough, I spoke to the two in a secluded place.

When I stopped walking, Orihime asked.

“What do you need from me and Chad-kun?”

“Oh, it’s nothing, just to train you guys a little.”

“Yes?”

A sudden training proposal. The two were puzzled.

“You can get stronger.”

Currently, Orihime and Chad are having a hard time keeping up with the next stage, the fight with the Arrancars.

But this doesn’t mean that they don’t have talent. It goes without saying about Orihime’s ability, and even Chad, who is famous for memes, is not that weak.

“First of all, Orihime, your ability is not a one-dimensional ability like attack, defense, or healing.”

“Yes? Then what is it?”

“It’s an ability called Phenomenon Rejection.”

“Phenomenon Rejection?”

“Yes.”

Orihime’s ability is easily mistaken, but it’s an ability called Phenomenon Rejection.

How great that ability is is that even time regression and space regression are forbidden arts or abilities that approach them, but Orihime’s ability can be said to be superior to them.

The power to reject wounds and reject the opponent’s attack. Theoretically, it can be said to be the strongest spear, shield, and healing technique.

Of course, it’s not without its limitations, but it can’t be denied that it’s one of the strongest abilities in theory.

If Orihime had properly honed her abilities, it would not have been impossible to destroy the pre-awakening Hogyoku in the original work. That’s how fraudulent the ability is.

“Chad, your power is similar to a Hollow’s.”

“A Hollow’s?”

“It’s simple, but that’s why it’s powerful. Awaken the power to protect, the power to attack, and the power beyond that.”

“The power to protect and the power to attack…….”

It’s famous for memes in the original work, but that doesn’t mean Chad is that weak.

Even now, he can do about lieutenant level, and at the stage where he feels the lack of power and trains, he will be a lower captain level.

After all, considering that Noitra, who defeated Chad in one blow, was stronger than Grimmjow, and Grimmjow was stronger than Ichigo, who used Bankai in the early days, it’s not necessary to underestimate Chad’s strength.

Above all, the potential of these two is high, but high.

There is a greater merit than anything else.

That’s the fact that they are Ichigo’s allies.

Those other Shinigami b*stards are honestly suspicious no matter what form they take, but these two are a plus point because they are Ichigo’s allies in any form.

“And I also have something I want to test with you.”