Chapter 24: Abnormal Between Normal People

“That woman blocked my attack? I don’t feel that much power from her.”

Apart from the fact that Cero Oscuras was blocked, Ulquiorra seemed to be calmly analyzing the current situation.

Certainly, Orihime’s shield doesn’t seem to have that much power.

But that’s also natural in a way.

Orihime’s ability is not spiritual pressure or something like that, but a power closer to providence.

If she really desperately wants it, that shield will become the strongest shield that can block anything.

Well, if you say that it’s for those who have no choice but to cling to providence like someone somewhere, I have nothing to say.

But as if it didn’t change anything even if Orihime blocked one attack, Ulquiorra tried to attack again for the second time.

But at that moment, someone ambushed Ulquiorra.

Ulquiorra didn’t get hit by the attack and responded skillfully with hand-to-hand combat, and soon the ambusher revealed himself.

“Are you okay, Ichigo.”

“Yoruichi-san!”

The one who appeared was Yoruichi, and Urahara appeared behind her.

Ulquiorra looked around at everyone at the appearance of reinforcements, and then he put away the weapon in his hand.

“Urahara Kisuke and Shihoin Yoruichi. I should retreat.”

“We met with difficulty, are you going to run away immediately?”

“Stop provoking me. I’m not foolish enough to take on all of you, in a way, isn’t that what you want? I’ll fight if you insist, though.”

“……”

“I’m going back, Yammy.”

Yoruichi couldn’t refute Ulquiorra’s cool-headed point.

Certainly, no matter how much Yoruichi and Urahara are present, the situation on this side is not easy.

Even though one of his arms was cut off, the other side still has Yammy.

Under that unspoken agreement, we avoided fighting here.

Soon, Ulquiorra and Yammy’s figures disappeared, and as if the tension was released, Ichigo sat down on the spot.

Well, it’s understandable.

He fought against a superior opponent like Ulquiorra, with Hollowfication that he’s not yet familiar with.

Orihime casts Soten Kisshun on Ichigo.

Urahara muttered, looking at the place where Ulquiorra and Yammy, who had disappeared, were.

“That’s an Arrancar……. They’re much stronger than I thought.”

“How many of those guys does Aizen have?”

“Well. Even with the Hogyoku, he can’t produce them infinitely, but if there are more guys stronger than the one Kurosaki-san just faced………….”

Strictly speaking, those two are the strongest Espada.

Yammy is number 0 when he properly releases, and Ulquiorra becomes stronger than Yammy when he does his second release.

But both require certain conditions, and even excluding those conditions, it becomes quite difficult.

To put it bluntly, the Captain-Commander and the 4th Division Quincy Butcher are close to tactical weapons, but if you exclude those two, you can’t guarantee victory.

Thinking that the fight was over, I slowly came out in front of Ichigo, and this time, Ichigo didn’t reject me.

“You?!”

“Kuak?!”

“Kurosaki-kun?!”

And I immediately kicked Ichigo.

Ichigo rolled on the ground in a surprise attack, and immediately got up and glared at me, protesting.

“Why did you hit me?!”

“Why didn’t you let me out, you?! I thought I was going to die?!”

White or the fake Zangetsu can’t come out, but I can move independently.

Even so, Ichigo didn’t let me out.

He even refused when I tried to come out.

Ichigo frowned at that.

“You were planning to run away with me, weren’t you?!”

…How did he know?

It’s not that I didn’t have the intention to fight, but I was also thinking of running away immediately if necessary.

If you can’t win, you should run away, right?

“Well, if you think you can’t win, you should run. Are you kidding me?”

“If I run away, what about Orihime and Chad?”

“You and I can each take one and run.”

“What about the townspeople?!”

“I dunno?”

“F*ck off!”

As Ichigo shouted, I picked my ear and retorted sarcastically.

“You idiot. The most foolish thing is for a guy who can’t even take care of himself to worry about others. To put it bluntly, you got yourkicked.”

“Ugh.”

“Whitey, Old Man, and I, we want to respect your wishes as much as possible, but know that there’s a limit, Ichigo.”

In the end, our top priority is Ichigo.

What Ichigo wants to protect and what we want to protect are different.

“…Are you saying I’m weak?”

“Yeah. You’re super weak. If you fight Whitey now, you’ll get your
kicked.”

“Then I’ll get stronger.”

Squeeze.

Ichigo firmly said, grabbing the sand on the ground.

“I’ll get stronger and protect everyone.”

His eyes were determined.

It was no different from when he did the crazy thing of invading the Seireitei to save Rukia.

I faced Ichigo with one eye closed.

“Lend me your strength.”

He’s talking to me, but he’s also talking to White and the fake Zangetsu inside him.

And as always, the three of us sighed similarly.

We met the wrong master(?) and our path of hardship is wide open.

“Just master Hollowfication. Then you’ll naturally learn my power.”

“Really?!”

“Maybe?”

The Fullbring power currently in Ichigo is playing separately within Ichigo.

The formula of 1+1=2 should be established, but a strange formula of 1+1=1 is completed.

Perhaps, just as other powers are not properly combined, I think that the power of Fullbring is also not properly combined.

I thought about learning my power first, but I tell him to learn what he’s learning now well, because there’s a possibility of wasting his effort.

In the first place, it hasn’t even been a year, let alone 6 months, since he awakened his Shinigami powers.

It can be said that it’s already an overwhelming talent just to have come this far.

Soon, Ichigo, who had healed his wounds, headed to where the Visored were.

He had already mastered Hollowfication itself, but the Visored are a place where all kinds of know-how are accumulated.

But…….

“Teach me how to shoot Gran Rey Cero!!!”

“What’s Gran Rey Cero.”

“Huh? Then, Cero Oscuras!”

“What’s Cero Oscuras?”

“Uh, that’s strange? White said that if you just learn the trick, you can shoot it right away?”

“Why are you close to your inner Hollow?!”

“Isn’t this normal?”

“It’s not!!!”

“???”

Is this a normal person among abnormal people. No, should I say an abnormal person among normal people?