Chapter 7: Good friends.

The research for Mugetsu suffered difficulties from the very beginning.

“Gran Rey Cero, Getsugatensho, and Sklaverei mixed together and swung really fast twice isn’t enough.”

“Hmm.”

“Should we add your power too?”

“Even if we add my power, it’ll just make Getsugatensho a bit stronger.”

Ichigo possesses a variety of mixed powers, and just combining them one by one can create powerful special moves.

Like Gran Rey Getsuga Jujisho, Sklaverei Getsugatensho, or Licht Regen Getsugatensho.

Honestly, just these would be considered strong by normal standards, but unfortunately, they fall far short of the level I’m aiming for.

A power that could cut even a transcendent being like Aizen in one blow, if he wasn’t immortal.

Mugetsu.

Even if it’s not exactly that, it needs to be close, or it’s pointless.

‘Is Letzt Stil the only way, after all?’

Honestly, I was expecting this.

It’s a power that’s used by giving up all your powers.

In a way, it’s a textbook power, and trying to use that much power in one blow without such a resolution is pretty shameless.

But that’s just how people are, right?

Even when you know it’s impossible, you still want to make it happen somehow.

Somehow, a no-risk Mugetsu…

“Ah.”

“What is it?”

I let out a gasp.

White was curious, but I ignored it.

I realized that I was so fixated on Mugetsu that I had overlooked something very important.

“Hairball!

Hairball!

Get over here right now!!!”

“I’m here.”

“No, more importantly, this hairball f*cker was just playing around while White and I were struggling?

You wanna die?”

I shouted, raising my voice.

“Quincy Voll Stern Dich!

Let’s combine that!

That’ll solve everything!”

Why didn’t I think of this before?

I was so fixated on the idea that Mugetsu was a result of Letzt Stil that I was trapped by my own preconceptions.

Was there not a technique that surpassed even that, even if it wasn’t Letzt Stil?

That’s right, Quincy Voll Stern Dich!

Essentially, Quincy Voll Stern Dich is the perfected form of Letzt Stil.

According to the lore, it’s an upgraded version of Letzt Stil.

Compared to the Letzt Stil Uryu showed, it has almost no feats, but that’s only because of the difference in potential between Uryu and other Quincies, and because the captain Uryu fought using Letzt Stil was Mayuri.

Uryu’s attack with Letzt Stil blew away Mayuri’s Bankai in one hit, but strictly speaking, Mayuri’s pure combat strength is in the lower ranks among the captains.

Maybe even near the bottom.

Because Mayuri is, after all, a scientist.

All of Uryu’s victories after his defeat were achieved not through Shinigami powers, but through the power of science.

Anyway, if we have Quincy Voll Stern Dich, everything will be solved.

The completion of a no-risk Mugetsu!

“?”

At that, the hairball, the fake Zangetsu, tilted his head in confusion.

“What’s that?”

“….Why don’t you know?”

“Why would you assume I would know?”

Is this deja vu, or am I just imagining it?

“No, you f*cker!

Why don’t you know!

It’s a Quincy technique, so why doesn’t the supposed leader of the Quincies know about it!”

“Strictly speaking, I’m a fragment of Yhwach.”

“No, so what does that have to do with…”

Flustered.

I stopped talking and my body stiffened.

The fake Zangetsu’s true identity is the Yhwach from a thousand years ago.

To be precise, he is a fragment of that Yhwach.

Although they share the same identity as Quincies, everything else is different from the main body.

The main body wants to kill the Soul King and destroy the three realms, while the hairball, the fake Zangetsu, only wants to protect Ichigo.

In other words, the two have been completely separate entities since a thousand years ago.

Since a thousand years ago.

“Just to be sure.”

“…..”

“A thousand years ago, was there only Letzt Stil?”

“At least as far as I know, there’s no such technique as Quincy Voll Stern Dich.”

……Fck this sht.

In a way, it was obvious.

Yhwach, the leader of the Quincies, is a meticulous guy, and as part of his preparations, he developed the Medallion to steal Bankai, and he identified special war powers without underestimating his enemies.

It goes without saying that he would have perfected the incomplete Letzt Stil.

Our hairball, who was torn away a thousand years ago, obviously wouldn’t know about such things.

‘If there was such a method, we would have mixed Voll Stern Dich into Mugetsu instead of Letzt Stil.’

I let out a heavy sigh.

What I thought was the answer wasn’t the answer, and my energy was drained.

It seemed like it would be easy, but it seems I underestimated it a little, no, a lot.

But I found a way out.

“Hairball, from now on, you’re going to create the perfected form of Letzt Stil.”

“What?”

“That’s the answer to Mugetsu.”

Things have become somewhat clearer.

Honestly, even if I was told to create an unlimited Mugetsu, I would have been at a loss.

But when I thought of Voll Stern Dich, a direction was set.

Of course, just randomly telling him to create the perfected form of Letzt Stil would be shameless, but there is already a precedent in the form of Voll Stern Dich.

And our hairball is a fragment of the Quincy leader.

It’s definitely possible.

At my not-so-unreasonable demand, the hairball reluctantly agreed, and time passed.

Most of the subsequent events were things I knew.

In order to enter Seireitei, they tried to cross the gate, but the gatekeeper Jidanbo appeared.

When Ichigo defeated Jidanbo without harming him, the moved Jidanbo opened the gate.

Beyond the gate, the suspicious-looking, narrow-eyed Ichimaru Gin was waiting.

Gin then released his Zanpakuto and blew us away along with Jidanbo, and Ichigo and his companions had to find another way to enter Seireitei.

That method was using the Shiba family’s cannon to penetrate Seireitei’s spirit barrier.

And soon, Ichigo, along with his companions, used the cannon to penetrate the spirit barrier and infiltrate Seireitei.

“Hey.”

“Yeah.”

“That’s not Shunpo, is it?”

“It’s not Sonido either.”

And as we were watching, something peculiar was shown to us.

To put it nicely, Ichigo infiltrated Seireitei.

To put it badly, he should have been falling, but Ichigo didn’t fall from the sky.

He created a foothold in mid-air and landed safely.

Well, that’s fine.

It’s a good thing if Ichigo is safe.

“That’s Hirenkyaku.”

White and I looked at the hairball.

“…..”

“…..”

At the gazes from me and White, the hairball avoided eye contact.

You f*cking…….

While White and I were struggling to create Mugetsu, you were pulling this kind of sh*t?