Chapter 69 - Training with the Ever-smiling young boy (1/2)
Thus begin the daily practice of Keiko with Everyone else. Keiko first taught everyone something he was specialized in, fighting without a Zanpakuto for which he was famous for and titled as. Secondary came the use of Kido art completely to measure the strength of your opponents. Likes of Zaraki and Yamamoto preferred to fight with their Zanpakuto so Keiko tortured them, even more, forcing them to change their ways of fighting. With Yamamoto, he taught him how to preserve his energy without showing off and wasting power while fighting. Zaraki was a special case, Keiko first took away his Zanpakuto itself and forcing him to fight using different means.
After 4 months of training everyone, Keiko announced that a tournament will be held between captains, lieutenants, and others seaters among their grade, those who are deemed too weak will be severely punished by him and those who win the tournament will be given a free change to attack him in any manner they want, he won't retaliate or block the attack in any manner.
The tournament had different categories such as the use of different art forms: Hakuda using one's own body to fight the opponent, Hoho race to motivate each other and decrease the gap between the speed of an individual regardless of their ranks, Kido which Keiko has personally taught and finally full-on fight with Zanpakuto and everything people were free to use any form of their sword they want Shikai bankai or whatever. Yamamoto was prohibited from using his Zanpakuto in the final event and have to fight off opponents using other means with a simple training sword.
Keiko smilingly announced all everything to the entire soul society while also putting in a request to bring back the 5 individual humans who invaded soul society at Rukia's trail explaining that he saw potential in some of them while also demanding that the soul society should bring back Urahara back into the soul society so that all the information regarding Hogyoku is extracted from him, helping them understand the situation much better. Senjumaru seeing that Keiko is completely focused on the task like her also approved his actions, both she and Keiko sent a weekly report back to Ichibe regarding the progress.
In the meantime, after Keiko has given out the order to look for soul-sucking bees of bounts in the human world to Arrancar. Arrancar using Hope AI which has already integrated with the human world technology easily found them and reported back that the bounts capable to reproduction has not been taken yet and is moving toward the Karakura Town, Keiko seeing this ordered his Arrancar's to kidnap both the female bount and everyone else which are found to be a bounts with her.
Keiko's thinking was clear, why bother only get the egg when you can get the chicken and later resume the process of chicken make the egg after you are done understanding the chicken completely. Bounts were immortal as long as they are feed souls anyway thus he wasn't worried about the time this is going to take or the development of character it is going to make. Yhwach will return in recovered in the end and attack both the soul society and royal palace in the end anyway.
The tournament was interesting as each captain wanted nothing more than kick Keiko in the ass once, everyone tried their best. Keiko with his ever smiling face smiled, even more, every time someone made some kind of stupid mistake or something. While the tournament was going on Keiko also put in a request to the center 46 regarding the restoration of Sōkyoku if possible, he wanted to understand the process of how the Sōkyoku was made by combining the force of million Zanpakuto's. Kido tournament winner was Byakuya Kuchiki while Hakuda was won by Zaraki, Hoho using Shunpo art went to Yamamoto while Muyari won the all-out fight using different techniques and strategies against his opponents.
Keiko prepared to give out the rewards stood in front of everyone with both hands behind his back looked at the four winners and asked: Do you want to attack me together or one at a time? You all can use all your powers including Bankai.
Yamamoto looked at the smiling monster in front of him and knew this is not as simple as it seems looked at his captain's who also looked at him and nodded all four of them shouted: Bankai except Zaraki who still hadn't unlocked his bankai he simply removed his eye patch thus increasing his power to another level.
Keiko yawn seeing all of this and slowly said: Haki active.
His body without changing color to the n.a.k.e.d eyes started shining a little. One after other attacks landed on him, starting with a fully powered attack from Zaraki cutting him in half but the blade failed to even harm the hair on his head next came Byakuya who used his Bankai's billion blades and tried to cut Keiko but the petal's simply bounced off Keiko, Muyari using his bankai released acid directly onto Keiko trying to melt him but Acid just slid off his body not even harming his cloths. Yamamoto controlling his Reiatsu used his entire power and tried to cut Keiko into two half. Keiko under Yamamoto bounced from places to places breaking various walls and such before finally stopping with only a burning slash cutting his cloth with a black mark on his skin.