Chapter 271 - Soul: Welcome to the Candy Shop. (1/2)
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Kurasaki Ichigo isn't special because of his incredible strength, or massive [Reiatsu]. No, what makes him special is the sheer amount of potential he has. Normally in a bunch of places hybrids are considered inferior in many ways, be it because they don't inherit some kind of family power, or because they have inferior strength to a ”pure” offspring. There is a bunch of excuses you see around really, I heard a lot of them with my [Clairvoyance]. So more often than not being a hybrid is a tremendous disadvantage.
This is not the case in this universe.
One of the reasons Ichigo is considered such an anomaly is because he is a Shinigami, Quincy, Hollow hybrid. A lot of his absurd strength and speed of improvement is ”explained” by that, but normally that wouldn't be enough, anyone with such an ancestry wouldn't be able to accomplish the things Kurasaki Ichigo did. So great part of what makes Kurosaki Ichigo truly special is Kurosaki Ichigo himself.
Yeah, it may sound redundant, and I bet you probably attributed those bullshit feats to plot armor. And I am not here to disagree with you, fate is indeed a great way to make a hero grow in more ways than one, I just wanted to point out that it is not only Ichigo's protagonist that makes him tick.
And I am being proven right when a day after the incident that granted Ichigo his Shinigami powers, I am seeing him fight a Hollow that by all intents and purposes should've swept the floor with him. Yeah, this hollow is extremely weak in the grand scope of things, but what by all intents and purposes was a normal 15 years old is fighting against it and not instantly dying. That by itself is impressive.
Right now he is showing an impressive instinct... it is almost as if he has a sixth sense for fighting. He is literally improving bit by bit while fighting against the Hollow, I can honestly say that he is more impressive than me when I started.
But he still looks like a f.u.c.k.i.n.g money swinging a giant metal stick around, yeah he is pretty bad. But considering he never touched a sword in life before I can sort of understand it. Besides... This fight is quite emotionally heavy to poor Ichigo, he is literally fighting again Inoue's brother turned Hollow.
Eventually, he was able to win and purify the Hollow while sustaining some wounds on his person, same for Orihime too.
”I was thinking... Do you plan to train the boy?”, asked Allessa a slightly curious tone seeping on her smooth voice. She probably wants to see what kind of effect my training would have on someone like Ichigo.
”The thing is... You can't train Ichigo. He is that type of person you have to just teach the basics and keep fighting to the death with him. The more he survives, the stronger he will get. I reckon if I simply keep fighting and healing him I would swiftly draw out his potential.”
Allessa hummed for a bit, picked up some popcorn, and took a sip from a smoothie I had created, she asked; ”So are you going to train him like that? It sounds like a lot of work and the little guy doesn't exactly have that much extra time on his life.”
”Oh, my honey. And where would be the fun in that?”
”Heh, I imagined you would say something like that.”, I smirk at her cute deduction, I thought a little bit about how I could change the story and have the most fun with it... hmm... Hah, I got an idea.
With a slight smile on my lips, I said; ” I was thinking of action like the mysterious old master, and teaching him half-assedly by cryptic saying that he barely understands. What do you think?”, with that, I pass a hand through my face and use one of the powers granted to me by the well of wisdom, the ability to look like any age I want from a young child to an old man with a big white beard. If I am not mistaken Allessa can do it too.
I used the skill to look like an ancient grandmaster, white beard, white hair, wrinkles, everything; ”Hoh, my little grasshopper... the greatest teacher, failure is.”
Allessa almost couldn't hold her laugher at the way I talked, with a smirk of her own she asked; ”Talking like Yoda seriously?”
Nodding I answer; ”Yeah, he is pretty iconic and I want to troll him hard, principally when he discovers it. The day he watches Star Wars I will have a field day.”.
”He didn't watch it yet? Are you kidding me? That was like one of the first movies you showed me.”, she said her tone filled with exasperation at the fact he didn't watch such a classic yet.
I simply nodded and changed the topic, for the time being, discussing other people's life choices sounds boring; ”So want to talk to Urahara right now?”
”Sure, we kind of forgot to do it before.”, Allessa nodded while we both exit our comfy chairs and proceed to wall down the street towards the candy shop. Our walk was purposely slow, we also let out a modic.u.m of [Reitasu] just enough for people to feel we have captain reserves.
Just some steps before arriving at the shop we saw the shadow of a certain black cat entering before us. Probably to warn Urahara of our arrival.