Chapter 274 - Soul: Talking on the moon. (1/2)
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Ichigo continued on his adventures during the day, fighting Hollows and interacting with his friends. He got better and better at purifying the hollows, his slashes more firm and precise, wasting less and less energy. The funny thing is that he didn't notice it, and still thinks he still dreaming every night, even when he started to subconsciously use the [Survival Sword Style], or [SSS] for short.
He still, of course, got wounded. As good as the style is, it's is focused on survival, not defense. Yeah, sometimes the better option for your survivability is killing your enemy as fast as possible. That's is why looking from a different angle the [SSS] can be considered more of a mental style than anything. It's closer to a way of thinking and reacting to things in the optimal way focused solely on survival. Why do you think I taught Ichigo the basics of [Zanjutsu] first? I was already thinking about a style like that, the Survival focus just came later.
Another thing I need to rectify is probably Ichigo's shitty [Reiryoku] and [Reiatsu] control. The boy is constantly sprouting his maximum output and his percentage efficiency is a huge joke, the amount of [Reiryoku] and [Reiatsu] he wastes in the atmosphere is mind-boggling, but I guess it was thanks to that his friends awakened their Fullbringer powers.
The good thing is that Ichigo is relatively more mellow and patient, Masaki influence probably. The family is also more united, principally seeing Ichigo already contemplate plenty of times just outright tell them his 'secret'. But he always chickens out in the end when it comes to it.
Quickly the time passed and more Hollows were fought, more training held, and more messing around with Urahara. It's really funny appearing at the most inconvenient of times to order a Flapjack Candy Drink, sometimes we appear when it's a second after he just opened, other times when he is a minute away from the closing shop. All so that we could mess with him, it's really frustrating for the shop owner, which only makes things funnier.
The 'Menos Grande' Day happened, the Day Ishida Uryuu used the hollow's bait. differently from Canon Ichigo didn't easily fall for Ishida bait, but I guess not even in canon he did. This time Ishida had to really crush the Hollow bait for Ichigo to accept competing.
Ichigo quickly went around ”purifying” hollows left and right, while Ishida used his range advantage to finish them from a distance, like a turret of [Reiryoku] arrows. both boys flexed their ”power” and stamina at their leisure, making sure to get rid of the most number of hollows as possible. Chad and Orihime also were able to awaken their fullbring powers.
I had forgotten how fun the star of Bleach really is, its frenetic pace filled with mysteries and adventure at every corner is so interesting. I guess it isn't for nothing it was part of the Big Four in the past: Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tail. I feel slightly nostalgic about it, those afternoons when I got back from school, and run as fast as I could towards the computer to read the new Bleach chapter... Hah, this brings some good memories from those times...
”Heh, I can basically feel the nostalgia oozing out of you.”, said Allessa commenting on my nostalgic thoughts. If we didn't have our [Telepathic Link] it would be really difficult for her to understand it.
Man, [Telepathy] makes things so convenient sometimes, it simply nullifies any trouble of communicating between ourselves.
[Telepathy] is something that probably saved us a lot of trouble having to explain things verbally, some things can't simply be transmitted into words. An example is the Portuguese word ”Saudade”, there isn't a word in English that is the perfect equivalent of that world, the closest we have is ”Miss You”, but that isn't the same thing.
And that isn't something only exclusive for Portuguese, no, on the contrary, almost every language was a word like that, something that can't simply be correctly translated. The same for emotions and feelings, we can do our best to explain them, but it isn't the same thing. And I always thought ”butterflies on my stomach” sounded incredibly lacking, heh. The [Telepathy] eliminates the need to explain those kinds of things extensively, and probably wrong, because every person feels emotions differently so even on the off chance you got it right it may still not resonate with the person you are explaining it to.
Then comes [Telepathy] and now you can show the person you mind, you point of view, why you chose that. no leis, no deceit, just the pure and una.d.u.l.terated truth of your mind. Some people may not like what they find there, but that is part of life, no one is perfect, not even me who is a literal God.
But [Telepathy] can also be extremely dangerous. One slip and you can easily damage the mind of someone, and those consequences are not pretty, trust me on this one. It makes Alzheimer looks mild. Yeah, it is that bad. Thankfully both me and Alless already had a powerful mind when we created our first [Telepathic] link so we didn't have any problems on that front.
”I was thinking of showing Ichigo the moon? what do you think?”, I asked curious about her opinion. We could've talked inside of our minds, but a healthy dose of dialog is also enjoyable.
”The moon? I guess it is fitting considering his [Zanpakutou] name is Zangetsu(Slaying Moon).”, she said with some slight curiosity in her voice, after a few moments she added; ”Want my help preparing a base on the moon?”.