Chapter 275 - Soul: A trippy day. (1/2)
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Today is a decisive day, a day that will send ripples on the river of fate. a day that changed everything.
Before today Bleach has always been a relatively normal slice of light anime, they will go there to fight the Hollow of the day, meet another wacky character or know more about Ichigo's friends. And while there were still dangers here and there, they were relatively minor, rarely the true chance of dying would spark.
The anime itself was calm and peaceful, but this day everything change. Today Byakuya and Renji came to aprehend Rukia, and today is the day Kurasaki Ichigo of until now ”Dies”.
Yeah, even after the 'Menos Grand' the events have rather contained, safe, but after today Ichigo will experience a genuine Isekai experience. He would go to literally another world to rescue his friends from the hands of the demon king. Yeah, okay, that sounded incredibly lame, but I always wanted to make that comparison.
Today is also a day that Ichigo will needs to decide between being normal, and living a ”peaceful” normal life, or risk his life completely trying to awaken his latent Shinigami powers. An interesting choice, and even with the current changes, I am pretty sure he will still try it, even if just to save Rukia. He is someone like that... What did he say... hmmm... It was something on the lines of ~I want to protect a mountain-load of people.~
Cringe as f.u.c.k, but everyone knows whatever uses the word cringe unironically is also extremely cringe. So this also makes me very cringe, which also... Okay, I will stop, that is an infinite loop.
Today I will also not disturb Ichigo, or try to train him in any way. I am thinking of simply putting him to sleep and send him on a travel through the stars, much like the Ancient One did with Doctor Strange. That would be a great way for him to open his mind to the infinite possibilities, it might even improve his [Survival Sword Style]. It will be a way more relaxing evening for him, and it will probably help him in the future.
Soon enough Byakuya and Renji appeared, and being someone who worked or at least know Byakuya for some time I can definitely say, the current him has a stick so up his ass that he could probably reach the moon with it. Renji isn't any better, Rukia is his best friend and he still acts more like some kind of cliche villain goon when he comes to capture her.
Thankfully Ishida was there to buy some time until Ichigo arrived, the scuffle was quite amusing to watch, principally the incredible dodging abilities Rukia displayed. If I didn't know any better I would think the Rogyoku is helping her... Well, it probably is.
Soon enough Ichigo arrived to save the day. He fought against Renji slashing and stabbing at him with relative proficiency, his mind quickly filling the gaps. Ichigo at that moment couldn't help but think how easy is to fight here in this perfect condition, this flat surface, it's almost too easy. Due to the ease he was having compared to the situation in his dream, he didn't even notice how much his swordplay improved. And I don't blame him, from him he simply is. And he has never been an extremely analytical mind that can see the smallest detail.
Renji quickly pressured used his [Shikai], Ichigo sadly was still hit the first time due to the surprise effect of Renji's [Shikai], but thankfully due to the [SSS] his mind honed towards survival was able to avoid the deep of Renji's damage making his wound a little less deep.
Before Renji could make his second slash, Ichigo advanced in a burst of speed, almost a [Shunpo] to the utter surprise of Renji, and he managed to almost slice Renji's neck off, but the red-haired Shinigami managed to avoid the brunt of the slash at the last second. Impressive, the boy went for the kill the first chance he got, good. He probably didn't even notice it, fighting more depending using his subconscious instincts I hardwired to the [Survival Sword Style].
This time Renji didn't hold back anymore with a [Shunpo] he appeared in front of Ichigo and slashed horizontally, subconsciously knowing he probably could get away from such a slash, and neither defend it with his word in such a short time Ichigo showed me one of the best executions of his [SSS] to date. Almost immediately he jumped back, trying to put his body ina favorable enough position for the slash to deal the least amount of damage possible.
The slash still connected making a large gouge on Ichigo's some region, the slash was large, from the left side of his body to the other blood flowed out. Thankfully due to [SSS], the slash didn't cut deep enough, using the opportunity that Renji was close Ichigo tried to slash him diagonally. sadly Renji was able to avoid the attack, albeit not completely, a thin line of blood was made from his right shoulder towards his left hip, nothing major but it still hurt him.
Slightly pissed Renji immediately used [Shunpo] again, but this time Ichigo was prepared enough and was able to defend the slash with his sword. Sadly his defense still wasn't enough, and due to the characteristics of Renji [Zanpakutou], he was able to still open quite the huge gash on Ichigo's forearm.
Ichigo retaliated by almost beheading Renji, who was able to get down, but ended up losing his hair in the process.
Byakuya that until now has been watching this monkey fight and growing increasingly irritated decided to intervene. With a speed, no one in the scene could track he abruptly destroyed all of Ichigo's borrowed Shinigami powers. Sadly not even the [SSS] can close the gap between such a ridiculous power difference. But considering the current Ichigo doesn't even have a [Shikai] I can understand why he lost so badly.