26 Five months (2/2)

Itsuki also smiled as he looked at his master, with a warm feeling flowing through his heart.

Noticing the two people smiling, an irritated look surfaced on Yamamoto's face as he declared,

”It seems I've been idle to long. Chojiro, Itsuki, you guys have earned yourself a beating.”

The two's smiling face instantly crumbled as Yamamoto's voice rang out

”All things of this world, turn to ashes, Ryujin Jakka”

”Aaaaggggghhhhhh”

”Aaaaggggghhhhhh”

Two pitiful screams rang out as soul society once again felt their captain commander's reiatsu.

Since then another training regime was added into Itsuki's already hellish training. It was killing and increasing his mastery of his eyes.

Yamamoto had a few life sentenced prisoners brought to the training room as he overlooked it.

A prisoner was kneeling in front of him as Itsuki grasped a sword looking into the pleading eyes of the prisoner. It was a white Caucasian man that had his hands cuffed with sekkiseki stone. His hands trembling, Itsuki never activated his eyes as he ran a blade through the prisoner's heart. Itsuki continued looking at the prisoner's eyes as it lost its light. Yamamoto watched it unfold without expression, observing his student's reaction. There was no change on his face but that couldn't be said for his conflicting eyes. His dampened emotions worked its wonder as he felt normal after taking a life, it was too easy. Ideologies from his past life was thoroughly destroyed knowing that this was no place for mercy.

This was the first time he took a life apart from hollows, but he felt no different.

Calming his emotions down he just stood there looking at the dead body in front of him. He felt fortunate for having dampened emotions because he knew that if they weren't there, he would be puking all over the place.

Yamamoto stood there surprised by the small show emotions on Itsuki's first kill but brushed it off, attributing it to his eyes. This was a sort of rite of passage for Itsuki. After this, the prisoners won't be bound and Itsuki would have real life and death battles in place of his spars with Yamamoto. Yamamoto never intervened as Itsuki piled up more kill counts. He didn't want to raise a greenhorn, but a true warrior.

A week passed by as Itsuki got more and more used to killing before he started using his eyes. At first, he found it harder to hit the lines of death but about a day later could hit it no matter what. What also surprised Itsuki was two dots of appearing on the prisoners. He saw them on Yamamoto and Chojiro but never thought too deeply about it.

Now noticing them to be common, Itsuki came to the conclusion that they were a Shinigami's Saketsu (Chain of fate) and Hakusui (Soul Sleep). Both were vital parts of a Shinigami, with the former being a sort of boost of reiatsu and the latter being the source of it. Sealing these two points can make a Shinigami lose their power. Looking at the two points Itsuki could feel if he struck there, a Shinigami would permanently lose their powers.

Testing out his theory, Itsuki struck the two points of his opponent causing him to fall down. Yamamoto, who was watching, was shocked by the change as he felt the prisoner's reiatsu decreasing. Arriving next to him he felt the reiatsu returning to a level similar to a normal soul. Looking carefully, he noticed the Saketsu and Hakusui of the prisoner non-existent. Sighing at this, he turned over to Itsuki who looked back at him before leaving the vicinity.

Looking at Itsuki finishing the prisoner off he once again marvelled at the abilities Itsuki's eyes possessed.

Itsuki stopped reminiscing as he sensed a Shinigami approaching him to notify that his graduation exam was tomorrow. There was another student taking it with him and Itsuki concluded that it was Gin.

Seeing the Shinigami leave Itsuki went over his abilities he had achieved in the time he spent at the academy.

He had achieved expert levels in the four techniques of the Shinigami with Shunpo and Zanjutsu reaching the border between expert and master. He had achieved his fifth partition and can accelerate his thoughts by four times, achieving this level during his training with Yamamoto. He could now see point and lines of death with his mystic eyes and use them proficiently in battle.