15 C15: Years of Time Skip |Part 10| (1/2)

• (Near the Flower Capital, on Udon's border of Wano Country) {Year: 17.9} •

The young handsome man walked to the Flower Capital's circular wall. He still wore clean light blue kimono with a similar cloth hiding his eyes, with a katana attached right side of the white belt around his hip. The kimono and cloth covering his eyes only helped to increase his devilish charm, revealing his upper of sculpted chest.

Ichigo nonchalantly 'looked' at the entrance of the Flower Capital, as if he was just there for a tour. He ignored the Beasts Pirates and Orochi's corrupt samurais standing guard. They didn't get in his way at all, instead they stood in a way where there was only a path for him to go through. Ichigo, being a 'kind' man, followed the path. The people around them twitched their mouths, it was as if he really was here for a tour... Suddenly!

*CHHH*

His Sword Aura burst out heavily, causing those around them to wet themselves. Taking back his Sword Aura, Ichigo scrunched his nose. ”Ugh, I didn't know that the Flower Capital had such awful smell, no wonder only dirty people are in here...”

Veins popped up on their heads. 'Bastard! You're the one who f*cking scared us into wetting ourselves!'

As much as they would like to angrily shout at him, they couldn't because of the consequences. They could only glare angrily at him. Ichigo took that in as if they were nothing, making more veins to pop up. Deciding to stop playing with them, he started to continue walking the path.

...

After a very slow walk to the end of the path...

”Oh, is this the end?” He said as there wasn't any other path other than back.

The people behind him were tired and pissed off. Ichigo had walked so slow that they had to stand longer than expected, he didn't even start attacking, and yet they were already tired. 'F*ck! At least he'll be weakened now!'

”Hey~!” He lazily yelled, waiting for something or someone to appear. He already knew what their plan was now, he had used his Observation Haki while slowly walking.

It took him some time to understand what the f*ck those chains were. They had the potential to weaken him, he agreed. But he still didn't understand how it was possible, or what kind of material it was.

*Rumble*

A rumble was felt as Ichigo watched around him. The buildings around him had moved away from him, creating a spacious arena. After that, there was now a second circular wall, outlining the spacious arena.

*Woosh*

*RUMBLE*

A booming voice came as a huge eastern dragon appeared from the sky. ”Haha, you willingly came in without making things difficult for us, Ichigo! Or should I say, Ryu!”

'Can this f*cking villain get anymore cliche?' Ichigo(Ryu) thought, snickering. ”Yeah, why not? You all had worked so hard on making a trap for me. I can't just up and ruin it in one move, could I?”

Twitching his right eye, Kaido commanded his Disasters and Orochi to appear. ”Disasters, come! Orochi, start the plan!”

*Boom* *Boom* *Boom*

All of the three Disasters appeared from the sky, looking menacing. Well, at least to others, not Ichigo. King and Queen looked the same as before. Jack was a man of massive stature, however, while still being immensely muscular, Jack's limbs were small when compared to his enormous torso. He wore a metallic jaw mask and has a pair of horns on each side of his head. His blond hair is worn in a ponytail and a pair of long braids. He wears a dark, sleeveless, feathery coat similar to Kaido with spiked pauldrons on his shoulders, circled by a belt bearing his crew's Jolly Roger.

Ichigo just casually brushed off their cool appearance. ”Hey, little Kingie! Skinny boy! And whoever that little stupid blondie is, maybe your illegitimate child?!”

”...Bastard!” Both King and Jack shouted angrily at him as they started to morph with their devil fruits. Queen just stood away with Orochi, preparing for something.

King changed into a full black pteranodon, and started to fly in the mid aid, while Jack changed into a huge mammoth. His metallic jaw mask somehow disappeared... Ichigo thought that this was related to logics of the world, chuckling to himself.

”Now, hold on!” Ichigo shouted, as he brought up his 75% full Sword Aura out. The world seemed to go colorless, black and white around him. Anyone in his vicinity felt like they would die if they moved a single bit, not daring to breathe. Ichigo controlled his Sword Aura so that only those in Wano would feel it, not the whole world. Kaido was shocked at this! He, a eastern dragon, was fearful of Ichigo! They immediately expected that their trap wouldn't work.

(AN: No shit, Sherlock.)

”I came here to willingly be trapped by you all, so no need to attack me, yeah?” Ichigo's voice came out as a chilling sharp voice, as they all felt like they were being stabbed by his voice itself. But they got confused, was he saying he'll let them use the trap? Seeing their confusion, Ichigo continued. ”Yes, I'm here to willingly take your trap. Go ahead and use the chains.”

Taking back his Sword Aura, he made his durable katana to rust away, disappearing into air as dust. He then stood still, with his arms like a T.

Ichigo stood like that for awhile, no one else moved either. They were doubting him, why would he just surrender himself? He must have a plan, they thought. Starting to be impatient, he shouted. ”Are you guys going to f*cking do it or not?!”

Taking that as a challenge, Kaido boomingly commanded Queen and Orochi. ”Do it!”

”Yes!” They started to bring the unknown golden chains, but they were also wearing a different kind of gloves as they held it. They then started to put force into the chain as they aimed the chain's sharp ends to Ichigo's body.

*PUU*

Ichigo really didn't move as it went into his right shoulder. Blood didn't come out of it strangely. He felt like his strength was being sealed as his body was fighting it. Kaido seeing that it looked like it worked and he really didn't move, started to laugh crazily in his eastern dragon form. ”Haha! Looks like it works! Continue!”

Orochi then started next, he aimed for his left shoulder. It went in, Ichigo didn't move at all! He just simply stood there, taking it. Queen and Orochi continued took turns aiming, making sure they completely rendered him immobile.

*PUU* *PUU* *PUU* *PUU*...

...

After that day...

”Hey, have you heard rumors of what happened to the Lone Blind Swordsman?” A man said to people in the restaurant he was eating in. He was the very same man who had eaten with Ichigo, at the same restaurant. ”It seemed that he surrendered himself there for some reason...”

”What?!”, ”No way!”, ”Why would he surrender after conquering all lands but the Flower Capital and Onigashima?!”, ”Where did you get this rumor from?”

Commotions were heard in the restaurant. They couldn't believe that at all, why would he surrender? They started to be angry at the man who said it. The man receiving those angry glares didn't falter at all as he continued.

”I heard this from a reliable source, who had saw Ichigo himself going into the Flower Capital. Didn't you all feel a burst of immense power from there a week ago? That was him! But after he released such power, his katana dusted away and then he just stood there with his arms out. He looked like he was willing to surrender, as if he planned this.”

He told the others in the restaurant, as more people started to gather there to listen to his story. They for one, knew who the man was, he was reliable for information gathering, but they couldn't believe that the conqueror just willingly surrendered. Wanting to know more, someone told him to continue. ”And?”

”Kaido the Beast Emperor ordered Queen the Plague and Orochi the Shogun to shoot out some kind of large gold chains that seemed to glow gold too at him. Guess what happened? The Lone Blind Swordsman just stood there, taking it! When they realized he was serious about surrendering, they started to ridicule him as the Shogun and the Plague kept shooting the chains towards his body!”