>>1323833
But you're not Yoruichi, and Rukia isn't you. She has no instincts from her previous life to draw on, and you can't afford to let her risk her life on training because she bears the name of a noble Clan instead of a slum district. And quite honestly where Yoruichi wanted you to some day stand at her side, and where you had the same hopes for Gin and Rangiku, Rukia has always been in a different category. While you would be happy to see her succeed as you would be with any of your other Commandos, her trajectory was more up to her. You're in the business of providing a place and an opportunity, not instilling within her any extraordinary drive or zeal.

It just took her forty-three years of slow improvement to reach a place in her growth and a point in her life where she could find the same sort of determination others before her have had, and meeting Kurosaki Ichigo seems to have been that point.

Since then she's seemed increasingly frustrated with what she perceives as deficiencies, despite the fact that by any objective measure she's stronger than any Third Seat has a right to be. And even more recently she's found something of more practical use to go along with it: a good sparring partner.

In Tatsuki she's found something of a friend and a kindred spirit, someone similarly troubled by the fact that she doesn't measure up to the strongest person she knows and whose training has focused for years not just on self-improvement but cooperative training with a partner. After a brief period of bickering they seemed to settle into a productive routine, with Rukia pushing Tatsuki to apply her zanpakuto's unnatural abilities in creative and useful ways while Tatsuki pushed Rukia to shore up her decent but unamazing skills at hakuda.

Now they both stand before you, ready for a fight.

“Well now,” you muse, stretching your shoulders. “Let's take this somewhere else, shall we?”

Your hirenkyaku carries you the short distance from the garden to the clear training field in a single step, leaving Rukia and Tatsuki to play catch-up. One arrives with a quiet shunpō, the other with... something else. Both have swords drawn.

>Begin with light sparring to test their tactical sense.
>Focus on drawing out as many of their techniques as possible.
>Prepare for an all-out brawl, dispense with “teaching”.
>Other?

>>1323840
>Begin with light sparring to test their tactical sense.

>>1323840
>Begin with light sparring to test their tactical sense.

>Focus on drawing out as many of their techniques as possible.

It's here!

Well then, I guess we roll with three votes.
>3d10, DC 16, Crit 20

Rolled 1, 10, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>1323873

Slow day today apparently

Rolled 10, 8, 1 = 19 (3d10)

>>1323873

Rolled 4, 4, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>1323873

well, if no one else is going to...

>>1323893
Agh! So close! Damn that 1!

Rolled 8, 8, 5 = 21 (3d10)

>>1323873
Early start for me.

Good lord, like all at once.

>>1323906
Instead of starting at full strength you simply pull Tenkotsuki and her sheath free of your sash and draw her blade, standing ready to observe how these two try to engage with you. Rukia stands directly in front of you while Tatsuki eyes you carefully, then starts circling to your left side. Eventually she stops, at about a ninety degree angle... this way at least one of them will always be at your flank while neither will ever be attacking directly towards the other.

The Lieutenants watch curiously for a moment as the proverbial pieces all fall in place. Then Renji opens his mouth. “So are you going to...”

Rukia leads with her zanpakuto raised, clashing with Tenkotsuki for a moment while looking for a way to bind your blade and leave you open for Tatsuki to attack your left side. Instead of waiting for that to happen you pivot, moving to Rukia's left and putting yourself just a little further from Tatsuki and complicating her approach.

Tatsuki and Rukia move at the same time after that, Rukia backstepping as Tatsuki moves even further to your left and closes with you. Tenkotsuki's sheath connects with her right wrist and you use a sweeping left kick to force her to back off.

“Byakurai!” Rukia shouts, firing her Kidō past your face as you turn your body out of the way, harnessing your momentum to sweep down at her with Tenkotsuki's edge. But the Commando has already moved, rejoining Tatsuki a few paces away as you land lightly on your toes.

“Not bad,” you comment. “You're moving a lot quicker, and neither of you has overcommitted yet. It's clear you've actually started thinking while you fight.”

“I was hoping to find a clearer opening,” Rukia frowns, raising her blade again. “But I suppose it is to be expected that a Captain would leave few openings if any.”

“Dance,” she proclaims, her zanpakuto turning pale and surrounding her with a cold aura, “Sode no Shirayuki!”

“This is the part I've been looking forward to,” Tatsuki admits, holding her own zanpakuto out in front of her. “Pummel, Tōōkenju!”

“That human girl has shikai?” Kira frowns as he watches the two fighters enter readied stances. “Impossible... not one but two substitutes?”

>Kira, Renji. Spar against Rukia and Tatsuki respectively.
>Match shikai with shikai, fight like you mean it.
>Match shikai with shunkō, continue testing their skills.
>Use both, force them to go all-out or lose immediately.
>Other?

>>1323952
>Match shikai with shikai, fight like you mean it.

>>1323952
>>Match shikai with shikai, fight like you mean it.

>>1323952
>Match shikai with shikai, fight like you mean it.
>Kira it's about the will to strive and the committing to it. They want it so they worked their ass off to get it.

>>1323952
>>Match shikai with shunkō, continue testing their skills.

>>1323952
>Match shikai with shikai, fight like you mean it.

>>1323952
>Match shikai with shikai, fight like you mean it.

Alright, take your pick
>Try and bind Rukia then focus on Tatsuki
>Use the Shiba's sand tricks to create openings
>Use flashy hado to distract them
>Other?

>>1324004
>>Use flashy hado to distract them
Use our shikai's strengths

>>1324004
>Try and bind Rukia then focus on Tatsuki

>>1324004
>Use the Shiba's sand tricks to create openings

>>1324004
>Use flashy hado to distract them

let's see how they deal with gimmick tactics....

>>1324004

Queen you are not making your argument about how "strong" Rukia is with those options. A captain level bind would be impossible for her to break at her level - -

>Use the Shiba's sand tricks to create openings.

>>1324004
>>Use the Shiba's sand tricks to create openings

>>1324004
>>Use the Shiba's sand tricks to create openings
Their enemies will do the unexpected. Let's see if they can handle surprising abilities.

>>1324004
>>Use flashy hado to distract them

>>1324004
>>Use flashy hado to distract them

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>>1324031
Just because a Captain tries to do something doesn't mean they'll be successful, especially if they have to split their focus in the attempt.

>tfw captcha is a picture outside the building you're in

>>1324051

At least in the anime, Rukia had more reishi than certain redhead. The fact she depowered so much is because of two bastards plans. One made her transfer most of her power to Strawberry and the other put her in a deadtrap that would turn her human at the cost of her power.

So really considering the different background, Rukia should be way stronger than certain muscle head redhead.

>still deadlocked

>>1324031
How ungrateful after Queen wasted effort addressing your nitpicking.
Do you not get that he's the GM? Or does your babydick's hate-on for Rukia just compel you to try to dictate someone else's story anyway?

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>1324004
>>1324078
Alright

1. Try and bind Rukia then focus on Tatsuki
2. Use the Shiba's sand tricks to create openings
3. Use flashy hado to distract them

>>1324092
That'll work.
>dice3d10, DC 17, crit 21

Rolled 2, 10, 1 = 13 (3d10)

>>1324099

Rolled 1, 5, 6 = 12 (3d10)

>>1324099

Rolled 2, 3, 4 = 9 (3d10)

>>1324099

Rolled 4, 4, 1 = 9 (3d10)

>>1324099

>>1324104
>>1324105
>>1324106
>>1324107

Well then

Rolled 4, 4, 1 = 9 (3d10)

>>1324099

>>1324109

Well, Riku must be tired or something.

well, apparently we can't kido today

Rolled 8, 1, 1 = 10 (3d10)

>>1324099
Hereawego

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>>1324099
“Prohibit, Tenkotsuki!” you reply, releasing your own zanpakuto intent on meeting them head to head.

To your surprise Rukia leaps into action with a flash step, moving as if to set up Tsukishiro, a familiar technique. However instead of releasing the technique she pauses even as you backstep clear of its radius, and it's Tatsuki who swoops in with the real attack. Her fist meets your sword as you raise it to parry and Rukia lightly scores the ground with Sode no Shirayuki's point, then raises it towards you.

But as you try and evade you find yourself stopped by an unexpected hitch: Tenkotsuki refuses to separate from Tatsuki's knuckles, as if glued there by some invisible force.

“Magnetism!?” Tenkotsuki realizes inside your mind as you release your grasp on her hilt.

“Hakuren!” Rukia calls out, a wave of icy reiatsu erupting from Sode no Shirayuki's point right through the space where you had been standing. Ice clings to your left leg as you just can't quite get clear fast enough, having hesitated ever so slightly over the decision to leave Tenkotsuki behind.

You tumble across the ground inelegantly, throwing your entire body weight into it as you pull hard on the reishi chain you left attached to Tenkotsuki's hilt. Tatsuki yelps as the force finally pries the blade free, and it spins wildly through the air and back into your hand as you roll to your knee several yards away from either of your opponents.

Both girls eye you warily, working their way to either side of you as you rise to your feet and shatter the thin layer of ice around your ankle.

“You very nearly had me with that,” you admit with a wicked grin. “Rukia, good job setting up your shikai techniques quicker... you're on the right track. And Tatsuki, you just concentrated your body's own magnetic properties? In a spiritual form it has no drawbacks I guess, so good thinking.”

“That's absurd,” Kira mutters, still staring at the scene. “Kuchiki I could understand being decently strong... but these two actually have Captain Kusajishi on her back foot!”

“Well then,” you continue, ignoring Kira's running commentary... at least for the time being. “Let's see how you handle going on the defensive!”

>dice+3d10, DC 17, Crit 21

Rolled 8, 3, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>1324189

Rolled 7, 10, 1 = 18 (3d10)

>>1324189

Rolled 9, 2, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>1324189

Rolled 7, 3, 10 = 20 (3d10)

>>1324189

so, i'm starting to get a little confused what the heck Tatsuki's sword is actually supposed to do? because so far we've seen her go insubstantial, start fucking around with magnets, and it gives her instinctive fighting knowledge. is there some theme i'm missing, or does she just kinda have a grab bag of powers?

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>>1324189
“Hadō 33: Shakkahō!” you declare, sending a massive but slow ball of red reiatsu at Tatsuki and charging behind it with utsusuemi. Rukia strikes the clone where you had been standing, only to find that you've already moved on to attack Tatsuki as she finishes using that rapid movement technique of hers to dodge it.

You swing Tenkotsuki at her left shoulder, checking the motion ever so slightly near the end so that it won't leave too serious a wound if she can't dodge. Instead of avoiding the blade however Tatsuki raises her fist to block its edge with those iron knuckles of hers, again wedging the blade in place with one hand and lowering her right fist for a shot at your gut.

But you're already exploiting her mistake, pulling Tenkotsuki away and to the right while driving your left knee into her exposed ribs as she tries to strike. The blow sends her reeling despite her attempt to shift her concentration towards defending herself there, hardening the body around the point of impact in exchange for releasing your blade. You rotate and follow through with a flowing circular parry to divert Sode no Shirayuki's blade and in a moment of vulnerability you use an Oni Flick to blasé Rukia back off her feet before she can use another technique.

“Hadō 57: Daichi Tenyō!” you declare, following up as Rukia and Tatsuki reorient themselves and begin to recover. The barrage of loose rocks and clouds of dirt force both fighters to parry and counter, smashing each projectile as they're pelted by fragments... giving you just enough time to continue your relentless assault by tracing a series of circles across the ground with your footwork.

“Renkan Seppa Sen!”

After the dust clears you find booth fighters lying spreadeagle on their backs. Tatsuki is the first to rise, coughing, as if just having nearly drowned.

“God, it got in my mouth!” she protests. “Damn sand, now I feel all itchy!”

“Focus on the task at hand,” Rukia advises, dusting herself off. “The Captain is graciously allowing us a moment to recover and find our footing.”

“Just tryin' to lighten the mood,” Tatsuki grumbles. “Still such a buzz-kill.”

>Engage in chat, get them to pull out any stops that are left.
>Use Shunkō, force them to show anything else they have up their sleeves.
>Get Renji and Kira in here, why steal all the fun?
>Other?

>>1324255
>blasé
... how in the literal fuck, autocorrect? Blast isn't even an uncommon word!

>>1324255
>Use Shunkō, force them to show anything else they have up their sleeves.

>>1324255
>>Use Shunkō, force them to show anything else they have up their sleeves.

>>1324255
>>Get Renji and Kira in here, why steal all the fun?

>>1324263

Maybe you could disable autocorrect and just let the redline text stuff on so you can pick what to fix.

>>1324255
>Use Shunkō, force them to show anything else they have up their sleeves.

>>1324255
>>Engage in chat, get them to pull out any stops that are left.
Everything Tatsuki does seems to center around direct contact with her. Make her cough up anything she thought up for compensating for ranged attacks.

>>1324255
>Use Shunkō, force them to show anything else they have up their sleeves.

>>1324255
“You seem to be having a good time!” you muse with a wicked grin. “But we've barely gotten started yet... the real fun starts here!”

“Shunkō!”
>dice+3d10, DC 16, Crit 20

Rolled 9, 1, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>1324339

Rolled 3, 10, 1 = 14 (3d10)

>>1324339

Rolled 1, 6, 6 = 13 (3d10)

>>1324339

Rolled 5, 2, 10 = 17 (3d10)

>>1324339

>>1324226
She can alter her body's properties as she pleases. It's stupidly broken, and we don't know its limits. Can she grow 5000 degrees hot or mimic Rukia's absolute zero bankai? Can she teleport? Can she do the Ant-Man or the Caesar Clown? The possibilities are endless.

Rolled 8, 1, 3 = 12 (3d10)

>>1324339

>>1324350
WHAT HAVE I DONE!

>>1324358
i thought shunko was one of the things that gave us best of 4?

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>>1324350
You're driving me to drink anon!

>>1324356
that...seems like something that shouldn't even be allowed by bleach standards

>>1324372

Then again just take a look at the later half of the manga. There is a reason Bleach is deaded than Disco.

>>1324366
I hope so, because otherwise, look at the post times.
>>1324350
>>1324351

>>1324372
There's probably some limits to it.

>>1324342
>>1324344
>>1324350
Android is being cancer and not letting me post reaction images, and that fact brings me almost as much pain as the three of you faggots having been born.

Jesus christ, I get forced to go out shopping and I come back to see Riku being a crackbitch. JESUS FUCK.

>>1324421
>crackbitch
Too. Fucking. Soon.

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“So far all you've done is show me old techniques you've improved,” you tell them as the powerful cyclone of reiatsu tears at their outfits like a fresh gale. “Tatsuki's single property at a time, Rukia's shikai techniques, it's all familiar to me by now. But if you really want to get better you have to do more than hone... you have to strive to create new techniques, to apply your skills more effectively, to break what you thought were your own limits!”

“If you've got something new then now's the time!”

Tatsuki and Rukia exchange a worried glance, then Rukia sighs. “I was truly hoping not to use this until I had to.”

“Same,” Tatsuki nods for emphasis. “But I guess you really want us to try and kill you. I just hope you're ready. Neither of us have used these techniques in a fight yet.”

With a cry of exertion, Tatsuki forces almost all of her reiatsu into her hands and feet, building it up so densely there that it becomes visible in a golden-yellow aura that flickers wildly. She charges you, throwing a rapid-fire series of punches as Rukia assumes a stance behind her. So this is Tatsuki's equivalent to shunkō, and she intends to give Rukia a shot at using a new technique with Sode no Shirayuki? It certainly seems that way, as even despite its crude form and obvious weaknesses Tatsuki's not doing half badly, and behind her Rukia is gathering and compressing ice from around the battlefield along the length of her blade. Had she bound you at first with bakudō she could probably have taken a shot at it just by herself, and in any other battle she would probably have to do just that.

“Shi no Mae,” she declares as Tatsuki sidesteps to your left to give her a clear shot. “Hakushi!”

A single, heavily compressed spear of ice lances out from her blade with surprising speed, the force causing Rukia herself to stagger backwards as the recoil pushes against her small frame. It's not fast enough to really hit you though, and so you can dodge it...

… only to find it protruding through your stomach by about an inch, just to the left of your navel.

Tatsuki snagged the projectile out of the air with a speed and force that seems to have ever surprised herself, a burst of speed you hadn't thought her capable of. It's a respectable effort even by her standards... and then the spear suddenly decompresses. Your own reiatsu and blut limit the effect but the pain of having a spear of ice literally expanding inside its own wound channel is almost indescribable.

You even grunt a little bit out of reflex as Tatsuki yelps in shock at what she's just done.
>1/2

>>1324356
She can move properties that already exist in her body without harm to herself. They can be abstract, but it seems she can only do one at a time.

She may also be using reiatsu and/or kido to further modify things.

>>1324477
>>1324496
and it seems like she can alter properties of anything she's touching as well?

>>1324496

Magnetism exists is her body? Us she nade if a magnetic metal or what?

>>1324508
You have both electricity and iron in your body. So yes.

>>1324516
there's also trace amounts of uranium in your body. does that mean she could potentially irradiate people?

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>>1324477
“Ow,” you grumble, clutching your side.

Rukia stares at you, wide-eyed in fear as if she's just done an unspeakable crime. “Ow!? That's all you have to say!?”

“Kai and Mirai have done worse,” you shrug... and it's actually a fair point. Mirai's shikai in particular has left you with the odd broken bone after sparring for decades now.

“I... just shanked you?” Tatsuki muses, glancing down at her own hands. “The fuck was that!?”

“Language, young lady!” you roar, kicking her in the face. She raises her hands to block and instead of being knocked out is sent flying until she lands on her head in the sand.

“As for you!” you round on Rukia, hirenkyaku allowing you to take her back and grab her in a headlock that she struggles vainly to break free from as your fist meets the crown of her head. “You should know the rules... you stain my haori you get to wash it out!”

“Are you seeing what I'm seeing?” Renji mutters in something like disbelief.

Next to him, Kira nods solemnly. “I didn't believe it until you said it.”

“... she's giving her a noogie.”

“This Division makes no sense,” Kira shakes his head. “I wanna go home.”

>Kira's up next, you've seen what Tatsuki and Rukia can do now and you're suitably impressed.
>Punish Rukia and Tatsuki for leaving themselves so wide open in a fight.
>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance.
>Other?

>>1324525
>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance.
how the fuck did anons roll so poorly?

>>1324525
>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance.
>Kira's up next, you've seen what Tatsuki and Rukia can do now and you're suitably impressed.

>>1324525
>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance.

>>1324525
>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance.
>Ask Tatsuki what the fuck her shikai actually does

>>1324520
To be able to irradiate someone she'd have to have been badly enough irradiated herself that it'd be a suicidal technique. By concentrating all of the low-intensity magnetic properties in her body into one very small spot on the other hand she was able to temporarily bind a metallic object to that spot.

>>1324541
but if that's how it works, shouldn't concentrating all the magnetic properties in her body ripped out all of her blood, or at least caused serious problems by temporarily stopping her bloodflow while her heart's still trying to pump? because shinigami still have blood and organs, for some reason

>>1324525
>>>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance

>>Kira's up next, you've seen what Tatsuki and Rukia can do now and you're suitably impressed.

I know its only take one but I dont see how she can't take a minute to close the wound and then call Kira.

>>1324525
>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance.
>Kira's up next, you've seen what Tatsuki and Rukia can do now and you're suitably impressed.

>>1324525
>>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance.
>>Kira's up next, you've seen what Tatsuki and Rukia can do now and you're suitably impressed.

>>1324525

>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance

Is Bleach please leave logic before you enter here.

>>1324550
A lot of the more precise biochemical traits are more what you'd call vestigial than functional. That's why spiritual beings always play fast and loose with biology.

>>1324525
>>Take a moment and close that wound... it's not bleeding much, but it's a nuisance.
>Kira's up next, you've seen what Tatsuki and Rukia can do now and you're suitably impressed.

>Guys, Rukia isn't weaker than Tatsuki
>Tatsuki proceeds to:
>carry the pair of them in a fight
>Outspeed Riku
> manages to cause a Captain 'almost indescribable' pain

>>1324568
so given that she's in the spirit world, she can exploit those fast and loose rules of biology and screw around with that extra biomass and organs like convert her bones into fucking iron.

>>1324568
throwing someone's body out of whack always seems to be nasty though, even if it isn't as bad as a living person would have it. that's why that weird pink espada could do his thing, that's why Rukia's bankai's so nasty but requires her to warm back up, I think everyone still needs to breathe, etc.

>>1324582
Only to the limit of how much iron she has in her body at the time, and how much she actually needs.

KIRA is up next.
>Hit him with his own sword, teach him what his zanpakuto actually does to people
>Test his kido abilities, no swords or flash steps allowed
>Engage in a brawl, keep track of the decisions he makes and what abilities he favors
>Other?

>>1324617
>Hit him with his own sword, teach him what his zanpakuto actually does to people

>>1324617
>Hit him with his own sword, teach him what his zanpakuto actually does to people

>>1324617
>Hit him with his own sword, teach him what his zanpakuto actually does to people

>>1324617
>Hit him with his own sword, teach him what his zanpakuto actually does to people
>Chew him out like a US drill Sargent
>Other:Bear your own burdens boy! Not others! If you can't take care of yourself, how in the fuck are you gonna take care of others!? Back straight! Head high!

>>1324617
>>Hit him with his own sword, teach him what his zanpakuto actually does to people

>>1324617
>Hit him with his own sword, teach him what his zanpakuto actually does to people

>>1324617
>>Engage in a brawl, keep track of the decisions he makes and what abilities he favors

>>1323833
I was waiting on the thread by playing vidya and forgot i was waiting FUCK

>>1324568
But she could concentrate all heat on her fists and remove all heat from her feet without harming herself while giving her enemies the worst of flash cooking, flash freezing and thermal shock?

Also I'm guessing she's moving rapidly with mass redistribution, which she could combine with shunpo in a multiplicative manner to reach captain-tier speeds while being lieutenant-tier or less?

Also also heat is a form of electromagnetic radiation, as is light, electricity, nuclear radiation and every other photon-based, wave-particle duality-expressing particle, differentiated only by wavelength, which is an alterable variable, which means she could glow, electrocute, be invisible, etc.

And don't even get me started on altering the vibrational frequency of her molecules directly. She could fucking create something out of nothing like that, possibly.

Someone get a quantum physicist in here, I want to know how we can get this chick to deicide-capable levels.

>>1324687
I think the basic gist is whatever is inside Tatsuki's body and all the properties associated with it is her territory and she has absolute control over it literally and figuratively.

>also, writing

>>1324687
I mean, even if the limits to control are just what she can touch and what's in her body, she's already straight-up godlike. She can rearrange magnetic qualities and corporeality (which i assume would be the space between atoms to let her move between solid objects). So she can probably split and rearrange the molecules that make up her structure, meaning without even studying molecular chemistry she can do things like mimic Greed's ability from FMA. Teach her some biology and chemistry, and she should be able to make her brain process infinitely quickly, give total immunity to any attack sent her way by filling her body with a neutralizing force, and other bullshit like that

>>1324687
Munchkin alert

>>1324716
“The two of you have earned a break,” you sigh, taking a knee for a moment and seeing to your wound. “So Rukia, take this haori to be mended and fetch one of my spares. Then you can both take the afternoon off if you'd like.”

“As for the rest of you?” you continue, tossing off your haori and setting to work knitting the wound shut with your modest kaidō abilities, “what are you all standing around for? Kira, stop making smartass remarks and get ready to fight me.”

As your wound closes, you have a devious thought. “Scratch that. Kira, release your zanpakuto.”

He does as you order just as you finish treating yourself, feeling just a little tired after the fight before which led to it being inflicted on you. “Now hand me Wabisuke.”

“Are you going to do what I think...”

“Yes,” you grin as he passes the handle of his zanpakuto into your hands, and you smack him over the head with it once.

“This is what your ability feels like just having been used once,” you confirm. “How much do you weigh?”

“Fifty-six kilograms,” he grunts.

“Then this is what fifty-six extra kilograms feels like,” you continue before striking him a second time for good measure. “And this is what four times your weight feels like, or one hundred and sixty-eight extra kilograms.”

“So... now what?” Kira grunts again.

“Now we do some calisthenics!” you reply in a sickeningly enthusiastic tone. “Should be a nice, easy start-up for you Lieutenants, right?”

“Easy enough for us” Renji smirks before you whack him over the head with Wabisuke in reproach.

“Now, jumping jacks!”
>rolling

Rolled 9, 9, 9 = 27 (3d10)

>>1324728
>I SAID ROLLING.

>>1324728
who's gonna roll dice?

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>>1324734
WELP. KIRA CHANNELS ROCKY BALBOA.
And he stole our dice.

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>>1324734

Rolled 4, 6, 6 = 16 (3d10)

>>1324715
It's only one property at a time though. Otherwise why not fuck about with density, friction, elasticity, etc.

PS. She's effectively photosynthetic, too.

>>1324734
I can beat this easy-peasy.

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>>1324734
>king gets mad at the dice
>the dice respond in their fear

Also, i'm proud of tatsuki and rukia, they trained hard.

>>1324752
Also does altering density which is a product of mass and volume alter her mass and volume

Can she break conservation of energy

Is Tatsuki the solution to entropy

Can she become light

Can she become a black hole

Can she alter the divinity of her reiatsu from zero to maximum

Can she alter amounts

Does changing abstract properties mean she can alter her strength, vulnerability, creativity and rate of improvement

I'm not even interested in the quest anymore this needs answers

>>1324779
>I'm not even interested in the quest anymore

Be honest, you never were to begin with.

>>1324734
“This is actually kind of a nice workout!” Renji declares, working up a nice sweat. “Is there a way to add more weight?”

“This is for the cheek,” you explain, jabbing him in the gut with the outside of Wabisuke's crook.

“Thanks!” he grunts as Kira slowly plods along, both Lieutenants' pace dramatically slower than they should be. It seems like working out at four times their own bodyweight is a novel experience more than a concern to them, thus proving your point.

“You're taking quite well to this!” you commend them, tapping Hinamori twice as well and Omaeda once. “It''s almost like for spiritual beings whose physical strength is totally disproportionate to their body mass a little extra mass doesn't actually do as much as you'd think it would!”

“Hey wait, why'd you only tap me once, Captain?” Omaeda asks, pointing at himself in confusion.

“Because tapping you once is about the same absolute amount of weight as tapping Renji or Kira twice,” you explain, doing everything but outright calling him fat.

But it seems the Lieutenant is undeterred. “Come on, Captain Kusajishi! I'm a big guy, I can handle it!”

Reluctantly, you add another six hundred pounds or so to Omaeda's weight... practically immobilizing him. To his credit he keeps trying to do the jumping jacks with his peers, but out of context you'd call the results pretty pathetic.

“I can do a bit more,” Kira insists with a loud grunt of exertion, glaring across at Renji's self-satisfied smirk. “Hit me again, Captain.”

A competitive spirit at last? Well, you're fine with that, and tap him once again with his zanpakuto. Renji's grin quickly becomes a frown.

“I can handle two more,” he insists.

Shrugging, you oblige him. His movements turn absurdly sluggish, but he keeps right on going undeterred. Kira then insists you double his weight another time to match Renji, which you do.

“That's unexpected,” Hinamori muses, stopping her jumping jacks as her two friends continue their exercises, glaring at each other all the while.
>1/2

>>1324788
>stopping her jumping jacks
BAD MOMO, MORE WEIGHT

>>1324786
Yes I am look

>>1324788
Did that bitch stop exercising

Hit her another two times

>>1324788
“They're idiots!” you realize aloud, watching the two Lieutenants continue flailing weakly under their own modified weight. “They're actual, honest-to-god idiots!”

“Yeah, but it's kind of endearing I think,” Hinamori smiles. “I can't remember the last time I saw Izuru trying this hard to beat Renji... I actually kind of missed this from our academy days. We spent so much time in different Divisions, then there was that whole mess with Aizen and the invasion... Izuru's seemed pretty distant since then. I mean even more so than usual.”

“Well, I guess even if he is an idiot it's good to see some life out of him,” you shrug, watching the very same shinigami collapse as Renji grins triumphantly... before falling over himself.

>Alright, that's enough calisthenics for one day. Time for something more thoughtful.
>Hope you saved some energy for kidō training, gents. Because that starts now.
>Continue talking to Hinamori about something (write in)?
>Other?

>>1324814
>>Hope you saved some energy for kidō training, gents. Because that starts now.

>>1324814
>Hope you saved some energy for kidō training, gents. Because that starts now.
>With the same increased weight.

>>1324814
>Hope you saved some energy for kidō training, gents. Because that starts now.

Note: We learnt that the 99 spells were all meant to teach for those coming next.

The current curriculum skips spells for ones that are good to fight with, so maybe if we make Renji go up each spell in order he might improve better than trying to jump ahead in the kido list, we can use our 98 clues to help him with each one.

>>1324814
>Hope you saved some energy for kidō training, gents. Because that starts now.

>>1324814
>Continue talking to Hinamori about something (write in)?
>Is she eating enough? Getting enough sleep? Rest is just as important to ones training regimen.

>>1324814
>Hope you saved some energy for kidō training, gents. Because that starts now.
>Danmaku Tenyō with Kira's training weights! SURVIVE FOR 5 MINUTES

>>1324825
>use our 98 clues to help him

Use our 98 abstract hippy-talk mysteries of the Zen universe clues to help the honest to god idiot?

I foresee issues with this approach.

>>1324825
By that i mean: make him cast each spell in succession until he fails. When he fails he has to cast the preceeding two before attempting the one he failed at again. Should subtly increase the difficulty without discouraging him and force in the technique required.

>>1324838
I didnt mean tell him them, more for ourselves to figure out the way they function in a way thats not instinctual so we can actually give advice. Also serves to help us ponder the clues, so we both get trainning at the same time.

>>1324814
I think a big issue for all three of these guys is their mental state.
Momo's afraid of her own sword, kira's afraid too of failure to try and renji also fears failure but also feels inadequate.

We need to get down to the reasons behind those thoughts and give them some direct positive reinforcement.
They need some therapy no jutsu.

For now though,
>Hope you saved some energy for kidō training, gents. Because that starts now.
Also
>Other: Tell them about hado #99 and the secret behind learning it, it might help them figure out how to use kido easier

>>1324814
>>Hope you saved some energy for kidō training, gents. Because that starts now.
>>Continue talking to Hinamori about something (write in)?
"Made any rivals for yourself by any chance?"

>>1324846
too afraid of failure*

>>1324846
>>1324814
I'm in for psychological support.

>writing
After this update I'll need to take a break to go home.

>>1324911
“Hope you saved some energy for kidō training!” you muse cheerfully. “I'm feeling generous, so I'll even let you do it at your regular weight! Aren't I such a wonderful Captain?”

There's a round of grumbling, but the Lieutenants seem to collect themselves well enough to continue training. Hinamori is the only one who seems at all enthusiastic however, probably because she respected what she suspected were her limits.

“Now then,” you begin. “The numbered kidō system exists as a guide to learning how to manipulate one's reiatsu. Which of course means if you have difficulties with a specific spell, you probably skipped one of the earlier ones that would have taught you the appropriate skill.”

“How many of you have learned all of the kidō before the highest number you can cast?”

Even Omaeda stares at you in dumbfounded silence, as what you've just told them is very limited knowledge. You only mentioned it to Rangiku this morning, making her one of three people in the Gotei 13 that you know of who are aware of the secret.

“How did you even realize that?” Hinamori wonders aloud. “It feels so obvious in retrospect.”

“I had help,” you shrug. “I've been trying to learn Hadō 99, and the realization that there were gaps in my training was a part of that process.”

“Now then, let's begin with Shō and work our way up from there.”

As much as the Lieutenants seem to feel patronized by this, they oblige you. And then they perform the second spell easily enough. The first time anyone has trouble is when Renji fails to properly perform Hadō 12.

“No, no,” Hinamori insists quietly, “you're doing it wrong. You're focusing on the power, what you need to do is keep it hidden then increase the power as much as you can.”

“That's what number ten teaches you,” you observe calmly. “Practice that one until you're comfortable with it, Renji, then try Fushibi again. The rest of you continue until you hit your own snag.”

To your satisfaction Omaeda is the next to stall, right around #30, while Kira stalls just shy of #40 as the number of spells they simply skipped becomes apparent. Of all three Hinamori gets the furthest by about ten spells on Kira's first failure.

“Now that you've identified the spells you're not doing so great at...”

You pause, sensing something disturbing in progress...
>3d10 DC 16, Crit 19

Rolled 10, 7, 5 = 22 (3d10)

>>1324936

Rolled 8, 4, 9 = 21 (3d10)

>>1324936

Rolled 2, 4, 1 = 7 (3d10)

>>1324936

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>>1324936
Oh my god, i think we just fixed everyone's kido problems.
It was that goddamn easy.

>>1324962
To be fair, the only reason this method is not taught any more is because everyone who knew it got wiped out in some ancient war/event. Just didn't have anyone smart enough to realize it again up until riku.

>>1324972
>smart
She's an 8 out of 10.

Rather, nobody has been proficient enough in kido up to this point to realize that fact, i think.
Or if they were, he sure as hell wasn't telling.

>>1324972
also most people would rather go straight to the smashing.

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>>1324938
Without a word of explanation you all but disappear, hirenkyaku carrying you far from your Division's grounds. A few moments after you come to a stop in a large, empty courtyard nearly a kilometer and a half away from where you started, Yoruichi arrives at your side.

"So you felt it too?" she asks.

You nod grimly. "Of course. How could I not with him leaking his reiatsu all over the place."

"The real question," Yoruichi scowls, "is why would Zaraki be back?"
>be back in a bit

>>1324983
oh fuck did he learn shikai
or bankai
he wants our asshole

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>>1324983
Zaraki is back

>>1324983
Nozarashi time?

>>1324983
well, hopefully we got all the bad rolls out of the way earlier, because he's gonna try to kill us

>>1324983
literal reminder that unohana is alive and back to her old self because kenny wants to fight us as much as he does her
HE WANTS OUR ASSHOLE

>>1325008
that's for Yoruichi

>>1325008
I ain't read even remotely this far into bleach but this has got to be part of his training.
He can't proceed further into his training until something happens here or something like that.

Oh boy, i don't even know what's gonna happen next but i bet it involves fighting.

Damn it. I saw there was a new thread, then forgot about it until now.
Shame about the rolls, though at least it gave us these keks.

>>1324525

>>1325022
Knowing kenpachi?
We fight till both of us are ready to keel over dead.

>back, writing

Don't fuck around with this. He'll really kill us.
Full release and bankai right off the bat.

One of us is going down and it needs to not be us.

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>>1325153
A few minutes later, after making several unfortunate detours, you're finally joined by Kenpachi. He wears a broad smile on his face, like a psychopath in the middle of hacking up victim number twelve or thirteen, and his hair is long and unkempt compared to his typical spikes.

“Heh, finally found you!” he exclaims happily, drawing his sword. For a moment you and your wife both stare at him appraisingly before Yoruichi speaks her mind.

“Don't you usually have that pink thing following you around?” she muses, as if expecting Lieutenant Kusajishi to magically appear from behind Kenpachi's back. “The one who usually just calls me “boobies” instead of my actual name, or any of my titles?”

“I'd get smacked for that,” you shrug, “and it's a valid question.”

“I finally learned why I like her so much!” Kenpachi replies, still grinning like a madman. “She was my ambition.”

After a moment it dawns on you. “I see... so that girl was your manifested zanpakuto spirit? But then that means you know her actual name?”

“More importantly how does she have a zanpakuto of her own?” Yoruichi asks immediately afterwards.

You can only shake your head. “Later.”

“I'm here to kill you,” Kenpachi concludes, resting his sword over his shoulder. “Drink, Nozarashi!”

In an instant his weapon is replaced by something ungodly large slung over the same shoulder, halfway between a meat cleaver and a massive two-handed war axe.

“That's gotta be compensating for something,” you frown, narrowing your eyes at the massive blade as you take in the changes in its wielder's reiatsu.

“A total lack of kidō,” Yoruichi observes. “But its weight...”

“I know,” you nod sternly. “If I don't take him seriously it doesn't matter if it's sharp or not, I'll end up wrapped around it like tin foil.”

After a few moments locking eyes with Zaraki, you hear your wife admit something in a low voice. “You may actually have to kill him his time.”
>1/2

>>1325201
>This can't be authorized. Stall as long as you can until the Royal Guard arrives.
>Release Tenkotsuki and Rosa, take Zaraki down. If he dies... then that's on him.
>Demand that he saves that enthusiasm for Aizen. He has a fucking job to consider.
>Other?

>>1325201
>Release Tenkotsuki and Rosa, take Zaraki down. If he dies... then that's on him.

Whatever you say, whatever you think, zaraki doesn't give a fuck right now.
You better fucking enter bankai right now.

>>1325221
>Release Tenkotsuki and Rosa, take Zaraki down. If he dies... then that's on him.

>>1325201
>>Demand that he saves that enthusiasm for Aizen. He has a fucking job to consider.

>>1325221
>Demand that he saves that enthusiasm for Aizen. He has a fucking job to consider.
>Do you realize there is a WAR in a few months? And the enemy is likely to be at my level or above!

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>implying he'll listen
oh boy here it comes

>>1325221
>Other
Suggest a competition:
Menos (minldess ones) kill count to 1000?

>>1325221
>>Demand that he saves that enthusiasm for Aizen. He has a fucking job to consider.
>Do you realize there is a WAR in a few months? And the enemy is likely to be at my level or above!
>after all Aizen wants me dead more than you do
>>1325260
and this
If that fails then release.

>>1325260
too boring for Kenny. Kenny wants to fight/kill sempai.
>>1325221
>Other: And what about Unohana?

>>1325221
>Release Tenkotsuki and Rosa, take Zaraki down. If he dies... then that's on him.

>>1325221
>Other: "I refuse."

>>1325221
>Release Tenkotsuki and Rosa, take Zaraki down. If he dies... then that's on him.

He's a tough guy, and we really can't afford to dick around and get killed

>back
>Go full kido. Don't even touch him, or risk letting him hit you.
>Get in close, prevent him from winding up for a powerful swing.
>Bind him. Bind him down and hope he can't burst free.
>Other?

>>1325221
>>Demand that he saves that enthusiasm for Aizen. He has a fucking job to consider.
If that doesn't work
>>Release Tenkotsuki and Rosa, take Zaraki down. If he dies... then that's on him.

I see no reason not to at least try talking him down.

>>1325427
>>Go full kido. Don't even touch him, or risk letting him hit you.

>>1325427
>>Go full kido. Don't even touch him, or risk letting him hit you.

>>1325427
>Get in close, prevent him from winding up for a powerful swing.

>>1325435
>>1325437
you idiots! pls. we don't want to be bifuricated the moment he swings that sword!

Rolled 9, 4, 4 = 17 (3d10)

>>1325427
>Go full kido. Don't even touch him, or risk letting him hit you.

>>1325427
>Go full kido. Don't even touch him, or risk letting him hit you.

>>1325427
>Go full kido. Don't even touch him, or risk letting him hit you.

>>1325445
that's his bankai, not his shikai.

>>1325427
>Go full kido. Don't even touch him, or risk letting him hit you.
He will literally kill us
Do not clash with him
DO NOT CLASH WITH HIM

>>1325458
>dice+3d10
>DC 17, crit 21
best of 4

Rolled 8, 10, 4 = 22 (3d10)

>>1325489
oh god

Rolled 8, 8, 6 = 22 (3d10)

>>1325489

Rolled 2, 2, 3 = 7 (3d10)

>>1325489

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>>1325492
>>1325496

Rolled 10, 3, 3 = 16 (3d10)

>>1325489

>>1325496
>>1325492
THIS QUEST HAS OUR LUCKY NUMBER WRITTEN ALL OVER IT.

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>>1325496
>those 2's

>>1325492
>>1325496
Based dice laugh at your 'best of four'

>>1325492
>>1325496
The dice have returned to us at the moment we needed them the most!

wait is this just going to make him angry
shit

>>1325559
what if he gets mad because we're using spells instead of clashing swords
you know how he is, this might make him really goddamn angry like we're cockblocking him

>>1325518
So does Riku know 2's her lucky number?
Actually, could an omake about 2 being so lucky for her would work?

>>1325565
>implying Kenny REALLY getting into it would be any better

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Well, looks like i caught up just in time to see the return of Zaraki, this is gon b gud.

>>1325574
>would work
*work.

Wasting no time, you draw both of your swords from their sheaths... but instead of calling their names, you take a moment to express exactly how you feel about Kenpachi right now.

“Fuck you,” you grumble as you feel a massive surge of power flow through your body, your voice beginning to echo as you unload on your fellow Captain. “I've had enough of your fucking obsession over a private fight that I don't even particularly want. I'd prefer that you just save it for Aizen, but I think we both know that's not gonna happen unless I kick your ass.”

“That's right!” Zaraki roars, raising his massive zanpakuto and grasping its hilt firmly in both hands. “This shit's what I've been waiting for! Fight me! Cut me! Make me feel like this was all worth it!”

“Tonbogiri with that thing?” Yoruichi exclaims. “He really does mean to kill you!”

“No,” you grumble, glaring at Zaraki, reaching out with your left arm as you hear Tenkotsuki's voice already at work in your head with the appropriate incantation to match your own spell. “I refuse.”

“Kuyō Shibari!”
“Kurohitsugi!”

Your go-to bakudō quickly binds Kenpachi in place, as he glances down angrily as the ninth orb of dark reiatsu manifests at the center of his chest, larger and far more violent in nature than usual. “For real? You think this will...”

Then the orbs collapse in on themselves, distorting the space around Kenpachi's body from the gravitational shear. The orb in his chest breaks his ribs and crushes his sternum in an instant, and the Captain's eyes go wide in surprise as the gravitational waves bend and warp his limbs. You can hear them break in some places, a rapid staccato series of sickening cracks.

For good measure you follow with a hirenkyaku to close the distance, cocking your arm back.

“Ikkotsu!”

You feel your knuckles crack and your skin break from the impact, but the effect on Kenpachi is immediate. His reiatsu wavers as his nose and front teeth shatter, then the giant Captain goes down. His zanpakuto embeds itself point-first into the dirt behind him, now sealed into its familiarly jagged form.

He doesn't move.

>Heal his wounds. When he wakes up, explain to him why you can't give him the fight he wants.
>Send or take him to Unohana, let her handle him from here. He's really her responsibility anyway.
>Call in the Royal Guard, he shouldn't even be here to fight you in the first place.
>Other?

>>1325636
>Other?
Back away and wait for him to get back up.

>>1325636
>Heal his wounds. When he wakes up, explain to him why you can't give him the fight he wants.

>>1325636
>Send or take him to Unohana, let her handle him from here. He's really her responsibility anyway.

>>1325636
>>Heal his wounds. When he wakes up, explain to him why you can't give him the fight he wants.
>Call Unohana and the Royal guards, we need a god damn intervention.

>>1325636
>>Heal his wounds. When he wakes up, explain to him why you can't give him the fight he wants.

>>1325636
>Call in the Royal Guard, he shouldn't even be here to fight you in the first place.

>>1325663
Maybe i'm a little more fearful than i should be, fuck i dunno.
Changing to
>Heal his wounds. When he wakes up, explain to him why you can't give him the fight he wants.

Keep him from dying anyways.
But still be careful, i don't want him choking the shit out of us as soon as he wakes up or something.

>>1325636
>>Call in the Royal Guard, he shouldn't even be here to fight you in the first place.
On the off-chance that he'll either refuse to listen to Riku or change his fixation on Unohana instead.

>>1325636
So we literally broke every bone in his body, crushed him like an insect in an instant.
I'm not sure if he'll want to fight more or less after this.

I'm not sure how to feel about this at all.

>>1325636
>Heal his wounds. When he wakes up, explain to him why you can't give him the fight he wants.
>Call Unohana and the Royal guards, we need a god damn intervention.

>>1325636
>Call Unohana and the Royal guards, we need a god damn intervention.

>>1325636

>Send or take him to Unohana, let her handle him from here. He's really her responsibility anyway.

"When facing a smart oponent that's close to your power level, being strong isn't enough. If you don't think, you WILL die. All that power you have is useless if you can't fucking hit your oponent in the first place. Besides Bankai or not you still fight the same way, a blind man would you your attacks comming!"

>>1325738
>>1325636
I'm in support of that chastising advice.

>>1325738

*would see

>3d10 healing
>DC 18, no crit
>best of three

>>1325636
>flashback to teaching the lieutenants oni dekopin
>"i'd hate to see what an actual punch that strong would do to someone"
>"you wouldn't need a medic so much as a janitor"

Rolled 10, 3, 10 = 23 (3d10)

I kind of feel bad,
Ken's going to be super pissed as us.
>>1325787

Rolled 4, 2, 6 = 12 (3d10)

>>1325787
>no crit
aww....
inb4 we suck at healing.

Rolled 8, 6, 6 = 20 (3d10)

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>>1325793
Oh good, we didn't accidentally.
That's twice we've nearly killed a captain.

>>1325636
>>Call in the Royal Guard, he shouldn't even be here to fight you in the first place.

>Inb4 we broke kens heart jokes

>>1325816
Well I suspect he'll definitely be upset in some way at the very least. I think it's mostly the fact that he wants to be the strongest dude around but Riku has always more or less overshadowed him in that sense, so he feels like he has to beat us to prove he's the best.

Or something like that, I'm really just guessing.

>>1325793
The problem is our values are incompatible. Riku feels like she has a lot to live for, so if she sees Kenpachi as a genuine threat to her life, she's going to fight with everything she has and not just whatever Kenpachi is good at.

>>1325793

If he just keeps fighting like a charging bull the only enemies he will be able to beat are those weaker than him and idiots. We know how he fights, we told him many times to learn how to use a sword, we got him training. What he does when he gets Bankai? Front charge without even using two hands to hold the sword.

>>1325847
He used both hands this time, but that was about all that changed other than his sword.

>>1325837
I don't think it's about insecurity, if anything he might be upset we saved him.

>>1325847
he used shikai. bankai turns him into an oni.

>>1325877

We don't know that IC.

>>1325841
True.
I feel like we should mention that.

"I got a lot more to live for than just fighting, dumbass."

>>1325861
I just want him to get some chill man, why he always gotta try killin us?

>>1325738
I feel like we should say this even if we heal him.

Like does he think that Aizen would play fair?

By the by, if orihime's healing ability can heal the cap commander and so on, do you think using the valley of screams to empower her and make it more likely for her to succeed would be a good idea?

>>1325938
We need to challange him to a BBQ cook off.

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>>1325636
Kneeling next to him, you quickly assess Kenpachi's condition. It's not great... his chest is practically caved in and he's having great difficulty breathing, though in spite of that he's actually still conscious. You set to work slowly reconstructing his sternum, so that he doesn't literally suffocate before you can get him to Unohana.

“I'll never be able to give you the sort of fight you want,” you begin explaining to him, still in a dual released state. “My duty as a Captain takes absolute priority. If that means avoiding a fight with you then that's what I'll do, if it means beating you by fighting dirty I'll swallow my pride, if that means overwhelming you with kidō... well I'm as proud of that as I am of my kenjusu anyway, so it's not a problem to me.”

“Same with Retsu,” you continue, still trying to arrange the mess between the ends of his shattered ribs. “She has her own duties as well that go beyond your title, and beyond her own desires to fight you to the death. So if fighting one of us to the death is the only thing that'll satisfy you, then your life may as well end here. Because what you want will never come to pass.”

He simply lays there silently, unable to draw a firm breath and fill his lungs and so unable to manage a response. But the look in his eyes says it all: rage at having been denied his fight exists at the same time as recognition that you're telling him the truth, the sadness of a man who's realized his lifelong dream is impossible.

The only word for it is heartbreak.

“I know you're happy to have found your ambition again,” you conclude, having just about stabilized his condition, “and honestly I'm a little happy for you too. But if you're going to stay sane you need to find a way to focus that ambition on something else. I really do hope you can do that, maybe not right away but eventually.”

A relief team is able to come and retrieve Kenpachi after a half hour or so, which gives you time to basically reconstruct the man's chest as Yoruichi watches in contemplative silence. As they carry him off in a stretcher, he gestures for them to stop.

“You're too trusting,” he grumbles weakly. “What if I'd tried to stab you again while you healed me?”

“I'm not trusting at all,” you admit calmly. “I stayed in full release the whole time.”

After Kenpachi is out of sight, you glare at a spot near where Yoruichi's been seated.

“So how much were you watching?”

“Only the parts that happened after my arrival,” Shutara admits, lowering a colorful sheet of silky fabric like the scenery of the Seireitei flattened into a close-woken tapestry of sorts. “For what it is worth your words were good ones.”

“So whose idea was it to send him here?”

Yoruichi's tone betrays her surprise... as well as disgust. “Was it Ichibē's intention for Riku to crush Kenpachi's dreams like that? Or was he hoping one would kill the other off?”
>1/2

>>1325938
Here's something we should ask him, why did he never try to pick a fight with Yamamoto?

Like will he lay off if/when we become Head Captain, or did Kenpachi realize that if it was a serious fight with Old Man Genocide, he'd be barbecue?

>>1325947
I feel like Riku is being a bit charitable, because even beyond being a Captain, I'd say that being a wife and adoptive mother also fall before wanting to fight Kenpachi.

>>1325981
Being a Wife
Being a Mother
Killing Aizen
Making sure nothing else wants to destroy/usurp the Universe
Keeping up the Gardening
Doing the Dishes

Lotsa stuff that comes before wanting to kick Kenpachi's head in.

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>>1325947
His hopes and dreams...gone.

>>1325947
“Either would have worked for him,” Shutara explains, biting gently at her lower lip as she considers the point. “The reason I came here personally was to ensure that at very least neither of you was killed, and that the Gotei 13's combat power would not suffer for this.”

“The more he actually involves himself in this whole affair,” Yoruichi grumbles mutinously, “the more it makes me want to take a shot at killing him myself. Everything about it bothers me, what he is as well as how he conducts his business.”

“That would be difficult,” Shutara sighs. “Not only would it be political suicide, but Ichibē's powers are quite arcane. So long as one person is alive who can speak his name he'll just come back anyway.”

“To achieve such a goal would require you to kill quite a few people, myself included.”

“I'm not even sure why you told me that,” Yoruichi shakes her head, “but that certainly won't do. Guess it was never going to be easy.”

You glance sidelong at Shutara. If even other Captains want a piece of you this badly, it can only leave you to wonder: how long will it be before the Royal Guard become your enemy as well? And is there anything you can do to stop what seems increasingly like a certainty?

>And that's where I have to stop for now, it's 2am and I need sleep
>will be back shortly tomorrow after SoZ
>Archive is up, and thanks for playing!

>>1326006
Thanks for running!

And since it's April Fools, ever gave a thought for an omake featuring Gin going about said day?

>>1326006
What if
and work with me here

what if instead of killing him
we show up every day and kick him in the dick
EVERY DAY
for THOUSANDS of years

or just seal him
but not before kicking him in the dick

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>>1326006
Thanks for the Run


Ya I don't get Ichibei's hard on for us to die either. As far as I can tell he's just an old man with nothing better to do than cause mostly problems.

Why's everyone want us so dead so bad, we just wanted Best Cat and some kids, is that so much to ask?

>>1326006
Would Zaraki join Aizen for a legitimate shot at Riku/Unohana?

>>1326051
>Seal him by kicking him in the dick.
Now your thinkin with Kido.

>>1326061
yes. nobody is allowed to be happy in Bleach. Ever. especially not in the epilogue

>>1326051
I mean, i got no problem with the royal guard in general, i respect them and recognize the importance of the job they do.
My beef is with ichibe specifically, he's just a fucking dickhead and asking for it at this point, and i feel like we should make that very clear to the rest of the royal guard before we kick him in the dick

>>1326074
>the last thing ichibe feels is our foot impacting his testicles with the force of a small atom bomb
>from now on, anyone who says his name does it an octave higher than they meant to

>>1326073
After this? I dont think so.
Zaraki values honesty and honour.

>>1326006
thanks for running.

Omake Idea: Unohana visits a heartbroken Kenny in the 4th division ward. Comforting may or may not happen.

>>1326089
i dunno about honor, it's more that he just wants a straight fight with no bullshit.

>>1326100
Didn't specify what kind of honour mate. Its his own code but its honour in a fashion.

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>>1326006
Kira:
>So how does it feel to taste the medicine your own sword inflicts on you?
>How hard was it to do Jumping Jacks while weighing about 32 times your own body weight?
Renji:
>MUST YOU GET INTO A DICK-MEASURING CONTEST EVERY TIME?
>So how much easier is kido casting going for you now that Riku dropped a big hint on how the Hado spells were designed?
Unohana:
>Dr. Unohana, you have a code blue for patient Kenny. Code blue for patient Kenny. In addition, he has suffered a broken heart, the emotional kind.

>>1326006
>To Retsu: Reaction when kenny showed up in your hospital with every bone in his body shattered, broken in half mentally and physically?

Oh god, i just realized we did that in the middle of the goddamn seireitei.
EVERYBODY felt that.

>>1326821
Everyone felt our full reiatsu weight by now two or three times already.

>>1326821
Well i meant more that they all felt kenny's massive release of reiatsu, followed by ours, followed by kenny's almost disappearing.

Pretty much everyone for miles just felt us almost kill him, probably with zero context.

>>1326855
It's Kenny.

That's enough context.

>>1326006
Thanks for running!
>>1326051
>>1326088
These guys have the right idea.

>>1326641
Kira:
>That was... unpleasant, in several ways. I've really been overestimating what it does.
>Extremely.
Renji:
>Um... yes?
>Well, at least I'm getting Byakurai right. Even if I know he trick it's gonna take a while.
Unohana:
>I would make a joke about it being a woman that did it, but this is hardly a laughing matter.
>>1326780
>The bones I can heal easily enough, they're wounds any of us could expect. But mending a heart is beyond my skill. I'm not sure about his prognosis.

>>1326855
More importantly perhaps they felt the sort of reiatsu she released. Tenkotsuki and Riku's reiatsu feels like a tingling numbness as previously mentioned, but Rosa's feels kind of gut-wrenching when Riku is properly backing that release with genuine anger. It's a feeling like being yelled at by a close loved one, or someone whose opinion you really respect.

It's a singularly unpleasant experience.

>>1328021
>It's a feeling like being yelled at by a close loved one, or someone whose opinion you really respect.
Goddamn, I didn't even like imagining that.

>>1328097
it that feeling when the whole world just drops you into the abyss moment, where all your hopes, dreams, and aspiration just crumble up. And you're just standing stock still numb to the core, unable to speak up. A common sensation that leads people to become doormats.

>>1328021
>It's a feeling like being yelled at by a close loved one, or someone whose opinion you really respect.

Goddamn, that's fucking horrible.
That could make some people sick to their stomachs.

>>1327917
I've had a sit and i just dunno.
It's like ichibe really is provoking us, doing shit he knows will bother us, trying to goad us into doing something that will give him an excuse to kill us and remove the problem.

His job is basically to prevent unstable influences from fucking everything up, right?
Well, if we fly off the handle and kick him in the dick, even though he really deserves it, we'd sort of be proving to him that we're going to be a problem down the road, i guess.
I don't really like that line of thought, but it's possible.

The obvious option in that case would be to organize an official trip to the palace or otherwise a meeting with division zero down here in the seireitei and ask them very nicely to please stop doing really horrible and mean things to us.
Just talk it out, like reasonable, not-world-destroying goddess might do.

>>1328021
>>That was... unpleasant, in several ways. I've really been overestimating what it does.

It's not that bad, but the power really shines after your opponent weighs over a billion lbs on the 23rd hit.

Guy needs to get sanic fast.

>>1328372
This.
If you do nothing but increase the speed at which you can double your opponent's weight, they'll be fucked.

Try what is essentially vibrating the sword against the opponent's body, traveling the absolute minimum distance before striking them again instead of winding up a whole goddamn swing for a single doubling.

>>1328377
I'd say he should be fencing, but fuck that sword is wonky.

>>1328381
Basically he should probably be on full defence unless the opponent start trying to use ranged attacks/kido
Eventually they and their weapon will become so heavy and slow that they'll realize they're fucked and probably try to escape, then you go on offense and crush them to death with the weight of their own body.

>>1328372
>>1328377
>>1328381
He should definitely be focusing on a style of quick glancing strikes and dodging his opponent rather than stronger blows of a more traditional style, death of a thousand cuts and all that with a final execution strike at the end once his opponent has been immobilized.