13 Hollow
A week after Ichigo learned Water Breathing, Master Gyatsu had him master all of the forms to said fighting style.
Not only has Ichigo mastered every single Forms in Water Breathing, he has evolved every single one of them.
Currently, he was drinking some water. "Master Gyatsu. Is this the only breathing style you're going to teach me?" Ichigo asked the old master. Master Gyatsu shook his head.
"No. There are a lot of things to teach you." Master Gyatsu answered him.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Ichigo grinned and picked up his blades from the ground.
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Three weeks later.... One week until the start of the main story of Bleach.
[Perk Unlocked
Demon Slayer Mark: Strength increases by 10x, no side effects.]
"I'm about to die...." Ichigo muttered. He felt his skin burning to impossible levels. His heart was pumping at supernatural levels. Master Gyatsu had literally brought him to a room that had a giant furnace in it. To activate one's Demon Slayer Mark, he had to specifically survive a heart rate of over 200 beats per minute and a body temperature of over 39° Celsius.
Said conditions are obviously life threatening to most humans, but Ichigo is clearly an exception. After all, he isn't normal at all.
Surviving these conditions means he has achieved the full potential of a human.
"Where's the mark...." Gyatsu asked fearing for the worst. He hated himself for putting Ichigo in that room, but he had to because Ichigo wanted to.
"Ichigo, can you please take off your shirt." Gyatsu asked the exhausted Ichigo. Ichigo slowly sat up while grunting and groaning.
Ichigo took off his shirt. Gyatsu walked around him. He then breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank God..." Gyatsu muttered. He then walked away, leaving Ichigo to his own devices.
Ichigo opened the system and looked at his skills.
[Kaifuku no Kokyū Lvl Max
By taking a brief moment to focus and steady one's breath, allows one to recover from fatigue and stiff muscles in the body.]
[Selfless State Lvl Max
Allows one to completely erase their presence from the battlefield, completely getting rid of their fighting spirit/will to fight, bloodlust, anger, hatred, malevolence, drive and animosity.]
[Sun Breathing Lvl 13]
[Aesthetic Bodybuilding 75%]
"Selfless State doesn't let me hide my Reiatsu. That's unfortunate but I'm fine with it. But if I unlocked the Selfless State, Transparent World should be next. After all, they are closely associated with one another. " Ichigo muttered as he laid down on the ground staring at the brown ceiling.
A lot of things have happened in three weeks. The first thing is that Ichigo has pushed himself to the utmost limit his body could allow him. Doing that allowed him to quickly master all of the existing Breathing Styles and forms that those Breathing Styles have.
The second thing is that Ichigo has mastered his Clad Type form and the abilities the transformation brings. The third thing is Yoruichi had decided to sleep with him in her cat form, Ichigo was shocked to see her in his bed when she first did that.
'I should be very ready.'
*GRRRRRRROOOOOOWWWLLL!!!!*
Ichigo chuckled. His stomach is complaining. He heard footsteps approaching him and looked to his right.
Master Gyatsu was pushing something towards him. Ichigo grunted as he sat up. Gyatsu smiled at him.
"Come and eat, boy." Master Gyatsu smiled at him. Ichigo hurriedly sat on the chair Master Gyatsu brought him.
"Woaaah...." Ichigo had stars in his eyes. In front of him was a banquet of food. Fried chicken, rice, noodles, boiled eggs, miso soup, curry, more rice....
"What are you waiting for? Eat! Eat!" Gyatsu smiled at him. Ichigo quickly grabbed a chicken leg and started eating.
"Who cooked this!" Ichigo asked Gyatsu as he was chomping down on the rice.
"My wife did." Gyatsu explained with a smile on his face.
"Tell her that the food is delicious." Ichigo told him. Gyatsu nodded.
"I will." Gyatsu muttered.
"Look at this, Ichigo." Gyatsu showed him a picture. Ichigo was confused.
"This is what your Demon Slayer Mark looks like." Gyatsu explained. Ichigo widened his eyes. Ichigo had a giant red fire-like mark engraved on his back. The mark stretched out from the left side of his shoulder to the middle of his back.
Ichigo looked down to see that the red fiery mark actually started from the left side of his neck.
"I'm going to have a hard time explaining this to the old man." Ichigo grumbled to himself. Gyatsu chuckled.
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"What am I doing here? It's like 10 p.m." Ichigo grumbled as he was standing in an alleyway with Master Gyatsu beside him.
"You'll see soon enough. Let's go on a walk." Gyatsu told him mysteriously. Ichigo shrugged and walked beside him. They walked on the streets in silence.
Suddenly, Ichigo heard a howl in the distance." Master, do we have wolves in Karakura Town?" Ichigo asked him. Gyatsu laughed.
"Silly boy, we only have cute little foxes here." Gyatsu laughed the question off. Ichigo however had his hand on his khyber knife.
He heard the howl again. "Master, how about we walk in the alleyway. We don't want people calling the police on us because we're carrying our weapons do we? " Ichigo advised. Gyatsu nodded.
" Good idea. " Gyatsu replied to him and they turned left, walking into an alley.
*STOMP!!! STOMP!!! STOMP!!!*
Ichigo and Gyatsu stopped in their tracks. "Master, can you see it?" Ichigo asked Gyatsu. He nodded.
"I can. It has a white mask on it's face, it's skin is black in color and it's very tall and skinny." Gyatsu answered him.
"Are those the demons you told me about?" Ichigo asked another question.
" No. The demons I told you look more humanlike. This is different, I have never seen it before." Gyatsu muttered. Ichigo grabbed his curved claymore and rushed towards the Hollow.
"Wait, boy! " Gyatsu shouted. Ichigo didn't listen and kept charging at it.
'Hi no Kokyū: Thirteenth Form.'
Bright orange fire flowed out of his claymore. Ichigo appeared in front of the Hollows skinny feet.
*SHISSSSS!!!*
First, the orange fire sliced off the Hollow's legs. Then the fire sliced its chest in half horizontally and lastly it decapitated it and sliced the mask in half. Ichigo then appeared behind it.
"WRROOAAA!!!!" The Hollow roared in anger as it dissolved into ashes and disappeared into nothingness.
Ichigo strapped his claymore back to his back and looked at Gyatsu who was baffled. 'How strong did he get after he unlocked the Mark? ' Gyatsu thought to himself. He shook his surprised expression off his face and walked towards Ichigo.
"Well done Ichigo. Let's hope it finds peace." Gyatsu congratulated him. Ichigo nodded with a calm face.
"It's getting late and I need to think about what happened. Please, go home now Ichigo. " Gyatsu continued. Ichigo nodded.
" Okay.....
To be continued....
(Reasonable power up???)
