Mastery

"What happened?"

That the world is stuck inside of their head, they don't know what happened, they only see that small child named Pochi threw a simple punch and Ikkaku becomes miserable like this.

Of course, the only one who can answer that question is none-other than Ikkaku itself who was struck by that punch.

Ikkaku sitting inside of the hole looking at the vast sky, his eyes twitching from time to time, he clearly felt that punch there's also a huge fist mark in his chest, whole steam coming out from his cloth because of the friction.

But what he doesn't understand is, that punch is strong enough to leave him disable but surprisingly that punch did not hurt him very much.

He clearly felt the power to the punch and its effect, but the damage that he recessive is minimal as he expected.

Ikkaku of course not an idiot, he is a genius fighter, he knows that a small kid can control her own strength to the level that she can show it visually while preventing the other from getting hurt.

Some fighters have the aura that you can feel if they are strong or not, those aura is not visible but you can still feel it using your own instinct, like Kenpachi's Aura.

His aura is clearly visible making everyone feel easy, his not only dangerous, but he is also powerful just from those aura around his body, you can easily judge the level of each other.

But Pochi is different, her aura is too thin as if she is just a regular kid, her own aura is hidden deeply in her bone, it's not easy to sense but you can feel it in the way she attacks you.

In this kind of situation, a normal person should accept defeat because of the level gap, but Ikkaku is different, he suddenly becomes excited fighting an opponent at the same level of his Captain.

Ikkaku stands up and removes his uniform showing he is thin but full of muscle, they clearly see a red mark in his chest area where Pochi punches him.

"Come kid, let's continue." Ikkaku excitedly said.

Xin helplessly looks at him, just like when they first fight, Ikkaku really is a muscle brain being excited to an opponent that is impossible to defeat.

Pochi looks at Xin asking what she should do, from her nervous face, Xin knows that this kid doesn't know what she should do next.

Shiro who sitting beside Xin said," Beat him into pulp,"

"Wrong -nanodesu, killing is bad, '' Master said,'' Tama said to her.

Shiro gave a fierce look at her, making Shiro scared, Xin helplessly pat her head and said," Good, you remember what I said."

"Heheh~ " Tama foolishly smiled while enjoying the small reward.

Shiro who saw everything pouted while she felt jealous but she did not show it, she had her own pride so she needed to conceal it even in front of her master.

Of course, she still gazed at Tama while feeling irritated, Xin saw it and smiled, this tsundere dragon really is something.

"Go, don't beat Instructor Ikkaku, but try to fight him using what you know."

"Weapon?" Pochi shows her katana asking if she can use her own Soul Cutter.

"No need, use it if you think that your opponent is strong enough for you to use it."

"Okay -desu."

Pochi ran straight to Ikkaku, brandishing her small fist and started to fight him using bare hands.

Ikkaku heroically laughs and jumps to greet her punch, seeing the incoming fist, Ikkaku starts to get serious, he tries to avoid it but the punch seems to have an eye following wherever he dodges.

He sees a straight punch, he dodges on the left side, then the straight punch changes into a hook punch hitting his cheek throwing him in distance.

But before he can even hit the ground, Pochi already arrives in advance of him, then he greet by throwing him up in the air.

Pochi then appears again and tries to punch him back to the ground, seeing Ikkkau hurry raise his hand and counter the kid.

To his surprise the kid did not even dodge or block it, her defense is pretty open, then his fist hit her left side then Ikkaku's face changed.

Tochiro felt weird when he suddenly sees Ikkau's expression, he don't know what happen to make Ikkau's lisp twitch as if his holding something.

"What happened to him, Captain?" Rangiku asks.

"I don't know, maybe he discovered something from that kid." He said.

Ikkaku looked at his fist that was almost dislocated, he looked at the kid and asked," Why is your skin hard? Harder than a metal?"

"Pochi is powerful, you can't win against me even if you use your full strength. Maybe my power is not as strong as Shiro's, not as fast as Tama but my difference is pretty good, even Shira will need to take time to destroy it," Pochi said.

"Hierro?" Ikkaku asked.

Hierro "Steel Skin" is a defensive Arrancar technique. The user's Reiryoku condenses, creating a steel-hard skin strong enough to block a Zanpakutō. This allows users to confront some of the sword-wielding Shinigami barehanded. In general, the strength of an individual's Hierro is proportional to the potency of their Reiryoku.

And Pochi's Hierro is not just a technique that she needs to activate every time, but opposite, Pochi, Tama and Shiro's Hierro are passive.

Meaning, they don't need to activate it all the time, there Hierro did not consume any Reiryoku after all, this technique already integrated deep into their skin, muscle and bone.

The three of them can already compare to Kaido of the Beasts, but the difference is that the three of them are still young.

"Good let's continue!" Ikkau said.

"Are you not going to heal your fist first? Desu"

"Don't worry, Xin can heal me back in peace so we can continue this fight," He then attacked Pochi again, this time without holding back.

Of course, Pochi is not always passive, she just casually throws a couple of punches and kicks to make the fight livelier, while letting Ikkau hit her.

And just like that, the fight ends, Ikkau broke his feet,m arms, and a couple of ribs, but surprisingly, he did not bleed at all.

Xin helplessly heals him back while Toshiro who is silent watching suddenly asks.

"Can I try to fight them too?"

"Are you sure?" Xin asked.

Tochiro nodded.

"Then ask them," Xin said to him pointing to Shiro, Tama, and Pochi wh standing behind him.