"That day, your mother was not supposed to die," Isshin's eyes were gloomy.
"What exactly happened?" Ichigo Kurosaki asked seriously.
His mother was the person Ichigo loved most. In essence, he was a "mama's boy" similar to Sett from League of Legends.
His mother's death had always been the biggest knot in his heart. In his childhood, he had had thoughts of running away from home, and even suicide, multiple times.
Like the former Rukia Kuchiki, he had a severe self-destructive tendency. That's why on the day he met Rukia, he had thought it was a release and wanted to trade his life for his sister's from the Hollow's mouth, even giving up resisting. If it weren't for Rukia risking her life to save him, and in the following days, saving each other's souls, the boy's story would have ended there.
Invincible power and potential cannot save a child whose heart is already dead with despair.
Without the heaven-sent Soul Reaper Rukia, specially sent by his expensive adoptive father, Aizen, to break all common sense of daily life, to give him the power to protect, to let him feel the meaning of his life in the process of protecting, to feel that he was useful, and then in a series of events, to save each other's souls, Ichigo's heart would have completely withered.
But in all these years, Isshin Shiba had never told Ichigo the truth. Perhaps it was to not burden the young child with too much pressure, or perhaps he didn't want him to be consumed by hatred, to go from melancholy to another extreme and become a vengeful demon blinded by hatred.
He had just awkwardly used all sorts of silly antics to try to ease the trauma in his children's hearts.
"Your mother, Masaki, although she had a Hollow mixed in, she was originally a pure-blood Quincy, and she was extremely skilled in using the defensive Blut, 'Blut Vene'. Masaki should not have lost, she could have even defeated Grand Fisher without a scratch. But... things didn't go as planned," Isshin tried to keep his voice steady, to control his emotions, and not to lose his composure in front of his son.
"Why?!" Ichigo was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
"Because on that day, she lost her Quincy power," Isshin Shiba replied.
"What exactly happened?" Ichigo's pupils constricted. "What happened nine years ago?"
"...The 'Auswählen'. The Quincy 'selection' carried out by Yhwach. In the legends of the Quincy, there is a saying that praises the sealed king. It says, 'The sealed King of the Quincy takes nine hundred years to regain his heartbeat, ninety years to regain his consciousness, and nine years to regain his power.'
"Yhwach would take the power from the Quincy he considered impure and make it his own. Because of the Auswählen, Uryu's frail mother, Kanae Katagiri, also lost her life. And Masaki lost her power on that day and died in battle," Isshin Shiba was clearly quite knowledgeable about the inside story of his wife's death.
No matter how much he joked around, he was still a descendant of the Shiba clan and a former captain. And besides his own information channels, he also had a certain connection with Urahara and Ryūken Ishida.
"Why can he do that? Just because he's their king? Who the hell is Yhwach?
"Could it be that it's like how that guy took Mr. Urahara's power, using that strange technique called the 'Usurping Altar'?" Ichigo Kurosaki asked anxiously, at the same time thinking of that bastard Bai Yuetong.
The words Bai Yuetong had said to him before echoed in his ears again. That bastard really hadn't lied to him. But that bastard had left out the most important point: that Yhwach had taken his mother's power and caused her death!
"Yhwach is the progenitor of the Quincy. The Quincy originated from him, and all Quincy have his blood flowing in them. As for whether it's a technique like the 'Usurping Altar', I'm not really sure," Isshin Shiba sighed. "It might be as you said, that technique called the 'Usurping Altar', or a similar technique."
"Thanks, Dad," Ichigo Kurosaki's eyes showed a resolute look. "Leave Yhwach to me. I'll take him down!"
The fact that Yhwach's blood flowed in his veins was irrelevant. According to that bastard Bai Yuetong, the blood of the Soul Reaper nobility also flowed in his veins!
There was no rule that said having Quincy blood meant you had to stand on the Quincy's side. He was neither a Quincy nor a Soul Reaper, but he could be both. What he wanted to become was his own business, and no one else could tell him what to do.
And no matter what identity or rules, they couldn't bind him. Ichigo would only do what he thought was right and what he should do.
As for the betrayal and sins committed by the original ancestors of the Soul Reapers, something that sounded very troublesome, he couldn't be bothered to ask his father in detail, nor was he interested. All he knew was that the King of the Quincy had caused the death of his beloved mother!
So, the next thing he had to do was to take down Yhwach and get justice for his and Uryu's mothers.
Yes, even knowing that Yhwach was the enemy who had caused his mother's death, Ichigo still didn't have much killing intent. All he had was the thought of beating up that bastard, at most having him kneel before his mother's grave and apologize. He had never thought of killing him.
But before taking down Yhwach, he had to save his friends, Chad and Orihime, who had been taken by the Quincy.
"Ichigo, you kid..." Isshin looked at his son with some relief, but still shook his head and poured a basin of cold water on him. "To defeat the King of the Quincy, you can't do it as you are now."
"I know. I'm not even sure I can win against Yhwach's underlings. So, with just my current self, I probably can't defeat the boss, Yhwach.
"But so what? Should I back down just because I think I can't win? It's not that I want to win, it's that I have to win! Chad and Inoue are waiting for me.
"Let's train together, Dad. One more time, help me train again—for the Final Getsuga Tenshō!"
Ichigo Kurosaki looked seriously into his father's eyes, already prepared to lose all his power again.
"This..." Isshin Shiba was stunned, not expecting Ichigo to have developed a path dependency.
But just because "Mugetsu" could defeat Aizen didn't mean it could defeat Yhwach.
Besides, if it weren't for the seal Urahara had placed in advance, Ichigo would have lost his power after that one blow, while Aizen would have recovered quickly. The one who would have died then would have been Ichigo. So, he hadn't completely defeated Aizen at all.
"Calm down, Ichigo," a black cat jumped out.
"Miss Yoruichi?" Ichigo was still wondering when she had appeared, when Yoruichi gave him a scratch.
"With just your current power, you can't truly defeat the enemy. That's a guy who can continuously plunder the power of others. Who knows how many Quincy's powers he has taken. To think you can defeat him with 'Mugetsu', you are still too naive," Yoruichi said seriously.
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