Now he could no longer be called "Old Man Zangetsu," but "Tensa Zangetsu."
But in Ichigo's opinion, the other party was still Old Man Zangetsu.
"Zangetsu, I'm not here to fight, I'm here to learn..." Thinking of his purpose, Kurosaki Ichigo wanted to stop fighting.
"Tensa Zangetsu" said coldly:
"I know what you're here for! The final Getsuga Tenshō, right? I can't possibly teach you such a move!"
"But I have my reasons for learning this move." Kurosaki Ichigo rushed toward the new "Old Man Zangetsu"—also known as "Tensa Zangetsu"—with a determined look on his face.
"I have something I want to protect! I must learn the final Getsuga Tenshō!"
He wouldn't give up.
Karakura Town had his sisters and friends. It was his home.
No matter what, he would never give up on Karakura Town.
"So what?" The young "Tensa Zangetsu" said in a nonchalant manner:
"What does what you said have to do with me? I don't care about your reasons! What you want to protect is not what I want to protect. It doesn't matter to me what happens to them."
He just wanted Kurosaki Ichigo to live—that was all.
But now, Kurosaki Ichigo was going to die.
This was something he couldn't tolerate.
"What did you say?" Kurosaki Ichigo said with an angry look on his face:
"Are you telling the truth? Why do you say that? Before I came here, I thought you would lend me your strength and help me! Is this just my wishful thinking? To you, is everything I cherish really meaningless? Then why did you lend me your strength before?"
The "Old Man Zangetsu" in front of him made him feel very strange and chilled.
This was definitely not the Old Man Zangetsu he knew.
The young "Tensa Zangetsu" pointed at the sea in front of him and said loudly:
"Look at the world before you! Once upon a time, this world was full of hope, with countless skyscrapers reaching toward the sky. Now it has become this wreck, with buildings collapsing and seawater seeping in. All because... you felt hopeless and stopped moving forward."
After saying that, he flashed in front of Kurosaki Ichigo and suddenly stabbed his palm into his body, saying:
"Ichigo, you can't go on like this! I'm going to pull out the source of your despair now!"
Then he pulled hard and yanked a mass of white substance from Kurosaki Ichigo's body.
Blood gushed out, and Kurosaki Ichigo felt a piercing pain in his chest.
At the same time, a familiar strange voice sounded: "Hey, long time no see, Ichigo!"
He looked forward with wide eyes and saw a humanoid monster in white clothes carrying a white sword.
The monster wore a black horned mask and had long white hair draped to his waist. He looked a little familiar, but not quite.
"What's with that expression? Don't you recognize me?" While saying this, the monster took off his black mask, revealing a familiar white face.
It was clearly the Hollow monster from before.
That was White Hollow.
But White now looked very similar to the Vasto Lorde Ichigo who had beaten up Ulquiorra.
"Who are you..." Kurosaki Ichigo looked incredulous and asked in confusion:
"Why? Didn't you disappear? Why did you appear again?"
As he mastered Hollowfication, the monster's voice had disappeared.
He thought he had completely solved the problem.
Was everything just an illusion?
"Have you forgotten what I said?" White said disdainfully:
"I said it last time—if you want to completely control my true power, then before I appear next time, you'd better be careful and don't die easily."
This master was really worrying. He didn't listen to anything said to him. It went in one ear and out the other. He was hard to deal with!
He had said "next time," but Ichigo didn't listen at all!
In the spiritual space, looking at White's changed appearance, Kurosaki Ichigo said loudly:
"Impossible! This isn't true! I completely killed you! You should have disappeared completely."
The monster in front of him was his nightmare, and it was also the reason why he didn't dare to use all his strength.
Although he also used Hollow powers, he didn't agree with them.
In fact, the more he saw the power of Hollows, the more Kurosaki Ichigo resisted this power in his heart.
Even the culprit who had caused the turmoil was pursuing this power.
In his opinion, Aizen had started the war just to obtain the power of Hollows.
Hollows and Hollowfication were synonymous with misfortune.
"It's really sad that you said that. It makes me want to cry!" White said his true feelings in a nonchalant tone.
Kurosaki Ichigo continued to ask:
"Even if you didn't disappear, what's the deal with your current appearance? Why are you wearing a strange mask?"
He was a little concerned about White's current appearance.