Early in the morning, visitors arrived at the dojo. The parents of Kana Azashiro and Shōya Azashiro had come.
"Professor Katori, my sincerest apologies for only coming to thank you now," the head of the Azashiro clan said, his face full of apology. The guards behind him carried a pile of gifts.
"You are too kind, Lord Azashiro. I am Kana's and Shōya's Professor. It was my duty to help," Sora said with a smile.
"I am a bit older than you. If you don't mind, you could call me your big brother," the clan head said with a laugh.
"The professor is very young!" Kana pouted. Her father's eye twitched as he glanced at his daughter, realizing his 'little treasure' might already be leaning towards someone else.
"These worldly goods are insignificant compared to your help, but please accept them, Professor Katori," he said, his expression unchanged.
"You are too thoughtful. I will humbly accept," Sora replied. He couldn't very well ask them to carry everything back.
The Azashiro head then briefly introduced the gifts. The money they had brought was enough to renovate the Katori Dojo many times over. There were also rare medicinal herbs, minerals, and other resources.
In addition to that, there was a stack of land deeds. They were all deeds for the land surrounding the Katori Dojo! The Azashiro family had spared no expense, buying up tens of thousands of acres of land nearby to give to him.
"The Azashiro family is quite sincere. I've really become a great landlord now..." Sora thought to himself. The area of the Katori Dojo had now reached a hundred thousand mu! More than eighty or ninety percent of the nobles in the Soul Society didn't own this much land.
The clan head had realized that his family no longer had the strength to protect such a large estate, so he had taken the opportunity to divest, gifting many assets away. Sora guessed that Yamamoto, Shunsui, and the others involved in the investigation would also receive a thank-you gift.
...
At the Shin'ō Academy swordsmanship hall—
"Today, I will teach you a rather practical technique for combat," Sora said.
His students' progress had exceeded his expectations. Thanks to the boost from his "Patient Guidance" ability, most of them had already completed their basic Spiritual Pressure control training in the previous semester.
"Kana Azashiro, get a wooden sword and come up to assist me with the demonstration," Sora said.
"Yes, sir!" she replied, quickly grabbing a sword.
After Kana got into her stance, Sora continued, "The technique I'm teaching you today is called 'Kannazuki Renzan' (Godless Thought Consecutive Slashes)." He held his sword with both hands and raised it above his head. The next moment, the sword fell, slashing straight at Kana.
Kana reacted quickly and raised her blade to block. THUD—
After the impact, Sora did not use his strength to overpower her, but instead raised his sword again with extreme speed. The blade fell once more.
Thud, thud, thud, thud—
He swung his sword in a rapid, continuous series of blows. Kana parried the first few, but as the final strike came down, she felt a massive shock in her hand, and her wooden sword was sent flying.
"I thought I could block that last one..." she said in surprise.
Sora explained, "The core of this technique is to use rapid, consecutive slashes to overwhelm your opponent. Then, on the last one or two strikes, you use your full strength to knock their sword away."
"The way you exert force is the same as in suburi, you just need to swing faster. It's an easy technique to learn."
After class, Sora was still busy. When he returned to the dojo, it was already late at night. Back in his room, he took out the Bloodline Extractor he had received.
[Bloodline Extractor (Pure-Blood Quincy): The key to obtaining Quincy power. Method of use: After releasing your Shikai, pour it into your own shadow.]
The instructions given by the system puzzled him. If it had told him to inject it or consume it directly, it would have made more sense.
"Can my shadow ability actually digest and absorb this thing...?" Even as Kagehime's master, Sora found the prompt incredible.
He decided to try it. He drew his Zanpakutō. "Gaze upon all creation, Kagehime." The blade instantly turned black.
Sora opened the cap of the extractor and poured the faintly blue, glowing liquid onto his shadow. The liquid did not get absorbed by the wooden floor but coalesced into a single mass.
In the next instant, his shadow began to boil like water in a pot, surging outwards. Countless black threads extended from it, intertwining with the blue liquid and condensing in the air into a mass of black threads glowing with blue light.
These threads wove together, forming a shape like a heart. The black mass constantly contracted and expanded, making it look like a beating heart. In that moment, Sora felt his consciousness split. He suddenly had two perspectives at the same time!
He was Katori Sora, and he was also this materialized shadow. At that moment, he recalled a deeper memory: a perfect, massive crystal, standing tall in a vast, empty hall. And his perspective was from beneath that crystal!
He was the shadow cast by the light shining through that flawless crystal! "Why do I have these memories?"
Memories from different time periods intertwined, causing some confusion. A moment later, he sorted them out. "I didn't transmigrate directly into the Reigai?" The scene he had just recalled was his true first memory of arriving in this world. But after that, he had fallen into a long slumber.
It wasn't until Shutara Senjumaru had sewn him into Batsunsai Katori's Reigai that he had begun to awaken.
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