Karakura High School was not far from the Visored's location.
Following Shinji, Ichigo's steps were quick.
Not long after, he arrived at the warehouse area where the Visored were.
He then took out a Soul Candy to leave his body.
The Visored group, like Sarugaki Hiyori, Yadomaru Lisa, Ushoda Hachigen, and others, appeared before Ichigo.
"Yo, baldy, this is the guy Kisuke mentioned?"
"Doesn't look like much!" Hiyori said loudly.
At the same time, her eyes flashed over the Ruyi earrings on Ichigo's ears:
"And earrings... Tch, baldy, why did you bring back a sissy?"
"Damn you, Hiyori! I said I'm not a baldy!"
Shinji glared angrily at Hiyori: "And, didn't you sense it?"
"Sense what?" Hiyori retorted at Shinji.
Shinji said speechlessly: "That's a Zanpakuto, a Zanpakuto, idiot!"
"What? This is actually... a Zanpakuto?" Hiyori was shocked, looking at Ichigo.
"That's right, it is indeed a Zanpakuto." Ichigo nodded.
Because Zangetsu was a permanent release type, Ruyi felt it wouldn't match if she wasn't also permanently released.
So Ruyi, after releasing, was unwilling to retract.
Knowing this, Ichigo had to let her be.
"But don't you already have a Zanpakuto on your back?" Hiyori was very puzzled.
"That's naturally because he has two swords! Weren't you once a Research and Development Institute's vice-director? Don't be so ignorant, okay?" Shinji mocked.
"Damn you, who are you calling ignorant!!"
Picking up her slipper, Hiyori and Shinji fought fiercely.
Faced with this comical scene, Ichigo found it both funny and exasperating, while the others were unfazed.
"Sorry, they're usually like this!"
With wavy blonde hair, like a medieval British noble, Otoribashi Rojuro walked over.
Looking at the Ruyi earrings on Ichigo's ears, Otoribashi praised:
"Truly a beautiful Zanpakuto. Seeing this, inspiration keeps welling up in my heart!"
"Indeed, if this Ichigo-kun were to become a host, I would definitely patronize you!"
Wearing a sailor uniform, her slender waist and exquisite navel exposed, with braided hair and glasses, dressed as a cute schoolgirl, Yadomaru Lisa said.
However, her vulgar words didn't match her appearance.
Looking at Lisa, Ichigo smiled: "If you're willing to patronize me, you don't need me to become a host!"
"Oh?" Lisa was startled, then laughed: "Alright, seems we have a very interesting person!"
In a few words, Ichigo preliminarily conversed with the Visored.
Then Muguruma Kensei looked to the side and impatiently roared: "Hey, Shinji, are we doing training today or not? When will you finish?"
"Shiro, stop them!"
"Okay!" Kuna Mashiro listened to Kensei's words and burst into Hiyori and Shinji's fight.
"Alright, alright, Hi-Hi-chan, and Shinji, fighting is bad!"
"Bastard, who are you calling Hi-Hi-chan, you idiot girl!"
Hiyori's disgusted voice came.
But with innocent and simple Mashiro's intervention, the Visored also regained their usual calm.
Shinji sat back down: "Tell us, what state were you in when you completely transformed into a Hollow? We'll try to replicate it!"
However, hearing Shinji's words, and under Shinji's puzzled gaze, Ichigo shook his head and said flatly: "Unnecessary!"
"Unnecessary?" Hearing this, the Visored were very puzzled.
"What does unnecessary mean?"
"Unnecessary means I know how to trigger that state, and I know it cannot be controlled!"
Ichigo explained: "As long as I fight to exhaustion, near death, the Hollow power within me will appear. It will defeat the powerful enemy, then repair my injuries."
"However, this power cannot be controlled."
"Or rather, it appears precisely because there is a power within me that I haven't mastered."
"Once mastered, it also disappears. And regarding training for this, you can't help me."
Ichigo's Hollowfication is actually fundamentally different from the Visored's Hollowfication.
The Visored's Hollowfication, as Aizen said, breaks the boundary between Hollow and Shinigami, improving their strength.
But Ichigo's Hollowfication is just using Hollowfication as a way to take out and use the power he should already have.
The biggest proof is that Ichigo never Hollowfied again after the battle with Aizen.
Because the Hollowfied power had already been taken out and used, and consumed in Mugetsu.
Regarding complete mastery of the power within, the Visored cannot help Ichigo.
Ichigo's arrival this time wasn't for this matter.
"But if we can't help you, then why are you here?" Shinji asked strangely.
"It's for other training!" Ichigo replied.
In the original work, when Isshin taught Ichigo the Final Getsuga Tensho, he said:
All of Ichigo's power up to that point was obtained through brute force.
He hadn't, like ordinary Shinigami, meditated day and night with Zanpakuto in Zanzen, nor practiced Kido or Hakuda… his Zanjutsu goes without saying.
Ichigo merely brutally used the power obtained from his elders and various parties.
That's why Ichigo had been learning Kido all along.
But for Ichigo, Kido alone was not enough.
Without exaggeration, Ichigo's current strength had hit a bottleneck.
Earlier, the game event allowed Ichigo to obtain the Pixie Doll. That was good, but for Ichigo's strength bottleneck, it was merely adding the icing on the cake, not sending charcoal in snowy weather.
Ichigo self-estimated his current strength should be around that of the Quinto Espada, approaching the Cuatro Espada's level!
If Ichigo fought Ulquiorra now, he wouldn't be completely outmatched.
But again, that's all.
Among the Shinigami's four arts, Zanjutsu, Hakuda, Hoho, Kido… mastering Zanjutsu to the extreme can cut space, shattering worlds.
Mastering Hakuda to the extreme can fully unleash the body's strength. The Shunko mode after days and nights of accumulated body strength is even not inferior to Bankai.
Kido goes without saying.
During Aizen's Hollowfication experiment, Tessai's Kido could freeze space, reverse time.
Aside from Hoho which indeed isn't very useful, these three arts can touch the source.
However, whether it's Zanjutsu, Hakuda, or Kido, they all require time for training.
Ichigo precisely lacked time. He couldn't, in this short time, train these arts to extremely high levels!
Thinking it over, Ichigo still only had, like the original Ichigo, to rely on brute force for a breakthrough.
So now there were two paths before Ichigo.
First: Zanzen in Bankai state, to directly face Tensa Zangetsu, simultaneously tame Tensa Zangetsu and Hollow Ichigo, obtaining complete self-power.
But this training requires unprecedented great determination and perseverance.
Japanese Anime are full of bloodline theories.
Naruto's mother was a descendant of the Sage of Six Paths, his father a Hokage.
Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Mi hard-changed into the Nika Fruit, and he himself is also of a clan betrayed by history, the true Celestial Dragon.
Ichigo goes without saying: His mother a pure-blood Quincy, his father a Shiba Clan's member closest to Soul King lineage.
Seemingly, the protagonists' powers all have origins, and it's because they have origins and bloodlines that they can be so strong.
But there's one thing that isn't bloodline.
That's the protagonist's determination!
Just like the state of mind spoken of in cultivation novels, a person's determination is unchanged.
To be honest, although in the past Ichigo looked down on the original Ichigo in various ways, regarding his determination to stake everything, undergo Mugetsu training, burn everything of himself to fight Aizen, the current Ichigo cannot match it!
He didn't believe that he, having experienced nothing, could achieve such determination.
Therefore, Ichigo cannot undertake the Final Getsuga Tensho training.
And only the Final Getsuga Tensho can simultaneously tame the two powers within, achieving complete Bankai.
So the logic is stuck here.
Slow, gradual training… no time. Taking shortcuts… cannot be achieved.
With this, Ichigo could only seek an intermediate method.