Kurosaki Ichigo was slightly taken aback. Looking down, he saw that the black-haired girl's Zanpakuto had already pierced into his body.

Hey! What are you doing!

Kurosaki Ichigo was shocked; why did this woman suddenly stab him?

However, the next moment he felt a spiritual pressure different from that of the Quincy surge into his body.

Under the influence of the Shinigami's spiritual pressure, a hidden power within Ichigo Kurosaki was awakened, unleashing a powerful spiritual pressure.

When he came to his senses, he found himself holding a broad-bladed Zanpakuto.

Chapter 446 Serious Crime

"I've become Death!"

Ichigo Kurosaki was surprised by his own changes.

After absorbing the spiritual pressure of the apprentice Shinigami, his soul suddenly left his body.

Moreover, he now wields a Zanpakuto and wears a new Shinigami outfit.

"Strange, would transferring spiritual pressure to a Quincy turn them into a Shinigami?"

The black-haired girl was also full of surprise. She originally only wanted to transfer her spiritual pressure to this Quincy boy so that he could hold on a little longer until the reinforcements arrived, but instead she turned into a Shinigami.

Moreover, his Zanpakuto form is also very strange; the thick blade proves that this sword is definitely not an ordinary asuna form.

Before she could think any further, the black-haired girl felt a strong sense of weakness wash over her, even more severe than the weakness she usually felt when her spiritual pressure was overexerted.

At this moment, the shadowy figure returned to the two of them.

Ichigo Kurosaki doesn't know how to use the power of a Shinigami, but he can use spiritual pressure.

His spiritual pressure surged within him, and he instinctively focused it onto the blade.

"drink--!"

Kurosaki Ichigo roared and unleashed a spiritual pressure slash at the shadowy figure.

The power of this slash far exceeded the spiritual pressure impact of the previous punch; the black shadow was directly blasted into fragments and dissipated in the air.

"You fought, and won?"

The black-haired girl was stunned; what was happening before her eyes was completely beyond her expectations.

She transferred her spiritual pressure to the Quincy, hoping to give him more time to hold on and wait for the reinforcements he spoke of to arrive.

As it turned out, he ended up taking care of the enemy himself.

"Your Zanpakuto is quite powerful..." Kurosaki Ichigo turned his head and saw the black-haired girl's pale face, then remembered that she was seriously injured. He quickly said, "Let me treat your wounds!"

Ichigo Kurosaki returned to his human body, took out a spirit tool from his spirit space pocket, and bandaged the black-haired girl's wounds.

"Are you a student of Bleach?" Ichigo Kurosaki was curious about the world of Bleach.

"Yes, I'm Rukia Kuchiki, a graduating student from the Shinigami Academy." Rukia felt this Quincy wasn't a bad person, so she told him her name. "If nothing unexpected happens, I'll become a Shinigami after I return to Soul Society..."

"I am Kurosaki Ichigo, a Quincy..." Kurosaki Ichigo scratched his head, "Wait, I'm a Quincy with a Zanpakuto now?"

"By the way! You'd better not use your Zanpakuto in front of other Shinigami, it might cause us trouble..." Rukia Kuchiki said with a helpless expression. "I just wanted to replenish your spiritual pressure, but I ended up transferring the power of a Shinigami to you instead."

Rukia Kuchiki had learned about the history of the Quincy from history books. The Shinigami and the Quincy were actually enemies, and there had been several large-scale wars between them!

Now she has given a Quincy the power of a Shinigami, and she doesn't even dare to imagine how much of a shock this will cause if it gets back to Soul Society.

"I must not let my teacher's reputation be damaged!" Rukia Kuchiki thought to herself.

The teacher is the captain of the Gotei 13, and she doesn't want her to cause criticism because of her own affairs.

"Will using my Zanpakuto cause you trouble?" Kurosaki Ichigo understood Kuchiki Rukia's concerns and readily agreed, "Then I won't use it. Anyway, I'm a Quincy!"

"Just make sure the other Shinigami don't see your Zanpakuto."

Rukia breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Ichigo Kurosaki readily agreed.

"What's going on? Even after taking the Spirit Gathering Pill, my spiritual pressure hasn't recovered..."

Rukia felt the spiritual pressure within her body, completely baffled.

She had just taken a Spirit Pill, but her spiritual pressure showed no signs of recovery.

Just then, a figure suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, startling them both.

"The Shinigami Captain?" Kurosaki Ichigo, having been taught by his elders and knowing some common knowledge about the Soul Society, recognized the iconic captain's haori.

The Shinigami captain who suddenly appeared was Lisa Yadomaru, the captain of the 10th Division.

"Lisa! What brings you here?"

Rukia felt a little guilty when she saw Lisa.

Ichigo Kurosaki was still there, and she was a little afraid that Lisa would notice Ichigo Kurosaki's Shinigami powers.

"The Grim Reaper from the Technology Development Bureau told me that the graduating class of the Spirit Arts Academy is in trouble, so I came to check on them." Lisa came to Rukia and used her magic to heal her injuries.

The Technology Development Bureau records changes in spiritual pressure waves in the present world.

Karakura Town, a place of great spiritual energy, is a key focus of the Technology Development Bureau. After Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a Shinigami, his spiritual pressure will change accordingly, and all these changes in spiritual pressure fluctuations will be recorded by the Technology Development Bureau's spiritual pressure detectors.

The 10th Division is currently in charge of maintaining order in the modern world, so after the Technology Development Bureau detected the abnormal spiritual pressure here, they reported the anomaly to Lisa.

“Your spiritual pressure is a bit strange…” Lisa suddenly looked up and stared at the orange-haired boy beside her. “Why do you have Rukia’s spiritual pressure residue on you?”

"No!" Rukia was so shocked that her heart almost jumped out of her chest. In her panic, she blurted out, "I absolutely did not transmit my spiritual pressure to him!"

"You transferred the power of death to a human?" Lisa's face darkened. "That's a serious crime!"

“We’ve encountered a formidable enemy, and we really have no other choice…” Rukia quickly added, remembering the identity revealed by the shadowy figure, “Oh, right, the enemy also claims to be Yhwach, the King of the Quincy!”

“How could that be? Yhwach was eliminated by the teacher more than a decade ago.” Lisa was skeptical.

"Although I don't know if that guy is the Quincy King, I'm certain he's a very strong Quincy. I can't even control the spiritual particles in the outside world in front of him," Ichigo Kurosaki said.

"He's a Quincy?" Lisa looked at Rukia with a helpless expression. "So you passed on the power of a Shinigami to a Quincy?"

"She did this to save others!" Ichigo Kurosaki asked. "Is there a way to return the power of the Shinigami to her? If so, I'm willing to return it to her!"

“There’s no way to do that.” Lisa shook her head and said, “Since things have come to this, Rukia, you shouldn’t go back to Soul Society yet. Your spiritual pressure has changed too much. If you go back to Soul Society, others will find out about the problem. Stay in the human world for a while and wait until your spiritual pressure recovers before we talk about it again.”

Ichigo Kurosaki didn't want Rukia to be punished for this, and seeing that the Shinigami captain didn't intend to question Rukia, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Can my spiritual pressure recover?" Rukia asked, voicing the problem she had just discovered. "I took a Spirit Absorption Pill, but there's no sign of my spiritual pressure recovering!"

“This is different from ordinary spiritual pressure loss. You transferred the power of a Shinigami to a human, which is equivalent to losing that power. It will take a relatively long time to recover,” Lisa explained. “I will find someone to help you make a special artificial body that can help you recover your spiritual pressure. You should stay in the human world and return to Soul Society after your spiritual pressure recovers.”

"Thank you, Lisa!" Rukia breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that there was a way to solve the problem.

“I never expected you to encounter something like this during your graduation assessment. I should have led the team here myself.” Lisa ruffled Rukia’s onion-shaped hair.

"A Quincy boy." Lisa looked at Ichigo Kurosaki with a meaningful smile. "I'll be leaving Rukia in your care for a while!"

Chapter 447 The Truth

Lisa told Rukia to stay in the human world until she recovered her spiritual pressure before returning to Soul Society, so that no one would notice anything unusual.

After Rukia and Ichigo Kurosaki left, the group of Shinigami and Spirit Arts Academy students lying on the ground disappeared.

At the same time, three figures appeared in front of Lisa: Shikatori Nanatsuki, Aizen Sousuke, and Kurosaki Isshin.

Everything that just happened was an illusion!

Even Rukia's injuries were caused by Aizen Sousuke manipulating her senses to make her believe she was seriously injured.

“My acting was pretty good, wasn’t it?” Lisa pushed up her glasses. “They didn’t notice anything amiss at all.”

"It's perfect, without a single flaw." July nodded gently.

"I'm so sorry to have troubled you all so much for what Ichigo and I did!" Kurosaki Isshin scratched the back of his head, looking ashamed.

"Why say such things between fellow disciples!" Lisa gently shook her head. "It's only been a little over ten years, and you've already become an old man. If we don't help you regain your power soon, you might be an old man the next time we meet!"

The current Isshin Kurosaki is no longer the handsome young man he once was, but a middle-aged man with a full beard.

After he lost his power as a Grim Reaper, his spirit fused with his special prosthetic body, and now he is almost like an ordinary human who can see souls. Even the aging of his prosthetic body is reflected in his spirit.

Isshin Kurosaki's Shinigami power is actually within Ichigo Kurosaki, suppressing Hollow White. Nanatsu believes that Ichigo Kurosaki has now grown to the point where he can withstand Hollow White's power and no longer needs to suppress it. Therefore, he plans to help Isshin Kurosaki reclaim his Shinigami power.

Besides helping Isshin Kurosaki regain his Shinigami powers, there was an even more important reason.

In July, we need to train Kurosaki Ichigo to the limit of Quincy and complete the 'Path of Transcendence'.

The Hollow White within Ichigo Kurosaki has long been a part of him. Suppressing this power will also affect his own growth. If this power can be awakened, Ichigo Kurosaki's spiritual pressure is very likely to experience an explosive increase.

However, even Isshin Kurosaki himself could not actively withdraw the Shinigami power used to suppress Hollow White. He would need to make some arrangements to remove the suppression on Hollow White.

“The ‘Hogyoku shards’ within Rukia’s Ghoul will gradually awaken the Hollow power within Ichigo. If we arrange some ‘plot’ to put some pressure on him, the Hollow power within him will take the opportunity to break free of its restraints. In this way, the power suppressing the Hollow power will return to Isshin,” Aizen Sousuke said slowly.

The events of tonight were designed to allow Ichigo Kurosaki to be in prolonged contact with the 'Hogyoku shards'. The Hogyoku grants the wishes of those around him, and Hollow White's wish was to escape the suppression of Isshin Kurosaki's Shinigami power.

“Hmm… If Rukia is to return to Soul Society to be punished, Ichigo will definitely go to Soul Society to save her. There are many powerful beings in Soul Society, so it won’t be easy for him to rescue Rukia!” Kurosaki Isshin, as a father, understands his son’s personality very well, but he is still a little worried. “But can Ichigo really master the power of Hollows?”

"Don't worry." July patted Kurosaki Isshin on the shoulder and continued, "Ichigo has great talent and a good temperament. He can definitely control this power."

"With a teacher in charge, what kind of trouble can Ichigo's Hollows cause?" Lisa smiled as she thought about what Ichigo was about to face. "But this kid is definitely going to suffer a bit!"

......

Ichigo Kurosaki brought Rukia back to the front of the Kurosaki Clinic, but hesitated to go inside.

"What's wrong?" Rukia asked curiously. "Isn't this your home?"

"I'm having a hard time explaining to my family why I brought a strange girl home late at night!" Kurosaki Ichigo was already scratching his head in frustration.

“Are you a student in the real world? You could say I’m your classmate,” Rukia suggested.

"Even if she's a classmate, it's still weird!" Ichigo Kurosaki rolled his eyes. "Bringing a female classmate home at night is a weird thing, okay?"

Suddenly, the door opened, and a head with short brown hair peeked out.

Kurosaki Yuuko stared at Rukia for a while, then pulled her head back inside. Then came her exclamation from inside the house: "Oh no! My brother brought his girlfriend home!"

"Yūzō! She's not my girlfriend!" Ichigo Kurosaki rushed inside to stop his sister from talking nonsense.

"They seem to be a very energetic family!" Rukia was somewhat envious of Ichigo Kurosaki's family atmosphere.

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