The Alchemist in Bleach

"The world is here, Ichiro-sama."

What's going on here?

"To be your Zanpakuto, it is Ichiro-sama's idea to turn the world into a human being, but the world's only wish is to stay with you forever and be your Zanpakuto forever. But you don't need to worry, the world can now transform into human form at any time. However, most of the time, I hope you can allow me to accompany you in the form of a Zanpakuto."

A soft, gentle voice echoed in his mind, and Ichiro smiled helplessly, replying, "Whatever you want... whatever makes you happy..."

........

Meanwhile, what Ichiro didn't know was that as the world transformed back into a Zanpakuto, the monk Shinmei-ko, located in the Soul King Palace, turned his head and frowned as he looked at Ichiro. Just now, he had forgotten the true name of Ichiro's Zanpakuto!

I knew such a thing existed, but I had completely forgotten what it was!

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Chapter 47 Future Prospects

At this moment, Ichiro was unaware of the profound impact the world events had on the monk Shinmei. He was currently organizing his historical documents in the warehouse.

This data was extremely valuable, but also very dangerous, so Ichiro had to handle it carefully. Actually, burning it would have been the most convenient solution, but he couldn't bear to do it. So when the captain reopened the warehouse door, he saw Ichiro busily working away.

"What are you doing?" the captain asked curiously.

"Um... organizing notes..."

"My question is, why did you organize your notes? Do you think this place can still be used as a storage room after all this fuss?"

"Um... sorry, Captain, what will this place be used for in the future?"

"We'll renovate it and use it as your laboratory for future use."

Upon hearing this, Ichiro glanced at the documents in his hand, threw them on the ground, clapped his hands, and walked out of the house. Since that's the case, why bother tidying up?

Seeing this, the captain shook his head helplessly: "At least clean up these bloodstains."

"Tsk~ Alright, world, thank you for your trouble."

"Yes, sir Ichiro."

The sound of the world emanated from the Zanpakuto, accompanied by a white radiance. Wherever the radiance touched, everything was instantly transformed, as if it had just been built!

Watching the bloodstains slowly disappear in the room, the captain narrowed his eyes, said nothing, and instead looked at Ichiro's Zanpakuto, The World.

"This means... your Zanpakuto anthropomorphization experiment was a success?"

"Well, say hello to the captain, Sekai." Ichiro said softly, his left hand gently resting on the hilt of his Zanpakuto.

"Yes, Lord Ichiro." As she finished speaking, her Zanpakuto dissipated into specks of light, then reformed beside Ichiro into a girl in a white palace dress, Sekai. "Captain, nice to meet you. My name is Tenshin Sekai, and I am Lord Ichiro's 'close friend'!"

"Tenshin~ My dear friend~" The captain glanced at the embarrassed Ichiro with a half-smile and said to the world, "I am Ichiro's captain, and also a half-teacher. Don't be too polite. Don't worry, I will take good care of the girls in the team."

"team leader........"

"Haha, let's go. There are some things I need to discuss with you. The things you gave Urahara Kisuke are causing the Captain-Commander a lot of trouble." After saying that, the captain walked towards the office with a smile.

"Urahara? Did he succeed in the Mimicry Shikai? Tsk~ Troublesome. But that guy should have improved it by now..." Ichiro muttered to himself as he followed the captain after attaching his Zanpakuto, Demon Dragon, to the bottom of the World that had transformed back into a sword.

"What are the effects of personifying the Zanpakuto?" the captain asked curiously as he walked toward the office.

"It has a lot of impact." Ichiro put his hands behind his head and lazily followed behind the captain. "First of all, the Shikai can't be used anymore. The world is now an independent person. Of course, if you have to say, she can be considered a biological Zanpakuto. But the Bankai should be usable. Both she and I can use it."

"Double swastika?"

"No, only one person can use it at a time. Now I can use Bankai as long as my spiritual pressure is sufficient, but I don't think that's the reason for the Zanpakuto's anthropomorphism..."

"Hehe~ What an enviable kid. So, is there anything else?"

"Yes, the Shikai disappeared, and similarly, the period of rapid spiritual pressure growth also disappeared. However, due to my special relationship with the world, my spiritual pressure training progress with hers is superimposed. In the long run, the benefits are greater. Then there's the combat, which is more flexible. Although the world's ability to reconstruct spiritual particle structures is strong, to be honest, it's not suitable for my combat style."

Whether a reset is possible depends on the difference in spiritual pressure; only a crushing victory can maximize this. Using varied tactics involves too many factors and variables, which I cannot control.

"So that's why you forged two Zanpakuto for yourself?"

"To be precise, there is only one Flame Sparrow. The Demon Dragon was an unexpected product. The future development of Flame Sparrow will focus on the Ghost Path, maximizing its attack power to make up for my lack of firepower."

"Hmm, what about the dragon? Now that you've created it, given your personality, you shouldn't give up, right?"

"Of course, I plan to let the Zanpakuto Demon Dragon continue to run wild in the biological type, to the extreme to enhance its physical body and combat skills. At the same time, I will try to enhance its spiritual pressure self-recovery ability as much as possible. Ideally, it should still have strong and lasting combat power even after it is no longer supplied by my spiritual pressure!"

Finally, I'm planning to research Fullbring, but unfortunately there aren't many resources available at the school. Does the captain have any connections?

The captain stopped and turned back curiously, asking, "Fullbringer, how did you come up with the idea of ​​learning that?"

"During this Zanpakuto anthropomorphization experiment, I lost a certain ability, which has significantly interfered with my future research. Therefore, I plan to try to regain a similar ability through Fullbring."

"Is that so? There aren't many records of Fullbring in the Seireitei, and we don't have any training materials either. You should study it on your own first, but don't learn it randomly. I'll think of a way for you."

"I will keep that in mind, Captain."

"Hmm, besides these, is there anything else?" The captain looked at Ichiro expectantly.

“There’s one last thing. I’m going to take a break from my swordsmanship training for a while!” Ichiro lowered his hands from behind his head and looked at his captain seriously. “Although those aren’t real lives, they’re no different from real flesh and blood. After spending two months in such a bloody environment, my mind is definitely going to be messed up!”

If it were normal kendo, it would be fine, as it has the effect of purifying the mind. But I remember what the captain said: since I don't have the talent to practice kendo, I will specialize in the swordsmanship of killing! So I think that I am not suitable to practice swordsmanship right now. I plan to devote all my energy to the research of Kido and Kaido.

"Once the pent-up violence within me is completely purified, I'll resume learning swordsmanship from you, Captain. Perfect timing; my two mimic Zanpakuto also need time to be optimized."

"Clap clap~" The captain clapped her hands in satisfaction. As expected of the disciple she had chosen, although she didn't know how Ichiro had suppressed the violence in his heart and made himself look perfectly normal.

But her past experience told the captain that this was impossible. Even she would develop a strong bloodlust if she stayed in that kind of environment for two months!

So even if Ichiro didn't say anything, she would order him to stop practicing swordsmanship, not even basic daily practice. However, to her relief, Ichiro did not disappoint her.

"Not bad, you've thought of that, but it's not enough. I don't know how you deal with those negative emotions, but I imagine you only suppressed them and didn't completely eliminate them. So from now on, you will still come to the Fourth Division for two hours of training every day, not for sword practice, but to release the suppression and wholeheartedly practice sword Zen."

"But Captain, my sword technique..."

"It's alright, I'll guide you. You'll definitely enter the Sword Zen realm smoothly..."

"Gulp~" Looking at the captain's utterly benevolent face, Ichiro unconsciously swallowed. The life he longed for seemed to be slipping away from him...

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Chapter Forty-Eight: A Get-Out-of-Death Token?! My life is over!

After the captain led Ichiro into the office, he took a document from a nearby cabinet and handed it to him. As he sat down, he said, "A while ago, Kisuke Urahara submitted a research paper to me about Mimicry Initial Release. He said you were the main creator, so what's your opinion? To popularize it, or to keep it completely secret?"

After speaking, the captain sat quietly in his chair and looked at Ichiro. This was no small matter. The appearance of the Mimic Shikai and Mimic Zanpakuto, once widespread, would completely shatter the balance that the Captain-Commander had worked so hard to establish.

It's very simple. The combination of Mimic Shikai and Mimic Zanpakuto depends solely on resources. If you have enough resources, you'll have enough power!

Talent accounts for a very small percentage, or even almost none!

This would be a fatal blow to civilians!

Even though Urahara has modified it so that it can be released together with the normal Shikai, it still has no effect on the nobles. On the contrary, it enhances the power of the noble Shinigami.

After all, ordinary people don't have the financial resources to build a second source of spiritual energy...

Ichiro understood this principle as well, although the previous Soul Burial course had changed his impression of the Seireitei.

But these are two different things!

The Seireitei has indeed done a good job for the world as a whole, and many of its measures are aimed at maintaining the balance between the Soul Society and the human world, but this has nothing to do with the current situation.

Seireitei is essentially an aristocratic society!

Moreover, they were the arrogant type of nobles, which was somewhat harmful to the current Seireitei. That's why the Captain-Commander established the Shinigami Academy and vigorously promoted commoner Shinigami in order to prevent the nobles from seizing power!

The Captain-Commander knows the nobles too well. Ichiro may not know the Soul Society nobles as well as the Captain-Commander, but he has read a lot of novels. As long as he makes the worst-case scenario deduction, there won't be too much of a deviation in matters concerning the nobles.

However, even so, Ichiro still wanted to popularize the ability of mimicry initial release!

This is because it can indeed maximize the power of the Grim Reaper. As Grim Reapers are, their strength is naturally the greater the better. The stronger the Grim Reaper's power, the less damage the Hollow energy causes, and the safer the humans in the mortal world will be.

When poor, one should cultivate one's own virtue; when successful, one should benefit all under heaven!

but.......

“Now is not the time.” Ichiro put down the documents and looked at the captain.

"Isn't it the right time? So, you're determined to make it widespread?" The captain pressed her brow. From her perspective, she certainly didn't want it to be widespread, because it would disrupt the Captain-Commander's plans.

It would be destroyed eventually. She knew very well how firmly the nobility held sway in the Seireitei. At the same time, she also knew that once this thing became widespread, it would inevitably put Ichiro in the spotlight.

Too dangerous.

"Yes, because this would greatly enhance the power of Death and allow it to better protect the mortal world. However, it's not the right time yet; there's still a lot of work to be done."

"I believe in you. Tell me your thoughts. If it's feasible, we'll do our best to assist you. If it's not feasible, I hope you won't resent us." With a sigh, the captain crossed his hands and slightly covered his chin.

"Don't worry, I've already thought it through. It's quite feasible. First of all, what's being popularized is only the ability to mimic the initial solution, not the technology of mimic the initial solution."

The captain narrowed his eyes and said, "Just like a Zanpakuto?"

"Yes, but there is no shortage of talented people in this world. It is possible that someone can deduce the technology from the finished product. So we need to make two preparations. First, we need to collect all the main materials available on the market and hand them over to the Spirit King Palace for safekeeping and to make a second spiritual energy source with initial attributes. Like the Zanpakuto, it will be distributed by the Thirteen Teams."

Considering that some materials may not be entirely controllable, a backup plan is needed. In future optimizations of this technology, a material unique to the Spirit King's Palace will be added as the primary ingredient to fundamentally eliminate the possibility of such activities! I believe the Zero Division, with its special status, wouldn't be distributing these things to nobles on a large scale.

"Hmm... In that case, we'll be using the Zanpakuto model entirely." The captain nodded. Indeed, this would minimize the impact, but...

"Optimize? Kisuke Urahara should have already optimized this technology to its limit, right? Is there any core material that can be added to it?"

"There is still a direction. Indeed, Urahara's development of the Double Shikai is truly amazing. To be honest, I didn't even think of that. However, this is only one direction. In fact, even at this stage, this technology is still only a semi-finished product."

The captain frowned, then suddenly asked, "You mean compatibility?"

"Yes, the current mimicry initial release technology can only be customized, and its efficiency is far too low. Using such a thing for widespread application would be a joke. Therefore, the next step is to create a universal second spiritual energy source like Asauchi. In this process, we can develop around the materials unique to the Spirit King Palace. Coincidentally, the Spirit King Palace has this material..."

Ichiro looked at the captain quietly, a confident smile on his face. He had considered all these things, and that was why he was thinking about popularization.

"There's still one problem: how do you ensure that this technology won't leak out of the Spirit King Palace? You know, the Spirit King Palace is independent of our Thirteen Teams. We have no right to regulate what they do."

"..." Ichiro fell silent. He truly hadn't figured out a solution to this problem, or rather, he hadn't even considered it...

Because he couldn't possibly popularize this thing when his own strength was insufficient. What if one day his enemy used it to kill him with a single blow? That would be quite a sight...

So in Ichiro's plan, even if this thing were to become widespread, it wouldn't be for several hundred years, at least until Aizen defected. Or, he could find an opportunity to kill Aizen beforehand, which would also speed up the process. But for now, let's just forget about it and go to sleep...

Seeing that Ichiro did not answer, the captain smiled. Now she found Ichiro more and more pleasing to the eye, just like a mother-in-law. For her now, as long as Ichiro did not make empty promises and take on the task directly, he was already a perfect 10!

If she takes it on, that's a 90% chance; she'll be looking forward to Ichiro's next move...

Seeing Ichiro's silence, the captain smiled and took out a box heavily sealed with Kido from the drawer, handing it to Ichiro.

"What is this?" Ichiro asked curiously.

"The key I told you about before, it's essential for joining the Zero Squad," the captain said softly.