The Alchemist in Bleach

Ichiro smiled and replied, "Don't worry, teacher, I know what I'm doing."

Yamada looked at Ichiro quietly for a moment, then sighed, "I understand. Be careful. get out of class dismissed."

After saying that, he turned and left. He still needed to heal his injuries. Ichiro, in a state of absolute rationality, would not hold back.

"Are you alright?" Urahara and Yoruichi stepped forward and asked with concern.

Having just emerged from a state of absolute rationality, Ichiro was extremely sensitive to emotions. Feeling a warmth in his heart, he replied, "Don't worry, although my state isn't complete, I'm protected by spiritual power, so I'll be fine."

"That's good. Let's go eat."

"Ah."

……

Ichiro lied to Urahara. After the fight, he actually had something to do. He had a large number of muscle strains all over his body. In a state of absolute rationality, his muscle power would be fully unleashed, and every blow would cause some damage to his body. His spiritual power was not enough to completely protect him, which was different from his previous life.

In his previous life, he was skilled in iron forging. After becoming a State Alchemist, he also became involved in human transmutation. The combination of the two allowed him to temporarily transform into the legendary copper-skinned iron-boned body, enabling him to unleash the most ferocious moves in military combat techniques.

However, his alchemy skills are not up to the level of his previous life. He cannot even perform metal transmutation, let alone human transmutation.

Because everything in Soul Society is made of spirit particles, his transmutation circle from his previous life is ineffective in Soul Society, and he needs to rewrite the transmutation circle.

Alchemists rely primarily on transmutation circles to achieve their transmutations; different substances and different alchemists correspond to different transmutation circles.

In other words, Ichiro's alchemy can actually be called spirit particle alchemy, which means that in order to complete the reconstruction of copper skin and iron bones, he has to add the spirit particle part.

The difficulty increases exponentially!

However, this is still very necessary. The combat power in the Bleach world is very high, which raises the upper limit of the fighting techniques in the Fullmetal Alchemist world. What he needs to do now is to learn the part of the Hakuda (hand-to-hand combat) in the Bleach world that combines spiritual power.

He believed that when he united the powers of the two worlds, his power would experience a qualitative leap!

However, this battle also made him realize his problem: he must never start with absolute rationality when using martial arts...

Urahara and Yoruichi, who were walking ahead, exchanged a glance and ultimately decided to ignore Ichiro's occasional twitches. Since he didn't want to talk about it, they naturally wouldn't press him.

……

The next day, the first swordsmanship lesson gave Ichiro a big surprise: Asahi had already finished!

Asauchi, invented by the sword god Nimaiya Ohetsu, is the core power that enabled the establishment of the Shinigami system and the initial form of Zanpakuto.

If we're talking about what's most captivating about Bleach, aside from the cool spells of Kido, the number one thing is undoubtedly the Zanpakuto!

Ichiro had been keeping an eye on Zanpakuto information in Rukongai over the years, but unfortunately, these things were very rare in Rukongai, especially in the relatively peaceful First District.

Therefore, he was very happy to receive the Asauchi so early in the semester. The main reason for distributing Asauchi so early was to allow students to develop their own Zanpakuto sooner. Although they might not be able to unleash their true names, what if they were?

What if a genius emerges who possesses extraordinary talent solely in Zanpakuto?

Whether we'll catch any fish or not is another matter, but the net's already cast...

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Chapter Five One Year Later

Time flies, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye. During this year, Ichiro has become best friends with Urahara Yoruichi and the others. The two of them revealed the base they had secretly built to Ichiro, and Ichiro also told them about his alchemy, but he said that it came from the human world. Ichiro intentionally or unintentionally leaned this ability towards Fullbring, so Urahara didn't suspect anything.

Of course, he still didn't mention that he could make spiritual food that directly increases spiritual pressure. This thing was too extraordinary and was destined to be a secret that could only rot inside his stomach.

However, Ichiro's interpersonal relationships in this year were limited to this. Unlike Ichiro, the others, although they had lived for decades or even centuries, did not seem to have grown mentally. Ichiro also showed signs of this. However, since he had already grown before he transmigrated, there was still a significant generation gap between him and the others, and their relationships remained only as classmates.

In terms of strength, Ichiro had almost finished learning all the knowledge of the first to third year of the Shinigami Academy, except for swordsmanship, and his spiritual pressure had also reached the level of a general seated officer with the help of alchemical spiritual food.

The only thing that Ichiro regrets is that although he loves swordsmanship, he has no talent for it. His swordsmanship is still no different from that of a beginner. Perhaps because of this, the release of his Zanpakuto is still a long way off.

However, Ichiro's talent in Kido is exceptional. He has mastered all Kido below number 30 and can even break the incantation. He has taught all Kido above number 10 on his own!

This terrifying talent almost scared Urahara to death; this was all self-taught! He and Yoruichi only achieved such rapid progress because their clans had dedicated teachers.

If you can learn to grade 30 by yourself, and you skip grades, you'll probably reach grade 50.

Of course, due to Ichiro's appearance, the timeline changed somewhat. Although Urahara's Kido was not as abnormal as Ichiro's, he also learned Kido up to number 30 and the breaking incantation of number 20 and below.

While he is slightly inferior to Ichiro in terms of Kido (the way of the devil), he far surpasses Ichiro in swordsmanship. This guy has already completed his Shikai and, after Ichiro's "unintentional" reminder, is currently researching convenient ways to perform Bankai in the original work.

In other aspects, they are similar to Ichiro. Their spiritual pressure was already high before they enrolled, and after receiving Ichiro's high-quality spiritual food, their spiritual pressure increased even more rapidly.

Yoruichi's overall situation is similar to theirs, but her Hakuda and Shunpo are far superior to theirs, making her the strongest overall, followed by Urahara, and then Ichiro...

However, not many people in the academy knew their true strength, and they had no intention of skipping grades. To be precise, Urahara and Ichiro had no intention of skipping grades; Yoruichi was simply accompanying them.

Just kidding, what else do you get besides a genius title and a life of being a corporate slave after graduating early?

You get nothing. Those resources may seem like a reward, but they're just pre-allocated. Once you're strong enough, they'll still be yours.

Therefore, after being persuaded by Ichiro, Urahara decided to stay with him at the Shinigami Academy and never graduate until six years later!

The college provides meals and accommodation, and you have complete freedom to arrange your time outside of class. You can even dawdle in class and ask the teacher questions if you encounter any problems. Isn't that great?

Why are you in such a hurry to graduate?

It's not like you're out of your mind!

……

"Hiss~ Ah~ Urahara, what time is it?" In the dormitory, Ichiro gasped for breath and pressed his temples hard as he struggled to get up from the ground.

Yesterday, after their exams, Class 3 had a party and drank all night. Since they had already been reassigned to different classes based on their past grades, most of the students would be scattered.

So even though they weren't very close, Ichiro and the others still went, since they were classmates after all, and then they got really drunk...

"Ha~ How should I know? Ouch~ My head hurts so much! What's there to be afraid of? Today's a holiday, classes don't officially start until tomorrow..." Urahara rubbed his head, then fell back down halfway up.

This is another difference in the True Spiritual Arts Academy. It is not an ordinary school, so there are no holidays. At most, students are given one or two days to relax before starting a new round of studies.

This place is less like a school and more like a military unit with relatively lax rules.

"What if you oversleep?" As he spoke, a pillow flew towards Urahara. "Quickly use Kido to check. Didn't you develop a Kido that records time?"

"Pfft~"

"..." After a moment of silence, Urahara silently raised his hand and moved the pillow covering his face, saying weakly, "Damn it, that's not how you use Kido..."

However, despite saying that, Urahara's hand still involuntarily unleashed this Kido technique.

A flash of blue light appeared, and Urahara continued sleeping, head down. "Class tomorrow..."

"That's good……"

"Pfft~"

Upon hearing this news, Ichiro instantly felt relieved and collapsed into the blankets. Tomorrow would be the first day of their second year, and in addition, they would be going to the mortal world for their first Soul Burial training!

Starting from the second year, training in the real world was incorporated into their curriculum. Second-year and third-year students underwent training in the soul burial of the "whole" in the real world, the only difference being the level of the spiritual land, which is the probability of the virtual appearance.

Starting from his fourth reincarnation, he will undergo Hollow-killing training. Among them, Ichiro is most interested in the Soul Burial practice in the real world, because he will be going to the human world, and he can test whether his alchemy from his previous life can work.

Logically speaking, it should be possible, because the present world is not composed of spiritual particles; at least most of the matter is the same.

If the transmutation array from his previous life could be used, it would greatly benefit his research in alchemy.

"Whoosh! Bang!"

"You two... how long are you going to sleep?!"

Suddenly, the dormitory door was flung open, and Yoruichi shouted loudly.

"Ha~ No classes today, I'll sleep a little longer..."

"School doesn't start until tomorrow, what's the rush... no rush..."

After saying that, the two turned over and went back to sleep.

Yoruichi, standing at the door, twitched her brow, took a deep breath, exhaled, and expressionlessly extended her right hand, palm facing the two of them, and began to rapidly chant:

"You ruler! Masks of flesh and blood, all things, wings that take flight, things bearing the name of humankind! Scorching heat and strife..."

"Holy crap!" x2

Ichiro and Urahara instantly regained their senses and, without having time to react, smashed the window and escaped!

"...Sweeping southwards across the sea, advancing step by step! Hado #31: Crimson Fire Cannon!"

"boom!!!"

"Hey! We'd be dead if we were any later!"

"Exactly! And you have to pay for any damage to the dorm room!"

"It's okay, money is the last thing I lack. Hurry up and get ready, we have a party today."

Ichiro scratched his head and asked curiously, "Anything else? With whom?"

"New classmate, barring any unforeseen circumstances, we should all be in the same class for the next five years, so someone suggested we get together first."

"What's the point of getting together? Honestly."

"Then why were you already dressed?" Ichiro ruthlessly exposed Urahara's lie.

"Aren't you too?"

"I didn't say I wasn't going."

"Alright, you two, let's go."

"Oh~" x2

In the new year, thanks to their efforts in controlling their exam scores and the small but significant help from the Shihouin family, the three of them remained in the same class, albeit in Class 3—a number that made Ichiro somewhat sensitive…

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Chapter Six: Journey to the Present World

"A year has passed, and I've actually gotten more handsome again! Ugh, what a mess!"

The next morning, Ichiro, as usual, stood in front of the mirror tidying his clothes, as narcissistic as ever.

"Hey~ Hey~ You're the most handsome, the most handsome in the world. Once you're done tidying up, move aside." Urahara pushed Ichiro aside with a look of disgust.

They didn't have too much fun at yesterday's gathering, since they weren't very close, and Ichiro, who had lived two lives, wanted to live more carefree in this one; having too many friends was too tiring...

So he didn't say much the whole time, just sat quietly in the corner, echoing them, and then left with them.

There was little interaction throughout, and the others showed little interest in him, this commoner who had "climbed" to a higher social status. After trying to strike up a conversation a couple of times without getting a response, they all walked away on their own.

"Hurry up, you're so slow, Urahara." Ichiro, having finished tidying his clothes, leaned against the doorway, impatiently urging Urahara on.