Under everyone's astonished gaze, the thought entity of Masaki, following Ichigo's command, separated from Grand Fisher!
Masaki's spirit form materialized!
She smiled gently: "Ichigo, you've grown up so much!"
The tenderness and feeling of love that a true mother could possess made everyone who saw Kurosaki Masaki instantly certain that this was indeed her!
And not the Hollow impersonating her!
"It can be done like this?" The live stream audience was utterly surprised!
"This is the greatness of a mother's love! Even if only a trace remains, she will still protect her son!"
"Just like those mothers who hold up the ceiling during an earthquake, lift their children against all physiological instincts when drowning, or single-handedly lift a one-ton car during a crash!"
Everyone was deeply moved by the motherly love, sighing with emotion repeatedly.
But while the live stream audience was moved, on the other side, Grand Fisher was terrified!
"Damn it... you, how is this possible!"
Looking at Masaki before it, Grand Fisher found it hard to believe.
Dead food was suddenly attacking it!
It didn't understand why the food it had devoured could remain inside it in some form it was completely unaware of, and still possess power!
But Grand Fisher had no time to concern itself with that now.
Losing the image that constrained its external form, Grand Fisher's human body, compressed to the extreme, suddenly began to expand!
The original Grand Fisher appeared on the spot!
But due to the sudden gigantification of its body, the desperate attack Grand Fisher had launched against Ichigo also began to dissipate!
The hasty counterattack vanished. Before Ichigo, Grand Fisher was as vulnerable as a completely unprotected girl!
Controlled by Masaki, Grand Fisher's entire body stiffened!
At that moment, Ichigo, who had nimbly avoided the disintegrating long hairs and moved with extreme speed, finally arrived.
"GETSU! GA! TEN! SHO!"
Pouring all his remaining Reiatsu into it, Ichigo unleashed his strongest attack!
A massive Getsuga Tensho, large enough to cover nearly half a basketball court, accurately struck Grand Fisher.
Reiryoku at the level of the 5th Seat alone wasn't enough to break Grand Fisher's Hierro.
However, Ichigo had added another power this time!
Pitch-black Reiatsu covered the sharpest part of the blade!
Under this layer of black Reiatsu, Grand Fisher's defense melted away like winter snow meeting the spring sun!
Struck by the Getsuga Tensho, a large portion of Grand Fisher's body completely vanished!
A massive masked head fell to the ground!
The remaining mouth of Grand Fisher was still asking Ichigo, "I don't understand... why can the food I've eaten still resist me? It should have been completely digested!"
"Hmph!" Ichigo snorted coldly. "I told you, true bonds can transcend everything! And you don't need to understand this!"
After saying this, Ichigo raised his large foot and stomped Grand Fisher's remaining body to pieces!
The game's notification arrived!
[Awakening Quest Completed. Reiatsu beginning to increase!]
5th Seat, 4th Seat, 3rd Seat, Lieutenant!
In just one week, Ichigo, who was just an ordinary person when he first entered, had already raised his strength to the level of a Lieutenant!
Which was also the highest level available for initial identity selection!
This proved that true strength isn't limited by one's initial identity!
"My god, is this a rocket ride?" People watching this scene were completely dumbfounded.
It was fortunate that players in the game couldn't know each other's situations.
Otherwise, if this were a normal online game, and Ichigo flaunted these achievements outside, a flame war would probably erupt the next moment!
And Ichigo's greatest harvest wasn't simply the increase in Reiatsu!
As mentioned before, constant longing evokes a response!
Moving his foot that had crushed Grand Fisher, Ichigo looked down!
There, on the originally empty ground, a small fragment of a white Hollow mask had appeared at some point!
Ichigo bent down and picked up the fragment.
The next moment, in Ichigo's hand, this small mask fragment actually transformed into a portion of black Reiryoku!
Then this portion of black Reiryoku, like water, merged into Ichigo's body!
For some reason this time, Masaki's power was far stronger than in the original work, so she left something for Ichigo!
This was… a portion of the Reiryoku seed from White, the Hollow within Ichigo!
Due to Ichigo's power composition, which is a tug-of-war between Shinigami, Hollow, and Quincy powers-
After seizing Rukia's Reiryoku, the Quincy power became unbalanced and overflowed.
So, strictly speaking, only the original Ichigo's Bankai plus Hollowfication state is his true combat form, which means simultaneously utilizing both Shinigami and Hollow powers.
It's just that, unlike the Visored, the powers inside Ichigo's body are constantly in conflict, so the Hollowfication state cannot remain stable, lasting only a dozen seconds or so.
But now...