Inner World.
White smiled and greeted Ichigo,
"Yo, King! Thanks for the nurturing. What a pity… if I had come out a bit earlier, Rukia definitely wouldn't have been taken away by that Kuchiki Byakuya!"
Then, White jumped down from the skyscraper.
"To thank you, King, could you please hand over your body to me?"
As he spoke, terrifying Hollow power condensed into a massive Zangetsu blade on White.
Then, White stepped towards Ichigo.
However, looking at White, Ichigo completely ignored him!
Confirming that his game system worked as long as his consciousness was clear, Ichigo looked at the nearby Old Man Zangetsu.
"Old Man Zangetsu, could you please suppress him for a while?"
"Of course, Ichigo!" Old Man Zangetsu nodded. With a sweep of his trench coat, he enveloped a very unwilling White.
But after suppressing the newly emerged White, Old Man Zangetsu, who had agreed readily, then looked at Ichigo, his tone revealing some weakness:
"Ichigo, although I suppressed him, now is when your power is at its weakest. I cannot suppress him for long."
"The relationship between the King and the Steed lies in taming. Sooner or later, you will need to fight him!"
Hearing Old Man Zangetsu's words, Ichigo smiled: "It's fine, Old Man Zangetsu. Just help me suppress him for a little while is enough!"
Ichigo only needed a short time anyway.
Because his game system was still usable.
Opening the game coin shop option, Ichigo thought: 'Game, I need a custom enemy. Make me a White!'
Faced with a disobedient steed, don't blame Ichigo for having no martial virtue.
Spending game coins, Ichigo began the topic of 'King and Steed' in advance within the illusory space!
And after obtaining these 14 billion game coins, Ichigo's personal Zanpakuto plan was already one-sixth complete! (T/N: It seems the Author made a mistake. Before, it's written that new Zanpakuto needs 600 Billion, but now, just after 14 billion, it's already one-sixth, which meant it's just less than 100 Billion.)
Next, he needed to find five more such absolutely-not-lethal opportunities and have others bet game coins on him!
But for now...
"Hahaha, King, let's fight!" The system-simulated, highly accurate White spun Zangetsu and charged forward!
"My power, submit to me properly!"
Also swinging his blade, Ichigo met him!
The sound of clang clang clang once again echoed in the constructed space!
After a great battle, Ichigo fell asleep directly, happily forging iron in his dreams.
But while Ichigo was having a good time, the Soul Society was once again in turmoil because of Rukia's affair!
Soul Society.
In a player's live stream.
"Hello everyone, the man before you is called Xiao Shuai!" (T/N: His name means Little Handsome.)
"Of course, you don't need to know my real name… just call me Xiao Shuai!"
Xiao Shuai, wearing a Shihakusho, introduced himself to the live stream.
Bullet comments flooded the stream.
"Here he is, here he is! Xiao Shuai is live! The Shuai Shuai Army has arrived!"
"Xiao Shuai, he really... even though he can't see the bullet comments inside, he still persists in streaming. So professional!"
Yes, Xiao Shuai wasn't a streamer who could broadcast from within the game.
To be precise, he was a streamer-type player.
Because he was a streamer outside, after entering the game, to maintain a work mindset, he kept acting as if he was still streaming.
It was a method of self-preservation.
After finishing his introduction, Xiao Shuai began his carefully prepared program.
"Once again, welcome the audience to Xiao Shuai's live stream. Thanks to Sponsor XXXXX."
"Without further ado, let's begin today's Xiao Shuai Morning News!"
"And I think, if everyone has been paying attention to other people's streams, you must also know that a major event has occurred in the Soul Society!"
"A Shinigami named Kuchiki Rukia gave her Shinigami powers to a human in the Living World and was sentenced for a first-degree felony!"
"However, through the anchor's multi-faceted observation, I feel this matter is quite fishy."
"Because, this Rukia's identity is no simple matter!"
"She is the adopted daughter of the Kuchiki Clan, one of the Four Great Noble Houses. Her brother is the 6th Division's Captain, Kuchiki Byakuya. Captain Jushiro Ukitake is also famously a nice guy and a veteran!"
"Jushiro Ukitake and his good friend Kyoraku Shunsui are the Soul Society's [Dual Blades, Dual Overlords]! These two veteran Captains immediately raised objections to the verdict."
"However, the Central 46 firmly sentenced her to death!"
"Such an unusual verdict immediately caught the attention of the player groups in the Soul Society! We all speculate that something big is coming!"
Listening to Xiao Shuai's professional morning news, the live stream audience began to share their views.