Hidden beneath that gentle exterior was pride carved deep into her bones.
"I don't know why Zangetsu would do this, but I'm unwilling!
"You haven't even done Bankai Training yet, and you haven't tamed me either, yet you want to skip the taming stage and go straight to the finish line?
"Getting on first and paying later or whatever, no way no way!" Ruyi shook her head cutely.
After saying that, she drew her sword and completed Shikai. The two Ruyi earrings once again hung from her ears!
"Ichigo, if you want to completely control me, then fight! The requirement is that you can only use Ruyi's abilities, and then let strength do the talking!"
"Alright!" Ichigo nodded, indicating he understood.
Let strength do the talking, defeat Ruyi?
No problem. Fighting had always been what he was best at from start to finish!
"Then, Zangetsu, you wait here for a bit!"
Ichigo planted the slender blade of Tensa Zangetsu into the ground.
Also in Shikai with Ruyi, Ichigo charged straight at her barehanded, preparing to defeat her through close-quarters combat!
Against a mage-type like Ruyi, once he got close, finishing her would be easy.
However, this time Ruyi once again exceeded Ichigo's expectations.
Seeing Ichigo rush toward her, Ruyi directly removed the two earrings from her ears and brought them together.
"Bankai: Three Thousand Ruyi Worlds!"
From the point where Ruyi's two earrings merged, the earrings vanished.
Replacing them was an invisible ripple, like a stone thrown into a lake, spreading outward in waves!
In an instant, Ichigo could clearly feel that something in his Inner World was different!
The closer he rushed toward Ruyi, the more resistance he felt coming from the world itself.
It was as if this was not his world, but Ruyi's world!
It was the very world blocking Ichigo's advance!
Under conditions where it felt as if the entire world was targeting him, every step Ichigo took was extremely difficult!
Seeing this, Ichigo felt puzzled.
So he increased his power and used Shunpo!
But once his speed increased, even stronger resistance arrived!
Ichigo felt as if he was not walking in his own Inner World, but trudging through a swamp!
Instantly, Ichigo understood!
"So this is Ruyi's Bankai?"
All along, Ichigo had been thinking about what Ruyi's Bankai would be like...
Now, Ruyi had revealed the answer to him.
Ruyi, who could only control a small portion of space in Shikai, gained complete control over space after Bankai!
Ichigo looked to the side.
Because he was the master of the Inner World, Ichigo could clearly sense just how vast the space covered by Ruyi's Bankai was!
It was roughly the size of nearly half of Seireitei!
Such a Bankai range was astonishing!
"So terrifying, such a powerful Bankai!"
Ichigo could not help but exclaim.
"That's nothing. Even though it looks like the Bankai is that large, what I can truly control is only a radius of one hundred meters around where the twin jewels merge."
"The half-Seireitei range is the area you can move within. If you exceed this range, the Bankai can no longer be used!"
"This is somewhat like an inner circle and an outer circle. Only the inner circle is what you can truly control!"
Ruyi explained carefully.
"Because the essence of Bankai is using highly compressed Reiatsu techniques to drive the Ruyi earrings into a new dimension, allowing them to spread outward.
"Then, from top to bottom, the Ruyi earrings can control space!
"The issue is that the earrings cannot move too far from the point where they enter the other dimension. That entry point is the return coordinate. If it's too far, returning becomes impossible!
"As for the effects of Bankai..."
Facing Ichigo, Ruyi lightly waved her hand.
In the next moment, Ichigo felt his vision blur, and then his entire body vanished from where he stood.
When Ichigo reappeared, he was already a hundred meters away from Ruyi!
"I was spatially transferred?" Ichigo realized, even feeling shocked. "Such a simple spatial transfer?"
"That's right!" Ruyi nodded proudly. "Strictly speaking, it wouldn't be wrong to describe my ability as controlling stairs!
"What the hell do you mean controlling stairs..." Ichigo was speechless.
'Others control stairs with time stop. You're dealing with space!' Ichigo complained internally.
But at this moment, he also understood Zangetsu's malicious intent.
He had agreed to first tame Ruyi, which meant using Ruyi's Shikai to fight against Ruyi's Bankai!
This was not something fun at all!
In other words, within these three months, Ichigo had to learn Ruyi's Bankai, and then use Ruyi's Bankai to defeat Ruyi herself!
At the same time, there was no such thing as a Tenshintai to let Ichigo skip the process!
'So that means I have to purely compete in spatial understanding?'
Ichigo reacted, 'But if that's the case, then I only have one option: cheating!'
After thinking for a moment, Ichigo looked once more at the game currency shop.
After that one time, he had spent game currency to obtain Ruyi, and the nearly ten billion game currency left afterward had never been touched again.
But now, it seemed the time had come!
'Game, I need a customized enemy and a customized spatial Kido teacher!'
Ichigo said to the game, and the game shop activated.
In the next moment, the familiar Inner World disappeared, and Ichigo arrived at a place similar to Kisuke's training ground, but which felt more like Hueco Mundo.
A teacher Ichigo was extremely familiar with walked over.
"Alright, let's begin the teaching on spatial abilities!" Ruyi said!
"Understood, Ruyi-sensei!" Ichigo nodded!
In the game of Go, there was once someone who arranged for two Go masters to play against each other simultaneously.
However, it was not because that person possessed the skill to face two masters. He did not know how to play Go at all… he was merely a transporter.
The person who arranged for the two masters to play was only shuttling one master's moves to the other master.
Here, it was the same!
It was not Ichigo fighting Ruyi, but Ruyi fighting Ruyi!
"Next, let's see whether fighting yourself will be just like being taught by a single master, where no move can be broken!" Ichigo smiled secretly and began training!
At the same time, in Soul Society, Aizen, bringing Gin with him, also arrived at the relocated Karakura Town.
They appeared from the suburban forest outside Karakura Town.
After walking a few steps through the silent forest, Gin suddenly seemed to realize something and called out to Aizen.
"Oh, Captain Aizen, look down there!"