>>3342928
“A wise choice,” Old Zangetsu bows his head. “You have seen my use of gintō already, for Wolke.”

“There are four techniques which I would consider still useful, which rely on shaping reishi based on Gintō. One is Heizen, an offensive spell creating a bounded field between four Gintō that have been thrown. The next two are Gritz, a technique for creating an enclosed barrier of silver, and Wolke which you have just seen.”

“The last is Sprenger, which uses five Seele Schneiders to create a five-pointed array. Within this array, an additional Gintō will trigger a massive explosion.”

You consider this new information... you were vaguely familiar with Gintō of course, but you haven't had much occasion to practice with them given that you live in the living world. Not exactly a lot of space, especially since Urahara returned to the Soul Society and his assistant seems to spend so much of his time absent.

>Teach me how to use Gintō. I've never actually filled one myself.
>I want to know more about manifesting reishi weapons, like my mom.
>I've used Seele Schneider before. Maybe start with something familiar.
>Other?

>>3342942
>>Teach me how to use Gintō. I've never actually filled one myself.

>>3342942
>let's go with ginto

>>3342942
>Teach me how to use Gintō. I've never actually filled one myself.

>>3342942
>I've used Seele Schneider before. Maybe start with something familiar.

>>3342942
>>Teach me how to use Gintō. I've never actually filled one myself.

>>3342942
>Teach me how to use Gintō. I've never actually filled one myself.
Hey Queen, I started reading the archive after reading Claymore Quest. I almost can't believe I managed to catch up right before the final battle. You managed to make Bleach really fucking good, you should be proud.

Also, here's an omake idea: what if we had fallen for Okita way back then, instead of going down best cat's route?
I was also really looking forward to one of the earliest omake suggestions, Mirror Mirror, about what if Aizen was the one who found us at the very beginning, but it never ended up happening.

>>3342942
>>Teach me how to use Gintō. I've never actually filled one myself.

>>3342942
>>I want to know more about manifesting reishi weapons, like my mom.

>>3342942
>>I want to know more about manifesting reishi weapons, like my mom.

>>3342942
>Teach me how to use Gintō. I've never actually filled one myself.

>>3342942
“You know, I don't think I've actually ever had the occasion to fill a gintō before?” you admit, somewhat startled by your own admission.

“I do know that,” Old Zangetsu informs you.

“Well, think you can show me how?” you press.

He produces a single gintō, flipping it in sequence between his fingertips from one side to the other, then back again. The whole time he stars you straight in the eyes.

“Maybe.”

“Then quit playing games and do so,” you demand, quickly losing patience with him.

“It is very simple,” Old Zangetsu insists, shutting his eyes. “There. I already did it for you to observe.”

“And you didn't think to explain?” you press. “Seriously, what would it cost you to just speak clearly about it for a couple of minutes?”

“Why should I explain it?” he counters. “For that matter how could I even hope to explain it? If one of your little sisters needed you to explain to her hot to breath, could you do it?”

>Because if you don't help me get stronger, we all die. What don't you get about that?”
>Fine, I'll just have to try it without your damn help.
>Fine, I'll just have to beat it out of you.
>Other?

>>3345268
>>Fine, I'll just have to try it without your damn help.
>other: So is it really that simple? just think of creating a container then fill it up with Reishi? I feel stupid.

>>3345268
>Fine, I'll just have to try it without your damn help.

>>3345268
>>Fine, I'll just have to try it without your damn help.

>>3345268
>>Fine, I'll just have to beat it out of you.

>>3345268
>Fine, I'll just have to try it without your damn help.

>>3345268
>Fine, I'll just have to try it without your damn help.

>>3345268
>Fine, I'll just have to try it without your damn help.

>>3345268
>>Fine, I'll just have to try it without your damn help.

>>3345268
>3d10, best of three

Rolled 10, 6, 6 = 22 (3d10)

>>3348562

>>3348562

Rolled 10, 6, 5 = 21 (3d10)

>>3348562

Rolled 1, 3, 1 = 5 (3d10)

>>3348562

>>3348562
“Fine,” you shrug. “I'll just have to do it without your damn help. I don't need you.”

You stare at your palm for several long seconds.

“Yes?” Old Zangetsu prompts you.

“I'm thinking!” you snap.

Zangetsu sighs.

It's been a while since you've seen her do it, but your mom has created reishi weapons in front of you before. You've seen Ishida do it plenty of times as well, it's a fairly basic quincy technique. And you'd hazard a guess that in order to practice using gintō here you'll need to create a silver tube to contain your reishi first.

If you can't manage that then you're probably screwed anyway.

How is it that mom did it... how is it that Ganjū tried to teach you kidō? With the orb? Maybe the same approach can work here?

“Why are you moaning?” Old Zangetsu demands after several minutes.

“Yeah,” White agrees. “It's kinda making me uncomfortable.”

“Haaaa!” you shout, and after a substantial effort you hold between your fingers a roughly-shaped silver object.

“Ha!” you shout again, this time in triumph instead of exertion. “Told you I could...”

An arrow blasts the lump of silver in an instant.

“The hell was that for!?”

“Do it again,” Old Zangetsu demands.

Grumbling, you struggle for several more minutes to replicate your initial feat.

Then, once complete, Old Zangetsu shoots it again. Of course he would.

The third time you're slightly faster.

The fourth time it's a little easier to shape.

The fortieth time, you actually feel like you do a good job.
>1/2

>>3348632
“That was good, Ichigo,” Old Zangetsu commends you. “Enough to earn my acknowledgment, you do indeed have quincy heritage.”

“Was that ever in any doubt?” you demand.

“It was,” he admits, “at least in terms of your degree of aptitude. Think, Ichigo... do your sisters have the same kind of power your mother does?”

You ponder the question. “I gather Karin can see spirits, but Yuzu can't even do that much.”

“And yet you would expect to simply be able to use quincy powers that easily?” Old Zangetsu presses. “Part of being a quincy is in your blood, yes. That is certainly true. But much of it also has to do with random genetics, with your environment, with your instincts and your personality.”

“You are a fighter, raised to be the one who protects your family. Your sisters are not.”

“So why did I have so much trouble doing that?” you demand.

“Because you had to un-learn that which was unhelpful,” Old Zangetsu explains, making only a little bit of sense. “It will make sense to you, in time.”

>I need a break, time to think about this.
>Next step. Show me how to compress my reishi into this tube.
>I'm going to compress reishi into this tube, YOU show me how to use it from there.
>Other?

>>3348672
>>I'm going to compress reishi into this tube, YOU show me how to use it from there.
also thank you for not using the 'children of different powered parents always end up equal'.

>>3348672
>>I'm going to compress reishi into this tube, YOU show me how to use it from there.

>>3348672
>I'm going to compress reishi into this tube, YOU show me how to use it from there.
How hard can it be to just compress some reishi, right?

>>3348672
>>I'm going to compress reishi into this tube, YOU show me how to use it from there.
He compresses reishi to use his getsuga tenshi or whatever it's called all the time, this should be eeeeeeasy.

>>3348672
>>I'm going to compress reishi into this tube, YOU show me how to use it from there.

>>3348672
>I'm going to compress reishi into this tube, YOU show me how to use it from there

>>3348672
3d10 for compressing reishi, DC 19, critical 24
Best of three.

Rolled 9, 5, 2 = 16 (3d10)

>>3350372

Rolled 2, 6, 8 = 16 (3d10)

>>3350372

Rolled 8, 4, 5 = 17 (3d10)

>>3350372

>>3350372
You use Getsuga Tenshō all the time, and that requires you to compress reiatsu. You can even use cero capably enough despite not being anywhere close to full hollow. So how hard could this possibly be?

“I'm gonna compress some reishi into this tube,” you declare, “and then you're gonna tell me about all the stuff I can do with it afterwards.”

Then you nearly succeed in blowing your own hand off.

The gintō glows for an instant before disintegrating into a massive blue fireball that envelops your arm up to the wrist, and drives White into a fit of howling laughter. How the hell did it go that badly wrong, that quickly?

“That's not funny!” you snap at White, waving your hand to make sure that nothing has caught fire.

Even Old Zangetsu chuckles quietly. “You can use Getsuga Tenshō so this should be easy... that is what you thought, wasn't it? I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but it's not even close to being the same.”

“How so?” you growl. “Tell me.”

“With Getsuga Tenshō you have the blade which helps you to focus the attack,” Old Zangetsu explains, “and there is no penalty for using too much power. What you are looking to create is more like a 'battery', but even a gintō created by your own hand can only contain so much power before it becomes a tiny hand grenade instead.”

“So I need to improve my control, got it,” you frown.

>Try it again, this time using only a fraction of what you think you need.
>”In your blood”, he said? Maybe that is a possible solution to your poor control.
>Wasn't there a cero that was enhanced by blood? How would that combine with your quincy skills?
>Other?

>>3350396
>”In your blood”, he said? Maybe that is a possible solution to your poor control.

>>3350396
>>Try it again, this time using only a fraction of what you think you need.

>>3350396
>”In your blood”, he said? Maybe that is a possible solution to your poor control.

>>3350396
>>Wasn't there a cero that was enhanced by blood? How would that combine with your quincy skills?

>>3350396
>>”In your blood”, he said? Maybe that is a possible solution to your poor control.

>>3350396
>>”In your blood”, he said? Maybe that is a possible solution to your poor control.
>>3350396

>>3350396
>”In your blood”, he said? Maybe that is a possible solution to your poor control.
>Wasn't there a cero that was enhanced by blood? How would that combine with your quincy skills?
Since we are messing with blood anyway.

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>>3350396
3d10, best of three
DC 18, crit 22

Rolled 2, 10, 1 = 13 (3d10)

>>3353260

Rolled 10, 3, 4 = 17 (3d10)

>>3353260

Rolled 2, 5, 7 = 14 (3d10)

>>3353260

Rolled 6, 8, 8 = 22 (3d10)

>>3353260
>QM Rolling

>>3353260
Hang on... 'in your blood', is it? That's right, the spiritual power of a quincy is literally tapped through their blood. Your own Blut Vene has probably saved you a couple of times before without your even knowing it, so what if you let a little bit of your blood serve as a catalyst for filling a gintō? That way your reiatsu control, which is admittedly poor by quincy standards, won't get in the way.

You quickly create a new gintō, and bite the tip of your thumb.

Why is it every time you make a mistake you end up exploding?

Old Zangetsu shakes his head. “Clever, but your control over your Blut is totally inadequate to use it in such a way.”

“But that being said, it'd be a great way to punch up a cero,” White admits. “I'm a little bit impressed.”

So yet again, you've managed to 'fail forward', is that it?

>If you could use your Blut as an explosion after being wounded it would make a devastating surprise counterattack.
>See if you can't use the gintō filling technique properly this time instead of trying to shortcut it. Shortcuts never seem to work for you.
>Try that cero trick White mentioned. It's actually pretty similar to what you were trying to achieve just now.
>Other?

>>3353414
>>Try that cero trick White mentioned. It's actually pretty similar to what you were trying to achieve just now.

>>3353414
>Try that cero trick White mentioned. It's actually pretty similar to what you were trying to achieve just now.

>>3353414
>>If you could use your Blut as an explosion after being wounded it would make a devastating surprise counterattack.

>>3353414
TRy whites cero trick

>>3353414
>>Try that cero trick White mentioned. It's actually pretty similar to what you were trying to achieve just now.

>>3353414
>3d10, best of three

Rolled 5, 7, 8 = 20 (3d10)

>>3354656

Rolled 9, 5, 4 = 18 (3d10)

>>3354656
Here goes nothing

Rolled 8, 10, 1 = 19 (3d10)

>>3354656

>>3354659
Now we're finally getting somewhere.

I was beginning to wonder if anything was going to break past 17

>>3354656
You decide to take White's suggestion, and quickly slit your palm to try it out.

“Gran Rey Cero!”

The blast charges quicker than a regular cero, by far, and the result is a constant, flickering stream of pure power in a violent shade of blue. It writhes like a living thing, tearing massive chunks out of the phantasmal surroundings before it burns itself out.

“Quite impressive,” Old Zangetsu admits.

White simply whistles. “You got it on the first try.”

“It seems that you have a natural talent for using such brutal powers,” Old Zangetsu muses calmly. “You had help with your shinigami abilities, and once those were established you became able to tap into your hollow abilities. Perhaps it is because of that order that command of my abilities still eludes you?”

“Then how is it I was able to create a gintō?” you counter.

“Being able to use the basics is a far cry from mastery,” Old Zangetsu insists.

“Maybe it's more like kidō than you quincy like to pretend?” White sneers.

Old Zangetsu shrugs. “It's possible.”

“I thought you said it wasn't like kidō!” you protest.

“I never said it wouldn't take some practice,” Old Zangetsu replies calmly. “For some, it takes more practice than others.”

>Then we'll practice. I'll get the hang of this sooner or later.
>There has to be some way to practice refining my control. What do young quincies do?
>Maybe it's better to focus on what I know that I'm good at.
>Other?

>>3358071
>>Then we'll practice. I'll get the hang of this sooner or later.

>>3358071
>>There has to be some way to practice refining my control. What do young quincies do?

>>3358071
>>There has to be some way to practice refining my control. What do young quincies do?

>>3358071
>>There has to be some way to practice refining my control. What do young quincies do?

>>3358071
>There has to be some way to practice refining my control. What do young quincies do?

>>3358071
>>There has to be some way to practice refining my control. What do young quincies do?

>>3358071
>3d10, best of three

Rolled 10, 4, 6 = 20 (3d10)

>>3360540

Rolled 4, 3, 9 = 16 (3d10)

>>3360540

Rolled 3, 7, 3 = 13 (3d10)

>>3360540

>>3360540
“So how do young quincies usually train to improve their control?” you ask. “My mom never really went into it... wanted me to have the chance to choose a 'normal' life I guess.”

Old Zangetsu considers your question for a moment, before offering his reply. “They would train to produce and maintain a reishi weapon of their own design. To create something with a specific design in mind requires the sort of skills one would have to build up to be a quincy anyway, and doing so first provides a definite goal along with easily defined measures of progress and eventual success.”

“Then that's what I'll do,” you declare.

“What sort of weapon do you intend to create?” Old Zangetsu presses. “You need to have a concept in mind.”

>A sword. Simple, familiar, universally applicable.
>A bow. Seems mandatory and compliments my other abilities.
>A shield. I don't know why.
>Other?

>>3360597
>A shield. I don't know why.

>>3360597
>>Other?
>Arm guard, or some variation of such.
Easier to comprehend the use of for a guy like Ichigo, won't need to learn a whole new weapon style. Has already plenty of swords.

>>3360618
If arm guard ain't weapon enough, then the knuckles part of it can be considered, seeing as berry has some experience in hand to hand combat.

>>3360597
>>A bow. Seems mandatory and compliments my other abilities.

>>3360597
>A sword. Simple, familiar, universally applicable.

>>3360618
>>3360597
supporting.

>>3360618
>>3360597
>>3360628
Supporting

>3d10, best of three

Rolled 5, 3, 1 = 9 (3d10)

>>3360915

Rolled 2, 8, 10 = 20 (3d10)

>>3360915

Rolled 10, 7, 8 = 25 (3d10)

>>3360915

>>3360915
You decide on something that may prove to be a little complicated, but should be infinitely more useful than yet another weapon. Instead you set to work gathering reishi around your left wrist, wrapping it close to your skin like a tight-fitting gauntlet. For your first time the results were actually more impressive than you thought it would be, though that's not to say that it worked. No, you definitely lost control of it within seconds. But it was a pretty good start.

“Not bad,” Old Zangetsu commends you. “That is, assuming you were trying to create a gauntlet of some fashion. But tell me, what is it you plan to have that gauntlet do?”

“Block attacks,” you reply, throwing out the most obvious answer first. “I'd also like to store gintō there. As for actual weapons, you think it would be possible to use it like a seele schneider?”

Old Zangetsu shrugs. “I fail to see a reason why you could not. It is an invention of your own mind. It need not make sense to anyone else.”

The second time you try, it actually seems to take something approximating the shape you intended.

By the twelfth attempt, the result looks exactly as you pictured it in your mind: a segmented series of sliding metal plates laid over each other atop a white half-fingered glove, providing flexible overlapping coverage for your left arm from the knuckles almost up to your elbow. At the first there is a small opening to project the blade of a selee schneider, either straight forward from your fist or outward from your palm as one might hold a sword. On the underside of the wrist there's space for four gintō on a rack of sorts, though the ones present there now are empty.

“Interesting,” White muses. “Hey old guy, you ever seen anything like that before?”

“It's a rather unusual thing,” Old Zangetsu admits. “I've never heard of anything quite this... eccentric.”

“But hey,” White shrugs. “If it works it works, yeah?”

>Try to fill the gintō again.
>Try out this new tool on White.
>Try out this new tool on Old Zangetsu.
>Other?

>>3361063
>>Try to fill the gintō again.

>>3361063
>>Try to fill the gintō again.

>>3361063
>>>Try to fill the gintō again.

>>3361063
>>Try to fill the gintō again.

>>3361063
>Try to fill the gintō again.

>>3361063
> Try to fill the gintō again.

>>3361063
>3d10, best of three

Rolled 3, 7, 10 = 20 (3d10)

>>3362707

Rolled 8, 6, 10 = 24 (3d10)

>>3362707

Rolled 1, 10, 2 = 13 (3d10)

>>3362707

>will work with the 24 after dinner

Rolled 1, 6, 1 = 8 (3d10)

>>3362707

>>3362719
You decide now is as good a time as any to see how much this exercise has improved your abilities as a quincy, and produce four empty gintō tubes using your reishi. Then, you focus all your efforts on concentrating reishi and your own reiatsu inside those tubes, drawing the reishi from all around you into one tightly-compacted space. This time, it doesn't explode in your hand. Instead it buzzes slightly with little arcs of blue energy like lightning dancing around your hand.

Then, when the sides of the gintō feel prone to bursting from the pressure within, you seal it with a small silver plug.

After rolling it between your fingertips for several seconds, testing how well your work will hold, you slot it into the space on your new gauntlet. Repeating your success three times, you fill those spaces one at a time.

“It seems you have learned quite well,” Old Zangetsu compliments you. “Consider me suitably impressed.”

“So, think you can teach me about how to use these now?” you press. “That was the whole point, remember?”

“I think you have made enough progress,” he replies. “So which would you like to learn?”

>Gritz, a barrier trap.
>Heizen, an offensive spell.
>Wolke, a defensive spell.
>Other?

>>3362812
>Wolke, a defensive spell.

>>3362812
>Gritz, a barrier trap.
I'm out of ideas of what else could be done, maybe a slowing trap to go with the ludicrous speed of bankai, idk

>>3362812
>Wolke

>>3362812
>>Gritz, a barrier trap.

>>3362812
>>Gritz, a barrier trap.

>>3362812
>>Heizen, an offensive spell.

>>3362812
>>Heizen, an offensive spell.
Sure why not.

>>3362812
>Heizen, an offensive spell.

>>3362812
>Gritz, a barrier trap.
Our Hollow abilities seem better suited for the pure destructive purposes, So It'd probably be better to use the Quincy and Shinigami training for the more complex stuff.

>>3364061
Will go with Gritz later today
>3d10, best of three
>DC 18, crit 23

Rolled 10, 4, 7 = 21 (3d10)

>>3364177

Rolled 3, 10, 5 = 18 (3d10)

>>3364177

Rolled 9, 6, 7 = 22 (3d10)

>>3364177

>>3364210
SO close

>>3364177
You decide to try and learn Gritz, which Old Zangetsu billed as a combination binding and defensive spell. Both are areas where you're not exactly strong, so this will serve both ends.

“Show me Gritz,” you insist. “It sounds useful.”

Old Zangetsu produces a single gintō between his fingertips. “A sliver rod strikes the five-fingered stone bed... Gritz!”

The gintō aimed for your shoulder bursts into reishi, a thin film of silver surrounding you from five angles until it totally encloses you. So this is a gintō technique? The incantation was so much shorter than any kidō you've heard the chant for, and it'll combine very well with your new reishi weapon if you can figure out how to fire a gintō out of it at speed.

But that all hinges on you figuring out how to do it.

“So that was the incantation,” you frown as the technique comes apart.

“Do you think you can replicate it?” Old Zangetsu presses you.

In response you draw out a gintō of your own and hurl it. “A silver rod strikes the five-fingered stone bed: Gritz!”

The gintō does the exact same as when Zangetsu used it, enclosing him in a dome of silver reishi with a five-pointed cross etched deeply in the front.

Even White stares at you in surprise. “Well, that was unexpected.”

Zangetsu quickly slashes his way out of the barrier with a seele schneider.

“Very good, Ichigo,” Old Zangetsu nods approvingly. “Very good... it seems training to form a reishi weapon has given you an easier time with such techniques.”

“Maybe,” you admit.

>That was unsatisfying. Try launching a gintō with the gauntlet on your left wrist.
>Try to learn another gintō technique?
>Go back to White. Trade off which set of techniques you're learning.
>Other?

>>3364750
>That was unsatisfying. Try launching a gintō with the gauntlet on your left wrist.

>>3364750
>That was unsatisfying. Try launching a gintō with the gauntlet on your left wrist.

>>3364750
>>That was unsatisfying. Try launching a gintō with the gauntlet on your left wrist.

>>3364750
>>That was unsatisfying. Try launching a gintō with the gauntlet on your left wrist.

>>3364750
>>That was unsatisfying. Try launching a gintō with the gauntlet on your left wrist.

>>3364750
>>That was unsatisfying. Try launching a gintō with the gauntlet on your left wrist.
Spiderberry, Spiderberry, does whatever a spider does.

>>3364750
>>That was unsatisfying. Try launching a gintō with the gauntlet on your left wrist.
This will be fun. I swear to god if the dice cuck us here...

>>3364750
>3d10, DC 19, crit 23

Rolled 1, 8, 1 = 10 (3d10)

>>3365017

Rolled 10, 10, 8 = 28 (3d10)

>>3365017

Rolled 10, 10, 6 = 26 (3d10)

>>3365017

>>3365022
calm down son.

>>3365017
You decide to put your newfound abilities to a test, and raise your left arm.

“A sliver rod strikes the five-fingered stone bed... Gritz!” you shout, but instead of throwing the gintō you propel it with a burst of reiatsu not unlike a cero or a heilige pfeil. The tube begins to open while it's in flight, swiftly enveloping Old Zangetsu with a speed totally different from that of a thrown weapon.

That's interesting... if you hit an incoming attack with that you could theoretically block it and trap your opponent inside with it. Depending on the attack that could be devastating, assuming your counter manages to withstand the force of that attack.

“Interesting,” Old Zangetsu muses, the expression on his for once betraying genuine interest. “What made you think to do that?”

>The original technique was way too slow.
>I don't know, it just didn't feel aggressive enough.
>Why not? Quincies are projectile weapon users, right?
>Other?

>>3365175
>>The original technique was way too slow.

>>3365175
>>The original technique was way too slow.

>>3365175
>>The original technique was way too slow.

>>3365175
>The original technique was way too slow.

>>3365175
>I don't know, it just didn't feel aggressive enough.
Ichigo using magic through instinct seems about right.

>>3365175
>”in the words of my crazy hot auntie Riku ‘powering up for Bankai and talking is not a free action’. Besides it felt too slow and counterproductive for a binding spell to stand in one spot.”

>>3365175
>>The original technique was way too slow.

>>3365175
“The original technique is too slow,” you shrug. Really, that should almost go without saying. “Why throw the gintō when I can shoot it?”

Old Zangetsu weighs your words carefully for several long minutes, before eventually nodding to himself. “You will likely be able to duplicate that trick with the other techniques as well, so long as you know the incantations.”

“Then teach me the incantations!” you press.

It takes some time, but with Old Zangetsu's help you manage to memorize the incantations for all of the gintō techniques he had suggested for you to learn. Whether you can use them effectively in combat remains to be seen however, as each one you only use the one time to demonstrate to Zangetsu... and to yourself as well... that you can do it.

Now, finally, you're at a level where you can say that you know how to use all of your powers at least to some extent. There's definitely room for improvement, but ideally that will always be the case.

>Test your newfound quincy skills against White.
>Continue testing your shinigami and hollow skills against Old Zangetsu
>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.
>Other?

>>3367799
>>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.

>>3367799
>>>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.
as you are, as you will express yourself to the world.

>>3367799
>>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.

>>3367799
>>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.
if he manages to successfully incorporate everything into one style, that would be one very well rounded opponent

>>3367799
>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.
This will probably be the hardest thing to do, but Ichigo's rolls have always been ungodly.

>>3367799
>>Test your newfound quincy skills against White.

>>3367799
>>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.

>>3367799
>>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.
Now comes the fun stuff.

>>3367799
>Work on drawing all those skills together into one style.
Speaking of, Ive been wondering... Quincy techniques work by drawing in and controlling surrounding reishi, and A lot of Hollow powers seem to work off collecting and compressing the same, either internally or in the mouth or whatever.
Would it be possible to use those two things together somehow?

>>3368550
i trust queen to have thought up some ways to do exactly that

>>3367799
>synthesizing
>3d10, best of three

Rolled 5, 6, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>3369541

Rolled 3, 1, 1 = 5 (3d10)

>>3369541
berry

Rolled 6, 5, 6 = 17 (3d10)

>>3369541

Rolled 10, 3, 5 = 18 (3d10)

>>3369541

>>3369541
You decide that the best plan is to find a way to combine your quincy and hollow abilities into one technique that goes beyond what either one can do on its own. And you remember that the way quincies fight is by gathering reishi from their surroundings, and hollows use cero by hardening the power that their own bodies generate.

So what if you matched those techniques up together?

Trying it out is just a matter of extending your hand and drawing in reishi from all around, then hardening it.

“Cero!”

The blue blast isn't any different from a normal cero, either in terms of how quickly you charge it, how powerful it is, or how it moves when you release it. But it's a lot more efficient at very least, in terms of how much of your own reiatsu you have to use.

“Well that was underwhelming,” you sigh.

“It was a nice effort,” Old Zangetsu shrugs.

White rolls his eyes. “It wasn't a total waste of time.”

“Shit,” you mutter.

>I can't think of a way to combine my quincy and hollow abilities. Any ideas?
>I need to learn more about my hollow abilities and shinigami abilities.
>I need to know more about the advanced abilities used by the quincy.
>Other?

>>3369615
>I need to learn more about my hollow abilities and shinigami abilities.

>>3369615
>>I need to learn more about my hollow abilities and shinigami abilities.

>>3369615
>>I need to learn more about my hollow abilities and shinigami abilities.

>>3369615
>>I can't think of a way to combine my quincy and hollow abilities. Any ideas?

>>3369615
Try to combine Blut with your Hollow nature to recreate Hierro.

>>3369615
>>I need to learn more about my hollow abilities and shinigami abilities.

>>3369615
“I need to know more about my shinigami and hollow abilities,” you realize. “White, that means you're up.”

“Fuck you,” White replies.

You can only sigh... you really expected this, but it's still annoying. “Why?”

“Because you don't learn how to be a hollow, dumbass.”

“Then how do we do this?” you grumble.

White's response is predictable: he draws his sword.

>Use your own zanpakuto.
>Use quincy abilities.
>Use your fists and cero.
>Other?

>>3371637
>Use your fists and cero.

>>3371637
>Use your fists and cero.

>>3371637
>>Use your fists and cero.

>>3371637
>"Well Hollows 'learn' by beating the shit outta each other to survive and grow strong. You're helping me learn by beating the shit outta me so that my ass doesn't get kicked in later, so it counts SNOWFLAKE!"

>>3371637
>>Use your fists and cero.
This seems like the way to go.

>>3371637
>3d10, best of three
>dc 18, crit 22

Rolled 3, 7, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>3372109

Rolled 7, 8, 7 = 22 (3d10)

>>3372109

Rolled 7, 5, 1 = 13 (3d10)

>>3372109

>>3372109
You raise your fists and charge White, unleashing a trio of Bala as you close the distance. Your near-doppelganger easily weaves between the blasts and raises his sword.

“Bad move, Ichigo!” he sneers, bringing the blade down towards your left shoulder.

But rather than blocking or trying to avoid the blade you use a shunpō, and throw an uppercut from your left side at White's right wrist as it comes down. Then you follow up with a right straight aimed at his gut that he blocks with his left elbow.

“Bala!”

A point-blank blast from your right hand connects with White's chest, singing his clothing and knocking him back a few feet.

“That wasn't half bad,” White admits. “I forgot you're actually pretty scrappy when it comes to fighting with your fists.”

“Comes with growing up as a punk,” you smirk, shifting up your stance slightly. “Let's go!”

You continue throwing carefully-aimed punches where you can, smacking your fists against the sides of White's sword where you can't. It's difficult to make any headway, but it's impressive enough that you can hold your own.

Then White uses a Getsuga Tenshō.

>CRITICAL
Choose one:
>Dodge it.
>Catch it.
>Punch it.

>>3372279
>>Catch it.

>>3372279
>>Catch it.

>>3372279
>>Catch it.

>>3372279
>>>Catch it.
ichigo is a dog

>>3372279
>>Catch it.

>>3372279
>Punch it.

>>3372279
3d10, best of four

Rolled 10, 3, 6 = 19 (3d10)

>>3372726

Rolled 8, 2, 10 = 20 (3d10)

>>3372726

Rolled 4, 1, 3 = 8 (3d10)

>>3372726

Rolled 5, 4, 5 = 14 (3d10)

>>3372726

>>3372726
You're not sure what possesses you to try it. Dodging the incoming Getsuga Tenshō would be easy enough to achieve, but somehow it just doesn't feel like the right plan. So instead you extend your left hand.

“What are you...” White begins.

The Getsuga Tenshō meets your palm and stops, crackling against your skin... or rather against an unseen force lying right atop it. After a moment you leverage your hand upward and send the attack skyward. In an instant, you slam your fist into White's gut.

He grunts, but as your blow lifts him off his feet he actually manages to land a solid kick on your chin in the same instant.

You rub your aching jaw, as White slowly straightens his back. “That was a good kick.”

“That was a good... whatever the fuck that was,” White replies, staring at you in surprise. “What the fuck was that?”

“I was just taking your advice,” you admit. “I was kinda hoping you'd know.”

“Is it possible... no...” he mutters with a frown. “There's no way.”

“That was Blut,” Old Zangetsu interjects. “But not the normal Blut Vene.”

“It was almost more like hierro,” White declares. “But you're right, it wasn't hierro.”

“Who cares what it was?” you interrupt, raising your fists again. “I just did what came naturally to me. What does it matter what we call it?”

White smirks, and Old Zangetsu manifests a bow in his left hand.

“That's exactly what we wanted to hear.”
>will continue tomorrow, not sure if new thread or not