The simulated sun within Urahara's subterranean training grounds shone down from above, illuminating the rather desolate scenery within — and making Ichigo's newest predicament quite easy for all to see.

He had just managed to get his reiatsu back by fighting, and being beaten into the ground by Ururu, a small girl that was one of Urahara's assistants.

"Now, let's continue onto lesson two, shall we?" Urahara asked with a sardonic grin.

Ichigo looked down numbly at the chain which now swung freely from his chest — the chain which Tessai had just severed with his handaxe.

It was presumably done at Urahara's behest, given everything else the giant man did for his boss. "You… you pin-striped mother fucker! You two just killed me!"

Urahara just began fanning his face. "Probably to conceal his shit-eating grin, the one he always has." Ichigo fumed.

"Now, now, no need to make a big deal out of the obvious, Kurosaki-san!" Urahara tittered. "You're far too loud, you know."

Ichigo winced as he felt a crushing pain on his shoulder blades. Tessai had taken the opportunity to sit down on top of Ichigo's back, pinning him to the earth.

"Hey, what the hell?!"

"Oh, you'll be fine!" Urahara paused to close his fan again. "Probably. Of course, your chain of fate has already begun the encroachment process, and when it reaches the end, you'll be transformed into a Hollow and then we will have to kill you-"

"WHAT!?" Ichigo screamed in dismay.

"-but hey, there's always the possibility that you'll get your Shinigami powers back!" Urahara grinned maliciously.

That had Ichigo paying attention again. "So I'm risking becoming a hollow for a chance to get my powers back?"

"Yes," Urahara continued blithely, "if you pass this second test, then you'll retrieve your Shinigami powers and survive to re-enter your body again! Are you ready?"

"Well, I-"

"Just kidding! I don't really care if you're ready or not!" Urahara laughed maniacally and Ichigo spluttered in pent-up rage and panic. "This is lesson two: the Shattered Shaft. GO!"

Ichigo felt his stomach drop as the ground gave way beneath him and Tessai, and they began plummeting into the newly-revealed pit below them. "GYAAAAAHHHHHH! You unbelievable bastard!"

WHAM!

Ichigo found himself waking up upon a rough stone slab, with the bitter taste of dirt on his tongue. It was the floor of the Shattered Shaft. "Ugh… that asshole… I'm gonna kill him when I get out of here…"

He spat the dirt out of his mouth and waited until his head stopped spinning. He then moved to stand up, but to his shock, he only fell forwards in surprise. Despite his efforts, Ichigo's arms didn't move with him. "My arms…? Why can't I move my arms?"

"I'm very sorry, Ichigo." Tessai's placating but firm voice rang out from where he sat, behind Ichigo. "This is Bakudo #99: Kin. And until this lesson is over, I'll be forced to put you under restraint."

"That's right, Tessai!" Urahara called out from the top of the shaft. "Now, Kurosaki-san, this is your task: you must scale the walls Shattered Shaft as you are, within three days!"

"What the hell," Ichigo cried in shock, "That's crazy! There's no way that's even possible!"

"Oh, really?" Urahara put on an affectation of confusion. "Well, that's too bad for you, then, because I see that the process of encroachment has already begun."

Ichigo looked down, and to his horror the end of the chain had begun to turn in on itself, like a perverse cannibal. "Well, shit."

"You have three days to get of there," Urahara stated. "Otherwise, we will have to kill you."

Ichigo swallowed harshly. He was going through this torture to gain the power to rescue Rukia, to pay her back for saving his life.

But if he didn't get out of here quickly, he'd may not see any of his friends again.

Orihime and Chad, if you would believe it, were having even more trouble during their training, at least at first.

"Come on you two." Yoruichi stated. "This shouldn't be hard. Remember the first time you used your powers."

"Easier said than done." Orihime countered. " I had barely any idea what I was doing at the time."

"Well, think about this." The cat replied. " What were you planning to do with your power?"

Orihime thought about this, going to the attack on her friend.

She thought about how her friends were hurt and how she couldn't do anything.

She thought about wanting to protect Tatsuki, like how she protected her every day.

Her hairpins faintly shined, before erupting in light.

With a glowing light, and a few pops, her fairy friends appeared.

"Guys!" Orihime cheered, elated about her successful showing of power.

"You called?" Shuno, a blond fairy with a red dress stated.

"I just wanted to see if I could call you guys out." Orihime replied.

"That's it?!" Tsubaki, an irate ninja-like fairy snapped, smacking her on the head with a surprising amount of force for something so small.

"Ow!" Orihime yelped, rubbing the spot Tsubaki hit.

"You called for us," Tsubaki snarled, wailing on her head, despite her wails of pain. "Despite not being in danger!? You little hussy! The other you wouldn't be nearly as wasteful!"

Orihime blinked in confusion, among her yelps of pain. "The other me?"

All of the fairies froze as they registered the slip-up of that secret before Shuno, in a odd reversal of roles floated up and swatted Tsubaki upside the head.

"You idiot." Shuno said waspishly.

Ichigo laid at the bottom of the shaft, trying to shut out the ache he could already feel in his chain of fate.

"I've already tried every way I can think of to climb out of here, and it's not working." Ichigo thought in dismay. "Maybe… maybe Hat-and-Clogs was lying about the true goal of this task, and trying to distract me? I can't see how climbing out would repair my chain of fate."

"But what would repair my chain of fate and restore my powers, then?" He thought.

Ichigo did his best to get comfortable, taking a seated pose, and closed his eyes to mull it over.

"King..."

Ichigo jumped, looking around blindly for the source of the voice he heard, only flinch as his chain started to eat itself again.

"Well, lookee here." Jinta said.

Ichigo saw the boy, holding a plate of food. "What are you doing here?"

"Just making sure you get your meal," Jinta said casually. "You know, before we have to kil you."

"Unlikely," Ichigo snapped. "My chain still has a few links in it."

"Really now?" Jinta said. "You do know it's been around 70 hours, right? Most souls already hollowfy by now."

Ichigo's eye widen in panic as he registers the statement.

"One last thing," Jinta says as he climbs out. "The final encroachment is nothing like the others."

Just then, the remainder of Ichigo's chains exploded into a mass of canibilizing mouths.

"Wha-" Ichigo was cut off the sudden pain in his chest as the links ate each other at a alarming rate.

"No...No!" Ichigo cried in terror and agony. "STOP! STOP IT!"

His cries were to no avail however, as his chains ate each other in to nothing as a hole where his heart should be was revealed.

The next sensation was horrific, as if his skull was melting and gushing out of his face.

He screamed as white foam erupted from his mouth, eyes, and nostrils and formed a mask on his face.

"Looks like he's going hollow after all." Jinta said.

Ururu rose her fist. "It's time I rescued him."

"Hold it." Urahara stated. "Watch closely. Nothing more."

"Master Kisuke?" Ururu replied, unsure if the man was willing to let the boy go hollow.

"Normally, when a soul becomes a Hollow, it violently explodes before reforming in a hollow form, and finally forming a mask." Urahara explains. "Kurosaki is the opposite, with his mask being the first step of the hollowfication which shows that he's still resisting and can still become a Shinigami."

Ichigo's pain met it's peak as agony shot through his entire body.

Despite the pain however, he was still able to hear a voice.

"Can ya hear me, King?"

Ichigo woke up, gasping frantically where he laid.

When Ichigo was capable of getting he took a look at his surroundings, seeing he was on top of a large sideways skyscraper.

"What the hell is this place?" Ichigo wondered.

"Can't you recognize your own spirit world, King" A voice mocked from behind him.

"That's the voice I've been hearing!" Ichigo thought in shock, looking behind him to see something shocking.

It was him.

A pale white version of him in color-flipped shinigami clothes.

"Who are you?" Ichigo asked.

"Really Ichigo?" The other Ichigo looked at him as if he asked a stupid question. "It's me! ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️!

Ichigo frowned. "I couldn't get out his name."

The other Ichigo frowned too. "You still can't hear me? What does it take to get through that thick skull of yours?"

Before Ichigo could offer a rebuttal to this, the ground started to shake and both the Ichigos started to fall.

"Looks like you're running out of time." The white Ichigo stated. "Unless you want to go hollow, you'd better find me, and quickly!"

"Wait, aren't you right here?!" Ichigo said in confusion and panic.

"No, you idiot!" White Ichigo said. "I meant 'me'! My zanpakto! Your Zanpakto!"

"My zanpakto?" Ichigo gasped. "What are you talking about? Byakuya destroyed my Shinigami powers!"

"Byakuya destroyed the power you got from Rukia." The white Ichigo objected. "You still have Shinigami powers of your own, dumbass! Remember how you were able to get out of Rukia's Bakudo spell even before you got her powers? No ordinary human could have done that on there own! What other explanation could there be?!"

"Well how do I find it?" Ichigo asked.

"The boxes raining down!" The white Ichigo yelled. "Find the one with Shinigami powers!"

That was the last thing Ichigo heard before he hit the water.

"Hope he finds it." The white Ichigo said, a mild amount of concern on his face. "In most situations, I'd just take over, but I don't like my chances with that hat-and-clogs bastard."

"Who is this other me?" Orihime asked, wanting to know more about her powers.

"The other you is the true source of the powers living in your soul." Ayame said.

"We are merely the representations of that power." Hinagiku added.

"But she is also the most wild and untamed interpretation of your thoughts and emotions." Baigon stated.

"You weren't supposed to know about her until you got a grasp on this power." Shuno said, giving Tsubaki the stink eye.

"In my defense," Tsubaki growled. "She needs to be able to fend for herself, and she simply doesn't have the will to hurt, let alone what 'she' could do!"

"But I'm a pacifist!" Orihime protested. "I don't like hurting people!"

"And that's the problem!" Tsubaki said. "Your power increases in proportion to your resolve, but you're too forgiving! It took your best friend nearly being killed in front of you to use me in a way that wouldn't get you flat out killed against someone component."

"I'd rather not admit it, but Tsubaki's right." Shuno admitted. "Your pacifistic nature, while great in most cases, is not something very helpful in battle."

Orihime frowned, knowing well that her powers more restricted to healing and blocking at the moment.

"You were capable of causing harm to save your friends weren't you?" Yoruichi said, making her eyes widen in surprise, before narrowing in determination.

"I'll have to just see this other me then!" Orihime said.

"Are you sure Orihime?" Chad questioned, concern on his face. "This other you seems pretty scary."

"Yes I am." Orihime said. "I don't want to be left in the dust by my friends. I want to fight along side them."

"To fight along side them..." Chad suddenly remembered his promise to Ichigo, to fight anything that came their way along side each other.

"I made a promise," He thought deeply. "And I'm want to keep it!"

A glow covered his right arm, and when the glow subsided, the same black armor with red lines that saved his and Karin's lives covered his arm.

"I...I did it!" Chad exclaimed.

"Good." Yoruichi said. "Now it's time for your training. Orihime, can you handle yourself while we go out?"

"Yeah, I plan to." Orihime said with a grin. "Good joke by the way."

Youruichi blinked as he processed the fact that Orihime was quite literally planning to handle herself in a moment.

"Oh wow." Yoruchi said with a chuckle as they left. "I didn't mean that joke at all."

"Okay guys," Orihime asked. "How do I call the other me out?"

"That's the tricky part." Ayame said. "You can't."

"Huh?"

"Your other self, Shun Shun Rikka, is unable to come out in the real world without switching places with you." Shuno said. "Your reaitsu isn't developed enough."

"How do I talk to her then?" Orihime asked.

"You must go inside your spirit world," Tsubaki stated. "And confront her there!"

"A warning first," Shuno said cautiously. "She may attack you if you aren't careful."

"What?! Why!?" Orihime exclaimed in shock. She was aware that her other self was wilder than herself, but she couldn't possibly have any reason to harm herself!

"You are aware of your devotion to Ichigo, right?" Shuno said.

Orihime nodded with a blush.

"Well, so is she." Tsubaki stated. "If you give any indication that you won't be able to help him, Shun Shun Rikka might try to subdue you and take your body by force."

Orihime swallowed, she knew training was going to be hard, but losing her body to another version of herself sounded rather frightening.

"Do you still wish to continue?" Shuno asked.

It only took a moment before she steeled herself. "Yes I do."

This fairies looked somewhat surprised before steeling themselves as well.

"Okay," Ayame said. "Close your eyes."

Orihime obliged as the fairies reverted back to hairpins.

"You might want to brace yourself." Tsubaki added.

"Wait. Brace myself for whaaaaaaaat!" Orihime's question was drowned out by her scream of surprise and alarm as felt her mind get dragged into itself, the sensation, while not painful, was incredibly overwhelming.

And then it was over, and Orihime found herself on all fours, panting on the ground.

When she got up, she instantly realized she wasn't in the store anymore.

Rather, she was right infront of an enormous castle that seemed to reach the very heavens themselves.

"Is this..." Orihime gaped. "My spirit world?"

"Yes it is." A familiar voice stated.

Orihime jumped and looked behind her to see her fairies.

Only they were a normal size.

Just like his double had said, he was surrounded by hundreds of indistinguishable white boxes.

"How am I supposed to find my power in one box out of all of this?" He thought. "There has to be some kind of trick to it…"

Uryuu's words from long ago came back to Ichigo. "Yes…" A smirk appeared on his face. "He said that Shinigami power is distinguished by red-colored spiritual ribbons!"

Ichigo did his best to focus his senses and call forth the spiritual ribbons of the boxes around him.

"Come on, where is it… there!" Ichigo caught a glimpse of red out of the corner of his eye and immediately began swimming towards it, grabbing the end of the ribbon and following it through the water.

In moments, he came to the box on the other end, and he opened it immediately, revealing the hilt of a Zanpakuto.

"Nice one King!" The white Ichigo praised, appearing right behind him. "You found me easier than I Thought. Hopefully, you'll hear my name soon."

Ichigo grinned and pulled out the sword.

Ichigo roared, destroying the bondage and bolts restraining him and blowing away the sealing cube crashing down on him.

Acting on pure Instinct, he jumped to the top of the shattered shaft and landed with a crash.

"Hey Carrot-Top!" He heard a voice. "If you're alive, answer me!"

He looked at the source of the voice, seeing Jinta, Ururu, and Urahara looking at him.

"Hollow mask and Shinigami robes," Jinta stated. "Is he Hollow or Shinigami?"

It's about at this time Ichigo realized he still had the mask on.

He grabbed the mask and took it off, revealing his face.

"Looks like you managed to avoid going hollow," Urahara said with a smirk. "And become a Shinigami again! Well done!"

"Shut up!" Ichigo snapped, unsheathing his blade, or rather what's left of it, and whacking him with the hilt.

"Betcha didn't think I'd get out alive did you?!" He snarled. "I swore to myself that if I managed to get out of that hole, I'd kill you the chance that I'd get!"

"Good then." Urahara said with a smug grin that only enraged Ichigo further. "Guess we can get to lesson three quickly. All you have to do is knock my hat off my head!"

Unsurprisingly, Ichigo immediately charged Urahara with a swing of his sword, the slash carrying winds that were felt by Jinta and Ururu a few feet away.

"Woah." Jinta said.

"Pretty good! I didn't think that you could make a slash like that with your sword in that state." He slowly withdrew a sword from the inside of his cane. "I guess I'll have to see just how you much you can do."

Ichigo smirked, drawing reaitsu to his sword. "Bring it!"

Orihime looked around to see her world. "This place is beautiful."

"It sure is." Ayame agreed.

"We didn't come here to sight see!" Tsubaki snapped "We have shit to do here!"

"Oh come now Tsubaki." Shuno scolded. "We won't get anywhere rushing her."

"So where's Shun Shun Rikka?" Orihime asked.

All of the faries paused. "I'm not really sure." Shuno said. "She's usually close by when we get called back."

"But haven't I only used you once?" Orihime asked. "What if that not always the case?"

"Good point." Baigon replied. "Well no time like the present."

Baigon lifted Orihime up onto his shoulder and started to walk toward the castle, the others trailing behind him.

"Why thank you Baigon." Orihime said.

"Don't it mention it." Baigon replied.

Orihime and her faries walked around the castle, going up floor after floor to find Shun Shun Rikka with little success.

By the time they got to the top, Orihime was really confused.

Said top floor was an room shaped like her bedroom, only blown up to an enormous size.

Her bed was king sized, windows adorned the place from all sides, and a throne sat on top of a stair case.

"Where is she?" Orihime thought. "Do you guys think she's okay?"

"Yes." Hinagiku stated. "There's nothing that could of happened that would impact this world, by extension us, negatively."

"Are you sure?" Orihime said, her concern for the missing part of herself apparent.

"She's part of your soul." Lily assured her. "I think you'd know if she weren't."

Orihime still wanted to see her other self though, and looked out one of the windows for any sign of anyone.

She didn't see anyone.

"What now?" Orihime asked.

"I honestly have no idea." Tsubaki said. "This wasn't supposed to happen. It's not like she's shy or anything."

"Perhaps you simply aren't ready to meet your other self yet." Lily suggested.

For a few seconds, Orihime said nothing. "I'm not ready? Do I still not have the resolve yet?"

"Maybe it's that." Hinagiku stated. "Have no worry. We can still train the normal way."

Orihime nodded, albeit still somewhat disappointed by this development.

"First, let's go somewhere with less stuff to break." Baigon stated.

"Right." Orihime said. "Wait, I have an idea!"

Orihime went to a particularly large window, big enough for multiple grown men to jump out of. "Baigon! Hinagiku! Lily! Santen Kesshun! I reject!"

A large shield came out of three fairies.

"Orihime?" Baigon asked. "What are you doing?"

"I'm using your shield to float down out the window." Orihime answered.

"You're using our powers for that!?" Tsubaki said in outrage. "You little hussy!"

Orihime squeaked and ran behind the shield. "Wait! You guys need me to train with our powers right? Then using them a lot would help that!"

"She's got you there" Shuno said, riding on the shield.

Ayame and Lily quickly get on too, along with Orihime.

"...Fine." Tsubaki stomps on the shield, and they all float down out of the castle.

Ichigo's stump of a sword clashed with Urahara's cane blade as the two combatants glared at each other.

"Why is he using that cane sword?" Ichigo thought. "I'd thought the bastard would try to slice me open with his zanpakuto by now-"

"Glrk!" With little to no warning, Urahara's cane blade suddenly cut though Ichigo's blade like butter and scored a big hit on his shoulder.

"Fuck!" Ichigo yelped in pain. "What the-"

"Did you seriously think I'd attack you with a normal blade?" Urahara questioned, his face uncharacteristically grim.

Ichigo grimaced as he saw Urahara walk towards him, sword in hand.

Yet what drew his attention was the fact that the sword was shivering, in a manner that clearly wasn't Kisuke.

"That's your zanpakuto?!" Ichigo said in shock. "But it doesn't look like any sealed zanpakuto I've seen. And you pulled it out your cane!"

"I'm...somewhat used to modifying souls and others things to an extent." Urahara stated. "Making my zanpakuto unassuming is child's play."

Ichigo scowled as he narrowly dodged the blade before trying to counter with his.

Only for it to be blocked by the cane sword again,

"Right." Urahara smirked. "I believe it's time to start lesson three in earnest. Awaken, Benehime!"

"Finally!" Ichigo stumbled as a women's voice traveled from the sword into his.

Unfortunately, that distraction cost Ichigo dearly as Urahara's blade morphed into a vicious black sword with red string declarations and a glowing red aura.

Ichigo had just enough time to see the aura contort into a smile before Benehime cut through the rest of his sword and deeply into his other shoulder.

Ichigo jumped back, clutching his shoulder and wielding nothing more than a hilt and a guard.

"This is the finest blood you've ever given me dear." Benehime said to her wielder. "Can we play with him a little more?"

"I'm afraid we'll have to do so another time," Urahara stated. "We don't has a lot of time at the moment.".

"Phooey." She replied.

Ichigo on the other hand, was having flashbacks to his fight with Renji.

"Zanpakutos have names?" Ichigo asked.

"Right." Urahara answered. "When a soul reaper wishes to use the power of their zanpakuto, they say a release phrase and then call it's name."

"So that's why your sword cut through mine." Ichigo said.

"That's not the only reason." Urahara said. "Your sword isn't a real zanpakuto."

"Huh?" Ichigo blinked in shock.

"Your power didn't come back entirely." Urahara lectured. "What you held was merely your reaitsu molded into the shape of a blade. It had size and shape, but no internal strength. Even Benehime couldn't cut an actual zanpakuto into just the hilt so easily."

Benehime pulsed irritably. "...That's not to understate its power or anything." Urahara added a bit too quickly.

Ichigo would've enjoyed seeing the pin-striped bastard showing something close to fear considering the various crap he had his thrown his way and multiples attempts on his life, but he was still trying to find out how was he going to last another second against the tricky Soul Reaper with his sword destroyed.

"You could still try to take off my hat with that hilt," Urahara growled. "But if you try to do so, your willpower and luck won't stop us from killing you."

The red aura from his sword slowly traveled up the man's body, as if he was being covered in a haze of blood.

Most terrifying however, was the thin outline of a women covered in blood on Benehime's edge.

Ichigo ran for his life, not wanting to see what the blade was going to do.

However, Urahara easily caught up to him and slashed him all over.

"Damn it!" He thought. "Is this all power I can muster? I can't do anything like this! This is pathetic!"

"Come on King." A familiar voice rang out. "You have no business giving up without calling my name!"

The world around him seemed to slow to a crawl, even Urahara's pursuit of Ichigo stopped.

"Quit being scared..." The white Ichigo said, suddenly appearing next to him. "And start getting pissed."

"You..." Ichigo said in shock.

"Just say my name..and watch the fireworks." The albino doppelgänger said with a smirk.

Confidence suddenly flowed through Ichigo from the hilt he still carried.

He knew what he had to do.

Urahara watched as Ichigo suddenly stopped in the middle of his retreat.

"He stopped." Jinta said. "What's going on?"

"Running is for cowards."

Ichigo turned to Urahara.

"Fear is for weaklings."

His grip tightened on this hilt.

"NOW SHOUT OUT MY NAME!"

"Tear the sky asunder, ZANGETSU!"

An explosion of reiatsu came from Ichigo, rushing towards Urahara.

A swing of Benehime stopped the blast in its tracks, but he still had to grab his hat to keep it from flying away.

When Ichigo was revealed, the hilt he held had transformed into what appeared to be a giant meat cleaver with cloth wrapped around the handle.

"What kinda zanpakuto is that?" Jinta asked in gob smacked dumbfoundment. "There's no hilt or guard on it, and it isn't even shaped like a normal sword. I think his last sword looked better to me."

"I heard that, you little shit!" Zangetsu snapped, making everyone jump in shock. "After I'm done with this jackass, you're next!"

"Huh." Urahara said, impressed. "Even the Zanpakutos of captain class reapers get tired after raising their voices to a point where people other than their wielders can hear them. Yet that blade could do so the first time it was released."

"Hey Hat-and-Clogs!" Ichigo yelled. "I think it's payback time!"

Ichigo raised his arm, unconsciously blasting off the seals on it as he gathered his reiatsu to his blade.

Urahara paled as he felt the amount of reiatsu being packed in that blade.

"Oh shit." Benehime said.

"SCREAM, BENEHIME!" Urahara roared, as Ichigo swung his sword.

BOOM!

An explosion comparable to a missile hit rocked the area, as Tessai covered the kids from the shockwave.

After a few seconds, Jinta got up to see the damage.

"Wow." Urahara stated. "I Didn't think you would be able to do something like that with just one swing of your sword."

It was at this point that Jinta realized that his hat was gone.

It took a second after that to realize that most of the place had obliterated, as if a natural disaster had happened.

Urahara raised Benehime, to see that sword was cracked.

It wasn't a very big crack, and something any Shinigami of moderate competence could fix with ease.

But to damage his sword was an achievement only two other people accomplished.

"You are one scary kid." Urahara admitted, looking at that teenager sleeping on his sword, clearly overtaxed by his insane feat. "Lesson three cleared."

"Tsubaki! Koten Zasshun! I reject!"

Tsubaki tore through the air, cutting the various plates found in the castle in half.

"Ayame! Shuno! Sōten Kisshun! I reject!"

And just like that, the plates were back to normal.

Orihime gasped and on to her backside as she ran out of reiatsu.

"Get up." Tsubaki stated. "We have no time for dawdling."

"Sorry." Orihime gasped. "Feel. Really. Tired."

"You sure you can go on?" Shuno asked.

"Yeah." Orihime said, breath coming back to her. "Just. Give me. A minute."

She was really tired, but Rukia needed her and Ichigo, and there would be no way that she let her get hurt cause she wasn't trying hard enough.

Then a question came to her, something that nagged at her hard. "Uh Guys?"

"What is it Orihime?" Ayame asked.

"I'm low on reiatsu right?" Orihime asked.

"Yes."

"But if this is my spirit world, where does it go?" Orihime asked.

"Well," Tsubaki says. "It simply disperses inside you."

"Reiatsu used in the Inner world isn't really used." Hinagiku added. "As a result, you recover it much faster than in the outside world."

"That explains why I can do so much here," Orihime said. "But fainted after one use of each shield saving Tatsuki."

"Enough talk!" Tsubaki stated. "You still want to go on right?"

"Yes!" Orihime said, eyes filled with determination.

"Well, let's go!" Lily stated.

"Right! Baigon! Hinagiku! Lily! Santen Kesshun! I reject!"

"Tsubaki! Koten Zasshun!"