Ichigo Kurosaki, Stripped of His Powers

Ichigo Kurosaki's pupils contracted.

The world before him had turned completely upside down.

Shinji Hirako, who should have been hanging upside down, instead appeared to be standing normally in midair.

While he himself was suspended upside down in the sky.

"Pretty amazing, isn't it? The world turned upside down."

Shinji Hirako pulled his mask upward, revealing his face.

Without giving it much thought, Ichigo Kurosaki vanished from where he stood and appeared beside Shinji Hirako, swinging his blade at him.

The blade passed through Shinji Hirako's body.

"Up and down, left and right, front and back—everything you see is reversed."

Shinji Hirako spoke slowly.

He appeared to Ichigo Kurosaki's left, his blade chasing after him in a slash.

Ichigo Kurosaki raised his sword to block.

Yet the other man's blade passed through his sword, and when it struck his body, the wound appeared on the opposite side.

Ichigo Kurosaki vanished from the spot and looked at Shinji Hirako.

"Can you fight when everything is reversed, Kurosaki?"

Shinji Hirako asked with a light chuckle.

"You can't, can you? No one can possibly do that."

"In battle, everyone relies on their vision. Their fighting is governed by what they see."

"My Sakanade turns that ability to fight through visual reliance into an illusion."

Shinji Hirako charged at Ichigo Kurosaki and slashed toward his left.

Ichigo Kurosaki blocked to the right, but a wound appeared on his back instead.

"Still not admitting defeat? There's no point in continuing this fight. You're no match for me."

Shinji Hirako asked Ichigo Kurosaki.

"You only need to join the Visored."

Ichigo Kurosaki wavered.

The other man's ability was simply too troublesome. Perhaps joining them would bring all of this to an end.

"Tch." Shinji Hirako sneered.

He saw through Ichigo Kurosaki's thoughts. Ichigo Kurosaki had already