After returning to Soul Society, Jun did everything except the duties of a captain of the Tenth Division.
Today she's here training apprentices, tomorrow she's there teaching students, and the day after she's even taken on two friends' kids for months on end. Every time Rangiku comes to Jun with documents signed by Tōshirō to ask for his opinion, Jun only has one answer.
"Let Tōshirō handle it. Go ahead and do it. If he doesn't do it well, I'll take the blame."
Two years passed in this way, during which the two biggest events occurred. First, Byakuya became the head of the Kuchiki Clan, and Hisana and Rukia officially became members of the Kuchiki Clan. Second, Kenpachi Zaraki became Jun's disciple, mainly because Tachikawa Shiu brought her cousin, Tachikawa Reihei, to study with Jun, and Kenpachi Zaraki joined them as well.
To be honest, Kenpachi Zaraki's stats are the most amazing I've ever seen: Spiritual Pool 1790, Reiatsu 532, Spiritual Reach 48, Spiritual Flow 522, and Spiritual Sensitivity 27.
It's unbelievable that someone with this attribute would exist. Just how much do you dislike using your Spiritual Power? Other people's attributes evolve, but you've actually degenerated in your Spiritual Reach and Spiritual Sensitivity over the past few hundred years, haven't you?
This old man's Spiritual Sensitivity is exceptionally low, almost unparalleled. For example, when it comes to drawing circles in the air with Spiritual Power, an average person with a finger's thickness could draw a circle the size of a washbasin, or at most, a circle no thicker than their little fingertip. But Kenpachi Zaraki, to accomplish this, needs Spiritual Power thicker than anyone else's, and he can draw a circle the size of a 400-meter race track.
This ability is truly unmatched; it's only because this person's Spiritual Flow is so strong that most people wouldn't be able to unleash so much Spiritual Power to complete such a Kongbu track.
So don't blame Kenpachi for not being able to synchronize his Spiritual Power with his Kenpachi and enter the Inner World to see his sword. It's simply that he's incapable of it; with his Spiritual Sensitivity agility, he can't even complete the first step.
Jun isn't incapable of helping Kenpachi, but it hasn't come to that point yet. Jun doesn't want to help him; Zaraki is stubborn and a fool, and Jun genuinely can't use him.
Two years later, Jun received an urgent message from Rangiku. Upon receiving the document, he discovered it was a request for feedback regarding a human who had gained Soul Reaper powers.
Jun narrowed his eyes. He recognized the name immediately: Kūgo Ginjō, the first Substitute Soul Reaper, and Ichigo Kurosaki's senior. He hadn't expected the gap between him and Ichigo to be so short. However, Kūgo Ginjō wasn't actually that old in the original story.
Jun immediately rushed to the First Division, where all the captains were. Jun was the last one there, and then began a long discussion.
The Soul Society has indeed changed somewhat due to the influence of modernization in the World of the Living, as evidenced by the case of Kūgo Ginjō. But do you really think he's the first living person to gain Soul Reaper powers?
Of course not. Actually, Kūgo Ginjō Ichigo Kurosaki, but not quite. He's more like Orihime Inoue or Yasutora Sado, but much stronger than the latter two.
Ichigo Kurosaki is special, but let's leave him out of that. Let's talk about Orihime Inoue, Yasutora Sado, and other Fullbringers like Kūgo Ginjō and Shūkurō Tsukishima. What do they all have in common? The answer is one thing: they all have incredibly high Spiritual Power perception.
In fact, such people have always existed in human society. Some ancient practitioners of Yin-Yang techniques were like this. Most of them were indeed fake, but we are talking about the genuine ones.
In the world of Soul Reaper, this small group of true Onmyoji possesses only a weak Spiritual Power sense. Those familiar with the series Natsume's Book of Friends might understand this better; Natsume can fully see yokai, while the character Kaname Tanuma can only see shadows and vaguely sense yokai.
These are true practitioners of Yin-Yang magic. Kūgo Ginjō is the kind of person who can completely see Soul Reaper, souls, and Hollows. Orihime Inoue and Yasutora Sado are the latter, those who can vaguely sense them.
The former Kūgo Ginjō, would awaken his powers if he had just one chance to come into contact with Spiritual Power. Similarly, Orihime Inoue and Yasutora Sado would awaken their powers after repeated exposure to Spiritual Power. Therefore, Kūgo Ginjō is not the first living person to possess Soul Reaper powers; he is merely the first modern person to do Soul Reaper. Those from ancient times were all killed.
Times have indeed changed. Even these kinds of issues need to be discussed. Jun didn't offer any constructive opinions because he knew someone would eventually step in. Just like in the original work, Jūshirō Ukitake proposed the position of Substitute Soul Reaper, and of course, uttered that same pointless line about killing anyone who rebelled on the spot.
There are tons of defectors in Soul Society, but none of them were killed on the spot. Kūgo Ginjō created a Fullbring Organization, and they're doing just fine. Sigh... Ukitake is good in every way, except he's so prone to making assumptions.
After the meeting, Jun learned the whole story from the Second Division. By the way, with Yoruichi gone and Soi Fon in power, the retainers of the Shihoin Family were extremely satisfied. As a result, the Second Division began to extend goodwill to the other divisions and cooperated very well with the other captains. Anyway, so many years have passed, and they haven't targeted anyone, right?
Furthermore, this group has severed ties with the Central 46. They really played the "using and discarding" card well. By the way, what family was that that killed Isuzu back then? Oh right, Higashiyama. That family was thrown out by the Second Division to appease Jun, and the entire family, young and old, was wiped out.
This was because Jun's development back then was too rapid. The reason why the letter Jun received was in an inquiring tone was because Jun had established a new Gotei 13 in Hueco Mundo, and its power was unimaginable. At that time, there were rumors in Soul Society that Jun Shimizu was going to establish his own independent force in Hueco Mundo.
Therefore, the old man treated Chun with great courtesy upon her return, which was only right. Moreover, Chun's family rank had risen to that of a mid-level noble, but Chun didn't care at all. What Chun cared about more was the increase in her secrecy level, which would allow her to investigate and find more secret documents.
So Chun went to the Second Division to inquire about information, Second Division practically treated Chun like a grandfather, giving him whatever he wanted. They were almost ready to have two maids fan him while reading to him.
Kūgo Ginjō is quite the goofball. Before becoming Substitute Soul Reaper, he was a local bully and a school Ichigo Kurosaki. Because of his Spiritual Power, his physique is extremely strong, and his regenerative abilities far surpass those of ordinary people.
With such abilities, coupled with having witnessed countless supernatural events since childhood and even killed Kūgo Ginjō would be afraid of so-called school bullying? This kind of person could blow up the entire school!
But this kind of person is also arrogant. He doesn't have many friends at school, basically like Ichigo Kurosaki. He also got into a fight one day, and his relationship with his family isn't good either. He's a rebellious teenager.
So, he was strolling through the streets late at night when he ended up in a park. There, he was spotted by a Hollow. Be careful, even a Hollow of the Evil Spirit level is no match for this. In the original work, the Hollow that attacked Rukia was created by Aizen; if it were an ordinary Evil Spirit Hollow Ichigo Kurosaki.
The Spiritual Power of Kūgo Ginjō and Ichigo Kurosaki is Shikai Zanpakuto after awakening? It's because their Spiritual Power is too strong, and combined with the fact that the human body is a storage device for Spiritual Power, their attack power is simply too much for lower-level Hollow energy to withstand.
However, there's still a gap between Kūgo Ginjō and Ichigo Kurosaki. He couldn't defeat a Hollow Evil Spirit in just a couple of hits; it would take at least seventeen or eighteen. Over the past ten years, Kūgo Ginjō has gone from being terrified of Hollows as a child to beating them up for fun.
Today I encountered an Evil Spirit Hollow, the kind that's incredibly tough to beat. Kūgo Ginjō was laughing hysterically. Those losers at school are no match for it at all. And the biggest problem is, if you kill a living person, you're responsible, but if you kill this thing, you just kill it!
So, since Kūgo Ginjō can kill Hollows, do you think he can't kill Soul Reaper? Of course, it's not that he killed the Soul Reaper, but rather that while he was having a great time fighting the Hollows and wanted to play a little longer, the Soul Reaper stationed in their city appeared, just like the Explosion -haired uncle, Kuroten Zennosuke, in Karakura Town in the original work.
The Soul Reaper shouted loudly, assuming that Kūgo Ginjō was the one being attacked. He acted as if Kūgo Ginjō couldn't hear him, and that normal people couldn't hear him, and stood in front of Kūgo Ginjō.
Kūgo Ginjō had seen this guy countless times. Seeing him appear, he knew he was doomed. But here's the problem: it was a Hollow Evil Spirit, and this Soul Reaper Kūgo Ginjō no match for it. He was quickly beaten into a state of utter helplessness by the Hollow Evil Spirit.
This was the first time Kūgo Ginjō had witnessed Soul Reaper defeat. Of course, the Soul Reaper wasn't in any immediate danger, at least not yet. So Kūgo Ginjō walked over, punched the Hollow Evil Spirit aside, and then looked at the Soul Reaper.
"Hey~ you shouted so loudly, but I didn't expect you to be so weak."
"Huh!?" The Soul Reaper was dumbfounded. "You can see me? You can hear me?"
"Are you an idiot?" Kūgo Ginjō snatched the Zanpakuto guarding the Soul Reaper, played with it for a moment (Soul Reaper items are made of Reishi, very light), and said, "Hey~ hey~, are you guys going to fight with toys like this?"
"Ah~", Soul Reaper's jaw almost dropped to the ground.
The Evil Spirit Hollow wasn't dead yet. Kūgo Ginjō glanced at the sword in his hand, then swung it and cleaved the Evil Spirit Hollow in two. The Grim Soul Reaper's jaw dropped in shock. What kind of attack power was that? It was probably only a single-digit number!
But Kūgo Ginjō? He continued toying with his Zanpakuto, utterly bewildered, clapping his hands, "Heh heh~, it's actually pretty good, isn't it? Is this thing specifically designed to cut down those Hollowfication Mask youkai?"
"That's a Hollow! A Hollow! This is Zanpakuto! No way! Ugh, it's a thing!" Even the Soul Reaper stationed there were almost speechless.
However, for Kūgo Ginjō, what did it matter to him what such a weak Soul Reaper said? If he was going to waste his breath, he would just take care of him along with that Hollowfication Mask monster. Anyway, no one could see it, so killing him was no big deal.
After playing with the Zanpakuto for a while, Kūgo Ginjō began to wonder if this toy sword was sharp enough to cut him. So, this goofball took the sword, placed it on his arm, and surprisingly, it actually cut open a wound.
However, although a wound appeared, it didn't bleed. When Kūgo Ginjō touched the wound, he discovered it wasn't real; it was a wound only he could see.
"Oh my gosh~?"
"Hey! What are you doing?"
The Soul Reaper discovered the problem, while Kūgo Ginjō, in a comical move, stabbed himself in the stomach. Feeling no pain, he decided to commit suicide for fun. Then, the Soul Reaper encountered the Zanpakuto, and the Soul Reaper Power flowed into Kūgo Ginjō's body.
It wasn't actually the Soul Reaper Power; it was just active Spiritual Power that had completed its Reishi Quality. Anyone with active Spiritual Power could do it, even if they weren't Soul Reaper. This active Spiritual Power activated Kūgo Ginjō's Spiritual Power, and he awakened it.