Ichigo discovered he could do it; he completely absorbed the force of the attack. He wasn't sent flying or forced to his knees. He had...
"When will you ever get serious during a fight, you bastard!? Huh~!?"
With just a slight distraction, Ichigo was sent flying by a single slash. Then, White Shunpo above him and delivered a downward slash. Ichigo, having lost the initiative, had no chance to block the attack and was sent into the building's interior, before being blasted out of the building by another slash.
This is the first time Ichigo has seen the entirety of his own Inner World, and now he is falling downwards. Meanwhile, White can travel back and forth in this world, causing Ichigo immense suffering.
Ichigo has nowhere to land. If he keeps falling downwards, he will fall out of this Inner World, from among the countless buildings. This terrifies him. He desperately needs to grab onto a building so he can have a foothold.
Hehe~
Hehe~
The source of that laughter was what prevented Ichigo from landing. Hollow White discovered Ichigo's weakness, so he didn't give Ichigo a chance to land. He could perfectly maneuver between buildings, always managing to knock Ichigo off course just as Ichigo was about to land.
"You bastard!!" Ichigo was now facing his own Endless fear, because he felt he was going to die.
Although the number of buildings in the distance still Endless, the feeling of falling made Ichigo feel utterly insecure. Panic lingered in Ichigo mind, growing stronger and stronger, making it impossible for him to think or even breathe.
Hehe~
White's arrogant laughter was everywhere, flooding Ichigo's mind like a demonic intrusion. This feeling enraged Ichigo, and after Ichigo prolonged oppression of death, Ichigo chose to give up. Yes, he gave up. So be it, he'd die.
Right now, Ichigo only has one thing on his mind: to chop White to pieces. Since he's going to die anyway, he might as well take this annoying guy down with him before he dies.
So Ichigo saw White, and in that one glance, he saw how White moved through buildings. When White arrived near a building, it felt like entering another world; the stairs themselves possessed gravity, attracting White to fall.
Ichigo, however, was different. Ichigo kept flying downwards, towards the direction of his feet. This discovery surprised Ichigo. Why could White do that? Why couldn't he?
However, just as he was thinking this, Ichigo noticed that the nearest staircase suddenly had a gravitational pull, drawing him towards it and causing him to land on the building, just like at the very beginning.
Everything around him had changed. Before, when he was looking down, Ichigo was standing parallel to the building he was standing on now, but now that he was on top of it, it was amazing. His perspective had changed in an instant, and he had readjusted his orientation in all directions.
With a sudden turn and a slash, Ichigo blocked White's attack. Standing atop this building, Ichigo felt an immense sense of power.
However, White's power suddenly increased, forcing Ichigo backward. Ichigo couldn't adapt to this immense power, but Ichigo Kurosaki's only strength was his passive adaptability. He shouted and exerted all his strength, and actually managed to stand still.
"Die!!" Ichigo suddenly unleashed a burst of power, forcing White back. This was the first time he had ever forced White back. Ichigo didn't have time to think, because White charged at him again.
Only advance, never retreat – that's the fighting style White taught Ichigo. Since you have the speed advantage, and if you can't win a fight, you can always run away, finding opportunities is secondary; recklessness is the only true essence.
On the other hand, given that Ichigo Kurosaki has only had a few months of training and has fought fewer than a hundred battles, what makes him think that the enemy's weaknesses he sees are the real weaknesses?
Ichigo Kurosaki doesn't actually possess such an ability. Most of the openings he sees are actually traps set by others, so whether or not these openings exist has little impact on the battle, at least not on Ichigo Kurosaki.
White finally made him understand this, and so the battle at this moment became two brutes against one brute.
Ichigo cleaved White away, White's Reiatsu exploded, and he flew back even faster, cleaving Ichigo away as well. Ichigo's Reiatsu exploded again, and he flew back even faster, cleaving White away.
The two fought with increasing recklessness, completely ignoring their surroundings, and their power grew stronger and stronger. Their combined strength quickly shattered the staircase they were using as a foothold, but Ichigo instantly found another spot and clashed with White above him.
Ichigo seemed to master the readjustment of the Inner World instantly; Ichigo clashes with White were repeated time and again, causing destruction to the Inner World time and time again.
However, Ichigo couldn't care less about anything else at this point. All he could see was White; he had to kill White! Absolutely!
He no longer heard White's arrogant laughter, nor could he see White's figure anymore. He was still charging, still recklessly destroying buildings.
Ichigo was laughing maniacally.
Hehe~
In an instant, Ichigo realized what had happened. His Inner World had been smashed to Ichigo; the building was gone, leaving only chaos and ruins. Ichigo touched his face; a hard Hollowfication Mask was on his skin. He wanted to tear Hollowfication Mask off.
Ah~!
The pain was excruciating, unbearable, like having his face torn off, and blood was flowing. Ichigo sensed someone's arrival, looked up, and saw Uncle Zangetsu.
Are you awake?
"I," Ichigo asked, bewildered, "Who am I?"
"Yes," Uncle Zangetsu's gaze was extremely complicated, "Who are you?"
"I," the man looked around at the ruins, and suddenly felt a wave of fear, then fell "down" again.
He fell into the ruins, surrounded by countless rubble. He kept falling and falling, feeling the ruins around him increasing. A violent urge to kill and destroy arose in his mind, however...
In that instant, he regained his senses and shouted, "I am Ichigo Kurosaki!"
Ichigo landed on a building, and the surroundings returned to their original state, as if it had all been a dream. Ichigo looked around blankly, finally spotting Uncle Zangetsu floating up from the edge of the building.
"Who are you?"
"I am Ichigo Kurosaki"
"Who are you!?"
"I am Ichigo Kurosaki!"
"Who are you!!?"
"I..." Ichigo was completely bewildered, but then he suddenly remembered, "Where's White?" So he asked, "Where's White?"
However, the moment the question left his lips, a tremendous tearing sensation erupted within his body—excruciating pain! Incredible pain! It felt as if his soul had been ripped in two. After a moment of dizziness, White appeared before him.
"Hehehe~! Die!!"
The battle resumes
Hirako returned from his patrol and rested for a while. He sensed Ichigo's presence and discovered he wasn't inside the building. Therefore, there was only one possibility: he was in the Training Grounds, which were separate from the villa.
He took out beer and grilled squid from the refrigerator, Hirako with a piece of squid dangling from his mouth, he swaggered upstairs, opened the door to the Training Ground, and in an instant...
A gigantic, blood-red eye appeared in the doorway, completely filling it. The eye, shrouded in endless black mist, glanced at Hirako once, and then the door slammed shut.
The squid strips fell to the ground, Hirako's hands were covered in beer, from the crushed beer can he'd squeezed—a long-forgotten feeling of fear. But Hirako refused to open that door now.
"What is that?" Hirako swallowed hard, still unable to calm down. His voice trembled slightly. He swallowed Mod Soul, letting the Mod Soul clean up the ground, Hirako his own.
The moment Hirako saw the sunlight, she felt as if she had been reborn.
"Phew~ What's that?"
Hirako was a remarkably bold person with an extremely strong sense of curiosity; otherwise, he could have remained uninvolved over a hundred years ago. Unlike Kensei Muguruma, Love Aikawa, and others, he entered this situation on his own initiative, not through Aizen's scheme.
He also saw through Aizen's stealth Kidō; it wasn't Kyōka Suigetsu, because Hirako couldn't distinguish Kyōka Suigetsu. It was a normal Kidō, but very few people could recognize it.
It was this discovery that drove Aizen to a dead end, leaving him no choice but to turn them all into experimental subjects. Aizen himself had been seen through it, he certainly couldn't let them go back.
Now, Hirako's old habits resurfaced. He walked resolutely back to the fourth floor, opened the door, but as if he had been dreaming, there was nothing inside.
"Oh~ Hirako- san, you're back."
Ichigo's voice came through the phone. Hirako looked over and saw it was still Ichigo, unchanged.
Ichigo was still Ichigo. He carried Zangetsu towards Hirako, asking as he walked, "Hirako- san, what time is it?"
4:16
"Oh~ my body is coming back, haha, I'm feeling a bit hungry, time to eat~"
Ichigo walked past Hirako watched Ichigo descend the stairs and suddenly asked, "Hey~, didn't anything happen to you just now?"
"Huh?" Ichigo turned around, looking bewildered. "What are you talking about?"
"Uh, it's nothing."
"Baffling"
Ichigo scratched his head, turned and went downstairs. Hirako watched Ichigo disappear, then fell into deep thought.
Later that evening, Ichigo's Mod Soul returned with the other Visoreds, whom they had encountered on the way. After waiting for another half hour, Hachigen Ushōda and the others returned with food, which became their dinner.
Ichigo returned to his body and, for the first time in over ten days, indulged in a hearty meal, eating with incredible relish.
Several younger Visored were shocked by Ichigo's eating habits. "Hey, hey~, you eat your own, why are you stealing ours?"
Ichigo chuckled and took a few more pieces of fried chicken, placing them on his side. "Hehe, this is for everyone, but I ate a bit too much today."
"You bastard, that's not enough!"
"Then buy more! I don't care, I want to eat!"
It looked like a fight was about to break out, but it was just a joke. Ichigo that meal, but the others didn't really care. Their bodies were Gigai, not human, so they wouldn't have any problems even if they didn't eat.
After finishing his meal, Ichigo suddenly stood up and said, "Thank you all for taking care of me these past few days. I'm leaving now."
"Huh?", "Huh~!?"
The Visoreds were all bewildered, but Hirako, recalling the events of his return that afternoon, was certain it wasn't a hallucination; something had definitely happened to Ichigo.
"You have no more questions?"
"Ah," Ichigo nodded, "I've already taken control of my Visored."
"Is that so? Well, that's what you came here for. Now that you can control it, you can go back."
Ichigo bowed to everyone, "I'm so grateful for everyone's kindness these past few days! Thank you so much!"
"Well, see you later."
Hi! See you later!
And so, Ichigo completed his training and left the Visored's base.