In a Hasty Two Hundred Years! Azashiro: I Suspect Teacher Araki Has Completely Surpassed Soul Reapers!

After Azashiro Sōya became Araki's disciple...

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, a hundred years had passed.

The 1st Division Captain's Office.

"Little Sōya, you passed~"

Unohana Retsu sheathed her Zanpakuto and spoke to Azashiro Sōya before her with a cheerful smile.

"I passed?!"

Upon hearing Unohana Retsu's words, Azashiro Sōya showed no joy. He merely looked at Unohana Retsu before him in slight confusion, unable to believe what he had just heard even now...

Yes. In the hundred-odd years since Azashiro Sōya had become Araki's disciple, he had long since lost count of how many times Unohana Retsu, his master's wife, had cut him down with that seemingly ordinary Zanpakuto.

He only felt that his mind had become utterly numb over those hundred years. His body could no longer feel even the slightest pain or fatigue. He was like a tireless machine, constantly being cut down, revived, cut down again, then revived again, endlessly repeating the cycle between life and death...

"A hundred years! Do you know how I survived these hundred years?!"

Before he knew it, tears had soaked Azashiro Sōya's face. Clenching his fists, he dropped to his knees on the wooden floor of the 1st Division Captain's Office, raised his head toward the ceiling, and let out a howl filled with anguish and emotion.

Of course, while Unohana Retsu's training had been incomparably cruel, its results had also been more than apparent!

Azashiro Sōya still remembered that when he had first come to the 1st Division Captain's Office to train under Araki, he could not even see Unohana Retsu's blade during their first exchange before being instantly slain!

That continued for five full years! During those five years, he constantly pushed his mind to its limits. After using all four fundamental disciplines