Human World.
Because of Kurosaki Ichigo's birth, all the members of the Isshin Shiba family who had remained in the Human World—Shiba Tenjun and Shiba Zehong—as well as the Ishida family, Masaki Kurosaki's relatives, had gathered together. Even Ryuken Ishida had taken leave to come to Kurosaki Isshin and Masaki's hospital.
When Ryuken Ishida looked at the baby in Masaki Kurosaki's arms, with blond hair nearly identical to Masaki's but a face that had clearly inherited the Shiba Clan's fine genes, giving him a somewhat roguish handsomeness, his brow immediately furrowed.
"This child looks irritating just by looking at him."
Ryuken Ishida stared at Ichigo in Masaki's arms and muttered to himself.
At that very moment, the obsession in Ryuken's heart seemed to fade away.
"This child is so cute~"
"He looks just like his father~"
At the same time, nurses passed by Ryuken's side, quietly discussing Ichigo's appearance with soft laughter. Perhaps because Ichigo had been born with blond hair, he had won the affection of countless young women from the moment he was born.
"It's precisely because he looks like his father that he's irritating!"
Ryuken lightly pushed up his glasses and muttered in displeasure.
Perhaps if Kurosaki Ichigo had not been a boy, but a girl who had inherited Masaki Kurosaki's looks and sun-like personality, then the matter of fighting Yhwach might have had nothing to do with Ichigo or Uryu...
Ryuken: "For my goddaughter! Even if you're the ancestor of the Quincy, I'll kill you! Let me show you just how far I, whose talent far surpasses Uryu's, can get after eighteen years of effort! You old bastard Yhwach, open your mouth and eat my Silver Blood Clot Arrow!"
Unfortunately, Ichigo was a boy, and a damned blond-haired boy who had inherited Isshin's looks.
Soul Society.