"Uncle God-Slayer, do you know old man Genryūsai?!"
Kurosaki Ichigo looked at Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, whose anger was rising, and froze. Though he was usually rather thick-skinned, even he noticed that Genryūsai seemed to know the spirit of his Zanpakuto.
With that in mind, Kurosaki Ichigo looked directly at his blade spirit and asked.
"Ichigo, listen to me..."
At that moment, the Quincy power within Kurosaki Ichigo, which appeared in the form of Yhwach from a thousand years ago, still seemed to want to struggle. Unfortunately, before "Yhwach" could speak, the furious Genryūsai cut him off bluntly.
"Kid, your name is Kurosaki Ichigo, right?!"
Genryūsai looked at Kurosaki Ichigo and asked on his own.
"That's right."
Kurosaki Ichigo nodded lightly.
"Kurosaki Ichigo, open your eyes and look carefully. The one standing before you is not the Soul Reaper power inside you! You should know that the color of a Soul Reaper's spiritual threads differs from those of ordinary humans and Quincy. Within the Three Worlds, the spiritual threads inside a Soul Reaper are red. Yet this fellow before you, who has occupied the nest and disguised himself as the Soul Reaper power within you, has... white spiritual threads!"
As Genryūsai spoke, he used his Zanpakuto to lift a corner of "Yhwach's" black coat, revealing the white shirt hidden beneath. He then tore off a strip of that shirt, returning it to its most primitive form—spiritual threads! Just as Genryūsai had said, the spiritual threads of this man claiming to be Kurosaki Ichigo's Zanpakuto were different from those of Soul Reapers. They were not red, but white...
"Uncle God-Slayer, what exactly is going on?"
"Could it be that you aren't my Zanpakuto?!"
Kurosaki Ichigo stood there in a daze. He looked at the man before him, who had swaggered into his