When a Hollow no longer lacked a heart, when the hollow void of unfillable hatred kept fading away, when that obsession gradually disappeared...
Could it still be considered a Hollow?
Asano Kiyoshi did not know, and neither did Nel.
Ever since her Reishi had merged with Asano Kiyoshi's, Nel had discovered that her Reishi was no longer as cold and numb as before.
As time passed, her Reishi gradually gained warmth and emotions—feelings she had never experienced before.
Nel did not know what those feelings were. Whenever she had nothing to do, she liked to sit in the back warehouse, doing the accounts while reading.
However, Asano Kiyoshi would not let her read the books at the very back of the warehouse. Nel obediently complied. Though she was curious, Asano Kiyoshi had forbidden it, and Nel did not want to make him angry, so she had never gone to look.
The books she usually read were all about love, and through them, Nel gradually came to understand her feelings for Asano Kiyoshi...
It was precisely those feelings that allowed Nel, in just two months, to forcefully figure out a way to control the Hollow Reishi within her.
Just as the Visoreds had learned Hollowfication, Nel had learned Shinigami Transformation.
Of course, it was fundamentally different from the Visoreds' abilities.
Nel's Shinigami Transformation involved sealing all the spiritual power that belonged to her Hollow side within her blade, leaving only the Reishi identical to Asano Kiyoshi's to cover her entire body as Shinigami power.
For the current Nel, this Shinigami Transformation did not provide much of a boost. It merely changed her form.
However, while in her Shinigami Transformation state, everyone was astonished to discover that Nel could actually use Kido and Shunpo, abilities exclusive to Shinigami!
Thus, over the past