Life at the Shinigami Academy was peaceful and orderly. Compared to all the effort he had put into keeping a low profile at the Konoha Ninja Academy, he had not deliberately pretended to be weak this time—there was no need. Even if he went all out, he would only be considered an outstanding genius student.
In this world, strength was not determined by how skilled one was at Hakuda or swordsmanship, but by whose Reiatsu was stronger.
If your Reiatsu was strong enough, you could casually cut down an enemy without any technique; if it was strong enough, you would not even need to dodge attacks, because the other side could not harm so much as a hair on your head.
Yinsen was now something akin to a Spirit Body, and he possessed Reiatsu as well. When he had first enrolled, Yinsen's Reiatsu had only been average and nothing remarkable. The reason he had drawn attention was his outstanding swordsmanship, Hakuda, and rapid mastery of Kidō.
As time passed, Yinsen's Reiatsu steadily increased, gradually making him one of the most outstanding students in his year—and arguably in the entire Shinigami Academy.
The reason for the qualifier "one of" was that among the students who had yet to graduate, there were two "plot characters" Yinsen recognized.
It was precisely the presence of those two that allowed Yinsen to determine where he was on the Timeline. It was a little regrettable that he had not gone back a thousand years before the story began, but being able to become classmates with Yoruichi Shihoin and Kisuke Urahara was already an excellent outcome.
Around a hundred years before the official story began, when many events had only started showing the faintest signs, Yoruichi Shihoin had been the captain of the Second Division, while Kisuke