"Oh?"
Shunsui Kyōraku was surprised, but he did not ask any further questions.
After all, with the Kuchiki Clan's influence, finding someone would not have been difficult.
But since they had not searched for her in twelve years, there was surely something disgraceful behind it.
Since it concerned the Kuchiki Clan's mistress, Shunsui Kyōraku was beginning to regret following Ailin here.
Beside Rukia stood a boy with rather strange eyebrows.
He was the quintessential underdog success story among Soul Reapers: Renji Abarai, who had risen from an ordinary Rukon District civilian. During the Thousand-Year Blood War, he received a power-up and reached the level of a Hundred-Year Captain, decisively defeating Mask de Masculine, the Quincy who had badly wounded two captains, before winning the beauty's heart.
The young man and woman held wooden swords as they fought with Zanjutsu in the training grounds.
Judging from the battle, Renji Abarai was stronger than Rukia.
That was perfectly normal.
After all, Renji Abarai was older than Rukia and at least two heads taller.
From their fight, Ailin noticed that Renji Abarai relied more on "instinct" in battle. In other words, he was quite gifted in Zanjutsu.
Rukia, on the other hand, was more rigid. Every stance and move she used was a standard technique from training-ground practice.
From that alone, it was clear that Rukia had little talent in Zanjutsu.
Still, this was within Ailin's expectations.
Ailin remembered that in Bleach, when Rukia and the others said they wanted to become Soul Reapers, their companions tried to gather Reishi.
The other companions had no Spiritual Pressure and could not condense Reishi spheres.
Renji Abarai condensed a Reishi sphere the size of a fist, while Rukia condensed one the size of a volleyball.
In terms of innate spiritual rank, Renji Abarai was at