This Was the Protagonist After All

Just as Kisuke Urahara had said, the most important thing for Yuko now was to increase her spiritual pressure.

However, Yuko's spiritual pressure had already reached the level of a first-class spiritual pressure after Hollowfication and the tempering of her Zanpakuto release. After Bankai, her spiritual pressure had risen even further. Even in her normal state, she could already stand shoulder to shoulder with an old-fashioned captain like Shunsui Kyoraku.

Compared to Old Man Yamamoto, though, the strength of her spiritual pressure was still slightly inferior... No, "slightly inferior" did not seem quite appropriate.

Although they both possessed first-class spiritual pressure, the strength of Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto's spiritual pressure, who was hailed as the strongest Soul Reaper in a thousand years, was still far beyond everyone else's.

The gap between them was even greater than the gap between an ordinary captain and a Vice-Captain. Just as Kisuke Urahara had said, that old man had practically reached the limits of a Soul Reaper.

Add an elemental Zanpakuto to that, and his combat power could only be described as explosive.

When she had first arrived, Yuko had been dismissive of the claim that Bankai could destroy the world. But now, it seemed that with Bankai of that level, if no one else intervened, destroying the entire human race would be completely possible, even if destroying the world was out of the question.

Being so close felt like standing next to the sun. Even she found it extremely uncomfortable.

That spiritual pressure had been tempered for more than a thousand years. Compared to that, trying to surpass him after only a hundred years or so really was treating him as less than human.

To surpass Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto in spiritual-pressure level through cultivation alone would be nearly impossible without several centuries of training.