Kurosaki Kouun's Character Design

"What?!"

Soken Ishida exclaimed in shock, "Quincy Final Form?!"

"You don't know? It's an ability that causes you to lose all Spiritual Power once used. It's the Quincy's last and strongest trump card."

Gaoyu gave a wry smile, "In short, although it's a very powerful ability, you lose your Quincy powers after using it."

"How could I not know that?" Soken Ishida quickly said, "I'm just surprised that someone actually used this power."

The Quincy Final Form was actually a secret among the Quincy, at least not something an ordinary Quincy would know.

But while others didn't know, Soken Ishida couldn't possibly not know. It was precisely because he insisted on the Quincy Final Form that he was exiled from the Wandenreich to the Human World!

The Wandenreich...

It existed in the shadow of the Seireitei, a faction formed by Quincy who survived the great war a thousand years ago.

For this thousand-year span, the Quincy had been thinking of revenge without pause.

When a race is filled with the desire for revenge, their methods of warfare will expand dramatically.

The Quincy of the Wandenreich improved the Quincy Final Form into the 'Quincy Schrift'.

One of the reasons Soken Ishida was expelled from the Wandenreich was because he refused to accept the new power of the Schrift.

So, how could he possibly not know about the Quincy Final Form?

It was just that someone suddenly appearing before him and speaking of such things still made him somewhat shocked.

What he said to Gaoyu...

How to put it, about sixty percent credible.

Because Gaoyu had immediately revealed three relatively secret matters concerning the Quincy.

One was the surname Kurosaki, another was this Quincy Final Form, and the third was...

He knew about the Wandenreich and that he had been exiled.

This was enough to prove that the other party was also a Quincy, because at this point in time, only Quincy knew of the Wandenreich's existence.

The Shinigami only knew that the Quincy had not been completely wiped out, but they did not know about the Empire or his exile.

Putting it all together, Soken Ishida was inclined to believe Gaoyu's identity as a Quincy.

He carefully examined Gaoyu's Reiatsu and found that Gaoyu was only emitting a faint trace of Spiritual Power now.

No choice, the quality of the Gigai produced by Kisuke Urahara was just too good. Once worn, it was no different from a real person.

Furthermore, Gaoyu also knew that Soken was a pure-blood among the Quincy...

Soken Ishida asked with some curiosity, "What happened to you... that forced you to use a power like the Quincy Final Form?"

"..." Gaoyu remained silent.

Soken Ishida quickly added, "If you don't want to talk about it, I won't force you. I'm just curious why you appeared at my home."

"It's nothing, just a spat with someone."

Gaoyu laughed self-deprecatingly, "Those guys, didn't they develop the Schrift?"

"They believe it's a power that surpasses the Final Form. I don't agree, so I had a little competition with one of them."

Soken Ishida's pupils widened!

In that instant, he even felt a sense of kinship!

He also believed that the Schrift should not be used!

However, he still said in shock, "For something like that, you're willing to lose your powers?"

The Schrift was an improved version of the Final Form. Its greatest advantage was that you wouldn't lose your powers after using it.

So even if Gaoyu won that competition, as long as the other party was still alive, it would count as a victory.

"Actually... it's nothing." Gaoyu smiled, "Having power still existing just means becoming cannon fodder in a few decades. To be honest... I'm not very interested in that kind of extreme revenge ideology."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Soken Ishida was basically able to confirm that Gaoyu was indeed a Quincy, and not just a Quincy, but an ally.

Because these things Gaoyu was saying were only known to Quincy.

And even among Quincy, only those with a certain status would know.

"As for why I came here, honestly, I'm not too sure myself."

"After leaving the Empire, I wandered around the Human World. I was sleeping in a tree just now, and I fell and realized it was your house."

Gaoyu added, "Could this be fate? Heh heh..."

"Fate is indeed unpredictable," Soken Ishida agreed with a nod.

"But I'm curious, Kurosaki... why did you refuse the Schrift?"

Gaoyu replied without hesitation, "I don't want others to control my life and death."

"Although the Schrift is an improved power of the Final Form, I always feel that once the Schrift is used, even your soul no longer belongs to you."

"Speaking of which," Gaoyu became serious again and said, "You should know, right? The sleeping king of the Quincy, taking nine hundred years to recover his heartbeat, ninety years to recover consciousness, and nine years to recover his power..."

"...The legendary 'Saint Cantus' of the Quincy," Soken Ishida said in a deep voice.

"Mm, our leader... possesses the ability of 'Vollständig', yet we purebloods can be spared the power recovery of the Vollständig."

Gaoyu also became serious and said earnestly, "However, I always have a feeling that once we use the Schrift, we will lose this 'specialness'. The more we indulge in Yhwach's power, the harder it will be to break free from his control."

"..." Soken Ishida didn't speak immediately. Instead, he looked at Gaoyu seriously. After a while, he nodded in agreement.

"Actually, I have the same thoughts, which is why I firmly oppose using the Schrift." Soken Ishida then gave a wry smile, "It's just that our thoughts are destined not to be accepted by others."

"Look on the bright side, everyone has their own aspirations." Gaoyu shook his head. "So I think it's quite good for me to be like this now. Live a few decades in reality, then die of old age. Isn't it also good for a lifetime to end like this?"

"Heh heh, you have a point."

At this moment, Gaoyu discovered that Soken Ishida's favorability towards him had reached sixty-five.

Excellent, it seems my choice was indeed the right one.

This persona of 'Gaoyu Kouun' that I fabricated is the type that can most easily gain Soken Ishida's approval.

Soken Ishida is someone banished by the Wandenreich, someone who doesn't hold much hatred for the Shinigami, someone who refuses the Schrift.

Then he is also someone who has left the Wandenreich, someone who doesn't have many opinions about the Shinigami, someone who refuses the Schrift.

Soken Ishida, who has never met a like-minded companion, should quickly approve of me as a 'Quincy'.