Bleach: My Death Qi Zanpakutō
Chapter 2

Where is my mafia boss script?

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Karakura Elementary School. When Sawada Tsunayoshi walked into the classroom as a transfer student and saw that familiar orange-haired classmate, his expression couldn't hold up at all—how could he not recognize that face?

Kurosaki Ichigo! Karakura Town!

That meant Sawada Tsunayoshi hadn't transmigrated into a Reborn! world at all, but a Bleach world. Considering he'd been watching Bleach right before he transmigrated, ending up in the Bleach world was perfectly reasonable...

Like hell it was!

This was the Bleach world. Unlike Reborn!, where you could live a safe life as long as you stayed out of mafia affairs, the Bleach world had Hollows—monsters with white masks that could target you at any moment.

On top of that, the place Tsunayoshi was in now was called Karakura Town, a rare Seireitei in the Bleach anime, meaning all sorts of bizarre things happened here.

It was supposed to be a mafia boss script—steady development, becoming the head of a crime family in no time. But now it had turned into a world of fighting monsters. Worst of all, ordinary people couldn't even see these monsters. And the most dangerous thing wasn't the Hollows themselves, but the man called the progenitor of the Quincy, who spent his days trying to destroy the world and return the Three Worlds to their origin.

In the Reborn! world, lacking strength just meant getting beaten. In the Bleach world, if you ran into a Hollow without enough power, you really died.

Tsunayoshi had no mind left to listen to the teacher introducing him as a transfer student. His head was full of how to convince his dad to leave Karakura Town—anywhere was fine, as long as it wasn't here. He'd leave the rest to Kurosaki Ichigo, the Child of the Plane.

But this branch manager position was something his dad had worked his ass off to earn. Wouldn't it be too heartless to make him quit now?

Thinking this, Tsunayoshi followed the teacher's instructions and walked toward an empty seat at the back of the classroom. As luck would have it, the seat next to him belonged to the Bleach world's Child of the Plane, Kurosaki Ichigo.

At this age, Ichigo was like a little sun. Seeing Tsunayoshi, he grinned and reached out his hand.

"Hey, I'm Kurosaki Ichigo. Nice to meet you."

"Oh, hey." Tsunayoshi snapped back to reality and shook his hand. "I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi."

"I know, the teacher just introduced you..."

Tsunayoshi had already stopped listening to Ichigo. A voice rang out in his mind.

[Detected Bleach world character...]

[Copying character talent...]

[Talent copy complete...]

[Converting talent ability...]

[Talent ability converted to source power...]

[Talent conversion complete. Enjoy your journey. Goodbye!]

Tears welled up in Tsunayoshi's eyes. How many years had it been? He'd once fantasized about having a golden finger after transmigrating, but it never showed up. He couldn't even ignite the Dying Will Flame like in the original Reborn! series. That was why, the moment he saw Ichigo, he'd already considered running away.

But now the golden finger had finally arrived. Ichigo's talent? As the person in the Bleach world who had the most powers mixed into him, Ichigo's talent was unquestionably strong.

"Alright, Ichigo! What are you doing holding the new student's hand for so long?"

A crisp female voice sounded beside them, and the next moment, she separated Tsunayoshi and Ichigo's clasped hands. Then she naturally took Tsunayoshi's hand.

"Hi, I'm Arisawa Tatsuki. Nice to meet you."

She was a somewhat boyish girl, very cute, with a neat short haircut that made her look fresh and capable.

"Tatsuki, it wasn't me—"

Ichigo tried to defend himself, but Tatsuki cut him off. "Alright, class is starting..."

Tsunayoshi sat down in his seat, with Ichigo next to him and the girl named Arisawa Tatsuki in front of him.

Arisawa Tatsuki. Tsunayoshi remembered—she was one of Ichigo's friends. They'd known each other since childhood and were very close. But after Ichigo's mother died, he gradually became withdrawn, and the distance between them grew. Even so, they remained classmates and good friends all the way through high school.

Mentioning Ichigo's mother, Masaki Kurosaki's death, Tsunayoshi quickly ran through the Bleach timeline in his head. No matter how hard he thought, he couldn't find any use for the Reborn! timeline he'd organized earlier.

Masaki Kurosaki died from Yhwach's Auswählen. As a Quincy, when the progenitor of the Quincy performed the Auswählen, he took back all her power. And at that moment, she encountered a Hollow, so she died.

In Bleach, Ichigo became a Soul Reaper in high school. Three years later, the Thousand-Year Blood War began...

According to the song passed down among the Quincy, the sealed Quincy King would take 900 years to regain his heartbeat, 90 years to regain his reason, and 9 years to regain his power...

Based on that, the time of Yhwach's Auswählen was six years before the story began, when Ichigo was in third grade. And now Ichigo had just started second grade, meaning there was still one year left before Ichigo lost his mom.

Thinking this, Tsunayoshi frantically called out to the system in his mind. But no matter how he shouted, the system didn't respond. Only a semi-transparent interface floated before his eyes.

The system interface had five columns. The first column was his name: Sawada Tsunayoshi. The second: Soul Reaper. The third: Hollow. The fourth: Quincy. The fifth: Fullbring. Columns two through five were all blacked out, as if erased by something.

One bad news, one good news. The bad news was that the system seemed to have disappeared. Even when Tsunayoshi snuck into the bathroom between classes to call it, nothing came out. The good news was that before it vanished, it had copied the strongest talent in the Bleach world for him—Soul Reaper, Hollow, Quincy, and Fullbring, all four powers present.

Through his talent interface, Tsunayoshi looked at Arisawa Tatsuki sitting in front of him. If he remembered correctly, the system had copied the talent of the first Bleach world character he saw. If the one he'd shaken hands with today was Arisawa Tatsuki, then the system had copied her talent.

Arisawa Tatsuki's talent wasn't bad. Later on, under Ichigo's influence, she could see souls and Soul Reapers. But by the late stages of Bleach, she had faded from the picture.

Lost in these random thoughts, school was soon over.

"Hey, why did Sawada run off so fast?" Arisawa Tatsuki watched Tsunayoshi's quickly retreating figure and asked, "Ichigo, where are you going after school? Want to practice some punches together?"

Tatsuki had wanted to bond with the new student, but Tsunayoshi had bolted the moment school ended. Now she could only invite Ichigo to hang out. Tatsuki's family ran a karate dojo, and Ichigo had taken plenty of beatings from her because of it.

This time was no exception. Ichigo, who hadn't become withdrawn yet, was still easy to persuade. As usual, he was about to get beaten up by Tatsuki.

Tsunayoshi rushed home in a hurry, trying his best not to look around, his heart full of anxiety. He didn't even greet his mom before locking himself in his room.

He made up a quick excuse to brush off his concerned mother, then forced himself to calm down. Tsunayoshi recalled the scenes on his way home.

Just on that one walk home, he'd seen three souls wandering the streets. That scared him—a staunch materialist—half to death. Luckily, this was the Bleach world, which let him steady his nerves.

Only now did Tsunayoshi come back to himself and start studying his talent panel.

During school, Tsunayoshi had already considered his development path. According to the talents displayed on the system interface, he possessed aptitude for four types of power and could choose any direction to cultivate.

But in reality, the options available to Tsunayoshi were not many. Whether it was the Shinigami or Quincy path, both required someone to guide him through the basics. Tsunayoshi didn't think those old veterans would believe a little brat had talent for cultivation, and he had no intention of scheming with wolves while completely defenseless.

Of the remaining two powers, Hollow power was extremely unstable in the original work. Attempting it rashly without anyone's help could cost him his life. That left only one option: Fullbring.

Sawada Tsunayoshi vaguely remembered that Fullbring guided the soul within matter. By using Fullbring to control matter, one could utilize surrounding objects as aids to unleash abilities beyond normal physical limits.

Fullbring was a power of love. Only an item one deeply loved could have its soul extracted, controlled, and its form altered to complete one's Fullbring.

Judging by his ability to see souls, Tsunayoshi himself possessed some Reiatsu. He poured a glass of water and tried to imitate how Kugo Ginjo had taught Ichigo, using Reishi to control the soul within the water.

Sawada Tsunayoshi held the cup with both hands. Faint specks of light flowed from his hands into the cup—those should be Reishi. It didn't seem difficult. Tsunayoshi tried rotating the Reishi, using them as a bridge to turn the unfamiliar power within the water—that was the water's soul.

Gradually, the water in the cup formed a spiral. Tsunayoshi had succeeded. He had already grasped the trick of Fullbring.

Tsunayoshi slumped onto the desk, watching the spinning water. He understood that the water in this cup was definitely not an item he deeply loved. What exactly was the thing he loved?

A silver necklace slipped out with Tsunayoshi's movement, and a ring fell before him—the Sky Ring he had always kept as a memento. If there was anything he could call his deeply loved possession, this Sky Ring he carried everywhere definitely had a place.

Tsunayoshi gripped the Sky Ring in his palm and tried to guide the soul within it, just as he had done with the water.

Faintly, Tsunayoshi's heart stirred with excitement. In the world of Reborn!, this ring was nothing more than an ordinary trinket. But here in the world of Bleach, Fullbring's power could draw out the soul dwelling within an object, granting Sawada Tsunayoshi his own power.

Ignite, Dying Will Flame!

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