Aizen had only just begun to feel sleepy when Yamabuki Chidori kicked the door open. "No more sleeping! Up and at 'em! We've got to get moving and find a place for this mother and son today."
Dark circles ringed Aizen's eyes. He couldn't help yawning.
After a fierce inner struggle, Aizen decided to tell the truth.
At least as things stood, his teacher had never done him wrong.
"Teacher... there's something I want to tell you. Can you keep it a secret?" Aizen asked hesitantly.
"You've awakened Quincy powers, haven't you?" Yamabuki Chidori asked without a trace of concern.
"Huh? You knew?"
"Did you think anything in this world could escape my eyes?" Yamabuki Chidori flicked him on the forehead. "I agonized over it for ages when I first gained that power too. In the end, I told the Captain Commander the truth."
"How did the Captain Commander react?" Aizen asked.
"He didn't react at all. He was curious enough to fight me, though. Hmph! I'd just developed Perfect Sanctification and thought I could wipe the floor with that old man. But the stubborn geezer cared so much about saving face that he used Bankai! Didn't he know that thing could kill someone? One brush with it and you'd be gone! Honestly." Yamabuki Chidori couldn't help grumbling.
Aizen hadn't expected his teacher to have struggled with the same question when he was young.
"Teacher, how should I develop my Quincy powers?" Aizen asked the question that mattered most.
There were plenty of Quincy in this world. If he couldn't develop that power properly, it would be useless in the end.
"You'll understand what that power is for someday," Yamabuki Chidori said.
The true purpose of Quincy power was to break down the boundary between Soul Reapers and Quincy. Once