Ichigo dashed toward his house like a madman.
Compared to Inoue Orihime, who was curled safely in Ichigo's arms, Rukia looked like a chick being carried around—Ichigo had grabbed her by the back of her collar and was hauling her along. Meanwhile, Orihime was firmly holding onto Ichigo's physical body.
Rukia could only shield her eyes with one hand.
Just how was this guy named Ichigo so fast?
His speed had already far surpassed the Shunpo she used before. The violent airflow forced Rukia to protect herself from the rushing wind.
Soon, Ichigo could see his house.
From afar, he spotted a Hollow diving straight toward the Kurosaki residence.
Ichigo panicked.
He shoved Rukia into Orihime's arms and left a quick instruction before bursting forward with another surge of Reiatsu, charging toward the Hollow.
"Orihime, I'll leave them to you!"
Holding Rukia, Orihime also activated Bringer Light and stepped onto the air.
The reason she had relied on Ichigo for travel earlier was simple—his brute-force way of moving was so fast that she simply couldn't keep up.
The moment Ichigo launched himself forward, his hand had already gripped the hilt of the Zanpakutō behind him.
His Reiatsu poured into the blade like it cost nothing.
Earlier, Ichigo had already figured out a simple rule—
The greater the Reiatsu, the greater the power.
He planned to destroy the Hollow attacking his house with a single slash.
But before his draw-cut could even be unleashed—
A blue Reishi arrow pierced straight through the Hollow.
Ichigo froze in midair.
The Reiatsu gathered on his Zanpakutō suddenly had nowhere to go.
A familiar figure stepped out of the Kurosaki house.
In her hand was a Reishi crossbow.
"Oh dear… I accidentally damaged the wall again," she said casually.
"Dear, come take a look—can you fix it?"
"I'm coming, my love!"
A bearded middle-aged man stood beside the wall, making exaggerated gestures while praising the woman and commenting on the hole in the wall.
Ichigo looked carefully.
Those two people—
Weren't they his parents?
Ichigo shot down to the entrance of the house and pointed at Kurosaki Masaki's crossbow.
"Mom! What's going on here?!"
"Huh? Ichigo, you became a Shinigami? Let your mother take a look!"
Before Ichigo could respond, Masaki rushed forward and hugged him.
Meanwhile, Kurosaki Isshin stood nearby secretly wiping tears, as if deeply moved by the touching mother-son reunion.
"Wait, Mom! Another Hollow is coming!"
Ichigo sensed another Hollow nearby and tried to break free from Masaki's embrace.
But Masaki wouldn't let him go.
She casually fired another arrow behind her.
The Hollow was instantly destroyed.
Seeing the attack up close, Ichigo finally accepted that his mother possessed extraordinary power.
And that power…
Looked suspiciously similar to Ishida Uryū's abilities.
"Is that the last of them?"
After firing the arrow, Masaki finally released Ichigo.
She watched the Reishi crossbow gradually dissolve into spiritual particles with a hint of regret.
It had been a long time since she used her power.
And now it had already disappeared again.
"Mom, what is going on?!" Ichigo shouted in shock.
If he had known his mother was this powerful, why had he rushed home like a lunatic?
"Oh my, Ichigo discovered it already?" Masaki tilted her head cutely.
"How could I not notice?!"
Ichigo yelled loudly.
At some point, his parents had become completely unreliable.
They used to seem so dependable when he was younger.
"Alright, don't shout so loudly," Masaki said, waving her hand.
"You'll wake Yuzu and Karin."
"Exactly. Ichigo, you're way too dramatic," Isshin added as he slipped over to fan the flames.
"Wait! It's still early—why are Yuzu and Karin already asleep?! And why aren't you surprised at Mom's powers at all, Dad?!"
Ichigo began firing off complaints nonstop.
"Just a small trick. Don't worry about it," Isshin said casually.
"You bastard! Don't tell me you knocked Yuzu and Karin unconscious?!"
Ichigo suddenly realized something and grabbed Isshin's shoulders, shaking him violently.
"Calm… down…" Isshin said slowly.
"Wait a minute… Dad, are you hiding something else from me?!"
When Ichigo actually started thinking, his mind worked surprisingly fast.
"I'm in spirit form right now! How can you even see me?!"
At that moment, Orihime descended from the sky carrying Ichigo's body along with Rukia.
She respectfully greeted the Kurosaki couple.
"Ichigo… did you kidnap a girl?" Isshin suddenly said in mock shock, pointing at the white-clad Rukia.
"Dad! She's a spirit! How can you see her?! Explain properly!"
Ichigo dragged Isshin back with a dark expression.
Only then did Isshin realize Rukia was indeed in spirit form.
In the chaos earlier, he had overlooked that detail.
Just as Isshin scratched his head trying to come up with another excuse—
Masaki sighed.
"Ichigo has grown up. It's time to tell him, Isshin."
"Whatever you say, my dear."
The Kurosaki couple invited everyone inside.
On the living room sofa lay the sleeping Yuzu and Karin.
After Masaki and Orihime carried the girls back to their room, Ichigo also returned to his physical body.
Ichigo sat across from Isshin with a serious expression.
Rukia, being an outsider, quietly shrank into a corner.
"So… where should I start?" Isshin said with a troubled look.
"There's a lot to explain."
"Start from the beginning. Everything!"
Ichigo slammed his hands on the table.
"I'll leave it to you, dear."
Isshin immediately looked to Masaki for help.
"What?! Mom is a Quincy, Dad fell for her beauty and gave up a massive fortune in Soul Society to pursue her, then the two of you fell in love—but because Shinigami and Quincy relationships are forbidden, you both lost your powers and only regained them temporarily with help from that shady shopkeeper and Tsuna to deal with today's crisis?!"
Ichigo stared in disbelief.
"That story sounds completely ridiculous!"
Where had this terrible romance novel come from?
Meanwhile, Orihime had already been moved to tears by the Kurosaki couple's love story.
Ichigo tossed her a box of tissues.
"Orihime, stop crying! They're obviously making this up!"
"Hey, Rukia—you're a Shinigami, right? If a Shinigami and a Quincy get together, do they really lose their powers?"
Ichigo turned to Rukia.
Rukia froze for a moment.
After thinking carefully, she replied:
"According to the history we learned at the Shin'ō Academy, there was indeed a war between Shinigami and Quincy."
"So it really is a forbidden love…"
Orihime cried even harder.
Now Ichigo had no way to refute the story.
Isshin and Masaki quietly sighed in relief.
A lie mixed with truth was the hardest to expose.
"Ichigo, you're really overdoing it. You even destroyed your own house."
Ichigo turned around.
Tsuna had climbed in through the hole Masaki had blasted through the wall.
"Tsuna, you jerk! Did you already know my parents were a Shinigami and a Quincy?!"
Ichigo grabbed Tsuna.
"They told you already?" Tsuna said casually, grabbing a carton of milk from the Kurosaki fridge and drinking it.
"All that coordinating earlier made me thirsty."
"Is it that hard to accept?"
"…Not really," Ichigo muttered.
He was just annoyed that Tsuna had hidden such a huge secret.
"Well then, life goes on."
Tsuna sat next to Masaki.
"Aunt Masaki, did you use your backup power?"
"It's Ichigo's fault. If he had come back sooner, I wouldn't have wasted it."
Masaki said this with a cheerful smile, showing no regret about losing the power.
"Sorry," Ichigo apologized immediately.
"Ichigo, you're way too straightforward," Tsuna sighed.
"Can't you see Aunt Masaki is actually happy?"
"Exactly," Masaki said warmly.
"I miss the days when I protected the world."
"I'm sorry, Masaki! It's all my fault!"
Isshin suddenly hugged Masaki and began crying dramatically.
"It's alright… it was all for the children…" Masaki replied equally dramatically.
Ichigo felt increasingly guilty, opening his mouth several times but unable to say anything.
Watching the Kurosaki couple, Tsuna silently thanked fate that his own parents weren't like this.
After all, Ichigo had survived being "trained" by these two actors for more than ten years.
That was truly impressive.
"Alright, enough joking," Tsuna said.
"Aunt Masaki, I'll replenish your power."
Tsuna removed a pendant from one of his earrings and handed it to Masaki.
Masaki skillfully pricked her finger and placed a drop of blood onto the pendant before wearing it.
"Tsuna… what was that?" Ichigo asked.
"You know Aunt Masaki lost her Quincy powers, right?"
"I know."
Though the version Ichigo knew differed slightly from reality.
"This is a temporary way to restore her power."
Tsuna explained:
"Urahara analyzed the Reishi structure of Uncle Isshin and Aunt Masaki."
"Using that as a base, I recreated their past combat abilities using illusion techniques."
"This pendant stores that illusion."
"In emergencies, she only needs to crush the pendant to activate it. The illusion will temporarily reproduce the power she once had."
In essence, the ability came from Tsuna's Mist-attribute Bankai.
The missing pendants on his Mist earrings were the ones given to Masaki and the others.
After Masaki used the power, the pendant on Tsuna's earring would gradually reform.
This time, Tsuna had come specifically to replenish Masaki's pendant for safety.
The power created this way couldn't be trained—it merely recreated their past strength.
But for Masaki and Isshin, that was already enough.
"Wait—'both of them'? That means… Dad too?"
"Of course Uncle Isshin has one as well," Tsuna replied matter-of-factly.
"Otherwise how could he see the Shinigami standing next to him?"
Isshin laughed and showed Ichigo his own pendant.
Tsuna had already sheathed his Zanpakutō.
Walking up to Rukia, he asked calmly:
"Kuchiki Rukia, right?"
"Can you tell me something?"
"Why didn't you use your Shikai earlier?"
"You weren't under a power restriction, were you?"
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