Chapter 144: The Last Quincy Master
Thousands of years ago, a bloody battle broke out between the quincies and the Soul Society. After that battle ended, quincy, as the loser, was in an extremely difficult situation. About two hundred years ago, Soul Society, for some reason, carried out the massacre of the quincies.
The reason of the massacre was that hollows killed by the quincies will be completely annihilated and break the balance between souls within the three realms.
Of course, this statement was the official statement given by the Soul Society but no one knows exactly what happened. But after that massacre, the group of quincies gradually withered away. Mixed-race quincies were rare, let alone pure-blooded and among the existing pure-blooded quincies, the only one was probably Ishida Soken.
Due to fact that the power of a pure-blooded quincy was far superior to that of a mixed-blooded quincy, all actions of Ishida Soken were basically under the supervision of the Soul Society.
Under the supervision of the Soul Society, it seemed a bit difficult to attack Ishida Soken, the last pure-blooded quincy master.
(T.L Note: Again, Ishida's father Ryuken is also pure-blooded. Dunno why they are referring him to as the last pure-blooded quincy)
(T.L Note: Later it will be explained in the chapters)
But Aizen dared to attack the captains of Gotei 13 in the Soul Society, so his means were not to be underestimated. A mere Ishida Soken was nothing for him.
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World of living, Karakura Town.
As a well-known place of heavy spirit concentration due to the concentration of spirit particles here being far higher than other places, the probability of birthing souls with spiritual power is far higher than other cities, but at the same time, it is also a place that is extremely dangerous as well as popular.
When Mazuru was still in the Thirteenth Division, he was stationed in this city for some years. Now, times have changed, and the shogun-style buildings that used to be here in the past have all become high-rise buildings. The whole city is full of modern atmosphere, and at night, it is livelier than ever.
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A mansion located in the remote part of Karakura Town.
An old man was training a child.
The old man was the last pure-blood quincy Ishida Soken, and the child was his grandson Ishida Uryuu.
Once upon a time, he also trained his son Ishida Ryuken like this, but in the end, due to various reasons, his son Ryuken gave up on becoming a quincy master. Soken knew the reasons well, so there was no reason for him to blame his son.
(T.L Note: This might be the reason that Soken is referred as the last pure-blooded quincy master. Because Ryuken gave up his life as a quincy and started living as a common human)
On the other hand, his grandson, Uryuu, has expressed his determination to become a quincy master since he was very young. Although for some reason, he was very hostile to his father, Ryuken, Soken believes that there will be one day when Uryuu will understand his father.
After training Uryuu again, Soken suddenly felt a reiatsu coming from a nearby location.
"It's a hollow's reiatsu."
The old man's heart trembled, after he said a few words to Uryuu, he rushed over in a hurry. As expected, it was hollow, and moreover it was a Menos Grande, Gillian.
In his life, he has lost counts of how many times he had fought against hollows. If it was in the past, hollows like these would not be taken seriously by him, but now it is different. Firstly, he was already old, and secondly it was because of that sudden incident that took away his power. Although his power was not completely taken away, his battle prowess was affected to a certain extent.
His son also learned certain truths about quincies from him at that time, and thus became more and more disgusted with the quincies.
Even though his son hated quincies, Soken never blamed his son.
If he was in Ryuken's shoes, he would also hate quincy because of that incident.
So without any hesitation, Soken immediately condensed the Holy Bow, and shot a hollow arrow at the Gillian. However, the spirit arrow that fell on it didn't cause too much damage to it. On the contrary, under the ability of High-Speed Regeneration, the injury quickly recovered.
Soken's face darkened. He knew that the reason for this weakness was because of that incident not long ago. As a pure-blooded quincy master, he should not be affected too much by that incident logically, but other than being a pure-blooded quincy, he was once a member of the Star Cross Knights, and he possessed the power bestowed by that person in his body, so he was affected due to it.
Even so, he never faltered.
After the first arrow failed, the Gillian also noticed the weakling on the ground attacking him, and immediately locked his eyes on Soken. Without any hesitation, Soken immediately used another skill of the quincy master, Ransōtengai (Disheveled Paradise Puppet)
Countless thread-sewed spirits are connected to the immobile parts of his body, forcibly operating them like a puppet. It is mainly designed for quincy masters who are unable to move their bodies flexibly due to aging but still want to fight to the end.
This technique exists for the purpose of fighting to the point of one's body disintegrates and it is also one of the top-level combat techniques of the quincy masters which is mastered by very few quincies.
Soken's body was already old, lacking flexibly to fight, and due to the impact of that incident, his strength fell even more. Only with this technique can he deal with a Gillian, but to his surprise, the Garganta reappeared, and four more Menos Grandes came out of the Garganta.
This made Soken's complexion change drastically. As a quincy master under the observation of the shinigamis, he immediately contacted them, but the only reply from Soul Society was to wait for their support.
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Soul Society, Twelfth Division, Research and Development Institute.
After receiving the message from Soken, the deputy director of the Research and Development Institute and the 3rd seat of the Twelfth Division, Akon, couldn't help but look at the captain Kurotsuchi Mayuri beside him, "Captain, should we send shinigamis to rescue Ishida Soken?"
Mayuri looked at Soken, who was fighting Menos Grande on the screen, and smiled strangely, "Hehehe, wait a little longer, we will save him after he is completely desperate."
"Ishida Soken, the only remaining pure-blooded quincy master in the world of living, I am looking forward to the scene where you are lying on the operating table and being dissected by me."
Mayuri made no secret of what was on his mind.
Akon on the side also didn't show any different expression when he heard this.
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The other end of the Garganta.
Mazuru and Aizen stood side by side, they were also looking at Soken who was fighting the five Gillians.
"It stands to reason that five Menos Grande of the Gillian level should not be much to a pure-blood quincy master like Ishida Soken, but he has fallen into such a disadvatage… Is it because he old or…"
Aizen couldn't help but of the woman who defeated hollow "White" and rescued Shiba Isshin. The power displayed by that pure-blooded quincy is much stronger than that displayed by Ishida Soken in front of him.
"Or… there is another hidden reason…"
He couldn't help but think of those half-blood quincy who died one after another during the same time-period.
Mazuru looked at the other side of the Garganta. Ishida Soken, who had been struggling for two or three hours and was at the end of the road, but never received the assisstance by the Soul Society, said, "Mr. Aizen, don't you want to do it?"
"If you don't do it now, he's probably going to die."
Aizen also made up his mind.
Immediately, another one went to Karakura Town through the Garganta.
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