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Lessons and Training
The orientation was over for the first years and students were heading to the dorms and going to the rooms that they were assigned in. In the dorms within the academy, Kamito and Saito looked and saw that they had the same room.
"Huh, look at that," Saito said, "looks like we're in the same room."
"Yeah, seems that way," Kamito said with a smile.
"All right, let's go," Saito said.
Kamito and Saito went in the room that they would be sharing. They were actually seen Ryoga who just looked and held the paper that told him which room he would be in.
"He's there," Ryoga said, "Kamito Kazehaya," Ryoga nodded, "I knew he would be here. I'll need to speak to him," Ryoga looked at his paper, "but first, need to get to my own room. I wonder who my roommate is."
Ryoga walked to get to his room. Meanwhile Leonora looked around and then went to the door that led to the room that she was assigned to. Leonora opened the door and saw someone was in there and it was young looking woman with short blue hair and blue eyes.
"Oh hello," The blue haired woman said.
"Hi," Leonora said.
"I take it that you're my roommate," The blue haired girl said.
"Yes I'm Leonora Lancaster," Leonora said.
"Nice to meet you," The girl said with a bright smile, "Fuuka Akitsuki."
"It's nice to meet you," Leonora said.
Unknown Realm
Jio stood up and examined himself. He wore clothes that were all white with black boots and the clothes he wore were the same that he wore when he was alive back in his world. He also had tattoos on his arms and had a sheathed katana on his left side. He felt strong and was very pleased with himself.
"I take that you're happy with it," A female voice said.
Jio turned and saw that it was Ultima and Folmarv was with her.
"Yeah, I feel pretty good about it," Jio said, "I'm definitely strong… stronger than I ever was."
"You will serve me well Jio Inzagi," Ultima said.
"Yeah I know," Jio said, "that was part of the deal. But I have something I want to ask you."
Ultima and Folmarv looked and they grinned.
"You want to know about Kamito Kazehaya, right?" Ultima asked.
"Yeah," Jio said as his expression turned dark, "is it true that he's in a place called the Soul Society."
"Yes it's true," Ultima said, "in fact, right now he's training to become a Shinigami."
"Huh, a Shinigami?" Jio replied confused, "You mean a death god?"
Two Days Later, Seireitei, Soul Society
Students were walking through the halls and heading to their classes. The students had been getting their lessons when they had started with the history of the Gotei 13 which was founded by Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto who was currently serving as the Captain of the First Division and therefore acting as the Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13. They were also being taught of the Law, Judiciary, and Government of the Seireitei and the Soul Society itself. At the moment, the students in the Advance Class were getting ready because it was time for them to practice Kido. Later on the students of the Advance Class were all outside sitting on the platform and around the platform were many practice dummies and the Kido instructor arrived and he had long black slick hair and his name was Satoshi Rindo.
"Now, I trust all of you looked over all the types of Kido spells of Bakudo and Hado in the materials you were giving two days ago," Rindo said.
The students all gave answers with nods that they all indeed studied the materials that contained a long list of Kido spells that were of both the Hado and Bakudo categories.
Rindo nodded, "Good, is there anyone here who would like to stand up here and perform a Kido?"
Most students were surprised and they all looked at each other and most were not confident in performing Kido. Suddenly three students raised their hands and it was Kamito, Saito, and Leonora and the rest of the students were looking at them with intrigue.
Rindo saw them and nodded, "All right, we have three volunteers," Rindo looked to see who should he choose first and then he pointed at Saito, "Let's start with you, Hiraga, step forward please."
"Yes sir," Saito said with a nod and stepped up and faced the one of the dummies.
"Hiraga, Hado or Bakudo?" Rindo asked.
"Hado, sir," Saito replied.
"Very well, you may begin," Rindo said.
"Yes," Saito then held out his right hand and placed his left hand on her right wrist, "Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south! Hado#31: Shakkaho!"
Saito generated a high temperature flame-like orb of crimson red energy and shot it at dummy causing it to be destroyed.
The others students clapped and were very impressed and Rindo was impressed what he saw.
"Very good," Rindo said, "an excellent use of Shakkaho and you had good control. Well done Hiraga."
Saito nodded and bowed to the instructor, "Thank you sir."
Saito went and sat down next to Kamito.
"Nice," Kamito said giving Saito the thumbs up.
"Heh thanks," Saito replied with a grin.
"All right," Rindo said and pointed at Kamito, "Kazehaya, you had your hand up as well, step forward."
"Sir," Kamito responded with a nod as he stepped up to face one of the dummies.
"All right Kazehaya, Hado or Bakudo?" Rindo asked.
"I'll be going with Hado," Kamito replied.
"Very well," Rindo said with a nod, "you may begin."
"Yes," Kamito said as he raised his right hand and had his palm out, "Sprinkled on the bones of the beast! Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring. Move and become the wind, stop and become the calm. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle!" Kamito generated and built up energy of a massive concentration of energy that appears as a high level lightning, "Hado#63: Raikoho!"
Kamito released the high level lightning and it destroyed the dummy that he was targeting.
"Wow," One of the students said.
"That's amazing," Another student said.
Rindo nodded as he was impressed, "Nicely done Kazehaya, very impressive indeed."
"Thank you sir," Kamito said with a bow and then he went back.
"Kamito, that was great," Saito said with a smile.
"Thanks," Kamito said with grin.
Leonora was staring at Kamito and she didn't know why but there was something she sense from Kamito and it was something that had to with being an Elementalist. Leonora had a guess but she shook her head.
"No, that's not possible," Leonora said in her head, "sure there was one in the past but still there's no way."
"This has been very impressive so far," Rindo said, "I'm seeing much promise so far, so let's see if our last volunteer can perform as well," Rindo looked at and pointed at Leonora, "Lancaster, step forward."
"Oh yes," Leonora said as she got up and faced one of the dummies.
"Lancaster, Hado or Bakudo?" Rindo asked.
"Hado, sir," Leonora answered.
"All right, let's see what you can do," Rindo said.
Kamito looked at Leonora and was something about her that he sensed.
"That girl…" Kamito said.
"Hmm, Kamito?" Saito spoke.
Leonora looked at the dummy in the middle and then she looked at two other on each side of the middle one and then he took a deep breath.
"Okay, here we go," Leonora said with a serious expression looking at the three dummies and raised her right hand in front of her chest, "Seeping crest of turbidity. Arrogant vessel of lunacy! Boil forth and deny!"
Rindo was shocked at what was happening and had his thoughts, "Wait a minute, that incantation… Level 90 Kido!"
"Hey, isn't that…?" A female student said surprised.
"No way, is she actually…" A male student said surprised.
"Hey Saito," Kamito said as he and Saito looked surprised, "Doesn't it sound to be the incantation of a Level 90 Kido?"
"Yeah Kamito," Saito answered, "pretty sure that it is."
Leonora continued with the incantation as a black spiritual coffin was forming around the three dummies with a purplish black energy forming causing a powerful torrent of gravity taking the form of a box of black energy, covered in several spear-like protrusions.
"Grow numb and flicker!" Leonora continued, "Disrupt sleep! Crawling queen of iron! Eternally self-destructing doll of mud! Unite! Repulse! Fill with soil and know your own powerlessness! Hado#90: Kurohitsugi!"
The spears on the box pierced the box, lacerating and destroying the three dummies that were inside and the black box disintegrated. The students there were shocked and impressed with what happened and some were talking about Leonora of how she pulled it off.
Rindo was surprised as well, "That was surprising," Rindo looked at Leonora," Lancaster."
"Sir?" Leonora replied looking at the instructor.
"To be honest, that Kido you used didn't have the full power," Rindo said
Leonora nodded, "Yes, I figured as much as well Rindo-sensei."
"Yes, but the fact that you were able to perform it and kept control of it is impressive itself," Rindo said, "this is the first time in all my years that I witness a freshmen casting a Level 90 Kido and there was no problem. Lancaster, you did a good job indeed and excellent work to the other two who demonstrated today."
The students clapped their hands and Leonora smiled and went back to her spot where she was being praised for his performance.
"All right, let us continue on," Rindo said as he started with his lesson to the class.
Kamito looked at Leonora and was intrigued.
"A Level 90 Kido," Kamito said in his head, "she was able to do it. I can't help wonder who is she and why do I get the sense from her of something familiar."
Ordesia Empire, Human World
The empire was in ruin and the sky was had been blanketed with dark clouds. There were people who were suffering and many were dying. There was someone who was walking around through the city that was in ruin and it was Greyworth.
"This is the state of the world we live in now," Greyworth said.
Later on Greyworth arrived back in the Areishia Spirit Academy and it was in ruins and stripped of its glory.
"This is what the school has been reduced to," Greyworth said and she shook her head, "it seems that things have gone wrong ever since Kamito died," Greyworth frowned, "if only he was obsessing of that Dark Spirit."
The wind blew and it was a deathly one for Greyworth and she looked up in the sky. Greyworth then went to an area and there was a gravestone. Greyworth kneeled down and looked at the gravestone and the named read Claire Elstein.
"Hello Claire," Greyworth said, "I've come back like I said I would," Greyworth sighed, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry that you had to be buried here… all alone."
Seireitei, Soul Society
In the Zanjutsu Hall within the Shin'o Academy, the students sat in the training hall with bokkens in their hands and the Zanjutsu instructor known as Nobuyasu Honda and he was a middle aged looking man who had gray hair stood in front of the class.
"Today, we'll have sparring matches to see how skilled you are with swordsmanship," Honda said, "I'll set up the pairs."
Honda set up the pairs afterwards, he picked the first pair to start their sparring match and it was Kamito against Leonora and the two bowed to each other and they got into their stance with their bokkens in front of them.
"Begin," Honda instructed.
Kamito and Leonora sparred with each other in their sparring match. It was a bit even at first in the sparring match but then Kamito started to quickly overwhelm Leonora which surprised the female former Elementalist. Leonora had trouble finding an opening in Kamito's quick and strong attacks. The only thing that Leonora was able to do was to dodge and block Kamito's aggressive attacks. Kamito went to Leonora's left side and attempted to strike but Leonora quickly blocked the attack and was able to push Kamito back a bit and she followed up by attempting to counter by striking her opponent by lunging to hit Kamito's chest with the tip of her bokken but Kamito was able to counter by lunging his bokken, striking Leonora and actually sent her flying a bit and making her fall on the floor.
"Match, Kazehaya!" Honda declared.
Kamito sighed with relief and looked at Leonora. Kamito then went over and offered her his hand.
"Are you okay?" Kamito asked, "Sorry if I was being too rough."
Leonora was surprised at Kamito's gesture and looked at his hand that he was offering.
"Oh no it's fine," Leonora said and then she smiled, "in fact, I was actually impressed," Leonora took Kamito's hand and got up, "thank you."
"You're welcome," Kamito said with a smile.
Honda cleared his throat, "If you're done, move along, I would like to continue on with other students."
Honda showed his expression that he was losing patience a bit and the two students went back sitting down on their spots and Honda continued by having the next pair come up to have their sparring matches. Saito went up next and faced his sparring partner and they sparred. Later on, after going through all the sparring matches and continuing with the lectures, Honda ended the Zanjutsu class and students were leaving the training hall. Sometime later, Kamito was resting outside and relaxing sitting next to the trunk of a tree enjoying the shade.
"Hey Kamito," Saito said.
Kamito looked and saw Saito.
"Hey Saito," Kamito said.
"Seeing you there looks relaxing," Saito said with a smile, "I'll join you."
"Sure, go ahead," Kamito said with a smile.
Saito sat next the trunk of a tree and sighed with relief.
"This is great," Saito said.
"Yeah it is," Kamito said.
"I think we're really getting well with the lessons and training," Saito said.
"Yeah, I think so too," Kamito said.
"You really impressed me Kamito," Saito said, "the Kido you did was great and the way you fought in the Zanjutsu lesson."
"Oh it's not much," Kamito said, "I've just had experience wielding a sword before."
"Yeah I can tell," Saito said, "you must be quite a swordsman back in your world."
"I…" Kamito spoke and then had a soft expression, "yeah I was…" Kamito then had his thoughts, "too bad I was out of my game for the period of three years."
"Um excuse me," A female voice said.
Kamito and Saito looked and saw that it was Leonora who came by.
"Oh it's you," Kamito said, "you're… Leonora, right? Leonora Lancaster."
"Yes that's right," Leonora said with a nod, "and you're Kamito Kazehaya, right?"
"Yes," Kamito said with a nod.
Leonora then looked at Saito, "And you're Saito Hiraga."
"Yeah, that's me," Saito said.
"Is there something we can help you with?" Kamito asked.
"Oh no, it's not that," Leonora said, "It's just that I wanted to tell you that you really amazed me back in class. I was so overwhelmed by your strength I couldn't even counterattack. In fact my whole arm is still numb."
"I see," Kamito replied, "um sorry if I hurt you."
"No it's okay," Leonora assured with a smile, "but of course next time, I'll beat you."
"Well all right," Kamito said.
"Zan… ken… so… ki," Saito said with a smile.
"Saito?" Kamito spoke.
"Each of these four disciplines must be mastered before we can become Shinigami," Saito said, "We definitely got our work cut out if that's going to happened."
"Yeah that's true," Leonora said.
"And we will make it," Kamito said.
"That's right," Saito said.
"I'm very glad to talk to you guys," Leonora said happily.
"Yeah me too," Kamito said, "in fact," Kamito stood up and faced Leonora, "I'm happy to talk to you like this Leonora so I want to ask you something."
"Uh yes?" Leonora asked.
"Would you like to be our friend?" Kamito asked with a cheerful smile.
"Huh, really?" Leonora replied surprised.
"Yeah," Kamito replied cheerfully.
"Unreal," Saito said amused, "but not a bad thing," Saito then turned to Leonora, "what do you say Leonora? Would you be willing to be friends with us?"
Leonora looked at Kamito and Saito and amazement as Saito stood up. Leonora just looked at them and just smiled and nodded.
"Okay why not?" Leonora said with a smile.
"Great, I'm so happy," Kamito said, "so that's it. Leonora is our friend."
"Yeah she sure is," Saito said.
They suddenly saw students rushing to get somewhere and it surprised them. They looked and saw more students rushing to get somewhere.
"What the heck's going on?" Kamito asked.
"Good question," Leonora replied.
"We should go see," Saito suggested.
"Okay," Kamito said as he and Leonora nodded.
The trio went to see what the commotion was about. Near the entrance of the Shin'o Academy, students were gathering to see and there were two lines made from the entrance. Kamito, Leonora, and Saito looked around wondered what was going.
"So seriously, what's going on here?" Kamito asked.
"Good question," Leonora said.
"Oh you don't know?" A male voice said.
The three looked and saw that it was Ryoga.
"Oh hello," Kamito said.
"Hello," Ryoga said, "I see that you three don't know."
"What's going on," Saito asked.
"They say that one of the Captains of the Gotei 13 is coming to inspect the class," Ryoga informed.
"Really, a Captain here?" Kamito replied.
"That's right," Ryoga said with a nod.
Two people were walking and the student looked on with awe. Kamito, Ryoga, Saito, and Leonora looked and saw who the two were. One of them was a dark-skinned woman with short purple hair and wore a sleeveless and backless Onmitsukido uniform with a ribbon around her neck and wore a captain haori over it. Behind her was large man with curly brown hair and wore a purple collar with his Shihakusho. They were members of the 2nd Division and Onmitsukido. The woman was Yoruichi Shihoin, the Captain of the 2nd Division and Commander of the Onmitsukido. The tall man behind her was Marenoshin Omaeda, the Lieutenant of the 2nd Division and Commander of the Onmitsukido's Patrol Troops. Kamito looked and was in awe as he eyes widened.
That's it for this chapter. Next chapter: Kamito speaks with Ryoga as he is told who he was and then students of the Advance Class do training in the Human World.