The elves were in the next day's competition so Ichigo left the Colosseum to look for Eragon or Vanir. The Arms Master was impressed enough to let Ichigo keep the blade, and he walked around the town with it. He felt a tap on his shoulder and twirled to face, Angela. She smiled and said.
"A bit jumpy are we?"
"Well I'm not used to this place yet. What do you want anyway?"
"I have a proposition for you. I am willing to tell your future to you and-"
"I'm sorry lady, but I don't put much faith in palm readings, tea leaves, or any other form of future sight. I make my own path." He started to walk away when...
"It looks like you've been blown, more or less, off that path completely. Wouldn't you agree?" Ichigo stopped at this. He turned back around to argue with her, but a voice interrupted.
"My, my, my, what do we have here. What are you doing to Ichigo Angela?" It was Eragon.
"I'm giving him the same offer I gave you and your mother."
"I thought that they could walk away from that offer."
"Yes, but not dismiss it out of hand." During this exchange Ichigo grew more tense until...
"OK! I'll do the damn fortune!" The pair look at him surprised. Then Angela headed down an alley and motioned for him to follow. As moved to follow Eragon inquired about his stopped fighting.
"The official told my I was too good for humans, and to join the elves tomorrow." Eragon put his hand on Ichigo's shoulder and said,
"If you go through with this, all her fortune will see is your untimely demise."
"Why is that?"
"The elves are super strong, fast, and have a deep well of endurance."
"I too am super fast, strong, and enduring. For some training I did as a Shinigami I had to run on a treadmill for five days straight."Eragon was dumbfounded and didn't stop him a second time. As he left he shouted over his shoulder, "I went easy on the big guy!"
He followed Angela into a small hovel. He saw solembum sitting in the lap of a young woman with dark hair and a pale complexion petting him.
"He's here." Angela popped out of a side room, the only side room, and held a bag in one hand.
"Thank you Elva." She approached Ichigo and led him to the room's table. She opened the bag and took out a handful of bones in each. She closed her eyes mumbled and then shouted, "Manin! Wyrda! Hugin!" and cast the bones onto the table. Elva and Solembum stared intently at Angela as she looked at the pile before her. Ichigo felt that the words she used were from this worlds "Ancient Language" and decided that the fortune might have some validity. She stared for a full minute before she looked up to Ichigo.
"This is a strange reading. Not too difficult, but strange in what it tells. As Solembum told me you are a Rider and they live long lives, potentially forever so this symbol in a given." She points to a line with a circle on it. "These others talk of battles won and lost, at least one very soon. Big surprise with you fight tomorrow." Before Ichigo could say anything she plowed forward. "This is were it is confusing. This symbol, the black crescent moon is for evil, but it is next to the white sun, for good. They both point to the battles ahead and death, the skull, is at their back. The pattern means that good and evil will join in your battles, but not against each other. The skull means that if you decline this joining it will kill you." Ichigo remembered his Hollow and shivered. 'Will I need to use him again?'
"He won't win." The voice chilled Ichigo, for it had come from the girl Elva, who couldn't be older than twenty on the far side. Her voice had all the experience and hate on and old woman and was disturbing to say the least. He looked at her.
"What won't win?"
"You're Hollow will not consume you Ichigo. At least not yet." She went back to petting the were-cat. Ichigo rushed her and pulled her up by her arms. He yelled in her face, "How do you know about that?" as Angela yelled warning to him not to harm her. Elva laughed in his face. It was a hollow, joyless sound that chilled Ichigo.
"I help someone ad this is how it ends up. I should have known. I decided to help you because I feel peoples pain, be it physical, emotional, or conceived. I can tell you miss your friends Rukia and Orihime and you don't have Urahara to explain what you don't understand, that the battle you were in was almost certainly lost. I decided to help the fear I could. That of your evil half!" Ichigo dropped her and she went to the other room. Ichigo was emotionally dead and left, leaving Angela's apologies to land on deaf ears.