Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today I bring to you a new chapter for The Reaper of Beacon and thank you for checking out the story. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas/NewYears with your friends and family as I did. Can't believe its already the New Year and I hope to continue writing throughout this year.
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At Sevisal: Ichigo's new sword is the Buster Sword, a huge sword from Final Fantasy VII that Cloud (The protagonist of the game) wield.
At Soul Man (Guest): Ichigo is actually the main protagonist/anti-hero of the story and hush damnit lol just kidding! XD
Time to pick up where we last left Ichigo.
I do not own neither series.
Ichigo Kurosaki
The Student Part 1
Ichigo's Room
Once he manages to get his condition back to normal, Ichigo places his robe back into the chest and picks up 2 familiar dual handguns, an Ebony colored gun as the black pistol, and Ivory as the white. The pistols resemble Desert Eagles, with stylized grips twisting into sharp points. Near the bore of each pistol are engravings of scrollwork, and each also sports a ring hammer. 'Didn't think mom would keep them in here after all this time.' He spins both guns around his hand and aims at the nearby window. "Ebony, Ivory, miss you girls."
Before he went missing and before he acquired his double barrel revolver he dubbed 'Blue Rose' due to a blue rose symbol on the under barrel, he made 2 custom handguns during his years at Signal Academy, a black and white pair of handguns. It took him about several days to made by himself without any assistance from anyone as he had to get different pieces throughout the region. He had someone handcraft the grip for both pieces due to feeling uncomfortable with the normal grip. Instead of a regular hammer, he went with a ring hammer to give it a more personal touch (to which he thinks both pairs are his masterpieces). After finishing both guns, he decided to go with a black and white color to give them an 'sibling' theme since their the polar opposite color way of each other and they represent his 2 different beings (his Soul Reaper and Quincy ancestry).
He places both guns onto his bed and sees a couple of old pictures of him and his former teammates back at Signal Academy, reliving the precious memoiries of his years at Signal and the time he spent with them before he went missing and the path he has chosen. In the picture, he was in the front with his best friend Katana while Chun-Li and Kayle are in the back of them both, smiling after a major tournament in the school, all 4 of them were holding their trophies out with smiles on their faces.
The 2nd picture had Ichigo and Kitana resting on the tree together, with her head resting on his right shoulder with his head resting on hers. It was one of those moments Ichigo can't forget because it was their first mission together and his teammates/classmates all think those 2 are romantically involve with each other. As the years went by for them,Ichigo saw Kitana as a beautiful woman in front of him while Kitana saw her best friend more then that and wanted to be romantically with him but that fateful day when Ichigo was M.I.A/K.I.A their trip at a Dust Factory and she would not be able to confess her feelings for her best friend (to which Ichigo has no idea that she was going to say that).
The 3rd picture is with Kayle doing a posing with her right leg on Ichigo's body. That picture was from the 2 of them sparring against each other and Kayle would prove to be the victor of the sparring match. His relationship with Kayle is that of siblings as they would have their arguements with one another and of course sometimes they would get into a bad sparring match against each other, to which Kayle won most of the matches while Ichigo would win a few of the matches.
The 4th and final picture was with Ichigo practicing Kung-Fu with Chun-Li on the rooftop of their dormitory. Chun-Li is one of the best hand-to-hand fighters during his days at Signal Academy and just like Kitana, she is one of his childhood friends growing up with. She was the hardworking martial artist of the group and a caring individual, much like her friends. One of her unique features are her legs to which Ichigo knew that she'll beat the living hell out of him with her legs. As they grew up with each other, he got to see her become a beautiful teenage girl and there was a attraction between the 2 of them, to which Kitana felt a little jealous from seeing their interactions between the 2 of them. Of course, she felt devestated to know that Ichigo was considered to be M.I.A./K.I.A. during the Dust Industry incident.
'Kitana, Chun-Li, Kayle...' He thought of his friends that were from Signal Academy years ago, 'I know that you guys are beyond worried about my situation but things have changed...' He would then go onto remembering several incidents that involved kidnapping some civilians and he had no choice but to stop them from either knocking them unconscious or he had to kill them and because of that, rumors begin to swirl around 'The Reaper' from Vale, Atlas, Mistral, Vacuo and Mantle where he's considered to be an armed, skilled and a deadly terrorist and there were rumors that he was in corhorts with the other terroist groups: White Fang, an unknown faction and Roman Torchwick.
As he was remembering his time with his friends at Signal Academy, part of his hair of the left side begins to turn pure white, showing some change within his being and his right eye begins to turn blue from the change as well. While he was unaware of of his changes, he takes each of the pictures and places them on his desk top, so that he can remember what it was like to be a young kid with all the innocences in the world until that day where everything changed for him.
'Hope you guys can understand what I've been through and the path I have chosen. I know that you guys wanted me to be a hunter rather than being a vigilante or a terrorist.' Part of his skin begins to turn dark, mostly around the right side of his face, 'I'm the only one who can set things right and I will change everything with this power I have.' His skin begins to turn back to normal without him even noticing. He turns around and faces the chest once more and picks up some of the swords pieces and begins constructing a brand new set of blades.
It took him a couple of hours completely making the blades and he can only smile as the set of blades were now finish after not having them for the past 5 years.
The main blade, given the nickname of First Sword. It consists of a long hilt wrapped in a red material, a distinctively large handguard which the other swords are locked into, a wide length of blade, and an equally long but thinner length ending in a point. The main blade is the only sword among the six that is double-sided.
The main blade has two forms. In the first, the appearance is as described above, with the blade one solid length of metal except for the transition between the wide and thin halves. In the second, the blade is pulled in two lengthwise; the edges are locked apart and the sword's complex inner portion is visible, giving the blade an appearance.
The hollow blade does not have an inner core as expected for a sword. Rather, it is essentially (though not exactly) a thick sheet of metal folded in a V-shape when looked from above, the sword's edge being the bottom point of the "V", with its lower one-third of its length wrapping around a red double-hilt. The hollow blade is locked onto the main blade's front edge, where it snugly covers the entire edge of the main blade, and its own edge serves as the striking point for the assembled sword. It is this addition that turns the completed construct from a symmetric shape to the distinctive Buster Sword appearance.
The back blades are identical long swords, mirror images of each other, with one straight edge and one saw-toothed edge, with a long black hilt for each. The two swords are attached to the main blade's back, on both sides of the main blade's back edge, with the saw-teeth pointed forward toward the hollow blade. The addition of these two swords completes the fusion swords' trapezoidal silhouette.
The side blades are identical mirror image dagger-like swords, though they are long. They are single-edged, with a gear-like mechanism between the hilt and the blade that allows them to fold up like a switchblade. In the folded form the two side blades lock onto the two sides of the assembled sword, with their edges turned forward toward the main blade at the sword's front.
Once finish and completely merged together with the locking of the five auxiliary blades into the main blade as detailed in the diagram, the assimilated fusion swords take on the distinctive appearance of Ichigo's new sword that his godmother had given him (which is leaning on the wall).
You betray me Ichigo Kurosaki?
He instantly flinched as he heard a familiar feminine voice, that once belong to one of his best friends, Kitana.
"Kitana?" He looks around his room as to why he heard the voice of his childhood friend.
The price of betrayal is death.
'Why does she want to kill me?' He questions as to why one of his childhood friends wants to kill him. 'Does she really want to kill me?' He pounders on the thought of his childhood friend trying to kill him. He knows that he hasn't seen her in the past 5 years since that day but he always thought of his former teammates during his travels. He also wonders what was Kitana or was it Chun-Li that wanted to say something to the orange haired teen.
'Don't listen to that voice Ichigo.' He sees Miss Rose appear once more by his side, 'That's the inner darkness trying to mess with your mind. The darkness wants you to think of your friends betraying you and succumb to become what your were once were.' Summer explained to the orange haired teen.
While he did want to believe her that his childhood friend wouldn't want to kill him but he then he started to exaggerating the thought of his childhood friend being the one to kill him. He remembers during their training regime at Signal Academy and the scars from their extreme 'training exercises' where things were taken up a notch between the 2 of them, to which Ichigo had gotten a lot of scars throughout his body.
'I hope so Summer.' He then takes off his plain white tee that he has been wearing for the past 3 days and grabs some new clothes and underwear that the academy had given him, 'No peeking Summer.'
He hears her chuckle and manifests outside of his body, only appearing as a ghost to Ichigo's unique ability. 'Very well.' Even for a ghost, she is able to sit down and relax on the couch while Ichigo goes into his private shower in his room.
Once in the private shower, he looks at the mirror where he sees the multiple scars across his entire body. Most of the scars came as from Kitana and her razor sharp steel fans from their training.
'Will I see them again?' He questions himself if he'll ever see his childhood friends/former teammates in the future. 'Didn't think my life would be this hectic or bizarre.' Once he looks at his face, he instantly turns his attention from his friends, to his white hair and blue eye. "What the hell?" He asks himself as to why part of his hair turned white and the sudden change of his natural brown eye color into a blue color way. "How did part of myself change?"
While he may not know it, it was actually because of the sudden change in his genes due to the Dust incident.
'Great...' He groans on the thought of the sudden change of his natural hair color, 'Hey god, why do I have to be your instrument of the destruction?' He sees his left eye turn red as he felt that this was perhaps indeed 'god' looking through his left eye. 'Probably because I'm the last one of both Soul Reaper and Quincy races. I carry both burdens of my race and carry the burden of the world.' He said lost in thought as both of his eyes were just like his personalities; the good side which he is looking at and the dark side, the merged personalities of both his Zanpakuto and himself.
"Ichigo." He hears the other voice of his Zanpakuto, "You best be ready when the time comes."
'I know old man and when I do beat you, I will achieve that Bankai state you mention a while ago.' With that said, he disconnected with his Zanpakuto spirit and head into the shower for a cold and hot shower. As he was taking a shower, he looked down at his right arm and the event that changed his life five years ago replayed in his mind.
Flashback – Five years ago: Day before the incident
"Tomorrow, we're going on a special field trip to one of the Dust factories owned by the Schnee Dust Company." The professor said. "We will observe how the dust crystals are created and how it used the weapons you have to fight the creatures of Grimm. You're dismissed." The students walked out of the classroom and proceed to the cafeteria.
"I don't get it." Ichigo said, getting his teammates' attention.
"Don't get what?" Kitana asked her best friend.
"I get how the dust is used for our weapons so we can fight the Grimm. But why do we need to got to a factory that manufactures them?"
"Didn't you hear the professor?" Kayle said. "He said that we gonna watch how they turn the dust into ammo for our weapons so that we can fight those monsters. Although I can't expect a strawberry like you to hear what's comes out of someone's mouth." A tick mark appeared on Ichigo's forehead from her remark.
"I can hear just fine." Ichigo retorted. "Although I'm surprise that you could hear anything considering that your ears were painted on."
"What was that, you bastard?! Do you want to kick your ass again?!" Both of their foreheads pressed into each other, begging for one another to see who will strike first.
"Not on your best day!"
"You know I can kick you ass on ANY day! Scoreboard: Kayle 23-9, Ichigo: 9-23."
"They don't even count bird-brain!"
"YES, THEY DO STRAWBERRY!"
"That's enough, you two!" Kitana shouted, getting in between Ichigo and Kayle. "I swear you two act like little kids sometimes." She knows the 'sibling rivalry' between Ichigo and Kayle but it does get annoying between them.
"Kitana's right. You guys got to stop this childish fight between you guys." Chun-Li said to her 2 friends and decided to change the subject, "Who knows? We might learn something new about the Dust."
'I know.' Ichigo thought as he and Kayle calmed down. 'But why do I have a feeling that something bad might happen?' While he has experience 'bad luck' or bad timing, something didn't feel right going to the Dust factory.
"Ichigo." He turns his head to his best friend Kitana, "You think we can talk in private?"
"Sure." He wonders what Kitana wants to talk about but he'll soon fine out what she wants to say to the orange haired teen that has been his best friend since they were 5 years old.
Present Time: Beacon Cafeteria: 12:00 Noon
As the students were going on with their day, it was now lunch time for the students as they began gossiping about what had transpired 3 days ago. They heard that both teams RWBY and JNPR had gotten into a fight with one of the new students, Ichigo Kurosaki. Everyone in Beacon began talking about the 'legendary' student and wonder what he has been up to for the past 5 years being missing and considered to be K.I.A.. For most of the students that graduated to Beacon all heard of the records Ichigo has placed and no one has able to come even close to even break them.
1. Survival Record: 9 Days, 19 hours, 23 Minutes, 45 Seconds.
2. 90-0 consecutive wins throughout his years.
3. Reaction Time (Shooting): .04 Seconds
4. Team Wins: 120-0 Wins
5. Won 18 consecutive tournaments Solo
6. Won 12 consecutive tournaments Team
Even from the records, Ichigo's name proceeds him as a living 'prodigy' of one of the most well known huntresses throughout the world and the teachers of Signal considered him as a 'living icon' of Signal. Every teacher that taught Ichigo wanted to see if anyone can become what Ichigo has set for them but no one has got close to his records.
"You guys think Ichigo is that psychotic?" Ruby decided to break the ice after a quiet pause of them eating their lunches.
"Who knows but there is something wrong with him." Jaune added as he took a bite of his sandwich, "Dude's crazy strong and he'll be dangerous with the 'demon' speaking as him." He was referring the way Ichigo was talking with the odd mask against them 3 days ago.
"While I don't see him as a psychopath, I can sense conflict within his being. Like something is trying to takeover his mind." Pyrrha added her comment and feels sorry for Ichigo. "We have to see if we can find a way to help him."
"Helping out a guy that tried to kill us 3 days ago?" Yang looks at Pyrrha like she's crazy, "I seriously doubt a guy like him needs our help." From what had happened 3 days ago, Yang doesn't trust Ichigo at all from attacking them and some of them do agree with her (Weiss, Blake and Jaune).
"He'll probably try to kill us again if he went back into that possessed stage but I feel that we should help him out." Ren added his comment to the fray, "Like Pyrrha said; there's conflict in his soul."
"How do you know if it is indeed the soul?" Weiss questions the teen with pale pink eyes, "He could be a psychopath for all we know."
"Perhaps he's not." Everyone turns their attention to Blake, "While I may not able to tell if whenever he is good or bad but I do have to trust Ren on this one. There's something in Ichigo that is clouding his mind with darkness."
"Should we trust him is the main question." Nora pointed the obvious question on everyone's mind. They do not know if he is clean as a whistle or a psychopath with something clouding his mind. "If he is a weirdo, I'll SMASH that orange hair psychopath!"
"Let's just see if we can try to know, what is indeed going through his mind and know if he has good intentions." While some of them agree and disagree on them going to trust the orange haired teen but it couldn't help but try the idea.
"So, where is he at?" Ruby questions her friends until they all heard could multiple gunfire sounds, "I guess he's at the training ground." With that said, both teams rushed to the training ground to find out the loud gunfire sound.
30 minutes later: Training Ground.
Both teams managed to find where find where the gunfire came from and they see Ichigo wearing a tank top and a pair of blank pants and boots to match, shooting at a new set of targets for him. He took out Ebony and Ivory out of their holsters once more and points them at the targets. "Alright girls, let's see if we still got it." Ichigo pulls the triggers on his guns, firing a blast from both of them at the targets. Ichigo turned towards more of the target and quickly fired at them. Then he pointed at the last target behind him and fired at it without even looking. He looked down at his pistols with a small smile on his face. "It seems that we still got it after all of this time."
The girls (not including Nora) all turned red to see that Ichigo is rather tone for a guy his age. They see the sweat coming out of his forehead and seeing his body covered with scars from his arms to his chest.
He spins the guns around his index fingers before placing it back to its holsters. 'Alright, time to test these out.' He would then draw both swords from his back with ease, to which both teams couldn't believe that he's wielding 2 heavy broadswords without breaking a sweat. From the look of both swords, they believe that the weight can be 10-20 pounds from the look of them.
Taking a few swings of each of the swords on both hands, he then starts 'leaking' out a dark blue aura around him. 'Alright, lets see if the swords can handle my power.' couple more targets stand up after the other set was damaged with bullet holes. "Edge Beam!" He fires 2 waves of energy that heavily damages one enemy and creates a shockwave that deals lesser damage to other enemies, creating a massive shockwave throughout the school and a massive dust cloud was covering the entire training ground. 'Well I guess they did.' He looks down at his swords where he still sees the electricity still on his blades.
'Holy Crap!' Everyone was shaking from the school rumbling not in fear.
He stabs the ground with both swords as he can hear his phone vibrating in his pants, to which he takes the call, "Hello." He answers a bit casualty until...
{ICHIGO!} He nearly drops to the floor from the loud voice coming from the other line, {WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?}
Weiss instantly knew who's voice that belonged too, the daughter of Atlas's Prime Minister: Sonia Nevermind. She wonders how on Remnant does Ichigo know the daughter of one of the most powerful and influential personal on Atlas. Perhaps it was fate that Ichigo met Sonia during his time during his years roaming the world from what Weiss has gathering in secret. While Ichigo has been a 'ghost' for the past 5 years, her family has been keeping their eyes out on him but sometimes they wouldn't be able to as he tried to make sure that he was a ghost.
"Sonia, not so loud!" He said a bit loudly to her as he tried to regain his hearing in his right ear, "Sorry if I didn't get a chance to call back. Things were a bit out of my control." He says casully to the Prime Minister's daughter.
{You could at least told me Ichigo!}
"Hey I thought you knew about my 'condition' Sonia." During his travels across the world, Ichigo came across a lost teen about a year younger than him and he helped her get out of the forest and he was surprised that she was the daughter of Atlas's Prime Minister.
{Sometimes I forgot about your 'condition' Ichigo. I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience.}
"Don't sweat Sonia, so what's up?"
Both teams decided hide themselves from being seen by Ichigo as they wanted to hear what's going on between Ichigo and the Prime Minister's daughteras they are now hearing the conversation going on between the both of them.
Flashback – Five years ago: Day of the incident
For the past couple of hours of tourning around the factory, Ichigo and his team were walking through the Dust Factory along with their classmates as their professor explained how the different machines turn the dust into ammo for weapons.
"Gee...this was the most boring field trip I have ever experience." He said in unenthusiastic tone to his friends as they all agreed with his statement.
"Alright children, there's one final area that I'm going to show you and then we can head back to Signal." The professor said. "Now right this way." As the class was following the professor, an explosion erupted and an alarm went off.
"What the hell?!" Ichigo said, looking at the smoke coming from one of the labs.
Him and his team along with another team of four ran into the lab that on fire. They saw a scientist struggling to get back to his feet with a piece of glass stuck in his leg.
"We have to stop these flames." The scientist said, winching in pain as Kayle removed the shard of glass in his leg.
"We need to get you to a doctor first." Chun-Li said.
"You don't understand. If these flames continued like this…" Another explosion erupted getting everyone's attention. "Oh no, we're too late! We must leave this room immediately!"
"Come on, we got to go!" Kayle shouted to everyone as she picks up the injured scientist over her shoulder. Kitana nodded as Team K.I.C.K quickly ran towards the exit. But before Ichigo and the other 4 students could escape a large pane of glass came down in front of him, dividing him from his team.
"Ichigo!" Kitana shouted in shock that her crush was behind the takes out one of her bladed fans and tried to cut an opening for Ichigo to get out of but it didn't work. Ichigo took out Ebony and Ivory and shot at the glass but it had no effect as well. "What's going on?!" Kitana questions the injured scientist as both Chun-Li and Kayle tried to break the glass divider but it didn't work.
"It's no use." The scientist said. "That glass is made from the hardest iron dust in the world, it's near impossible to break. The reason being is that room holds some of the most lethal chemicals we've found. If the flames reach those beakers, those chemicals would be released into the air." Kitana, Chun Li, Kayle widened their eyes when they heard that.
"Ichigo, you have to get out of there!" Chun-Li shouted. Ichigo nodded and continued to fire at the glass but nothing changed. Then the sound of glass breaking caught Ichigo's attention as the beakers that were mentioned began to break.
"Damn it, break!" Ichigo shouted, shooting at the glass but having no luck breaking though. Ichigo pulled the triggers on his guns again and widened his eyes when nothing came out. "No, not now!"
"Ichigo, hang on!" Kitana shouted. "We're going to get you out of there!"
"No, you guys got to get out of here!" Ichigo shouted. "Don't worry about me!"
"Don't be an idiot!" Kitana shouted with tears flowing from her eyes. "We're not going to let you die! We can't lose you…I don't want to lose you..."
"Kitana, don't worry. I'll find another way out of here. I don't you to die because of me. Once I got out, I'll come looking for you. I promise." Another explosion erupted. "You have to go now!"
Kitana wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded. "Please don't die…" she whispered. She ran towards her team as they ran out of the building.
'Thank you, Kitana, Chun-Li, Kayle.' Ichigo thought. 'Don't worry; I'll catch up with you soon, hopefully.' He takes out Ebony and Ivory out once more and pouring his reiatsu in his guns, "Charge Shot!" He fires off his guns at a nearby window but for some reason, the shot caused another explosion, hurrling everyone in the room to the wall and causing a massive burn on Ichigo's right forearm as he drops both of his guns. He screams in pain as the others hurried over to the injured student but unknown to them is that the Dust around them is starting to change Ichigo's right forearm.
"Ichigo!" One of the students, Kai, pulls Ichigo left arm around his shoulders, "You good brother?"
"Obivously not! Arghh damnit! Bust that window open!"
Everone else decided to do what Ichigo said and use their weapons to break the window down as time was not on their side, each strike from their swords caused windows to slowly break until it finally gave up.
"Let's go!" One by one, everyone jumps out of the window as Kai was about to take Ichigo until Ichigo pushes Kai to fall forwards as the explosion caught Ichigo.
"ICHIGO!"
(End of Flashback)
Present Time
Hours later of nonstop training with his weapons, Ichigo finally collapses onto his knees from exhaustion. Sweat started to pour down his forehead and arms and all he sees in front of him are cracks on the walls, damaged dummies with all of them scattered around the room.
He hears a couple of footsteps coming towards him, "You're still thinking about them?" Glynda asks her son as she walkts toward him and getting his attention. "You miss them, don't you?"
"Yeah…" Ichigo said quietly as he picks up his 2 swords and places them on his back. "Sometimes I wish I could had understand my talk with Kitana the other day before the Incident."
"We will find them, Ichigo. I promise." Ichigo nodded as he and Glynda walked out of the training grounds but leaving both teams alone.
"So, what are we going to do?" Ruby questions both teams, "I wanna give Ichigo a shot."
"As do I." Ren says to his comrades.
"Same here." Pyrrha added.
"He'll have to do a lot to earn my trust." Yang oppossed her younger sister, "After what happen 3 days ago, I'm on the fence of trusting him."
"Same here." Weiss stood beside her partner's older sister as did everyone else. "We don't know any info regarding the orange haired teen that was on a murderous rampage couple days ago." Weiss says a bit coldly to the group, "We don't know if he'll be the same as before."
"But there's a chance he might change. He has a good heart but there's something going on as Pyrrha said."
Everyone still feels unease with the orange haired student Ichigo Kurosaki. He has the power to beat all of them as Ruby can tell but there was something clouding his mind and wants to help him out. There was something that might change him and Ruby sees that. Only time will tell if he's on the good side, or on the path of the dark side and Ruby wants to help him as there was a familiar presence in Ichigo that she just can't put her finger on but time will let her figure out why is that.
To be continued…
Hey guys, sorry for the late update as I wanted to put this chapter around last week but there were other priorities that took over my time.
I hope that you guys like the chapter as I wanted to bring a bit of Ichigo's past in this chapter and I want to thank Rico 94 for helping me out on the chapter for the flashback sequences and his interactions with his teammates, even if it was small but I wanted to establish some part of his past and more of his travels will be revealed over the course of the story. I will also bringing a little connection with a different character in the series (yes it is a female) and it'll be an OC thing that I wanted to see if you guys will like(or hate) once I place establish with one of the characters and the timing.
Also Ichigo hasn't achieved Bankai in this story just yet, even if he knows the signature name of his move (Getsuga Tensho), he's already going to be an OP character as time moves forwards and he will unlock a new ability in the story. Also I did a poll on my page for one of my upcoming stories: A Promise (Bleach X Fairy Tail) and it's going to be a merge world with some of my other stories (DXD and RWBY) and I could use a co-author on ideas for the story. I want to know what I should add from my stories to that story as well. The poll is for which girls I should add for Ichigo's harem in the story.
I also need help on writing a chapter down for 2 of my stories, Persona: The Fool of DXD/Fairy Tail. I've been meaning to write a chapter down but I've been on a writer's block for awhile and I could use the help on making the 2 chapters possible.
I hope you guys enjoy the chapter, leave a comment on what you guys like of the chapter and as always, I talk to you all later.