It took about two weeks to prepare for the next phase of the training. The other vizards were brought to the training ground and introduced to Torin. There was Hiyori, a short angry girl who didn't seem to like anyone much, but mostly abused Shinji. The next was Love, a tall man with spiked black hair, he seemed friendly enough of a guy, despite the fact he quoted from the manga he read a lot and confused Torin. Then there was Kensei, another tall man with white hair, he seemed constantly annoyed, most often by a vizard named Mashiro. Mashiro was a green haired girl, and Torin wasn't sure what to make of her, childish was a word for it he guessed. The final female vizard was named Lisa, a young adult woman with turquoise eyes, red oval glasses and long black hair. She seemed to be the most serious of the bunch, though Torin was certain he caught her reading some questionable material at one point, she quickly hid it when she saw him there, which made Torin even more uncomfortable. Finally there was Hachigen, known as Hachi by the others, who was a huge man with pink hair. He was also the most likable of the vizards it seemed, being very kind and agreeable, almost to a fault.

Torin had gotten to know each of these vizards over the week, upon Shinji's insistence that if they were going to risk their lives to help him train, he should at least make himself more than a complete stranger. Torin was loathe to sacrifice so much time socializing, but he couldn't move forward without the help of the vizards, so he didn't have much choice.

At the end of the second week, Urahara fetched Rida and Aurora and brought them over.

"Alright, are we ready to begin?" Shinji asked

Torin nodded "I've been ready, you know that" he said

Shinji shook his head "I was asking everyone else dummy" he sighed

The others all voiced their agreement and readiness to begin, with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

"So I never got around to asking… but why is everyone else here?" Torin asked

It was Hachi who responded first "it is our job to keep you restrained during stage 2. In this stage you enter your inner world and do battle with your inner hollow. During this time, your hollow will control your body and go on a rampage, we're here to keep you occupied and stop you from leaving the area."

Torin nodded, he didn't show it, but the thought of his body going on a mindless rampage, particularly after all his recent training, frightened him. What if he hurt Rida or Aurora? What if he did much worse than just hurt them? He'd never be able to live with himself even if he beat his hollow.

Urahara stepped forward "Rida, Aurora, and I will only be involved if things get bad, the amount of time it takes to defeat an inner hollow varies greatly, the others will fight you in 10 minute shifts, we will be at the end of that rotation, we have enough endurance to go through two whole cycles before having to consider killing you, three will be the limit, don't make it last longer than that" he said

Torin nodded, he was somewhat reassured that his friends would only be fighting him for a small amount of the time, he could live with hurting the others, actually he wanted to get payback of Hiyori for kicking him when they met, apparently it was her way of greeting people or something. "Alright, how do I enter my inner world? If I just use jinzen I'll be with Kessho Satsujinsha, not my hollow" he asked

Sjinji thrust his palm in Torin's face "nighty-night" he said as Torin's eyes rolled back in his head and he slumped to the ground, having been knocked out by a kido.

"Hachi, I want him bound with a bakudo 99, and contained in a double barrier" Shinji said "I want his zanpakto hidden too"

Hachi looked at Shinji skeptically "is all that really needed? Even with Ichigo…"

"Torin is more dangerous than Ichigo was then" Shinji said "Ichigo will catch up, but Torin has many more years of combat experience than he does, and his zanpakto is too dangerous for us to let him use, Ichigo's hollow wasn't using zangetsu's abilities, but this hollow won't need to actively use Torin's zanpakto abilities to affect us with them"

"Very well" Hachi said as he bound and contained Torin

"Now its up to him" Shinji said