"Okay close your eyes and imagine a ball of light and yes it can change colors because it's a ball of light." Shino closed her eyes as she listened to Yuki.

She imagined herself doing the same thing she had done the day before, only that this time she found herself inside the academy, and unfortunately, she was sitting on her old seat.

Normally the room would be filled with students and unfortunately for her, the chair she had been assigned to was surrounded by chairs that belonged to nobles.

Still, she did what Yuki told her to do, she created the ball of light, it was strange normally something so simple came easy to her, and yet no matter how hard she tried she couldn't even make a tiny spark appear.

Tunk, tunk, tunk, tunk, the sound of chalk being used to write on the blackboard made her look up but no one was writing anything on the board, and the blackboard was empty.

Still the sounds continued and she began to look around searching for where the sound was coming from.

It took her more than a minute, but she realized that the sound was coming from the desk she had assigned to her, she didn't call it her desk because it was never truly hers.

She found the piece f chalk, that was making the sound and it was being held by a hand that was wearing a white glove, as she looked up she found herself looking at a clown who was happily smiling at her.

"Oh keep going, don't let e interrupt." the clown says to her but every time he said a word he made his mouth widen twist, and turn exaggeratedly.

"Who are you?" Shino asks the clown who just smiles at her, with his unnaturally large red-painted lips unnaturally large.

'I'm##!# " the clown introduced himself as he began to hit the piece of chalk on the desk again.

"What?" Shino asks the clown who immediately stopped tapping the piece of chalk on the table.

"Let's not worry about that for now." the clown says to her as he stands up straight and immediately shrinks before appearing behind her.

'So what are we doing?" the clown asks her as he sits down on the chair behind her and places his feet on the desk.

"I'm trying to make a ball of light appear, but nothing is happening," Shino answers the clown as she tries to make another orb of light manifest in front of her.

"Oh, do you mean like those?" The clown says o her, and even though the clown is sitting behind her, Shino knows that he's pointing at the entrance to the room.

She turns and sees several orbs that are changing color with every passing second.

The walls of the room begin to fall one after another and Shino finds herself standing inside a white empty void, she would have said that she was floating, but for her to be able to float over anything, there had to be something for her to float over.

She was going to say something to the clown but she stopped as the man grabbed the orbs of light and began to hit them with the tips of his fingers, each time he hit them they made a different sound.

"Do you know how horrible this place is when something that doesn't belongs here, is here?" the clown says to her.

"This place was pure white, not because your pure but because it's meant to be white, that classroom, these orbs, and yes even our voices don't belong here." he says to her, as the orbs begin to lose their color before then they vanish.

"Our time is up, Shino, you'll understand as time passes." the clown says to her.

Shino tries to open her mouth to ask the only question that matters to her at the moment, even if she already knows the answer, but she's not able to as the moment she blinks she finds herself sitting on the ground holding her sword.

Shino blinks she can't believe it, her sword is letting out small sparks of electricity her eyes widen as blue butterflies begin to fly off her sword and it changes to something that while still looking like a sword, feels somehow empty.

'Shino you did it!" Yuki says to her as he hugs her tightly.

Shino can't help but return Yuki's hug, but she was unable to share his enthusiasm, this wasn't right she no they had gone to the academy for months but it only took a day for her sword to change its form here.

She begins to look for Kazuma to show him that she has managed to gain a Zanpakutō, that the sword is now truly hers, and not the thing that is handed to everyone that enters the academy.

At least not anymore.

Her sword, just like herself, isn't like everyone else, it's different, and it's hers.

She continues to search for the man but she can't find him anywhere and the only thing that she sees are his three spirits feeding and watching over the children.

"let's go show the teacher." she says to Yuki, but Yuki's expression changes.

"He's not here, I mean he's." Yuki stops talking as the sound of footsteps reaches their ears and the two of them turn to see several Soul Reapers walking toward them.

Out of habit the two of them stand aside and let their seniors pass, the four men walk past them and despite glaring at them none of the men say anything to her or Yuki.

"You woman, where's the guy that lives here?' one of the soul reapers asks the spirit with short red hair as she gently hands the infant she's carrying to one of the older kids.