Prologue
I still remember clearly my life back in the living world. It was something that rarely happened to the soul that lives in Rukongai, usually after a soul reached Soul Society they slowly lose all their memory of their former life.
The detail of my own death was hazy but I do know one thing for sure is that I was not brought here with the help of a shinigami's Konso nor did I get here with my own power.
I dream of a dimly lit large cave. I can feel the earth.
I could feel the rumble of the ground.
A voice echoed around me.
Like earthquakes, vibrating subtle beneath the surface
Like a beating heart, constantly in my chest
Since woke up Rukongai I have been wandering aimlessly. I have no need for a place of belonging nor acceptance from strangers. I feel no loneliness when loneliness is the only thing I only ever have.
But as I start dreaming more, the more I could see others seem to fear me. The majority of souls living in Rukongai does not require food to sustain themself like I have been doing, only those who have high spiritual energy would need to eat and they have a chance to become a shinigami if they enter the Shinigami Academy.
It was obvious that my power is more than strong enough to become a shinigami and it would be safer for me to become one rather than to continue to wander the Rukongai and risk being attacked by those beasts with white masks that I sometimes saw the shinigami fight with.
Both my intuition and that deep rumble at the back of my mind tell me that I need to go to the Academy.
Will I find what that I have been searching for at the academy?
I could hear a voice rumbling so loudly
I have yet to understand what it tries to tell me