Bleach: The Path to Transcendence

In an instant, Masaki Kurosaki, now a mother, could no longer contain the emotions in her heart and burst into tears.

“There’s no time to explain so much to you. Go back to the Kurosaki Manor in the west suburbs and live with your grandfather and the others! As for Ichigo, Karin, and Yuzu, I believe Isshin will be able to take good care of them. This is the best way to protect the four of you from heading towards your predetermined fate. Wait until Ichigo grows up, until everything is over, and then you can recognize each other!”

Hearing this, Masaki Kurosaki, her face streaked with tears, sobbed and said:

“But Ichigo and the others can’t live without…”

“After Ichigo wakes up, he will only remember that his mother died at the hands of a Hollow to protect him. I know this is cruel to your family, but it’s already the simplest and most convenient way to protect you!”

Hearing this, Masaki Kurosaki did not refute. Although she had never met the person in front of her, the affinity emanating from him made her involuntarily choose to believe.

Combined with the sudden disappearance of her Quincy powers, Masaki Kurosaki vaguely guessed a few truths.

Therefore, she had no choice but to listen to Tsukishima Shukuro's advice, reached out and wiped the tears from her face, and finally gently kissed Ichigo's forehead before turning and leaving. As she left, she looked back with reluctance at every step.

Tsukishima Shukuro then picked up Ichigo and placed him on a deck chair in the nearby park, before rushing towards Ishida Hospital.

…

Inside the VIP ward of Ishida Hospital, Kanae Katagiri looked worried, her eyes fixed on Uryu Ishida, who was lying unconscious on the hospital bed.

The young Uryu, only nine years old, originally had fair and radiant skin, but at this moment, his body was rapidly thinning, his face haggard and withered, as if all vitality had been drained from him.

Beside her, a group of doctors and nurses from Ishida Hospital looked solemn. They had used the most advanced and sophisticated equipment in the hospital, and every doctor had taken turns to consult, but faced with Uryu Ishida's condition, they still had no clue and could not find out what disease he was suffering from.

“Has Ryuken not returned yet?”

Kanae Katagiri asked, her voice trembling, as she looked at the butler beside her.

“The Director and the former Director have gone out to participate in academic research and will not be able to return for at least three to five days…”

The butler replied truthfully.

Hearing this, Kanae Katagiri took a deep breath and tried to calm down:

“Don’t tell Ryuken about Uryu’s condition yet. All of you, please leave first, I want to be alone with Uryu for a while.”

“Yes, Madam!”

As the doctors and nurses filed out, only Kanae Katagiri and the unconscious Uryu Ishida remained in the ward.

She carefully closed the doors and windows, knowing in her heart that the medical means of ordinary humans in the World of the Living could not cure Uryu Ishida at all. Because along with Uryu, the other mixed-blood Quincies under the Ishida family had also fallen ill.

Not long ago, she herself had felt a strange power, a power that tried to drain all the Reishi in her body, until her own Antithesis ability completely reversed and protected her, and then the strange power stopped invading.

At the moment, the only way Kanae Katagiri could think of to save her son was to use her own Antithesis ability to switch her condition with Uryu Ishida, and let her bear the pain of the Auswählen for her son.

This was also the reason why she didn't let the butler inform Ryuken Ishida and Soken Ishida about Uryu Ishida's condition in advance. Once they knew, they would definitely stop her from doing so, which would not only be of no help to saving Uryu, but would also waste valuable treatment time.

Immediately afterwards, Kanae Katagiri slowly walked to Uryu Ishida's bed and gently placed her hand on her son's forehead.

In an instant, a burst of faint blue light erupted from her eyes, and the Reishi in her body poured into Uryu Ishida's body like a flood.

Before long, all the Reishi in Kanae Katagiri's body had been transferred to Uryu Ishida. Uryu Ishida, who was originally as withered as a corpse, gradually regained his vitality and became full again.

And the feeling of near-death that Uryu Ishida had after being Auswählen, with the help of the Antithesis ability, was unreservedly transmitted to Kanae Katagiri's body.

A piercing pain, as if ten thousand ants were devouring her body, instantly swept through her entire body, and Kanae Katagiri couldn't help but mutter to herself:

“So… this is the pain that Uryu is enduring right now?”

After performing Antithesis and transferring the after-effects of the Auswählen to herself, Kanae Katagiri was so weak that she didn't even have the strength to stand, and she collapsed weakly by the bed. She

not only exchanged the after-effects of the Auswählen with her son, but even gave him her own Antithesis ability as well. Because she knew in her heart that only in this way could she forever save her son from the disaster of the Auswählen.

“So Antithesis is your ability!”

Just then, Tsukishima Shukuro's voice came faintly from behind.

“You are…”

The extremely weak Kanae Katagiri asked with difficulty.

Tsukishima Shukuro did not respond, but summoned the long sword made from the Book of the End and stabbed it without hesitation towards the frail Kanae Katagiri.

“You…”