Bleach: Brave Souls story · Event, 6/17 - 6/18 Things Like Loneliness
6/17 - 6/18 Things Like Loneliness
6/17 - 6/18 Things Like Loneliness. Follow this special story to commemorate 30 million downloads of the game and get 30 Million Downloads Summons Tickets and a Skill Key.
3 scenes, 68 lines
1. Before the battle
29 linesJune 17th
When was it...
...that he stopped smiling?
I first met him when we were four, at the dojo we used to go to.
I couldn't believe how bright his hair was, or how beautiful his mother was, holding him by the hand.
I couldn't believe how he came in that day with the biggest smile.
He was scrawny, and always had this goofy grin on his face. He looked like a total wimp.
And he was. When he lost, he'd start crying.
But as soon as he saw his mother when she came to pick him up, he'd get that big grin on his face all over again.
I hated that. I mean, what kind of boy smiles when he loses?
That's what I'd feel when I saw that smile of his...
...I thought he was such a baby, clinging to his mommy...
But... He seemed so happy. His smile was sweet.
That's how...he used to be.
............
His mother died.
He was only nine when it happened.
............
He didn't show up to school for a while after that, so I went looking for him.
I found him by the river where his mother died. He was walking around with his school bag, from sun up to sun down.
It was like he was looking for her. Up and down the river.
When he got tired, he'd squat down where he was, then stand back up and keep searching.
Every day, day after day, sun up to sun down...
I couldn't stand it... I couldn't take seeing Ichigo like that.
(What was that strange sense of relief that I felt?)
(It was something like kindness...)
(My one-sided sense of sympathy...)
I feel like... ...Now I understand you a little better...
...Ichigo.
2. Before the boss
4 lines
I'll make sure... I'll make sure you pay for what you did!!!
Ichigo!
Rukia, stay out of this one! This one's mine!
This one...is personal.
3. After the battle
35 linesRukia... Let me be a Soul Reaper for a little while longer.
I want to become strong. Incredibly...incredibly strong.
I'll protect people from the Hollows.
And then...I'll kill that monster!
Ichigo...
June 18th
............
Aha! I thought you'd be here.
What are you doing? Are you really skipping school for two days?
How about you, then? Why aren't you in school?
Voluntary leave.
It doesn't matter for me, since I have good character.
Hey!
............
What's up?
Nothing.
(This again.)
(I always think back to that summer during fifth grade at times like these.)
(Back when he started calling me Tatsuki instead of Suki.)
Why are you using my real name? It's really annoying.
What's wrong with "Tatsuki"?
Tch. You're really annoying.
(I wasn't actually annoyed, but I definitely wasn't happy, either.)
(I don't really know, but if I had to say, that feeling was something like loneliness.)
(Like the time in sixth grade when Ichigo got taller than me. Or the time in eighth grade when I first lost a practice fight to him.)
(He hasn't sparred with me since then. Not once. And our height difference just keeps growing.)
(Even his face...
...is different from how it was on June 18th of last year.)
(But I'm not really interested in that loneliness, or whatever that feeling really is.)
(At any rate...)
All right!
Let's go to the arcade! Stand up, already!
Ouch!!!
(I'm still better at games than he is.)
(That's good enough.)