5-3 The Final Getsugatensho

Let's not do this here.

I'd rather we fought somewhere else.

An impertinent suggestion.

Only someone who has the power to give me a real challenge has the right to make such a request.

There's no need to worry. I will not destroy Karakura Town. You will-

What?!

How did he?! Impossible! No one could have done this to me!

Now, let's do this, Aizen.

I'll end this in an instant.

What an odd reaction.

When I backed away from you in our last battle, you stopped and asked me why. Now you're doing the exact same thing.

You're pleased that you stopped my sword, aren't you?

I assume then, that you're also pleased that you overcame my Kido!

I suppose that you're equally pleased that you put a scar on my body!

Well, don't be so full of yourself, human!

It's over, Ichigo Kurosaki!

Is it, Aizen?

Aizen, let's end this already. All this rambling you do? Well, I'm sick of it.

I'll show you...

...my Final Getsugatensho.

You finally figured it out.

The only way to acquire the Final Getsugatensho was to give up all resistance and accept my blade.

Why are you crying?

What I wanted to protect...

...was always you, Ichigo.

If you use this technique, you will...

The Final Getsugatensho...

...is about me becoming Getsuga itself.

If I use this technique, I will lose all of my Soul Reaper powers.

That's what "Final" means.

(I still can't sense his power.)

(Wait a minute.)

(I have evolved into a being far beyond that of a Soul Reaper. Just as two-dimensional beings can never interact with three-dimensional beings...)

(...no Soul Reaper or human will be able to detect my Spiritual Pressure unless I deliberately bring my powers down to their level of awareness.)

(If that is the case...)

(...then that means he is at an even higher level than myself?!)

It's absurd! A mere human can't surpass me! It couldn't possibly be!

Mugetsu.

These are my final words for you. If you use this technique, you will lose all of your Soul Reaper powers.

(My Soul Reaper powers...)

(...are disappearing!)

What?

What's happening to me?

My powers... The powers I've gained. They're disappearing!

It is the Hogyoku's will.

Kisuke Urahara!

The reason the seal I shot into you is only now taking effect is because your powers have started to weaken.

The Hogyoku is saying that it does not recognize you as its master.

You're wrong! It can't be. It's impossible!

Kisuke Urahara! Why in the world is it that you choose to subjugate yourself to that thing?!

When you say "that thing," are you talking about the Soul King?

Without the existence of the Soul King, the Soul Society would split into pieces. The Soul King is the keystone to it all.

Without that keystone in place, the system would fall apart. That, my friend, is how the world works.

That's an argument only a loser would make! A victor should speak of how the world should be, rather than how the world currently operates! I refuse to accept a world ruled by that thing!

I am a victor! I shall decide how the world should be!