1-3 Bankai! Koko Gonryo Rikyu!

Master Eijisai...

Pardon me, Master Eijisai!

(Back then, I was called Eijisai because of the scar on my forehead shaped like the Japanese character "Ei.")

I told you to stop calling me that!

Sorry! Forgive me, sir!

(For some reason, every time I distinguished myself in battle, the name "Eijisai" became increasingly more famous than my given name.)

(I did not like that.)

But sir, I am not so brazenly impudent as to consider myself worthy of calling you by your given name.

What is wrong with you, anyway? You're not even one of my students, yet day after day I find you lurking around here!

I come here in the hope that you will allow me to be your right-hand man!

Well, you'd have to be a student of mine, to begin with. Then, if you rose to the rank of master, you might become one of my right-hand men.

No. If I were your student, I would only end up copying you. Then how would I be able to compensate for any weaknesses you might have?

Watch your tongue, boy.

Also, it's not true that I'm here every day. In fact, this is the first time I've come in a month.

Hm?

And meanwhile, I've done what you requested. I have acquired a Bankai, master.

Really?

Well then, let us put it to the test. Try out this new Bankai on me.

Bankai! Koko Gonryo Rikyu!

Hyah!

(It was a magnificent Bankai. He wasn't able to defeat me, of course, but his Bankai did leave its permanent scar.)

But I purposely told him:

Your Bankai is unrefined.

Yes, I know. But I'll spend the rest of my life honing it and perfecting it for one reason alone: to better serve you, master.

(He was true to his word.)

(After countless years of relentless, grueling training, there wasn't a person in the Soul Society who did not know Chojiro's name. And his fame was well deserved.)

(Once my wound healed, the new scar looked like the Japanese character "Ju," so everyone started calling me Jujisai.)

(Everyone, that is, except Chojiro. He said "Sir, that scar is only the result of a lucky blow. Therefore, to me, you are still Master Eijisai" and stubbornly continued to call me Eijisai.)

(So, for Chojiro's sake...I took on the new name of Genryusai.)