1-3 Gikon's True Purpose

Yep, that's right. What we're doing here is basically a warm-up exercise, the sort of thing you would do before any strenuous physical training.

The difference is that here, we do things on a much, much bigger scale.

The Soul King... It's his power and wisdom, and a million years of history, that have created our rituals.

When it comes to healing, therapy and diet, we leave the Seireitei in the dust.

Just focus on rebuilding your strength. So you don't die in the next palace.

And now, with that said... How about we move on to dessert?

Oh, I always use up a lot of my Spiritual Pressure whenever I cook. By the time I'm done cooking, I'm just a shadow of my former self.

Ichigo. Renji... Be careful out there.

As I said, all our rituals are imbued with the history of the Soul Society.

Each one of us in Squad Zero has contributed to the Soul Society by creating something new.

It's for that reason we were recognized as part of its history and invited by the Soul King to join this squad.

The concept I created had never been thought of. The concept of an artificial soul, a Gikon

I even created the technology needed to insert it into a body... This Gikon technology was later used by others to develop the Soul Candy.

But the main purpose of a Gikon is to increase one's power by inserting the essence of a completely foreign Spiritual Pressure into one's body.

The food you ate was infused with just such an essence. Your bodies now contain a Spiritual Pressure such as you've never felt before.

And now you're both beginning to sense it, aren't you? All the same, it doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful.

There's no telling what you'll have to go through at your next stop... Hoohden.

In that palace you will have Oh-Etsu Nimaiya to deal with. The man who created Zanpakuto.