Bleach 401

Guidelines For Using My Translations

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[Side text: Ichigo is overpowered by Ichimaru's ability!! Meanwhile, something is happening to Aizen's body?! Just what is the Hougyoku...?!]
Aizen: I have reached my limit. // As a Shinigami, that is.
Isshin: ...What are you talking about?
Aizen: It would seem that the will of the Hougyoku... // ...has finally begun to understand what I desire.
Isshin: ...And in sane talk?
Aizen: ...Do you not understand?

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Bleach 401
Deicide 3
Aizen: I am telling you... // ...that the Hougyoku has a will of its own.

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Isshin: ...Yeah, that sure sounds like crazy talk to me.
Aizen: I can hardly fault you for not realising it. // I myself did not realise that the Hougyoku has a will of its own until I became its master. // What do you think... // ...the ability of the Hougyoku is?
Isshin: Control over the boundary... // ...between the two opposing forces of Hollow and Shinigami, right?
Aizen: Incorrect.

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Aizen: The true ability of the Hougyoku... // ...is to absorb the desires of those around it... // ...and to manifest them into reality.
Isshin: ...What...?!
Aizen: Do you not see? / All of the events... / ...that have occurred around Kurosaki Ichigo... / ...Kuchiki Rukia... / ...and Urahara Kisuke... events that could scarcely be called anything but 'miraculous'... // Every one of these 'miracles' was brought about by the will of the Hougyoku.

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Isshin: What are you.........
Aizen: Urahara Kisuke believed that the ability of his creation was to manipulate the boundary between Hollow and Shinigami. / This false assumption was brought about... // ...by the fact that such manipulation was his own great desire. // The reason why Kuchiki Rukia's spiritual energy was transferred in its entirety to Kurosaki Ichigo... / ...leaving her robbed of her Shinigami powers... // ...was because she had yet to be released from the pain of killing Shiba Kaien. // The reason why Sado Yasutora and Inoue Orihime... / ...each awakened unique special abilities... // ...was because from the bottom of their hearts... / ...they cursed their own powerlessness.

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Aizen: I, however... // ...had realised the true nature of the Hougyoku's power. // Well, no... / I suppose that is not an entirely accurate statement. // To be precise... / ...I was aware that its ability was not, as Urahara Kisuke believed, to manipulate the boundary between Hollow and Shinigami. // I knew this... // ...because if that truly were its ability... // ...Hirako Shinji and his fellows would not have become full Visored in the way that they did.

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Aizen: My transformation of Hirako Shinji and his fellows into Hollows... // ...was not merely an experiment into the process of Hollow transformation itself. // It was also a way of verifying the ability of the Hougyoku. // And the experiment was a success. // When the ability of the Hougyoku was activated at the hands of Urahara Kisuke... // Hirako Shinji and his fellows underwent an evolution into true Visored. // And I, having reached a hypothesis regarding the Hougyoku's true ability...

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Aizen: ...sent Kuchiki Rukia... // ...to meet with Kurosaki Ichigo. // Naturally, // the ability of the Hougyoku is not without limits.

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Aizen: The Hougyoku is able to manifest the desires of those around it. / However, this manifestation will not be successful unless the possessors of those desires have the strength to carry it out. // In a way, its ability might be better termed a 'guiding force'. // ...However, it is a peculiar quality of living beings... // ...that when it comes to achieving those petty desires that their crude hearts enshrine... // ...they tend to have remarkable levels of success.
Isshin: Why, you......!

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Isshin: !

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[no text just boom]

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Ichigo: Hyaaahh!!!

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Gin: Nice little block ya got there. // For a fluke, it wasn't half bad.
Ichigo: Like hell it was a fluke, dumbass!
Isshin: ...I... // ...Ichigo...
Ichigo: What?! Shut it, would ya?!!

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Ichigo: Just a little longer, and I'll have this guy dealt with! // So don't get in my way!!
Gin: ...Sorry 'bout this, Captain Aizen. // Did we interrupt your little chat?
Aizen: ...No.

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Aizen: Our little chat... // ...had just concluded.
Isshin/Ichigo: !!

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Ichigo: Dad! / What the hell is that?! // What's this guy's deal, huh?!
Isshin: How am I meant to know?!! // You came barging in just when the whole thing was getting confusing, so now I don't have a clue what's going on!!
Ichigo: Whaddaya mean, you don't know?!! / You're the one who's been fighting the guy this whole damn time!!
Isshin: Oh, shut your face!! / If you want to know so badly, then why don't you go ask him yourself?!!
Aizen: ............Dear me... // The name of "Hougyoku" - "Crumbling Sphere" - seems all too appropriate! // For truly, this power causes the impregnable barrier between the realm of mortals and that of the divine... / ...to crumble away to nothing!!

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Aizen: .........So, you arrive.

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Aizen: ...Urahara Kisuke.........!!
[Insert text: The original President of the Research and Development Institute!!]