Bleach -15

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Bleach
[insert text: His burdens... a sword, and also...]
[insert text: The movie goes "bankai" on December 22nd!!]
[side text: In commemoration of the movie, it's a centre colour page for the second week in a row!! It's a special 23-page Hitsugaya one-shot!!]

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[Text: I dream of a plain of ice...]

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[Text: I feel the presence of "ice"... // I hear a voice... // An echoing voice... // Crushing... // Engulfing... // Resounding into the distance... // Just like thunder...]

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Hinamori: Good morning~! // Shiro-chan!
Hitsugaya: ...Get out of my face.
[Text: I hear a voice]

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[Text: Crushing... Engulfing...]
Hinamori: Come on! // Get up and eat your breakfast! It's my first day, I don't want to be late! // I'm just gonna go say goodbye to Tecchin and A-chan next door, 'kay?
[Text: Resounding into the distance... Just like thunder...]
Hitsugaya: ...Tch. // What a pain.
[Text: Brushing against my hand... // Like a delicate flower...]
Bleach -15

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[Text: On that plain of ice, I die.]
Hinamori: See you! / I'll be staying in the dormitories, but I'll still come see you whenever I have the chance!!

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Hitsugaya: Don't bother coming back here ever again. // Bedwetter-Momo~~~~~~~~~~~
Granny: My, my, how rude... // Even though you won't be seeing her for a while, / you say such things to her...
Hitsugaya: Who even cares? // I mean, she'll be free, like, straight away, right? / I bet she'll be back here in no time.

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Hitsugaya: (Tatsukichi and Ayumi from next door... // Hinamori's friends... // They're both scared of me. // It's not that I ever did anything to them... / But... // Even so, I can tell that they're afraid of me. / I guess it's because that's how everyone feels around here. // West Rukongai, First District, "Junrin'an". // The only ones here who aren't afraid of me are Hinamori and ol' Granny. // Maybe it's my silver hair, or my blue-green eyes... // Or maybe it's just the cold way I act. // But everybody says I'm "just like ice".)

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Hitsugaya: (Granny never says that. // That's why I like her.)
Hinamori: Well, I'm off then! // I'll be back in the summer holidays! // Ahh! / So this is where you were!
Hitsugaya: (It's been five years since Hinamori entered the Shinigami academy.)

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Hitsugaya: (She's been coming round here a little less often recently. // Apparently she's found a goal for herself. // Her hair's a little longer now, too. // I haven't got any taller, though. // And Granny... // She's just got thinner.)

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Granny: ...Toushirou.
Hitsugaya: Hey... / I'm gonna go buy some ama-natto. // We're running out.
ShopPerson: That's three kan change.
Rangiku: Hey! Dropping the change on the counter, is that any way to treat your customers?!

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[no text just breasts]

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Rangiku: Think you can get away with it because he's a kid or something?! // Who would have thought you could possibly be so rude!
Hitsugaya: .....................

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Rangiku: And you, don't just lie there crying about it!! / If you're a man, you should stand up for yourself like one!!
Hitsugaya: YOU'RE the one who knocked me down!! / And I wasn't crying!! Get off!!! // I said get OFF!
Rangiku: Ah! // Hey, wait right there!!

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[Text: I hear a voice... // An echoing voice... // Crushing... // Engulfing... // Falling into my hand... Just like thunder...]

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[no text just ULTIMATE WIN - seriously, this double spread alone makes the lack of real Bleach chapter this week worth it.]

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Hitsugaya: What the hell... // ...are you...?!
Hyourinmaru: LITTLE BOY!! // YOU HAVE -
[TN: the rest is drowned out by the general roaring sound effects]
Hitsugaya: What are you saying?! // I can't hear you!!
Hyourinmaru: MY NAME IS -
[TN: and again.]

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Rangiku: Hey!
Hitsugaya: Why, you... / From before...!
Rangiku: Your reiatsu. / Stop leaking it everywhere and get some sleep.

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Rangiku: Your grandmother looks pretty cold.
Hitsugaya: ! // ...Gr...
Rangiku: ...Kid. / You should become a Shinigami.
Hitsugaya: ! / Wha...
Rangiku: Kids with power as strong as yours... / ...need to know how to bring that power under control. // Let me just tell you now. / If you just stay like this, // you'll end up killing that grandmother of yours with that power soon enough.
Hitsugaya: What are you - ?!

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Rangiku: You hear a voice calling out, right? // Once you properly discover that voice... // ...you'll understand how to control your power. // But that... / ...means becoming a Shinigami. // ...I'll only say it once more. // Kid.

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Granny: ...Is that right. // That's wonderful. // You've been holding everything in all this time... // Thinking that you don't want to leave your old granny all alone... // But you know, just thinking of me and hurting yourself like that... // I think for me as your grandmother, // that's the hardest thing of all.
[Text: I hear a voice...]

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[Text: Far... Near... I hear it resounding... // Now I decide to search... // ...to find it, and move onward. // Even if I die on this plain of ice.]
[side text: Destiny. That vast power he cannot see stirs him to action. And what awaits him there...]
[bottom text: More center colour pages next issue!! Mayuri vs Szayel Aporro! A shocking battle!!]