Bleach 401

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tl by molokidan

01)
1: I have reached my limit.
2: The limit of my Shinigami self.
3: ...what are you babbling about now?
4: At long last, it appears that the will of the Hougyoku
5: has begun to understand my heart.
6: More nonsense, huh?
7: ...too difficult for you to fathom?
side: Ichigo, overwhelmed by Ichimaru's ability!! Meanwhile, something unusual happens to Aizen's body?! Just what is the Hougyoku...?!

02)
1: I am saying that the Hougyoku
2: possesses a will of its own.

03)
1: ...yeah, still sounds like nothing but gibberish to me.
2: I suppose it is to be expected that you cannot sense it.
3: I too only first came to know the will of the Hougyoku after becoming its master.
4: What
5: do you think the ability the Hougyoku possesses to be?
6: To control the boundary of two contravening existences--
7: that of Shinigami and Hollow?
8: Negative.

04)
1: The "true power of the Hougyoku"
2(2b): is the ability to capture and materialize the hearts of everything that exists around it.
3: ...what...!?
4(4b): Still cannot bring yourself to understand? I am saying that all the miracles, as they should be called, that happened around Kurosaki Ichigo, Kuchiki Rukia, and Urahara Kisuke
5: were events materialized by the will of the Hougyoku.

05)
1: What are you...
2(2b): The reason Urahara Kisuke misunderstood that the Hougyoku has the ability to manipulate the boundary between Hollow and Shinigami
3: is because that was his own desire, which the Hougyoku generated.
4: The reason Kurosaki Ichigo inherited all the spiritual power of Kuchiki Rukia, who then lost her abilities as a Shinigami
5: is because she had not been rescued from the pain of killing Shiba Kaien.
6(2b): The reason unique abilities were summoned within Sado Yasutora and Inoue Orihime
7(2b): was because they cursed their own powerlessness from the bottoms of their hearts.

06)
1: I
2: became aware of the true power of the Hougyoku.
3(2b): No, the expression "became aware" is faulty.
4(2b): To be more accurate, I knew that it was not the "ability to manipulate the boundary between Shinigami and Hollow," as Urahara Kisuke said it was.
5: And that is because
6: if that was actually true,
7: then Hirako Shinji and his allies should not have been able to become complete "Vaizards."

07)
1: The Hollowfication they underwent
2: while simultaneously being an experiment in pure Hollowfication,
3: was also something done to confirm the power of the Hougyoku.
4: And so, the experiment succeeded.
5: Through the hand of Urahara Kisuke, and consequently the invocation of the ability of the Hougyoku,
6: Hirako Shinji and his allies evolved to perfect "Vaizards."
7: And then, with a hypothesis as to the ability of the Hougyoku in my hands--

08)
1: I sent Kuchiki Rukia
2: to the side of Kurosaki Ichigo.
3: Of course,
4: there is a limit to the power of the Hougyoku.

09)
1(2b): The ability of the Hougyoku is the materialize the hearts within its vicinity. If the target does not essentially possess the power necessary to beget their desires, however, then it is impossible.
2: In that sense, it can be called a "power that guides in the direction of desire."
3: ...but living creatures are truly mysterious, you know?
4: Despite the nature of what they wish for with their stunted hearts,
5: they are built so that they are able to realize such.
6: You bastard...

13)
1: Darahhh!!!

14)
1: Good job stopping that one.
2: Even for a fluke, that wasn't half bad.
3: You think that was a fluke, dumbass?!
4(2b): ...I...Ichigo...
5: What?! Don't talk to me right now!!

15)
1: A little more and I got this guy!
2: Just stay out of my way!!
3: ...'scuse me, Captain Aizen.
4: Did I interrupt your grand speech?
5: ...absolutely not.

16)
1: I had but
2: reached the end.

17)
1(2b): Dad! What the hell is that?!
2: What's going on?!
3: How should I know?!
4: Just when I was thinking "I have no idea what the hell is going on here," you flew in, so I still have no idea what the hell is going on!!
5(2b): What do you mean you don't know?! You were fighting him just now, weren't you?!
6(2b): Oh, enough already!! If you wanna know so bad, then go and ask Aizen, dammit! What a pain in the ass you are!!
7: --indeed,
8: The "Hougyoku" quite is a well-deserved name!
9: For it truly does possess the power to altogether annihilate the horizon where the divine and earthly meet!!

18)
1: ...so you have come,
2: ...Urahara Kisuke...!!
black: Founder and 1st President of the Shinigami Research & Development Institute!!