She sat down, leaving a careful inch of space. The silence stretched. In the distance, a convenience store’s fluorescent light flickered—the same one where she’d once bought him a juice box after their first fight against a Hollow.
Ichigo stared at it. “Why?”
When Ichigo reclaimed his true Zanpakutō, he carved a small mark into the hilt—a chipped circle. Rukia, now a captain, noticed it during their first spar in the rebuilt Seireitei. anime bleach episodes