I introduced the two new residents to the other girls and they pushed me out of the room to get to know each other better. I shook my head and headed back into the training yard, I wanted to train my space and time magic some more so I didn't mind.
The day passed and I was getting more of a handle over my magic. As the day was coming to an end I pulled out my Asauchi, which looked like a regular katana, and set it down on my lap.
(Yes I looked more into it and remembered it's called an Asauchi before it bonds with a Shinigami's soul, so I'm just changing it. Also the bonding process will be different, maybe, I don't remember how it went in bleach, I think its something like the Zanpakuto's Spirit takes over the Shinigami's body until they pass a test or something, idk I don't remember. I'm not even caught up on the bleach anime and I watched it years ago. Either way, anything that has to do with Kai losing control of his body really wouldn't work between the system and Sarlyn so it's going to be a bit different either way.)
I set the Asauchi on my lap and closed my eyes, putting all my focus into the Asauchi, more specifically, the hilt of it. After about twenty minutes of searching, I found the core, which was slightly off center from the middle of the hilt, and focused all my attention on it.
After nothing happened, I sent a bit of mana towards it circulating it around the core, before eventually into it. As soon as my mana was injected into it, a system message popped up.
[ Would you like to start the bonding process with the Zanpakuto? Y/N ]
'Yes.' As I agreed, I felt my consciousness be pulled inside of my body, as well as the soul of the Zanpakuto. I opened my eyes to find a beautiful forest in front of me, to my left was a field of open windswept grasslands, to the right a mountain range, and behind me an ocean with waves crashing against the shore.
I stood up and looked around me, I didn't notice before, but in front of me lay a woman who, from what I could tell, was asleep. Strangely, I noticed the place was dead silent, no animals, no bugs, hell there was no wind or sound of the waves crashing. I ignored it for now, and walked over to the woman and shook her, trying to wake her, but to no avail.
'Where am I system? Who is this in front of me?'
[ Host is inside of his soul space. It is a physical representation of your powers, it is also where any soul-bound items you get will be stored. This can also be considered your 'inner world', the only difference is, at the moment, you aren't strong enough to allow other beings inside of your soul space outside of your Zanpakuto. ]
Hearing her I look back over at the girl laying on the ground, realizing that she was my Zanpakuto's spirit. 'So I have to learn her name... how to do that if she's unconscious though... System you said this place is a physical representation of my powers, so what exactly does that mean?'
[ The physical environment is altered based on your magic attributes. The more mastery you have in each attribute, the more it influences the world, but also the more you can control it. Due to your basic abilities in both space and time, the times of day are random, it could be a short or long day, two days in a row, or skip a day entirely and vise versa for night. Time also flows much faster than outside, one hour inside is equal to a minute outside, once you have more mastery, the time dilation can be changed to be slower, or even faster. As for space, since you have more mastery in that element than time, there is no spatial displacement, but it is still slightly out of control, so it is interfering with sound waves, thus you will either hear things distorted, not at all, or things from a completely different area. Also, since your Illusion magic is completely mastered, you can make the surroundings look however you want. Creation magic lets you make inanimate objects all you want. The others are represented in various ways. ]
(A/N: If you want me to go into more detail I can, but there's a lot so I would probably post a auxiliary type chapter for it alone.)
'Okay, so I need more mastery over my magic, specifically space first. Can I train my magic inside of my Soul Space?'
[ Yes host, you can, but even so, the mastery tier of your magic will not change no matter what, unless you get someone to teach you or a bloodline increase. Though training inside your soul space is extremely useful nonetheless, so I advise training as much as you can inside and when you start slowing down significantly, then focus on upgrading your tier. ]
'Got it. I guess I'll stay in here for a few more days until its dinner time outside.' Thus I sat down and started focusing on the surrounding space attribute particles. At first, I tried to manipulate them by drawing them in, but I realized that I couldn't, they were too unstable. So letting go of the particles, I then reached out with my mana again and grabbed them, this time however, I didn't try to draw them in, first I injected my mana into them, in an attempt to stabilize them. At first it worked but I soon lost control again and had to restart.
*3rd person*
Many days inside had passed, about seven and a half, or three hours outside, before Kai finally opened his eyes. He noticed that his Asauchi was no longer on his lap, but he could feel it residing in his soul, yet it was still dormant.
'Hah well over the last few days, I managed to stabilize the spatial magic and I started on my time magic. I think if I can incorporate these two types as magic into my sword fighting, as well as maybe lightning magic, I can get much better.'
Getting up, he made his way into the house where the girls were still all talking, yet they for the most part looked closer. Rory, Milim, and Shion were in their own group, while the rest of the girls were in a separate group talking. When I walked in, they all stopped talking and smiled at me, Yoruichi even had a small blush on her face when I looked at her, which was surprising, I figured she would almost never blush.
Ignoring it, I walked towards the kitchen, "Anyone have any special requests for dinner?"
"Whatever you cook is always good, so no." Shuna spoke up first, to which the others who had eaten my cooking before nodded.
"Yeah kai, just make sure I get some!" Milim said enthusiastically.
"Hah, alright, I'll cook something for all of us." I said as I went and made our dinner.
Later that night, I was lying in bed with Shuna. Scathach and Shion had, for some reason decided to sleep in a different room, though I had a decent idea of why.
We laid there for a while talking before I pulled Shuna on top of me, she let out an, "Eep!" and looked into my eyes. I smiled at her and moved my hand to her cheek, then to the back of her neck, before pulling her into a passionate kiss. We kissed until Shuna ran out of breath and pulled away from me with a heated gaze and panting heavily. I flipped her around so I was now on top of her, not forgetting this time, I set up a layer of limitless around the entire room to keep the sound from escaping.
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Well I'm sure you can all guess how the next chapter will start. This chapter is pretty much all lore, so if you all have any questions ask them and I'll do my best to answer them.