5 – Visiting

5 – Visiting

'I guess I'll carefully explore the neighbourhood and check out my old house. Maybe my family is still there.' he thought to himself.

It didn't take long to get to his house as it was well within walking distance even when he was a human. On the way came across some pluses that hurriedly hid from him some even just cowering in a corner at the sight of him, but he left them alone. Something just felt wrong about eating them. From eating the animal should he knew it wouldn't really taste like anything and it would just taste like spirit power and the more of it the tastier it was, but something about eating something that had a human mind and form was still very disturbing to him. So he just left them alone for now leaving some very confused pluses in his wake. It was a little awkward to navigate through the city without disturbing anything, though his newly enhanced dexterity helped a lot.

When he got to the house it still looked very much like he remembered it. The paint had faded a little, but beyond that everything looked no different. The car parked out front was different though.

'I guess it has been 10 years after all. I wonder if they still live here. Not that I would blame them. Though I didn't last long after the attack I'm pretty sure the scene was as gruesome as you can imagine for your average Japanese citizen. Though I doubt it was better than my first death. I'm pretty sure the bear kept mauling me unlike White.' he didn't want to get his hopes up as he neared the window to the living room.

When he stared into the living room he was at once both glad and extremely saddened as the most noticeable thing there was a new black shrine with a picture of his former self and some incense burning in his honour. Well it was new to him, it was quite obvious that the shrine was showing its age as the black varnish had faded here and there. It was quite surreal. It was still early in the morning so it must have only just been lit.

'If I can get at least to adjuchas I might not be as terrifying, if not Vasto Lorde definitely unlocks a much more human form. I have to get there as soon as possible without getting on Aizen's radar. System do I need Aizen and the Hōgyoku if I want to become a Arrancar after becoming a Vasto Lorde?' he asked.

[Answer: Negative, as long as host becomes a Vasto Lorde and as long as host manages to level up and gather enough spirit power after then the system is able to use these to protect the host as they remove their mask and transform into the Arrancar form.]

'Good then I have my goal and I need to do it fast. I can't leave them waiting.' he though to himself firming his determination.

'How much XP to level up?' he asked.

[XP: 0/30]

'Good I should be able to level up at least one or two more times just by finishing the current mission.' he nodded to himself and felt a little better now that he had set a clear goal and at least had a path for the next step.