Chapter 881 The Zanpakutō Passed Down From Generation to Generation, the Curse of the Ise Family

Ise Nanao doesn’t remember much about her childhood, especially about her mother, because her mother passed away a long time ago.

There is only one thing she remembers very clearly. She can’t remember the exact day, but her mother invited a man to her home and handed something to him solemnly.

This was a trivial matter, but she remembered it because her mother died suddenly not many days after it happened.

After her mother died, an old couple adopted her, saying that they were relatives of the Ise family, but she had never seen them visit her before, or her mother took her to visit.

However, under the care of the old couple, Nanao spent a relatively stable and happy childhood. Like other children in the Soul Society, she eventually entered the Shinō Spiritual Academy to study and worked hard to become a member of the Gotei 13.

It was also in the Central Spiritual Academy that she first met Kyoraku Shunsui.

In fact, Nanao didn't know who the other party was at first. She only knew that he was a captain who came to talk to the dean. However, what was very special was that he was obviously a man, but he was wearing a clearly female outfit on the captain's haori.

Such clothes can actually be seen everywhere, but Nanao vaguely remembered that her mother seemed to have similar clothes.

However, compared with the clothes, what attracted her more was the two windmill-shaped hairpins of the other party. She remembered that her mother seemed to have such hairpins.

Of course, this is just a small episode in life. If it weren't for what happened later, this memory would have become vague.

The story started with her six years of study at the Maou Spiritual Academy. She had a good talent for ghost arts, but she did not turn the shallow acetouch issued by the academy into her own Zanpakutō, which was undoubtedly fatal for entering the Gotei 13.

But perhaps because of her good talent for ghost arts, she still received the test for joining the team. Thinking that she could make a difference with ghost arts, she accepted the test and handed in her volunteer for assignment.

In the end, she did pass the test for joining the team, but she was not assigned to the team she volunteered for, but was assigned to the 8th team for some unknown reason.

It was also there that she met the man again and knew that he was her captain, Kyoraku Shunsui.

The man who said as if jokingly, "Don't worry, I'm very gentle to girls, but I'm casual with boys.", changed his outer clothes and took off his hairpin compared to the first time she saw him.

Perhaps it was a coincidence, but Nanao realized at that time that this person was deliberately reducing her familiarity with him and pretending that he had no connection with her.

Thinking back to the first time she saw him at the Spiritual Art Academy, the clothes that looked like those worn by her mother, and the hairpin that looked like those worn by her mother.

Nanao was sure that Kyoraku Shunsui was the person to whom her mother gave something important when she was a child.

As for what that thing was, as Nanao grew up in the Eighth Division and finally reached the position of vice-captain, she was able to read more information.

Therefore, she knew that the so-called Zanpakutō was not only evolved from the Asauchi issued by the Spiritual Art Academy, but also that there were Zanpakutō that could exist forever and be passed down from generation to generation.

This is of course just a guess, a possibility, but thinking that it was entrusted by her mother, but Shunsui didn't want to let herself know, that is to say, that important thing is related to both her mother and her. Nanao is 90% sure that what her mother got rid of Shunsui's custody at that time was a Zanpakutō that can be passed down from generation to generation, that is, her Zanpakutō!

Shunsui certainly didn't know these things about Nanao, but seeing the other party's determined look, he almost guessed it in his heart.

"Have you noticed your mother's affairs?"

"Yes."

"From a long time ago?"

"Yes."

Shunsui lowered his head helplessly. He probably didn't expect that his deliberate actions at the time would make the girl believe the thing she didn't want her to know the most.

"Really, I lost to you."

"Captain!"

"No way, since you are so determined, I will give it back to you. Your Zanpakuto, Kyoukotsu."

After Shunsui finished speaking, a girl with short hair and side bangs, and her face covered by black cloth except for her right eye, dressed in ninja clothes suddenly appeared beside Nanao. She was the other half of Katen Kyoukotsu - Kyoukotsu.

Nanao certainly couldn't see Kyoukotsu, but she was still a little surprised just by hearing the name, "What's going on? I know that Katen Kyoukotsu is divided into Katen and Kyoukotsu, but how can Kyoukotsu be my Zanpakuto?"

"But Kyoukotsu is indeed your Zanpakuto, but it's actually a little inaccurate to say so." Shunsui thought for a while and continued to explain: "Hana gave birth to Kyoukotsu to hide Nanao's Zanpakutsu, so Kyoukotsu does exist for you, but strictly speaking it's not your Zanpakutsu."

He suddenly looked serious, "Although time may not be sufficient, you have to listen carefully to what comes next. This is also your last chance, Nanao."

"Please speak." Nanao raised her hand and motioned the other party to continue.

Shunsui also adjusted his sitting posture, with a look of reminiscence in his eyes, and began to tell a piece of history that Nanao didn't know at all.

First of all, the Ise family that Nanao belonged to was not an ordinary family in Seireitei. It was an aristocratic family and a rare priest family among the aristocrats.

Although it does not reach the level of the five nobles such as Tsunayashiro and Jinji, the Ise family is also extremely special among the priests' families because it is a female clan. According to existing records, all members of the family have only one child. daughter.

In order to continue the family, the Ise family would recruit new members from other places, but any man who married into the Ise family would die young due to Ise's curse.

Of course, some people think that this is just a coincidence, and that the curse is nonsense.

However, Nanao's mother didn't think so. In order to break the curse, she married with the intention of severing the Ise family's bloodline. She married one of the nobles, the Kyoraku family, and her partner was Shunsui. Big brother.

But this didn't seem to be able to lift the so-called curse, and Chun Shui's eldest brother still died young.

And because the husband passed away, the person who married into the family was cut off and sent back to the original family line. This was a common thing among the Seireitei noble families, so she was driven back to the Ise family.

"She had the consciousness to abandon her family, but she was unable to escape from it in the end. The women of Ise cannot escape the Ise family, nor can they escape the curse of Ise, but perhaps it is because of the curse of the Zanpakutō passed down by the family. Maybe that’s what she thinks.”

Chun Shui's tone seemed very low, and telling this past event was extremely heavy for him.

"Thinking of this, she desperately wanted her soon-to-be-born daughter, your little Nanao, to escape the curse. So she got rid of me and kept the Zanpakutō, and asked Kuang, who likes hide-and-seek, to hide it."

After saying this, Kuang Gu beside Nanao pulled out a long cloth bag from under his mask, and the bag fell firmly into Shunsui's hands.

"This is your Zanpakutō, Nanao-chan."