#Yes we were using bokken but Kyoka Suigetsu is part of me and apparently part of me refuses to just kill people in straight-forward ways

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What was your experience during the Shinōreijutsuin?

My Academy record speaks for itself…

Although I suppose you’re asking because the Gotei has destroyed all records of the awards and praises that they heaped on me? No longer the model student, am I?

So then, things you might not know: I was initially dual-enrolled at the Kido Corps, until I achieved shikai in my penultimate year in the Shinoureijutsuin and my path was decided for me by Kyoka Suigetsu.

Of course, everyone was under the misconception that my zanpakuto power was ‘fog,’ but, regardless, that put me in the rare few who left Academy with something more than a blank ausachi.

I had a summer internship at Central 46 near the end of my Academy career. I played gopher to one of the judges. It was…. an illuminating experience. To say that I learned a lot that summer would be a understatement. I most certainly cemented my very strong dislike for that particular governing body that summer, though, truthfully, I hated it even before then. You never wondered how it was that I knew how to enter the Chambers?  ….ah, the lack of follow-up investigation after I left the Soul Society never ceases to amaze me.

But otherwise, my experience at Academy was like that of most people’s. Despite what my current reputation might have you believe, I got along with most people and so never had many problems with my roommates or colleagues or instructors. I was well-liked, popular.  

The only class I hated with every fiber of my being was zanjutsu…