Transcendent

Shin's P.O.V

Leaving my inner world I was expecting to find myself in the outside world, imagine my surprise when discovered myself in a strangely dark place without any source of light.

I waited a moment to see if my eyes would adapt to the darkness and a little while later it happened.

Darkness still reigned but I could make out the figure of what looked like a huge Yellow Door, leading to the said door was a succession of stairs.

Looking at the rather suspicious construct, I didn't feel the slightest bit of apprehension, rather MY instincts were telling him to walk up and open the door.

I know one thing for sure, and that's my instinct is something I should always trust, thus I started walking forward, stair after stair, I felt no kind of strain whatsoever rather, it felt like, with every step I take, my presence become sturdier and bigger, truly a marvelous sensation.

Arriving before the yellow door that was three times bigger than I am, I pushed it open, it took almost no effort. Just as the door opened completely, I felt a huge surge of power from within, as if I just broke a limit imposed on myself or something similar.

Looking ahead, there were another couple of stairs taking higher to another door, but this one was red in color. seeing the result of my former actions, I decided to do the same and started walking up those stairs as well, it was as easy as the first one.

And once again with each step, I felt myself getting stronger and stronger, but this time I felt like this strength was a little different from the last one.

Nothing amazing but hm... how to say... you know when you go buy some ice cream and there are different flavors? yeah, the same kind, the feelings I got from this one and the last one are different.

Standing before the red door, I didn't think much and pushed it open, this time as well, I met no kind of resistance at all, and once I felt myself getting exponentially stronger.

Taking some time to enjoy the feeling, I started walking up another set of stairs, since it seemed like this one was also not the last.

Once again I marveled, the feeling of strength I was feeling right now was completely different from the past two ones, a completely different flavor, but this one seemed a little more familiar than the past two ones even if I still couldn't put a hand on it.

I was facing a blue door this time, the same size as the two past ones, so reiterating my previous actions, I pushed the door open... or at least I tried. because it seemed that for some reason, it became way harder than it was before.

It was like I transitioned from opening the door of a dollhouse for kids to trying to open the Zoldycks family's residence gate, one could tell how difficult it became from my analogy.

So as a response I gathered every bit of strength I currently possessed and gathered along the way and pushed with everything I got.

This time it moved as the door started opening little by little as I kept pushing, when it was halfway open, It stopped moving and I felt like I couldn't do it anymore.

I hesitated giving up for a second but soon shook my head in refusal, it was out of the question. If I got so much stronger by easily opening the former two doors, then how much stronger would I become after opening this one that was way harder in comparison?

That thought got me going as I took a deep breath and kept pushing with all my might. It moved once again, but by not so much, still, that was a progression, thus I kept pushing as it started opening, little by little.

The more it opened, the more effort and time it took to open further, thus as I continued doing so, more and more time passed.

Sometime later I came to realize that I did the major part already. This was it, I could feel it, we are almost here, a little effort, a last little push!

But no matter how much I pushed, I couldn't seem to find the strength to push more, that last little push needed, I couldn't do it no matter how hard I tried.

This was the first time I truly felt despair and I started losing hope, almost giving up and letting the door close back.

It was at that moment I felt it, another presence appeared, and someone seemed to have come to my rescue. It was a familiar presence, one that has been with me for a long time already.

The figure put its hand on the door as it wanted to help in my most needed time. With that I felt reassured, I knew that now I could do it, and thus for the last time, I pushed, with everything I got, everything!

"Ahhhhh!!" I couldn't help but shout as I did, there was too much I felt at the moment to not let it out. As the door finally opened with the help of the newcomer, I could hear his voice before he disappeared. "Oraaaaah!"

But I couldn't talk due to feeling overwhelmed by the new feeling of strength surging through me. This feeling once again was different from the past few times. But this difference was not just about the flavor it was something more, it was like it was not even ice cream anymore.

There was an increase in strength, but the increase was not as substantial as the other time, what changed more however was the "quality" of this strength, it was a strange feeling difficult to explain.

Ha yes! It was like the difference between ki and God ki in Dragon ball, that was the best reference I could come up with.

As he got accustomed to this new strength, he suddenly felt, the darkness ripping apart as if it already accomplished its purpose. I closed my eyes for a moment and when I reopened them, I was in a completely different place.

I was back to where I started, Urahara's shop underground area, floating in the air with no effort whatsoever.

Suddenly something happened as I smiled but didn't comment. I floated down and walked toward the group of people standing not far from my position. They were more people than before with the two kids also there.

I could see everyone adopting a complicated expression as I walked closer, ranging from Surprise, happiness, anticipation, puzzlement, and so on.

The first to speak his thought was without surprise my father as he also approached me closing the gap and spoke with a tone of worry and surprise. "Shin, What happened? Your spiritual energy, it... it has... completely disappeared!"

"No." I merely shook my head as I now understood everything that happened to me to this point. "It's still there, you are merely unable to feel it due to the gap between our current strength."

My words seemed to shock all of them and to further prove my words I lowered my spiritual power. But It was not only the quantity I lowered to not cause damage to the surroundings but also the "Quality" or even If I lowered it they wouldn't be able to feel it.

"That, how could that be?!" Even Urahara couldn't help but express his shock, perhaps, he already understood what my current situation implied, not the greatest genius of this world for nothing huh?

"And yet, it happened right before your very eyes." I said as I started making use of my new powers, I shifted into a spiritual state as my clothes changed, donning a black-white robe with a hood and wearing long, wide pants with amber patterns on all his hands as If he was using blut.

He extended his hand as a strange cube appeared above it and started slowly spinning by itself as his amber eyes glowed.

"From the knowledge, I gathered thus far, it seemed that I became what some would call a transcendent." I said without even batting an eye.

Once again shock was my answer but it seemed like someone wanted to ask me something for a while already so I spoke to him.

"Yes, Jinta?" I addressed him, he seemed a little surprised. "You want to ask me something don't you?"

"How do you even know my name? NO scratch that, what is up with this unsettling song?" He couldn't help but ask.

How, so someone catches on? I told Lune to automatically play some song in this type of situation and this time it was, "on the precipice of defeat."

"You asked a good question." As I said lune stopped playing the song.