Chapter 4 - 004: Shinō Academy
Shinō Academy, also known as Spiritual Arts Academy, is a school dedicated to cultivating Shinigami in the Soul Society.
It's founder is Gotei 13's Captain-Commander Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni, the oldest Shinigami in the entire Soul Society, and even the Shinō Academy he founded has a long history.
The enrollment of Shinō Academy is quite similar to the annual college entrance examination of the Chinese Dynasty. In addition to the excellent talents recommended internally by various families in Seireitei, Gotei 13 also selects outstanding talents with great spiritual power in Rukongai for training. The cannon fodder among them with low spiritual power joins Gotei 13 as a façade, but although they will be cannon fodder, for the wandering souls living at the bottom of the Soul Society, being admitted to the Shinō Academy is also an opportunity to change their own destiny.
Of course, if you want to change your destiny, you have to see if you have spiritual power and have the qualifications to become a Shinigami.
Mazuru lived in Rukongai before enrolling in the Shinō Academy. He abided by Aizen's warnings and maintained a low-key attitude, controlling his own reiatsu so as not to be seen by others.
After all, he is not from a professional background, and the only reiatsu skills he has mastered are also created in Hueco Mundo by himself. In Hueco Mundo that day, Aizen followed his uncontrollable and overflowing reiatsu to find him out.
During his stay in Rukongai, because the place Aizen arranged for him was in the front area of Rukongai, it was relatively peaceful. Mazuru didn't encounter anyone who would trouble him. Similarly, because of his low-key life, he didn't make friends with anyone during this period. He didn't meet some soul-friends or something.
When the enrollment of Shinō Academy started, he left Rukongai alone and headed directly towards the direction of the academy.
The Shinō Academy is located behind the White Road Gate (Hakutōmon) in Rukongai West Street. The guard of the White Road Gate is called Jidanbō Ikkanzaka. He is tall and muscular. It is said that he has been guarding the White Road Gate here for many years. Nobody can break through the White Road Gate in front of him.
Today is Shinō's enrollment day.
So the White Road Gate was rarely opened.