“Beyond the range of a normal person, and still getting stronger? Can you show me?”
After hearing him out, Uryū could not help frowning.
Keep in mind that apart from knowing a few Quincy training methods, the Uryū of this moment was a novice at everything else.
He did not even know that his own father, Ishida Ryūken, was also a Quincy.
He believed himself to be the last Quincy in the world.
As for Fullbring, there was no way he could have known about it.
His knowledge of the supernatural side went as far as Quincy, Hollow, and Shinigami.
As for other kinds of ability users, he had absolutely no clue.
“Sure. Then let me borrow the table in your house.”
As he said it, Lucas pinched the table in front of him between his thumb and index finger.
Then he applied force with those two fingers, and the table lifted steadily into the air.
That scene confirmed for Uryū that the man was not lying to him.
You have to understand, the table in front of them was a dining table, weighing over thirty kilos.
Lifting a table like that is simple enough for an ordinary person.
But lifting it pinched between two fingers, and holding it that steadily without any shaking, made it clear this was nowhere near his limit.
“You said your strength is still constantly increasing. So what is your limit right now?”
Uryū asked with some curiosity.
It was the first time he had ever seen a situation like this, and his grandfather had never mentioned this side of things.
Sōken had left behind some old texts, but they only recorded information about Shinigami and Quincy.
This man could not be a Shinigami, and he was not a Quincy either.
So what exactly was his situation?
Uryū had watched a few television programs that introduced humans with special abilities.
But he understood perfectly well that those people simply had slightly stronger spiritual power than ordinary people, which let them see Souls.
They did not have any actual special abilities.
“I don’t know. I haven’t tested it. But it should be over a ton.”
Lucas shook his head.
He really had not tested his strength.
But putting it together with the scene in the manga where Chad pulled a utility pole out of the ground to fight, his strength was definitely measured in tons.
“Hiss. It actually exceeds a ton.”
“I just sensed your spiritual power. It is indeed stronger than an ordinary person’s, but not by that much.”
“By the way, you don’t know what spiritual power is yet, do you? So-called spiritual power is…”
And Uryū explained some of it to him.
Knowledge about Hollows and Souls, and about spiritual power and spiritual pressure.
“Actually, it isn’t that there are no people among ordinary humans with strong spiritual power.”
“Some of those psychic masters you see on television are able to see Souls precisely because their spiritual power is relatively strong.”
“But this situation of yours is the first time I have seen it.”
“Your spiritual power is stronger than an ordinary person’s, yes, but not by too much. And yet you possess such immense strength, and it is still continuing to grow.”
As he spoke, Uryū could not help frowning again.
You have to understand, in terms of pure physical strength, he was far inferior to this man.
“It isn’t just my physical body that is getting stronger. I feel like there is some kind of special power stirring inside me.”
“It is precisely because of that I came to find you. I want answers.”
Lucas spoke again.
His Fullbring was about to awaken, so saying it this way was no problem at all.
“There is a special power as well?”
Uryū felt an even bigger headache coming on.
He had not yet worked out the issue of the rapidly soaring physical strength, and now there was some kind of special ability on top of it.
He was thoroughly baffled.
After pondering for a while, he looked at Lucas again.
“I am not clear on what exactly is going on with your specific situation. I am very sorry. There is nothing I can help you with.”
Uryū shook his head as he said it.
“It’s all right, no need to apologize. After all, I am the one who came seeking help.”
“It is already very good that you were willing to explain this knowledge to me. However, I do have an idea now that might be useful.”
Seeing that it was about time, Lucas started to get to the main point.
“An idea? What kind of idea?”
Uryū was somewhat curious about what method the man could possibly have.
“We don’t know what exactly is happening to me. But you just said that everything in this world seems to be related to reishi. The so-called spiritual power, spiritual pressure, and so on.”
“So I was thinking, could I learn how to control spiritual power from you? Perhaps that would be a breakthrough point.”
“Of course, I can pay tuition.”
Lucas had no thought of freeloading.
After all, he was the one seeking help here, so his attitude had to be correct.
“Tuition is unnecessary. I can teach you the control methods for spiritual power, as well as the training methods. But whether you can learn them or not depends on you.”
Uryū was inherently a person who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside.
When facing a request for help from someone else, if it was something very simple, he would generally agree.
And for him, this request was merely a small favor.
And most importantly, this was the first time Uryū had ever encountered someone of his own kind.
That was right.
Uryū regarded this man as his own kind.
After all, in his understanding, he was the last Quincy in the world, and Shinigami and Hollows were all enemies.
Now that he had finally encountered an ordinary person with special abilities, he immediately counted him as one of his own.
“Then thank you very much.”
Lucas was genuinely grateful as well.
He had known that, given Uryū’s personality, the man would likely help him.
But now that he really had been helped, he was naturally very grateful to him.
For the time after that, Uryū began teaching him how to sense and use reishi, and how to strengthen the reishi within his body.
The teaching session lasted for over an hour.
“I have taught you the basic methods. You can try them out slowly afterward.”
“By the way, take this. It is a silver tube. Inside it is some liquid, high-concentration reishi.”
“Sensing reishi directly might be difficult for you. Sensing the concentrated reishi sealed inside this will be less difficult.”
Lucas recognized the thing as well.
In the Soul Society arc, because Uryū used the sanrei glove and temporarily lost his power, the weapon he fell back on when facing attacks was the silver tube.
“Many thanks, Ishida. As a token of my gratitude, a meal is surely acceptable, right?”
After taking the silver tube, Lucas said it with a smile.
This time, Uryū did not refuse.
He agreed outright.