Bleach 247 came out today (as I said at least a hundred million times at school today; for fun, of course; not because my obsession with Bleach reached a new high), and curse my luck—the only video of it that was there was of the poorest quality. It wasn’t like I couldn’t tell what was going on. It was just that the art details were utterly obscure because of the annoying pixilation. The various Soul Reapers who entered the lost underground cave along with Ichigo were all fighting their respective opponents as anyone would have expected them to be doing. Yoruichi was taking on Rangiku’s and Momo’s Zanpakutō singlehandedly, and she used more Kidō spells than I’d ever seen her use. Zaraki was taking on Komamura’s Zanpakutō, and this other insignificant bug, who I later learned was Sasakibe’s Zanpakutō. The bug in question was prancing around Zaraki with a constipated look on his face, as though he could come anywhere close to breathing on Zaraki. It was annoying to say the least, and I wished Zaraki would feel the same and decimate him with a single stroke of his sword. Kyoraku and Ukitake on the other hand were wasting their time running around with their Zanpakutō. And just when I was beginning to feel that the battles were being a drag, Yoruichi acted upon a theory she came up with and concluded that all the skirmishes were premeditated to buy Muramasa more time for something, and to prevent anyone else from coming to Ichigo’s aid. It turns out that Ichigo’s most powerful Getsuga Tenshou attack was calculated to destroy the pyramidal barrier in which the Head Captain was apparently imprisoned. Muramasa had an ulterior motive in putting up the whole Zanpakutō-rebellion drama: to enter the Head Captain’s inner world to presumably free Ryojin Jakka. It transpires that the barrier was not created by Muramasa to trap Yamamoto: it was created by Yamamoto himself to keep Muramasa at bay. Muramasa used the power in Ichigo’s attack to break the barrier, and thus made Yamamoto vulnerable to his insidious moves. Katen Kyotsu and Sogyo no Kotowari charged at Muramasa when they learned that they were being toyed with all along, and were instantaneously obliterated by Ryojin Jakka, whom Muramasa had succeeded in freeing, which is apparently a bad thing. What’s worse is that we didn’t get to see a bit of Byakuya, nor hear his name mentioned even once, throughout this episode. I only hope that even he had an ulterior motive in siding with Muramasa. It would make total sense. Provided he is still fighting for the Soul Reapers.
On a different note, Phase Test III was dismal, and I’d much rather pretend it never happened. It’s easier that way. I wish I could say everyone else did badly, too, but sadly, that’s not the truth. Anyway, I won’t pretend I’m not, well, shocked about it. A cathartic rant ensues. I have no illusions about my preparation for the test. I was almost completely unprepared. I barely studied for it save for the last three days or so. I thought that would suffice, and that I could manage. I won’t pretend I wasn’t overconfident despite the misgiving I had about this test being a disappointment. It was a remote, vague thought to which I had paid no attention at the time. Even if I had, it was already too late to do anything about it. I didn’t pay attention to some of the more boring classes during the phase, so that put me at a great disadvantage, too. Organic Chemistry was thoroughly disastrous. Maybe, just maybe if I had taken it a bit more seriously and not been blinded by overconfidence, I might have been able to score better. Physics wasn’t any better either. I knew next to nothing in Rotational Mechanics, and in practically everything else that followed (mostly because my not knowing anything in Rotational Mechanics demoralized me considerably), and what’s worse is that I made no appreciable effort to change that. I don’t know what I was thinking. Maybe that I could compensate with better marks in the other subjects. Phase III has been the best phase for math. I was able to do more problems this phase than the first two phases put together. I thought I’d totally pwned Functions, was appreciably good at Limits, and well, good at Solution of Triangles. Surprisingly, math was the most disappointing section in the test, even more so because I was counting on it to salvage my total score. Well that never really happened. And so here I am. I thought of writing a poem about this debacle (been using this word a lot lately) after I found out how badly I had done, but it turns out that I was completely out of inspiration. Maybe some other time. Moving on, I got my SAT score yesterday, too. 1970. That is more than just abysmal, but considering the fact that I didn’t get to finish the essay, and also that I wasn’t able to take the rest of the test seriously as a result, I don’t think it’s that bad. But it’s not nearly good enough, so I’ve registered to take the test again in January. Maybe this time I’ll get lucky and actually do well on a test for a change. Lucky.
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