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• The Blade, the Bookworm, and the Fairies by Grimlock_Bragi

  Fandoms: Bleach (Anime & Manga), Fairy Tail  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  20 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Hollow Ichigo | Zangetsu/Levy McGarden
  • Hollow Ichigo | Zangetsu
  • Levy McGarden
  • Lucy Heartfilia
  • Old Man Zangetsu | Quincy Zangetsu
  • Natsu Dragneel
  • Gray Fullbuster
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Dismemberment
  • Speech Disorders
  • Zangetsu has Depression
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Multiple Pov
  • Celestial Spirits know about Hollows
  • Perma-Vasto Lorde (For Now)
  • Zangetsu is honestly not the weirdest thing to join Fairy tail
  • Ichigo is Dead and will not be coming back
  • first few chapters are short
  • do you know how hard it is to keep zangetsu from killing ninety percent of the cast
  • Cannibalism
  • tags to be added as the story introduces them

  Summary

  In the final fight with Ulquiorra, Ichigo Kurosaki was killed. Filled with rage and grief, Zangetsu was transported to Fiore before they could finish killing the 4th Espada. In an effort to learn how to live without their wielder, the zanpakuto joins Fairy Tail. Crossposted from fanfiction.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  63,026

  Chapters:

  15/?

  Comments:

  40

  Kudos:

  114

  Bookmarks:

  43

  Hits:

  3,427