SFS Chapter 754 Their respective battles
Chapter 754 Their respective battles
Ichigo was taken aback by what he heard, and his hands, which were tightly gripping his Zanpakuto, relaxed a little. Then, he thought of a possibility.
His pupils contracted slightly: "You, you mean, it was Auntie who made you stronger?"
Kariya, one hand in his pocket, a slight smile playing on his lips, said, "If the 'aunt' you're referring to is that red-haired woman..."
"Teacher, how could this be..." Inoue covered his mouth, making an incredulous sound.
Ichigo felt that his aunt had lost her mind a bit. She actually wanted to make these guys stronger and even made that old man young again. Was she afraid that they would overpower her?
Kariya narrowed his eyes: "I thought you two would get along very well."
"Whether our relationship is good or not is hard for me to explain to you." Ichigo smirked, gripping his Zanpakuto with both hands. "But if you think that girl is helping you, I advise you to wake up sooner rather than later. She's much better at playing tricks than killing people."
"A prank?" Kariya chuckled, feeling the powerful energy surging within him. "If this is the level of prank, I'd like to see her do it a few more times."
"Tsk." Ichigo curled his lip in annoyance and asked, puzzled, "What exactly is going on?"
Why does the aunt make them stronger?
Kariya spread his hands: "Who knows? Maybe it's resentment towards Soul Society?"
He genuinely didn't know anything about her; he had very little information about her. Even what he heard from Ichinose was only the news that she had escaped Soul Society a hundred years ago.
Otherwise, the idea that the other side actually wanted to use them as the vanguard would not have arisen before.
In any case, after consuming that woman's blood, they had no way out.
Ichigo brandished his Zanpakuto, showing no sign of believing him: "Stop joking, that kind of excuse is not something your aunt would make."
Kariya was somewhat surprised; why was his attitude so firm?
In other words, in Ichigo Kurosaki's eyes, that woman was not an enemy of Soul Society.
It's unclear whether the woman was just good at pretending, or if that's the truth.
Kariya shrugged indifferently: "That's probably because of the agreement between us."
"Promise?"
"She forbade us from harming ordinary people, on the condition that we could become stronger by absorbing the souls of living beings." Kariya Kami clenched his fist, and a strong gust of wind spread out from his fist, sweeping away the small stones on the ground, and then blowing Ichigo and Inoue's hair.
With a smile on his lips, Kariya looked up and said, "And I am very satisfied with this power."
Ichigo felt the immense power, and a bead of cold sweat trickled down his forehead: "Are you kidding me? What on earth did Auntie do?"
What exactly did he do to suddenly advance a level so quickly?
If you had something like that, you should have brought it out when you saved Rukia!
He was so worried at the time, and he worked himself to the bone trying to learn Bankai.
Kariya said calmly, "We didn't do anything special, we just... drank her blood."
Blood?
Ichigo's pupils contracted slightly. Speaking of blood, he seemed to have drunk some too.
Auntie's blood can quickly heal injuries; when rescuing Rukia in Soul Society, Auntie gave them her blood.
That helped him a lot at that time. It could be taken internally or applied externally, and his injuries healed almost instantly.
And it's strawberry flavored.
But he had never heard that the blood could make people stronger... no, he had never felt it at all.
boom! !
Suddenly, an explosion came from the side, in the direction from which Rukia, Renji, and the others had just heard the sound.
Ichigo looked over anxiously: "What's wrong?!"
The spiritual pressure is somewhat chaotic; has a battle already broken out?
"Rukia-chan..." Inoue was also startled by the sudden explosion.
Kariya's voice interrupted Ichigo's distraction, "You really are naive, Kurosaki Ichigo."
"what?"
"Now I still have the mind to care about other people."
boom!
As soon as he finished speaking, without any warning, the rocks beneath Kariya's feet shattered instantly, and his figure transformed into a white hurricane, closing in on Ichigo in an instant.
"So fast!" Ichigo's pupils shrank sharply; this speed had completely surpassed the level of the night before last.
Ichigo instinctively raised his Zanpakuto to try and block the attack, but Kariya's speed was too fast. Just as the Zanpakuto was raised in front of him and before he could stabilize it, the fist wrapped in a whirlwind slammed into him.
"Hmm~"
Ichigo's pupils contracted sharply, and he let out a muffled groan as his body flew backward, crashing into the rock pillar behind him.
"Kurosaki-kun!" Inoue looked at him nervously.
Ichigo, supported by the stone pillar behind him, slowly got up, a bead of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Kariya with a solemn expression.
Such exaggerated power.
Not only his speed, but his strength was also much greater than the night before last.
Seeing Ichigo standing still, looking at him warily, Kariya's lips curled into a slight smile: "What's wrong? Aren't you going to attack?"
Ichigo's eye twitched slightly. This guy is really a petty person who's gotten away with something.
With a solemn expression, he raised his Zanpakuto, resting his left hand on his right arm, and began to emanate a blue-white spiritual pressure from his entire body.
"Swastika! Solution!"
After a surge of spiritual pressure, Ichigo changed into a handsome outfit, and his Zanpakuto changed from the large kitchen knife that Yuuko had longed for into an exquisite samurai sword.
"Heavenly Lock Slashes the Moon".
If you don't unleash your ultimate move immediately when facing the increasingly powerful Kariyagami, it might not be effective later.
Kariya frowned slightly: "Is that all?"
"What about that blurred form? Let's use it together."
After being humiliated that night, he went back and sought out Ichinose to thoroughly investigate the matter of Ikuko from a hundred years ago.
Without a doubt, what Kurosaki Ichigo displayed at that time was the ability called Hollowfication.
Ichigo's lips twitched again. What nonsense! If he knew how to use it, he would have used it already. Why are you here spouting nonsense?
His eyes darkened, and spiritual energy gathered beneath his feet.
Whoosh!
Ichigo's Bankai is not as flashy as others'; it only has the simplest power amplification, a comprehensive improvement.
Simply put, it's the fighting style of a physical damage dealer.
Unlike Soi Fon, whose Bankai is characterized by its mechanics, his Bankai is remarkably simple.
The so-called numerical values are precisely the reason for being king.
Ichigo used Shunpo to leap forward, rapidly approaching Kariyagami.
Kariya remained rooted to the spot, making no move, until Ichigo's Zanpakuto was raised in front of him and about to fall, at which point he slowly spoke.
"so slow……"
The next second, from Ichigo's perspective, Kariya's arm swayed slightly, and a tremendous force came from his abdomen. He was sent flying backward again at an even faster speed than before, shattering the rock pillars in the underground cavern.
From this perspective, Kariya's current stats are in no way inferior to Ichigo's, and may even exceed his.
……
On the other side of the underground cave.
Rukia, Renji, Rangiku, and Yoshino—these four people got together.
When the floor collapsed, Renji and Rangiku fell together for Larukia's sake, and Yoshino also fell down with them, but fortunately they did not separate in the middle.
However, it can't be described as particularly lucky.
Because they encountered an enemy.
boom! ! !
Renji swung his Zabimaru to deflect the longsword aimed at Rukia. The sword was strange; it was rooted directly into the ground and was even larger than Ichigo's greatsword. Its base resembled a black tree stump tied with a red ribbon.
Meanwhile, Rangiku was blocked by a hissing saw.
The saw spun rapidly, like a long knife, as if rooted to the ground.
Where is the other party?
Almost everyone knew that the other side, Bount, needed to find out their existence; otherwise, simply dealing with the puppets wouldn't be enough to defeat them.
While Renji and Rangiku blocked the attack, Rukia and Yoshino searched the underground cavern, their eyes quickly scanning the surroundings, trying to find each other.
"No, the other party is hiding their spiritual pressure." After a while, Rukia said anxiously, unable to find anything unusual. "Besides, it's too dark underground."
This place is slightly better than Ichigo's side. Some torches on the surrounding stone pillars illuminate the space, but it's still impossible to see many details. You can only make out the blurry stone pillars around you.
"Rukia, watch out!"
Before Rukia could figure out the other person's location, Yoshino, who was also searching for Ugaki's location, suddenly shouted.
Rukia instinctively turned around and saw a spear that had somehow crawled out from the ground. The tip of the spear split into long ropes like a calligraphy brush and shot towards her.
Rukia tried to dodge, but she was a beat too slow. The long rope wrapped around her feet on both sides, and she was dragged up and hoisted up.
A bead of cold sweat trickled down Rukia's forehead. Hanging upside down in mid-air, she struggled to steady herself by raising her hands and aiming at the long tentacle ropes beneath her feet.
"The Way of Destruction..."
"Get!"
Before Rukia could save herself, a bright fireball shot from behind, melting the ropes binding her feet.
Yoshino was startled by the power that Gete displayed and quickly stepped forward to catch Rukia as she fell from mid-air.
"Are you okay?"
"...Um, it's nothing."
Rukia blushed when Yoshino swept her up in a princess carry.
Fangye didn't pay any attention, put her down, and looked around warily.
Swords, hammers, sickles... a variety of weapons of different styles had slowly surrounded them.
It seems the other side is deliberately picking on the weak, trying to kill those two nobodies first.
Yoshino turned to look at Gate, whose flames were now glowing orange-red, a stark contrast to their previous orange-yellow color.
Yoshino could sense the strengthening of Gate's power.
Is that Yuko's power?
It's unbelievable.
Imagine what would happen if other Bounts were given such power.
Especially God...
"Rukia!"
Renji noticed that Rukia and the other person were surrounded, so he immediately swung his Zanpakuto, Zabimaru, to break the long sword, jumped into the air, and swung his Zanpakuto fiercely.
Zabimaru traced a twisting trajectory in mid-air, forming a semicircle, and slashed at a group of weapons, but they were all well defended against. Fortunately, he broke through the encirclement and was able to land next to Rukia.
Renji retrieved Zabimaru, a smirk playing on his lips: "Tsk, what a nuisance."
He simply displayed his idiotic nature, looking up and shouting around, "Where are you?! Get out here!"
Rukia looked speechless: "Idiot, how could I possibly..."
"Hehehe..."
Before Rukia could finish speaking, a voice rang out from the underground cavern.
Rukia: ...
Really? It's that easy to say?
Renji shouted, "Who are you?!"
"My name is Yu Shi, and the doll's name is Gesell. Nice to meet you."
Yoshino stepped forward and said, "Ushiki! Give up! Don't continue down this wrong path!"
After a moment of silence, Yu Shi's voice rang out again: "Continue down the wrong path? Fang Ye, do you even understand who's really in the wrong?"
“We are human, but compared to ordinary people, we have some extra abilities.” Yu Shi’s voice was tinged with anger, “yet we have been treated cruelly by humans.”
“Rejection, persecution…”
"We have no descendants, and can only slowly perish... You should know this pain better than anyone!"
Renji clicked his tongue, remembering what Ikuko had said, and looked up to shout:
"We are not without compassion, but that is not a reason for you to hurt others!"
Whom did we hurt?
Renji was taken aback: "What?"
"Didn't we not harm ordinary people?"
"That's because we stopped them..."
"So they died, those guys who wanted to hurt ordinary people."
"Furthermore, doesn't Yoshino next to you harm ordinary people? Why can you accept her?"
Fangye bit her lip lightly, not avoiding his voice: "I did think about hurting ordinary people to gain the power to stop the gods, but that was wrong!"
At that moment, Rangiku leaned closer and whispered, "Have you noticed?"
"That guy's ability seems to only work in the shadows."
Everyone looked over instinctively, and after Rangiku's reminder, they indeed discovered that these dolls emerged from the shadows of the stone pillars.
Rukia narrowed her eyes slightly: "I see, so that's why torches were installed in a place like this?"
"Destroy the torches!"
Renji shouted and launched the first attack, swinging his sword hilt and sending the Jabi-maru flying, shattering a torch in its path.
"Whisper, gray cat!"
Rangiku chanted the words of liberation in a low voice, and the Zanpakuto turned into gray mist that drifted away. Wherever the gray mist passed, the torches were cut off.
Those gray mists actually possessed the ability to slash.
"Naive, useless."
Yu Shi noticed the group's movements and, while deeply impressed by their keen combat instincts, couldn't help but smile.
There's no way Gesell could defeat him at that level.
Yu Shi was sitting in a stone house. His puppet was controlled by a set of cards, each card corresponding to a weapon.
"Continue, Gesell."
He pulled out a card.