Chapter 221 The True Secret of Death
In the Seireitei, some distance away from the Sixth Division's barracks...
There is a hill here that is neither high nor low, neither big nor small.
The hills seem to have been deliberately preserved to fit in with the scenery. There are many cherry blossom trees around them. Once the wind blows, countless cherry blossoms will fall, which looks extremely beautiful.
“Swish!”
At a certain moment, two figures suddenly appeared in the air here, and they slapped each other, hitting each other.
“Bang!”
Muffled blows rang out simultaneously, and the two figures entangled in the air separated from each other, fell from the sky, landed on the ground, and entered the cherry blossom forest.
Aize and Kuchiki Byakuya looked at each other from a distance, one with a smile on his face and the other with a frosty expression, forming a sharp contrast.
"Such a big reaction?" Aize laughed and said, "This isn't a big secret, is it? I didn't expect you to be so excited that you would attack me directly!"
Aize's words did not change Kuchiki Byakuya's attitude.
He still looked at Aize with a cold face, and said something after a while.
"You talk too much, Aize."
This time it was not a simple statement of facts, but was clearly mixed with an unhappy warning.
"You don't talk much, do you?" Aize said bluntly, "If you really want to do good for Rukia, you should tell her everything instead of being so silent. You know she's not living a happy life right now, but you pretend you didn't see anything and nothing happened."
Ai Ze's accusation made Kuchiki Byakuya silently pull out the Zanpakuto under the captain's haori.
Seeing this, Aize raised his eyebrows and the corners of his mouth slowly rose.
"Are you planning to kill someone to silence him?"
Aize's teasing words were only met with cold words from Kuchiki Byakuya.
"I should have said on the day of the captain's inauguration ceremony that if there is a chance, you should show me your strength, right?" Kuchiki Byakuya said coldly, "It seems that today is a good opportunity."
"I don't mind." Ai Ze put his hand on the hilt of the Zanpakutō at his waist, as if he didn't feel the threat, and even less so the rising spiritual pressure of Byakuya Kuchiki. He smiled calmly and said, "If I beat you, can I say whatever I want?"
"You won't have that chance." Kuchiki Byakuya said without hesitation: "A so-called genius from Rukongai can never defeat me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Kuchiki Byakuya's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.
“————”
In the slowed-down time, Byakuya Kuchiki's figure seemed to be sliding in space, with a series of phantoms, passing through Aize's side and coming behind him.
“clang!”
The silver-white blade stabbed out at some point, and Kuchiki Byakuya's Zanpakuto pierced towards Aize's back, but it hit a circular protective shield that also appeared at some point.
"The Thirty-Nine Ways of Binding: Round Gate Fan."
Aize's chanting voice finally sounded, causing Kuchiki Byakuya's pupils to narrow.
"The fourth of the broken ways: White Thunder."
The next moment, from the side of Aize, who was still facing away from Byakuya Kuchiki, a beam of lightning suddenly broke through the feather ornament and shot out towards Byakuya Kuchiki, forcing Byakuya Kuchiki to use instant step, disappearing on the spot and avoiding the incoming white beam of lightning.
"That was a flash just now, right?"
Aize then slowly turned around, put away his hands from under his armpits, let the lightning flashing on his fingertips disappear, and his eyes turned to Kuchiki Byakuya who appeared not far away.
"Flash Flower, can quickly turn behind the opponent, pierce and destroy the opponent's lock and soul sleep. It is a special instant step with rotation added. Only a very small number of Shinigami can learn it."
Aize said as he explained the technique that Byakuya Kuchiki had just used.
"Although it's special, it's not that great. It's still useful to use it against people who are far weaker than you, but isn't it a bit too arrogant to use it against a captain of the same level?"
Aize's words made Kuchiki Byakuya narrow his eyes slightly.
"Only those who can see through the flash are qualified to be my opponent." Kuchiki Byakuya said calmly: "Or do you think that is my real ability?"
"I don't know if it's a real skill, but it won't work anyway." Aize's voice also became indifferent, and he said, "It's rude not to reciprocate. Next, it's your turn to take my move."
As he spoke, Aize's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.
Kuchiki Byakuya's expression changed and he quickly stepped back.
"choke!"
A flash of cold knife light suddenly brushed against Byakuya Kuchiki's chin and flashed past the place where he had been standing a second ago.
Aize's figure appeared in front of Byakuya Kuchiki like a flash, and he swung his sword, causing the blade of his Zanpakutō to cut through the space and land in the empty space.
"The fourth way to break the path: White Thunder!"
Byakuya Kuchiki immediately activated the Kidō, stretched out his fingertips, and just like what he had done to Aize just now, shot out a beam of lightning that pierced into Aize's chest.
But facing the oncoming lightning, Aize did not dodge or evade, but slapped it with a slap.
“Bang!”
The lightning burst out like an explosion, shining in Aize's palm.
Aize then slapped away the white lightning of Byakuya Kuchiki with a single palm, causing the lightning to dissipate.
"What?"
This shocking scene finally made Kuchiki Byakuya unable to maintain his icy expression.
Aize immediately took the opportunity to sneak into Kuchiki Byakuya's arms, and the Zanpakuto in his hand cut through the air, dragging a long arc of light, and slashed towards his chest.
“Puff!”
In the instant when the knife flashed, blood suddenly appeared.
Aize's swift slash failed to hit Byakuya Kuchiki's chest, but instead hit Byakuya Kuchiki's hand.
At the critical moment, Kuchiki Byakuya raised his hand to block Aize's Zanpakuto, avoiding being hit in the chest, but a large amount of blood splattered on his arm.
“Swish!”
Only then did Byakuya Kuchiki use flash step again to distance himself from Aize.
"you……"
Feeling the stinging pain in his arm and watching the blood dripping from his hand to the ground, Kuchiki Byakuya's eyes turned particularly sinister as he looked towards Aize.
"How's it going? My shunpo is okay, right?" Aize waved his Zanpakutō, shaking off the blood on the blade, and said, "Although I can't perform some special tricks like you, I think that in terms of speed alone, my shunpo should be faster than yours. What do you think?"
After all, this is a skill he has been practicing diligently since he became the captain. In addition to practicing the way of the ghost, he only practices this. After such a long time, how could he not have made progress?
"...Do you think you can defeat me with just flash?"
Kuchiki Byakuya clenched his bloody hands, his voice so cold that it felt like a thorn in one's back.
"What do you think?" Aize curled his lips and smiled, saying, "I just know that if you continue like this, you will never win."
Hearing this, Kuchiki Byakuya did not refute out loud, but just spoke slowly.
"Chopping fists and running away from ghosts, these are just the most basic fighting techniques of the Grim Reaper."
Byakuya Kuchiki slowly raised the Zanpakutō in his hand and held it in front of him.
"The true secret of the God of Death is the Zanpakuto." Kuchiki Byakuya's cold voice spread, saying, "That is a power that people like you and Zaraki Kenpachi will never understand."
Because, only Aize and Kenpachi Zaraki became captains without Bankai.
"Let me show you just the tip of the iceberg of this power."
Kuchiki Byakuya lowered his eyes, and the spiritual pressure on his body suddenly became much stronger.
"Is it coming?"
Aize naturally knew what Kuchiki Byakuya was going to do. His eyes flashed slightly, and he felt a little excited.
Then, he heard the voice of Byakuya Kuchiki.
"Scatter, Senbonzakura."
When this voice sounded, the Zanpakutō in Byakuya Kuchiki's hand moved.
Its blade suddenly flashed with pink light, and then it turned into countless pink petals and scattered like cherry blossoms drifting in the wind.
The petals seemed to be dancing in the wind, fluttering forward and flying towards Aize, beautiful and natural.
However, such beautiful and natural scenery, in Aize's eyes, seemed as ferocious as a wild beast.
“Swish!”
Aize suddenly used instant step to create some distance, allowing the cherry blossom petals to fall where he was originally standing.
An incredible scene just appeared.
“Puff!” “Puff!” “Puff!”…
The ground hit by the cherry blossom petals flying in the wind was like being cut by hundreds or thousands of blades, and countless cuts were left on it in the blink of an eye.
Dust flew, gravel splashed, but the beautiful petals flew up again, like a swarm of bees, flying towards Aize who appeared in the distance.
"The Thirty-One of the Broken Paths: Red Fire Cannon!"
Aize stretched out his hand and activated the Broken Path, turning the red flame into a cannonball that shot out with a bang and hit the incoming group of cherry blossoms.
“Bang!”
Amid the explosion, the fiery red flames blew away large patches of cherry blossoms, scattering them.
But soon, the cherry blossoms floated in the wind again, gathered into groups, and appeared in front of Aize.
“Bang!”
Aize fired the Red Fire Cannon again, blowing them away, but soon he saw them gathering into a group and floating towards him.
"it's useless."
The voice of Byakuya Kuchiki also came over.
"Although the blades of the Senbonzakura are small, they are difficult to destroy. It is impossible to break up these thousand blades with that level of destruction, and it is even more impossible for you to avoid the thousand slashes that are right in front of you."
Senbonzakura is the name of Byakuya Kuchiki's Zanpakutō. After being released, the blade will decompose into thousands of sharp blades that are invisible to the naked eye. These blades can be freely controlled by Byakuya Kuchiki himself to cut the enemy from all directions and cut them into pieces.
The thousands of blades refracted light as they flew, making them look like thousands of withered cherry blossoms, hence the name Senbonzakura.
The group of cherry blossoms that appeared in front of Aize at this time actually looked like thousands of sharp blades, thousands of knives that were invisible to the naked eye.
"Wither away with the cherry blossoms."
Byakuya Kuchiki controlled the Senbonzakura and pounced on Aize.
"boom!"
Just as the Senbonzakura was about to engulf Aize, astonishing spiritual pressure burst out from Aize's body.
(End of this chapter)
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