Pointing his blade forward, Kisuke pooled the Reiatsu-Ki inside him and muttered, "Bankai!"
As strong winds swirled around Kisuke, a towering and oppressive pressure expanded from him to a large portion of the capital city, Lilith.
Everyone who felt it, be it Devils, Fallen Angels, Angels, or members of some other factions, along with the smaller monsters, momentarily stopped fighting due to the looming threat of this pressure.
Everyone immediately turned their heads towards the source of the pressure, and those who were watching from the start could only stare at Kisuke speechlessly, as a giant woman's upper body slowly emerged from his enlarged shadow.
"Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame (Modification of the Crimson Princess' Dissection at the Doors of Avalokiteśvara)" Kisuke, on the other hand, was also shocked at Benihime's appearance. Instead of the usual marionette form in her 'final release', she now has what seemed to be a 'real' body of flesh. Furthermore, he could actually feel some of Ophis aura from her.
But more than any of that, he was shocked that some of the limitations on his abilities decreased.
Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame has the ability to restructure anything it touches for both offensive and supportive purposes. Offensively, it can split open whatever is within its area of effect as if cutting with a knife. This 'splitting' is similar to the act of dissecting something by cutting it open. Supportively, it can restructure something by stitching it back together; this can be used as a form of healing, such as when Kisuke restored his eyes using this power.
It also can be used as a way to bring something to an optimal working state by enhancing it, which Kisuke used to overpower Askin Nakk Le Vaar by restructuring his arm to have greater strength. All uses of this are manifested in the form of cutting said objects into parts and then using stitches to sew the pieces back together. With it, Kisuke can also create a path for others to move through obstacles or barriers.
But as strong as these effects are, Kisuke first has to have a certain amount of understanding of his target before he could even make a 'cut'. In addition to that, the range of which he can apply his ability is only around 15 meters.
And finally, all of the 'restructures' he made would only be effective as long as his Bankai is active.
However, that is where the surprising changes lie. First, the range of his ability doubled and second, the effects would be active for some time, even after he deactivated his Bankai. The effects would be even longer, or even semi-permanent if the modifications were done to himself.
'I see... Benihime's Bankai abilities are derived from the many forms of 'Avalokiteśvara' and thanks to Ophis' 'Infinite', the 'changes' became even broader.' Kisuke thought.
'Correct. And not just that, I'm finally able to take full advantage of your Reiatsu-Ki, which gave me a 'true' body.' Benihime replied.
'That might be because your vessel now has a proper physical form, which is the artificial Sacred Gear. But even then, I didn't expect it to this extent, so the rest is probably thanks to the Hougyoku 'solidifying' and 'unifying' everything just now. Now my question is, will you also be able to manifest like Zaraki's 'Yachiru'?'
'Hmm. Probably. I'll try that out later~.'
'Just please don't cut everything that you see once you do that...'
'I'll think about it~.'
Kisuke sighed at his trigger-happy Zanpakuto and started thinking of ways to keep her busy, so that she wouldn't just suddenly go dissect anyone.
Kisuke then suddenly noticed Ophis move as she jumped onto Benihime's head while cheering, "Go, go!"
Cold sweat began to appear on Kisuke's back as he witnessed this, but he sighed in relief once he heard Benihime say that it was fine. But she added that only Ophis was fine and that anyone else who did the same would be cut to pieces.
Turning his attention back to the monster who was also staring at him, Kisuke did the calculations according to the data he'd gathered from earlier and activated Benihime's ability. Within a split second, a large cut from the monster's head to crotch appeared. And soon after, it was stitched back up.
To everyone else's perspective, a cut suddenly appeared and was closed by stitches in an instant, as if a giant invisible doctor suddenly performed a lightning-fast operation on the monster.
The monster still moved and destroyed everything around it, but Kisuke deactivated his Bankai and turned around, intending to leave. Ophis also jumped back onto his shoulders, feeling satisfied.
Grayfia saw this and despite her shock of witnessing the spectacle from earlier, she asked, "What did you do? Where are you going?"
Kisuke confirmed that his stitches were still present and smiled before answering, "I'm done with that monster."
"...What?" Grayfia could only mutter blankly as she watched Kisuke fly off into the direction where Rias and her group were.
The only visible change that they saw with the monster is the stitches that Kisuke apparently did. And since it was still wreaking havoc, Grayfia and the rest of Sirzechs' Peerage got ready to engage again.
But as they were about to jump in, the monster suddenly stopped moving and started to screech in pain. A second later, its skin started bubbling, before it started increasing in size as if something inside of it was expanding it.
"What's going on!?" One of them shouted.
"I don't know! But get ready to defend!" Souji answered.
After a few more seconds, the monster's bubbling skin expanded even more and now looks like a giant blob.
"Something's coming! Put up defensive magic!" Grayfia shouted to everyone.
And in another few seconds, the monster couldn't take it anymore. It stopped moving entirely and solidified on the spot before it started crumbling into pieces. Those pieces then disintegrated and disappeared among the wind.
A minute later, the monster dubbed as the Jabberwocky and spread terror throughout the whole Underworld was no more, killed through unknown means.
Souji arrived beside Grayfia along with the other members of Sirzechs' Peerage and asked her with furrowed brows, "...What was that?"
Grayfia stared at the remains of the monster that was slowly disappearing for a good few moments before shaking her head, "...I don't know."
Sighing, Souji added, "Depending on what kind of ability that was, then there's a chance that he's on the same level as the Devil Kings..."
Grayfia wanted to refute this, but after watching that, she couldn't. She then took a peek at Kisuke and Ophis who had already landed beside the young Devils and some unknown people. Shaking her head, she first prioritized their mission, "Let's save that for later. We should clean up the remaining monsters that are still lurking around and immediately start the reconstruction of the capital. Besides, I doubt he'll tell us anything."
Souji and the others nodded before separating into different directions. Grayfia took another peek at Kisuke, before going in another direction while thinking, 'We might just have made a very strong enemy.'
A few kilometers away from the capital, Sun Wukong was smoking his pipe after he saw how the monster was defeated, "Kannon, eh? So it's the Avalokiteśvara... Now that someone who could become the 'Padmapani' has appeared, I wonder how the 'Vajrapani' would react? Either way, he's going to work my ass off..." The Monkey King lamented at the upcoming work, "Regardless, it won't be easy."
Sun Wukong then disappeared from his spot.
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Editors:
28th00: Phis-chama's wild ride has received a "Go, Go!" review. Benihime approves of Dragon Loli, even as a… Mayadere? Yandere? Whichever she is, she obviously knows Phis-chama deserves all the rides. I have incredibly little knowledge of buddhist culture, and the bodhisattva's themselves, but Kisuke's connection to Compassion and Mercy, through his Bankai, gives him the ability/authority/conceptual weight to claim the apparently vacant seat? I never noticed his Bankai was Merciful Compassion, amazingly. I should've noticed, what with the LITERAL NAME. Wait, is Benihime a stealth harem member filling the 'crazy girl' slot!? HAVE I BEEN DUPED!?
Kisuke and Ophis landed beside Sakura and Cleria and said with a big smile, "And that's taken care of ~," while the giant monster behind him crumbled into nothingness.
"W-what did you do?" Sakura asked while watching the crumbling monster.
"I can't go into detail, all I can say is that I removed the limitation of its regeneration ability," replied Kisuke.
Sakura didn't know how he did it, but she could guess the effect it would have on the monster once he had done that, "I see... By removing its limitation, it wouldn't stop regenerating even if it doesn't need to. At some point, the regeneration ability would fail and the body would collapse on its own."
"Correct. It was a lot easier to do that, rather than destroying it completely," added Kisuke. He then turned to the still stunned Vali, "Shall we go?"
Vali was startled but immediately got hold of himself, "Ah... Right... Let's go."
Mechanically turning around, he created a magic circle that would teleport them to the Realm of the Dead with a blank face.
Kisuke turned back to his mother and said, "I'll be going to the place you're staying at later. Please wait for my return."
Even though Sakura didn't want him to go through with his plans of visiting Hades' Realm, she didn't try to stop him because it seemed Kisuke was hellbent on giving the God of Death a visit, "Be careful," the only thing that comforted her is that her son was a lot stronger than expected. Nevertheless, it's impossible for her not to worry.
As Vali, Kisuke and Ophis teleported away, Everyone from the Gremory team finally recovered from being stunned, "W-what was that!?" Issei shouted.
"I-I don't know..." Rias turned towards Sakura, but she, along with the other robed and masked person, already disappeared, "...What? Since when?" She wanted to ask Sakura, Kisuke's mother, what was that ability that killed the monster.
Without much choice, she turned towards her companion and asked, "Do any of you have any idea on what that was?"
"N-no idea... I didn't understand what he'd done from the start," answered Xenovia.
"His strange form earlier... It's probably not his Balance Breaker." Yuuto muttered for everyone to hear.
"Right. That's what I thought too. That sudden cut and stitches were most probably his unique ability, and the possibility is that 'Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame' is his Balance Breaker. However, I've never heard of such an ability before. But due to its strength, this 'Benihime' is probably a newly emerged Longinus." Rossweisse added after analyzing all the clues in hand.
'But Kannon? Isn't that the Japanese name of the Padmapani? That Sacred Gear is related to the Hindu Faction?' Rossweisse thought but she didn't voice this out as there was no concrete evidence that confirmed this, 'It might just be a coincidence.'
Rias sighed, "Let's stop talking about this. This is going nowhere. Let's just hope that Akeno and Irina-san are really safe."
"Right!" Xenovia reacted, "Where can we find them!?"
"Calm down. I don't think he's going to hurt Akeno who'd worked for him in the past, and Irina-san who's his childhood friend. Kisuke Urahara will probably contact us later regarding them. Let's just wait for the good news." answered Rias.
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The moment Vali, Kisuke, and Ophis appeared in the Realm of the Dead, they immediately saw the corpses of Grim Reapers strewn around on the wasteland. From afar, they could hear explosions, screams of pain and the roars of a beast.
With Ophis back on Kisuke's shoulders, they followed Vali, who flew towards the direction of the chaotic battle sounds.
A minute later, after getting out of desolated mountains and crevices, they found a very large castle that didn't match the wasteland that surrounds it. Outside of it are Bikou, Le Fay, Arthur and Fenrir wreaking havoc and killing Grim Reapers one after another.
Immediately noticing their arrival, all of them pushed back the Grim Reapers and made a space for them, "Hey, Vali!... And Ophis? Who's that guy she's riding on?" Bikou waved his hands at them.
"Bikou-sama, you already forgot him? You already met him once," added Le Fay.
"Hmmm?" Bikou stared harder at Kisuke, "Wait... He's indeed familiar..." But once they got closer, Bikou's eyes widened, "Ah!!! It's Kuroka's kidnapper!"
"Bikou-sama!" Le Fay shouted at him.
Kisuke, Ophis and Vali landed beside them and Le Fay immediately introduced herself, "It's nice to meet you, Kisuke-sama. I'm Le Fay Pendragon, a part of Vali-sama's team." She then pointed towards Bikou and Arthur, "I'm sure you already know him, but he's Bikou-sama and that is my brother, Arthur Pendragon, also part of Vali-sama's team."
After that, she pointed towards the giant wolf that was keeping the Grim Reapers at bay, "And that over there is Fenrir-chan~."
Kisuke smiled, "Nice to meet you too. I'm Kisuke Urahara, a candy store owner~."
'Just that!?' Vali, Bikou, and Arthur thought. However, Le Fay didn't break her character and just chuckled, "It's really nice to finally meet the legendary candy store owner! I wanted to ask how Kuroka-sama is doing, but this isn't really the place nor the situation for that. If you could, please tell me about her later~."
"You can rest assured that she's fine. I'll tell you more about it later."
"That's great to hear~! But what might be your business in this place?"
"Oh right. I'm here to crack an old skull."
Le Fay tilted her head to the side in confusion and asked, "Crack an old skull? What do you mean?"
Chuckling, Kisuke winked at Le Fay, "It's exactly as it sounds~." Facing Vali, Kisuke continued, "Vali-san, please lead the way."
Vali sighed and pointed towards the entrance of the castle, "Just go through the entrance. I won't be able to enter with you because a certain guy guards it, and he doesn't like seeing me."
"Hmm... Is that so? I guess that's fine. Let's go, Ophis-chan!"
Ophis raised her arm and shouted softly, "Ohh!" The two of them then started making their way through the heaps of corpses towards the entrance of the castle.
While watching them leave, Le Fay asked Vali, "What did he mean by cracking an old skull, Vali-sama?"
Vali smiled wryly and answered, "He meant to crack Hades' skull."
Le Fay, Bikou and Arthur were dumbfounded, "Y-You're joking, right?" asked Bikou.
"No. I think it's possible. After all, he's the guy that thrashed the Hero Faction, including Cao Cao, all by himself without much effort."
"...Seriously?"
"I've recorded their fight so that I can study his moves. We can all watch it later, but for now..." Vali looked towards the charging Grim Reapers, "Let's destroy as many things as possible in this place."
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Kisuke and Ophis reached the castle doors and blocking it was a young man with short black hair and pale grey eyes. He was wearing a black combat suit, as well as a black coat, and beside him was a large black dog.
"Stop!" The young man blocked Kisuke's way, and the black dog beside him stood up and growled at him, "Wait... Is that the Dragon God? What are you doing here?"
"Crack some skull," replied Ophis.
"What?" The young man asked.
However, before he could make heads or tails of the situation, Kisuke and Ophis suddenly disappeared in front of him and he suddenly felt their presence behind him, 'Fast!'
The young man and the black dog hurriedly turned around and saw Kisuke and Ophis' retreating back, "Jin! Catch them!"
The black dog pouched with lightning speed towards Kisuke and Ophis at the command of his master. But the moment its paws landed on them, they popped like a balloon with their auras completely disappearing from their radar.
"What was that?" The young man furrowed his brows. A few seconds later, he decided to contact his boss, Azazel, who was currently watching Hades along with two other people, to report the strange incident.
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Editors:
28th00: That was Slashdog, wasn't it? Yeah, I can see why Vali wouldn't wanna mess with him. Phis-chama did the classical Kanna Kamui "Oooooh~!", she is becoming more of a moeblob by the chapter! Onwards, trusty steed! We have a skull to crack!
Goyya: Well, Slashdog is just a doting big brother that Vali didn't want to deal with.
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