Tanis dived into the area where there was almost an indiscernible purple fume and grabbed the downed Arrancars, carrying Nel and Harribel within her arms and grabbing Grimmjow with her tail before taking to the air once again.
One of their opponents, a wrinkled, hunched back and bald old man with sunken eyes, swung his right black skeletal arm towards them and the purple fume chased after Tanis and the unmoving Arrancars who had their Resurreccion already canceled.
Tanis took a peek at the purple fume before strongly flapping her wings in an attempt to blow it away. However, as if they were there in the first place, the fumes were unaffected. In an instant, Tanis decided on another way and somersaulted in midair to face the fume. She took a deep breath and a blue flame sparked at the corner of her lips.
Opening her mouth, Tanis let out a deep blue breath of fire and it expanded enough to engulf the entire fume. But her Dragon Breath didn't stop there as it continued to expand and made its way towards the two Shinigamis riddled with black chain tattoos.
The Shinigamis were shocked at her sudden large move and both of them could feel the extreme heat that this fire possessed even though they still hadn't touched it. As the breath approached, the Shinigamis used Flash Step to dodge and get away, creating a large distance between the two groups.
Kunou immediately created a translucent platform in the sky for Tanis to land the patients. And after they were lined up, Kunou immediately concluded that they were suffering from severe poisoning, but it was not what was killing them, 'Their bodies were crushed after they were immobilized.'
"...U-ugghhhh... W-who are you?" Grimmjow tried raising his body but he couldn't feel anything aside from pain running through his entire body.
"It's not really the time for introductions, but you can call me Kunou." Kunou started her Youjutsu to start expelling the poison from their system, "This is my first time working on very intricate Spiritual bodies so it may take some time to heal them."
Claire nodded while watching their opponent, studying them, "Take your time. Just give us support whenever you're free."
Claire and Kunou then turned to Tanis who was looking at her shaking arms, "Will you be able to continue?" asked the latter.
Tanis gave her a smile and pumped her fist, "Of course! I can still give that old man a beating!"
"Be careful." reminded Claire, before jumping down and spreading her Devil Wings.
Tanis also jumped down to resume her clash with the poisonous old man.
As Kunou watched them approach their enemies, she couldn't help but think, 'That was such bad acting. I don't know if they're going to fall for it.' She then heard the tanned Arrancar groaning before saying, "...Be careful... The old man's poison works on anything aside from a Shinigami."
Kunou gave her a smile and said, "Don't worry. I don't think it works on a Dragon either."
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The moment Kisuke entered the door, the first thing he saw was a very thick mist that severely limited his senses, including his ability to sense Magic Power, 'This Reiatsu... Yadoumaru-san? Is this her Bankai? No wonder Mayuri sent his bugs in with me.'
While thinking about what he should do, the mist moved and slowly dispersed in all locations. Soon, its ability to block senses was lifted and Kisuke saw Lisa Yadoumaru kneeling in front of her unconscious comrades. Lisa herself is breathing heavily and half of her Hollow mask was broken. She also has multiple cuts all over her body, making her bleed profusely. At the same time, the mist that was dispersing congealed and returned to her hand as her sealed Zanpakuto.
As the wielder of that mist, Lisa should have had the advantage within it, 'For her to take it back... Looks like the enemy has something that invalidates it. Quite the unlucky girl. No wonder Kyouraku-san immediately asked for help.'
After making sure that all of them were alive, Kisuke turned his attention to their opponents who were already looking at him, 'Shigyou Nobutsuna and Shijima Chigiri... I guess not all the original Gotei 13 was able to break the chains. No wonder Shihouin-san and Saitou-san panicked when they heard old man Yamamoto arrive in Hell. I wonder if they were able to locate him?'
Kisuke slowly stepped down to the ground and landed in front of Lisa and the other Shinigamis. Lisa was shocked at his appearance and hurriedly stood up to take a stance. However, she couldn't attack him because his back was to them.
"...Who are you?" the tall, lanky, and pale man with visibly sunken skin on his face and chest, particularly around his gray eyes, asked the masked man who just arrived. He had a pointy black mustache that extended a couple of inches out from his face on either side but was shaven in the middle, as well as a long black goatee covering the center of his chin, and spiky black hair that was largely covered by black fabric he kept wrapped around his temples and forehead, the sides of his face, and the underside of his jaw.
But instead of answering Shigyou Nobutsuna's question, Kisuke turned his head in another direction and thought, 'So there's another door not far from here... Hmmm, that Reiatsu... Soifon-san? Well, if Barragan became an immortal, it would really be hard to deal with anyone who didn't fuse with the Hougyoku or with a limited lifespan.'
At that moment, he felt a threat to his neck and immediately used Flash Step to arrive in front of his assailant, Shigyou Nobutsuna, who was now holding a whip-like sword that reached his previous location.
Nobutsuna was taken aback at the speed of the Flash Step and took a step back. However, it was already too late as he saw the strange man already holding a tanto blade and about to reach his neck.
Unfortunately for the strange man, his tanto blade was blocked by another katana, "You seriously fell for that?"
With his attack blocked, Kisuke used Flash Step again to retreat and return to his former position. He then looked at the person who blocked him and thought, 'Shijima Chigiri... A much more troublesome person than the one beside him.'
The reason why Kisuke thought of that is that at their brief encounter, he managed to latch a small amount of Psuedo-Demonic Power into his arm, 'So this is how he was able to track Yadoumaru-san because of this.'
Without saying anything, Kisuke touched the part where he inserted the Psuedo-Demonic Power and expelled it with his own Magic Power.
At that instant, Nobutsuna and Chigiri's facial expressions became serious, "...Who are you?" The latter asked this time, "No... The better question is what are you here for?"
Kisuke finally answered with a masked voice, "To take them back with me... And maybe kill the two of you a few times while I'm at it."
Nobutsuna and Chigiri were both speechless until the former started laughing maniacally, "Fuhahahaha! Good joke, fancy man. Let's see you try that."
However, his laugh abruptly stopped when Kisuke held the tanto blade in front of his chest and said, "Descend, Tiamat."
In the next second, the purple sky became covered with thick dark clouds with flashing lightning and booming thunder within it.
But instead of rain, it was a light blue-haired giant woman with very prominent horns who broke through the clouds face first with her eyes closed. The terrifying giant woman's hands were restrained to her neck as half of her body emerged from the clouds. As soon as her descent stopped, the giant woman opened her eyes, revealing her pink star-like pupils.
A very light yet blood-chilling pressure weighed everyone on the ground as if a Goddess came down to judge them herself.
"Chigiri!!!" Nobutsuna shouted at his stunned partner while preparing to fire his Kidou at 'God'.
Editors:
28th00: Well now, this is just bullying.
Goyya: This is what I’m imagining when I wrote that, but on a way larger scale.
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Chigiri woke up from his stupor upon Nobutsuna's call and immediately raised his arm towards the giant woman looking down at them. The two of them then simultaneously shouted, "Hadou no 63, Raikouhou (Thunder Roar Cannon)!"
From their palms, yellow lightning gathered before it blasted toward their perceived enemy. The two high-density lightning blasts swirled around each other and combined into one bigger and denser Kidou in an intent to impale the 'God'. However, instead of a large explosion like they were expecting, the giant woman didn't even attempt to defend herself, not because her defenses were great but because the Kidou just phased through her and hit nothing as if she didn't exist.
"I can't believe the two of you would ignore me just like that." At that moment, they heard the strange man's voice behind them. They wanted to turn around but it was already too late as both of their vision suddenly spun uncontrollably before they moved sideways, traveling quite a distance.
Lisa couldn't even properly regulate her breath nor could she regain her composure as she watched all of this transpire. Although her attention was focused on the giant woman, who had by now already disappeared, she still saw how the strange man in formal attire suddenly Flash Stepped behind Chigiri and Nobutsuna and beheaded them with a long sword that had the same color as the giant woman's horns before kicking their heads away.
But even if she saw everything, she still couldn't comprehend anything and wondered if she had fallen into her enemies' illusion.
The center of it all, however, was questioning his long sword, 'Tiamat... What was that for?'
[It was my debut. It's only right for me to show myself in such a fashion.]
Kisuke knew for sure that she wasn't like this the first time she met her, '...Just what have you been learning from Benihime?'
[She taught me the household chores that she didn't want to do. Aside from that, she also gave me these literary arts called manga and I've been enjoying my free time with them.]
'...', Kisuke was utterly speechless, 'Do it again on another occasion.'
[Just tell me when.]
Kisuke stopped talking to Tiamat when he saw that the bodies he just beheaded had started crumbling, turning into dust, before disappearing into nothing. And he turned his attention his heads he just sent flying, he saw black chains ejecting out of their necks, forming a skeletal framework for their bodies, and soon enough, they regenerated their whole bodies, 'Unlike the Beast of Hell that I acquired, their bodies are purely of Magic construct. But how are they doing this?'
The two former Captains of Gotei 13 stared at him for a few seconds before disappearing along with their aura, 'They escaped, huh?'
Kisuke sheathed his long sword and turned to the still-stunned Lisa, "The door won't stay open forever." Immediately after, Kisuke disappeared too.
Lisa looked up at the opened portal and finally managed to regain some of her strength. She then started picking up the Shinigamis that came with her without a word and jumped towards the door while looking one last time at the sky where the giant woman just disappeared, '...That was a Shikai?'
Kisuke traveled for a few kilometers to where the fluctuation of Magic Power is calm before sharpening his senses to grab the coordinates where he wanted to go, '...There. Luckily, she's still alive.'
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Compared to the first time she released it, Soifon's Shunko was now a lot weaker. Although she could technically go on for as long as she wanted thanks to her self-feeding Shunko, Barragan's Senescence could still sap her dry.
With her Reiryoku running low and her Reiatsu decreasing, it was getting harder and harder to keep her Shunko running. Soifon gritted her teeth while counting the times she had already killed him, 'Even if I release my Bankai, there would be no point.'
Soifon was preparing for the next wave of miasma while thinking of what she should do next since it's obvious that they couldn't stay here, 'Mayuri seems to have received some outside help to open the doors back up, but I don't know if he's going to make it in time. I have to prioritize our survival.'
But at that moment, she heard Yumichika's panicked shout, "Omaeda!!!"
Soifon hurriedly turned her head and saw that Oumaeda took a dangerous hit and was about to get followed up by another, and could be a fatal attack. The endless wave of beasts attacking them from all sides finally got to them despite their best efforts to hold their ground and keep them away from Soifon.
Sadly, she couldn't help beyond sending a blast of wind in his direction and pushing the beast for a bit for Yumichika to have the time to help.
But Soifon knew that doing so would expose her to danger so she prepared to deflect Barragan's miasma as much as she could. Strangely enough, the anticipated attack never came, instead, she lost sight of her opponent.
And when she went looking for him, he had already arrived in front of Marechiyo and Yumichika who had just rescued him, bearing his axe that was letting out a very dense amount of miasma on its edge.
"No!!!" Redirecting all of her power behind her feet, Soifon sent herself flying forward in addition to her Flash Step. Thanks to the added speed provided by her Shunko, Soifon was able to get in between them before Barragan could swing down. However, that was it. That's the greatest thing she could accomplish.
Soifon refused to give up and redirected everything she had to her hands to catch Barragan's axe. Although after seeing that, Barragan only chuckled at her futile resistance and put more strength into his arm.
Soifon tried to block the axe using her incredibly dense wind to push it out but it was a silly attempt that only stopped the axe for a second before it went from her shoulder and across her chest.
"Captain!" Marechiyo cried out but there was nothing he could do.
Soifon's blood spurted out for a second before it turned black and crumbled away. And from her wound, the dense miasma from Barragan's Zanpakuto started eating through her flesh, revealing her bones and organs that had also started to turn black.
Barragan knew that there was no way for him to take her alive anymore but he was still wary that she'd create a miracle to fight back. So again, Barragan raised his axe to finish her off for good.
"R...run..." Soifon tried to turn her head to her subordinates, "Run!!!!!"
"There's no escape." Were Barragan's words before he brought death down upon the Shinigami.
But without knowing when and how, Barragan's axe stopped mid-swing as a hand with black gloves caught his axe, "!?"
"Looks like I'm a little bit too late." A voice that he couldn't tell if it was a man or woman resounded in front of him.
Barragan saw that the strange man's hand was decaying but it was a lot slower than he had ever seen it. In fact, it would seem that his miasma would need an entire day to go through his hand, "What!?"
Seeing his ability almost fail for the first time, Barragan pulled his axe back to immediately retreat. But when he thought he got away, a black snake with purple glowing eyes lunged at him. Without thinking much about it, Barragan sent his miasma forward.
Although instead of seeing the snake decay into nothingness, it instead opened its mouth to eat his miasma and even grew a little bigger, "...Haahhh!?"
The snake that doesn't know the concept of age kept swimming towards Barragan.
Editors:
28th00: Power level Ophis’ Snake. Dragons only grow MUCH STRONGER with age! Truly, a good snack for a Dragon.
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