Chapter 71 : Fake Karakura War (Part 8).

"Master, it is finished." Orihime said.

"Ok, thank you." I petted her before going ahead.

'Ok. Now it is time to go after Starrk, considering that Harribel and Nelliel should be able to easily deal with their current enemies, besides, Starrk is about to die. He is already using Lilynette's pack of wolfs and Shunsui has managed to sneak attack him using the shadows, injuring him greatly. But let's watch his fight for now.' I thought.

Then I began to regenerate my clothes as the fight with Baraggan had destroyed the upper part of them. My clothes were made of poison, even without releasing my true form, I still have some really minor poison manipulation.

Grabbing my hat, I placed it at the top of my head.

"Now I am ready to go." I said to myself.

Looking at the fight between Shunsui, Starrk, Love and Rose, I saw Starrk fall after Shunsui hit him in the chest. Then Shunsui went to talk with the other two.

"I think that now it's time to make an appearance." I said, unsheathing my sword and vanishing from where I was.

"Shunsui, you shouldn't have interrupted our battle." Rose said.

"I am a Captain, I cannot do that. He was an enemy, after all." Shunsui said, shrugging.

I appeared behind Rose and stabbed him using the sword, it entered through his back.

"AAAAARRRRRRRGGGG!" He screamed.

"Hello and goodbye." I said ruthlessly taking my sword out.

Then, I kicked him. It sent him flying to a building, breaking it and burying him.

"Now I understand why Soul Society's members like to do this. It feels kinda good. I may hate when they do it to me, but trying it on another people is rather interes-." I was interrupted by Shunsui's wind blades.

Waving my sword, I sent another wind blade to meet his. When both hit, it exploded in a wind tornado, making me back away.

"This is refreshing~. Also, could you wait for me to finish my sentence? Is it really necessary to interrupt me?" I asked Shunsui.

Then a gigantic club came from my side, moving my sword to intercept it. I saw that it was Love's club.

"You attacked my companion! Now this is personal, I will kill you!" He said when our weapons clashed.

"Could you tell me something before trying to kill me? When did you abandoned your masculinity? I mean, having Love as a name is a little weird. It does not combine with your big club and scary mask. You know what, don't answer. You are going down anyways." I said before vanishing.

I went behind him and attacked. It made a big gash on his back, but before he could fall, I stabbed him, then sent him to the same place Rose was.

"Two gone. One remains." I said.

'Rose is faster than Love, that is why I decided to takr him down first. They were completely drained so they could not use their hollow mask anymore. They were not even worth playing around. Shunsui is the same, while his Bankai would be troublesome to deal with, he never uses his Bankai unless none of his friends are near but it is not a problem as he doesn't plan on using it.

The biggest weakness of the Vizored is that they can't use their masks forever, they have a limited time to use them, it is between 3 to 5 minutes. And after they use it, their strength drops, making them way weaker, so dealing with Rose and Love was pretty easy, however, dealing with Shunsui is another matter. His Shikai is a bitch. Also, he was trained by Yamamoto himself, so he should be a challenge.' I thought before facing Shunsui.

*Cling*

We clashed our swords, he was panting as he got tired from fighting Starrk. He then threw another wind blade, but I simply dodged it, but when he was going to use another one of his abilities, I always interrupted him by appearing at his side and slashing.

At the beginning of our clash, he was keeping up with me, but after that, he began to feel even more tired, slower and weaker. He then backed away.

"Hah, hah, you are strong. Way stronger than him, if he was the number one, you should be zero?" He asked, he seems to be really tired.

"Me? Hmm. Nah, I'm not zero. Zero is already dead." I said.

"So how can you be stronger than him while possessing a lower number?" He was trying to catch his breath by making questions.

"The truth is that I do not care about numbers." I said before dashing.

He dodged my attack and tried to counter it. But I parried and punched his face, as he was not expecting, he got the full blown right on his cheek. This sent him back, dragging his feet on the air.

"Damn. You have a nice punch. {Irooni}... Black." He said while wiping the blood on his mouth.

Then he dashed and thrusted his swords, I vanished and got behind him, then slashed. He disappeared and, from my side, I felt a slash incoming. Then I decided to take the attack.

When his blade hit me, it made a deep wound that went from below my ribs and stopped at my stomach. Holding his sword in place, I thrusted mine inside of his belly.

"Gaaaarrrrg." He coughed blood.

Taking his sword out, I kicked his chest, taking mine from within him, and slashed him again. He took it and fell from the air. I could feel my flesh mending itself, thanks to my regeneration.

Descending from the air, I went to where Starrk fell and found him. His eyes where almost closing, on his chest a deep wound remained. He was almost dying.

"Starrk. Do you have any regret?" I asked him.

"I... Did not wanted to... Die alone... I wanted to... Make... A friend... Before... That." He said, his eyes were losing focus.

"We could be friends, we are both strong. What do you think?" I asked him while crouching.

"Really?... I'm... Glad." His eyes lost the sliver of live in them.

Then I grabbed his body and placed it on my shoulder.

"Out of all the Espadas, you are the one I respect the most, Starrk." I said.