Chapter 38

"Come on!" I yelled as I used gravity to throw a large chunk of earth at the helmeted captain Komamura, who simply cleaved it in two with a single slash; the phantom projection of the giant sword going through debris like a hot knife going through butter.

"Useless." I spat as I accelerated at Komamura and slashed at him, and when my sword was stopped by his; I punched him in the gut and sent him flying. But before I could chase after him.

"Bankai!" A very uncomfortable cold made itself known and clouds started to gather as Hitsugaya back sprouted wings made out of ice. "Daiguren Hyourinmaru!" And then the captain of the tenth squad was in the air.

"Cute." I snorted and started to fly after him. "Come at me, small man."

The captain did exactly as I said, blurring forward with his sword drawn back and emitting an aura of cold. "Hyōryū Senbi!" Which he then swung in my direction with a huge wave of ice following after it, a wave that I avoided by simply flying higher but then my eyes widened as Hitsugaya's swing kept going till the short captain spun a full one hundred and eighty degrees and swung his sword upwards.

"Zekku!" And the ice created from last swing following the blade and shooting towards me.

"Shinra Tensei!" I roared as a shockwave stopped the ice in its tracks, destroying it completely and then kept going at Toshiro before destroying the building behind the captain as he dodged.

"Don't dodge and get your beating like a big boy!" I yelled as I shot forward with my sword drawn back, intending to slash the short captain a 'little'. But instead I got confused as a huge shadow suddenly appeared above me and my eyes widened as I realized what it was.

"Bankai!" Could I catch a break? "Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō!"

"One thing after another with you lot!" I yelled as the giant fist of an equally giant armor raced down towards me with every intention of turning me into a Cain-pancake. And then I was no longer under the fist but beside Komamura, who's eyes widened behind his helmet as my I punched him through one more wall.

'How strange.' I couldn't help but think as I looked down at my fist. The move I has used to escape Komamura's Bankai, and to stab Kurotsuchi before he could react, was one that created a super small gravitational tunnel that affected only me in order to accelerate myself at an unprecedented rate to achieve near-instant travel. It was something I had theorized while training with Visoreds.

Only theorized.

The last time I had tried it, the move had made me go through a boulder and took the ground beneath my feet with me; which was about a hundred times better than my first try. Yet now, I could use it nearly effortlessly. It's only problem being the small range and the cooldown period since I could feel that doing this too many times or for moving too far would likely split me apart.

But the real problem was why because I knew the answer.

Yhwach.

The King of Quincies was an abnormal Quincy that could share power of his own spirit, just like I was. And he had, even if for a few moments, shared his own soul with me in order to show me the past. It likely had the equivalent effect of me spending years around him, my control over my power was off the charts now.

"You're wide open!" In my moment of contemplation, Hitsugaya had created several ice pillars around me, each one looking rather spike-y. "Sennen Hyōrō!" All of which were now coming down upon me.

"Shinra Tensei!" So I roared once more and let out a shockwave that destroyed the pillars.

"Here's a little advice! You ain't got ice that I can't crush!" I yelled as I clapped my hands, since my control was finally sufficient; I might as well try out some other experiments.

As I parted my hands, a blue light revealed itself between my palms in the shape of a ball that immediately grew from the size of a golfball to around the size of a basketball and it's lights dimmed as it became a darkish blue color.

"Ao!" I yelled and threw the ball, not at Hitsugaya but at the ground where the debris that had been everywhere started to gather around the energy sphere as it traveled along the path. Soon, the blue sphere was akin to a star with all the debris being akin to planets in its orbit. Then they were shot forward at Hitsugaya who flew higher in order to avoid the high-velocity projectiles.

Getting himself right in position for me to hit.

"Jūryoku Hōkai!" I yelled as I concentrated a huge amount of spiritual power and gravitational force around my fist and slammed it down on Hitsugaya, who's eyes widened just before he was sent down to the ground with a flash and a huge crater formed around the short captain who was now out of the fight.

"Now to deal with doggo." I said with a grunt as I cracked my neck, ready to throw down with the giant armor avatar getting back up on it's feet.

"!" Or at least that was the plan until I sensed a huge spiritual pressure, far more oppressive than Komamura or Hitsugaya, coming closer. "Then again, it's way past my bedtime. Big day tomorrow." So I flew away and did not look back when Komamura started yelling after me.

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"Stop running!" Komamura kept yelling from behind the flying Ryōka as he tried to stand back up, his helmet cracked in half and showing the left side of his head covered in blood.

He could not let an enemy that had already beaten two captains escape, he would not! Yet as he tried to take a step forward, he could feel the ground come closer and the cost of keeping his bankai up getting more and more heavier.

And then he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Captain Komamura, would you like to explain why you and Captain Hitsugaya thought that it was a good idea to fight the Ryōka so near my division's headquarters?" And saw the face of the smiling doom looking at him.

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