Chapter 42

As he saw the flames engulf the foolish commoner, Tokinada smiled as he lowered his sword.

It was intoxicating, the power of Enrakyoten. To think that his foolish grandfather had the sword sealed just because it drained lifespan of the user, as if such a thing wasn't worth sacrificing for the sheer power the sword gave him. It made his old zanpakuto look like a joke, there was a reason he hadn't made any attempts to reclaim his old blade after all; Enrakyoten was superior in every possible way. And in the end, that was all that mattered.

Power.

For in a world where the so called god was a mere figurehead with no true power or will, all that mattered was what you wanted to do and the ability to make your desires reality. And power was the only way to make that happen.

He was the living proof, he had caused many to despair to the point of killing themselves and had murdered countless people for the sake of murdering them and had never faced a single consequence for it due to his status as a noble till Kyoraku meddled in things that did not concern him; even then he had simply been placed under house arrest, which was a mere slap on the wrist when one considered how big his 'house' was.

And now he had just gotten his hands on a new fragment of the so called king, and a strong one at that. At this rate it wouldn't even take another century before he had enough of them to make a plan that could overthrow even the likes of captain commander.

"Aura, do be ready to take his body." Tokinada said and prepared to extinguish the flames before suddenly two lights came out of the fire and pierced Aura's knees, making her go down with a cry of pain.

Before Tokinada could properly understand what had happened, the lowly commoner that was supposed to be burnt and weak shot out of the flames with his arms raised high and slammed two hands down on Aura; sending her to the ground with a sound that even made him wince as she impacted the ground and became the center of a crater.

"To think that I would have to use this against some nobody like you." Commoner said as he turned around and Tokinada's eyes widened as he saw not the commonerms face but a mask of pure white with some thorn like protrusions in a line on his forehead, with two holes for eyes that revealed black sclera and red pupils.

"You..." Tokinada tried to rise his sword but his arm was caught in something before he could do so.

"How did Yhwach do this again?" It was the commoner, he was gripping Tokinada's arm with enough force to bruise it. And then suddenly blue lines appeared on his arm and traveled down onto Tokinada's arm...

"GAH!"

...and then his arm was twisted beyond recognition and blood splattered everywhere.

"That's good enough." Commoner said and then pulled on his arm one last time, ripping it from his shoulder.

"After all that talk about power and commoners and worth, you were real disappointing." He said as he walked away from Tokinada, who was holding his shoulder in order to at least slow the bleeding to no avail, and picked Enrakyoten from where it fell after he had ripped off Tokinada's arm. "Though I guess I did get something interesting out of it. A zanpakuto that can copy other zanpakutos, even if your imitation of Ryuujin Jakka was kind of pathetic. I wonder if there is a way for me to use it?"

"Don't... don't touch it!" Tokinada gritted out, trying to reach towards the commoner but he simply fell down.

It hurt.

It hurt so much.

It hurt.

It hurt!

It hurt!

Ithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurtithurt!

"How ugly." The commoner said as he walked beside Tokinada, Enrakyoten in one hand and Aura's unconscious body on his shoulder. "At least have the dignity of going down quietly."

"You!" Tokinada glared up.

This could not be happening. He could not lose to some random nobody! After every person he had slaughtered, driven to despair, caused to snap, framed and taunted with his actions; he could not lose to some random Ryōka that came out of nowhere!

He would survive this, no matter what! And then he would fucking kill this shitty commoner! He wondered if he could somehow cause the fragments to grow unstable and explode, if so he would force feed some to this bastard and make him blow up from inside! He would find his family and make him watch as some random hollows chewed through their flesh! Then he would find them in Rukongai just so he could kill them again! And...

"Rika."

Tokinada's thoughts would forever remain unfinished as a hollow unlike any other before rose from Cain's shadow.

A muscular upper body with arms longer than Tokinada that ended up in sharp claws, a shadow-like tail that was the lower body and finally a head that looked like a shell with huge razor sharp teeth. And the sheer reiatsu it was emitting... it was suffocating.

"You can eat now." Those were the last words Tokinada heard before his vision was swallowed by huge row of teeth and a dark abyss.

-----------------

"Good riddance." I muttered to myself as I watched Rika devour the remains of Tokinada Tsunayashiro. It was the single most gruesome thing I had ever seen, yet I found myself strangely at peace.

Tokinada clan was already the worst in my eyes after I had watched the past through Yhwach's powers but there had been a small part of my brain telling me that those visions may have been biased and that Yhwach's own opinion may have shown me 'his' truth rather than the real truth.

That part was now silent.

Tokinada Tsunayashiro... a man devoid of any ideals or true goals beyond power for the sake of hurting others. He just might have been the lowest of the low I had ever met in my life. But as I looked down at the zanpakuto in my hand and felt the weight of the woman on my shoulder, I could at least appreciate the fact that he had collected some interesting things for me.

Now, I needed to get out fast cause there was no way the rest of Seireitei hadn't felt my outburst. Though I couldn't help but be curious about which captain they might...

"Cain."

.

.

.

I turned around as I heard my name, yet there was no one there. The only ones in here were me, unconscious form of Aura and... Rika who was staring at me with her head tilted.

"Cain."

----------------

For those who like my stories, please check out my Patreon where one can become a patron and get the right to vote for which of my stories will get a guaranteed update for the next week or even vote for which one of my snippets will become proper stories and now even get to see my Patreon exclusive lewd short stories that will come out at least once a month! Not to mention every patron is a sign of support for my, in my opinion, subpar stories to get better! Also you guys can get to see my new patron only story, Imprisoned.

patreon.com/user?u=25343580