Chapter 285: Zaraki Awakens

Mazuru still remembers how astonished he was when he first heard the story of Zaraki from Unohana.

Because he only had a half-baked knowledge of the plot of the Thousand Year Blood War, so although he learned that Unohana's hidden identity was First Generation Kenpachi from some online forums, he was not very clear about the past between her and Zaraki.

Later, through years of fighting with Unohana, he became Unohana's closest friend, especially during a particular battle when he accidentally saw the scar on Unohana's chest just above her breasts that was deliberately covered by her hair.

It was at that time, when he heard about the past between her and Zaraki from her, and he also learned that Zaraki had left her with that scar.

And according to Unohana.

At that time, she was a murderous executioner, looking for strong people to fight against herself for fun, she had learnt the Kaidō just to better enjoy the battle for more time.

It was this kind of Unohana who was already extremely powerful, but when faced with the young Zaraki, she was directly stabbed by Zaraki's blade without even realizing it.

What an incredible thing this is.

Also because of this incident, Unohana started fighting against him and decided that Zaraki who was stronger than her, was the one who deserved the title of Kenpachi.

It was also because of this that Mazuru pulled Zaraki in at the beginning of the battle.

At first, he didn't feel Zaraki's power much.

But now, now he seemed to understand Unohana's words.

Zaraki's swinging of his blade was closer to a basic instinct, or, for him, he doesn't even know why he swings the sword, anyway, for him, swinging the sword was the right thing to do.

It was also because of this fighting method based on purely instinct that others could not predict Zaraki's next move at all, and it was even more impossible to judge Zaraki's next target from his explosive killing intent which seemed to be just flowing towards everywhere.

Similarly, it was because of this pure instincts that Zaraki could avoid the enemy's attack without thinking about it (though most of the times he lets the enemy stab him).

"What an absolute beast, he's made for battle!"

Once again avoiding Zaraki's fatal blow, Mazuru couldn't help but praise.

'However, it's really an enviable quality…'

Mazuru thought of the special training in his Zanpakuto space.

Because of the almost omniscient ability of Chi no Kawa, if he wanted to break this ability, he must avoid tendentious attacks and make his attacks closer to an instinct.

After all, no matter how powerful you are, you could at most predict the enemy's next attack based on intelligence and experience, but you couldn't predict that pure instinct.

To this day, Mazuru could only barely achieve the level fighting with sword based on pure instinct, while Zaraki was born with this ability.

Although this ability was once sealed off by himself.

But wasn't he re-awakening it right now?

"I want to see, where your limit is!"

Mazuru swung his sword, and Zaraki tried to dodge it subconsciously, but around his body, many small red silk threads suddenly appeared, these silk threads restricted his figure, making his evasion unsuccessful.

A wound emerged, and blood gushed out.

Zaraki didn't seem to realize it though, whether he dodged the attack or not didn't affect his movement of swinging his sword.

A sword pressure swept across from Zaraki's blade, Mazuru used his ability of space transference to avoid it. After a successful blow, he wanted to give Zaraki another blow from the other side.

But Zaraki, however, seemed to have caught on Mazuru's rhythm.

Making a fist with his left hand, he punched out horizontally.

Even though Mazuru also punched back, but when the two fists intersected, Mazuru still felt a huge force sweeping towards him, and his body couldn't help but flew backward.

Zaraki pushed hard, and an incredible amount of reiatsu burst out, breaking free from the red silk threads that bounded him.

He stomped on the ground with his feet, jumped up high, and slashed out with his sword again. While waving the sword, he laughed loudly, "Can't you do it anymore?"

"How can a man say he can't do it?"

The blood-red mist gathered on Mazuru's back, supporting his body, stopping the flying momentum. He stabilized his figure, and the blood-red sword light slashed out, colliding with Zaraki's golden sword pressure.

*Boom*

When the spirit particles in the attacks collided, a huge roar echoed, and the surrounding blood-red mist seemed to have become much thinner due to the impact.

Then, the two figures collided against each other once again.

Zaraki's offensive became more and more fierce.

His movements were also extremely simple, he was just swinging his sword to attack, without too many bells and whistles, but such movements, combined with a fast enough speed, still made Mazuru have to avoid it temporarily.

And Mazuru's attacks were not connecting as easily on Zaraki as before. Before, Mazuru could basically hit Zaraki with four or five slashes every ten attacks, but now, every ten attacks could give him only one hit on Zaraki. Even for that, he had to use some tricks.

'It's different, totally different!'

Byakuya witnessed the progress Zaraki was making, and his heart became more and more shocked.

"He's so strong..." Maki said tremblingly.

The face under Sojiro's mask also became more and more serious.

Mazuru's attacks were about to lose their effectiveness on Zaraki due to him getting used to Mazuru's rhythm, which meant that he had completely seen through Mazuru.

Once Mazuru was no match for Zaraki, what even if he had dozens of resurrections?

It's nothing more than letting Zaraki kill him dozens of times more.

"Have you finally regained your original strength?" Unohana showed a smile on her face. She has been maintaining Kaidō for a long time, especially since Zaraki didn't care about being injured at all, which was a great deal of burden for her.

Especially casting Kaidō at such a long distance, the consumption of Unohana's reiatsu was even greater.

But being able to see Zaraki awaken his former strength, even if it costs her own life, it doesn't matter to her.

What's more, right now she was just tired, she hasn't lost my life yet.

Mazuru's figure suddenly accelerated and turned into six afterimages, attacking Zaraki from six directions at the same time, Zaraki forcibly endured the six slashes, but the next moment

He swung his saber, and like before, a golden sword pressure swept across, and the six figures of Mazuru were engulfed at the same time.

After the six afterimages collapsed, Mazuru's real figure emerged, and on his body, there appeared a wound that was so hideous that it almost looked like it cut him in half.

Zaraki rushed towards Mazuru while enjoying Unohana's treatment.

With another slash, he cut off Mazuru's head when he was still affected by the previous attack.

"Got you!"

Although Zaraki only beheaded Mazuru once since the fight had begun, the meaning for him was completely different.

Then, looking at Mazuru who was re-condensed and reborn on the other side, Zaraki attacked and killed Mazuru again.

In the ensuing battle, Zaraki became stronger and stronger, Mazuru seemed to gradually become unable to parry, and was killed several times by Zaraki, and the time required to kill Mazuru each time became shorter and shorter, and his movements became more and more fierce.

At the same time, a voice became clearer in Zaraki's mind.

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