Chapter 321: Confrontation

Compared with almost a thousand figures on the Soul Society side, where there were captains, vice-captains, chief officers, and many ordinary shinigami.

The number of Hueco Mundo's side could be called insignificant.

Their side consisted the only remaining members of the Espada, Espada's Fracción, a few Privaron Espada, and all of the Bounts... the total number of them were only a few dozen.

But even though there were only dozens of figures, the Soul Society side didn't have any intention of underestimating the other side.

They knew, those arrancars on the opposite side were all well-deserved Menos Grande.

And Menos Grande had a unique ability, which was, it could use low-level Menos Grande such as Gillians, so as long as the arrancars on the opposite side were willing, they could recruit thousands of cannon fodder at any time.

Even more than thousands of cannon fodder at a single time was possible.

Although the Gillian-level Menos Grande were not very strong, and had low IQ and slow movements, and many chief officers could deal with it, but they were still Menos Grande after all, and they were still considered powerful for ordinary shinigami.

This fact was also in the consideration of the Hueco Mundo Expedition Force that ordinary shinigami would not play much role, so Yamamoto did not bring too many ordinary shinigami to Hueco Mundo, otherwise, given the threat Mazuru poses to the Soul Society, this expedition would definitely had a thousand more people.

However, after seeing this group of figures opposite to them, neither Yamamoto's, nor the captains', vice-captains', and chief officers' mind lingered on these arrancars for too long, not even the Bounts, who were similar to humans and were mixed among them attracted much of their attention.

Their eyes, from the very beginning, stayed on the figures in the middle.

Ichimaru Gin, Tousen Kaname, and Kyo Mazuru!

In the Karakura Town decisive battle earlier, there were also three figures stood together, the only difference was that the one standing in the middle changed from Aizen to Mazuru.

"Mazuru..."

Nanao muttered to herself.

Rangiku looked visibly agitated and looked at Gin.

Sui Feng gritted her teeth and clenched her fists. If it wasn't for the fact that the Head-captain Yamamoto hadn't yet moved, she would have rushed forward to catch Mazuru, the traitor, back.

After Shunsui saw Mazuru, he also changed from his usual lazy look and became serious.

The rest of Mazuru's disciples, Byakuya and Toshiro also had equally bad expressions.

Toshiro also couldn't help looking at the crowd lead by Mazuru, more importantly at a figure in animal skin clothes and a mask standing in the front of the crowd, because according to what Byakuya and others said, it was that figure, who used the Zanpakuto identical to Hyōrinmaru.

From the rest of the Expedition Force, some eyes fell on Mazuru, while others looked at the other figures.

Sajin, for example, could only hold Kaname in his dog eyes.

In the battle of Karakura Town, he was not able to keep Kaname, which made him very sad, but more than that, he never thought that he would face Kaname again and so soon.

The two groups stood quietly for a long time, staring at each other.

In the end, the Soul Society, headed by Yamamoto, spoke first, with a cold voice, "Kyo Mazuru, you traitor, you dare to show up on your own initiative? Do you think you are invincible, or perhaps you are ready to surrender without a fight?"

Mazuru glanced at the many familiar figures on shinigami's side, and finally, his eyes landed on Yamamoto, "What nonsense are talking about, captain? Could it be, that you have gone senile?"

"It's obviously impossible to surrender without a fight."

"I'm here to have a decisive battle with you guys."

"I am quite eager to know, after losing the help of the Visored, Urahara Kisuke and his group, and Kurosaki Ichigo, what is the real strength of your Soul Society side?"

Mazuru's words were so blunt that Yamamoto's complexion immediately turned ugly.

In the Karakura Town decisive battle earlier, if it wasn't for the assistance of the Visored, Kisuke, Ichigo and others, the Soul Society side would have definitely suffered heavy casualties. Of course, they had killed several members of Aizen's subordinates.

But Aizen alone was enough to defeat them all.

Killing a few Espadas was no big deal.

And even if Ichigo defeated Aizen later, they couldn't count it as a win.

After all, their base itself was attacked by Mazuru and inflicted heavy damage on them.

"Arrogant brat!"

Yamamoto was already angry, and after hearing Mazuru's words, he immediately pulled out his Zanpakuto.

It was just a slash, but a huge sword pressure swept out, and came to Mazuru in an instant.

Mazuru raised his hand, and a huge defensive wall appeared in front of him to block the sword pressure, while his calm voice sounded, "Bakudō #81 — Dankū"

The sword pressure fell on the defensive wall, and was easily blocked.

Seeing Mazuru, a traitor who betrayed the Soul Society, actually used shinigami's methods to face him, Yamamoto immediately became even angrier.

In the battle of Karakura Town, because he was wary of Aizen's Zanpakuto and then was restrained by Wonderweiss' Extinguir, he was unable to exert the true power of Ryūjin Jakka, and was defeated by Aizen.

He lost that battle while being extremely aggrieved.

Although Wonderweiss was killed by him with Sōkotsu (Double Bone), this was Hueco Mundo after all, and no one knows whether there was any arrancar similar to Wonderweiss in here, which could restrain his Ryūjin Jakka.

Therefore, after his sword pressure was blocked so easily, Yamamoto knew that he had to release his Ryūjin Jakka.

"All Things in the Universe, Turn to Ashes!"

"Ryūjin Jakka!"

In Hueco Mundo, the temperature was already extremely high because it was under the scorching sun all the time. Right now, after Yamamoto liberated his Ryūjin Jakka, the surrounding shinigami could feel that the temperature in the air was increased many times.

"Tsk! What a disgusting Zanpakuto."

Next to Mazuru, Sojiro complained.

Originally, Hueco Mundo's environment with extremely thin water vapor in the air was not conducive to Hyōrinmaru's performance. After Ryūjin Jakka was liberated, the temperature in the air rose again. He really didn't like to fight in this kind of place.

Mazuru heard Sojiro's complaints, and didn't say anything about it, rather commented on Yamamoto's behavior, "His temper is still as hot as ever."

Saying so, Mazuru pulled out his Zanpakuto.

A deep voice sounded from his mouth.

"Bankai—"

As soon as the word Bankai was spit out, the Zanpakuto in his hand disappeared, and then, boundless blood mist filled the air, engulfing all the figures of Hueco Mundo side and shinigami side.

The world suddenly turned blood red.

On the Soul Society's side, many shinigami saw Mazuru's Bankai for the first time, but during the last captain's meeting, Byakuya had said a lot about Mazuru's Bankai's abilities, so after seeing this blood-red world, many shinigamis' expressions all became condensed at the same time.

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