The Deadlock is Set

Yhwach angrily swung his right hand.

As if trying to cut off his own delusions, he shouted resolutely.

"What kind of joke is this! This is an innately bestowed power, how could someone like you possibly master such a thing?!"

"No, that's not right."

Seiya said blandly.

"This power was never anyone's exclusive possession. Quite the opposite—as long as one has the corresponding qualifications, anyone can wield this power freely."

Long before, when Seiya had once destroyed the 'Seireitei', that experience had already made him aware of this unknown secret.

As everyone knew...

The three worlds were all assembled from spiritual particles.

These wandering things scattered throughout the world were actually not unusable.

As long as one could command them like extensions of their body, they could use this abundant power diffused in the air to nourish themselves.

Individual strength could break through its limits.

Reaching a realm similar to Yhwach's Almighty was not impossible.

But... the difficulty involved was extraordinary.

Seiya had only attempted it once, in behavior like glimpsing a pathway, yet the subsequent backlash nearly made him lose his consciousness of self.

So he needed groundwork, preparation, familiarization with everything.

Sāgara Ryū had completed this part of the work for Seiya. Of course... there was also Ōetsu's assistance in this.

Multi-faceted cooperation.

Long-term planning and preparation.

Finally, after today... achieved the realm Seiya had dreamed of.

Now.

"I'm already standing on the same starting line as you."

"How do you feel about that?"

"Yhwach."

Faced with Seiya's provocative questioning, the person involved gritted his teeth, his facial expression becoming visibly ferocious.

"A mere chess piece, attempting to compete on the same stage as me?!"

He swung his hand violently, moving quickly. However...

Seiya was faster than him.

Both sides almost simultaneously raised their right hands, making completely identical reactions.

The spiritual power torrents touched and clashed in the air, disappearing without a trace in an instant... to external observers there seemed to be no change, but both sides had already completed an intense collision.

"I told you, didn't I?"

Seiya seemed to ignore Yhwach's ugly expression, chuckling as he spoke at this moment.

"Since your eyes can see through everything, then my eyes... naturally won't be inferior to yours."

Both sides instantly began their contest.

In an instant, countless... countless figures spread out behind the two!

Powers that didn't overlap with each other violently collided at this moment, like the battle between flowing water and magma.

Future, present, past.

Yhwach constantly wandered through the river called time, trying to find a timeline where Seiya didn't exist, couldn't block him.

However, this was obviously unrealistic.

Seiya, who had already mastered the same power, was likewise omnipresent.

A thousand years ago.

The two engaged in fierce mutual slashing at the gates of the newly established Shin'ō Academy.

A year later.

Both sides also used the powers of Kidō and holy arts in the living world, crushing cities to powder.

Even countless years later... until the world began to become desert, empty wilderness.

Both sides were still fiercely fighting, with only each other's fierce faces in their eyes.

Born from nothingness, continuing until annihilation.

Both sides collided across various timelines, confronting each other, to the point where many timelines began to collapse uncontrollably.

This novel yet infuriating experience completely ignited Yhwach's fury at this moment.

"How long can you persist?!"

Yhwach shouted with a fierce expression.

"Your power is ultimately impure... something extracted with external help. Relying on this thing, how could you possibly kill me!"

In comparison, Seiya's expression was quite calm.

"I never expected to be able to finish you off with my own power alone."

Everyone had their own strengths.

Like Aizen, the talent the other party displayed was inherently more suited for support.

So then.

What about Seiya?

The person involved's self-positioning could be said to be quite straightforward.

"I'm nothing more than a road-paver."

Using his own power to pave a path that could break Yhwach's power—despite experiencing much, all of this was worth it.

The so-called detours.

For Seiya, were the greatest shortcuts.

"You two, take action!"

As his words fell.

Uryū and Ichigo, who had long been ready, charged forward together.

The attack of Heilig Pfeil was absolutely not to be ignored.

The fusion power of Hollow and Quincy was even more alarming.

If any one of the three stepped forward to engage in one-on-one combat, Yhwach had complete confidence in thoroughly annihilating them.

But so-called battle was never simple addition.

With Seiya's help, the sides symbolizing black and white began continuously advancing, launching attacks!

The offensive both sides deployed made Yhwach unable to ignore it... the ancestor of the Quincy's dual pupils began to rotate uncontrollably, like a mouse trapped in a cage.

As if he had already foreseen his own end.

He struggled as much as possible before everything was 'settled'!

However, facing a three-on-one situation at this moment, Yhwach naturally could only retreat step by step.

He let out unwilling roars from his mouth, his voice hoarse, his posture nearly mad.

But this guy wasn't the protagonist of a hot-blooded manga—anger and unwillingness couldn't bring any enhancement, ultimately just impotent rage.

Seiya took time to briefly examine his own condition.

Sāgara Ryū understood his intention and said.

'More than enough! During use I can continue extracting power from the three worlds... there's still about 60% remaining now, definitely enough for you to finish him off!'

Although Seiya's power was indeed a temporarily assembled product, without Ryūbu's ability, Seiya couldn't control these things at all...

However, even if it was an imitation.

At this moment, he literally had abundant ammunition.

Until solving this menace, Seiya didn't need to consider whether his endurance was sufficient!

Everything was ready, and it was time for the plan to conclude.

It was time to resolve everything.

Seiya's dual pupils trembled slightly, once again eliminating the timeline where Yhwach tried to escape.

Unable to flee, unable to see the future, struggling like a headless fly, Yhwach finally received substantial impact at this moment.

Due to mental confusion, this guy dodged too slowly, getting hit by Ichigo's dual blades...

Flesh separated from skin, deep enough to see bone.

The so-called Blut had completely lost meaning—after all, facing this ultimate mixed-blood monster, the stat bonuses brought by the Almighty were completely inadequate.

"Ah!"

A cry of pain escaped, and Yhwach was forced to retreat several steps. He covered his wound, showing an extremely unwilling expression.

"Wait, wait! Ichigo! You also have Quincy blood flowing in you, right?! You should be on my side!"

"I still have a way to revive your mother. As long as you can help me..."

"The future Invisible Empire will definitely belong to you!"

Ichigo's originally somewhat reluctant expression vanished at this moment with the other party's hoarse screaming.

This guy...

Wasn't Uncle Zangetsu.

The moment he understood this in his heart, Ichigo's expression became extremely cold.

"Stop wasting words. Since we've met here today, there absolutely won't be a second outcome."

With the revenge for his birth mother before him, there was absolutely no possibility of reconciliation.

Yhwach gritted his teeth—he couldn't imagine he would fall to such a state.

So much so that he had no preparation for this situation.

This guy began struggling violently like a cornered beast, because even though he couldn't use the Almighty at this moment, he could still clearly sense...

That aura of death that had been biting at him relentlessly since birth...

Was approaching him bit by bit, step by step.

"Damn it all!!!"

Yhwach desperately needed to break through the timeline, but Seiya's defense was watertight.

The deadlock was set.

Seiya frowned slightly. His ability was also being continuously reduced in the process of mutual cancellation, and his appearance at this moment was somewhat painful.

But more than that.

Was a sense of satisfaction.

His long-cherished wish was about to be fulfilled. Under this siege formation, Seiya couldn't imagine any way the other party could escape.

"You're nothing more than a lucky person through coincidence."

Not even that.

"Abandoned by your father, you could only give up on yourself, trying to vent your dissatisfaction by destroying the world."

"Can't you think about problems like an adult? Once you find things have lost control, you just shout and scream."

"Your former subordinates would all die with eyes wide open."

The mockery of the weak would only make people laugh.

But the ease of the strong would only make their opponents break out in cold sweat.

Yhwach was exactly like this at this moment.

...

While both sides confronted each other.

The lower realm at this moment also had obvious perception.

Isane, who was treating scattered wounded, frowned slightly, looking toward her side at this moment.

The ground trembled and cracked.

Threads of light bands emerged from within, giving her an inexplicable sense of crisis.

"The ground is shaking again..."

Nervous voices came from nearby squad members.

"Are the people above doing something strange again?"

Without extra time to consider these things, pressing the transparent gloves on her hands firmly, Isane said without looking up.

"Don't worry about these things! The current wounded have completely exceeded our capacity. You all need to hurry too!"

However.

"Vice-Captain Isane, come outside and look!"

As the words fell.

Before the person involved could react.

The tent overhead was completely lifted away—not someone's special action, but simply blown open by wild winds, a disheveled sight.

No matter how unwilling.

Isane still instinctively raised her head, gazing toward the sky.

Then...

She saw the pierced cloud layer.

And at the dome above, that place that seemed to connect to the boundless deep space.

There were four figures constantly intersecting and colliding.

Though not knowing exactly what was happening, at this moment just seeing these figures, everyone seemed to instantly understand one thing.

It was the finale.

It seemed that soon... very soon, it would end?