Chapter 111
"My bone craftsmanship isn't just for reassembling myself!"
"Smack!"
The Dankū between them shattered with a crash, Zanpakuto tore through the air, slashing down fiercely towards Haruto's shoulder and neck.
"Clang!!"
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Satō Tsunayashiro's expression was one of shock.
"A very powerful Zanpakuto."
As Haruto responded to Satō, he muttered something under his breath:
"Dragon soars, lion roars, tiger howls, wolf runs."
That's right.
Those were the lyrics of Dankū's chant.
After Satō Tsunayashiro broke through the first Dankū, Haruto immediately followed up with a second Dankū, and even continued to strengthen it by Kōjutsu Eishō!
"But if I keep releasing the Dankū, how will you respond?"
"... You have a lot of Reiatsu?"
"I've always been proud of it."
Haruto was equally defiant in his words.
"Then what about your Shunpo— "
"Whoosh!"
Satō Tsunayashiro's figure disappeared again.
"How fast can it be?"
"Thump!!"
But not only did she fail to appear behind Haruto as she wished, the impact even made her feel dizzy.
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"As for Shunpo (Shunpo), I'm definitely not as good as Grandma Satō."
Haruto's trash talk continues.
However flippant his tone was, the beads of sweat constantly dripping from his forehead indicated that his physical condition was not so relaxed.
As the saying goes, "Shame breeds courage."
"To compensate for my speed disadvantage, while we were facing off, I simply used the Dankū to completely seal off the space around you."
How is Grandma Satō feeling?
Dankū.
This move uses a wall-shaped transparent shield to completely block attacks from one direction.
After reversing the reference to the Tōzanshō and modifying the Enkōsen, Haruto extended and folded the Dankū with only one wall, turning it into a completely sealed structure similar to a solitary confinement room... Of course, he learned a lot of sealing techniques from the Four-Beast Saimon- Blocking Techniques.
Modifying the Dankū takes more time to execute, and the blocking area is far less than that of a single-sided Dankū. Fortunately, Satō Tsunayashiro also likes to talk trash.
Otherwise, even the slightest movement would have revealed the problem, and her personality has been a huge help in getting to this point.
"This kind of thing..."
Satō Tsunayashiro's eyes narrowed.
"Clang!!"
The Bone and Flesh Craft slashed fiercely into the Dankū, but with Haruto's continuous Kōjutsu Eishō and blessing, the damaged parts were repaired at an extremely fast speed.
"How long can even a lot of Reiatsu be sustained?"
"Hadō #71"
Seeing that the slashing attack was ineffective.
Satō Tsunayashiro slammed her palms together onto the Dankū, and silver flames instantly filled the entire space.
"Ginfu Shakkahō!"
"Boom!!"
The sealed space formed by the Dankū was trembling, but the seemingly crumbling defenses remained unbroken.
"At your current attack intensity, you can probably maintain this for about fifteen seconds."
Haruto looked at the disheveled Satō Tsunayashiro and, judging from her personality, knew she would definitely tear him to pieces once she got out.
So.
Haruto would never give her that opportunity.
"But after all this rambling..."
"We've bought enough time."
"!?"
Satō Tsunayashiro looked behind her in disbelief.
A jet-black, translucent sphere appeared inside the Dankū at some unknown time... No, it's been there since the beginning!
However, it had been hidden by Kyokkō all along, and if it weren't for the Seventy-First Hadō just now, Satō Tsunayashiro would still not have noticed it.
"Very perceptive."
Haruto's lips trembled violently, and the "High-Speed Divine Words" even caused bright red, viscous liquid to flow from the corners of his mouth.
But it was too late!
Haruto agreed with Byakuya's statement.
"The Edge of Senju"
To defeat the Fourth-Class Spiritual Pressure Vice-Captain, Haruto must use the Senju Kōten Taihō to be certain of a fatal blow; since the opponent won't give him a chance to complete the incantation, Haruto will have to find an opening himself.
"The untouchable Dark Lord, the unilluminated Archer of the Azure Sky"
Eishōhaki, Twofold Incantation, Kōjutsu Eishō.
"The path of radiant light, the wind that ignites the spark, let us gather without confusion, and follow my guidance."
Haruto used all the Kidō techniques he had mastered on the Senju Kōten Taihō, a move that embodied all his efforts, after the Dankū.
"Light Bomb·Eight Body·Nine Articles·Tian Jing·Ji Bao·Da Lun"
If he can't kill the opponent, Haruto will probably have no choice but to run away and shamelessly go to Byakuya for help.
"The gray turret, drawing its bow towards the distance, vanished in a pristine glow."
As the final words of the chant gradually became clearer and more distinct in Haruto—
"Hadō #91: Senju Kōten Taihō!"
The pitch-black sphere rapidly expanded to the limit of the Dankū's interior, its overflowing Reiatsu spreading out uncontrollably.
"!!"
Senju Kōten Taihō!?
Satō Tsunayashiro had never heard the lyrics of Kōten Taihō, but she wasn't deaf: when Haruto recited the last verse, Satō Tsunayashiro, who still couldn't break the Dankū imprisonment, realized that things were going to get bad.
This is the No. 91 Hadō, which only the captain and others can use.
If Captain-level are forbidden from unleashing their Zanpakuto within the Seireitei, then using a high-ranking Hadō) of number 90 or higher...
This is a ban within a ban!
Certainly.
The one unleashing the Senju Kōten Taihō at this moment is not a true Captain-level. If she were to fight with all her might, Satō Tsunayashiro could defeat Dankū, but that would cause too much damage to her body... especially to her "youthful" face, and would render her Bone and Flesh Craft ineffective for a long time. This was something Satō Tsunayashiro could not accept.
Her original intention was to wait until Haruto's Reiatsu was exhausted before delivering a decisive blow.
After all, Haruto's theoretically strongest technique, Hyōga Seiran, was secretly supported by the Tsunayashiro Clan, and Satō obtained the spiritual tools to deal with this ice-type Kidō.
Who would have thought?
Despite her thorough preparations, she unexpectedly encountered the Senju Kōten Taihō!
"Beep."
After a soft chirping.
"Boom!!"
Thump.
The forearm supports the huge stone slab.
"..."
Haruto glanced around.
The small castle tower, built at great expense by the nobles, has now had its roof completely torn off, with less than a tenth of the original structure remaining intact.
"Senju Kōten Taihō".
"The effect of releasing it in a confined space is truly exaggerated."
Haruto's condition wasn't much better either.
The constant aches and pains, as if his whole body was falling apart, and the Reiatsu within his body had become extremely unstable—luckily, the combo attack just now had consumed a great deal of energy, otherwise, he would probably have coughed up blood from the shock of his own Reiatsu.
The Dankū of the "erasure" effect of the Kōten Taihō was achieved, but it further amplified the compressed explosive force. Combined with the Kidō Barrier inside the castle tower, this further enhanced the chaotic reflection power of the shockwave.
"Clap clap."
Haruto brushed the dust off his body and walked towards Satō Tsunayashiro was lying on the ground, her body charred black.
As expected of Fourth-Class Spiritual Pressure Vice-Captain-level?
Being hit at point-blank range by the Senju Kōten Taihō, yet not dying instantly...
He looks much older.
"Haru... Haruto..."
A strained sound came from deep in his throat.
"Feel sorry."
"Puff!"
Haruto drew his Zanpakuto and stabbed it into Satō Tsunayashiro's neck.
"The sound was too soft, I couldn't hear it."
Haruto admitted that his willpower wasn't very strong, so he could only cut off the other party's hand before they could tempt him.
"Tsk."
A thin line of viscous, bright red liquid was swept across the ground.
Sheathed the sword.
Haruto glanced at the Zanpakuto Bone and Flesh Craft, beside Satō Tsunayashiro's corpse.
"This knife is quite powerful."
The fact that this severed Bone and Flesh Craft was able to survive the explosion of the Senju Kōten Taihō clearly shows that he played a significant role.
"What a pity."
Haruto did not leave the castle tower immediately, but instead walked towards several locations amidst the rubble and ruins where faint cries of agony could be heard.
Besides Satō Tsunayashiro, several noble family heads who could barely be considered Vice-Captain-level also attended this Noble Assembly. Because they were far away, they were not directly killed by the aftershocks of the Kōten Taihō.
Haruto will not...
And then we forgot about finishing off the enemy.