Disaster Strikes the Fon Clan

Time turned back to when Hu had just fallen asleep. He lay beside the low table in his room, while two members of the Onmitsukidō handed over their duties behind a hidden door.

"The target's breathing has changed. It looks like he's asleep. After receiving his name through the naming ceremony today, his Spirit Body has gradually been stabilizing." The departing Onmitsukidō member looked through the records he had kept throughout the day. "There haven't been any Zanjutsu meditation fluctuations like yesterday's. His Zanpakuto has been silent since the ceremony." As he prepared to hand his notes to the colleague taking over, he noticed the man staring blankly at the instrument that monitored mental fluctuations.

"You said his Zanpakuto had been silent this whole time?" The newcomer stared at the instrument. "Then what's with this reading?"

The departing Onmitsukidō member turned around and saw wave after wave of fluctuations on the display, each like a massive breaker. "Has his Zanpakuto started communicating with him?" He hurriedly adjusted the instrument. "This is bad. The Asauchi hasn't been given to him yet, so his Zanpakuto doesn't have a physical form in the real world. Its power will leak out of his Spirit Body... if the analysis squad's assessment is correct..."

Before he could finish, a brilliant blue line traced a horizontal circle around the entire room, cutting across the instrument in his hands. Finding the line exceedingly strange, he quickly dropped the instrument and retreated. The other Onmitsukidō member backed away at the same time, avoiding the line.

"Is this blue line his Zanpakuto's ability?"

"Record whatever happens next."

The two Onmitsukidō members exchanged a few words and watched the blue line, waiting to see what would happen next.

However, the blue line gradually faded, disappearing without causing any particularly great disturbance.

The two Onmitsukidō members breathed small sighs of relief, then picked up the equipment from the floor. "It was just a blue line. Did those people in the analysis squad make some kind of mistake? What's this ability supposed to..."

Before he could finish, the Onmitsukidō member froze. The instrument he had picked up was only half of it; the other half was still on the floor...

Seeing this, the Onmitsukidō member behind him looked at Hu again and was dumbstruck. Blue lines identical to the one before had begun streaming continuously from Hu's body: horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved and straight, even circles, squares and all manner of other shapes. The lines kept tracing themselves across the surrounding objects. Almost everything, including the walls and roof, was sliced apart wherever the lines touched. Pieces of the roof were even falling away, and a large one was about to land right on Hu.

The Onmitsukidō member saw that this wouldn't do. Hu had yet to undergo the relevant training, and he didn't believe Hu's body could withstand being struck by such a large piece of roof. He rushed forward and kicked it away, making enough noise to alert the Onmitsukidō members hidden throughout the residence, as well as Soi Fon, who had just finished her paperwork.

Soi Fon arrived in the courtyard, dressed in a backless black outfit. "What happened?"

The Onmitsukidō member who had kicked the roof away drew his Zanpakuto and answered as he fended off the flying blue lines. "After the subject fell asleep, his Zanpakuto's ability went out of control and leaked out. Commander, everything these blue lines touch gets cut apart, except Zanpakuto."

Soi Fon looked at the Fon Clan's guest room, which had been sliced to pieces. The two Onmitsukidō members beside Hu were knocking away fragments of the building while fending off the blue lines. She sighed. "What are you doing? Just wake him up. Once he's conscious, the power will naturally stop leaking."

Only then did the two Onmitsukidō members realize what to do. They ran to Hu and called out, "Mr. Ye Xing, Mr. Ye Xing, wake up!" When Hu still didn't wake and blue lines continued emerging from beneath him, they grabbed him and tried to shake him awake. "Wake up! Yexing Hu!!"

Hu's head rocked back and forth as they shook him, but he still wouldn't wake. The Onmitsukidō member grew ruthless and slapped him across the face. "Wake up!"

With a smack, Hu's cheek swelled up, and the blue lines stopped appearing. The Onmitsukidō member sighed, thinking it was over. But when he looked at Hu, he found that he still hadn't woken up. The corners of his mouth were turned up, half his face was swollen, and drool ran from his mouth, making him look particularly comical. He was even talking in his sleep:

"Heh heh, Judgment Cut. I wanna play with Judgment Cut, hehehehe~"

The two Onmitsukidō members standing beside Hu were a little stunned. "Judgment Cut? What Judgment Cut?"

They soon got their answer...

In an instant, two enormous gashes in space appeared right in front of them. "Huh?" The two Onmitsukidō members were utterly baffled by the situation, while Soi Fon felt a strong sense of danger. This was going to be bad...

She immediately used Shunpo to pull the two Onmitsukidō members out. But once she had, she stared at them in shock. A great gash had been carved into each of them, one across the chest and the other across the abdomen. Blood was spraying out, and they were nearly unconscious.

Meanwhile, the gashes in space around Hu began to multiply. Blue slashes flew from his body one after another, striking space and tearing open gash after gash. There were so many that space even produced a momentary suction as it repaired itself.

"Quick, find someone to treat these two."

Soi Fon rushed forward, drew her Zanpakuto and struck at the blue slashes to stop them from further destabilizing space. She steadily closed in on Hu.

"You bastard, wake up already!"

She then kicked Hu straight in the stomach, nearly folding him in half. The blue slashes stopped. Sensing a change in Hu's breathing and confirming that he was waking up, Soi Fon left with Shunpo, changed into ordinary clothes and threw on an outer robe. Then she returned with Shunpo, once again dressed as Fon Shaoling, and began organizing people to clean up the "mess" strewn across the ground.