The battlefield... had fallen into a stalemate!
The Soul Reapers of the Tenth Division could inflict only negligible damage on the Adjuchas. In contrast, any casual strike from the Adjuchas could leave them gravely wounded.
Normally, this would have been an utterly one-sided slaughter.
Yet beneath Chiba Makoto's outrageously powerful healing ability, unleashed without restraint, so long as they were not unlucky enough to die on the spot, even severed limbs could be swiftly treated, allowing them to recover their basic fighting ability as quickly as possible.
Before long, blood stained more than seventy percent of the Tenth Division members, yet not a single Soul Reaper retreated. Instead, they grew ever more fearless, doing everything they could to restrain the Adjuchas.
Makoto!
As long as Makoto was here, they had no need to fear battle or injury!!
Feeling the fragrant grass beneath their feet, nearly every Tenth Division member held on, miraculously keeping the Adjuchas pinned down.
Chiba Makoto, who had been continuously providing large-scale healing every moment, suddenly sensed that something was off.
Normally, as a high-ranking existence among the Hollows, an Adjuchas possessed intelligence and emotions very close to those of humans. It was a wholly new lifeform evolved from the Gillian, a Hollow born from chaotic collective consciousness.
Yet although the Adjuchas before them seemed to possess independent awareness and could communicate through speech,
its combat behavior was remarkably simplistic. It had been restrained by the Tenth Division members' Bakudo all along, showing no intent to forcibly kill the three most crucial seated officers or Chiba Makoto. It even displayed confused bewilderment when severely wounded Soul Reapers regained their combat strength.
This... did not match the intelligence an actual Adjuchas should possess.
Meanwhile, Tōsen Kaname, who was sensing the battle from afar, spoke. "Lord Aizen, the