The crimson tongue was coated in saliva, and in that viscous fluid was reflected Asano Kiyoshi's pale face.
Watching the attack about to pierce his body, Asano Kiyoshi's heart sank as his mind made a judgment in an instant.
No! I can't dodge it!
There were only two ways to evade this strike!
Either he used more than half his spiritual power and employed the Gate of the Underworld's special ability to directly erase the connection point of the tongue, thereby breaking this attack.
However, if he used that method, Asano Kiyoshi was worried that certain people might notice something.
First of all, this Hollow tide in the Living World was itself full of strange circumstances. Four Adjuchas had appeared around him at once. Asano Kiyoshi absolutely did not believe no one was targeting him.
And given that premise, there had to be a group of people plotting something behind this pack of Hollows.
Asano Kiyoshi could not determine who those people were, but he could roughly narrow it down to two possibilities.
The first was the Tsunayashiro Family, who held a grudge against him. The other possibility was... Aizen Sosuke!
If it was the Tsunayashiro Family, things were actually manageable. Judging from how Tokinada Tsunayashiro slaughtered his entire clan in the original work, there should not have been anyone excessively powerful in the Tsunayashiro Family. No matter how strong they were, they would at most be high-ranking captain level.
But if Aizen had created all of this, then Asano Kiyoshi did not dare use the Gate of the Underworld's "erasure" ability before Aizen.
That ability was incredibly broken, a trump card Asano Kiyoshi had specifically prepared for Aizen. Otherwise, Aizen's Zanpakuto ability was simply too unsolvable. Without using erasure, Asano Kiyoshi likely would have no way to deal with