Tens of thousands of cherry blossoms, with the slight closing of Byakuya's hand, transformed into gleaming blades that flashed with a chilling edge!
In the pink blade-like petals, As Nodt's face—so bizarre it was almost grotesque—was reflected.
The moment he realized that Byakuya's strength was almost completely at odds with the intelligence he had received, he did not hesitate to activate the second stage of his Quincy Vollständig!
The stitches running down the center of his body gushed with blood. The outer layer of his original body peeled away and hung around his head. The flesh on his face was blurred and fused together, his eyeballs bulged outward, his ribs were exposed, and his lower body twisted grotesquely. He looked like a walking mass of rotten flesh.
Black lumps of flesh gathered around him. As Nodt let out a howl that was barely human, and with himself as the center, he formed a barrier made of countless savage eyes.
Within the barrier, deathly energy radiated from As Nodt. He stared at Byakuya and nearly roared, "I won't kill you. I'll trap you forever at the boundary between life and death, making you suffer the agony of being tortured to death by me every moment. I'll make you beg me through tears, beg me to let you die—but I will never grant your plea, Byakuya Kuchiki!"
The next instant, countless walls of eyes opened, and an indescribable sense of fear instantly seeped into Byakuya's body.
His arms trembled, his spiritual pressure began to fluctuate, his heartbeat accelerated, and a dense layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
Yet in the face of his body's instinctive fear, Byakuya merely took a deep breath. He looked coldly at As Nodt, his tone as proud and indifferent as ever. "Fear comes from nothing