Asano Kiyoshi held a Zanpakuto like the sun in his hand. With his power now approaching that of the Soul King, Ryūjin Jakka's strength received a terrifying amplification.
The next moment, Asano Kiyoshi wielded Ryūjin Jakka and tore through space and time, arriving before Yhwach, whose heart had been sealed.
Yhwach's face was twisted with ferocity and unwillingness. Staring at Asano Kiyoshi, he roared:
"Since when?! The one fighting me changed from you to Aizen Sosuke!"
Facing Yhwach, who had nearly lost his mind, Asano Kiyoshi did not hesitate. He poured every last bit of his spiritual pressure into this strike:
"Zanka no Tachi: North—World Ashes!"
It was a slash beyond description, one that could not be felt through any human emotion.
The entire world darkened completely in that instant, as though all light had been drawn into that slash. Heaven and earth seemed to turn black and white, and the only thing shining in the entire world was that slash—the slash that tore the world apart!
Bolstered by Asano Kiyoshi's power, the flames' extreme force gave rise to a new concept.
Erasure!
It was not merely erasure on a physical level, but erasure in the abstract sense of existence itself.
Where Asano Kiyoshi's slash passed, even Yhwach's very existence, memories, and concept were all erased.
Feeling the scorching pain from his abdomen, Yhwach saw only darkness before him.
He could not see any future. Along that flowing river of futures, he could not find even a grain of sand connected to himself.
Every future, everything, had been completely erased by that single slash!
At the final moment before his consciousness dispersed, Asano Kiyoshi's voice reached his ears:
"Yhwach, from the moment Lethal Dose died, the one fighting you had already become Aizen. At that time, I had already sealed