The Body Remembered

The truth was exactly as Aizen had pessimistically predicted.

Crack!

Before Aizen could even pull back to a safe distance, the surface of the Black Coffin—one of the pinnacles of Shinigami Kidō—was already covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

The next second, the black coffin exploded with a deafening boom!

Amid the shattered black Spirit Particle fragments filling the sky, Kurosaki Masaki floated in midair completely unharmed.

Even her clothes did not bear the slightest wrinkle. Her icy expression remained unchanged, as though the ultimate Hadō that had just trapped her was nothing more than a fragile soap bubble.

But Aizen had achieved his goal.

Even that brief instant of delay was enough for this Kidō master to unleash the strongest attack he could currently cast.

Rumble!!!

The entire Seireitei trembled violently.

As Aizen pressed down with one hand, the ground instantly split apart.

Five enormous blue dragons formed from highly concentrated Spirit Particles roared as they shot into the sky!

Each Spirit Particle dragon was hundreds of meters long, its body as massive as a mountain, surrounded by terrifying lightning and hurricanes.

They twisted and intertwined, carrying the momentum to destroy everything as they opened their jaws and lunged viciously at Kurosaki Masaki in the air.

Hadō #99—this was the ultimate Kidō a Shinigami could master.

For this strike, Aizen had used more than half of the Spiritual Pressure remaining in his body.

Its sheer scale made even the Captains watching from a thousand meters away feel their scalps tingle.

However.

Facing the five colossal dragons that blotted out the sky and could destroy an entire division, not even the slightest ripple appeared on Kurosaki Masaki's delicate face.

It did not matter!

Even if she died, she would not feel the slightest emotional fluctuation.

If this attack could kill her, perhaps