Broken Dao Heart

"Bankai: God Killer Spear!"

Just as Ross raised a hand and wiped out Aizen's world-destroying Cero, drawing everyone's attention to his sudden appearance—

The venomous snake that had been lurking in the shadows finally bared its fangs.

There was no earth-shaking eruption of Spiritual Pressure, nor any dazzling display of light.

Ichimaru Gin merely aimed the short blade hidden in his sleeve at Aizen in midair. The ever-present teasing smile at the corner of his lips vanished without a trace.

In its place was an icy coldness and killing intent taken to the extreme.

The blade extended infinitely through the air, as though even light itself had been cleaved apart in that instant.

Even through Kurosaki Ichigo's heightened perception, he could not see the trajectory of the blade. He could only catch that streak of silver light, so fast that it surpassed the mind's ability to react.

Like a silver serpent crossing time and space, it shot straight at the Hōgyoku exposed in Hollowified Aizen's chest!

"Damn it!"

Kurosaki Ichigo's pupils shrank to pinpoints, and his heart seemed to skip a beat.

The angle of the strike was vicious and tricky, and its timing was impeccable—at the exact moment when Aizen's old strength had faded but his new strength had yet to rise, while most of his attention was fixed on Ross.

This was definitely not an attack meant to suppress someone who had gone berserk.

That utterly condensed killing intent, that merciless strike—it was clearly aimed at Teacher Aizen's life!

What made Kurosaki Ichigo feel as though all the blood in his body had frozen was—

At the instant the Bankai Spiritual Pressure of God Killer Spear fully erupted, a familiar yet unfamiliar, chilling aura pierced his nerves like a needle.

This Spiritual Pressure!

Though it had been deliberately