"HAHAHA!! Let's see how you're going to survive now! How could a human insect, a mere ant, possibly compare to me?!"
"Oh? Are you saying I'm an ant?"
Before his glee could fade, Uchiha Hiko's voice appeared behind him like a ghost.
Lui-sen-bang opened his skeletal jaws wide and turned around in disbelief.
"How... how is this... possible..."
Lui-sen-bang could not believe any of it. Behind his tense expression, fear appeared for the first time.
"Rankyaku: Chaos!"
Uchiha Hiko kicked out, his single kick splitting into more than a dozen as they struck toward Lui-sen-bang.
"Breath of Death!"
With a shout from Lui-sen-bang, black Breath of Death enveloped him completely, blocking the attack of Rankyaku: Chaos.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..."
A series of teeth-grinding sounds rang out, but Uchiha Hiko's attack never managed to break through the Breath of Death's defense.
Ten minutes passed, yet the black aura remained unbroken.
"The Six Powers are useless? Then let's try this. Amaterasu."
"If you can withstand Amaterasu's flames, I'll acknowledge your status as King of Hueco Mundo."
Uchiha Hiko spoke calmly. The Mangekyo pattern appeared in his eyes once more, and clusters of Amaterasu's black flames surrounded Lui-sen-bang, seeming to add another layer of defense over the black aura.
Yet beneath those black flames, the black aura was visibly dwindling at a rapid pace.
Uchiha Hiko could have easily broken through the black aura's defense, but he deliberately divided the process into several steps in order to gradually shatter Lui-sen-bang's final mental defense.
Lui-sen-bang sensed his Breath of Death gradually diminishing and inwardly felt that something was wrong, but he could only keep releasing spiritual power to maintain the black aura's defense.
"This King still has to reclaim the throne of Hueco Mundo! How could I possibly die here?!"
Lui-sen-bang roared unwillingly, and