A storm of spiritual pressure churned the yellow sand inside the barrier, blurring everything within it from view.
Shinji Hirako brushed off his clothes as he got up, then looked at the barrier rattling under the barrage of sand and gravel. He hurriedly turned to the two maintaining it.
"Hey! Kohachi! Can the barrier hold?!"
"It's all right. Miss Yuko's spiritual pressure is only temporarily unstable. She isn't attacking the barrier directly," Tessai Tsukabishi answered.
Is it really all right?
You're sweating!
"Hachigen! Tessai!" Kisuke Urahara shouted to the two maintaining the barrier. "Reinforce it! We absolutely cannot let that power escape!"
A simple leak of spiritual pressure would have little effect on the outside world, but exposing Yuko's power would be another matter.
Tessai Tsukabishi and Hachigen Ushoda said nothing. They silently poured in more spiritual energy. Intricate incantations lit up across the golden barrier like flowing water, and its glow grew denser and more solid.
Yet the impacts from within grew fiercer each time. Even without Yuko deliberately directing her spiritual pressure at it, the chaotic collisions alone left the barrier on the verge of collapse.
"Hey, hey, Kohachi! Is that barrier of yours going to hold? It looks ready to shatter!"
Sweat beaded on Shinji Hirako's forehead. The barrier wasn't going to break and blow them all to pieces, was it?
That would be a rotten way to die.
Without turning his head, Hachigen Ushoda said calmly, "If you went in there, Mr. Shinji Hirako, you'd probably starve before you got out."
"Pfft." Hiyori immediately seized the chance to mock him. "Hear that, baldy? Go in there and you're never coming out."
The barrier only needed to stop Yuko's leaking spiritual pressure, but that did not mean it was weak. The two had poured enormous effort into