"Not bad, not bad. You could actually neutralize it by balancing out Benihime's spiritual pressure..."
Kisuke Urahara rubbed his chin as he paced back and forth around the marks left by the previous slash, muttering to himself.
Watching him, Shinji Hirako couldn't help taking two steps back. He whispered to Yoruichi, "this guy... hasn't he gone crazy? Did Yuko beat him stupid?"
"I think he's getting there." Yoruichi yawned.
Urahara... no, that idiot was beyond saving.
After thinking for a moment, Urahara walked up to Yuko and asked, "Yuko, how much spiritual pressure did using the third rule consume?"
His eyes traveled over Yuko's body.
Yuko was a special existence. It was difficult to judge her physical condition from her appearance.
Although Urahara believed that after what had happened yesterday, Yuko could not possibly have fully recovered today, she merely looked a little more lethargic than usual. Nothing else revealed her condition.
"Not much, I guess. After all, I used your spiritual pressure to cancel it out."
Urahara did not look surprised. Supporting his chin, he muttered, "That really is a shameless ability."
Borrowing Benihime's power to neutralize Benihime's power was very close to Counter-Demon Killing. Both involved cancellation between forces of equal quality.
The difference was that Counter-Demon Killing required its user to release spiritual pressure and Kido of the same level to offset the opponent's Kido.
Yuko's ability only needed an initial spark of energy.
"Stop making things up!" Yuko rolled her eyes at him irritably. "After all that, it turned out to be completely useless. I wasted my stamina for nothing."
"How can you call it a waste?" Kisuke Urahara immediately retorted, a sly smile on his face. "At the very least, we confirmed the possibility of dual release and its enormous potential, didn't we? This is