Black and White, the Monk's Enhancement

Tsuna ignored the Monk's chanting. When he saw the Monk suddenly close his eyes and stand still, he raised his hand and shot an orange flame beam at the Monk.

This is the upgraded version of XBURNER. After Beyond Bankai Tsuna can freely release this beam without charging. This move is slightly weaker, but it is faster.

Just as the beam was about to hit the Monk, Tsuna's attack seemed to be blocked by something.

There was an invisible membrane blocking the path of the beam of light in front of the Monk, which Tsuna found very strange. Logically speaking, he had already analyzed all the power in the Monk's body, and there should be no move that he could not adjust.

What's going on here?

Then Tsuna saw the Monk devoutly open his arms and tilt his head back, as if welcoming something.

Suddenly, light shone in front of the Monk. It came from the sky, at the exact same spot where it had blocked Tsuna's attack.

The power of the Soul King?

This guess occurred to Tsuna. It was too coincidental that the thing that helped the Monk block his attack came from the sky. The only place in the sky was the Soul King Palace, and the Soul King King's power was something Tsuna had never truly witnessed.

The beam of light slowly disappeared, and a long, finger-sized object appeared in front of the Monk. Even though it was only a small section, the pressure it exuded was impossible to ignore.

That's part of the Soul King's body!

Tsuna was quite certain that the only one in the world who could reliably suppress him from the moment he appeared was the Soul King. He originally thought that the Soul King had only had his limbs cut off, but now it seemed that even his body had been hollowed out.

[Decimo, Byakuran, can we harmonize the Soul King's power?] Tsuna asked in his inner world.

[It's possible to analyze, but it's meaningless.] Byakuran said, pursing her lips.

[Little Tsuna, you understand the conditions for becoming the Soul King better than we do. Until you can fully integrate all the powers, the Soul King will have the upper hand over us.] The Decimo explained.

Tsuna was well aware of the requirements for becoming Soul King candidate: possessing the powers of Bleach, Hollow, Fullbring, and Quincy. Currently, Tsuna had only fused three of these powers. His power of universal harmony was very strong, yet he was still second only to one person: the Soul King.

Kuri Enma pointed helplessly at himself. How did it suddenly become his fault? He really wanted to fit in, but he just couldn't.

Firstly, because of Byakuran's quirky sense of humor, Tsuna hadn't fully mastered all the Beyond Bankai. After Byakuran relented, he focused on researching the remaining methods of fusing these Beyond Bankai.

Secondly, when Kuri Enma was in his inner world, he had already tried with the Decimo and Byakuran to integrate his power into the Bankai, just like how Beyond Bankai, but unfortunately they failed.

Currently, the triangle formed by Bleach, Hollows, and Fullbring is too stable, leaving no room for Kuri Enma.

This means that Tsuna's Quincy ability can only appear alone. It has strength, but it is not as strong as Bankai, so it is Beyond Bankai. Its greatest use is as a self-protection ability for Tsuna when the Decimo and Byakuran are keeping watch.

[What should we do then? We can't just admit defeat as soon as the Monk takes out the Soul King's parts, can we?] Tsuna asked.

[Loss? By what right? Don't forget that Bleach's battle is a battle of spiritual pressure. He's not the Soul King. Why should we admit defeat?] Byakuran wanted to slap Tsuna on the head.

[Go ahead and do it, Little Tsuna, I don't think we really need to be afraid of him!] The Decimo's tone was also very confident.

[I see.]

Tsuna stared at the Monk, curious to see what tricks the Monk would pull with this unprecedented Soul King part. Was he planning to whip him with that piece of intestine?

The Monk didn't even look in Tsuna's direction. Protected by the Soul King parts, he was absolutely safe. Like many transforming heroes, he entered invincible time.

After pressing his palms together and offering a devout prayer, the Monk said, "Revered Soul King, please grant me the power to destroy the blasphemers!"

Only by using the name of the Soul King can Monk use the power of the Soul King, even if he is a blasphemer.

The Soul King's intestines split into two forces, one projected onto Ichimonji, and the other entered the Monk's body. Guided by the pure Soul King's Power, Ichimonji split into two forces, one black and one white, which fell into the Monk's hands.

Looking at the scene before him, Tsuna frowned slightly. Why did this look so much like Zanpakuto fusion?

The monk looked at his hands with Monk. He hadn't used this state in over a thousand years since the establishment of the Gotei 13. The fusion with the Ichimonji was truly intoxicating.

The Monk's current form is a fusion of Zanpakuto, but it is fundamentally different from the Zanpakuto fusion of Tsuna and the Tsuna. Strictly speaking, the Monk's Ichimonji is not Zanpakuto born from him.

Therefore, even if Ichimonji merges into the Monk's body, it cannot directly change the user's appearance like Aizen or Tsuna. Instead, it is placed on the Monk's hands in an attached form, and the Monk needs to use the Soul King's Power as an adhesive to achieve this.

But that was enough. Even a second-rate Zanpakuto fusion is still a fusion. With the Soul King's Power and the blessing of Ichimonji, the Monk's spiritual pressure rose again. The Monk, who was already at the limit of Soul Society could withstand, suddenly had his spiritual pressure increase to the point that it exceeded the limit of Soul Society.

Click.

A faint cracking sound came, yet it was so loud to every creature in the Soul Society that everyone looked up at the sky as if by unspoken agreement, whether it was their imagination or not.

It looks like the sky has cracked open?

Sensing something was amiss, both the Kirinj battlefield and the Yachiru Unohana battlefield stopped what they were doing.

"Hey, Monk is this monk doing?!" Kirinj complained helplessly. Even as a member of the Zero Squad, he didn't know how to deal with the situation.

"Does your Zero Squad really not care about the safety of the world anymore?" Yoruichi asked angrily. Led by Yoruichi, the others glared at Kirinj.

Under such gazes, Kirinj became somewhat more composed. "Don't look at me like that. If the world is destroyed, the Soul King Palace won't be any better!"

After hearing Kirinj's sophistry, everyone realized that it was indeed true. Kirinj's duty was to protect the Soul King Palace, and the destruction of the world would also affect the safety of the Soul King Palace.

"In that case, please join us, Kirinj, in protecting this shattered world!" Kyōraku's eerie voice came from behind Kirinj.

Kirinj shuddered. This new Captain-Commander was the sixth oldest among his peers. "Alright, no problem. I'll do whatever you say."

Kyōraku quickly arranged everyone's tasks. All members of the Gotei 13 were mobilized, and tasks were assigned one by one: calming other creatures, constructing defensive barriers, analyzing the situation of the rift in the sky...

No one suggested stopping the fight between the Monk and Tsuna. After their previous battle, they all knew that the two were locked in a life-or-death struggle, and given that their strength was no match for the Monk and Tsuna, any attempt to persuade them would be futile.

"Please wait a moment, I can help too!"

The purple-haired, wavy-haired mature woman returned with a somewhat disheveled Ichigo. The two had fought fiercely; Yachiru Unohana had lost weight, and half of Ichigo's clothes were torn to shreds.

"Of course, thank you very much!" Kyōraku said, subtly taking over the command of the scene as if he were the master of the house.

"Hyosube Ichibei, if you don't rein yourself in, the Soul Society will perish in your hands," Tsuna kindly reminded him.

The Monk awoke from his reverie. This power to rule the world would intoxicate him no matter how many times he experienced it. He completely ignored the changes in Soul Society and looked at Tsuna with a cold smile.

"Who do you think forced me to use this power? Can't you just obediently stay sealed away?!"

"It's all your fault! And Sosuke Aizen too! Time and time again you've used power beyond what the world can handle, causing instability. Why should I even bother having you as Soul King candidate!"

"You only have yourself to blame, Sawada Tsunayoshi. You're not from this world, yet you possess the same power as the Soul King!"

"Don't worry, the world won't be destroyed. I know what I'm doing. As long as I capture you, the world will return to peace once again!"

The Monk said that this was not the first time he had seen this situation. In the past, after he fused with his Zanpakuto, he only needed to disperse the remaining Soul King's Power into the world, and the world would naturally repair itself. This time would be no exception.

Hearing the Monk's attempt to shift the blame, Tsuna curled his lip in disdain. There was only one Soul King in this world, and he was the only one who, despite possessing supreme power, was willing to sacrifice himself.

Now that the Monk is trying to pressure him with the greater good of the world, Tsuna won't fall for it. He'll just have to fight it out first.

"Then let's stop talking nonsense. I'm going to defeat you completely before the world is destroyed!"

Tsuna clenched his fists, and intense flames rose from his body, bathing his equipment in the flames and elevating Tsuna.

He wore a pair of flying boots transformed from Byakuran wings, and his Armguard had also changed. His left hand was a white dragon, and his right hand was a burning lion. The black skin of the first Vongola extended from his shoulders and moved without wind under the influence of raging flames.

This is the true form of Beyond Bankai Tsuna. The spiritual pressure emanating from this form is no less than that of the Monk who absorbed the Soul King's Power.

A series of fine cracking sounds rang out. Tsuna's spiritual pressure became the final straw that broke the camel's back, but the Soul Society, which was already showing signs of collapse, was already struggling to keep up with the pace of its collapse.

"You truly are the evil Sawada Tsunayoshi! Let me utterly destroy you!"

The Monk charged towards Tsuna, his hands flashing as black and white energy transformed into two long snakes that emerged alongside him, baring their sharp fangs at Tsuna.

Tsuna was equally unfazed. With a gentle flap of the feathers on his boots, Tsuna appeared in front of the Monk in an instant. His black cloak covered the sky and blocked the attacks of the black and white snakes, while Tsuna's true form swung a fist fiercely at the Monk.