The Void Extermination in Progress

"Did you make it, Kensei?"

Hirako Shinji spun his Zanpakuto, Sakanade, and casually cut down a Hollow. Every Hollow that charged to his side suddenly changed direction and flew toward the sky instead. That was Sakanade's effect—it reversed the Hollows' sense of direction, turning the lost Hollows completely into Hirako's playthings.

Right after Tsuna finished setting things up, Hirako had Kensei lead a team to support Uryū, then spread out from the center to cover the weaker areas. They arrived just as the Gillian appeared.

"With this many Hollows, how long are we supposed to keep killing them?" Hirako complained. Even killing a thousand pigs would take time, let alone more than a thousand Hollows. Hirako tilted his head and called out, "Hachi, give me a hand."

"I have been helping the entire time," Hachigen Ushōda said. Without his Kido assisting, the scent released by Sakanade could not possibly have covered an entire area so quickly.

Still, after Hirako complained, Hachigen lent a hand. A Kido barrier rapidly spread from his hands and instantly boxed in a large number of lower-class Hollows. The barrier split above and below, and Hachigen wiped out a massive batch of Hollows in an instant.

"Knew we could count on you, Hachi."

"Please take this seriously, Hirako," Hachigen Ushōda said helplessly.

"Relax, Hachi. Nothing's gonna go wrong," Hirako said easily. With a Zanpakuto whose Bankai could clear out small fry, Hirako was still far from going all out.

Near the Urahara Shop, fireworks shot into the sky one after another. The residents around here were in luck—they got to watch a fireworks show for free, even if it was daytime fireworks.

Near Tsuna's school, Tatsuki and Chad fought side by side. No matter how Tsuna and the others used large-area attack moves, there were always fish that slipped through the net. Tatsuki and Chad were dealing with those stragglers.

Chad's right arm, black with red markings, was the Giant's Right Arm. His left arm, white with red markings, was the Devil's Left Arm. His right arm fired Reiatsu beams from time to time, while his left arm handled the Hollows that came in close.

A Hollow struck by Chad's Devil's Left Arm would first be sent flying a distance, then Chad's Reiatsu would drive it into the ground. As the Reiatsu exploded on the Hollow's body, it also blasted a huge devil mark into the earth.

"Chad, be careful. Don't wreck other people's houses," Tatsuki reminded him. Just watching Chad attack made her a little alarmed. If the Devil's Left Arm wasn't restrained, it could easily tear down all kinds of buildings in the World of the Living.

"Ah, sorry."

Chad realized it belatedly. All his battle experience came from fighting Kensei, and at the Visored base he could unleash his power freely. For a moment, he had forgotten to hold back.

Chad became somewhat constrained, not daring to truly use his strength. Even so, mere lower-class Hollows were no match for him. His clearing speed only dropped because he had to get close and deal with them one by one.

Compared with Chad's brute-force style of fighting, Tatsuki was much more agile. Her white karate gi snapped in the air as she stepped on Fullbring Light, weaving through the Hollow swarm around Chad. Using the Hakuda techniques she had learned from Yoruichi, she punched down one Hollow at a time, her speed not the slightest bit slower than Chad going all out.

Knife-hand strikes, Senka Ankle Drop kicks, consecutive straight punches—Tatsuki's hands and feet were all covered in a layer of Reiatsu, and every blow could unleash a powerful attack.

But Tatsuki and Chad both focused mainly on close combat, and against large numbers of lower-class Hollows, that was still somewhat lacking. Gradually, the two of them were surrounded by Hollows.

"Chad, fire upward!" Tatsuki said as she retreated behind Chad. Chad immediately understood what she meant. Powerful Reiatsu surged from his right shoulder, and the Giant's Right Arm was already charged and ready.

Tatsuki also mobilized her Reiatsu at the same time, abandoning the chant. "Hadō 33: Cinder Fall!"

Tatsuki's mastery of Kido was not weak to begin with. At present, all of her long-range combat methods came from Hadō.

Cinder Fall and the Giant's strike blasted in the same direction together. Flames and a white Reishi beam swallowed the lower-class Hollows and directly tore open a gap. The two broke through from there together, then once again cleared out the remaining lower-class Hollows.

The view shifted to Uryū's vicinity. With the Visored's arrival, the pressure on Uryū dropped sharply. The blades casually swung by the Visored could deal with the surrounding lower-class Hollows, and of course they would not set their sights on such weaklings. The newly appeared Gillian were the Visored's targets.

Perhaps because the Visored had arrived, those Gillian had not even crawled out of the Garganta before red Reiatsu began gathering on their masks. It was Cero.

"Heh. Move out, everyone!" Muguruma Kensei laughed disdainfully and directed the group into action.

In that instant, all the Visored put on their respective masks at once. The Reiatsu of Hollows likewise shot straight into the sky. The same red light gathered around the Visored. The same Cero condensed on the masks of several Vice-Captain-level Bleach, while the Cero of the Captain-level Bleach appeared at the tips of their Zanpakuto.

Cero!

Crimson light shot wildly in every direction. The Visored's mastery of Cero was actually even higher than the Gillian's. In just an instant, they fired their Cero, and every blast accurately scraped past the Hollow Reiatsu being condensed by the Gillian, directly detonating their own Cero and making the Gillian suffer the consequences of their own actions.

"Tch. Pathetic," Hiyori said disdainfully.

"Check out my super light wave!" Kuna Hak crossed her hands and struck an Ultraman pose. She had already become completely obsessed with superheroes.

Lisa said nothing, but she was holding a magazine and flipping through it, clearly not taking these Gillian seriously either.

After undergoing Tsuna's Resurrección training, the Visored were no longer what they used to be. In order to train that guy Tsuna, every member of the Visored had learned continuous, multi-stage Cero. For several of the Vice-Captains, fighting with their masks on was already stronger than using only their Shikai.

As for the Captain-level members, their Zanpakuto had already been modified by Urahara and filled with the purest Hollow's power to ensure that they could use Hollow power for extended periods. That Hollow's power had likewise been refined from the Gillian before their eyes. These Hollows had no consciousness and were the purest Hollow's power.

"Hey! You lot, don't get careless." Seeing these unreliable teammates, Muguruma Kensei really could not stand it.

"Kensei, more are coming," Aikawa Love said.

More and more Gillian emerged from the Garganta that had just been cleared out. Their attack just now seemed to have had no substantial effect.

"What a noisy lament," Rose said with a frown. He was the most sensitive to sound, and the screams of these Gillian were giving him a headache.

"Stay sharp. We'll split into pairs and end this fast. We absolutely cannot let the Gillian's attacks affect the human residents," Kensei said.

The Visored split into pairs, perfectly matching one Captain-level with one Vice-Captain-level, making the battle much safer.

At the edge of Karakura Town, a pitch-black box opened. It was Yukio's Fullbring ability, Invaders Must Die. The ones who walked out from within were all members of Xcution.

"What disgusting things!" Riruka looked at the Hollows in the distance with a face full of revulsion. She disliked things that weren't cute to begin with, and these Hollows completely clashed with her aesthetic.

"Move out, everyone. Riruka, stay with Yukio. If you don't want to fight, you can hide," Ginjo said. He likewise knew Riruka's personality and did not force her to fight.

Ginjo's Cross of Scaffold flung out a blue rope. The rope wrapped around the neck of a lone Hollow and strangled it outright.

"What, I can fight too," Riruka softly argued. Everyone else had already scattered, leaving only Yukio able to hear her muttering.

"Relax. If you don't want to do it, then don't. I just want to play games anyway."

Yukio curled up in a corner, playing his game console. The black box once again swallowed a Hollow attacking them. Inside the box was the battle monster Yukio had prepared for it. Hollow against Hollow—it ought to be a pretty good game.

Using Flash Step, Ginjo quickly took to the air. A Hollow mask appeared on his face, and streaks of Cero flew from his Cross of Scaffold. This was already his most direct attack. It was just a pity that Cero could only use Hollow power, making it difficult to mobilize Bleach power.

Unlike Kensei's situation, where he needed Hollow power to be additionally infused, Ginjo carried Hollow power within himself, so using Hollow power came much more naturally to him.

Ginjo wasn't the only one in Xcution who had improved. Jackie's Fullbring, Dirty Boots, had also changed. Originally, the more dirt stuck to her boots, the stronger her kicks became.

Now, Jackie could store the strongest blow from her previous use of Fullbring inside her Fullbring, as if her shoes had been packed with sand and gravel. She could now kick an enemy and injure them outright, using their blood to dirty her boots.

Shukuro Tsukishima's Book of the End was still absurdly broken. In his pocket were Reishi seeds Urahara had brought back from Soul Society and modified. As long as he cut a seed with his blade, he could insert himself into the past in which it had been cultivated, manipulating all kinds of Reishi plants at once to attack his enemies.

The focus returned to the protagonist of this incident, Ichigo Kurosaki. He was currently rushing madly toward home with Orihime Inoue. The route was not completely safe; Hollows that had slipped through the net still hindered them.

Ichigo had already used his Fullbring, Spirit Bow, but he did not dare shoot arrows at all. He still only had three shots, which left him with no choice but to use the bow as a close-combat weapon, smashing it against the Hollows.

After all, Ichigo's bow was not a real weapon. Aside from occasionally relying on a burst of Reiatsu to hammer a Hollow to death, it could not inflict any effective damage on them at all.

However, Ichigo's goal was not to deal damage. He was mainly there to draw the Hollows' attention. When those Hollows focused on him, an arc of light would pass through their bodies and cut them down.

It was the slash used by Tsubaki, the only member of Orihime Inoue's Shun Shun Rikka with offensive power. Orihime and Ichigo had already worked together countless times, and they were extremely practiced in this fighting style.

Only this time, the two of them were not facing a single Hollow. Under repeated attacks from multiple Hollows, the combat power of Tsubaki alone was clearly insufficient. With no other choice, Ichigo Kurosaki was forced to fire an arrow to clear the road for them.

"Ichigo, don't you feel like these Hollows are trying to drive us somewhere?" Orihime Inoue asked worriedly. She could clearly sense that the number of Hollows differed from one direction to another, as though they were trying to surround them and force them to a certain place.

"You're overthinking it, Orihime, aren't you?" Ichigo did not think that deeply. Right now, he only wanted to get home as quickly as possible. Could these damn Hollows just get out of the way already? "Damn it, Tsuna! Didn't you say you were going to stop those Hollows?!"

According to Tsuna's previous plan, there were people defending the four directions—east, south, west, and north—as well as the center of Karakura Town. Hollows should not have been appearing in the streets at all. But the reality was that Ichigo and the others' path home was being obstructed by layer after layer of Hollows.

"Is there a chance these Hollows didn't fall from the sky?" Orihime Inoue looked up at the sky with some worry, casually using Four-Day Shield to block a Hollow's attack and kill it at the same time.

"Ah! I don't have time to care about that!" Ichigo had already somewhat lost the ability to think. He fired another arrow to clear the area, then held Orihime and used Fullbring to leave a pit in the ground, leaping rapidly toward home.

"Ichigo, your power..."

"I know. I won't use the last arrow. From here on, I'm counting on you!"