Chaotic Ice Lotus Splendor

"Beyond Bankai, the Chaotic Ice Lotus."

As Toshiro spoke, the cold air he exhaled instantly froze the surrounding dust into ice crystals, which all fell to the ground, making the view clear immediately.

At the moment the cloud bomb exploded, Toshiro, who had been tackled by Karin, instinctively shielded Karin with his body, and at the same time unleashed his Beyond Bankai against the exploding spiritual pressure above his head.

Karin, standing behind Toshiro, stared blankly at the figure before her. For the first time, she saw the image of a captain in this person who wasn't much taller than her. Was her father the same person who used to protect his comrades like this?

"Just hide for a bit, it won't take long," Toshiro said to Karin as softly as possible, but due to the nature of his Zanpakuto, his words still sounded cold.

Karin isn't the kind of girl whose emotions control her brain. She's extremely calm. She understands that she's no longer a match for Bambietta, and handing the battle back to Toshiro is the best option.

"I understand, be careful." With that, Karin quickly left, stepping on Hirenkyaku.

Seeing Karin escape, Bambietta's eyes turned even redder. She was more annoyed with the girl who kept kicking her back than with the white-haired brat who had trapped her.

In a flash, Bambietta switched to fighter jet mode and chased after Karin, but to her surprise, Toshiro was already waiting for her on her inevitable path.

How could it be so fast?

Without a second thought, Bambietta fired a missile at Toshiro, who simply waved his left hand, and Toshiro massive ice Dragon Claws instantly caught the missile.

Bambietta was about to detonate it, but only a muffled groan came out. Her attack was completely turned into a silent bomb in Toshiro's hands.

Bambietta was still blocked by Toshiro. She quickly climbed upwards, trying to bypass Toshiro's obstruction by performing a Toshiro maneuver from above.

But when Bambietta completed her bell maneuver, she found Toshiro still blocking her way. She quickly switched back to human form, pointed her crossbow at Toshiro, and asked, "Are you human or demon?"

"Strictly speaking, Bleach is a ghost." Toshiro's figure instantly appeared beside Bambietta, slashing at her with his sword. "Don't be surprised, it's simply because I'm faster than you."

With Pernida's help, Bambietta was able to react, but her weapon wasn't so lucky and was cleaved in two by Toshiro.

Bambietta, who rarely used the Spirit Bow in combat, had no backup Spirit Bow. In this brief exchange, Toshiro cut off a portion of her attack methods.

Bambietta quickly switched to her fighter jet and created some distance. She had lost all interest in Karin; Toshiro was now her primary target, threatening her life.

Toshiro didn't immediately give chase, but coldly watched Bambietta's actions. After Beyond Bankai, he fused himself with Daiguren Hyōrinmaru.

Having removed most of his armor, leaving only a small portion of ice armor that wouldn't hinder his movement, Toshiro in his Raging Ice Lotus state was surprisingly fast.

The Quincy's Hirenkyaku is like skating on Reishi, while Toshiro, Beyond Bankai, has become ice itself. The footwork he is using now is not Flash Step, but the Quincy's Hirenkyaku that he learned from Tsuna.

However, Toshiro modified the Hirenkyaku into a version that he could use. Compared to skating, ice is always ahead of moving feet.

Therefore, Toshiro was not in a hurry at all. No matter what form Bambietta took, she would always use the Hirenkyaku, and Toshiro's speed would always be superior to the Hirenkyaku- kick.

After circling Toshiro a few times, Bambietta felt she had found a weakness in Toshiro's defenses. The missile had barely left her body when Toshiro Zanpakuto out.

With a single slash, he froze Bambietta's missile. As the blade danced, red ice flowers flew everywhere, the same color as the crimson lotus behind Toshiro.

The red ice lotus behind Toshiro is his true power, and the Daiguren Hyōrinmaru, after Beyond Bankai, also displays its blood-red hue.

All the power frozen by Guren can trigger an ice explosion at Toshiro's will.

With a single strike, Toshiro froze the missile, then vanished from Bambietta's side. The order to unleash the ice explosion was given, simultaneously detonating the power within the missile. As the only person at the epicenter of the blast, Bambietta once again experienced the full force of her own attack.

Bambietta, in her red fighter jet form, crashed to the ground in a rolling motion. Experiencing another close-range explosion, she felt dizzy, and her body sustained varying degrees of damage in the blast.

Bambietta is really not good at using the Blut Vene, so when Pernida evolved her, the evolved form did not have the Blut Vene ability, resulting in Bambietta being just a glass cannon now.

Bambietta scrambled to her feet, feeling dizzy. She shook her head, knowing that if things continued like this, she would have no chance of defeating Toshiro. Now, her only hope lay in the power of evolution.

"Evolve! Evolve again!"

In the low-temperature environment created by Toshiro, he could clearly feel strange lines being drawn out of Bambietta's body, twisting, weaving, and beginning to change Bambietta's existing appearance.

The aircraft armor on Bambietta gradually disappeared, turning into Reishi that merged into her flesh and blood. Now, Bambietta had completely transformed into a human, the only flaw being that her entire body was red, making her a little red person.

Suddenly, Bambietta crossed her arms and hugged herself. After realizing the direction of her body's evolution, her face was filled with terror, and all she felt was resistance.

"No, no!"

Bambietta suddenly crouched down, clutching her head. The evolutionary nerves were telling her that there was only one path to evolution: to completely respect the explosive power of her Saint Letters, turning herself into a bomb—a bomb capable of leveling the Seireitei.

An attack of this caliber has only one cost: Bambietta's life.

"I don't want to die!"

Bambietta strongly resisted Pernida's control over her nerves. Whether she was given power or made to fight against Bleach, her only fear was death. At the prime of her life, she was simply unable to face death calmly.

However, how could Bambietta, who was already under the control of Pernida's nerves, resist the body's neural responses?

Regardless of how her mind tried to reject her body, under Pernida's neural control, Bambietta's body was gradually heating up, and she had entered the state of a little fire person.

Bambietta herself, however, had absolutely no control over her body...

No, there's still a chance, you can still live!

Seeing the ice shards at her feet, Bambietta had a bold idea, and she shouted at Toshiro high in the sky.

"Bleach, my body has become a bomb, beyond my control. If I explode, the entire Seireitei will vanish. Only by freezing me can you save Seireitei!"

To Bambietta's utter surprise, Toshiro's reply plunged her heart into an icy abyss, "The asylum process is complete. For this war, we accept the price of risking the Seireitei!"

The most important things in Soul Society have never been Seireitei, Rukongai, or the Soul King Palace. These are just inanimate objects. Buildings can be rebuilt if they are destroyed. All that is needed is to ensure that the Reishi of the Three Worlds can function properly.

This decision was made by the Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13, who was no longer constrained by the Central 46.

"It's over," the word Bambietta thought to herself. She slumped to the ground, her eyes vacant, helplessly letting Pernida's nerves operate within her body. Her body temperature rose higher and higher; it wouldn't be long before she became a super bomb.

A sigh came from behind Bambietta, "If you just talk nicely, wouldn't it be enough if you wanted to live?"

Bambietta's eyes immediately brightened, and she whirled around to see Toshiro standing behind her. Was this Bleach willing to save her?

Tears wouldn't flow, evaporating instantly. Bambietta hurriedly knelt in Dogeda, pleading, "Please save me! I... don't want to die!"

Toshiro gave Bambietta a cold look. In fact, even if Bambietta hadn't asked him, he would have frozen her anyway. With the Seireitei at such a high price, it was better not to gamble at all.

As for what to do with the high-explosive bomb after it's frozen, that's a question for the guys in the Technology Development Department to answer.

"Atone for your sins in the frost!"

Bambietta knelt on the ground, closed her eyes, and quietly awaited her fate. As Toshiro's words fell, crimson lotus flowers bloomed around Bambietta.

The lotus leaves scattered and flew, forming huge lotus leaves around Bambietta, with the enormous blood-red lotus flower surrounding Bambietta in the middle.

"Dazzling Ice Lotus!"

The crimson lotus began to slowly close, and the intense low temperature impacted Bambietta's body, causing a large-scale burst of white smoke.

Bambietta's body was rapidly cooling down; her thinking was correct—as long as she remained within Toshiro's ice, she was safe.

But the next moment, Pernida's nerves started acting up again, twisting and turning on Bambietta's skin once more, as if about to begin some kind of evolution.

This evolution brought Bambietta only pain. She gritted her teeth and endured it, hoping that the white-haired Bleach would have a way.

"Snort!"

With a cold snort, Toshiro's temperature dropped even faster within the ice lotus. The moment the lotus leaf touched Bambietta's skin, all of Pernida's nerves on the surface began to die, and Bambietta's expression relaxed.

Once Pernida's nerves lost their ability to resist, everything went much more smoothly. Bambietta closed her eyes and accepted her fate, her petals all closing.

Bambietta transformed into Sleeping Beauty, kneeling within a crimson ice lotus bud.