Kamishini no Yari × The End

Retsu Unohana's eyes grew brighter and brighter, her gaze toward Nara Dan shifting into something almost entirely different.

As the pinnacle of Shinigami swordsmanship, the unparalleled Yachiru of the millennium, she had been stagnant in place for a long time.

She was confident that her swordsmanship had no predecessor and would have no successor, yet it had also reached the limit of what a Shinigami could achieve.

And while she had initially believed that Nara Dan's so-called new swordsmanship was merely the same old cutting technique in a different guise, what Nara Dan had shown her made her blood boil.

It was a system that elevated the very essence of power, centered entirely on swordsmanship and cutting techniques—almost comparable to the revolutionary creation of the Zanpakutō itself.

The history of the Shinigami can be divided into before Zanpakutō and after Zanpakutō.

Before the invention of the Zanpakutō, Shinigami power had always been limited, suppressed by Hollows and Quincy.

It was only with the invention of the Zanpakutō that the Shinigami profession completely pulled away from others, creating a sheer cliff-like advantage.

Shinigami could not only accelerate their own Spiritual Power growth through the Zanpakutō's own development, but also acquire all sorts of broken abilities by releasing their Zanpakutō.

This was also the reason why Yhwach later sought to restrict the Shinigami's Bankai—

because under normal conditions, Shinigami did not have an overwhelming advantage—until Bankai.

Some Shinigami Bankai abilities were so unreasonable that they could surpass Spiritual Pressure and combat technique altogether.

For example, Ryūjin Jakka.

And today, the swordsmanship power Nara Dan had displayed, which Unohana witnessed, boosted combat capability to a degree no less than Shikai—perhaps even surpassing it.

'Let's see.'

'Nara Dan, how many more surprises can you bring me?'

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