Zanka no Tachi

"Captain Kuchiki!"

"A Zanpakutō like cherry blossoms—still as beautiful as ever!"

"What a terrifying number!"

"They'll definitely be able to stop it, right?!"

The Soul Reapers of Soul Society recognized the owner of the Bankai. It was none other than the head of the Kuchiki Family, Byakuya Kuchiki.

Countless beautiful, dazzling cherry blossoms bloomed in the air.

Soul Society suddenly seemed to have entered cherry blossom season, with blossoms filling the sky in a dense, overwhelming mass.

Yet unlike ordinary cherry blossoms, glints of sharp reflected light flashed among them as they danced and swirled.

This was Byakuya Kuchiki's Zanpakutō ability, capable of turning its blade into hundreds of millions of cherry blossom petals.

Beautiful, yet dangerous.

But unlike before, Byakuya Kuchiki's Senbonzakura was no longer aimed at a single person.

It faced an arrow hundreds of meters wide!

Byakuya Kuchiki waved a hand in midair.

Hundreds of millions of cherry blossoms surged forward at once, completely wrapping around the azure arrow without leaving the slightest gap.

Sharp blades churned within, countless tiny forces gathering together—enough for ants to devour an elephant.

Dense metallic clashes rang continuously from within the mass of cherry blossoms.

The sheer intensity of the sound made people feel restless.

Byakuya Kuchiki frowned in the air. He appeared calm on the surface, but sweat had already formed on his brow.

That enormous swarm of hundreds of millions of cherry blossoms was all under his control alone, while his opponent was an aggregate of immense Reishi.

Even though the cherry blossoms had completely enveloped it and countless petals exerted their force together, the enormous Sacred Arrow still pushed forward steadily, though its speed had been delayed somewhat.

A moment later, the Sacred Arrow dragged countless cherry blossoms with it as it continued toward Soul Society.

And this