A thunderous bolt crashed down, swallowing everything ahead.
Hurricane, Kamaitachi, black silhouettes...
They didn't even have time to scream before their lives were snuffed out. All that remained was a charred corpse, so blackened it was impossible to tell who it had been, lying silently in a crater blasted into the ground by lightning.
At the sight, the black-clad figures froze, unable to come back to their senses for a long time.
Their leader had been the strongest among them, yet the enemy had killed him instantly with a single unincanted Hado.
The disparity in strength was enough to make anyone there despair!
Without hesitation, the moment they came to their senses, the others prepared to flee the battlefield.
But they were still too slow.
After eliminating the most dangerous opponent in the most spectacular fashion and drawing everyone's attention to himself,
the figure hidden within Kyoko turned the Zanpakuto in his hand point-down, its tip aimed at the ground. Ripples of light shimmered across the blade.
In an instant, everyone's movements froze. Even the air seemed to stop, as though someone had pressed pause.
"Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu."
His calm, indifferent voice echoed across the empty battlefield. Even the flames burning at its edges seemed to falter, their flickering gradually subsiding.
In the silence, a crisp cracking sound rang out.
The next moment,
the bewilderment vanished from everyone's eyes, and they instinctively drew their Zanpakuto and attacked the black-clad figures beside them.
Blood gushed across the ground, pooling into a river until it covered the charred earth.
At some point, the figure had retreated to the edge of the battlefield. A pair of brown eyes calmly watched the others slaughter one another, as if none of it had anything to do with him.
"Rebels, Nobles, profit, power..."
Aizen murmured, his