"I'd quite like to kill that sort of thing with my own hands... What, do you know one?"
Within the forest.
Beneath the gloomy sky, Hidan knelt respectfully on the ground, looking up at Aizen, who now radiated immense energy like a god.
When Aizen curled his lips into an indifferent smile and cast those godlike, icy eyes toward him as he spoke those words, Hidan froze!
K-Kill... kill a god...!?
W-Was that what he meant!!?
The thought echoed incessantly through Hidan's mind, leaving him dumbfounded and unable to answer Aizen.
Just as Hidan was lost in thought!
"BOOM—"
A violent crash, like the earth itself collapsing, suddenly thundered beside Hidan's ears!
"Whoosh!"
A fierce gust mixed with rain instantly whipped through his hair, the sudden chill jolting him awake.
Amid the terrifying ringing echo in his ears, the abrupt sound pulled him from his daze, and he hurriedly looked toward the scene in alarm.
The moment he saw what had happened, his eyes widened, and his face instantly turned pale!
At some point, a vast stretch of forest only dozens of meters away from him had already been reduced to ruins!
No, calling it ruins was probably not appropriate!
It was as though it had been struck by a meteor falling from the heavens.
A massive circular crater spanning nearly several thousand meters had somehow appeared beside Hidan.
Within that enormous crater, as apocalyptic as the end of the world, the forest that had once grown especially lush under the rain had turned into ash and dust, vanishing entirely from this world.
If one looked down from above, one would discover!
The enormous forest that had once stretched across this open plain now looked as though it had somehow gained an ugly scar, with a huge empty section erased