The towering Complete Susanoo stood motionless like a colossal mountain. Uchiha Yato stood within its skull, his purple Rinnegan emitting a faint, cold glow.
"So clear—"
Under the Rinnegan's visual prowess, everything in the world was visible in the finest detail.
Even the flow of Reishi was captured by those eyes. Whether gathering or dispersing, it all left a trace to follow.
In the boy's vision, a massive storm of Reishi formed at the center of Las Noches before being forcibly compressed into one point and sinking into the towering body of the Vasto Lorde.
Barragan, the king who had ruled Hueco Mundo for countless years, naturally could not have been cut down by Yato's Bankai in a single slash.
Thud, thud, thud.
Barragan gathered Reishi beneath his feet and stepped into the air several hundred meters above the ground, meeting Uchiha Yato's gaze.
"Soul Reaper—Uchiha Yato, was it?" The hollow sockets of Hueco Mundo's king stared fixedly at the boy. "Why have you and that woman come to my Las Noches?"
Yato grinned, pulled out the proclamation prepared for him by the Gotei 13, and snapped it open. "Las Noches tore up the ceasefire agreement without authorization, invaded the Soul Society, and murdered Hoshino Takeshi, the Fourth Seat of the First Division. You deserve punishment!"
"—What are you talking about?"
"Stop playing dumb, Barragan. The great king of Hueco Mundo should own up to what he has done."
"Bullshit! Damn Soul Reapers, this is merely an excuse you fabricated! I never sent anyone to the Soul Society!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. So the Seireitei wronged you? Barragan, I never thought you were such a cowardly rat!"
Watching the king of Hueco Mundo tremble with rage, Uchiha Yato quietly shook his head.
He knew better than Barragan himself just how wronged