At the border, among the ruined walls.
When that figure stepped out of the shadows again, the atmosphere on the battlefield changed.
Siegfried Hess.
The Quincy who had once wounded Konishi Qianyi and Oda Tenza had appeared again.
And the one facing him was Jūmonji Quando.
"Hado #96! Ittō Kasō!"
A voice crashed down from behind and to the side.
Siegfried whipped his head around.
Jūmonji Quando was already charging toward him at full speed. It was probably too late to dodge.
Jūmonji Quando's Kidō was not strong. His aim was poor, its power was average, and its concentration was average, but no one had used this number 96 Kidō since its creation, and no incantation had ever appeared for it.
This Kidō had still been assigned a number in the end, because it had indeed taken shape, though the test version seemed somewhat different from the proper version.
This Kidō was said to possess extremely powerful close-range killing power, and Jūmonji Quando excelled at close combat, while his own long-range Kidō abilities were poor.
Flames.
The blade was enormous, rose-red along its outer edge, burning progressively whiter toward its center, a white so bright it hurt the eyes. It was as though someone had squeezed the sunset along an entire battlefront into a blade, then pushed it forward along the ground. Its presence was outrageously powerful. Ash lifted from the broken walls, only to burn away in midair, and Siegfried and Jūmonji Quando were swallowed together by that single slash.
Siegfried had no intelligence on this move.
He had been guarding against fists, elbows, knees, the kind of fighting in which Soul Reapers rammed into their opponents with Reiatsu at close quarters.
The instant the flames touched him, his Reishi was still following the course of countering