Walthraud Ethel stood amid icebound ruins. Pale frost patterns spread across the ground in every direction from beneath her feet. With just a slight lift of her hand, a blizzard swept through the sky.
Schrift: Winter-Winter
Every snowflake was a Reishi ice crystal she had compressed to its limit. When they landed on someone, they seeped through gaps in their Reiatsu, gradually freezing their blood flow, Spirit Network, and blade into rigid ice.
Lisa Yadōmaru's voice carried through the wind. "Fall back beyond the snow line and attack with Kidō!"
"Roar! Tenken!" Sajin Komamura was the newly appointed Fifth Seat, having joined the Seventh Division only a few years ago. After his Zanpakutō's Shikai, he could enlarge his attacks and send them to a designated location. With his towering build and warm personality, he was someone his division found dependable and reassuring.
His towering figure stood outside the snowstorm, wearing that conspicuously large head covering. He kept conjuring the phantom of a gigantic body to obstruct Walthraud's advance. Although Sajin Komamura could do no real damage to her, he could just about manage to forcibly impede her progress through physical impacts.
"Cry! Suzumushi!" Like his friend Sajin Komamura, Tōsen Kaname had learned Shikai within just a few years and become the Seventh Seat. He upheld justice within the division, and his teammates saw him as a reliable comrade with a strong sense of justice.
He could not see the wind and snow, but he could hear them. He could hear the flow of Reishi through the wind, the instant of hesitation before ice crystals hit the ground, and the minute shifts in the ice beneath Walthraud's feet every time she inhaled, exhaled, or raised her hand.
He lightly swung the sword with its mandarin-orange grip.
"**Suzumushi: First