A powerfully built man wreathed in flames stood before him. His voice was low and resonant, and blue-white flames burned within his crystal-clear pupils.
Bulging veins twisted powerfully across his arms. He gripped Ryujin Jakka tightly in his hand, its blade spewing two streams of blue-white fire.
"User... do you wish to challenge me?"
Uchiha Hikaru said nothing. The corners of his lips lifted slightly. He had not expected Ryujin Jakka to look like this after taking form.
It looked pretty good. At least its physique had not disappointed Uchiha Hikaru—an imposing, mature-looking brute with an overwhelming presence.
The flaming man looked at Uchiha Hikaru, and anger gradually welled up in his eyes.
He had never been looked down upon by anyone!!!
"Do you wish to challenge me, User?!" the man roared, the flames in his pupils clearly surging even higher!!!
Uchiha Hikaru was jolted awake by his thunderous roar and finally came back to his senses.
"Ryujin Jakka, I never expected you to look like a burly man."
"I thought you would be a vermilion bird or a phoenix!!!"
"You are insulting me! User, I will make you taste despair!!!" The man still looked as though his fury were blazing.
Uchiha Hikaru's casual expression truly infuriated him.
"All Things in the Universe, turn to ashes, Ryujin Jakka!"
"Bankai!!!"
The Zanpakuto in the flaming man's hand instantly erupted with enormous flames that shot straight into the sky.
The world changed color in an instant. The azure sky seemed to have been claimed by the blue-white flames, and the surroundings became a completely blue-white world.
Even the grass and trees around them were scorched dry in that instant, bursting into blue-white flames.
The lush green grassland visibly turned into yellow wasteland in an instant.
Blazing flames and rolling heat rushed straight