"Your power only makes people see things wrong. But now I don't have eyes. How are you going to control me?" Aseria wore a savage grin. Blood ran from his two pitch-black eye sockets, making for a horrifying sight.
Shinji Hirako's face darkened as he kept retreating. Aseria's eyes were useless now. In other words, Hirako's Zanpakuto had lost its effect entirely.
Am I really going to have to use Hollowfication to keep him at bay?
Aseria bent his legs and gripped the ground with both hands, like a predator ready to pounce. Then all four limbs drove forward at once. The earth cracked beneath him, and he shot toward Hirako like a cannonball.
Hirako immediately used Flash Step to evade the attack. But Aseria was absurdly fast in a straight line, and his tracking was just as precise. Though he was blind, he pinpointed Hirako's position exactly.
Hirako had barely dodged when Aseria turned at an angle that defied physics. He veered thirty degrees from his original course and hurtled straight at Hirako in midair.
Shinji Hirako had lost all his usual composure. This was bad. He had only slipped in a brief use of Hollowfication amid the chaos earlier. If he used it for long, someone would notice, and he would have no way to explain it.
Boom!
Their bodies collided violently in midair, and their Reiatsu exploded like a compressed bomb.
Space throughout the area trembled. Shinji Hirako broke free of the blast in a sorry state and landed on the ground nearby.
"I told you I hate troublesome things! Yamabuki, where are the reinforcements? If they don't hurry, I'll have to use Hollowfication. Then they'll drag you into this too," Hirako said helplessly.
The call was still open when Aseria charged in with a wild laugh,