In that lightning-fast instant, Sōsuke Aizen had already grasped the painstaking care hidden behind Naruto's actions.
Had Naruto not pleaded so earnestly beforehand, he would never have believed that Shengyi would be kind enough to take the initiative and lend him a hand.
"Don't waste any more time. Let's do this, Naruto!"
Sōsuke Aizen knew full well that Naruto was now like an active volcano on the verge of erupting, his might unstoppable, beyond anyone's ability to contend with.
Yet he had needlessly consumed several precious minutes of Naruto's time. He was deeply ashamed and could no longer bear to let Naruto squander too much of the power currently surging through him.
After all, his pride would never permit him to act that way!
Before his words had finished, Sōsuke Aizen and Naruto met each other's eyes for the briefest instant.
Then a jaw-dropping, eye-popping scene abruptly unfolded:
Like two bolts of lightning tearing through the night sky, their bodies abruptly vanished into thin air from where they had stood, disappearing without a trace, as though they had never appeared there at all.
But an instant later, another incredible miracle occurred!
At that very moment, as though time and space had undergone some bizarre distortion, both figures appeared in the same place simultaneously, like phantoms, without the slightest warning!
The sight was utterly unbelievable.
Sōsuke Aizen's gaze was as resolute as rock, without the slightest hesitation.
Moving as swiftly as a gale, he swung his hard, iron fists as though they had been cast from refined steel. Every punch carried earth-shaking, unstoppable force, seemingly capable of moving mountains and reversing rivers and seas, striking out with crushing, thunderous might;
Naruto, meanwhile, refused to be outdone.
Every muscle in his body was taut, as though cast from steel, while nine powerful