These numbers were like a roller coaster every day!
I was starting to lose it.
Where Yoriichi had stood just moments earlier, a long blade pierced the rock, its blade still trembling faintly.
Yoriichi looked at the figure holding the sword, and his pupils abruptly contracted.
It was a tall man with broad shoulders and a wide back.
His chest was half exposed, and his slightly wavy, dark brown hair was tied into a long ponytail, with the two signature pinwheel hairpins still tucked into it.
A scruffy, light brown beard covered his jaw.
Yoriichi was all too familiar with this appearance.
The Eighth Division Captain, Shunsui Kyōraku.
Yoriichi frowned and called out with some uncertainty, "Captain Kyōraku?"
"Oh?"
Mayuri Kurotsuchi's voice came from the black cube.
"It seems you've found something quite extraordinary."
The four mechanical legs beneath the device quickly folded inward, and the metal needles embedded in the rock pulled free as well.
The black cube wobbled twice on the ground, then spread its four slender legs and sprinted toward Yoriichi.
Unfortunately, it had not even taken two steps.
A cold gleam swept past from the side.
Another figure held a Zanpakuto and drove it straight through the black cube, pinning it firmly to the ground.
Reishi light flickered continuously along the blade.
Yoriichi looked at that person, his gaze sharpening once more.
"Captain Ukitake?"
That man looked exactly like Jūshirō Ukitake.
His long white hair, his gentle face, even the shapes of the twin swords in his hands were no different.
Only his eyes were unusually cold at that moment.
The black cube's screen flickered a few times.
Mayuri Kurotsuchi's broken voice came from within.
"Captain... Yoriichi... help me bring... these two impostors back..."
"I'll... reward you..."
Bang!
The black cube exploded completely.
Blue Reishi