Pure white beams shot across the sky, tearing through the ruined hall like a torrential downpour.
Shattered walls crumbled into white stone dust beneath the sweeping light.
Sōsuke Aizen stood at the edge of the churning dust without so much as blinking.
Beams powerful enough to pierce a Captain-level body skimmed mere inches past him, their gusts stirring only a lock of black hair hanging over his forehead.
His expression remained as still as an abyss, without the slightest ripple.
"Sinners... you're all sinners!"
Lille Barro raised his deformed, hole-riddled bird head, his eight damaged wings of light stretching forward and beating wildly.
"You dare touch the radiance of God with your filthy darkness? Unforgivable!"
"I will purify your very existence, shadows and all! Kill you! Kill you all!"
His strange, piercing screeches shook loose debris from the ruins.
Nanao Ise instinctively spread her arms to shield Shunsui Kyōraku, her face pale as she watched the rampaging monster.
"Careful! It's completely lost its reason!"
Before her words had faded, Sōya Azashiro slowly rose from his crouch beside Kyōraku.
He removed his fingers from Shunsui Kyōraku's wound, his gaze passing over the frenzied giant bird in midair.
"Since this disturbance is outside Muken, it naturally falls to me to handle it."
His expression impassive, Sōya Azashiro formed an intricate series of seals before him.
The Reiatsu within him spread outward at tremendous speed, silently merging with the surrounding air.
"Hadō #96: Ittō Kasō."
Sōya Azashiro's voice was perfectly steady.
The next instant, ten enormous, charred-black pillars of light rose out of nothing beneath Lille Barro's massive body.
Ten scarlet peaks of flame shaped like gigantic blades roared upward, spiraling across one another into a searing firestorm.
The scorching heat instantly vaporized every flying fragment of stone in its path.
Yet the