"I'm leaving this to you!"
Ichigo Kurosaki bowed slightly to Renji Abarai, then ran swiftly towards the depths of the Second Division.
"Ah! I'll take care of this!"
Renji Abarai smiled slightly. He had made all the preparations, and was even prepared to risk his life for Rukia.
"Is it really a good idea to let that guy leave? If he faces me alone, he'll die."
"If there are two of them, maybe there's still a sliver of hope for survival..."
Seeing Shaoling Fon Renji Abarai's expression, as if he intended to shoulder everything alone, Aya frowned and asked.
"Of course, that would be the best-case scenario!"
Don't underestimate me!
"I'm at least on par with you; we're both lieutenants of the Gotei 13!"
Renji Abarai held his Zanpakuto, smiling nonchalantly.
Aren't you scared at all?
Shaoling Fon continued to ask.
"I'm... terrified!"
Renji Abarai roared loudly, as if trying to vent the fear in his heart through his shouts.
"Then make your expressions even more obvious, you little brat!"
The moment Shaoling Fon's voice fell, her foot was already pressed against Renji Abarai's cheek.
"Huh?"
Renji Abarai stared in surprise at the foot that seemed to have appeared before him in an instant.
"Bang!"
With a soft thud, Renji Abarai was kicked away by Shaoling Fon.
"Just lie there!"
"If you get up again, I really might kill you."
"Just close your eyes and wait for it to end."
"As for that stupid girl Rukia's affairs, it's none of your business, you insignificant people."
After kicking Renji Abarai to the ground, Shaoling Fon spoke calmly.
"Yeah?"
"So Rukia has become a pawn in the power struggles of powerful figures?"
"If that's the case, I can't stay lying here any longer!"
Lying on the ground, Renji Abarai perhaps misunderstood Shaoling Fon's meaning. He clenched his fists tightly and stood up shakily.
"Sigh... be prepared!"
"Now, I'm going to get serious."
Shaoling Fon sighed helplessly. There were some things she couldn't say to Renji Abarai here. That's why she hated those people who didn't understand anything and just acted on impulse without thinking. The meticulous plans made by adults were all ruined by these annoying brats.
"That suits me perfectly!"
Renji Abarai was not intimidated by Shaoling Fon Hachisho's aura at all. Or rather, having abandoned everything and chosen to stand here, he had nothing left to fear...
" Lieutenant Soi Fon! I'm about to use the power I deliberately concealed in my original plan, targeting our Sixth Division Captain. You'd better be prepared!"
Renji Abarai released the Shikai of his Zanpakuto and looked at Shaoling Fon with a serious expression.
"Ha?"
"Let me see your full power!"
Shaoling Fon shifted her body slightly, loosened her muscles, and extended a finger, beckoning it provocatively to Renji Abarai.
As you wish!
Renji Abarai took a deep breath, veins bulging on his forehead.
" Bankai! Baboon King - Zabimaru!"
A tremendous Spiritual Pressure erupted from Renji Abarai's body and shot straight into the sky. The previously unremarkable Renji Abarai draped in a light red fur adorned with skulls and red ribbons, and the Zanpakuto in his hand had transformed into a giant bone serpent a hundred meters long, coiling around its master.
Yes, it's me!
"I've learned Bankai in order to rescue Rukia."
Renji Abarai's lips curled up slightly, as if he were showing off something to Shaoling Fon.
"I see, so you've already learned Bankai?"
No wonder you dared to face me alone.
Shaoling Fon looked at Renji Abarai, who Bankai, with a calm and disdainful expression.
"Um?!"
"That's Bankai, Lieutenant Soi Fon!"
"Mastering Bankai means you've already stepped one foot into the ranks of captains!"
Renji Abarai looked at the calm Shaoling Fon, his heart tightened, and he secretly sensed something was wrong. He kept explaining to Shaoling Fon.
"Roar?!"
"This is the first time I've ever seen someone so self-aggrandizing."
Shaoling Fon Renji Abarai's silly appearance.
"No, well, but... this is Bankai!"
Renji Abarai didn't know what to say, he just kept repeating that he was someone who had used Bankai.
So should I compliment you?
With an air of seniority, Shaoling Fon Renji Abarai, as if she were an elder.
"That's not it..."
Renji Abarai blushed; he felt he had never been so humiliated in his life.
Renji Abarai!
Just as Renji Abarai feeling awkward, Shaoling Fon's voice rang in his ear.
" Renji Abarai is here!"
Upon hearing Shaoling Fon's serious and cold voice, Renji Abarai, who had been disciplined by the Second Division for getting into a brawl as soon as he entered Seireitei, subconsciously straightened up on the spot.
"You did a very good job."
Shaoling Fon didn't hold back her praise. Having mastered Bankai after only a few decades in Seireitei, Renji Abarai was undoubtedly an excellent Soul Reaper.
"Grateful!"
Renji Abarai smiled, looking as if he had been praised by his boss.
No! That's not right!
" Lieutenant Shaoling Fon! We are the enemy now."
Renji Abarai paused for a full five seconds after receiving the warm praise before he finally reacted and looked at Shaoling Fon seriously.
"So how does it feel to be praised by the enemy?"
Shaoling Fon looked at Renji Abarai with a smile, wondering whether he was innocently cute or terribly stupid.
"Ah, this..."
Renji Abarai was secretly pleased, but he wouldn't show it because... he was a professionally trained vice-captain, and he didn't laugh.
"Alright, you've finished praising me. Are you ready for your punishment?"
Just as Renji Abarai Shaoling Fon's expression turned cold.
"Um?"
Meanwhile, Renji Abarai was still immersed in his own joy, unaware of the punishment he would receive.
Bankai! Suzumebachi... Duke of Thunder!
As Shaoling Fon Bankai, a gigantic humanoid mecha armor, Jūshirō meters tall and adorned with pale yellow patterns, appeared before Renji Abarai. In the hands of this massive armor, a missile launcher filled with six golden Hōjaku Raikōben was particularly eye-catching.
This is the result of Sōgo and Szayelaporro using the equipment left behind by Kisuke Urahara to modify Shaoling Fon's Bankai for nearly a century, and then having it repeatedly reshaped by the Sword God Ōetsu Nimaiya. Now, Shaoling Fon's art style is even more out of place in the ancient and elegant Soul Society than the original solitary, single nuclear warhead. It's like a modern drama crew that crashed into a period drama crew; now it's a futuristic mecha drama crew that crashed into a period drama crew. Simply put... her style has hit rock bottom!
"Run! The vice-captain Bankai!"
"This is going to kill someone!"
A sharp-eyed member of the Second Division, upon spotting the conspicuous giant robot, disregarded everything else and ran frantically towards the distance.
"What the hell is this?"
Renji Abarai stared at the enormous robot, completely dumbfounded. His small head was filled with too much information for him to process, and he couldn't process it all at once.
You've already had a chance to regret it!
"Accept your divine punishment!"
Shaoling Fon sat in the driver's seat and shouted loudly into the horn.
"Forehead..."
After being amplified by Renji Abarai Shaoling Fon the loudspeaker, Renji Abarai's brain felt even more sore from the deafening sound.
"No, wait... I feel like something's not right..."
Renji Abarai spoke anxiously, raising one hand high above his head.
"It's too late!"
"Go to hell!"
Shaoling Fon smiled disdainfully and pressed the fire button in her hand.
"Call out!"
A Hōjaku Raikōben (nuclear warhead) flew directly from the cannon barrel in the hand of the Shaoling Fon Hōjaku Raikōgō, which was in a Hummingbird Raikou stance, and headed straight for Renji Abarai's forehead.
"Hateful!"
Renji Abarai, seeing the massive nuclear warhead hurtling towards him, quickly wrapped himself in the bone snake in his hand.
"Boom!!"
With a deafening, terrifying sound, a mushroom cloud rose from the ground and soared into the sky!
As the blast from the Shaoling Fon burst forth, the entire Second Division, which had been in turmoil, fell silent, quietly watching the beautiful mushroom cloud.
"Even though its power has been limited, is it still a bit too much?"
Sitting in the cockpit, Shaoling Fon frowned as she looked at the scorched earth.
Just as Sōgo said, her Bankai is not suitable for use inside the Second Division's barracks. Just now, even with a limited-powered cannonball, she violently destroyed an entire hectare of the Second Division's barracks... Keep in mind that the Second Division's barracks are protected by Sōgo's barrier. Who knows what kind of power Shaoling Fon's cannonball would have had if it were outside?
"So beautiful~"
Wearing a white lab coat, Szayelaporro stood on a high platform in the distance, looking at the land scorched black by a single cannonball fired by Shaoling Fon, and a dangerous smile appeared on his face.
"If this were to happen, even Vasto Lorde- level Menos Grande would have a hard time surviving, right?"
"Hahaha... that's terrifying!"
"As expected of the woman chosen by the great Lord Sōgo ~"
Szayelaporro was alone, going mad and laughing maniacally.
"Call..."
"Is that guy dead?"
Shaoling Fon wiped the sweat from her forehead and deactivated her Bankai, transforming the Hōjaku Raikōgō back into her sword.
"Every time Bankai, I feel like I'm being completely drained."
Aya Bankai, having released her Shaoling Fon, was panting heavily. Although her Bankai was indeed very strong, it was not without limitations. With her current Spiritual Pressure, she could release it a maximum of six times a day, but the price of exhausting her resources was that she would be unable to use her Zanpakuto for three days.
"Hey~ Soi Fon! You really show no mercy~"
"I almost killed that kid!"
Just as Shaoling Fon was searching for Renji Abarai's body in the scorched earth, Kūkaku Shiba Shaoling Fon appeared beside her in a flash.
" Shiba... Captain?!"
Shaoling Fon looked at Kūkaku Shiba, who had suddenly appeared, her eyes filled with trouble.
"Forcing your way into the Second Division is a serious crime, even for the Shiba Clan... it won't end well~"
Shaoling Fon once again drew her Zanpakuto from her waist. She dared not be careless in dealing with Kūkaku Shiba, the captain of the Gotei Thirteenth Division, who was from the Shiba Clan.
"Wait a minute! I'm not going to take that kind of thing head-on!"
Kūkaku Shiba glanced at the hostile Shaoling Fon and waved her hands repeatedly.
Just kidding! After witnessing that terrifying thing, who would dare to face Shaoling Fon head-on?!
"Now that you've barged in, be prepared to be punished!"
"Our Second Division isn't a place you can just come and go as you please!"
Shaoling Fon remained unmoved by Kūkaku Shiba's words; anyone who entered the Second Division without permission was her enemy.
" Little Fon!"
"How about you let me explain first?"
Just as Shaoling Fon was about to Bankai once again, a figure descended from the sky, followed by a black cat that landed steadily on the figure's body.
"This is..."
Shaoling Fon stared at the figure falling from the sky, along with the cat, and was slightly taken aback.
The figure was none other than Renji Abarai, who thought he was invincible with his Bankai and had previously withstood her Renji Abarai Bankai. And that cat... that cat gave Shaoling Fon a sense of indescribable familiarity.
"What's wrong, Little Fon?"
"Have you forgotten me because I've been gone for so long?"
The black cat lay on Renji Abarai's back, its tail wagging, and gave Shaoling Fon a human-like smile.
"Yoru... Lady Yoruichi?!"
After staring at the black cat for a long time, Shaoling Fon felt a lump in her throat and softly called out the black cat's name.
Sōgo and I have been very worried about you.
"All these years, Sōgo has been working hard... to clear your name of all the cases."
Where have you been all these years?
"This really worries us."
Shaoling Fon Ling's eyes. After so many years, the feeling of seeing her childhood idol, her sister, her elders, and her relatives was something she could hardly describe to anyone else...
"I've been through a lot these past few years, but overall I've had a good time."
Yoruichi suddenly jumped into Shaoling Fon's arms, nuzzled against Shaoling Fon's chest, and said lazily.
"Really? In that case, I... and Sōgo, I can rest assured."
After hearing Yoruichi's words, Shaoling Fon gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and smiled through her tears.
" Lady Yoruichi, we've all changed a lot in the past hundred years..."
Shaoling Fon Yoruichi her arms, her heart overflowing with unspoken words.
I've seen the changes in you over the years...
Yoruichi spoke, she glanced around at the charred landscape, her eyes twitching slightly. The changes in Shaoling Fon were truly visible to the naked eye. It had taken a hundred years to finally evolve from modern technology to futuristic technology...
"Uh, no, that's not what I meant. I meant something more fundamental..."
Shaoling Fon, a rare occurrence for her, in front of anyone other than Sōgo, and spoke somewhat incoherently.
"A more intrinsic change?"
Let's talk about these things later!
"This isn't the time to talk about this, Little Fon. Listen to me, because of my current identity, I can't take human form, so many things are difficult to do."
"However, since you are the vice-captain of the Second Division, I think there are some things I can explain to you in detail."
"First of all... Ichigo Kurosaki and the others are not our enemies!"
"The enemy is hiding in a more concealed place, so I hope you can help Ichigo Kurosaki Rukia Kuchiki, thereby drawing out the mastermind lurking in the shadows."
The black cat Yoruichi, dressed as Shaoling Fon, reveals her plan with Kisuke Urahara.
As one of the very few people who knew that the Hōgyoku was hidden inside Rukia Kuchiki, her initial plan with Kisuke Urahara was to use the helpless girl Rukia Kuchiki to lure out the mastermind behind the Soul Society Soul Society who had been hiding for many years, orchestrated the Captain Hollowfication Incident, and framed Kisuke Urahara. However... the Second Division's deployment was far too strong, far exceeding her and Kisuke Urahara's expectations. If things continued like this, let alone framing Rukia Kuchiki and Ichigo Kurosaki to lure the mastermind, they themselves would be in grave danger and might even perish within the Second Division.
"I see."
Shaoling Fon suddenly realized why Yoruichi had brought a group of outsiders to attack the Second Division. Was there such a deep secret behind it? Truly worthy of being Lady Yoruichi Shihōin!
"Although I really want to use my power to help Lady Yoruichi, the Second Division... is completely beyond my control right now," Shaoling Fon said, her face slightly flushed. "It was alright when Sōgo was around, but now that Sōgo is gone, I can't control them all by myself... They're a bunch of lunatics!"
"Ah... are those people?"
After Yoruichi what Shaoling Fon said, Yoruichi felt a headache coming on. Indeed... those monsters and demons, apart from Sōgo Shihoin, were simply impossible for anyone to control; they were monsters among monsters!
Yoruichi thought to herself, a slight look of seriousness creeping into her eyes...
Meanwhile, as Ichigo Kurosaki raced relentlessly towards the Second Division's headquarters, completely disregarding Ichigo Kurosaki surroundings, a mysterious girl with twin ponytails, wearing a hoodie and shorts, was practicing skateboarding in front of him.
Are you human?
Ichigo Kurosaki was slightly taken aback when he saw the girl's United States street style outfit.
"Are you the one who broke into the Second Division's barracks?"
The girl who was playing with the skateboard stopped the skateboard with one foot after hearing Ichigo Kurosaki's words, and drew the samurai sword that was originally hidden by her large hoodie at her waist.
"Isn't it human?"
Ichigo Kurosaki glanced at the sharp katana, his eyes widening slightly. No human in the World of the Living world would carry such a sword around!
"Chase him! Tear him apart! Los Lobos!"
The girl did not respond to Ichigo Kurosaki's question. Accompanied by the azure Spiritual Pressure that fell from the sky like rain, the girl completely changed her demeanor.
The girl had completely transformed from a hip-hop street style into a mafia-style look with an eye patch, coat, and dual pistols.
"Remember this! The person who killed you was... Lilynette Starrk!"
The girl proclaimed her name in this way.
"Ha?"
Ichigo Kurosaki was slightly taken aback, perhaps because he was shocked by the Spiritual Pressure that enveloped the entire Second Division barracks, or perhaps because the girl's words were too abrupt, leaving Ichigo Kurosaki unable to react for a moment.
"Call out!"
"Boom!"
While Ichigo Kurosaki was stunned, in just a moment, a beam of azure light pierced through his chest.
"What... is wrong with me?"
Ichigo Kurosaki's eyes were vacant, and he collapsed to the ground like a broken puppet.
"Phew~"
After pulling the trigger, Lilynette gently blew on the smoking muzzle of the gun, not even glancing at Ichigo Kurosaki.
"All done, that's a wrap!"
Lilynette turned around, smiled slightly, and continued skateboarding.
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