Time and again it was restored to its original state, time and again it was chopped into mincemeat...
Grimmjow thus teetered between life and death repeatedly.
Retsu Unohana's sword is the strongest sword in Soul Society. It is so fast that Grimmjow cannot even react before he is shattered by the ultimate power of Retsu Unohana's sword.
Retsu Unohana's Bankai is the strongest healing Zanpakuto in Soul Society. Even Tenjirō Kirinji, who claims to be the strongest in Soul Society, was inspired by Kaidō Retsu Unohana's Bankai to develop his healing blood pool.
When the strongest swordsmanship is combined with the strongest medical magic, unfortunately, Grimmjow cannot die even if he wants to.
He could only let Retsu Unohana abuse him.
The first time Grimmjow's head was cut open, he could feel his brains spilling out...
The second time, Grimmjow's limbs were severed, and he knew that he had been reduced to a human stump Retsu Unohana Grimmjow.
The third time, Grimmjow's entire upper body was sliced to pieces...
The fourth time, Grimmjow's entire lower body was sliced to pieces...
The fifth time, Grimmjow was dissected by Retsu Unohana. Retsu Unohana's sword swung with extraordinary elegance in the air, the blade gently stroking Grimmjow's abdomen before completely severing Grimmjow...
The sixth time...
The seventh time...
Grimmjow's mind ceased to think after repeated brushes with death. He had become numb to death, and he had lost count of how many times he had faced death. He gradually grew accustomed to this feeling between life and death...
So much so that, in the very end, when Retsu Unohana's blade no longer struck him, he even felt a slight unease.
Thank you, little kitty!
When Grimmjow opened his eyes, the demon before him had vanished. The demon-like woman had transformed back into her original form, like a Guanyin who had seen through the illusions of the world, radiating a benevolent light.
"Gulp~"
Grimmjow did not refute the woman before him who resembled Guanyin. He swallowed hard and slowly walked off the already dilapidated arena...
After the match, Grimmjow did not return to Sōsuke Aizen's team. Instead, he walked towards the desolate white desert, step by step... until finally, Grimmjow's figure completely disappeared from everyone's sight, merging into the desert.
" Sōsuke, your teammate ran away~ Is this what you call winning against the odds?!" Sōgo Shihoin watched Grimmjow walk across the desert and eventually disappear, then smiled slightly at Sōsuke Aizen, "Looks like I've won this round again~"
"..." Sōsuke Aizen still wore that confident expression, seemingly unaffected by yet another defeat. "Hahaha... It's just another loss. The real masters among my team haven't emerged yet~"
"Hahaha..." Sōgo Shihoin chuckled, "Then let's hurry up and start the next round! Let me see the real masters in your team."
"Alright..." Sōsuke Aizen slightly, as straightforward as ever. He looked down at his subordinates and asked, "Who's going to fight next?!"
" Lord Aizen, it's time to turn the tide for us!" Kaname Tōsen, who had been patiently holding back, could no longer bear the sight of the trailing score. He strode forward, knelt on one knee, and addressed Sōsuke Aizen, "Please allow me to go into battle! To bring victory to Lord Sōsuke Aizen!"
" Kaname Tōsen..." Sōsuke Aizen murmured Kaname Tōsen's name softly from the stands, a hint of emotion in his voice. "Alright! In that case... this battle is yours."
Sōsuke Aizen confidently entrusted the battle to Kaname Tōsen.
"Come up and fight me, the strongest among you!"
Kaname Tōsen leaps onto the rickety arena and immediately invites the strongest member of Sōgo Shihoin's team to fight him.
"The strongest?!"
As soon Kaname Tōsen finished speaking, a commotion broke out in the audience.
"Since they've said that, it seems I'll have to go."
Kuruyashiki Kenpachi stretched his body before preparing to go on stage.
"He's nothing but a defeated opponent..." However, before Kuruyashiki the stage, Kuruyashiki Kenpachi Sōya Azashiro stopped him, "Someone who lost to me once dares to call himself the strongest?"
"Uh..." Kuruyashiki Kenpachi changed. "That's because you lacked martial ethics and ambushed me, this five-hundred-year-old comrade."
"I've lost... that's it." Sōya Azashiro chuckled softly. "Within my domain, no one can harm me."
"Is that so?" Aura Michibane's lips curled into a slight smile as she activated her manipulation of Reishi. "Is there really no one who can hurt you!?"
"Hehe..." Sōya Azashiro chuckled slightly, then his face turned pale and he knelt on one knee. "Stop! It hurts so much!"
"Oh dear~" Kuruyashiki Kenpachi looked at the kneeling Sōya Azashiro with a slight smile. "Oh dear~ Oh dear~ Look who this is? Isn't this Azashiro Kenpachi? It's been hundreds of years, how come you've become so weak? It seems you can't be called the strongest after all!"
"You..." Sōya Azashiro's face White as he listened to Kuruyashiki Kenpachi's mockery, "You're ruthless!"
"Stop arguing! Looks like I'll have to go up there one more time." Kenpachi Zaraki raised his Zanpakuto once more. "After all, he specifically asked me to go up."
Kenpachi Zaraki looked at his teammates as if it were the most important person in the team. Yes, when it comes to the strongest, it's obviously him.
"Hey! What are you all arguing about?" Just as everyone was making a ruckus, Lilynette spoke up with a disgruntled look, "If we're talking about the strongest, it's definitely me!"
"It's obvious that I'm the fastest and most energetic one in Zhizhong, right?" Hōshō Ryo swept through the crowd like a gentle breeze. "So I should go!"
"Whoosh!" However, before Hōshō Ryo Hōshō Ryo jump onto the arena, a cold light reached in front of her, blocking her from rushing onto the Hōshō Ryo while everyone was fighting amongst themselves.
"You bastard..."
Hōshō Ryo looked at the person who Batto Sword Drawing with a hint of apprehension in her eyes.
"Oh dear~" Unohana Retsu Unohana chuckled mischievously, Zanpakuto her Zanpakuto, "I'm so sorry, Little Fon Fon ~ this sword... I'm having a little trouble controlling it~"
"I am the strongest in the Kidō!"
"My Zanpakuto number one!"
"My physique is unmatched."
"The strongest is of course me, the great one."
"My sister's swordsmanship is superior to yours!"
"No one can keep up with my speed!"
Following Kaname Tōsen's unintentional remark, the players on Sōgo Shihoin's side turned into a chaotic marketplace, with everyone arguing and claiming to be the strongest member of Sōgo Shihoin's team.
"You insidious villain! How dare you use such despicable tactics to cause infighting within my team!" Sōgo Shihoin glared fiercely at Kaname Tōsen. " Aizen, you certainly have a good accomplice~"
"Not at all..." Sōsuke Aizen smiled calmly, "However, he is indeed smarter than my other subordinates; he is my trump card."
" Lord Aizen, I'm really happy that you praised me like that, but... I really didn't think that much when I said it~"
At this moment Kaname Tōsen didn't know how to explain it; when he said those words, he genuinely hadn't thought that much about it.
"I am the strongest..."
"I am..."
"No, no, no, I am the one..."
Sōgo Shihoin's team was like a marketplace, with everyone arguing and no one willing to let anyone else up.
"Um... can the match begin now?"
Just as the members of the Sōgo Shihoin team were making a ruckus, and the others were watching them argue, a soft, feminine voice rang in Sōgo Shihoin Kaname Tōsen's ear.
"Um?!"
Upon Kaname Tōsen's expression suddenly changed. He turned around and used his Spiritual Pressure to sense Szayelaporro, who had appeared on the arena at some unknown time, and was startled.
When did you come up here?
Kaname Tōsen removed his gold-plated tooth crown, he knew he might have met his nemesis.
"From the very beginning..."
Szayelaporro gently scratched his cheek, then smiled sweetly.
"At the beginning?!"
Kaname Tōsen understand what this meant in the beginning?!
"From the very beginning... I was already standing in the ring before you even came up here~"
Szayelaporro smiled sweetly and explained what he meant at the beginning.
"Tsk~"
Are you a pervert?
Although Kaname Tōsen cannot see Szayelaporro's appearance, he can hear Szayelaporro's voice. He is definitely a pervert, a super pervert.
"Damn it..." Kaname Tōsen's words displeased Szayelaporro. "How dare you call someone a pervert! You're such a bad person!"
"Your mom..."
Kaname Tōsen's expression changed drastically; he simply couldn't contain himself.
"I can't take it anymore... Lord Aizen, please allow me..."
Kaname Tōsen knelt on one knee, facing Sōsuke Aizen, and pleaded.
However, before Kaname Tōsen could finish speaking, Sōgo Shihoin interrupted...
"What are you waiting for Kaname Tōsen? Hurry up and make your move! Quickly take down this disgusting guy!"
Sōgo Shihoin shouted loudly, wishing he could personally step in and tear that disgusting guy Szayelaporro to pieces.
"Forehead..."
Kaname Tōsen was momentarily stunned. What on earth was all this?! Was the art style of Sōgo Shihoin and his subordinates all this bizarre?!
"Go! Yes!"
"Let everyone in this world see you, see your true power."
Sōsuke Aizen sat on a high seat and addressed Kaname Tōsen below.
"Yes, Lord Aizen."
After hearing Kaname Tōsen Sōsuke Aizen's words, Tosen nodded slightly, then stood up and drew his Zanpakuto from his waist.
"I will kill you in an instant, so there's no need to panic..." Kaname Tōsen solemnly addressed Szayelaporro, " Bankai, Suzumushi Final Form: Enma Cricket!"
In an instant, the pitch-black sky enveloped everything!
It enveloped both Kaname Tōsen and Szayelaporro.
When it got dark, Kaname Tōsen knew...
"It's over..."
Kaname Tōsen silently recited that darkness was his world, and in the endless darkness, only he could move freely.
Kaname Tōsen walked step by step toward Szayelaporro, who stood bewildered in the darkness.
He decided to just cut off the head of this disgusting, perverted freak.
"..."
Szayelaporro wore a smile, his expression alluring. The instant he was enveloped in darkness, he lost his hearing, sight, smell, and Spiritual Pressure... all of these vanished as he was shrouded in darkness.
"Whoosh!"
Just as Szayelaporro was pondering where Kaname Tōsen attack from, he felt a sharp pain in his neck.
The next second, Szayelaporro's head fell to the ground.
"That's disgusting..."
Kaname Tōsen gently shook the blood off his Zanpakuto. Even though his sword had touched Szayelaporro's blood, he still felt incredibly disgusted.
"Release."
After losing the ability to sense Szayelaporro's Spiritual Pressure, Kaname Tōsen made direct contact with the barrier, lightly waved his sword, and walked towards Sōsuke Aizen.
" Lord Aizen, I have already dealt with the enemy!"
Kaname Tōsen knelt on one knee and addressed Sōsuke Aizen, who was sitting high in the sky, earnestly.
"Very good, Kaname Tōsen!"
"You did a good job..."
Sōsuke Aizen slightly; he still acknowledged Kaname Tōsen's power.
"Did you see that, Sōgo?"
"Among my men, there are also some very capable and skilled fighters."
Sōsuke Aizen his head and smiled as he spoke to Sōgo Shihoin.
"Is that so?" Sōgo Shihoin smiled slightly. "But your formidable subordinate hasn't won yet~"
"You didn't win?!"
" Sōgo, you're joking. Who can survive having their head cut off?"
Sōsuke Aizen's expression showed no surprise as he calmly asked Sōgo.
Take a closer look...
Is he dead now?
Sōgo Shihoin pointed to Szayelaporro on the platform and spoke softly.
"Oh?!"
"Ha ha ha ha..."
"Interesting..."
"He really didn't die..."
"Is this some kind of immortality?"
After hearing what Sōgo Shihoin, Sōsuke Aizen was slightly taken aback, and he looked seriously at the arena.
From his perspective, Szayelaporro, whose head Kaname Tōsen, was indeed not dead.
"Yes." Sōsuke Aizen reminded Kaname Tōsen, "Your opponent doesn't seem to be dead yet."
"Um?!"
Kaname Tōsen was kneeling on one knee, was slightly taken aback after hearing Sōsuke Aizen's words, and then immediately turned around to look.
"Hey, buddy~"
In Kaname's Spiritual Pressure perception, a headless corpse was groping around on the arena, searching for its head. And that head was smiling at Kaname Tōsen, its expression extremely alluring.
"I..."
Kaname Tōsen suddenly felt a pang of sadness. He drew his Zanpakuto once more, determined to tear this disgusting bastard to shreds this time.
"Ouch~"
Looks like you'll have to be a little harsh with them~
"I'm really, really scared!"
Szayelaporro winked at Kaname Tōsen and smiled as he spoke.
"Go to hell!"
Enraged, Kaname Tōsen didn't even bother to unleash his Zanpakuto, instead aiming directly at Szayelaporro's rolling head.
"Can't cut it..."
The next second, a scene that made Kaname Tōsen's sanity drop wildly appeared: Szayelaporro's head suddenly sprouted two legs, which then ran "pat-pat" towards his body.
"What the hell is this?"
Even Kaname Tōsen, who prides himself on being refined, couldn't help but swear. However, he was blind and didn't actually see the disgusting scene, but everyone else watching saw it clearly.
"That's disgusting..."
Sōgo Shihoin took off his sunglasses and put on an eye mask; he didn't want to see such disgusting things.
"..."
Sōsuke Aizen silent, unsure of what to say.
"Come and kill me!"
"Come and chop me up already?!"
What's most infuriating is that Szayelaporro's head, while running away, kept turning back to mock Kaname Tōsen.
"Huh?!"
You just can't hit it!
Szayelaporro's head trotted along until it reached his body. Suddenly, his short legs extended, and with a spring-loaded motion, his head bounced back onto his body.
"Crunch~ Crunch~"
After Szayelaporro had his head back on, he gently moved his skull, making a cracking sound.
Hey! Blind man!
"Now... let's begin the real battle~"
Szayelaporro gently moved his head and then beckoned to Kaname Tōsen with his finger.
"..."
Do you know?
"I hate being called blind more than anything in my life."
Kaname Tōsen raised his Zanpakuto once more.
Bankai, Suzumushi Final Form: Enma Cricket!
Kaname Tōsen no intention of giving Szayelaporro any chance to resist; he decided to use his Bankai to fight him right from the start.
"Hmph~"
Szayelaporro stood with his hands behind his back, puffing out his pert chest and displaying his perfect S-curve. He stood there quietly watching Kaname Tōsen Bankai.
At the moment Kaname Tōsen Bankai, a pitch-black curtain obscured everything in the world.
Once again, it enveloped both Kaname Tōsen and Szayelaporro.
However... the next second.
The perfectly formed black mist suddenly dispersed...
This time, it wasn't Szayelaporro who fell, but Kaname Tōsen.
"Why?!"
Kaname Tōsen knelt on one knee, his words filled with bewilderment; he didn't even know how Szayelaporro had attacked him.
Don't you understand?
"From the moment you made me bleed, you lost."
"As a perfect, ultimate life form, even my blood holds immense, latent power."
"And I attacked you with the blood from your knife!"
"Yes... that's right! The one standing here is just a decoy! Blood is my real attack route! Didn't expect that, did you, Kaname Tōsen!"
Szayelaporro turned his back, bent to the side, and looked at Kaname Tōsen with his distorted gaze and a malicious smile on his face.
"That's right! I am the strongest person after Sōgo Shihoin! The most perfect being in the world besides Lord Sōgo."
Szayelaporro finally exposed himself at this moment.
Five thousand~
(End of this chapter)