Chapter 152: Appearance Of Visored
"As the dignified captain of the Shinigami, won't the people below ridicule you for using Hollow moves?"
Hearing Starrk's words, Ukitake's face remained unchanged, but he kept a defensive posture and confronted Starrk: "For us Shinigami, the most important thing is to eliminate the unstable factors that endanger Soul Society."
"Is that so? It's no wonder that you allow the existence of Kurosaki Ichigo to become yours, but I think... your superiors have always opposed it?"
Starrk suddenly stopped attacking. Instead of continuing to attack the two as before, he said with great interest: "A close friend of mine told me before that Soul Society is Soul Society, Gotei 13 is Gotei 13—the two cannot be compared."
"Now, I seem to understand why he said that."
"Oh?" At this time, Kyoraku suddenly stopped, holding his Zanpakuto upright and said with a smile: "I never thought that you, as an Arrancar, would be curious about our Soul Society."
"But to be honest, I'm curious—you who have been living in Hueco Mundo, why did you choose to follow Aizen?"
"You should be very clear in your heart. For someone like him, you are just a tool. After all, his identity is Shinigami!"
After listening to Kyoraku's words, Starrk was unmoved and just glanced at the other party lightly: "This kind of thing... is not important at all!"
"Really? It seems that you are more awake than I thought!"
When he saw these Espada for the first time, through the words of Number Two Baraggan, Kyoraku learned that these so-called Arrancar may not be as loyal to Aizen as he'd imagined.
However, since they weren't loyal to Aizen, why should they risk their lives to follow Aizen to the present world to fight Soul Society? This made Kyoraku feel quite puzzled.
"Are you curious?"
At this time, Starrk suddenly raised his gun and pointed at Kyoraku: "When you lie down obediently, I think I will choose to tell you!"
BOOM!
The blue Cero once again attacked Kyoraku at an unresponsive speed, but the result was as Starrk expected—the Cero launched by himself was once again neutralized by Ukitake's Zanpakuto's ability.
"Sure enough... it didn't work!"
As the voice fell, the Sogyo no Kotowari in Ukitake's hand also reflected back the Cero that had absorbed Starrk's attack. Seeing that the Cero he fired was approaching him, Starrk's expression turned serious. He raised the gun transformed by Lilinette, and with one hand in his pocket murmured: "Then, can you still absorb such an attack?"
As the color of the sky changed, brilliant blue had already covered the entire cloud layer. Kyoraku and Ukitake were stunned—countless Ceros flying in the air densely like locusts, under Starrk's quick trigger pulls, shot toward the two people attacking.
"Hey, hey! This is too unfair!!"
Kyoraku showed an exaggerated expression on his face, his figure constantly shuttling through the densely packed Cero, while Ukitake stepped in front of Kyoraku very steadily and lifted Sogyo no Kotowari again.
At this moment, the sky's color gradually returned to normal, and the countless Cero shot by Starrk melted before Ukitake as if hitting an invisible barrier.
"This is bad, Lilinette!"
Starrk, who had exhausted his attack methods, gave a wry smile, scratching his forehead.
At this time, beneath Karakura Town, Toshiro, who successfully defeated Number Three, and the rest of the vice-captains were resting below. Looking at the changing colors in the sky, several people gradually smiled from their original worries.
"It seems that Captain Kyoraku has already gained the upper hand. That Espada's attack has no effect on Captain Ukitake at all. He is indeed worthy of the captains who have been in power for more than a hundred years!"
As the vice-captain of the 7th Division, Tetsuzaemon Iba, watching the battle scene of Kyoraku and others, said with sincere emotion.
"Um... are we going to support Soi-Fon?"
Rangiku, Hinamori and others who were less injured looked at Soi-Fon and Omaeda. Under Baraggan's attack, they began retreating steadily, unable to make effective resistance at all.
Ten minutes ago, after the last two subordinate officers of Baraggan were killed by Soi-Fon and Omaeda, Baraggan, who was the "king," had to go out personally.
After achieving Resurreccion at the same time as Starrk and showing their true abilities, Soi-Fon and Omaeda could only flee in a hurry facing the terrifying and decaying rules.
"No need, just observe quietly. The Head Captain isn't here. As Gotei 13, we are already the last force in this world. If something happens to us again, there will really be no reinforcements."
"You know... Aizen and the others are just trapped!"
Hitsugaya Toshiro looked meaningfully at the giant fireball wrapped in flames in the sky.
"Looks like you need help, kid!"
Just when several people were recovering from their injuries, a figure suddenly and silently came behind Toshiro and the others. A man carrying a Zanpakuto on his shoulders, with short yellow hair under a peaked cap—it's hard to imagine his true identity.
"You are... Kurosaki's..."
As the leader of the frontier team who supported the present world this time, Hitsugaya also roughly knew about the existence of Visored and Hirako Shinji from Kurosaki Ichigo.
But he didn't know the true identity of Hirako and others. If it was Kyoraku or Ukitake, it might save some unnecessary explanations.
"Ahaha, that's right. Then you can understand me as Kurosaki Ichigo's partner!"
Hirako put the peaked cap on his fingertips and kept spinning it, saying casually: "Don't worry, I just came to say hello to you. I wanted to have a good chat with Captain Yamamoto, but I didn't expect him to be away."
"Forget it, it doesn't matter. We are just here to do our own business. As for our enemies!"
While talking, Hirako Shinji looked at Aizen's group in the fire city, and said coldly: "Aizen Sosuke!"
"Won't you!"
Before Hitsugaya could respond, Rangiku, the vice-captain, suddenly stepped forward, put a hand on Hitsugaya's shoulder, and replied: "Since everyone's enemy is Aizen, I think we are all partners!"
"Partners?"
"Make no mistake!"
Suddenly Hirako Shinji's expression changed, and he said with a sneer: "Our partner is only Kurosaki Ichigo. As for you, heh!"
After saying this, Hirako Shinji let out a cold snort and turned around and flew into the air. Hitsugaya and others followed the position of Hirako Shinji and others, and saw several powerful people standing in the air, watching the battle in Karakura Town.
"This man... what a foul attitude." Matsumoto Rangiku said with a downcast face and frowning.
At this time, Hitsugaya relaxed a little and said: "I don't know their real identities. I just remember that Kurosaki Ichigo once told me that in this world, there's an organization called Visored hidden. Each of them carries a Zanpakuto, and their strength is not weaker than the captains."
"Not weaker than the captains? Is there such a group in this world?"
Hinamori frowned tightly, as if she couldn't believe it. After all, having captain-level Reiatsu was one of the best even in Soul Society.
"Let's treat them as partners. Anyway, the current situation on the battlefield is on our side!"
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