Chu Yang gestured towards Yosuke Honkawa, who had already become a Hollow, below him.
"Uncle Yosuke?" Kurosaki Ichigo mumbled, his expression dazed, "Why did he turn out like this...?"
"You ask me, who should I ask?" Chu Yang said helplessly, "Instead of worrying about that, how to deal with him is more important, isn't it?"
"Deal with him?" Kurosaki Ichigo asked, his eyes wide, "You're going to kill Uncle Yosuke?"
Chu Yang rolled his Byakugan in exasperation: "Are you out of your mind? Killing is against the law!"
Kurosaki Ichigo was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "The law can't protect him in his current state..."
Roar!!!
Yosuke Honkawa roared furiously, then charged towards them.
"I'm too lazy to argue with you. If you can help, help. If you can't, get out of my sight!"
With that, Chu Yang leaped.
He landed on Yosuke Honkawa's head, stomping him into the ground.
What kind of help could he offer now?
Kurosaki Ichigo, who had always been very confident in his athletic ability, hesitated. The battle between Chu Yang and Yosuke Honkawa below was clearly not something he could participate in.
Confidence was one thing; seeking death was another.
Just then, Kurosaki Ichigo, standing on the rooftop, noticed an elderly couple walking towards them in the distance.
"At this hour, they're still out for a walk?"
Kurosaki Ichigo climbed down from the rooftop, not forgetting to complain, then rushed to the elderly couple and used a clumsy lie to persuade them to leave.
"Construction ahead, road closed. Please take another route!"
Hearing the occasional rumbling sounds from ahead, the elderly couple didn't doubt him and prepared to turn back.
However, as they left, the old man grumbled discontentedly, "Young people these days have no manners at all. They're doing construction and don't even put up a sign to warn people, making us walk all this way."
Helpless, Kurosaki Ichigo could only bow repeatedly and apologize continuously, finally seeing the old man off.
"I must stop passersby from accidentally entering here, otherwise someone will definitely get hurt."
Kurosaki Ichigo felt that this seemed to be the only way he could help Chu Yang, so he began to wander nearby, and whenever he met someone, he would try to persuade them to leave.
As it got later and later, fewer pedestrians appeared. Kurosaki Ichigo finally breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to go back to see how the battle was going.
"How is he going to deal with Uncle Yosuke? If he drags it on any longer, he'll be in danger himself, right?"
Amidst his worry, Kurosaki Ichigo suddenly felt a pang of trepidation. In the depths of his being, he sensed something approaching.
That feeling of trepidation was even stronger than what Yosuke Honkawa had brought him.
At the same time, Chu Yang also felt it...
"No wonder no Shinigami have come yet after all this time. So they really were held up by something else."
Chu Yang kept Yosuke Honkawa under his foot, his gaze fixed forward.
"Three, two, one."
The building directly in front exploded!
It was as if it had been hit by a speeding train, but the opening was empty.
In Chu Yang's eyes, an even larger Hollow stood before him, its maw wide open. It had been attracted by Yosuke Honkawa's spiritual pressure and had come here to feed.
Some Hollows prefer to devour human souls, while others prefer to devour their own kind.
This newcomer in front of him probably belonged to the latter category.
Its gaze towards Yosuke Honkawa was one of utter craving.
But soon, it shifted its gaze to Chu Yang, who was stepping on Yosuke Honkawa.
Instinct made it smell a hint of danger from Chu Yang, and a flicker of fear crossed its eyes.
However, this tiny bit of fear was quickly drowned out by greed. It felt that Chu Yang seemed even more delicious than Yosuke Honkawa.
"Finally, something I can go all out on! I'm practically suffocating from holding back!"
After a prolonged, restrained "fierce battle" with Yosuke Honkawa, Chu Yang had long been seething with pent-up frustration with nowhere to vent, and as luck would have it, someone seeking death just happened to stumble upon him.
The giant Hollow charged madly towards Chu Yang's position, smashing through many buildings along the way.
Chu Yang clenched his fist, and Armament Haki condensed into a heavy armor on his body.
The Hollow kept approaching, reaching Chu Yang in the blink of an eye.
Chu Yang raised his hand, preparing to punch.
Then, an explosion.
Between the two, another figure appeared.
Chu Yang's movement paused.
The newcomer was wearing a black "dojo uniform," her back to Chu Yang, holding a sword defensively, blocking the attack for Chu Yang.
That person flew out.
Chu Yang saw her face; she was a girl with shoulder-length short hair. If nothing unexpected happened, she should be Rukia Kuchiki.
After landing, Rukia Kuchiki sprang up from the ground like a spring.
Then she charged towards the Hollow again, muttering something under her breath.
She was performing Kidō.
The invisible restraints formed by the incantation bound the Hollow, preventing it from harming Chu Yang.
"There's a human here, which was already troublesome, and now it's even more troublesome."
Rukia Kuchiki seemed not to have noticed Yosuke Honkawa, who was stomped into the ground by Chu Yang. She frowned, glanced at Chu Yang, and then focused on dealing with the Hollow in front of her.
Chu Yang kept staring at her, but she didn't care at all.
How could a human see her?
She probably saw the surrounding buildings suddenly destroyed and was scared silly!
Rukia Kuchiki thought so.
Suddenly, at the end of the street, another human rushed out, running towards her.
"Another one?"
"What are these people doing awake so late at night?"
Rukia Kuchiki complained with a troubled expression, while preparing to protect both of them.
The Binding Spell could only restrain this almost-evolving Hollow for a very short moment, and she couldn't immediately drive these two humans away from here.
She could only choose to protect them as much as possible.
Meanwhile, Kurosaki Ichigo rushed up to the two and only then realized...
There was a much larger Hollow here, not Yosuke Honkawa.
He stared at Rukia Kuchiki with a bewildered expression and asked, "Who are you?"
Rukia Kuchiki was stunned.
Then she looked back at Chu Yang, thinking to herself, he must be talking to him, right?
Rukia Kuchiki stepped aside, only to find the orange-haired boy staring intently at her, as if waiting for her to answer.
Rukia Kuchiki was a little flustered.
Kurosaki Ichigo tilted his head, looked at Chu Yang behind her, and asked, "Do you know her? She looks like she's not very bright."
Rukia Kuchiki: "..."
Chu Yang replied, "No, but she shouldn't be a bad person. She just helped me block an attack from the other side."
Rukia Kuchiki suddenly turned around, her eyes almost popping out.
Now she finally confirmed that both of these humans could see her!
Rukia Kuchiki was about to ask, but the Hollow, freed from the Binding Spell, broke through its restraints and attacked her exposed back.
This is bad!
Hearing the movement behind her, Rukia Kuchiki immediately felt a bad premonition, but it was too late to turn around and face the enemy.
Damn it, she shouldn't have listened to these two humans and let her guard down.
She prepared to take a hit, intending to trade blows and severely injure this Hollow.
But Rukia Kuchiki never expected...
The human beside her actually charged towards the Hollow without a word.
"Wait! Don't you..."
She only said half a sentence when Rukia Kuchiki saw the man raise his hand and shatter the Hollow's mask with a single punch!
The mountain-high Hollow flew high into the air, landing in the distance!
After that punch, Chu Yang excitedly let out a shout, finally venting all the frustration in his heart!
What kind of power is this?!!!
Seeing this, Rukia Kuchiki's pupils suddenly constricted. In her astonishment, her Zanpakuto dropped to the ground. When she bent down to pick it up, she realized there was another Hollow under her feet!
Yosuke Honkawa's eyes darted around, meeting Rukia Kuchiki's gaze.
78. Chapter 78: A New Breathing Style [Eighth Update, Please Subscribe, Monthly Pass]
78.
"So he's been stepping on another Hollow all this time. No wonder he didn't move; I thought he was scared silly..." Rukia Kuchiki looked down at Yosuke Honkawa's condition and found that he had only recently transformed from a normal soul into a Hollow.
"With that person's strength, this Hollow should have been eliminated by him long ago. Since it's been dragged on until now, they must know each other."