Black pines spread, crawling and growing relentlessly across the shattered land, unending!
With every gust of bleak wind, black leaves stirred, awakening deep-seated fears!
This was the power of Karamatsu Shinjū.
It was Shunsui Kyōraku's ultimate trump card, unleashed with all his might!
"Quincy, care to give me an answer?" Lightly flicking his arm, Shunsui lifted his dual blades, the lush black pines spreading with his steps.
"How does this world feel to you right now?"
"If I'm not mistaken, it's filled with darkness, loneliness, and a touch of sorrow, right?"
As his steps halted, Shunsui's wounds seemed to vanish instantly!
He reverted to his pre-battle, carefree self!
The only difference was…
This time, Shunsui wasn't indulging in "children's games" but wished to play the "audience" to a real, adult drama!
"Heh, I see…"
Eyes narrowing, Lille Barro looked down at the black pine-covered ground, his holy-scripted face expressionless.
He sneered arrogantly, "Indeed, your Bankai has made the world dark and gloomy, even dimming my angelic halo…"
"But as the divine messenger, the closest to god under His Majesty, I'm not so weak as to tremble…"
Arrogant! Overconfident!
Utterly calm and self-assured!
Clearly, he didn't take Katen Kyōkotsu's Bankai seriously at all!
"Light Judgment!!!"
His angelic wings flapped fiercely.
Lille Barro soared, aligning with the sun, merging into a single dark point before radiating blinding light!
In that instant, a catastrophic aura, a hundred times fiercer than the trembling, condensed into beams of light and shot forth!
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Eleventh Division
"Ugh…"
The moment the holy light fired, though it was just a future battle scene, it broke through the screen's limits, impacting reality!
It blasted Madarame Ikkaku and Ayasegawa Yumichika, who were watching in fear, off their feet!
"Ikkaku, Yumichika… you two okay?" Kenpachi gritted his teeth.
In that instant, he felt an immense aura hit him head-on.
If he weren't a spiritual pressure monster, his fate wouldn't have been much better than his subordinates'!
"Kenny, so scary! Captain Kyōraku's facing such destructive power alone! I hope he's okay!" Yachiru Kusajishi whimpered, silently praying for Shunsui.
"Safe and sound? Unlikely…" Kenpachi shook his head, not meaning to be pessimistic but judging instinctively based on the light's destructive power.
As the holy light exploded, the screen was endless white, with no end in sight!
In this situation, Kenpachi instinctively believed Shunsui had no chance of survival!
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Hueco Mundo, Las Noches
The scene was nearly identical.
"Someone save me! I can't take it!!!"
"What destructive power, affecting reality!"
"Shinigami or Quincy, their battles are apocalyptic!"
Wails echoed endlessly.
As the blinding explosion nearly broke through the screen, Las Noches shook violently.
The blast's penetrating force indirectly scarred the psyche of weaker Hollows, imprinting indelible despair!
"Damn… such power. No wonder he dares call himself 'the closest to god'!" Grimmjow's face darkened, his eyes stinging from the bright light.
God!
A word the Arrancar despised!
Yet it involuntarily surfaced in Grimmjow's mind!
Yes, a single Divine Judgment linked the video to reality!
In that moment, to the Panther King, Lille Barro, with his pseudo-divine form, surpassed a true god!
"So… can that Shinigami, Shunsui Kyōraku, survive such a massive explosion?" Baraggan, the Skeleton Emperor, expressed doubt.
Proud as he was, wielding the power to corrode all with age, he had been affected by the "trembling" before the explosion, his bones growing cold and brittle!
Under these conditions, facing this earth-shattering blast, Baraggan's "resolve" teetered on the brink, doubting he could survive it!
"No telling…"
His black curls swaying, Starrk, as the Primera Espada, quickly withstood the blast's shockwave, warning gravely, "No denying, the Quincy's power is insanely strong! But don't underestimate that man—his Bankai's just begun!"
Ironically, though he was recently killed by Shunsui in the future footage, Starrk didn't mind.
Instead, seeing a reflection of himself in Shunsui, he rationally leaned toward the Shinigami!
His strong instinct told him—against this terrifying explosion, Karamatsu Shinjū must have a counter!
Sure enough—
Before Starrk's words fully left his throat, Shunsui's voice, like a death flower blooming from the abyss, brought trembling and fear once more:
"Pure-blood Quincy…"
"I forgot to mention, once this adult drama begins, unless it reaches its final act, I, as a participant, won't die easily…"
As Shunsui's voice drowned out the explosion, the next second brought Lille Barro's terrified scream:
"You… Shinigami… damn it!!!"
"What did you do?!?!"
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