Chapter 1144 Doors to Hell part 7
Chigiri woke up from his stupor upon Nobutsuna's call and immediately raised his arm towards the giant woman looking down at them. The two of them then simultaneously shouted, "Hadou no 63, Raikouhou (Thunder Roar Cannon)!"
From their palms, yellow lightning gathered before it blasted toward their perceived enemy. The two high-density lightning blasts swirled around each other and combined into one bigger and denser Kidou in an intent to impale the 'God'. However, instead of a large explosion like they were expecting, the giant woman didn't even attempt to defend herself, not because her defenses were great but because the Kidou just phased through her and hit nothing as if she didn't exist.
"I can't believe the two of you would ignore me just like that." At that moment, they heard the strange man's voice behind them. They wanted to turn around but it was already too late as both of their vision suddenly spun uncontrollably before they moved sideways, traveling quite a distance.
Lisa couldn't even properly regulate her breath nor could she regain her composure as she watched all of this transpire. Although her attention was focused on the giant woman, who had by now already disappeared, she still saw how the strange man in formal attire suddenly Flash Stepped behind Chigiri and Nobutsuna and beheaded them with a long sword that had the same color as the giant woman's horns before kicking their heads away.
But even if she saw everything, she still couldn't comprehend anything and wondered if she had fallen into her enemies' illusion.
The center of it all, however, was questioning his long sword, 'Tiamat... What was that for?'
[It was my debut. It's only right for me to show myself in such a fashion.]
Kisuke knew for sure that she wasn't like this the first time she met her, '...Just what have you been learning from Benihime?'
[She taught me the household chores that she didn't want to do. Aside from that, she also gave me these literary arts called manga and I've been enjoying my free time with them.]
'...', Kisuke was utterly speechless, 'Do it again on another occasion.'
[Just tell me when.]
Kisuke stopped talking to Tiamat when he saw that the bodies he just beheaded had started crumbling, turning into dust, before disappearing into nothing. And he turned his attention his heads he just sent flying, he saw black chains ejecting out of their necks, forming a skeletal framework for their bodies, and soon enough, they regenerated their whole bodies, 'Unlike the Beast of Hell that I acquired, their bodies are purely of Magic construct. But how are they doing this?'
The two former Captains of Gotei 13 stared at him for a few seconds before disappearing along with their aura, 'They escaped, huh?'
Kisuke sheathed his long sword and turned to the still-stunned Lisa, "The door won't stay open forever." Immediately after, Kisuke disappeared too.
Lisa looked up at the opened portal and finally managed to regain some of her strength. She then started picking up the Shinigamis that came with her without a word and jumped towards the door while looking one last time at the sky where the giant woman just disappeared, '...That was a Shikai?'
Kisuke traveled for a few kilometers to where the fluctuation of Magic Power is calm before sharpening his senses to grab the coordinates where he wanted to go, '...There. Luckily, she's still alive.'
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Compared to the first time she released it, Soifon's Shunko was now a lot weaker. Although she could technically go on for as long as she wanted thanks to her self-feeding Shunko, Barragan's Senescence could still sap her dry.
With her Reiryoku running low and her Reiatsu decreasing, it was getting harder and harder to keep her Shunko running. Soifon gritted her teeth while counting the times she had already killed him, 'Even if I release my Bankai, there would be no point.'
Soifon was preparing for the next wave of miasma while thinking of what she should do next since it's obvious that they couldn't stay here, 'Mayuri seems to have received some outside help to open the doors back up, but I don't know if he's going to make it in time. I have to prioritize our survival.'
But at that moment, she heard Yumichika's panicked shout, "Omaeda!!!"
Soifon hurriedly turned her head and saw that Oumaeda took a dangerous hit and was about to get followed up by another, and could be a fatal attack. The endless wave of beasts attacking them from all sides finally got to them despite their best efforts to hold their ground and keep them away from Soifon.
Sadly, she couldn't help beyond sending a blast of wind in his direction and pushing the beast for a bit for Yumichika to have the time to help.
But Soifon knew that doing so would expose her to danger so she prepared to deflect Barragan's miasma as much as she could. Strangely enough, the anticipated attack never came, instead, she lost sight of her opponent.
And when she went looking for him, he had already arrived in front of Marechiyo and Yumichika who had just rescued him, bearing his axe that was letting out a very dense amount of miasma on its edge.
"No!!!" Redirecting all of her power behind her feet, Soifon sent herself flying forward in addition to her Flash Step. Thanks to the added speed provided by her Shunko, Soifon was able to get in between them before Barragan could swing down. However, that was it. That's the greatest thing she could accomplish.
Soifon refused to give up and redirected everything she had to her hands to catch Barragan's axe. Although after seeing that, Barragan only chuckled at her futile resistance and put more strength into his arm.
Soifon tried to block the axe using her incredibly dense wind to push it out but it was a silly attempt that only stopped the axe for a second before it went from her shoulder and across her chest.
"Captain!" Marechiyo cried out but there was nothing he could do.
Soifon's blood spurted out for a second before it turned black and crumbled away. And from her wound, the dense miasma from Barragan's Zanpakuto started eating through her flesh, revealing her bones and organs that had also started to turn black.
Barragan knew that there was no way for him to take her alive anymore but he was still wary that she'd create a miracle to fight back. So again, Barragan raised his axe to finish her off for good.
"R...run..." Soifon tried to turn her head to her subordinates, "Run!!!!!"
"There's no escape." Were Barragan's words before he brought death down upon the Shinigami.
But without knowing when and how, Barragan's axe stopped mid-swing as a hand with black gloves caught his axe, "!?"
"Looks like I'm a little bit too late." A voice that he couldn't tell if it was a man or woman resounded in front of him.
Barragan saw that the strange man's hand was decaying but it was a lot slower than he had ever seen it. In fact, it would seem that his miasma would need an entire day to go through his hand, "What!?"
Seeing his ability almost fail for the first time, Barragan pulled his axe back to immediately retreat. But when he thought he got away, a black snake with purple glowing eyes lunged at him. Without thinking much about it, Barragan sent his miasma forward.
Although instead of seeing the snake decay into nothingness, it instead opened its mouth to eat his miasma and even grew a little bigger, "...Haahhh!?"
The snake that doesn't know the concept of age kept swimming towards Barragan.
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