Bleach: No cheat codes, he joined Aizen's side.

Chapter 15. The Burial Captain (Part Two)

"An inch!"

Zuo Niaoming's Zanpakuto was knocked away, and having lost his left arm, he fell to the ground, with no means of retaliating.

Recalling the less than five-minute exchange just now, whether it was Kido, Hakuda, Shunpo, or Slash Technique, he was not capable of fighting his opponent in any of them.

Especially that surging spiritual pressure, which surpassed that of several captains in his memory, but can such a Shinigami only occupy three seats in Soul Society now?
I really want to go back and see it.

Zuo Niaoming suddenly had the idea of ​​returning to Soul Society.

Unfortunately, he knew this was just wishful thinking on his part.

For some unknown reason, the Grim Reaper on the other side had a mission to kill their expedition captain.

As the vice-captain, Zuo Niaoming believed he had done his best.

"Hopefully the captain has realized it by now."

Having no ability to resist, Zuo Tiaoming watched as Higashino Shuichi walked towards him step by step with his Zanpakuto, then raised the sword and stabbed him.

"He who commands troops governs his people!"

These were the last words Zuo Niaoming heard in his life.

His body then turned into specks of white light, which eventually coalesced into thirteen pure white spirit beings.

Looking at the spot where Zuo Niaoming's body disappeared, Higashino Shuichi felt no emotion. To him, this was never a battle between equals. Unless he deliberately held back, the battle was supposed to be this quick.

The only admirable thing about him is his attitude towards his captain, Sengoku Ryu. He is a loyal and good subordinate. It's just a pity that good people usually don't live long.

With a gentle wave of his hand, twelve of the thirteen spirit beings immediately dispersed, while the remaining one exploded right in front of Higashino Hideichi, transforming into pure spiritual energy that fed back to him. The energy consumed in the previous battle was completely recovered, with even a surplus.

"Over there, it should be starting around that time too, right?"

After doing all this, Higashino Shuichi did not rush to leave. Instead, he first had the twelve newly transformed spirit beings each use stealth-type Kido to rush to another battlefield.

Higashino Shuichi's original plan was for Barragan and Stark to first fight amongst themselves in front of all the Hollows, pretending to be mutually injured, and then deliberately release those Hollows to be captured by the expedition team. This would give the expedition team the illusion that Hueco Mundo was now greatly weakened and that the little Barragan was not a threat.

Coupled with a large number of ordinary Voidlings launching a reckless suicide charge against the expeditionary force, this created the illusion that Barragan and Stark were afraid of Death's counterattack and were sending their Voidlings to buy time.

This would incentivize the expeditionary force to send a small, elite force deep into enemy territory, thus dividing the battlefield and increasing strategic depth.

This would ensure that there is enough time and space to kill the two captains.

Looking back now, the entire plan has been executed very successfully so far.

According to the plan, Higashino Shuichi should immediately go and meet up with Stark, who should already be fighting with the expeditionary force captain Sengoku Ryu.

But plans are just plans; they're meant for others to hear. Higashino Shuichi didn't intend to go so soon. After all, Sengoku Ryu was a captain, even if such a captain had never appeared in the original story, and he might not even be as good as Kensei Muguruma. But Higashino Shuichi still didn't plan to take on this tough nut.

To paraphrase a popular saying from the past, it's not worth working so hard for just a little money.

The optimal solution is to let Stark and Thousand Stones fight fiercely and become evenly matched, while you go and pick up the scraps.

On the other hand, Stark, who didn't have as many tricks up his sleeve as Shuichi Higashino, was much simpler. After finding Sengoku Ryu and having Lilynette circle around to confirm that she was indeed alone, Stark immediately unleashed a standard barrage of feints.

"Xu?"

Sengoku Ryu lived up to his captain status, even when ambushed, he still managed to draw his Zanpakuto in time and block Stark's attack with his exceptional reflexes.

However, Stark at this time was probably still recovering from the loneliness and isolation he had felt in the past because he had only recently been recruited by Aizen. Apart from talking more with Higashino Shuichi and Lilynette, he was a typical ruthless and taciturn man.

A pale blue Cero was then unleashed, its powerful spiritual pressure suppressing Sengoku Ryu's ability to escape using Shunpo, forcing him to choose to defend head-on.

"The chosen ones of heaven, the iron walls, the dragon's flight, the lion's roar, the tiger's howl, the wolf's charge, severing heaven and earth before collapse, the eighty-first of the Binding Dao, the Severing of the Void!"

Not all Shinigami can perfectly master the Kido that abandons chanting. Sengoku Ryu is one of the ordinary ones. Fortunately, Danku's chanting lyrics are not too long, and Sengoku Ryu himself has a certain level of proficiency. He was able to construct that huge spiritual particle defense wall before the Hollow Flash hit him.

A jet-black eight-petaled flower bloomed in the air, and a pale blue phantom flashed upon it, bringing about a world-destroying explosion.

The aftershocks stirred up dust that stretched for dozens of miles around, and amidst this dust, Stark, already gripping the two blue longswords that had transformed from his gun holsters, charged forward in front of Sengoku.

The crisp sound of blades clashing echoed through the sandstorm. One of Higashino Shuichi's spirit beings had just arrived and stood outside the swirling yellow sand. He hesitated for two seconds, then clasped his hands together, and his spirit began to gather.

"Hado #58, Tianlan!"

Following Higashino Shuichi's command, the Spirit Particle began to spiral and compress towards the center, eventually transforming into a giant whirlwind that shot forward.

This was an indiscriminate attack. Higashino Shuichi did not believe that Stark could be harmed by this demonic technique, so he used it without any mental burden.

Taking advantage of the "east wind" that Higashino Shuichi used to disperse the yellow sand, Sengoku Ryu decisively Shikai his Zanpakuto, and with one strike, forcefully forced Stark away from his side.

"Sever it! Thunderfire! Chariot Flame Dragon Fang!"

In an instant, the ground began to roar, and wherever Stark was about to land, towering pillars of fire shot out. If Stark hesitated even for the slightest, he would be severely injured.

It was at this moment, through the vision of another Spirit Person who arrived on horseback, that Higashino Shuichi finally saw clearly the appearance of the expedition team leader's Zanpakuto.

The handle is crescent-shaped with a sickle-shaped end, and the blade is entirely fiery red after initial cleavage.

Upon closer inspection, Higashino Shuichi also noticed that something unknown was vaguely wrapped around the hand of Sengoku Ryu holding his Zanpakuto.

Combining the two, Higashino Shuichi couldn't help but mutter to himself, "No way, I feel like I've seen this knife before?"

(End of this chapter)