I'm in Bleach, starting with Unlimited Blade Works.

"Following a useless master like me will prevent you from shining your own light."

"But please believe me, I will work hard to cultivate and strive to make your petals bloom all over the entire Seireitei!"

"Om..."

As if understanding Byakuya Kuchiki's words, the Zanpakuto in Byakuya Kuchiki's hand trembled slightly, as a response to Byakuya Kuchiki.

After finishing his conversation with Senbonzakura, Kuchiki Byakuya bowed to Erin: "Uncle Erin, even if I can only unleash a portion of Senbonzakura's power, I don't want to tarnish her reputation."

"Please teach me, Uncle Erin."

"Rise, Byakuya."

Erin helped Kuchiki Byakuya up: "What do you think we're doing right now?"

"Aren't I just teaching you?"

"Based on Senbonzakura's abilities, I have two weapons here that are similar to Senbonzakura's abilities."

"Next, I will use these two weapons to fight you."

"As for how much you can learn from me, that depends on yourself."

"Ah."

……

The blue light dissipated, and Byakuya Kuchiki's spiritual power had been fully restored.

Kuchiki Byakuya was already used to this bandage that could completely restore his condition.

With Byakuya Kuchiki's current abilities, condensing spiritual particles and walking through the air is not difficult at all.

After the Void Bandages flew away, he slowly landed.

"I'm all better now, Uncle."

"Then let's begin, Byakuya."

Erin reached out, and from among the thousands of Zanpakuto, one of them transformed into a streak of light and plunged directly into Erin's front.

"Forehead……"

Erin was a little embarrassed. This guy, just because he said his ability was similar to Senbonzakura's Shikai, was he really going to be so disrespectful to him?

Fortunately, Byakuya was unaware that his Zanpakuto was acting out against him.

To cover up her embarrassment, Erin pointed her outstretched hand at Byakuya.

"Byakuya, before the battle, let me introduce you to the Zanpakuto I will be using to fight you."

Taking a few steps forward, Erin grasped the hilt of the Zanpakuto.

"Shatter, Thousand Blades!"

As Erin chanted, a blue light emanated from the Zanpakuto.

These rays of light spread from the hilt to the tip of the sword, like patterns, covering the blade of the sword.

The entire blade of the sword had turned cyan, with black patterns covering its surface, making it appear as if the sword was formed from countless fragments.

Erin drew his Thousand Blades and held them horizontally in front of him.

"Senrin's abilities are similar to your Senbonzakura."

"However, your Senbonzakura is a sword that transforms spiritual pressure into countless blades the size of cherry blossoms."

"As for Thousand Blades, as the name suggests, it is a weapon made from a thousand fragments."

"He can only split into a thousand fragments, but Byakuya, don't think that Senba is not Senbonzakura just because of the number of fragments."

"No, Uncle Erin."

Byakuya held his Zanpakuto upright in front of his chest: "I never underestimate my uncle."

"Scatter, Senbonzakura!"

Byakuya Kuchiki's Zanpakuto transformed into countless tiny, cherry-colored blades, which, under his control, surged toward Erin.

"Hey, not bad, you've actually learned to make the first move."

"But Byakuya, have you forgotten that although Thousand Blades can only split into a thousand fragments, each of its fragments is more than ten times larger than the blade of your Thousand Cherry Blossoms!"

In an instant, the Thousand Blades in Erin's hand split into a thousand fragments along the patterns, which spun around Erin.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

With a flick of his sword hilt, Erin unleashed a torrential downpour of a thousand blade fragments that shattered the countless cherry-colored blades formed from Kuchiki Byakuya's Thousand Cherry Blossoms.

The blade of Senbonzakura is far too small.

Its attack power is weak until the number of enemies reaches a certain level.

The fragments of the Thousand Blades are very large, and the attack power they bring when flying at high speed can pierce through a person's body.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

After piercing through Senbonzakura, the fragments of the sword continued their attack on Kuchiki Byakuya at an unbroken speed.

Left with no other choice, Byakuya Kuchiki had to use Shunpo to dodge.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang..."

Having just dodged the attack, Byakuya's heart skipped a beat as he looked at the deep dent in the ground.

If I hadn't dodged just now, I probably would have needed healing again.

Chapter 69 Thousand Blades VS Thousand Cherry Blossoms

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Before Kuchiki Byakuya could react, more fragments from Senjin attacked him.

Byakuya Kuchiki brandished the hilt of Senbonzakura, transforming a massive amount of spiritual pressure into countless tiny cherry blossom-colored blades, which met the fragments of the Thousand Blades.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

The storm of cherry blossom-colored blades was dispersed by the fragments of the Thousand Blades, but under Byakuya Kuchiki's control, these countless blades continued to gather together and collide with the fragments of the Thousand Blades.

However, while Byakuya Kuchiki's attention was focused on the Thousand Blade Shards, Erin's figure had already approached him.

When Byakuya Kuchiki spotted Erin, Erin had already raised the hilt of his Thousand Blades sword high and was about to slash at Byakuya Kuchiki.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

The instant Erin slashed down, a thousand fragments of the Thousand Blades swiftly broke through Byakuya's Thousand Cherry Blossoms barrier, forming a complete sword blade that sliced ​​through Byakuya's body...

"laugh!"

Wiping the blood off his blade, Erin turned around, a slight smile playing on his lips: "Byakuya, this is your first weakness now."

"Once the blades of your Zanpakuto have all turned into blades, your Senbonzakura will lose its most basic close-range attack and defense capabilities as a 'sword.' When you control Senbonzakura to attack, you yourself will be almost defenseless."

"Really? Then I really thank Uncle Erin for the reminder."

Despite having an additional sword wound, Byakuya Kuchiki didn't even flinch.

He has suffered this kind of injury countless times in the past two months.

As long as he still has the strength to fight, his uncle will not heal him.

Byakuya also did not feel that he needed to heal his injuries before continuing to fight while he was still able to fight.

Healing?

That's a privilege only the victors receive after the battle.

The loser, naturally, has their soul enter the cycle of reincarnation in the world, enjoying eternal slumber.

As for why his uncle didn't warn him directly, but only after hitting him, Kuchiki Byakuya understood.

After all, his uncle believed that "people can't teach people how to learn, but they can learn from experience."

Next, Byakuya Kuchiki began to control the flying Senbonzakura blades, re-condensing them onto the hilt to form new blades.

However, the sword formed by controlling countless tiny blades is not stable and will scatter in all directions as Kuchiki Byakuya swings it.

Erin did not continue to attack, allowing Kuchiki Byakuya to condense the fragments of Senbonzakura into a sword.

This step is a training that Byakuya Kuchiki must complete.

Erin created Byakuya's Senbonzakura, which contains Erin's memories of Byakuya's experiences more than two hundred years later.

After Bankai, Byakuya has a technique that allows him to concentrate a large number of blades into the sword, increasing the power of his strikes—the Ultimate Sword.

However, because Byakuya's control over condensing the Senbonzakura blades into a sword body was inadequate, he was unable to condense all of Senbonzakura's billions of blades after Bankai onto the sword body in his hand. The remaining blades could only condense behind him to form sword wings, thereby increasing his dash speed.

If Byakuya were to start practicing this move now, the power of his "Final Scene: White Emperor Sword" after he achieves Bankai, without the sword wings, might increase several times over.

……

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Uncle Erin."

After an unknown amount of time, Byakuya Kuchiki finally completed the process of stabilizing the blade on the sword and challenged Erin to a duel once again.

"Oh? Not bad."

Erin looked at the Zanpakuto in Kuchiki Byakuya's hand, its blade still glowing with a cherry blossom-colored light.

"Come on then!"

After saying that, Erin instantly moved in front of Byakuya and swung his Thousand Blades at him.

"clang!"

"clang!"

"clang!"

Sparks flew as the sounds of Thousand Blades and Thousand Cherry Blossoms clashing echoed across the arena.

With each collision, cherry-colored blades would fly around accompanied by sparks.