(Ryoto's pov)
Ywhach and I crossed blades for a few monts, which allowed to evaluate the situation better. It seems that neither Shunsui-senpai nor Jushiro-senpai is nearby. I could still feel their Reiatsu, and they were both in combat. I looked behind Ywhach to see his right-hand man being there, but he didn't look like he planned on moving for now.
That's fine by . Not to ntion all the rain, which gives an advantage, but I plan on starting this round 2 with sothing completely different, so I pulled my head back as I gathered energy in my forehead.
"gaton Head!"
A blue hand made of energy materialized behind , and with a headbutt motion, it flew towards Ywhach, who was forced to block. He seed shocked at the move I made, which made smirk.
"Not bad for a first attempt. Don't you think so?"
At my brazen attempt at provocation, the Quincy King narrowed his eyes.
"You are being arrogant, Ryoto Yuuki. I admit that you are unpredictable to an annoying degree, but you are not stronger than Yamamoto Genryusai. If you believe that, you are being delusional, which doesn't suit what we know about you."
He wasn't exactly wrong.
"You may be right. I'm not stronger than my teacher. After all, he is a monster among monsters. But here's a difference. You know about Yama-jii a lot, to the point you could manipulate him to use all his strength. You can't do this with . You don't know what I'm capable of and what I would do if you ticked off too much. Not to ntion, I am capable of sothing Yama-jii isn't, which is killing you. Also, you are surrounded."
That last statent confused him. I was here alone, so I believed a demonstration was in order. I put my Zanpakuto in my mouth to free my sole arm, and with it and with so precise motions, I pulled a lot of drops of water together in a body of water the size of an arm. With that, I moved it towards my amputated limb to create a prosthetic limb of sorts. The whole process didn't take a long ti in total, but it wasn't easy by any ans. Moving the water arm alone would take so effort, but at least I'll have both arms in this fight.
I 'flexed' my new arm to test it a few tis. It's fairly challenging to make water in the shape of an arm and keep it for a prolonged period of ti, but not impossible. A powerful waterbender is able to control multiple water tentacles at the sa ti and what fingers are, if not small and short tentacles. The shape is pretty rough, but I won't complain.
I stretched out my newly ford arm towards Ywhach to grab him, but as soon as the water was in his range, a sword appeared in his hand, and he effortlessly cut it in half.
Seeing how my attack was stopped so easily, I was shocked... not.
The two halves of water encircled the man in black, and I tried to crush him, but it was for naught, as he broke off of it quite easily. It wasn't really a problem since I wasn't expecting it to work. The water flew in all directions until it suddenly stopped, quickly turning into ice mid-air and flying back at Yhwach with a vengeance.
This attack, as I expected, didn't do much as Ywhach simply swung his sword to deflect all projectiles. This attack bought enough ti to reform my arm, but, at the sa ti, it wasn't all. It was raining, so obviously everyone was wet, so why not use it to my advantage.
I used Shunpo to close the distance between us and blew a wave of cold air, which wouldn't do much in itself, but with all the water on, Ywhach started freezing. It wasn't a thick layer of ice, and the mustache man could easily break through it. Still, it wasn't supposed to stop him as I did a dropkick and created a double stream of fire coming from the bottom of my feet, creating thermal shock and, at the sa ti, repelling away from my opponents and creating so distance.
It was the correct choice, as only monts later, a blade appeared where I was standing. However, it didn't end there. Knowing that he missed, Ywhach pointed a finger at . At the tip of his finger, a bluish ball of energy started glowing, and it shot forward towards .
It wasn't strong enough to be dangerous to , so I effortlessly cut through it with Tensa Zangetsu. It seed just like I was making attacks as a distraction to attempt an even more devastating strike, so was Ywhach. The mont I cut Ywhach's Heilig Pfeil (Holy Arrow), I was surrounded by multiple Reishi bows and arrows.
"Qualkreis." Ywhach announced. It seed that it was so type of Quincy spell that was similar to Kido in the way it was made.
I rely observed all of the bows with curiosity. They weren't a threat to . I just felt... powerful. Not like I was weak before, but there were always monsters around . Be it my teacher Yamamoto, my own Senpai, Shunsui, and Jushiro, Aizen is always there, and even Urahara and Unohana could be classified as such. Maybe even Yoruichi. But now I was feeling confident for the first ti in forever, and it was against a monster that was planning to face Squad 0, the monsters above monsters.
I wasn't stronger physically, ntally, or anything like that, but I felt... more whole, for lack of a better word. And I don't even need to ntion the options. Holy mother, having all my options back is wonderful. So, as all the arrows shot towards and my 'inevitable' demise, I made a switch with Switcheroo, but it wasn't with Ywhach. No, I decided to volunteer the right hand of the King as I used 'Substitute Jutsu'.
The blonde Quincy was surprised by the sudden change of location, and I don't see why he should be. They were both aware that I could do sothing like that. I literally showed them this ability at the beginning. But standing motionlessly wasn't in the plan, so I released Getsuga Tensho at Yhwach combined with Cero.
The Cero could be more powerful if I used the mask, but there is one thing that makes using my mask not optimal. It didn't have a mouth hole, and I needed my mouth. At this point, I didn't care if anyone discovered my secret since I'd be leaving soon anyway, and fighting the Quincy King with 'cursed' powers would give hopefully enough goodwill for Central 46 to not do anything to my family. Otherwise, I'll just finish Aizen's job for him. I'm joking because it would probably make things worse, but there is always taking my family back with . It, of course, wouldn't be instantaneous, but I'm not leaving my family in trouble that would be caused by .
Ywhach didn't just wait for my attacks to arrive. He yelled "Blut Vene Anhaben" to create a field shield made out of his Blut that stopped my attack. Imdiately after that, my arm hair stood up suddenly.
*~~ *
Not to ntion, I could feel a familiar but, at this point, nostalgic tingle. I moved my head to the right, which was, of course, the correct move, as the blade pierced the space where my head was. I allowed my instincts to take over for a mont and did a spinning kick powered up by fire bending, which did its job by sending my opponent flying.
I took a quick look, and it was Haschwalt. It seems that my small 'prank' wasn't that funny to him and caused him to join the fight. To be honest, it was more preferable to have to fight him and Ywhach at the sa ti. If I fought only Ywhach and Haschwalt were standing there at the side, I could unintentionally hyper-focus on him, and then the blonde Quincy could attack by surprise. The chances may be low, but not zero.
Ti to change my fighting style then.
I sealed back my Banaki and changed to Gyaku Hansha. Holding one of the blades of Gyaku with my water prosthetic was strange, but it was usable, and that was enough for right now. Haschwalt bounced back and rushed back at as fast as he could, and I blocked it.
"You've been having a lot of good fortune to avoid any injuries until this point and acquiring new powers."
Saying these words, sothing shifted. I don't know what, but it did, and suddenly, I slipped as I lost my footing, and my foe capitalized on this chance and pierced my shoulder. Even protecting it with Haki was not enough to stop the injury, and what's worse, it was on my better side. He didn't take his blade out of , pushed to the ground, and pinned down. My blood started to slowly eat away at the blade, which only made the broadsword seem even more impressive, but I shouldn't be too surprised since it was the sa sword that broke Ichigo's Bankai in Canon.
At the sa ti, I could see a giant Reishi bow above , and it started to draw an arrow. My spider sense flared up as it conveyed to the incoming danger.
I tried to free myself and struggled using my uninjured side, but I was quickly subdued by slamming a shield there. Learning from his mistake, he didn't break through my skin this ti, so he wouldn't risk touching my blood. Ti was ticking as I was restrained, and my blood wouldn't be fast enough to destroy the sword that was holding down. However, it was doing its job as Haschwalt's sword seed to slowly go deeper and deeper into , but it was rely an optical illusion because the sword was getting shorter and shorter and was pushed deeper and deeper to keep down. Not having a lot of options, I activated Shunko, and a fiery aura exploded, pushing Haschwalth back and giving enough space to dodge just in ti.
That was dangerous, so trying to buy myself so ti, I changed all the water around into thick mist that would obstruct their vision while I would still be able to move just as well as I was before, thanks to both Haki and my eyes.
I distanced myself as far as I could because what I was planning on doing would be flashy. I started doing wide and slow motions to gather lighting. I needed to hurry because I didn't have a doubt in my mind that they would notice it. It was a very flashy technique, after all, and thankfully, despite lack of practice, I created lightning in record ti. I then pointed two fingers at one of my enemies, and the lightning shot out of them at blinding speed.
The attack hit its target... I was honestly expecting it to miss or be blocked, but I'm not going to look a gifted horse in the mouth, so I rushed in to finish the job. By the Aura signature, I managed to hit Haschwalth, and as I used Shunpo and brought my Zanpakuto above my head, my spider sense started tingling, so believing in it, I backed off, and once again, this decision saved my life because the place where I was attacked and destroyed.
From my experience, Ywhach was sohow weaker than he should be. I don't believe that I would have stood a chance if that was the case, and Haschwalt joining the fight only confird this theory even more. However, it seems that playti is over because Ywhach took out a dallion. It was the sa one that Quincy used to steal Bankai from Shinigami.
"Because of you, we were forced to move our plans up in the tiline, but we were able to create this prototype. We managed to make only one such dallion. Do you wish to guess what it does?"
Not waiting for the answer to this rhetorical question, I tried to use the surrounding water to stop him from using it because it would be really bad for , but no matter how hard I tried to restrain him and prevent him from talking by using water, I didn't succeed.
"Bankai... Zanka no Tachi."
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