After a lot of time passed, I am now promoted to 19th seat. Interestingly I am the only one who has reached this stage without awakening my zanpakuto. This did not mean that I am weak, while there were few other changes. Now the 20th seat was yumiko the one I went on the mission with, and another shocker was Azuma was now directly promoted to 15th seat. Considering his strength, it was appropriate. But the most frustrating thing was Kyoko was now 9th seat.
After my fight with that kawakami guy, I thought that kyoko's power was like Arms Arms devil fruit. After fighting with her few times, I knew that was the case, so I had to make my way to squad 12 and pay bribe to get the latest to see some of the latest weapons which was only old rifles and grandees, the time was at the world war one period.
But it was enough to increase kyoko powers to incredible levels, also familiarizing with her zanpakuto has also increased her spiritual pressure to a new level. Few more years she will be lieutenant grade and few more decades she will become a fine captain level soul reaper. 'We will enjoy hell together'.
But this also increase our time together less, kyoko was a good soul reaper hence she did her works diligently unlike many others.
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Today was a very gloomy day, it was raining heavily.
"Alert, alert, all seated officers report to the squad assembly hall. All soul reapers to be alert" a huge announcement was raised.
"What is happening", "I don't know all the captains are assembled to squad 1".
Everyone was tensed.
"All ranked officer from lieutenant to 10th seat will be heading to west rukon district, you will be led by squad 10 captian Saito nawaki. There is a huge outbreak in that area, the situation must be handled as soon as possible. Please leave immediately and all officers from 10th rank to 20th rank will be on support unit and will be under squad 9 captain tosen, you all are also responsible for safety of medical support team" Aizen issued orders.
"More than half of the squad members will head to confront the hollows. If you all follow along the orders, we should be victories" aizen said.
With that speech everyone left, the hollow outbreak is something which rarely happens, according to records last hollow outbreak was around nearly 150 years ago. And behind every hollow outbreak there is a powerful hollow commanding them, most likely a vasto lords. Even a captain may die if not careful.
Soon members of other squads started to join in, the squad members of 10th, 11th, 9th, 8th, 5th and 4th division were rushing to west rukon district.
"I have never seen such a big scale battle before" I spoke, shocked over the situation.
"This is literally a war, if we were defeated the whole seireitei will be sent out to fight" lieutenant of squad 10 isshin shiba answered. He was a little famous in the seireitei so it was easy to identify him.
Soon we saw the war front, huge hollows with 10's of Gillian's started to blast ceros. While numerous hollows were fighting the front liners, this was similar as fighting in hueco mundo.
Hollows just kept pouring, "Hado number# 31 sakkaho".
"You there just because you are a support team member does not mean you can relax, this is a war enemy can attack at anytime" a soul reaper spoke, I did not know him but I understood the situation. It was no use in getting tensed.
Squad 10 captain was actively killing hollows one by one, as if he was killing few cockroaches. The gillians were being killed by seated officers. And some small fry hollows were constantly killed by the low-level soul reapers.
We the support team, would actively bring over the injured once for healing and others will be sent to support to fill the injured person place.
From one point of view, it is all messed up, but from my view I could see how efficiently they are battling. In a war there are members whose mind are not correct, especially if they are strong. In the fight the individuals care only for themselves and their close comrades.
While some are using their comrade's corpse as a shield, this is a place where there was no rules. It was truly a place where an individual will show his true self, without restrains they fight to death.
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The battle was going on for three days now, there were more than a hundred casualties, kyoko was fighting at the front line, most of the 5th squad officers are on frontlines due to many casualties but I am stuck here because I happened to know stupid kaido technique.
I am becoming anxious over kyoko battling; she has been fighting for 2 days straight. I want to rush there but, I know better than to act like fool and simply followed orders to save the life of the soul reaper in front of me.
After healing the person, I wanted to rush to her side, "Captian kaname, please let me fight. I cannot simply watch this; I made a promise to protect".
"20th seat Kozuki arya, don't ask this to me again. Even if you went there what can you do, you have more value at this place then there" kaname said.
"Don't worry, the hollows have decreased considerably the one controlling them should appear at any moment".
The battle continued, as more and more hollows were eliminated, soon the battle has completely turned to our victory.
Just when we thought we are going to win this battle, a heavy spiritual pressure fell on the entire battlefield, I was barely able to even keep standing.
I struggled to look at the place of fighting only to see a horror.
Squad 10 captian Saito nawaki had a huge claw in his gut, while captian kaname was beside him striking the hollow.
"Captian" Isshin shiba screamed and attacked the new hollow, it was way too powerful. With a kick it sent isshin flying. And captian saito was bleeding heavily.
Gin and others attacked but were intercepted by other hollows. But the one I am concerned about is kyoko, where is she.
I was having a panic attack, she was nowhere to be found.
Suddenly few hollows started to fire cero at our healing team camp.
The power of this cero was several times stronger than the gillians cero, and its coverage was massive.
I had no time to think so I had to use the strongest spell in my arsenal, this was my secret I had managed to learn two hight level barrier techniques, which was even used to fight an espada.
"Brethren-in-arms withdrawing for the distance of 8 sun and standing still, blue bolt, white bolt, black bolt, red bolt, sinking into the ocean together seeking redemption"
"KOKO NO JOMON"
Over a dozen pillar formed to making a door-like barrier in front of the camp.
I had used up a lot of energy to make this barrier, I was exhausted.
The cero hit the barrier but the barrier blocked it, I was thinking it was safe when suddenly the barrier started to crack.
"Which hollow can produce this much powerful cero" I thought, this barrier was a very high level, it has the same value as a level 80's kido technique.
The barrier slowly cracked down, but the cero has already lost a considerable level of power, still the barrier lost first.
It's all over I am dead before I can gain my OP power, I closed my eyes. I can see the Kyoko face, If only I can activate at least one of gift, or may be this was all a lie. I can save these poor soul reapers a few more seconds.
"Hee yeahhhh" I was very determined, I wanted to see kyoko face one last time.
I clashed with the cero head on, in a head on clash. Finally, even if my zanpakuto had lot of cracks the cero perished first.
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