CRACK!!!
The shadow space shattered. Invisible spirit particles immediately scattered and fled.
At the same instant, Shigure could immediately sense his connection to Soul Society reopening.
Clearly, after destroying this spirit particle space, he had returned to Seireitei.
At this moment, that tremendous black Cero Reiatsu was already completely uncontrolled, rapidly spreading forward!
The entire hill directly ahead of him, in that instant, suffered this intense impact and was instantly destroyed, completely disintegrating!
BOOM!!!!!
The deafening roar, at that moment, nearly resounded throughout all of Seireitei, echoing endlessly.
Moments later, the black Cero beam gradually disappeared.
What remained was only undispersed smoke and countless fragments of rubble.
However, Shigure didn't continue forward. Instead, he stopped, withdrew his hand, gazed into empty space, and said calmly:
"If you want to attack me, now's your chance."
His words fell. Nothing happened.
It seemed Shigure was talking to himself.
But the next moment, in the air behind him, faint Reiatsu fluctuations began appearing like turbulent currents.
Yet Shigure didn't turn around. Still facing forward, he suddenly chuckled:
"Seems you really enjoy playing these tricks, Sternritter 'D'... Askin Nakk Le Vaar."
The instant his words fell, the Reiatsu fluctuations behind him vanished.
The next moment, not far ahead, a black shadow began appearing.
Immediately after, a Quincy wearing a white hood and Sternritter uniform slowly emerged.
The instant he emerged, he let out an amazed voice.
"My, my, tsk tsk..."
"Should I say 'truly worthy of a Gotei Captain,' or... 'truly worthy of the highest Special War Power'..."
"Never imagined this foolproof method would be seen through so directly..."
"This is somewhat troublesome..."
Speaking, he raised his hand and lifted the hood concealing his face.
At this moment, as he spoke these words, a bead of sweat clearly hung on his forehead.
But strangely, the smile on his face appeared quite relaxed.
This was one of Yhwach's four Schutzstaffel members, responsible for this mission to eliminate Segawa Shigure—
Askin Nakk Le Vaar.
Hearing his words, Shigure's gaze remained unmoved.
The spirit particle fluctuations that appeared behind him earlier were merely Askin manipulating spirit particles.
His true body had actually been hidden in the shadows ahead all along.
Clearly, he wanted to lure Shigure into turning around to complete a surprise attack.
But he never imagined that even detecting those obvious spirit particle currents behind him, Shigure remained completely unmoved, still watching ahead.
With Resonance Eyes, all visual or spiritual perception techniques became completely useless.
"Speaking of which—"
At that moment, Askin spoke again, arms crossed, somewhat puzzled:
"Weren't you acting like you were in a hurry just now...?"
"Why now... are you willing to chat with me?"
Hearing this, Shigure's expression didn't change, and he had no intention of answering.
He was in a hurry earlier only because being isolated prevented him from clearly assessing Seireitei's situation.
After all, he was somewhat concerned that during his containment, Yhwach might directly appear in Seireitei for a massacre.
However, the current situation hadn't reached that degree.
Judging from the Reiatsu conditions, Shigure could clearly determine that Yamamoto Genryusai hadn't begun using Bankai yet.
In other words, at least so far, Yhwach hadn't appeared.
In that case, Shigure indeed didn't need to rush so urgently.
Because he could completely annihilate this important Wandenreich combat power... right here.
Then rush to support the other Captains.
After all, leaving an escaped enemy wasn't his style.
Seeing Shigure not answering but instead watching him, Askin suddenly sighed lightly.
"Sigh, seems you've decided to fight me..."
"Honestly, I'm somewhat embarrassed."
"His Majesty threw you, the 'most important and strongest' target, directly at me... and those two idiots."
"But you, without any pre-battle conversation, directly instant-killed both Quilge Opie and Berenice Gabrielli..."
"In that case, next I must annihilate you alone—"
"This is really troublesome..."
Speaking, Askin raised his hand, poking his temple with his finger.
Though saying words like "troublesome," his expression was clearly quite relaxed, without any sense of tension.
Obviously, he was extremely confident in his own strength.
Hearing these words, Shigure instead chuckled softly.
Seeing this, Askin suddenly froze slightly, then narrowed his eyes.
"What are you laughing at...?"
"Segawa Shigure... are my words amusing?"
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