A blue beam of energy shot across the sky, shattering the night's silence.
The patrol guards quickly noticed the commotion. They immediately reported the incident and began to converge on the scene.
This was Sora's goal. He wanted to make the incident as public as possible.
Otherwise, the evidence in the files might be suppressed by Central 46.
The files were tied to too many cases, and the souls used to forge the blades were almost all from the Rukongai.
The Kasumiōji family was part of Central 46. If this were exposed, it could cause discontent among Shinigami born in the Rukongai.
For the sake of stability, Central 46 might choose to protect the Kasumiōji family.
But if the incident was big enough from the start, they would struggle to cover it up and would likely be forced to cut the Kasumiōji family loose.
In the records room—
The Kidō Sora had unleashed was the signal for the guards to attack.
Once the spell tore through the floor, they could no longer stand by and swarmed toward him.
The guards had initially wanted to ignore Kyōraku Shunsui, but he blocked their path.
"Hey, hey, am I so unimportant?" Shunsui said, intercepting six men.
Even while fighting one against six, he still had time to taunt his opponents.
He saw the commotion Sora had caused and decided to stall for time until the patrol guards arrived.
The guards, facing a captain-level powerhouse, had little will to fight and were only attacking out of duty.
The two sides clashed with a constant ringing of blades, but neither had even released their Zanpakutō.
Sora faced a single opponent: the guard captain, a capable fighter.
Tora Kasumiōji
Talent: B+
Spiritual Pressure: Lv 79
Affinity Level: Hostile
His Spiritual Pressure was close to lieutenant level. He released his Zanpakutō from the start, putting Sora under immediate pressure.
Tora Kasumiōji swung his blade. "Fall asleep, Yumebaku!"
A black mist poured from the blade, quickly filling the room.
Sora immediately held his breath to avoid inhaling it, but the mist still seeped through his skin.
The next moment, he felt the world spin as if his consciousness were being pulled away.
When he came to, he was no longer in the records room.
"This is a dream world?" Sora deduced from the Zanpakutō's release command and name.
He pinched his arm. His sense of touch and pain were still present, and his mind was clear.
"The first layer: a lucid dream," Tora said, stepping out of the mist. "You will be lost in the dream I create until you fall into an eternal slumber."
To die in this dream meant his consciousness would collapse, and in reality, he would be left mindless.
Sora raised the index finger of the hand gripping his sword. "Hadō #4: Byakurai."
A flash of lightning shot out, instantly piercing Tora's body.
No blood flowed from the wound. Through the hole, Sora could see that Tora's body was composed of black mist.
This was just an illusion, not Tora's real body.
Sora tried to sense the Spiritual Pressure around him, but the mist greatly interfered with his perception.
He felt that Tora was stalling for time. He immediately flipped his blade and plunged it into the ground.
His shadow shot out, spreading deep into the black mist.
"Oh? An ability to control shadows?" Tora's voice echoed.
"But this is a dream. I can create an environment of complete darkness. Without light, can you still control your shadows?"
As he spoke, the already gray sky instantly darkened. The entire world was plunged into darkness.
Suddenly, with a crackling sound, lightning began to flicker on Sora's black blade and across his body.
Light once again illuminated the world. Lightning was also a form of light.
The shadows reappeared, spreading rapidly into the mist.
Found him.
The moment his shadow touched Tora, the Spiritual Pressure consumed by his Shadow Bind spiked, revealing Tora's location.
Sora gripped the hilt and pulled his blade from the ground as if performing "Ryūkō."
The ground was his scabbard.
A sword light erupted, and the lightning arcing around the blade shot forward with it.
Raikiri Ryūkō!
The lightning-infused blade arrived in an instant. Tora had no time to dodge.
The lightning blade pierced his chest and exploded within his body, blasting a bloody hole through his back.
Tora fell to his knees, a faint smile on his lips.
"Cough, cough—you are strong... but it's too late..."
He pitched forward, and another Tora stepped out of the mist.
This one was also the real body.
"The second layer: a repetitive dream," the new Tora said with a laugh.
His Zanpakutō's ability needed time to unfold. Now, in the second layer, the dream would constantly repeat.
Until his Spiritual Pressure ran out, he could not be truly killed.
"I can die countless times, but you only have one life!" Tora grinned savagely and swung his sword at Sora.
CLANG—
Sora calmly blocked the attack. He didn't believe such a thing; there had to be a limit.
The temperature around Sora's body dropped rapidly. Frost formed on his eyebrows and hair.
He opened his mouth slightly, exhaling a puff of white mist containing ice crystals.
At the same time, a snowflake-like ice crystal suddenly grew on Tora's Zanpakutō.
The ice spread rapidly from the blade, soon covering his hands and body with more snowflake-like ice crystals.
Sōtenkyōbu!
A fierce wind suddenly kicked up, and the ice crystals on Tora's body exploded.
The blood mist froze the instant it left his body.
Red and white ice crystals danced in the air, transforming into countless blades of blood-colored ice.
Tora's body was torn to shreds, covered in countless small wounds, but no blood flowed out. It had already frozen inside him.
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