Yoruichi Shihōin's opponent was already injured. There was a bloody hole in her shoulder, but the wound had not been inflicted by her. It was from Katori Sora's "Shiken" attack.
Yoruichi heard the explosions from Kana's side and grew anxious. The situation over there didn't sound good, but she couldn't seem to finish off her own enemy. This opponent's defensive ability was too strong!
The woman's Bakutō could manipulate the earth and rocks, enclosing her in a barrier that Yoruichi couldn't break. And it didn't stop her from using the ground to attack. Yoruichi leaped into the air as the spot where she had been standing split open, and a massive rock pillar shot up, chasing after her.
"Shunkō!" Yoruichi clamped her short sword between her teeth, freeing her hands. A torrent of Spiritual Pressure erupted from her shoulders and back, boosting her Shunpo speed. Swish, swish, swish— Her figure flickered rapidly in mid-air, dodging more than a dozen attacking rock pillars.
"Hah!" Yoruichi used Shunpo to appear before the earthen fortress and, with a low shout, began to bombard the top of it with extremely fast punches. Her Hakuda was already excellent, and under the effect of "Shunkō," each of her punches was imbued with the explosive power of Kidō.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—
The top of the fortress couldn't withstand the continuous assault and collapsed inward. The woman inside looked up at Yoruichi in astonishment but quickly reacted, sending more rock pillars to attack her as the collapsed wall began to close.
The Shunkō effect on Yoruichi's body suddenly dissipated. She took the short sword from her mouth and cried out, "Naruneko!"
BOOM—
Lightning descended from the sky. Yoruichi, bathed in thunder, raised her short sword and plunged it down towards the woman.
Raikiri!
"No!!!" The woman was engulfed in the lightning and turned to charcoal. The remnants of the fortress crumbled.
Yoruichi clutched her abdomen, blood seeping through her fingers. She leaned against a rock to catch her breath. In her haste to finish the fight, she had taken a hit from a rock spike.
She looked over at the other battle. "Looks like they don't need my help. Everyone is so strong!"
...
"It seems that's not a move you can use casually!" Shin Ksaōji said with a sneer, masking his earlier fear. He had noticed that Katori Sora hadn't used the instant-kill move again and had grown bolder.
"I don't need that move to deal with you," Sora said, parrying a thrusting bone blade. He then raised the index finger of his sword hand. "Hadō #4: Byakurai." A white bolt of lightning shot out, forcing Shin back.
Shin's Bakutō allowed him to grow an external skeleton, forming bone armor and blades. "Still not enough..." he thought, deciding he needed to merge further with the sword. He poured more Spiritual Pressure into it, and more power flowed into him. Hiss— Bones pierced through his clothes, his sternum bursting forth.
Then, his whole body bent over, as if in a deep bow. The gruesome chest bones transformed into two rows of giant white appendages, digging into the ground like the legs of an arthropod. His spine rapidly elongated, even growing a long, bony tail. He now looked like a grotesque bone centipede was attached to his back.
"How ugly," Sora said, already by his side, swinging Tenzui Shinkotsu again.
Shin was shocked. After taking just one hit, his Spiritual Pressure had plummeted. He didn't dare to continue feeding the Bakutō. The transformation process stopped abruptly!
Sora didn't continue using the divine weapon's ability; his own Spiritual Pressure couldn't support it. He raised his white blade to block the sweeping bone tail and swung his black blade at Shin's head. CLANG—
Shin curled into a ball, using the hard bone armor on his back to block the Zanpakutō. A metallic sound rang out.
A torrent of Spiritual Pressure instantly erupted from Sora's shoulders and back. Shunkō!
He used Shunpo to get behind Shin with incredible speed, so fast that even the bone tail couldn't keep up. He raised his white blade in an upward slash, lifting his opponent off the ground. Katori Style: Agitowari!
Sora took a half-step forward and fiercely thrust his right-hand black blade. Katori Style: Shungeki! —THUD!
Shin Ksaōji was sent flying into the forest, crashing through all the trees in his path until he hit a massive, ancient tree and finally stopped. CRACK— The giant tree split and fell with a thunderous roar.
"So hard. That bone armor is like a turtle shell," Sora frowned. He could still sense Shin's Spiritual Pressure; he wasn't dead yet.
Sora raised his Zanpakutō to block a bone tail that shot out from the woods. This one was even thicker than before. The grotesque bone centipede charged out. Shin had gone completely mad, feeding all his remaining Spiritual Pressure to the Bakutō in exchange for more power. He now had only one thought—to kill Katori Sora! "Die!!!"
Sora, still in his Shunkō state, directly used a sword technique. His blade burst into a glorious display of lightning. Raikiri! BOOM— The sweeping bone tail was blasted back by the high-voltage shock, but it was not significantly damaged.
Still not enough!
His "Shin-Gi-Ittai" and "Kenshin Tsūmei" abilities activated simultaneously. Sora gained a deeper understanding of Raikiri. He faintly grasped a new trick.
The arcs of lightning on his shoulders, back, and Zanpakutō grew even more intense, as if he were a thunder god descended to earth.
Shunkō: Raikiri Form!
The power of "Shunkō" and "Raikiri". A blue light flashed in the forest. The next moment, Sora's figure appeared a hundred meters behind the bone creature, his black and white twin blades unstained by a single drop of blood.
The bone armor on the giant creature suddenly exploded. A cross-shaped gash appeared on its body. The creature split into four pieces and slowly fell to the ground. At the same time, all the trees between Sora and the creature exploded into splinters.
...
At the Katori Dojo—
Batsunsai and the two Royal Guard members watched the battle on the spiritual light screen.
Shutara Senjumaru said slowly, "The Reigai has grown up. Batsunsai, you can't beat him now, can you?"
"So, have you made up your mind?" Tenjirō Kirinji said, taking out a pill. "This can squeeze out the last of your Spiritual Core's potential. It will let you experience your peak state for an hour or two."
Batsunsai stared at Katori Sora on the screen. After a long time, she said slowly, "A medicine that can return me to my peak?"
"It's been a long time since I've experienced it..."
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