"Boom!"
Under the enhancement of Blut Vene, Kurosaki Hiro, wielding the Soul Cutter transformed into a light sword, relentlessly slashed at Soma Yoshino's puppet.
After being fiercely pursued and attacked by Kurosaki Hiro, the puppet named Getter seemed to lose its temper, throwing punches with a pair of Darkhands wreathed in raging flames.
Unfortunately, every punch was perfectly parried by Kurosaki Hiro, who held his sword with one hand.
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
In an instant, Getter was struck five or six times by him, emitting sounds like metal striking metal. Each strike caused sparks to fly, landing on Kurosaki Hiro's body. Covered by Blut Vene, these sparks couldn't even scorch his clothes.
"Roar!"
Getter, who had been continuously beaten, let out an unwilling roar, then his flames surged, and he charged towards Kurosaki Hiro once more.
Facing the enraged Getter, Kurosaki Hiro calmly condensed a spiritual bow, drew the bowstring, and at the same time, deactivated Blut Vene, switching to Move Blood Garment.
In a flash, a brilliant Holy Arrow instantly materialized.
"Whoosh!"
This arrow, with its dazzling blue light, shot directly towards the chest of the flame puppet Getter. Seeing this, Getter condensed a massive fireball and hurled it at the Holy Arrow.
"Bang!"
The arrow, shining with blue light, passed directly through the fireball, then shot a large hole through the chest of the flame puppet Getter, causing it to fall weakly to the side.
"Getter!"
Seeing her puppet injured, Soma Yoshino immediately cried out in alarm.
"You should worry about yourself first!"
Kurosaki Hiro directly used Hirenkyaku, bypassing the flame puppet and aiming directly for Soma Yoshino.
In the original plot, these Bount were the product of an experimental accident caused by the predecessor of the Technological Development Bureau, which was the Seireitei Research Institute, using Shinigami souls as experimental subjects.
He was quite interested in these Bount who possessed the ability of immortality. Since he had encountered them now, it was a good opportunity to capture one for research.
"Whoosh!"
Kurosaki Hiro closed in with Hirenkyaku, then covered his right hand with Blut Vene and grabbed at Soma Yoshino.
As a result, Soma Yoshino still wanted to engage in close combat with Kurosaki Hiro, kicking his right arm, but instead, she was jolted back by the Blut Vene, stumbling and falling backward.
"Overestimating yourself!"
Just as Kurosaki Hiro was about to grab Soma Yoshino, countless iron beads, carrying immense power, slammed into Kurosaki Hiro's back and surroundings. At the same time, the flame puppet Getter, who was playing dead on the ground, seized the opportunity and threw several large fireballs at Kurosaki Hiro.
"Clang!"
The iron beads struck Kurosaki Hiro's back, emitting sounds of metal clashing, indicating that these iron beads and fireballs could not break Kurosaki Hiro's defense. However, they raised a large amount of smoke. After the smoke dispersed, Soma Yoshino and her puppet Getter had already vanished.
"Iron beads, could it be Koga Go?"
Seeing the iron beads and associating them with the Bount, Kurosaki Hiro immediately thought of Koga Go, who controlled the Iron Maiden puppet.
"Forget it, don't pursue a cornered enemy."
With Kurosaki Hiro's powerful spiritual perception, he naturally sensed where they had fled, but this Quincy clone had not yet awakened its Sacred Letter and Vollständig, and its strength was still insufficient. If he were to encounter the main Bount force, he would inevitably be in danger.
Since Koga Go was there, Kariya Jin was most likely also present. Although these Bount were not strong, their leader Kariya Jin was a genuine Squad Captain-level combatant, so there was no need for him to risk himself just to capture Soma Yoshino.
Moreover, these Bount had been searching for Quincy for hundreds of years to help them open the interdimensional passage and go to Soul Society for revenge. Even if Kurosaki Hiro didn't look for them, they would most likely come to him.
At the same time, several blocks away.
Soma Yoshino looked at the burly man with headphones and an orange mohawk in front of her with a surprised expression.
"Koga Go, what are you doing here?"
Facing Soma Yoshino's question, Koga Go calmly said:
"Come with me, Kariya Jin is waiting for you!"
"Okay!"
Soma Yoshino suddenly clutched her stomach and crouched down, showing an unusually pained expression.
"What's wrong with you?"
Koga Go stepped forward to ask, but his response was three fireballs. The heat wave from the fireballs stirred up thick smoke. After the smoke dissipated, there was no sign of Soma Yoshino.
"Damn it!"
"Bang!"
Seeing Soma Yoshino slip away from under his nose again, Koga Go angrily punched the wall.
...
After such an incident, Kurosaki Hiro lost interest in playing around anymore and immediately returned to the Star Brilliance Fortress.
"You finished so quickly!"
Ishida Mist looked at Kurosaki Hiro with some surprise, until she took the film recording the number of Menos Grande kills from his hand, only then did she completely believe him.
"You go back first. Once the ritual is ready, I will send someone to inform you to participate in the fusion ritual."
After saying this, Ishida Mist closed her eyes again and lay on the sofa, resting.
"Yes, Lord!"
As soon as Kurosaki Hiro returned to his room and sat down, before his chair had even warmed up, his cheap father popped out. He first looked at Kurosaki Hiro with joy, then grabbed his hands and said excitedly:
"Next, when you absorb His Majesty's blood, you must withstand the Shockof his will. This step is especially crucial. I failed at this step back then!"
"Got it, Dad!"
Kurosaki Hiro gave Kurosaki Tomohiko a brilliant smile.
In his heart, however, he was quite disdainful of this, as he truly didn't believe that a single drop of Yhwach's blood could cause much of a Shockto his will.
Early the next morning, after Kurosaki Hiro finished washing up, he began his daily morning exercise.
Ever since acquiring a physical body, he had been exercising religiously every day. Initially, when this body was young, he only did 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, plus a 10,000-meter long-distance run.
Now, with age, his training intensity had increased by more than tenfold.
He spent three hours every day just on training, but his efforts were worth it.
With the enhancement of his powerful physique, his basic Quincy abilities were pushed to their limit. In terms of spiritual pressure alone, the initial spiritual pressure of this clone was only nine-rank spiritual power.
Due to being in the spiritually barren Human World for a long time, eight years of arduous training only raised his spiritual pressure from nine-rank spiritual power to a level that could barely be considered six-rank spiritual power, which was already remarkable in a spiritually barren land. However, Kurosaki Hiro's actual combat power far exceeded the Vice-Captain level.
This was not only due to his rich combat experience and superb Zanjutsu and Hakuda techniques, but also his strong physical body was one of the important factors.
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