BREAK DOWN! Adalo vs Kuroi Round 4 [R, NDE]

Kuroi's arrival wasn't spectacular at all, simply because he had no need for it to be. In the past, he'd crushed Adalo De-Mona three full times. Why would this time be any different? It didn't matter how much stronger or more adjusted Adalo became. In the end, he was still never any kind of match for Kuroi. And besides that, Kuroi had gotten much stronger too. His ability to wield a blade had changed and made him more powerful. His ability to enhance his physical abilities had gone quite high too. Kuroi was strong. Of course, he'd always been strong. But he'd simply become even stronger as a result of his training. He'd never been someone that would or could ever be constituted as weak. But his ability to use his sword to whole new levels was simply shocking.

Kuroi was, more or less, the devil that was born in Las Noches. No one was stronger than he was within the Espada. In Las Noches, the Arrancar should all know. Kuroi was the strongest of the Espada. This time, it was different. It was no longer a battle of pride and honor. It was, at long last, a battle of rank. In the end, it seemed, this had been agreed to as the final battle. Kuroi was famous as the strongest Espada. How could it be that Adalo was the Primera, if Kuroi was stronger? And in that case, how could it be that Kuroi was the Segunda, if he was the strongest? It was because he liked his rank, of course. He enjoyed the rank of Segunda. And, Kuroi had already set himself to work. He'd in fact spread rumors that the battle had already taken place.

Kuroi had orchestrated rumors which stated Adalo had won this fight. In this way, he would once again be underestimated as one who was not the strongest in the Espada. Adalo would be regarded as the strongest. It was obvious that this had happened. However, this battle came down to pride and rank both. At long last, they would find out who was stronger. This was, as it turned out, perhaps the final battle between the two. As it turned out, the end was here upon them at last. Kuroi and Adalo fought with their honor on the line. Even though Kuroi spread the rumor of Adalo's victory, Adalo's defeat here would shame him forever. It would crush any glory he was given for his supposed, and false victory. That was how it would work.

Kuroi's arrival was simply his walking to the top of one of the statue heads, facing in opposition from Adalo. Each one was on one head of one statue, and they were facing each other. Kuroi was standing there in his ordinary garb. Black, unbuttoned blazer with rough white button-up and black tie underneath. Matching black dress pants and shiny shoes. Black silk gloves, one on each hand. His hair was rough, short, black. His eyes were black in that moment, carefully watching Adalo De-Mona. It was at last time to end this battle between the two of them. After years, it had finally become time...for the final showdown. Their final confrontation was upon them. Their final destiny had arrived. At last, the end. "Prepare yourself, Adalo De-Mona. This is how your world ends."



OOC: Regardless of the result, public knowledge is that Adalo won this fight.

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An attack! But Adalo was forgetting something. Kuroi was an absolute master at close up combat. His ability to use a sword was unparalleled in terms of combat. In an instant, Kuroi kicked up his left foot just slightly, and a flash of venom green light unveiled one of his katana blades. It was a blade with a slight curve to it, like a lightning bolt. It was also black. It was the cursed sword, Ryu No Ketsuatsu Kou. Kuroi was using it because it was perfectly suited for facing an opponent like Adalo. It was only natural that this be the first blade of Kuroi's katanas for Adalo to encounter. It was because this cursed blade could also destroy his opponent's weapon. Adalo, with his inferior reiatsu strength, wouldn't understand what hit him until later.

He materialized all around Kuroi, slashing with two handed slashes. Kuroi recognized them all immediately. They were all the same attack. And they were all the attack which Adalo had employed in their previous battle, and also killed Sokujin with. It would be no good for Kuroi to fight against this. Certainly, he knew, he couldn't allow it to hit him. Wind strikes were definitely coming at him, and they would hit him even through his Hierro. In an instant, Kuroi vanished from that center point using a Sonido. He normally wouldn't use a step technique like that, but he did realize that a mere jump wouldn't help him with those wind strikes. Getting into the air, staying up on the air ground, Kuroi observed as Adalo proceeded to move again, this time moving back to send more strikes at Kuroi.

In an instant, Kuroi blurred. He let himself drop, descending so that the wind strikes would miss regardless, and he landed back on the statue head, kicking off of it and straight towards Adalo, who was also heading towards him. It was going to be quite a showdown. Kuroi had to counter what his opponent did, and he had to counter it perfectly. His blade smashed against Adalo's blade, which was using a technique unknown to Kuroi about being used. Adalo's demon firecracker, which caused a ricochet bounce, was about to backfire. Kuroi's blade slid across Adalo's with great friction as their blades met. Kuroi felt his arms strain and tense, and his body skid back as Adalo proceeded with his bouncing blade three times. Adalo's physical strength overpowered Kuroi in totality. However, his blade slid against Adalo's four total times.

Adalo's raw power sent Kuroi flying back, skidding away and out of further retaliation range. Adalo wouldn't know it until later, but those four scrapings had been Kuroi dulling Adalo's blade. A couple more exchanges, and Adalo's Zanpakuto might lose the ability to cut. This was Ryu No Ketsuatsu Kou's special ability. This was its special property. Kuroi then decided that he'd kick things off with his own attack against Adalo. He blasted forwards, and his body seemed to melt into a liquifying style. It seemed like black flames were flickering around Adalo momentarily and constantly as Kuroi attacked, using a style which he'd formed as a customization of Grimoire Acero's. This was...the true extent of Kuroi's new strength.

"Jigoku No Yuza Settei Ato: Mazu Katana Yoshi. Kuro Ikari-En."

Kuroi's Remaining Reiatsu: 2900 Reiatsu

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Kuroi was surprised. He didn't want to show that he was surprised, but he was all too surprised. Adalo was able to bend and snap his body into all sorts of awkward, and seemingly painful angles and positions to counteract Kuroi, and defend against him. Most people wouldn't have the stomach to do such a thing, but Kuroi knew better. He knew differently. Adalo was a maniac. He not only had it in him to take that level of pain, but to take advantage of it to further fuel himself while he was fighting and attacking. Kuroi also knew that even after he defended, when he started changing to his one hand slash, his physical strength was far too much. He'd felt the massive ache in his arms, sword, and body after that last blow. If he tried to guard against more attacks, Kuroi was in deep trouble. He couldn't afford to do it again.

To defend himself, he launched into a new attack sequence. This was his first time trying to use this attack type defensively, but he was certain that it would work. "Jigoku No Yuza Settei Ato: Ban-Me Katana Yoshi. Hai No Ame." Kuroi's body broke into fluid sequences of movement, shifting around, back and forth in zig zag patterns while remaining in place. His feet shifted around a little bit every now and again, but his blade continuously stabbed forwards. It looked like a pelting rain, though it was on and off. Between drizzle and actual rain, that was the appearance of it. It was a weaker version of Grimoire Acero's Rain of Red technique. Kuroi could use the mastered version, but he didn't want to use up reiatsu just yet.

In this way, Kuroi knocked around Adalo's blade, simultaneous to consistently stabbing at him. Kuroi didn't go into it expecting any of his attacks to hit, though surely they could hit if Adalo did nothing about them. More accurately, Kuroi used a strike placement to knock into the side of Adalo's blade each time. He'd been too close to Adalo to just dodge. So instead, he had his blade knock around Adalo's, sending it clanging off toward the side. It resulted in the blade missing Kuroi because it was knocked away. The stabs interrupted, pierced, and destroyed the Bala as well. It even caused the wind strike to go next to Kuroi, instead of into him, without Kuroi knowing it. He lucked out in this regard. Next, it was time for Kuroi's own attack.

He backed off after this, taking several good steps away from Adalo. It was time for Kuroi to get into this with his own attacks. He wasn't going to go partial like he did against inferior opponents. Adalo was too strong for it. Kuroi was done warming up. He was going to force Adalo into his strongest level powers. Kuroi's body instantly started turning red, steaming with red steam as well as a Cero's energies burst throughout him repeatedly. "Kakucho Cero." Kuroi noted. His muscles were enhancing themselves. They were growing stronger, and more powerful. Everything was getting better. His speed shot up. And instantly, Kuroi blasted forwards, straight into Adalo. His speed was so far superior, Adalo would be caught offguard, unable to defend properly as Kuroi launched into a normal attack. "Jigoku No Ato: Dai Sodofomu. Ikari-En." Grimoire's fully fledged attack. Rage flames. It was like black flames surrounded Adalo everywhere. Kuroi was going to kill him that way.

Kuroi's Remaining Reiatsu: 2500 Reiatsu

Kakucho Cero - Speed: 1/4

Current Speed: 600

OOC: Don't forget to maintain that Adalo will be losing 350 reiatsu when his partial fades.

Strong. Fast. Impressive. Adalo had grown, but Kuroi was not one to take two wounds so easily as all that. His left hand, free, shot up. His left foot flicked, and a burst of light exploded in front of Kuroi. Next instant, held in his left hand, there was a weapon. A new sword. It was guardless, and it was a straight, shiny blade. It looked sharp, and had a violet wrapping around the hilt. It had the word "Contrivance" carved into the blade flat for decoration or something similar. Sakebu No Ame, one of Kuroi's two cursed blades. He was using it because it was good for the situation. Kuroi arced his left arm, carving towards Adalo's blade with a superior speed as he aimed to block. His blade clashed with Adalo's, the weight forcing it against Adalo's sword with greater aggression and force than expected. Tiny wind currents also pushed Adalo's blade back a bit, weakening its force.

Kuroi jumped back, knowing that he couldn't avoid the loss of an arm at that point. But the issue was that he was holding a sword in that arm. He made sure to drop the blade before his arm was fully off, and it disappeared as it neared his shoe, vanishing in the same flash of venom green light from which it had appeared. Kuroi had gotten rid of Ryu No Ketsuatsu Kou, storing it once more. His foot flicked with that same movement backwards. A new flash of light erupted, and a katana with an ornate black hilt wrapping sprouted. This one did have a guard, and Kuroi took a hold of it in his right hand, which came from the arm that sprouted. His hierro had shut off, and he'd activated his high speed regeneration. His arm shot out to grab hold of Ashirein, a blade Kuroi had had forged purely for himself.

Two blades were in his grasp. Time to step his game up. He still had that incredible speed, so it was certainly worth attacking Adalo with some amped up attacks. Kuroi didn't move just yet. Adalo had gotten faster and stronger in one. Kuroi needed to step it up too. His body started steaming more heavily as he pushed more reiatsu out into it with an internal Cero. Within a few instances, his steaming was heavier, but Kuroi had gotten progressively faster. Kuroi launched forwards instantly, blazing forwards at an incredible speed. He couldn't match Adalo's arm speed. He couldn't match Adalo's leg speed. He however had a speed which far exceeded the rest of his opponent's body. This was all that mattered to him in the end. It would get what he wanted.

Kuroi attacked purely from Adalo's left side, his blades moving at incredible, blazing speeds. He was using new methods of attack again. This time, he was using some of Nishiru Tokoheita's blade works, which he'd picked up not long ago. His blades were like a flood. It was a sudden torrent, a downpour of rain. Except Kuroi was even faster than Nishiru was when Nishiru ordinarily used this style. It meant that it was even more brutal and deadly. In some places, like Buffalo, rain could fall in sheets. It was that rainy. A single half second would be soaking. And this of course was what the style imitated. Except it was sheets all around and everywhere. Kuroi was using two blades, not one. And his speed was incredible. Adalo would be carved into nothingness from every single side and angel by rainy sheets. If he let even a single "drop" or "part of a sheet" touch him, it was as good as over, definitely. Kuroi's voice could be heard. "Asa No Ame: Jihi No Ato."

Kuroi was going to try to hurry it up, though. Having used Kakucho Cero, he knew that he couldn't sustain his body all that long. Yes, he had high speed regeneration. It would do a lot of fixing. It might even last him until the end of the fight. But sooner or later, even with regeneration, his body would definitely give out. In fact, Kuroi had never used Kakucho Cero for an extended period of time. This might be just a bit worrying.

Kuroi's Remaining Reiatsu: 1800 Reiatsu

Kakucho Cero - Speed: 2/8

Current Speed: 800

(400 was used in this post's Kakucho Cero. 300 for Hierro deactivation. 700 total.)

Kuroi knew he was going to get hit, and hurt massively. He couldn't delay it anymore. He released both swords once his wrists were caught, and his black gloved left hand opened up. A black light materialized around his hand, and a new katana formed from this. It had intricate violet flame patterns, barely visible, decorating the blade. It was Kuroi's own Zanpakuto. His reaction was instant. His blades had already been dropped, and his arms were about to go somehow. He knew that Adalo was about to cause massive damage. He had seen that speed earlier, felt that strength. And his own Silencio Hazo was working against him. It was no wurse. He could no longer delay fighting at his fullest throughout this fight. With his Zanpakuto out, Kuroi could find a way to survive this fight.

"Silence, Hora." he said. A sudden explosion of reiatsu rocked the area, a huge column of black erupting from Kuroi. Adalo was shoved backwards and away from Kuroi by this sudden release, which of course negated his punches impacting Kuroi. Kuroi still received blasts of wind force from those powerful punches, and so he was sent skidding back. Regardless, it didn't matter. Kuroi had a way to end this fight once and for all. He was still under Silencio Hazo. He couldn't just use his own. In the end, Adalo was in fact still faster. The speed difference would be too much. He didn't have the time to charge up and use Kakucho Cero while under an opposing Silencio Hazo. So he had to do something else. Kuroi puzzled all of that out instantly during the time of his release explosion.

When it faded, he was in a black scale suit that covered his whole body except his head. His hands and feet were black and clawed, and he had wrist slits over the tops of his wrists, and they looked as if they were meant for something sinister. His aura was cold, evil. His hair was medium length, spiked, like a mane around his head. His eye whites had turned black, and his iris had turned golden. Kuroi was not going to be using this power, though. He'd just done it because he needed to. He couldn't keep fighting in that way. "Engulf the world in darkness, Hora Ultimo." Instantly, Kuroi's reiatsu exploded around him in a deadly collapsing sound, with a clap like thunder roaring across the area. When his reiatsu faded from him, his scale suit was gone. The wrist slits were part of his skin.

The bottom part of his scale suit was there, but his shirt was gone. His hair had elongated even more, and his iris had turned crimson red. Large demonic bat wings tore themselves out of his back, becoming visible then. And, with that, a large silver dome materialized, shiny, over Adalo and Kuroi. Silencio Hazo instantly faded away, replaced by this dome. "Cesar Del Vida." Kuroi noted. His power negated reiatsu based effects. Adalo's ressurection powers were thus useless. Kuroi didn't know if Adalo's increases would extend to his dome or not. Typically they wouldn't, but the tattoos were still there. It wasn't impossible. Kuroi didn't want to underestimate this opponent that had already caused him so much damage. Instead, he would just use his best attacks against Adalo and end this once and for all.

Kuroi's body began massively, heavily steaming even further. He was upgrading his powers again. He was going to pour a huge surge of reiatsu into himself. His body was steaming heavily, and in fact his pores were bleeding too. He was consumed in red. Adalo would barely even be able to see Kuroi beneath the red steam and the blood coming out of his pores. His body hurt everywhere. All over the place. He was taking some massive damage for using Kakucho Cero like this. He technically wasn't supposed to use it to this extent. He was really fast, and really strong too. But his body was breaking down. High speed regeneration could no longer keep up with Kuroi's increases. His muscle damage was insane. And his body was rapidly deteriorating inside. He'd allowed Kakucho Cero to go on for a while this time. And he'd increased himself far beyond his own physical limits.

At any rate, Kuroi figured that it really wasn't worth delaying it and letting his powers go to waste. His body would soon be massively degraded for use of this anyway. His body quickly began steaming even more, but with different colors too. Kuroi could feel the pain as well. It was like every single individual cell in his body was burning up. Kuroi's eyes glowed a hot red, and his skin, though steaming red, turned a ghastly white. The blood coming from his pores began to evaporate. He even threw up blood, and it evaporated as it left his mouth, making it seem like he exhaled red steam. Some of the steam was white, not just red. "Kakucho Deka." Kuroi noted the name of the technique. "Double." His body was really starting to be this odd mix of colors.



A single flash of light in front of him revealed a sword in his grasp. Ryu No Ketsuatsu Kou. Kuroi had to use only this single blade for what he was planning on doing. He had to end this as quickly as he could. His body would not last much longer at all. He held his cursed black blade in a loose, dangling grip in his right hand. He moved into a kendo stance, his muscles loose, his blade angled downwards as he took a two handed grip. I can feel it... Kuroi thought to himself. Adalo's breath...I can hear it...I can feel it. His heart. The breath of my stolen swords. The ground beneath me. Everything. I feel their souls. I feel how they flow. This...I can end it quickly. I can end it right now. He exhaled simply one more time. Right now...I am one with everything. I am everything, and I am also...individual...

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Kuroi disappeared instantly. He started off with Sonido. Under his current state, Sonido was a 20x increase to speed, rather than 13x. However, it didn't matter anyway. He was so intuned with everything that it didn't need this kind of speed. He was like a part of the air. He was unavoidable. Kuroi approached Adalo, but Adalo would never be able to perceive it. Kuroi's attacking was perfect. He could not be witnessed. He was so fluid that he seemed to have an unattainable speed no matter how fast Adalo moved. It didn't help that Kuroi actually was so fast that Adalo didn't have a single chance of keeping up even if he did see Kuroi move. It was as if Adalo had blinked and missed Kuroi's entire attack. This was what it would seem like. He would be caught offguard.

It was purely impossible for him to perceive and keep up with Kuroi's flawless, perfect movements at that point. His style was incredible. His power was one of the top, one of the very best. Adalo, regardless of attempts to dodge, wouldn't even be able to move to keep up with this single, slashing attack, as Kuroi made it in front of him and struck. It was aimed to decapitate, and nothing more. No guarding would work. Any defenses Adalo used would just be carved through instantly. Anything he blocked with would just be cut and destroyed. It was as simple as all that. It was the perfect attack, and Kuroi used it more than once. He shifted around, using his attack in nine different, perfect slashes which probably could be neither blocked nor dodged. His final attack.

"Akuma No Ichi Ha: Kamisama To Sandarein"

Kuroi's Remaining Reiatsu: 600 Reiatsu [4400 reiatsu expended when released state ends]

Ressurection Segunda Etapa: 1/12

New Spiritual Pressure: 100

Kakucho Cero - Speed: 3/20

Kakucho Cero - Strength: 1/12

Kakucho Cero - Senses: 1/12

Kakucho Deka: 1/5

Current Speed: 3400 (200 from SP into speed, 1000 from reiatsu into 500 speed, 50% increase from original base 400 with wings. Doubled from Kakucho Deka.)

Current Strength: 1600 (1200 reiatsu for 600 strength boost. +900 from Kakucho Deka.)

Current Senses: 1300 (1200 reiatsu for 600 senses boost. +600 from Kakucho Deka.)