Knowledge of Love (Hokori Vs. Cupid.) R, NDE.

A giant Sekimon gate opened over the outskirts of Karakura Town, red light poured through the window panes as it's existence became apparent to the human world. As the Gate opened, red light poured out into the dusky sky. In the light of the opened gate a figured was approaching. He took two steps out of the sekaimon and then raised his right hand and snapped his fingers. The sekaimon closed and vanished into the sky of the setting sun, and with it's banishment brought an unusual amount of cold air. The air was figurative, for on the air was an intent of unheard of malice. Acid green eyes surveyed the hills and came across the Mansion they housed. The reiastu was there, just as the R&D Division had reported. However, now that Hokori was within range he could sense multiple reiastu signitures of various races.

There were a weak Mod Soul signature, a weak Fullbringer, and the Quincy. That was odd, the Vandenreich looked down on all other races. Perhaps they were recruits, still it would not matter for the level of them the only one with even close to a shot of being a challenge would be the Quincy. The captain of the fifth division's reiastu sparked and began to rain acid as his spiritual pressure began to leak out. Hokori's gravitational pressure rained down upon the mansion, flattening almost all of the occupants to the ground. Florian Quinn and Pandora would both inside the mansion be suddenly pressed against the floor as they were forced to their knees or more by the all consuming pressure.

Hokori waited for the one signature to come outside and meet him. The only one who could stand against him, he couldn't use bankai in this fight and Blut would be a problem. He however was confident that he was going to beat this quincy into the ground and break him. Bring him before the Gotei and have him executed, the quincy would pay for their transgressions. Hokori was not in a good mood and he wasn't in the mood to hold back, except for the bit about his bankai not being able to be used. But he had a feeling that it wouldn't be necessary, because today he was going to enjoy taking this quincy down.

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[Weapon: Sword] {4}

[Martial Arts: Hakuda] {3}

[Intellectual Skill: Memory] {3}

[Physical Skill: Acrobatics] {3}

[Intellectual Skill: Imitation] {1}[/spoiler]

There was a flicker and then Hokori's body was pierced by multiple arrows. One in the throat, an arrow in each shoulder, followed by an arrow in each lung. However after a moment of impact the body the Arrows impacted vanished like a fractured image. Ducking the Arrows and closing in Hokori drew his zanpakutou and mentally released it with his right hand while in his left formed a tome. As the tome finished forming he came out of his step technique. It wasn't shunpo but another type of step technqiue called Shukuchi-Ho, as long as the opponent was within range of fifteen yards, this technique could be used to evade attacks or to get inside a person's range for close quarters combat. Hokori's senses were hightened to that of an animal and heard the imapact that his image recieved. So he's using arrows that require high energy sensory. No matter.

Cupid then began speaking and in that moment he'd hear a sound, a book closing. If he bothered looking at his bow he'd notice something. A tome closed over it, completely engulfing and nullifying it into nothingness. The captain was right in front of him, and although he with high instinct and Energy sensory wouldn't of had trouble tracking Hokori through the step. The sheer chance that Hokori's release could shut down reiastu was slim to none, what was worse was that although he absorbed the release it was still Cupid's soul weapon. and at that moment a tattoo appeared on the back of Cupid's neck with the Kanji "to tell." Cupid's stats and abilities flooded Hokori's mind along with the techniques that he was attempting to use. Something called Eigenschaft, but that was not important.

Hokori kept his crouched pose and let Cupid finish his little speech, then retorted with his own. "The last thing I'll ever do is make sure every Quincy that destroyed my home burns... The Vandenreich will all burn." In that moment he spun and aimed a kick at the left arm and torso of the Quincy, however with his high energy sensory Cupid would notice that reiastu was spinning at a high output around Hokori foot that struck out at him looking to strike him. At the same time he brought his katana up and sliced sideways. Ink from Hokori's shikai flew from the blade to land on cupid. A sickly green color, to land on his clothes and skin. This fight was heating up fast, what would Cupid do now that Hokori had shown that he could shut down a Quincy's bow release. Not to mention he was able to move with a speed equal to Cupid's this would be interesting.

Remaining Reiastu: 3350/3500 (-150 for Shikai mental activation)

Shikai Post Count:1/10

Hokori came out of his step and noted that Cupid had been able to track him. Otherwise Hokori would have been able to absorb the bow. That was frustrating, it seemed that this quincy was fast enough that keep out of his range and his senses were great enough that he could track Hokori. Okay. If that was how he wanted to play it. Hokori stepped off with a shunpo, appearing off to the left of the quincy. He took another step immediately after and then another. Stepping around the quincy trying to out pace the quincy's senses and instincts. However it seemed that this Quincy's eyes were especially keen. Hokori stopped out of his third shunpo 40 yards below and to the left of the quincy. Circling the quincy using shunpo had allowed Hokori to avoid the arrows he didn't even know where there.

Hokori exhaled and raked in this quincy with his eyes. He had on such a preculiar outfit. No medals, no white military outfit, and more importantly. This quincy had not spoke of the Emperor once, nor had he used Cold Fire. Was it perhaps on chance that the R&D department had managed to locate a quincy that was not part of the Vandenriech? If so that changed everything, he wasn't limited in the way he was before. Not only was his body and release safe from the cold fire, but his bankai was safe from being stolen. That meant that he could finish this little bird in one move. Hokori's eyes began to glow and he smiled. It was a sadistic smile, "You're truely an extraordinary specimen, I look forward to breaking you." He raised his blade, He didn't want to waste his bankai but he didn't have any techniques that would allow for him to catch the damn archer.

"Bankai"

His reiastu exploded outwards in a green lighted explosion, his blade shimmered and another became corporeal with it's ink flowing outwards. His Tome however exploded into rieastu that formed large heavy leather-backed Tomes. One thousand of them flew through the sky and around them something else would draw Cupid's eyes. One hundred Thousand Papers circled around the two combatants. Even more papers were spilling out of the Tomes. Hokori's Haori flapped wildly in the wind. His eyes were on the Quincy, If this quincy was apart of the Vandenriech he'd steal Hokori's bankai. And if he wasn't, then this fight was about to get bad for the Quincy. Hokori's bankai was actually better suited to fight quincy then any other race. However the new developments by the Vandenreich had made it impossible for the Captain to safely use his release.

"Kyousei No Sousho, Wan Shi Tong."

The entire release seemed harmless, but only for a moment as the papers suddenly broke out and started to form into a giant orb completely encasing the Quincy three hundred and sixty degrees. Once that orb was completed the papers all closed in on the quincy at once. Now one could argue that papers wouldn't do much physically to someone of an athletic nature, but imagine if you tore out 100,000 papers and then had them travel at 60 miles an hour clumped together and they hit you? You'd be lucky very lucky not to be killed from the lack of oxygen after a while, let alone from the massive weight and pressure. However, these papers twisted and turned upon colliding with Cupid causing severe paper cuts. Again one could laugh at Hokori. But 100,000 papers all twisting and turning cutting into your skin would cause thousands of tiny cuts that would all bleed causing massive blood loss.

Stepping through them would only cause the same thing that Hokori was trying to make happen, happen. Hokori wasn't sure if the Quincy had a defensive technique. When they were all past Cupid the papers would separate from the quincy showing his form, the ink on the pages although dry would be scraped into the wounds causing for advanced corrosion. Cupid would be torn all over and bleeding all over his body. And his mind would start to feel as if it was becoming clouded and foggy. The papers and Tomes themselves were naturally releasing that Ink on their as an inhalant to further corrode Cupid's mind. Hokori however was still just standing them with tomes floating open around him defensively, How would Cupid react to the sudden onslaught. They were paper so individually his release was easy to destroy but in bulk Hokori's release would crush almost anyone. "Let's see you run away now quincy, you'll never join the vandenriech and you'll never harm my home."

Remaining reiastu: 2900/3500 (-300 for Bankai Release, -150 for Shunpo x3)

Bankai Post Count: 1/10

Air Inhalant Corrosion 5 per post:1/10

Clothing Corrosion 5 per post:1/6

Skin Corrosion 10 per Post:1/3

Bloodstream Corrosion 20 per post:1/3

Total Instinct Drained: 40

Cupid's New Instinct: 160

It seemed that the Quincy had evolved, as Hokori's bankai formed and closed around the quincy he was able to sense the increase in the archer's reiastu strength. Something was coming, a fool could sense that. Animalistic instincts were screaming at Hokori to run, Hokori in turn used the reiastu circulating throughout his body from the Razor Lotus to activate two speed hana. The first was Speed Hana #1: Fusenmei, this was a supplemental technique meant to increase the power of one's shunpo. Mathematically, it meant that stat wise Hokori's shunpo now would magnify his stepping speed at a rate of x17 and not x10. The second Speed Hana he activated was Speed Hana #3 Dekata. Hokori's left foot pushed off at x3 his normal speed at a stat value of 1200, in that moment he pushed off with a shunpo using that foot.

This combination was incredible, Hokori's step value was totalled out at 20,400. But his direction was backwards and downward towards the ground, Having a set amount of distance already between them, Hokori's shunpo while slower was still fast enough to take him out of the way of the arrows due to the fact he had stepped both right before they fired through the papers and he was traveling in a diagonal trajectory taking him out of harms way. Hokori left his sphere to it's mechanics. However after he exited his shunpo appearing ten feet from the ground, He looked up in horror. Papers were torn to little pieces and the sphere was thinning out to keep it's perfect shape, Hokori spoke quickly, "Bakudo #87 Tsutsumi." A transparent bubble formed around Hokori instantly. His tomes began spitting out more paper which with the tomes began to enclose Hokori in a second bubble larger and rougher blocking him from the quincy's view.

Hokori then focused on his reiastu, compressing it making it stronger and harder. It was going to take him a few moments and he'd have to keep completely still while doing this conversion. While doing this the sphere of paper that originally was surrounding Cupid continued to try to enclose and crush him. In retrospect against Cupid's enormous speed advantage, they'd be hard pressed to catch him as tendrils of paper, so they worked as trying to box him in just as before. Below Hokori completed his reiastu conversion. He wasn't going to sacrifice his entire reiastu pool, he'd merely match with Cupid's level of strength. Once that was complete most of the papers surrounding him and the Tomes themselves would converge on Cupid.

He ended the Kidou, the orb falling away around him. The ones that that remained started to cuff themselves around Hokori's body. After a few moments from the neck down, Hokori was coated in head to toe with his papers. He looked up and maximized the diameter of his paper sphere to lock in the quincy and then repeated what he had wanted to do in the first place. He was going to crush the quincy, corrode his mind, and take him back to the Soul Society. the ink on the pages although dry would be scraped into the wounds causing for advanced corrosion. Cupid would be torn all over and bleeding all over his body. his mind would start to feel as if it was becoming clouded and foggy. The papers and Tomes themselves were naturally releasing that Ink on their as an inhalant to further corrode Cupid's mind. Bloody and torn how would Cupid deal now with this second assault?

Remaining reiastu: 1500/1500 (-150 for Speed Hana #1: Fusenmei, -150 For Speed Hana #3: Dekata -50 for Shunpo, -300 For Reiastu Conversion, -750 Reiastu lost due to non-use during conversion)

Bankai Post Count: 2/10

Air Inhalant Corrosion 5 per post:2/10

Clothing Corrosion 5 per post:1/6

Skin Corrosion 10 per Post:1/3

Bloodstream Corrosion 20 per post:1/3

Total Instinct Drained: 45

Cupid's New Instinct: 155

Current SpPs:150

Current Reiastu Strength: 600 (1200)