Arc 2: Canon 1: Genocide [Complete]

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Too caught up in his actions to be surprised, the Quincy below were actually unaffected by his Soukahou. However, what did concern the boy at the moment were the wounds he had sustained during his attack. His right shoulder had been shot through, meaning that moving his sword arm would be difficult if not extremely painful. Moreover, his chest had been punctured twice, and blood was already soaking the cloth near the entry wounds. Worse, his left kneecap had been blown through with another arrow, making the lower part of that leg, for the most part, useless in terms of combat. The Vice-Captain had not been expecting the Quincy to shoot through a fellow officer, and had thus not been able to react sufficiently. The pure callousness of their resolve and actions were yet another reason why Kazuko despised them.


But still, he had taken more damage than he cared to think about; time was running out very quickly, and he still hadn’t reached Baal. If things continued in their current course, Kazuko would be riddled with arrows before he got to the General’s study. Then he was left with no choice but to go all out now and try to pull his body along for the final push. However, in his rage, Kazuko realized that his emotions were getting the better of him; not that he could shrug them off, but he still knew that he needed his mind to be sharp at least. For that reason, as he was gliding down through the air, he activated Gigei Mikon: Douzen Heisei. Immediately, a tendril of reiatsu wormed its way through the nerves of his brain, shutting off certain receptors. By doing this, he eliminated the fear in his body as well as dulled the anger, rage, and pain. Together with his tolerance in pain, he could still maintain combat, for however long he needed and have a relatively level head.


Already, three other reiatsu signatures had arrived, which made the total number of Quincy Kazuko had to contend with was four. He could also detect many others on fast approach, with his Battle Analysis; he gauged their arrival in about a minute. Which meant he had to get rid of the four he was facing in that time frame. If that were the case, then there would be no point holding back any longer. He needed to end things quickly before he bled out, too. For that reason, when the Quincy J appeared overhead, he did not panic or scream in vengeance. Gigei Mikon suppressed his emotions too well for that. Instead, he focused his improved instinct and clarity at the battle at hand. Quincy J and… a Quincy below him, telling from the spikes in reiatsu and the sound of the arrows firing, had released their bows and fired. Dodging would be difficult, of course, since he needed to conserve the strength in his good leg for future movement techniques.


Instead, he had a better idea. With his Battle Analysis and improved instinct, he quickly calculated the speed and distance of the incoming arrows using what he had already surmised about them. He incited, “Surasorutoiera,” and flicked his wrist out. He had mastered this Hado spell and therefore only needed a moment to charge and release it, which was just enough time. The arrows coming from above and below would immediately be thrown off course as they were harassed by an all encompassing wave of force; similar to that of Sho, this wave of force, impacted the arrows at their sides, and thus directed them away from the body of Kazuko. Moreover, while the spell redirected their flight paths, it also served to propel the Vice-Captain higher into the air, thus allowing him to dodge any subsequent arrows.


But he wasn’t done just yet. He needed to give the Quincy a little payback for his wounds. The arrows from Quincy K that had been diverted to the side and would still be continuing upward; Since Kazuko had gone upward at a stat speed of 700, he would keep up with the speed of the arrows. He angled his body as he flew upward, so that he faced Quincy J. With his right arm still outstretched from the Surasorutoiera, he gave a quick, but ominous word, “Sho.” His palm was flat, so the gust of force that was released would be broad; and again, it took only a moment to discharge the spell with his Mastery over it. The arrows, yet again, would be redirected, however, this time they would race toward Quincy J instead. At the same as firing the Sho, Kazuko fired another wave of gray fire from the Soukahou to disguise the arrows in the fire. Given that this was all done in the span of a few moments, Quincy J would need to move immediately if he hoped to avoid the redirected arrows from Quincy K. Moreover, the fire of the Soukahou would mask the presence of the arrows and make it more difficult to figure out this once harmless Hado had something deadly within it.


Kazuko was not in danger of being fired upon at the moment, since all the Quincy in the room had either already fired their volley, were waiting to fire, or had not drawn their bows at all. Which meant that even if they did fire in that time frame, Kazuko would still have time to react. Nonetheless, the Vice-Captain was not done yet. Using the remnants of his Advanced Air-Ground, he disappeared in a Shunpo on his good leg. He would reappear a few meters behind Quincy Y. His sword embedding itself in a portion of the uncovered ground in that very instant. The landing had jarred his body, somewhat, and caused a wave of pain to shoot across his body as more blood leaked out. He bit the bullet, however, with his Natural Calm and Pain Tolerance; he needed to finish things now. As soon as he appeared, Kazuko called out, “Crumble, Gagoiru!” With the release came a change in his zanpakuto.


His blade broadened out and became double-edged while the tip turned into a bladed arc. A chain with a spike at the end also materialized from his hilt, which wrapped around his right arm like some sort of armor. Quincy Y needed to die now. As soon as his zanpakuto was released, Quincy Y, as well as every Quincy in the room, would find that any attack they launched at Kazuko would cease. Quincy Y especially would realize how dire things were for him in this situation. Kazuko had activated Chikyu Hachisu upon releasing. Immediately, from twenty meters in every direction, the ice and ground would erupt with the flurry of earthen spikes. Each spike was about a meter long, and half a meter wide, which, needless to say, would impale anyone caught within its range. What made this especially potent, however, was the fact they each spike moved at a Stat Speed of 700, which meant that by the time any Quincy, including Quincy Y, fired off their arrows, they would be blocked or intercepted by the spikes. Kazuko was basically surrounded in wall of pointy death.


Moreover, each spike had Reiatsu Strength durability of 1275, which could not be pierced or penetrated by anyone in the room currently. So whether Quincy Y had enough time to fire all his arrows or not, it would make little difference. He had made the mistake of wasting too much reiatsu previously by keeping his Blut active and forming his arrows, so by now, he would run out of reiatsu. Kazuko had already noted with his Battle Analysis and Energy Sensory the gradual decrease in his reiatsu reserves and had predicted that his Blut would be nearly depleted by this point. Furthermore, if Quincy Y tried to use a step technique, which would be unlikely given that he would already burn all his reiatsu in that time frame by keeping Blut, Gate, and his Bow active, then it would still come too late. The spikes would intercept him as he tried to escape to either the air or the ground around him since the range and size of them were pretty comprehensive. And if he did, the Vice-Captain would simply incinerate him with another wave of Soukahou as he tried to escape. All and all, Quincy Y was in trouble if something was not done immediately, that was for sure. Meanwhile, he kept part of his attention on the other Quincy; he would not be thrown off guard like before again.


Remaining Reiatsu: 850/2500 (-100 for Gigei Mikon: Douzen Heisei, -150 for Surasorutoiera, -25 for Sho, -50 for 1x Shunpo, -200 for Shikai, -200 for Chikyu Hachisu)

Shikai Posts: 1/10

Gigei Mikon Posts before Trauma: 1/5

Kazuko’s New Instinct: 263

Lack of Fear: 1

[Kento Waffles]

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Quincy Z had been in mid motion when Kyousei formed there, and the duplicitous nature of these Quincy allowed him some leeway for combat. His ball missed, but since he had been headed in the same direction, it was of no consequence. Though he missed, he fluently transitioned into grabbing the ball from out of the air, and then he spun around to face Kyousei. This was all done in one motion. He was not a weak or unskilled opponent to be defeated easily. It seemed that in the Vandenreich, there were none who could be downed in merely a single exchange.

Quincy Z bounced his bow on the ground once again as he turned to Kyousei. Kyousei was in the middle of casting his Kido, and had just come out of Shunpo. He had expected to not be noticed, however Quinzy Z had not been focused on Kyousei's partner, but rather on Kyousei, and on retrieving his bow after the first failed attack. Kyousei had used Shunpo, which was difficult to fail to notice, and he cast a shadow behind the Quincy, who also felt the wind from the Lieutenant's movement. Quincy Z was much faster than Kyousei, so turning around before the Lieutenant's attack completed itself was easy. Quincy Z was also able to bounce his bow toward Kyousei's chest level.

As the bow bounced, it fired off ten arrows simultaneously, all at Kyousei's body. He had just left Shunpo and was in the middle of firing a Kido. This would make it both impossible to use another Shunpo to dodge, and difficult to create any kind of defense on time since Kyousei was very much occupied by what he was doing, and those arrows were faster than he could perceptibly move, 2400 stat speed in total, and were coming from very close to him anyway. If he was hit, he would take three in the chest, two in each shoulder, one per knee, and one would graze his cheek. It was highly unlikely that Kyousei would be able to prevent these hits.

As consolation, Rikujokoro formed around Quincy Z, but this also meant that Kyousei should not expect aid from his partner, who had been in the middle of appearing to attack Quincy Z just as the Vandenreich member became caught in the Bakudo. "TAKE THIS! HAAARRRGGGGHHHH!" Kyousei's partner cried out as he punched right into Quincy Z's back. Quincy Z, caught by Rikujokoro, could not defend on time while focused on Kyousei. This led to Kyousei's partner's fist connecting right with the center of Quincy Z's back. Quincy Z gasped as Rikujokoro shattered from the force that struck him. Blood exploded out and sprayed all over Kyousei along with the arrows, and some of Quincy Z's guts.

A large hole was left in Quincy Z's torso, just below his heart. He greatly resembled a Hollow like that. He fell to his knees with his head lowered, but was still breathing. To his credit, Quincy Z was still alive. Somehow, by sheer force of will, Quincy Z had clung to life. However, the battle by that point should be over. With a hole like that in his body, there was no way that Quincy Z was okay anymore. His Blut at some point appeared to have ceased functioning as well, perhaps during the hit, as had some other techniques. His bow remained out, but this was because it was attacking Kyousei. Quincy Z was as good as dead.

Meanwhile, Kazuko was beginning to go all out, which was good for him, but also bad for him in a way. His initial spikes managed to take out Quincy Y, whom Kazuko landed behind. The spikes came up and penetrated Quincy Y's body, shooting out his blood all over Kazuko's body. They impaled and killed him almost immediately. The others were smarter than that. They all used some motion or another to escape into the air and dodge the spikes. Quincy J was smart enough to move away rather than attempting to block the Soukahou technique's released projectiles. All of these Quincy kept their safety for a moment, and then more spikes came after them.

However, with Kazuko going all out, it was only fair that these Quincy do so as well. They all ceased their activities with Blut, their bows, and everything else. Several blasts of white reiatsu erupted throughout the room, for three Quincy simultaneously delved into columns of overflowing white. Anything incoming at that time was reflected or destroyed by the columns. As these columns faded, Quincys J, K, and L remained there, all in new attire. Quincy J had on glowing white knight's armor and enormous white wings. Quincy K had glowing white robes of reiatsu and white feathered wings. Quincy L's skin glowed white, and he had massive wings of blue fire.

Three Quincy at once had unleashed their mighty Vollstandig. The final holy form of the Quincy was one the glory of which should be worshiped and basked in, for the holy light was blinding to the eyes even of Kazuko, drenched in the darkness of hatred. Three Quincy simultaneously had their Vollstandig activated, and it seemed as if it was the end for Kazuko. He was too slow. He was injured. He was quickly draining himself. All three appeared around him in a flurry, forming a triangle around him. They were immeasurably fast. All of them stabbed at Kazuko with swords fashioned from reiatsu, and were incoming to attack him. Kazuko would want to be careful about how he defended.

Quincy Z's Remaining Reiatsu: 1000/1000
+800 Quincy Cross/Spirit Fragment
-200 bow release level 2

Quincy J's Remaining Reiatsu: 0/1000
+800 from Quincy Cross/Spirit Fragment
-1630 from Vollstandig

Quincy K's Remaining Reiatsu: 0/1500
+800 from Quincy Cross/Spirit Fragment
-2290 from Vollstandig

Quincy L's Remaining Reiatsu: 0/2200
+800 from Quincy Cross/Spirit Fragment
-3000 from Vollstandig

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Class 1, 1700 SP, Non-typed, Vandenreich Lieutenant.

Strength: 100

Speed: 300

Reiatsu Strength: 380

Spiritual Pressure: 220

Instinct: 200

Senses: 200

Energy Sensory: 150

Healing Expertise: 150

Total SP: 1700

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Strength: 430

Speed: 1200

Reiatsu Strength: 900

Spiritual Pressure: 300

Instinct: 300

Senses: 100

Energy Sensory: 100

Healing Expertise: 0

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Strength: 140

Speed: 750

Reiatsu Strength: 1200

Spiritual Pressure: 100

Instinct: 500

Senses: 500

Energy Sensory: 300

Healing Expertise: 0

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Strength: 300

Speed: 900

Reiatsu Strength: 1140

Spiritual Pressure: 220

Instinct: 840

Senses: 600

Energy Sensory: 350

Healing Expertise: 150

+50 QP Kazuko for defeat of Quincy Y

+50 QP Kyousei for defeat of Quincy Z, but be weary as he is not yet dead

[Kyousei Kitso]

Yes the quincy was caught, he was actually caught! However Kyousei’s plan had meant that he had gotten himself seriously injured as well. Kyousei’s partner pretty much made the quincy explode but somehow he managed to fire arrows, Kyousei didn’t know how, he just somehow did. The arrows his Kyousei and the quincy had his chest burst, Kyousei yelled out as he was thrown backwards and landed on the floor, the quincy was on the floor but still somewhat faintly alive, how was he alive? Kyousei was covered in his blood and guts and his arrows. He was just too damn fast, Kyousei could barely keep up, he managed to help kill it but at the cost of his own well being.

“Arghh. H-hey. Y-you there?!” Kyousei called out to his partner. Kyousei needed to kill that quincy for good, so it didn’t use anything to keep himself alive but Kyousei couldn’t move, he was currently on the floor and he wasn’t really in any condition to move around. At least he could still move around and use his water, while he was injured Kyosuei could still finish him off without necessarily having to attack his blut directly, he could just be more crafty with his water.

He moved his wrists to make the water surround the quincy, still wincing and groaning as he did it. He then forced from water into everything open. His wound open wound and forced it around the inside of it, his mouth and ears. He made it go through the ear canals and into his brain to basically kill him instantly, he forced some down his throat to drown the quincy if he couldn’t destroy his brain. While doing this some more water branched off and he began to force some into the wound, making it go above and crush his heart and everything around it.

He was doing all three things to this quincy. All Kyousei was doing was moving his wrists. After he was sure the quincy was dead he would then call out to his partner. “H-hey. Y-you happen to know where any medics are about?!”

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Kazuko, covered in blood and bits from the Quincy before him, could feel the room grow heavier with spiritual power and light. In the air, they amassed their spiritual power and were becoming enveloped in a white light. So bright was it that the boy had to use his vomit and blood covered sleeve from his good arm to shield his eyes from the intense brightness. He was shaking again. Was he scared? Cold? No, the boy shook out of grief and anger this time. His voice, a contained shriek of malice spat out, “WHY CAN’T YOU BASTARDS JUST DIE ALREADY!?” After a moment, a crazed smile crept up into the corners of his mouth – no, a grin more like it. “It’ll be quick and easy, I promise.” He said to the remaining three Quincy, actually expecting them to agree with him. “I get it now, so if I kill you three, then I’ll get to kill Baal next, right?” His face was still feigning a smile, and his questions and words were still ludicrous. Unfortunately, he had already deactivated Natural Calm and was coming to grips with his swirling emotions yet again.


In response to the three columns of white spiritual power, Kazuko’s body began to steam off a gray reiatsu of it’s own. It was not as intense or flashy as the three releases before him, but the Vice-Captain was intent on death. Unfortunately, he did not have a level of release above his current stage. He had a form of release before Shikai, but that technique was not as strong as his current level. For that reason, he could do nothing more but release his remaining spiritual pressure and convert what he could into powering up his release. All around his body, he was coated with a thin veil of gray reiatsu, the afterglow of his charging. By now, the Quincy in the air had finished releasing their mighty Vollstandig and were engulfed in forms of pure magnificence. However, their holiness was lost on the crazed boy below them; he had already seen this form once before, although for only a short time, and only accepted the fact that he would need to finish things quicker than he once expected, not that they were graceful.


After converting his remaining reiatsu power into his release and before the Quincy had launched their attack, pieces of stone shot from the ground all around his body and clamped on pieces of earth that resembled armor. From the front and back of his chest, two struts shot out and clamped two sides of a chest plate together on his chest; when the sections met on his chest, they fused together, and the struts fell apart. Likewise, a barrage of struts supporting pieces of armor appeared all around Kazuko’s small frame; each section fused together as they met on his body. When the last strut broke apart, Kazuko was left kneeling in a full suit of earthen armor. A full chest plate, with shoulder and hip flaps, shielded his chest. His forearms and upper arms were surrounded in cylindrical pieces of armor as well; similarly, both of his legs had plates of armor strapped to them as well. Finally, Kazuko had a helmet on top of his head, with openings only at the visor and mouth sections. In all, Kazuko was now wearing a full suit of medieval looking armor, which shrouded most of his small frame. The whole set of armor was small considering it was made for a boy and it was only half a centimeter thick at the most, but even so, it weighed about fifty or so pounds in all.


By now, the Quincy in their haste to finish things quickly launched their combined assault. Kazuko, having already, suspected that an attack was on its way, given that he did not expect the Quincy to make such a show of power and then not use it, was intent on doing the same. They appeared all around him, just when the spike field had dissipated itself back into the ground. Normally, for Kazuko, the best solution would have been to just dodge, however, his body was in no condition to do that anymore. He only had one leg that could function properly and his right shoulder was in no condition to make any strenuous movement with his sword. No, the reason the Vice-Captain had created the armor was to compensate for his lack of mobility, stamina, and reiatsu. Even if he ran out of reiatsu, everything that he removed from his manipulated earth would stay active. Meaning he could maintain the fighting for a bit longer. Moreover, the armor itself was a tight, form-fitting set that served to help hinder the bleeding from his wounds – but not by much; he wasn’t a medic after all.


Nonetheless, all three Quincy would find their attacks connect in their enhanced states of power. Kazuko no longer posed the speed outside of step techniques to avoid them – and he needed to conserve using step techniques since he only had one functioning leg to use them with. However, there would be shock as all three Quincy in Vollstandig had their attacks stopped cold. Their swords of glowing reiatsu either shattered upon impact or simply veered off, screeching against the plates of earth. Kazuko’s release was now stronger than before; his manipulation speed was increased to 1050, while the sheer durability of anything he made jumped to 1575. Unfortunately, all three Quincy had used no form of classed arrow, or any notable technique, so their attacks were incapable of piercing his armor, or anything else he made for that matter; no, their form of attack was incapable of causing any damage, which would be their final mistake. Likewise, the force from their attacks would be spread out and dissipated against the plate, as the earth simply took whatever momentum was left from their failed attacks.


In that moment when their attacks were stopped; that moment when surprise would hit; when they would realize that they were within range, it would be over. The ground, from ten meters all around Kazuko, had become their trap, and their grave. Unfortunately, either way they tried to escape, Kazuko’s manipulation was now faster than two of them, and much more powerful than anything they could produce currently. Furthermore, they were right on the ground, next to Kazuko no less; the attack, therefore, would be at point blank range and considerably difficult to avoid completely at that. The ground beneath their feet simply gave way and shattered completely as three katana shaped pillars shot out to impale the remaining three. Each katana blade was hollow, to save on weight, and ten meters long 1 meter wide. Their edges were sharper than any conventional katana and had much more cutting area overall. Each katana came at an angle from beneath the feet of the Quincy, if they attempted to move to the sides, up, down, any direction, the blades would simply alter their angles and trajectories to compensate. Whether by impaling or slashing through the Quincy, they would attempt to hit their marks one way or another.


Before the massive katana blades raced toward their targets, Kazuko erupted in all blaze of gray fire. The fire swelled around his figure and enveloped the area immediately around him; he had discharged a few Sokatsui blasts from his hand yet again, but this time, toward the ground. Since the fires from his Soukahou could not harm him, other than with the penalty of keeping the technique active, Kazuko was not harmed from the flames. The flames, while they were dangerous to the Quincy, were not meant to harm them outright; instead, they simply obscured their vision and lines of sight. This meant that seeing the Katana blades coming and reacting to them would be even more difficult. With this entire attack coming their way, it would be difficult detecting, reacting, and outmatching the three massive katana attacks as they came at point blank range. Kazuko was meticulous and methodical if anything else. As the attack went underway, even through the flames and rushing earth, the boy drenched in blood continued to smile maliciously. “Burn in Hell.” When the attack died down. The Vice-Captain would still be kneeling like before surrounded by the flames and earth; the only question would be if he had managed to kill the Quincy fast enough before the rest arrived. Either way, no matter the outcome, Kazuko was on his last legs, and only had one attack remaining in his arsenal.


Remaining Reiatsu: 150/500 (-300 for Conversion, -400 for 4x Earth Manipulation)

Shikai Posts: 2/10

New Reiatsu Strength: 400 --} 600 --} 1050 (after type)

New Manipulation Strength and Speed: 1050 Speed and 1575 RS

Durability and Weight of Plate Armor: 1575 RS and 50 Ibs

[Kento Waffles]

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Explosions began raining down everywhere as Kyousei killed the Quincy with the basketball bow. That Quincy had been about to do something, which was something that one could tell by the way that he meticulously focused his reiatsu around his body, but it was to no avail. The Quincy was finished because he was distracted by huge arrows raining down from above and penetrating through the ceiling to enter the sewers. Gigantic arrows several times the size of a human body stood lodged in the ground, glowing white and steaming mightily.

The Quincy died, but Kyousei's partner barely managed to leap out of the way of an arrow. He narrowly avoided death with a leap of faith that left him only inches from the arrow smashing into the ground next to him. However, the hellfire did not stop. It continued to rain down, arrow after arrow. There were hundreds penetrating through the ceiling, which gradually started to cave in as more and more arrows filled the area. How any single individual could possess so much power was to be forever a mystery to those who did not have something similar in their arsenals, but when the ceiling opened up enough to show that it was one person floating in the sky, that was cause for worry.

He stood on a large platform fashioned from reishi. It was flat, rectangular, and glowed white, a beacon like the sun. The silhouetted figure was blotted out in shadow by the light, and could not be seen, but what could be seen was a gigantic crossbow hovering above his head. It glowed white, the demon's chalice a sunny demise for the Soul Reapers of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads. Cheers could be heard from the Vandenreich all around. One of them, speaking Japanese instead of German, was comprehensible nearby. "IT'S HIM! IT'S D!" That was all that it took to identify this man as a Stern Ritter, one of the heads of the invasion.

From the outfit and emblems which he sported, anyone could tell that he was one of the highest ranked in the Vandenreich. His giant bow, which floated above him began to fire arrows indiscriminately to create a rain of white destruction. Kyousei and his partner had to find a way to get out of the way or protect themselves, or they would be skewered and killed by the gigantic arrows. Screams of anguish and cries of despair became the background sound as Soul Reapers everywhere started to die. The Quincy had surely won! The Vandenreich was surely victorious! The Soul Society must surely be conquered.

A voice sounded in the distance. "KEEP FIGHTING!" the voice of Kenpachi Shingai roared. "WE AREN'T FINISHED YET! KEEP FIGHTING! HOLD OUT, AND WE WILL WIN. HOLD OUT, AND WE CAN PUSH THEM BACK!" His words rang through the air like the arrows which dared to contradict that very statement. He seemed sure of himself. Would Kyousei be as sure of himself? This meant that they had to fight on, even with so powerful a Stern Ritter in the sky attacking them. Suddenly, Shingai appeared in the sky with both fists corked back. "WE CAN WIN!" he shouted as his fists drove forward and connected with the Stern Ritter's chest. D's body started to crack, like glass or a stone statue, and he literally shattered into pieces which then dissolved into dust. A Stern Ritter had just been killed.

+50 QP to Kyousei

Been a while since I've used this track. Anyone care to guess the last time I did?

Meanwhile, suddenly, the eyes of the three Quincy widened, and all were jerked back violently, away from Kazuko before the earth even fully formed. Their attacks had been interrupted. Kazuko's defense had been interrupted. Whether or not either would actually have worked would never be answered. All three Quincy, who were forcefully jerked back, smashed through the walls and were suddenly gone from the room, leaving Kazuko completely alone, until someone else showed himself. The heavy boot clattering footsteps echoed through the marble and ice halls of the palace.

Applause rang through the halls. They were the applause of a single man, yet they were loud and resounding. The footsteps came to a halt, for the man had appeared from around the corner and walked down the stairs, at least arriving at the top of the stairway facing Kazuko, so that he had the high ground and could look down on the Soul Reaper from there. He was applauding. Wilhelm Kohler, or rather B was his true name, was applauding. He had a crooked smile on his face as he looked down at Kazuko, drenched in the powers which had been intended for murder and annihilation.

"The courage which you must have had to muster in order to be where you are now is very admirable," Kohler told Kazuko. He stopped applauding, ending them by trailing off and speaking that last line. He noticed how distraught and enraged Kazuko appeared to be, and his face took on a look of condescending contempt, reserved only for the most pathetic of snails as young children watched them race across the street before getting bored and stepping on them to shatter their shells and destroy their bodies. "You seem displeased. Was the meal not up to standards? No, this cannot be the case. I recall you quite enjoyed it."

Indeed, Kohler already knew what it was which had upset Kazuko, and he knew what to say to make it all the worse. The look of indignant rage which would surely find Kazuko's facial expression would also then be noticed by Kohler, who smiled once again in order to more absolutely taunt Kazuko. "You should not betray such strong emotions. It only serves to make you look weak." He looked innocent as he spoke. He clearly knew very well what had disrupted Kazuko's inner peace, yet he pretended as if he knew nothing about it, and instead he taunted Squad 9's Lieutenant. What happened next might shake the fabric of Soul Society.

[Kyousei Kitso]

Listen to this

Kyousei groaned as he desperately shifted himself into a sitting upright position. There was still battle raging on and there were no medics, were they all dead or something? The ceiling caved in, however Kyousei managed to save his partner and himself from the falling debris by manipulating his water to clash with the debris that would fall on them, the debris was then crushed into little harmless rocks that didn’t hurt Kyousei or his partner, luckily. But Kyousei was no idiot and he knew they were fighting a losing battle, a major losing battle, Kyousei wasn’t ready to give up hope however, if he was going to die, he was going to die knowing he tried his best.

Kyousei quickly looked around to see his partner relatively unharmed, and to see the fighting still going on. Oh shit. Have I failed again, is this getting pointless? I need to continue fighting, but, but I could die. Could he really keep fighting? Look at him? He felt weak, he probably got two of his comrades killed, now there was a vice-captain back in the palace, maybe he had gotten killed already? Now thanks to him the base was being attacked. What's wrong with me? Am I just a prick? Am I just not fit to be a shinigami? However Kyousei's thoughts are cut off.

Kyousei. How about in stead of putting yourself down you focus on getting yourself out of this alive and your comrades who are actually alive!

But I-

No just shut up! Instead of dwelling on the past look to protect the shinigami who are still alive. Protect yourself. You've made mistakes but they're truly wrong if you don't learn from them. Do you think they would've wanted to see you giving up like this? I can still kill, I can still cut, I can still crush. You can still fight!"

With that Kyousei's hope was renewed, he new he could fight, he had to fight for these guys. He's... shinigami, and shinigami never roll over and die. He won't die just because he has a few arrows sticking out of him. He would die because he tried. To avenge all the shinigami they killed. He then looked up at the quincy floating in the sky. Oh great(!). Another stupid Stern Ritter cunt to join the battle. Kyousei could tell he was a high ranking member by his uniform, probably really powerful. Kyousei wouldn’t be able to handle him in his current state. And then it happened.

Thousands of arrows, indiscriminately flying everywhere. How could you? There are your allies fighting down there and you’re willing to risk hitting them just to show off. What a cunt. However Kyousei knew that he would be pin cushioned if he didn’t do anything, he couldn’t save all the Shinigami, but he could save him and his partner, after all if it weren’t for him Kyousei would be dead, now they’ll be even. He activated his field of absorption technique, giving the water a dark bluish colour. Since Kyousei wasn’t too far away from his partner, he raised the water into a dome above them both. Any and all arrows were absorbed and it simply made his water better. They were under constant protection.

While under the water absorbing dome he heard the voice of Shingai fighting back viciously. "KEEP FIGHTING! WE AREN'T FINISHED YET! KEEP FIGHTING! HOLD OUT, AND WE WILL WIN. HOLD OUT, AND WE CAN PUSH THEM BACK!" He was so sure of himself, Kyousei didn’t see why. He could see what Shingai was doing through the water barrier he and his partner where in. He attacked the Stern Ritter and drove his fist into his chest, he then only watched with wide eyes of amazement as D actually shattered into pieces. It was save to take down the dome.

“Okay no we’re even.” Kyousei says to his partner as he takes down the water barrier and deactivates the technique. But seeing that guy die did give Kyousei some renewed hope, he may be broken, he may has arrows in him. But he could still fight. (OOC: Unfortunately I don’t know how many arrows hit his shield, or the quincies stats so I can’t give the exact quantity or speed of the water.) However with the amount of arrows that hit the water it should be very fast now right? Kyousei then decided to use take advantage of the pure quantity and speed of the water.

He shaped his water into many spears, so they were almost like stalagmites. He then sent them in the direction of any quincies you he could see; he still kept back some water if he needed a quick defense. Now his goal was to impale any quincy he could see with his ‘spears’. They may have put arrows in him but he would keep fighting until he died.

Reiatsu: 1500 (For dark waters) +X from absorbing arrows.

Water amount: X

Water speed: X

(OOC: If it won't be any trouble to you Kento could you maybe specify how many arrows hit his dome since it was your quincy who fired them? And then please specify his stats. Then I edit the water's stats and Kyousei's reiatsu accordingly. Please and thank you.)

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Before any of their attacks could connect, the three Quincy immediately veered off and retreated out of the room through the walls. They left Kazuko there, panting from the exertion of all his attacks; he had expected for the fight to finish, one way or another, but just not that way. His armor was heavy on his injured body, and maintaining an uphill battle was just out of the question in his condition. Still, it came as quite a surprise seeing the Quincy retreat the way they did; what would prompt them to do something like that, he wondered? Applause answered his thoughts as he soon turned toward the sound. Accompanying the clapping were a series of heavy footfalls, which seemed to be coming from the stairwell near the end of the chamber. The wounded Vice-Captain steeled himself once more, preparing for another adversary to come his way, but soon found himself dumbfounded as an unexpected man descended from the flight of stairs. The very man who Kazuko had bet everything in order to kill; the man who had torn the Vice-Captain’s mind to pieces with ease; William Kohler, or Baal as he was known had arrived.


"The courage which you must have had to muster in order to be where you are now is very admirable," said the General. He stopped applauding. “Baal!” Came the boy’s viscous call. With an obvious contempt lining his voice and features, Baal continued, "You seem displeased. Was the meal not up to standards? No, this cannot be the case. I recall you quite enjoyed it." Kazuko was wide-eyed, his expression filled with pure shock. Tears began cascading down, serving to wash away streaks in the blood that covered most of his face like a sheet of paint. “Shut up!” He began trembling in the heavy armor. “You’re nothing but a coward; a monster! My subordinates didn’t deserve to die like animals, they were men with families and loved ones; they had their honor for fucking sake, and you took that from them! From me! YOU DID THIS!” For the life of him, Kazuko could not control his actions or emotions; he had never hated a man as much as he did now. It was almost as if his body was being consumed with an indescribable rage; a pure evil.


"You should not betray such strong emotions. It only serves to make you look weak." Kohler said, mocking Kazuko even more. That was it. The boy could not restrain his body any longer. “SHUT UP!”. With that as his only warning, Kazuko shot his right hand forward, sending a shriek of pain across his body from the wound on that arm’s shoulder. But he acted as if he were numb to it. The gray fire at his right hand exploded out, with a ferocity and violence that mimicked the boy’s emotions. A barrage of Sokatsuis blasted from the extended arm, all of them racing toward the staircase. Some were haphazardly fired, exploding against he nearby walls and such, but most were on target. The staircase would erupt with a torrent of gray fire and reiatsu, destroying the whole structure with such a concentrated barrage of power. The Vice-Captain was desperate to kill Kohler; he wanted nothing more than for the man to die and burn in hell for all his sins. How would the General react to the boy’s outrage and outcry of force?


Remaining Reiatsu: 250/500 (+100 for incomplete Earth Manipulation)

Shikai Posts: 3/10

[Kento Waffles]

SPOILER: Click to show

Kohler smiled all the more widely. His jeering demeanor could well be the largest target on the face of the planet earth. It was something which commanded the focus of the enraged. He never laughed at Kazuko. Not even once did he laugh. Perhaps this was what made it all the worse. Perhaps it was his contemptuous sneer devoid of the shrill and mocking sounds of laughter which made him seem so condescending, as if he was on a plane so high that he could find only mild entertainment from these matters. His amusement was minimal at best.

Kohler appeared in front of Kazuko the very second that the arm shot out. Before even the first Sokkatsui was fired, Kohler was next to the ninth squad's lieutenant. The Quincy's left arm was extended outward. It reached for Kazuko, who was beginning to fire his Sokkatsui at the Stern Ritter with a mighty cry. Yet, for all the flames which gushed out, all dissipated into worthless mist, into blue steam which served no purpose. The reiatsu had been devoured. Kohler's arm glowed black and a sinister reiatsu encircled it. His hand extended toward Kazuko, looking thinner than before, more sunken. His fingers were thin, skeletal even.

All around them, Kazuko would be able to observe that his opponent was doing something beyond the ordinary. Kazuko's armor and all of the earth that he had created broke down almost instantly and began to dissipate into reishi which flowed into Kohler's outstretched left arm. Kazuko's body itself began to break down. All of it happened very quickly. In only a second or two or three, all of the earth and Sokkatsui had been pulled into Kohler's arm, and Kazuko himself would begin to feel something on his body pulling, like he was being yanked by gravity. He was weakened, beaten, and slow. Getting out of the way on time would not be an option. Not with Kohler's speed.

Entire strips of flesh peeled forth from Kazuko's body. They tore off so as to allow blood to leak out. Even the blood started to hover away from Kazuko. His flesh in large chunks and strips on all parts of his body tore off, and his blood came with it. His bones in the areas where strips of flesh tore off began to crack. This was not a technique like any he had before encountered. All of it dissipated into reishi on it's way to Kohler, and funneled into his arm. Even the reishi which constituted Kazuko's Soukahou abandoned him only seconds later, and it left him, leaving only a steaming hand, and nothing to fire. All of it went to Kohler himself.

"I was never one for violence..." Kohler admitted. "There are better ways of achieving one's goals." Kazuko was not going to be able to escape Kohler. That much was clear. If there was a way for him to stop from being completely broken down and destroyed, he would want to find it quickly. His body was being torn apart and broken down by the Stern Ritter. Kohler continued to smile as his hand reached Kazuko, and was only mere inches away from touching Kazuko's face. At that moment a chunk of flesh large enough to expose Kazuko's rib cage would peel from his torso and dissipate into Kohler's arm as reishi. All seemed lost.

Suddenly, the room shook. Kohler stopped an inch short of touching Kazuko's face. He looked around, and then lowered his arm. "Our time has run out," he admitted. "It appears that your reinforcements have arrived. I wish you luck." Kohler turned away from Kazuko and began to walk away. He was actually leaving Kazuko behind! He was going to let ninth's division's lieutenant live. This could be lucky for Kazuko, or unlucky depending on the state of his emotions. There surely would not have been a single moment just then when he did not feel fear, especially with his body being assimilated like that into Kohler's arm. Kohler continued, headed for the door. If Kazuko was planning on trying anything this was his last opportunity. After he decided what to do, and whether or not he managed it, something happened.

SPOILER: Click to show

Everywhere in Seireitei, including where Kyousei was, huge white lights filled the sky as a white aurora. It looked like more Quincy had come to end everything, but this was not the case. Hundreds of spears fashioned from violet reishi started to come down on Seireitei. They were well aimed. Only Quincy were struck. Many Quincy were struck by these violet spears which came from the sky up overhead, and hundreds of the Vandenreich started to perish. It was almost laughable how easy it was for those spears to defeat the Quincy. Many tried to shoot the spears down or block them, but no arrow, no attack, no defense could stop them.

Some Quincy tried to use Vollstandig, but even that was too slow, and did not release on time to stop the spears from penetrating each and every Quincy that was too stupid to find cover of some kind. Soon, the Quincy started to retreat. They had absolutely no choice but to retreat. They were dying by the dozens every second. From out of that light, four or five figures showed themselves. It did not matter who was wounded out of the Soul Reapers anymore. Kyousei's injuries did not matter. Neither did his partner's. Their reinforcements had come. It was surprising that only five had shown up.

Only five had shown up, but they were more than capable of taking care of things on their end. One of them appeared right next to Kyousei, just as a Quincy was about to fire an arrow into the back of Kyousei's skull. That Quincy suddenly burst into pieces, and blood erupted everywhere. The newcomer was wearing a white shihakusho, identical to those of other Soul Reapers except for the color, and a black Captain's Haori with a white insignia on it which could not be read at the angle by which it was visible to Kyousei. Thin red visors formed goggles over the eyes of this newcomer.

"Corp 3B, Status Report," the newcomer said. "Confirmed three hundred and forty six enemy casualties, all Quincy." Another voice could be heard somewhere nearby from another one of the newly appearing Soul Reapers in the outfits with inverted colors. "Corp 3B Status Report," the second voice also said. "Confirmed six hundred and ninety enemy casualties, all Quincy." More kept stacking. "Corp 3B Status Report. Confirmed two hundred and eighty enemy casualties, all Quincy." A fourth. "Corp 3B Status Report. Confirmed one thousand enemy casualties, all Quincy." Finally, a fifth voice came.

"Corp Leader 3B, Status Report. Eight hundred and nine enemy casualties confirmed. All Quincy. Total three thousand one hundred and twenty five enemy casualties. Approximately three quarters of enemy invasion force confirmed dead. Remaining Quincy confirmed retreating. Reiatsu fragment 4%. Pressure fragment 3%. Mission accomplished. Corp Leader 3B, Out." The five newcomers left as quickly as they had come. They turned around in a synchronized movement, and then they disappeared. Before they disappeared, the insignia on the back of their Haori became visible. 零 Zero.

When they had all left, no Quincy nor any of the inverted color Soul Reapers were left behind to see. There was only ash, death, and ruin. Enemy corpses littered the ground. The buildings had all been destroyed. The Soul Reapers were victorious. Their dead were numbered in the hundreds, maybe thousands, and the Seireitei had been practically erased, yet the invasion had ended in failure. It looked as if the Vandenreich had lost this battle. What was left was to gather themselves and see what was left of their spirit.

Kohler's Remaining Reiatsu: 5300/5000 Reiatsu [-1000 for custom technique: Partial Vollstandig, -800 for custom technique: Partial Sklaverei, +500 Spirit Fragment, +1600 Quincy Cross +400 Kazuko's earth, +600 Soukahou]

Partial Vollstandig Post Count: 1/5

Partial Sklaverei Post Count: 1/5

Genius Count: 1/14

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Class 0. Vandenreich General. Stern Ritter. Rank 4 Genius Type.

Strength: 300 (150) (188)

Speed: 400 (500)

Reiatsu Strength: 400 (1200) (1500)

Spiritual Pressure: 100 (400) (500)

Instinct: 300 (375)

Senses: 300 (375)

Energy Sensory: 200 (800) (1000)

Healing Expertise: 200 (100) (125)

Light/Dark Aura: 50/50

Total SP: 2200

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Before Kazuko could discharge the fireballs, Kohler appeared in front of him, his left arm extended. At that moment, the flames of his Soukahou sputtered out into a blue mist, revealing a hand with first degree burns all over. The spell required a sacrifice, after all; the flames that shielded him also ate at him. But the Vice-Captain had done nothing to call off the fire; it was entirely the General’s doing. The man’s left hand glowed black as it reached toward Kazuko; it began to get thinner and thinner, until his fingers appeared almost skeletal. All of Kazuko’s armor broke apart into reiatsu, leaving him without a defense. The Vice-Captain had already reached his limit, so there was no escaping what was coming next. Try as he might, he could not stop the screams of pure terror as they escaped his throat and filled the room with their horror. Like a child finding his parents dead, his voice was lined with pure fear with what started happening all over his body.


Flesh began to literally peel away from his body; entire chunks just cut themselves off and floated in the air toward Kohler. Blood, almost as if they were in space, began to leak off and float as well in the air. Where the flesh underneath was exposed by the missing skin, his bones began cracking. Snap. Crunch. He was being torn apart! All of it; every last drop of what was floating in the air broke apart into reiatsu; his soul was being consumed alive! The Vice-Captain – no, the fierceness that he had in eyes had left him, and he was nothing but a scarred little boy now – began to shake violently. That was all he could do in this situation. "I was never one for violence… There are better ways of achieving one's goals." Kohler said. Inches away from his face, another piece of flesh, about the size of his ribcage was torn from his body and broke apart into reiatsu as well. There was so much blood, the boy half wondered with whatever sanity was left to him how he could have that much in his small body. Kohler smiled during the whole process; he was nothing but a sadist.


At that moment when all seemed lost, the room shook and Kohler paused, just an inch short of Kazuko’s face. He lowered his arm. "Our time has run out," he admitted. "It appears that your reinforcements have arrived. I wish you luck." And with that, the General turned away from Kazuko and began walking away. The boy was a wreck. He collapsed to his knees, heaving violently. His body was in excruciating pain. Whether from the pain, his broken mind, or the sheer magnitude of what happened, the boy just sobbed. A pitiful thing. There was no strength left in his body. The floor was covered in blood, his blood – although there had been much more, the General had evaporated all that into reiatsu beforehand, what was left was new. Kazuko threw the blur of his tears glanced down at his zanpakuto. What had been a fine blade earlier were now nothing more than a hilt and few inches of broken steel. The rest of his zanpakuto had broken off and had been evaporated away as well. Gagoiru had suffered along with its wielder; if Kazuko focused in, he could also hear the screams of his zanpakuto accompanying his.

(OOC: From this point on, the post is Cinematic.)

He looked up again, and saw Kohler’s back. He was leaving him. Through whatever vestige of strength he left, he began to murmur to his zanpakuto, his vision beginning to go black,“P-p-please, G-Ga-Gagoiru, I need…” he coughed violently again, spitting out blood as he did so, and continued, “I need just a b-bit more power. Just… one more thing from you, please. I’m begging you!” With that, Kazuko turned the broken blade of his zanpakuto toward the ground, and leaned in on the hilt, falling unconscious as he did so. He had no strength left in his arms, so he used his body weight to press the blade into the ground. Pieces of it cracked off as it tried to bite into the stone, but eventually the part of the blade managed to go into the ground. “Please…” he said as coughed up more blood and his world went dark. For a moment, a brief moment, the scream of his zanpakuto quieted down. Both Kazuko and his zanpakuto, Gagoiru, hated each other; more like despised. But for once, the old man actually gave in to the boy’s request, if just for that moment.


As Kazuko faded into the darkness of his mind, the ground before him shattered upward as a tidal wave of stone rose up. It was unshaped, haphazard, and no longer under Kazuko’s direct control. It was just a wave of earth, infused with remnants of both Kazuko and Gagoiru’s remaining bits of reiatsu. The wave was ten meters tall, and ten meters wide. At its current speed, it was a blur across the room, almost like a step technique. It threatened to consume Kohler in its wake. Unfortunately, it no longer had any grace or precision that normally went into the Kazuko’s attacks. The boy barely even realized the earth had even been summoned at all in the darkness, and his pain slowly faded away. With the tidal wave of stone away, Gagoiru reverted itself back into its katana form, the hilt still sticking out from the ground. There was no longer any reiatsu in either the wielder or master, or if there was, it was miniscule. The boy had put everything he had left into Gagoiru’s hands; his pain, grief, and wishes. That was all he could do at the moment; it was all he could hope for.


Remaining Reiatsu: 0/2500 (+100 for incomplete Earth Manipulation, -250 for Final Attack)

Shikai Posts: Ended

Final Attack Conversion (SpPr to RS): 400 --} 650 --} 1138 RS

Earth Tidal Wave Speed and Reiatsu Strength: 1138

[Kento Waffles]

The earth which approached Kohler should never have been expected to have effect. No, it was likely that that expectation had never existed to begin with. Wilhelm Kohler was simply too powerful. He was an experience beyond any preconceived opponent. Handling him would take more than a final, desperate breath, a last outcry and a final attack with everything remaining. The earth was not so kind as to bring down someone of Wilhelm Kohler's power with that level of attack. It had always been doomed from the beginning to fail against the Stern Ritter.

The earth dissipated as it approached him, and shattered without touching Kohler. All of it was ineffective against his Partial Vollstandig and his Partial Sklaverei, techniques which allowed him incredible power perhaps even beyond the full versions of the techniques. As he was walking away, the earth crumbled and shattered when at last it reached him, and thus it failed. There was no way for it to work, and he was wordless as he left through the door. Everything was over, and Kazuko had been completely and utterly defeated. Like three Captains of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads during the invasion's beginning, Kazuko had been left decimated by Kohler.

As Kohler left, the ice castle began to break down and shatter. It dissipated and disappeared, and then it vanished into the endless misty dark. It was gone in a matter of minutes, and Kazuko was left on the barren, ashen wasteland of the Seireitei with his body ruined and his spirit broken. He and many others had been defeated completely, and were destroyed inside and out. The invasion had not succeeded in completely defeating the Thirteen Court Guard Squads. The Vandenreich had been defeated and driven out in a stunning miracle, but this did not change that hundreds if not thousands of Soul Reapers had died, and their home lay in ruins.

The Vandenreich left, or those who remained alive did. Many of their corpses also littered the Seireitei. These corpses caught fire, a fire white and more blinding than the sun, and then evaporated and left behind not even ashes. The only ashes which remained were those which had once stood tall as buildings of the Seireitei. Everything had been destroyed. The Zero Division departed, and the survivors remained victorious and the Vandenreich had left, defeated, but that was a won battle. The battle was won, but they were losing the war. Those remaining had no energy to rejoice at their survival or their victory. The first battle of the holy war had been gruesome, and it was certain that there were more and worse to come.

Hours later, a lone Quincy was in the most humble of bows, on all fours before a throne which radiated light, and beneath a cloaked figure whose face could not be seen through the holy sun which was his presence. Everything was radiant. The Quincy was humiliated. The battle had been lost. "We were unable to destroy the Soul Reapers completely, your majesty..." he said. "Please, forgive our incompetence." His Majesty, the Holy Emperor of the Vandenreich, was unperturbed by the news. Instead, he regarded his subordinate with a silencing gaze, and when he spoke it was like angels and demons had become one in a single man and conquered the world, embracing it in holy glow.

"It is all proceeding as I had anticipated," the Emperor said. "Fear not, for you will face no punishment on this day." The Quincy's eyes widened and he looked up at the Emperor, past the blindness, and squinted to try to discern at least part of His Holy Majesty's face. "Your Majesty, I do not mean to question, and therefore please forgive my insolence, but we have lost thousands of Quincy to a hand full of enemies. How are we to combat hundreds of these enemies if five alone annihilated half of our army, and we are defeated in this battle?" The Emperor was forgiving on this day, for his Quincy did not die for being so questioning.

"Those who were killed will all be revived, for that is within my power," the Emperor informed his subordinate. "And now they have overstepped their boundaries. Their cards have all been put on the table, and their hand has been overplayed. The gateway is now open. Soon, even their false angels will fall." The Quincy said nothing, questioning no further the God whom he had no right to even so much as begin to doubt or second guess. No, there was no point in questioning one so omnipotent. His Majesty knew all. If this was according to His Majesty's plan, then they must surely be winning this war. "Besides..." His Majesty said. "The Soul Reapers have more than enough on their plates to keep them occupied. Turn your eyes to Hueco Mundo, and observe. He has arrived."

This Canon is now considered completed. +2500 TP and 350,000 Ryo to Kazuko Shiba. +2000 TP and 300,000 Ryo to Kyousei Kitso.

[Zou ۞]

OOC: Kento reminded me that I'd forgotten to record some TP and WP in this thread. +2900 CTP to any of Kento's characters that he desires.

-24 WP from Gotei Thirteen for failing essentially three sub-missions. However, +30 for three successes, resulting in +6 total.