Renji frowned.
Rukia's Zanpakuto ability was very strong!
But its danger was also not to be underestimated.
To reduce the risk Rukia has to endure, Renji had entered the Seireitei in the capacity of Rukia's guard.
And now, while everyone was discussing how to deal with Tosen, requiring Rukia to take action, Renji felt this was his failure in duty.
However, even Renji had no real method to counter Tosen's ability to deprive senses.
The best method he could think of was to defeat Tosen before he could use Bankai.
But, is a Captain-level powerhouse so easily defeated?
Furthermore, Kyoya once said that a Shinigami's battle is a battle of Reiatsu.
As long as one's Reiatsu is strong enough, no matter what kind of ability, one can rely on their own powerful Reiatsu to negate or nullify it.
Perhaps, in front of Kyoya, whether Tosen uses Bankai or not wouldn't have much effect on Kyoya.
But they were different.
Even Kukaku, who had the strongest Reiatsu among them, had significantly less Reiatsu compared to Tosen.
Under such circumstances, how could their Reiatsu possibly diminish the effect of Tosen's Bankai Ability?
'I'm still too weak...'
Renji shook his head.
'If I had strength like Army Commander Hitsugaya right now, a mere 9th Division's Captain wouldn't be an enemy I couldn't handle.'
Boom!
Ichigo and Sui-Feng exchanged a blow. Just as he was about to pursue, he suddenly sensed Miyako's Reiatsu reappearing nearby.
"What's going on?"
"Wasn't Miyako-nee already taken away?"
"Why is she back?"
Turning his head, Ichigo instantly spotted two people wearing Captain's Haori standing beside Miyako.
One of them was none other than the 3rd Division's Captain, Ichimaru Gin, who had initially blasted them out of the Seireitei!
Meanwhile, the Shinigami who looked like him and had taken Miyako-nee away earlier was not here.
"Yare yare, I didn't expect there were still people who hadn't left here. Could this affect Captain Aizen?"
"Before Captain Aizen arrives, I'll clean up the irrelevant people first."
Hearing Gin say this, Tosen didn't think much and directly spoke up.
Moreover, he himself also drew his Zanpakuto at the first moment and charged towards Sui-Feng.
"Bankai… Enma Korogi!"
To clean up everyone on Sokyoku Hill in the shortest time possible, Tosen used his Bankai immediately.
Even though in Tosen's perception, there was also Kyoya, the former 11th Division's Captain, Tosen was not afraid in the slightest.
In Tosen's view, within the entire Gotei 13, aside from Yamamoto and Aizen, everyone else was trash.
"Captain Tosen, you..."
Seeing Tosen act like this, Lieutenant Sasakibe was stunned.
He never expected that after Miyako had been rescued, there would still be Captains who kidnapped her back.
Furthermore, from the conversation between Tosen and Gin, he found that they were actually Aizen's subordinates.
Moreover, it wasn't hard to discern from their words that the real Aizen had not been killed by Hitsugaya.
'Everyone in the Seireitei had been deceived by Captain Aizen!'
'No wonder Captain-Commander's reaction to Captain Aizen's death was strange.'
'Had Captain-Commander left me here to stop them?'
Thinking of this, Sasakibe wanted to immediately draw his Zanpakuto to face the enemy.
However, he was still a step too late.
Just as he drew his Zanpakuto, the black barrier formed by Tosen's Bankai had already completely enveloped the entire Sokyoku Hill.
In an instant, everyone on Sokyoku Hill lost the other four senses besides touch.
"Tch!"
As a man of light, Kyoya always had an impulse to shine and dispel darkness.
Now, being enveloped by the complete darkness of Enma Korogi made Kyoya feel somewhat uncomfortable.
Immediately, Kyoya didn't indulge Tosen and directly extended his left hand, making a slicing motion in the surrounding space-
Crack, crack-
Whoosh-
A sound, as if cloth was being torn or glass was being shattered, rang in everyone's ears.
Then, the dark sky gained jagged gaps. These broken gaps spread along black cracks, and finally, the black barrier, the size of a soccer field, completely shattered, revealing the figures of everyone on Sokyoku Hill.
Tosen was greatly shocked.
He naturally knew the weakness of his own Bankai.
In Tosen's mind, within the entire Gotei 13, only the 7th Division's Captain, Komamura Sajin's Bankai, could break his Bankai's barrier.
This was determined by the size of Kokujo Tengen Myo'o, and even Tosen felt helpless about it.
This feeling of being completely countered by an ability made him very uncomfortable.
It was precisely because of this that Tosen and Komamura Sajin became 'close friends'.
He was confident that even if he used Bankai first against Komamura Sajin, Komamura Sajin wouldn't immediately use Bankai to fight him.
Thus, he could severely injure or even kill Komamura Sajin before he used Bankai.
However, he never expected his Bankai to be broken so violently.
At this moment, Tosen's Zanpakuto was only a finger's breadth away from Sui-Feng.
This wasn't because Tosen was showing mercy to Sui-Feng, but because his Zanpakuto was pinched between two fingers.
It was Kyoya!
After breaking Tosen's Bankai, Kyoya instantly appeared beside Sui-Feng and pinched Tosen's Zanpakuto.
If Kyoya hadn't intervened, it was foreseeable that Sui-Feng would definitely be severely injured, or even killed, by Tosen.
"What's so impossible?"
"Tosen, don't use your shallow thoughts to try to speculate about higher-level existences."
"That will only make you appear as ridiculous as a clown."
Clang-
Kyoya exerted a slight force in his hand, directly breaking Tosen's Zanpakuto.
Then, he flicked the tip of the blade pinched between his index and middle fingers towards Tosen-
Swoosh-
Blood splattered.
Tosen was sent flying, a deep, bone-exposing wound appearing across his chest and abdomen.
Thud!
Thud, thud, thud!
After bouncing a few times on the ground, Tosen's body lay prone at Gin's feet. Blood flowed from his body, soon spreading under Miyako, dyeing her white clothes red.
With just one move, Tosen was severely injured by Kyoya.
Gin narrowed his eyes and looked at Kyoya.
'Was Kyoya appearing here to directly capture Aizen?'
With Kyoya here, Gin didn't know how they could leave later.
'Could the Garganta that separates the two worlds block Kyoya?'
"It seems I'm a bit late."
Just as Gin was puzzled in his heart, Aizen's figure appeared behind him.
"Captain Aizen..."
Seeing Aizen, Gin narrowed his eyes and concealed his thoughts.
Aizen was exceedingly cunning and intelligent. In front of Aizen, Gin didn't dare relax in the slightest.
"Sorry, Captain Aizen."
"We originally wanted to clean up the people here, but unfortunately, the other side has Kyoya-senpai. I didn't dare to make a move."
"It's fine, Gin."
"Kyoya-san will not hinder our actions."
Aizen calmly stepped past Gin, put a green glove on his right hand, and walked towards Miyako.
The current Aizen naturally knew that Kyoya might have already transcended the limits of a Shinigami, entering a higher level.
However, because of what Kyoya said earlier in the Central 46 Chambers, Aizen knew that Kyoya was looking forward to his evolution.
Perhaps the current Kyoya was somewhat similar to his former self.
Both felt invincible at a young age, eagerly hoping for an evenly matched enemy to understand what level their own strength had truly reached.
And eagerly hoping to break through to a higher level in an evenly matched duel.
Over hundreds of years, Aizen groped in the darkness, finally concluding that to break through the limits of a Shinigami, one must give birth to Hollow Reiatsu within oneself and perfectly fuse the Reiatsu of Hollow and Shinigami to break through the Shinigami dimension.
Therefore, Aizen created the [Hogyoku].
How Kyoya broke through the Shinigami limits, Aizen didn't know.
But what Aizen was sure of was that Kyoya was different from Yamamoto.
Yamamoto could only break through the Shinigami limits after using Bankai.
But Kyoya had steadily stepped into that dimension himself.
Perhaps this was also why Kyoya didn't consider Yamamoto as a measuring stick for himself?
Or perhaps, this conflict between the Revolutionary Army and the Gotei 13 was actually Kyoya wanting to use Yamamoto's hand to gauge his own capacity, but because he saw Aizen, he made Aizen the backup option?
But no matter what Kyoya thought, before he completed his evolution, Aizen believed that Kyoya would not stop him.
"Gin, stabilize Tosen's condition first. I'll be done here soon."
"No problem, Captain Aizen."
Hearing this, Gin said no more.
Clearly, from Aizen's attitude, he knew Aizen and Kyoya had reached some kind of understanding.
Although Gin didn't know why, Kyoya's behavior suited his intentions perfectly.
He wanted to personally take back what Aizen had taken from Rangiku with his own hands.
Only then would his actions of secretly watching Aizen harm Rangiku back then have meaning, and only then could he himself achieve redemption.
Otherwise, he simply couldn't face Rangiku.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh-
As Aizen approached, four green spikes protruded from the ground around Miyako, forming a barrier that faintly corresponded to the green glove on Aizen's right hand.
Without the slightest hesitation, Aizen thrust his right hand towards Miyako's chest.
"Stop!"
Seeing this scene, Ichigo was furious. Reiatsu erupted at his feet as he gripped his Zanpakuto with both hands and slashed at Aizen!
A white flash of light passed by. Instinctively, Ichigo brought his sword back to block-
Clang-
The tremendous force directly sent Ichigo flying again.
Boom!
Erupting Reiatsu, creating sonic booms from the friction with the air, Ichigo's body finally stopped. He looked in the direction the white light came from.
There, he saw Gin half-crouched on the ground, one hand performing Kaido to treat Tosen's injuries, the other holding his short Zanpakuto, pointed at Ichigo.
"Sorry about that, Ryoka boy."
"Captain Aizen cannot be disturbed at this time!"
Ichigo gritted his teeth.
He also hadn't expected that this Shinigami Captain, who had blasted him out of the Seireitei during their first meeting, possessed such strength.
If he weren't in his Bankai state, he wouldn't have been able to react to that slash at all.
And the strength of that slash...
Looking at the torn tiger mouth of his palm and the blood flowing down the hilt of his Zanpakuto, Ichigo had to admit that unless he used Getsuga Tensho, a few more slashes like that and he probably wouldn't be able to hold on.
However-
Ichigo never gave up a fight just because his strength was inferior.
Taking a deep breath, Ichigo channeled his Reiatsu into Zangetsu, causing black streams of light to coil around Zangetsu.
"Getsuga… Tensho!"
Ichigo raised Zangetsu high and brought it down towards Gin's direction.
A huge black crescent slash, almost severing the peak of Sokyoku Hill, spread towards Gin.
This display of power made even Gin narrow his eyes.
Immediately, Gin dispersed the green Kaido Reiatsu in his palm, grabbed the front of Tosen's clothes, and instantly disappeared from the path of the slash.
Boom, boom, boom-
Amidst the roaring sounds, Ichigo, not sparing a moment to check the result of his attack, charged towards Aizen again.
At this moment, Aizen's right hand had already plunged into Miyako's chest.
But strangely, no blood flowed from Miyako's chest.
Looking from the front, one could even see that a large hole had appeared in Miyako's spiritual body at the chest.
Aizen's right hand, wearing the green glove, seemed to be grasping something in this void.
When Aizen's hand was pulled out from the void, a blue crystal was held between his index finger and thumb.
Whoosh-
As the green Reishi Glove on Aizen's right hand dispersed into light, the several wooden spikes around Miyako also shattered.
The large hole in her chest also healed accordingly.
"I... what was such a thing doing inside my body?"
Seeing Aizen take this strange object out of her body, Miyako was also bewildered.
Of course, what surprised Miyako even more was that after this thing was removed, she could feel her Reiatsu recovering rapidly.