"Puff!"
A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out as Ishida Uryu was sent flying backward, crashing into a nearby flower bed.
He raised his head, his pupils filled with disbelief.
Was that... really just a Soul Reaper's Shunpo?!
Quincies also possessed high-speed movement techniques, known as Hirenkyaku.
In his understanding, Hirenkyaku had always been clearly superior to Shunpo. But Shigure's absolute high speed just now—which seemed like spatial teleportation—immediately shattered his preconceptions about Shunpo.
Such speed was completely beyond his imagination!
Byakuya on the side also flashed his eyes when he witnessed that Shunpo.
The speed Shigure had just displayed was actually approaching his own level.
"Ishida!!"
Seeing Ishida Uryu coughing up blood, Rukia called out in concern.
Then she quickly looked toward Kuchiki Byakuya beside her, saying anxiously:
"Brother Byakuya! This has nothing to do with him!"
Kuchiki Byakuya immediately cast a cold gaze upon hearing this.
"That expression..."
"Have you... completely turned yourself into a human?"
Rukia's gaze immediately trembled and she froze.
Just then, Ishida Uryu's voice came again.
He lightly coughed up another mouthful of blood and stood up once more.
"I can't just fall down like this... That would be letting Kurosaki laugh at me..."
Despite his body being covered with his own blood, his eyes once again blazed with determined resolve.
With that, he stood up again.
Shigure smiled slightly.
"It seems that unless I make you realize the gap between us, you'll never give up."
Ishida Uryu immediately showed a smile full of fighting spirit.
"You say 'gap'?"
"...Gaps exist to be crossed!"
He raised his bow again. This time, the spiritual particles flowing around his body far exceeded the previous amount.
This blue radiance even dispelled all the surrounding darkness.
Blood was already seeping from his right index finger that drew the bowstring.
But at this moment, Shigure across from him gently raised his arm.
He smiled at Ishida Uryu and said calmly:
"Then try and see how you cross it."
The moment these words fell, a tremendous oppressive force suddenly descended upon Ishida Uryu.
Boom!!
The blue spiritual particle flow around his body actually dissipated directly under this oppressive force!
The longbow that had just been glowing with blue radiance became dim and lightless in this moment.
Ishida Uryu's heart jumped violently, his mind going blank.
He wanted to raise his hand and draw his bow again.
However, this tremendous oppressive force made it impossible for him to even stand!
Puff!
His knees buckled and he knelt directly on the ground.
The longbow Kojaku that he had been gripping tightly slipped from his hands and fell to the ground.
The clanging sound echoed eerily in the silent night.
Ishida Uryu tried with all his might to raise his head and look at Shigure.
But the suffocating sensation brought by this oppressive force caused him to lose consciousness in an instant. His eyes rolled back and he fell unconsciously.
Ishida Uryu, defeated.
Kuchiki Rukia on the side looked at Shigure, her heart filled with terror.
That spiritual pressure, though not directed at her, made it almost impossible for her to breathe just by observing!
What level of spiritual pressure was this?!
But just then, the sound of a slashing attack suddenly rang through the air.
Immediately after, a huge blade suddenly slashed toward Shigure!
The dense spiritual particles in the air seemed to be directly erased by the blade!
This massive and familiar spiritual pressure immediately made Rukia's eyes tremble.
She looked up somewhat stiffly.
It was a young man with orange hair, wearing black Soul Reaper robes, holding an enormous blade in his hands.
The size of this blade was astounding.
In this young man's hands, there was a strange sense of contrast.
At this moment, his expression was cold, his aura explosive.
Shigure took a step back, easily dodging while his eyes flashed.
Substitute Soul Reaper, Ichigo Kurosaki.
His blade struck the ground, concrete fragments exploding as if they had been blasted.
Dust and smoke swirled around as Kuchiki Byakuya also looked over. When he saw clearly, his gaze suddenly turned cold as he said indifferently:
"Tch, a Soul Reaper with no squad affiliation..."
"So you're the one who stole Rukia's spiritual power..."
Hearing this, Ichigo Kurosaki immediately raised his chin. "Hah?"
Rukia on the side spoke almost tremblingly:
"I-Ichigo... you idiot... why did you come..."
Ichigo Kurosaki looked over, a rare small smile appearing on his face.
He lifted the enormous blade and shouldered it.
"Do you need to ask, Rukia... Of course, it's to bring you back!"
"Leaving without saying goodbye is rather rude, don't you think?"
Hearing Ichigo Kurosaki's words, Rukia suddenly became stern.
"Run away!!"
"This has nothing to do with you!!!"
Her hoarse shout rang out.
Ichigo Kurosaki's expression froze for a moment, then he raised his eyes to look at Shigure beside them.
"Is that so, Rukia..."
"You're saying this... because they're strong, right?"
"Then I definitely can't be careless."
Ichigo Kurosaki focused his gaze, switching to a two-handed grip on his sword, staring intently at Shigure.
Shigure smiled slightly but said nothing.
The current Ichigo Kurosaki only possessed powerful spiritual pressure.
In other aspects, he had virtually no combat ability.
Kuchiki Byakuya looked at Ichigo Kurosaki with an indifferent gaze, slowly saying:
"Although Central 46 has no jurisdiction over crimes committed by humans..."
"But since you're obstructing the execution of judgment, then..."
Swoosh!
The next moment, Kuchiki Byakuya's figure disappeared directly from his original position, appearing behind Ichigo Kurosaki.
Shigure's eyes moved.
He hadn't expected Kuchiki Byakuya to take action himself.
Seeing this scene, only despair remained in Rukia's heart.
She knew that before these two people, no matter how powerful Ichigo Kurosaki was, he could not win.
Whether it was Kuchiki Byakuya or Segawa Shigure, their strength was already... on a completely different level.
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