Chapter 148: Harribel's Defeat, "Hybrid Beast God" Ayon Debuts
"What are you saying?"
In the ice prison, Ichigo stared at Fiander with wide eyes, as if he hadn't expected him to say such words.
"Is what I said not obvious enough?"
"That's good—let me put it another way. Grimmjow, you only need to kill Kurosaki Ichigo, and I can provide you with a way to continue becoming stronger, taking effect immediately."
In Ichigo's eyes, Fiander's smile was like a devil's smile, making one shudder.
"Bastard! What's the point of doing this?"
Ichigo slashed at the ice wall, but his weakened attack couldn't even scratch the wall's surface.
Just when Ichigo was glaring at Fiander, a sound of breaking wind came directly into his ears. His body's natural reaction made him take two steps back involuntarily, and a blade fell directly before Ichigo's eyes.
"Grimmjow, are you going to listen to him!"
Worried that Inoue on his back would be hurt again, Ichigo covered Tensa Zangetsu with one hand and pointed at Grimmjow.
"Heh, I've wanted to fight with you for a long time, Kurosaki Ichigo!"
There was a violent smile on Grimmjow's face—obviously he, who had been suppressed before Fiander for so long, wanted to release the depression and unhappiness in his heart.
"Hey! Fiander, get this woman out. Kurosaki Ichigo looks like this—I can't fight him properly!"
Grimmjow grasped the blade in his hand, turned and shouted at Fiander.
"Ah, no problem!"
As Fiander extended his hand to grasp, Inoue Orihime on Ichigo's back turned into ice mist and disappeared from the ice prison, appearing in Fiander's hand instantly.
"Kurosaki Ichigo, what I promised you still stands, so go ahead and defeat Grimmjow!"
"Otherwise, you won't be able to protect this girl's body!"
Fiander casually tossed Inoue on the ground. Her body was like a puddle of mud, falling to the ground without any consciousness. Kurosaki Ichigo saw this, his eyes filled with rage.
"Damn it!"
Fiander's behavior made Kurosaki Ichigo extremely angry, but at the moment, he had to bow his head under another's roof. The only way right now was to defeat Grimmjow, the enemy before him.
"In that case, Grimmjow—then come on!"
As Ichigo wiped his face with his hand, a jet-black mask exuding a hideous and terrifying aura appeared on his face.
On the other hand, the battle of Karakura Town was still ongoing. After Harribel exhausted all her strength to seal Yamamoto Genryusai, the morale of the Arrancar side had greatly improved.
But during this period, the Segunda Espada Baraggan Louisenbairn's subordinate officers—Ggio Vega and Nirgge Parduoc—were both killed by Second Division Captain Soi-Fon and her lieutenant Omaeda Marechiyo.
As the former King of Hueco Mundo, all Arrancar under his command who could fight were killed, so he had to stand at the forefront to fight the enemy.
After Shikai, Kyoraku used his abilities to fight with Starrk while observing the battlefield situation. Starrk's partner, Lilinette, was being toyed with by Ukitake Jushiro, captain of the 13th Division, like an adult playing with a child.
Well, it was literally an adult playing with a child!
Harribel, who was more than half physically exhausted, had to face 10th Division Captain Hitsugaya Toshiro, who was still in his prime.
Her three subordinates took the seriously injured and unconscious Reinhard, surrounded by several vice-captains.
At this time, the four vice-captains—Hinamori Momo, Matsumoto Rangiku, Kira Izuru, and Hisagi Shuuhei—surrounded the three Arrancar: Apache, Mila Rose, and Sun-Sun.
Because Mila Rose and Sun-Sun were supporting Reinhard against each other, only Apache was left to fight freely.
"Even if the Head Captain is sealed, your chances of winning still aren't great. Although this victory isn't honorable, I can only say I'm sorry."
Toshiro held up Hyorinmaru and pointed it at Harribel, who was covered in burns, speaking softly.
"Captain, don't talk too much!"
At this time, Harribel's delicate body was heaving up and down due to excessive physical exertion, breathing heavily. She slowly raised the giant sword with shark gill patterns in her hand, speaking in a calm tone: "Just to deal with you, I don't need to give my all!"
With that, Harribel shot out a gigantic column of water from the huge sword with shark gill pattern in her hand, hitting Toshiro like a waterfall.
"Cascada!"
The extremely huge water column attacked Toshiro like a winding giant serpent.
Looking coldly at the huge jet of water coming toward him, Toshiro closed his eyes, then opened them abruptly: "Your Reiatsu is so chaotic!"
"Ryusenka!"
As Toshiro raised Hyorinmaru in his hand, several ice dragons flew from the blade, turning into huge icicles and colliding head-on with the water column launched by Harribel.
At this moment on the battlefield, the water column and icicle were entangled with each other, but because of insufficient Reiatsu and lack of physical strength, Harribel's ultimate move—Cascada—was frozen by Hyorinmaru's condensed ice after only a few seconds.
Seeing this, Harribel took several steps back without hesitation, but Toshiro wouldn't leave his opponent any chance to react. Holding Hyorinmaru high, the ice wings behind him fluttered as he fell rapidly from the sky, stabbing toward Harribel.
"Hyoten Hyakkaso!"
The biting cold blade went straight through Harribel's chest, and a huge cross-shaped ice sculpture fell to the ground instantly.
"Lady Harribel!"
Seeing that Harribel was defeated by the Shinigami's sneak attack, the hatred in Apache's eyes was about to overflow.
"Sun-Sun! Mila Rose! Don't hold back—release now!"
As Apache shouted in anger, Harribel's three subordinates immediately released their Zanpakuto and launched attacks.
"Bite her to pieces, Cierva!"
"Strangle her, Anaconda!"
"Throw her away, Leona!"
After the three achieved Resurreccion, their body appearances changed, and the Reiatsu within their bodies rose. Each retained some characteristics from their original Adjuchas forms.
"Start that! I want to avenge Lady Harribel!"
Mila Rose said to the other two angrily. With the others' agreement, the left arms of all three each emitted light, carrying large amounts of Reiatsu from their bodies, and flew into the air to fuse together.
"Come out! Beast God, Ayon!"
As the three shouted in unison, a huge stag-horned, snake-tailed monster appeared in Karakura Town, and the massive Reiatsu within it made all the surrounding vice-captains feel genuinely frightened.
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