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"I was hit directly by that powerful Zanpakutō... and it even inflicted a double-layered calamity."
"You brat... just what the hell are you?!"
Haschwalth's eyes trembled in shock. His pupils, glowing with the light of the Almighty, stared into the dense spiritual smoke, searching rapidly—
He couldn't see!
He still couldn't see!
The future was completely veiled in chaos—Kanbaru had vanished from all timelines.
"This… this can't be happening."
Could it be—
Could it be that Kurosaki Kanbaru's Reiatsu had already surpassed his own?
Only an overwhelming spiritual pressure—on a different dimension—could interfere with the Almighty's precognition. That was the only explanation for this total loss of foresight.
But how?!
He's just a hybrid Quincy—with no Sankt Bogen, no Schrift, no formal designation from the king—how could he possess power that even surpasses Vollständig?
"For me," came a calm voice from within the smoke, "death doesn't mean losing life—it means stepping beyond the current flow of time."
The mist cleared.
Kanbaru stepped forward slowly, his body ablaze with a bluish-violet Reiatsu that swirled like a divine inferno. He emerged as if reborn, eyes serene, aura overwhelming.
"Still alive...?"
Haschwalth's heart sank. He didn't understand it, but he could feel it—Kanbaru's threat level had spiked.
That kid was evolving again!
Whether he was hiding his strength earlier, or truly underwent a metamorphosis after brushing with death, both options filled him with a suffocating dread.
"Powerless, isn't it?"
"That's the difference between us... a gap you can see with your own eyes."
Kanbaru's steps halted. He stood firm, calmly facing Haschwalth—his spiritual aura towering like an eclipse.
Under the pressure of near-death—
Kanbaru had stepped into the third-stage collapse fusion state (Hōgyoku-enhanced).
Because the Hōgyoku—as created by Aizen and refined from Urahara's prototype—responds to its host's desire and growth ceiling, evolving them when they approach death or hit a bottleneck.
Thus, for Kanbaru...
Death wasn't an end. It was the medium for evolution.
This wasn't like Yhwach's Auswählen, which forcibly reclaimed power and extinguished the soul of the Quincy—no. The Hōgyoku wasn't a tyrannical parasite. It was a catalyst.
Kanbaru didn't know if souls destroyed by Auswählen could reincarnate.
Maybe they could.
Maybe they couldn't.
But he wouldn't risk it.
> [Zhou Shuren, wielder of the Devil Fruit, once stirred chaos in Heaven's Palace. But after repentance, he fathered seven gourd children with the Snake Spirit. The fusion of those seven… is the origin of the Hōgyoku.]
> [You have successfully entered Collapse Fusion Stage Three. You now transcend the physical limits of humanity and step into a higher-dimensional existence.]
> [Now, good news and bad news. The bad news? You've reached your evolutionary ceiling. From today, your Reiatsu, strength, and life-force will no longer grow naturally.]
> [The good news? You can still evolve—if you fuse with the Hōgyoku that Aizen possesses.]
> [Men are forged in hardship. If you want more, fight for it. Will you take the risk or chicken out? ...Wait—what the hell are you thinking about right now?!]
Kanbaru's eye twitched. "...There's something seriously wrong with you."
He turned to face Haschwalth fully. His tone sharpened.
"From the beginning, you kept saying I was destined to die here... that you foresaw it..."
"You sure you're not just underestimating me?"
His quiet mockery cut deep, but Haschwalth had no room for rebuttal—
Because something worse was happening.
BOOM—
The light around Kanbaru distorted, dimmed, and the spiritual atmosphere froze.
To Haschwalth, the world suddenly slowed. Thoughts dragged like molasses. Concepts dissolved.
Nothingness.
Chaos.
Meaningless void.
And then it hit—
A pressure so immense, so primal, that it suffocated every molecule of his being.
Fear. Death. Paralysis. Despair.
He was drowning inside his own mind!
"This oppressive aura… what in God's name are you?!"
Haschwalth's breath caught in his throat. Cold sweat drenched his back.
This... was no human.
As Yhwach's right hand, the Grandmaster of the Sternritter had only ever felt this kind of annihilation-level pressure from the King of All Quincies.
And now—a mutt, a hybrid brat—was radiating that same cosmic dread.
He couldn't keep up.
He thought this was just a simple three-on-one.
And yet—
In mere seconds—
Under his omniscient gaze—
Buzz-B had been vaporized in one move.
Bambietta, attempting to activate Vollständig, was eliminated before she could react.
And now—
Kanbaru radiated power that not even Haschwalth could explain.
This wasn't just an anomaly—
This was an abomination of Quincy evolution.
"Why are you so tired of living?"
"Because your mind is too rigid—too stuck in its own echo chamber. You're like a frog at the bottom of a well—you can only see that tiny patch of sky above."
"You've spent so long marching with your head down, you forgot to look at where you're going."
"You overthink every variable—and miss your moment."
"In short, you may have strength, but you lack vision. Strategy. Clarity."
"In every area, you're inferior to Buzz-B."
"At the very least..."
"He never wavered."
Kanbaru's words landed like hammer blows.
Each sentence twisted the knife in Haschwalth's chest.
He knew.
Kanbaru knew that Buzz-B had been secretly plotting to assassinate Yhwach.
And worse—
He knew Haschwalth had been hesitating this whole time.
But—how?!
That secret was known only to them.
"Last warning," Kanbaru said, his tone cool and unshaken. "Step aside."
Haschwalth stood frozen—eyes wide, Reiatsu unstable, mind in shambles.
His fighting spirit had been shattered.
Seeing his expression, Kanbaru chuckled lightly and stepped forward—
Toward the crack in the shadow realm.
That portal—
It led to the Soul Society.
And more importantly—
To the final step.
The Hōgyoku.
He smirked.
"Aizen..."
"Are you ready?"
"Welcome me—because I'm coming."
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