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"Siegfried... Siegfried Krieger."
You share your name with the shinigami medic.
She gives you a frown and an odd look.
"What?"

"Let me tell you something Siegfried.
There are 13 Court Guard Squads and at the head of each stands a captain.
Under the captains serve their lieutenants and hundreds of shinigami.
If you truly want to save that girl then you'd have to fight through each and every one of them.
And that's suicide!"
She begins shouting.
"Why?
Kuchiki has been absent for only a few months. Are you telling me you are willing to risk your life for someone you barely know?"

"No."
You put a stop to Isane.
"They are the ones who barely know her.
I don't know her at all."

"Wha-"

You pull the hat you got from Urahara over your eyes.
"But they made friends with her.
They all came here to save someone who was their comrade, who saved their lives before.
Knowing the risks well they still wanted to come here in hopes of returning the favor to her.
I wasn't even planning on coming here. But what kind of a man would just sit by and watch others go off like that?
Frankly, I'm here because they asked me to. No reason other than that."

Isanes eyes go wide.
"Are you insane?"

You give her a coy smile.
"Close your eyes for a moment."

"Why?"

"I'm about to show you something interesting.
I'll show you just how good our chances actually are."

Isane then closes her eyes albeit reluctantly.
After but a few moments she snaps them open.
"Kira-kun, Iba-san and... Madarame Ikkaku of the 11th Division?
Impossible!"
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Meanwhile a couple hundred yards away.

Kira Izuru, lieutenant of the third division and Iba Tetsuzaemon, lieutenant of the seventh division are engaged in pitched combat against two invading ryoka.

Izuru smirks as he manages to cut the mexican boy with his released sword.
Chads arm then slumps to the ground much to the kids surprise.
"It's over ryoka.
My Wabisuke doubles the weight of anything it cuts.
Surrender now and we'll let you live."

But to Kiras surprise the young Yasutora raises his arm almost effortlessly.
After giving it a few good squeezes he charges the lieutenant once more.
"Didn't you hear me?"
Kira asked.
"I said it's pointless!"

The moment the lieutenant cuts the flying fist however is the moment when the fight is decided.
As Wabisuke connects and Chads weight quadruples so does the kinetic energy of his punch.
Kiras eyes begin to bulge when his Zanpakuto snaps in two and when Sados fist is driven in his stomach.

When the attack ends the lieutenant is soaring through the sky right into a brick wall behind him.
The construct caves in as Izuru is firmly lodged into it.
Each breath he takes becomes painful as he feels a broken rib pressing against his lungs.
But despite his injury he manages to free himself and stand almost upright.

Chad gives his arm a good look and a few squeezes.
"I'm sorry.
I was hoping that'd knock you out.
But it seems it wasn't enough."
Kira raises his broken sword as he keeps panting.
"Please stop. I don't wish to harm you."

"To..."
Kira then throws up blood.
"To hell with you! If... if you think that this is enough to stop a lieutenant then you are dead wrong!"

"I see."
Chads left arm begins to envelop itself in white armor.
"Then you leave me no choice."
With a quick use of bringer light he charges the lieutenant.
"La Muerte."


In that moment a loud crash could be heard and Lieutenant Iba looks up in surprise.
"Izuru!"

"Big mistake old man!
I'm the one you should worry about!"
Tatsuki chastises him.

In a flash of green light Tatsuki launches herself from the ground.
Out of the 3 fullbringers she is the most talented when it comes to the usage of the common fullbring abilities, such as bringer light.
As she darts around the place she creates small bounce pads under her feet or even in the air.
With this she is capable of unleashing a constant assault of high speed pokes and jabs at her enemy from every conceivable direction.

Individually these attacks aren't worth much but as the damage begins to pile up and the shinigami is overwhelmed, his defense shatters.
One stray attack swings his sword to the side, exposing his front.
Tatsuki seeing this jumps at the opportunity.

One final use of bringer light accelerates her to ludicrous speeds.
Then she swings her arms backwards and sets off an explosion behind her, propelling her even more.
"Half-kiloton KICK!"
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And the final one is Ichigo who is fighting far away from the others.
He got a nasty cut above his eyebrow and the flowing blood blocks his sight quite effectively.

"What's wrong ryoka?"
Ikkaku asks while twirling his machete around.
"Why haven't you released your sword yet?
Don't tell me Renji wasn't joking when he said you don't know its name."

Ichigo tries one last time to wipe the blood from his eyes but fails.
He looks at his wrecked right arm and sighs.
"And here I thought your weapon was too goofy to be effective.
I shouldn't have underestimated you, sorry."
The boy then switches his sword to his left hand.
"I guess I have no choice. Without my dominant arm I can't fight normally."
He takes a deep breath and begins to channel his reiryoku.
"Shout, Zangetsu!"

In a flash of pure whiteness Ikkakus chest is torn open.
Suffering such a damage almost killed him instantly.
He looks at Ichigo in disbelief but after realizing his defeat he welcomes death with a smile.
"Well damn...
That was... awesome..."

Ikkaku then loses consciousness.
Ichigo runs to him and begins applying Ikkakus own cauterizing medicine to his wound and as such he failed to notice Ikkakus sclera changing colors as his consciousness began drifting away.
At the same time Isane finally recovers from the shock of these 3 being defeated.
You give her a quick look and ask her something.

"How many of those were lieutenants?"

"T-two..."

She seems to be obviously distraught.

>Leave her while she is distracted.
>Try to reassure her about the safety of her comrades.
>Offer your help to her if she wants to go and heal the other lieutenants
>Other? (write-in)
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>>672180
>>Leave her while she is distracted.
Hey spook.
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>>672180
>>Try to reassure her about the safety of her comrades.
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>>672180
>Leave her while she is distracted.
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>>672180
>Offer your help to her if she wants to go and heal the other lieutenants
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>>672175
>As Wabisuke connects and Chads weight quadruples so does the kinetic energy of his punch.
Always thought that would be a huge downside to his ability.
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>>672180
>>Leave her while she is distracted.
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>>672180
>>Offer your help to her if she wants to go and heal the other lieutenants
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>>672180
>Leave her while she is distracted
>They aren't killers, so if you don't bar their way your freinds can still be saved. But you should hurry.
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>Writing
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>>672180

>Offer your help to her if she wants to go and heal the other lieutenants

Is it the best idea, nah. But I just want to see where this goes.
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>>672180
>>Offer your help to her if she wants to go and heal the other lieutenants
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>>67218
>Offer your help to her if she wants to go and heal the other lieutenants
It's going to be hilarious when we get revealed. I almost expect us to be revealed when the menos use negaccion to extract Aizen and we're grabbed as well or something.
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We kind of need to uncover in character what Aizen is up to so we can best fuck up his plans.

How do we proceed to do with that, anons? Should we just get to Rukia asap or investigate something else?
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Where are they holding Rukia?
Also where are they holding Marr?
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>>672237
Read the archives you lazy faggot.
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You scratch the back of your head as you slowly start walking away.
"They aren't killers, just a bunch of kids.
So they are more than likely to be alive. If you hurry then you could easily reach them before it's too late."
As you say that you begin picking up the pace.
"See you."

"Wait!"
She calls out to you.
"That white tower in the distance is the Senzaikyū.
Kuchiki Rukia is held in there."

You raise your palm.
"Thanks!"

Isane then takes off to her injured comrades.
In her mind she is hoping that sharing this information with you will avoid unnecessary bloodshed.

As you are running around and see the sun setting in the distance you feel the reiatsus of Ichigo, Chad, Tatsuki, Orihime and Uryū slowly disappear.

"Smart kids.
It's going to be night soon."
You muse to yourself as you take note of the orange sky.

If you were quick enough then perhaps you could find them based on their last know locations, after all the original plan was to stick together and spearhead an assault into the Seireitei.
But then again the Shrine of Penitence is not too far away.
Or alternatively you could avoid all of these in the hopes of pursuing other goals.

>Go straight to the prison.
>Try to find a group (Which?)
>Other? (write-in)
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Also, start rolling 3d10 to see if you succeed or if you are interrupted by a random encounter.

Higher is worse.
Taking 3rd roll only
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>>672248
>Go straight to the prison.
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>>672248

>Go straight to the prison.
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>>672248
>>Go straight to the prison.
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Rolled 10, 10, 10 = 30 (3d10)

>>672248
>Go straight to the prison.
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Rolled 2, 2, 9 = 13 (3d10)

>>672256

>>672262
Anon WHY!?!?!
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Rolled 8, 3, 10 = 21 (3d10)

>>672256
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Rolled 4, 9, 10 = 23 (3d10)

>>672248
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>>672262
Well fuck me. I'm taking that
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>>672262
We get to meet marr now!
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>>672262
Sweet jesus, Thank fuck that isn't the third roll.
>>672268
I don't know if I should be pissed or intrigued.
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>>672268

Shit's getting spooky real fast
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>>672261
>Hide your power

And

>Go straight to the prison.
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>>672276
Why? He didn't ask for a roll not did said all rolls were lower is best from now on. It was just that particular encounter roll.
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>>672289
see
>>672256
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Prison wins.
And so does the critfail.

>Writing
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>>672296
Oh god.
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>>672296
That's not really fair, you said third roll only
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>>672296
I don't think I've been this excited for a crit fail before.

My guess is the power of the spooky hurricane is empowering our rolls.
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>>672293
The GM is a cheating bastard. The 30 wasn't the third roll.
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>>672298
Where is the **FUN** in that?
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>>672298
>>672301

I think what he will do will give us more content so it's all good.

IN SPOOK WE TRUST
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>>672302
It's about the principle. 22 is probably just as fun without completely fucking us over
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>>672316
21 I mean, whoops.
Same difference
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>>672316
He also skipped a crit fail in recent history.
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>>672320
The system doesn't even have critfails normally, it's best of three in most cases.
We woulda had to roll extremely low all three times
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>>672316
You should know by now that Spooky does what he thinks is going to be cool regardless of any mitigating factors.

Just roll with it brah
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>>672316
You have no concept of fun.

A super critfail means shit is about to go crazy.
Your whining is why so many quests turn out as boring bullshit, people refuse to let anything cool happen and instead always go for the safest possible shit be a use god forbid anything bad ever happens.
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So who's it gonna be? Kenny, Old Man Genocide? Marr? Aizen?
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>>672327
21 is pretty high up there and just as fun.
Don't be a salty bitch about me wanting to stick to the prior rule of third roll only.
Seriously bro, that's a hell of a lot of projecting you're doing.
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You decided that the smartest thing would be to go into the prison while the enemy was still very much confused, free Rukia and then pick up the others one by one and finally leave this damned place.

As fast as your legs can carry you, you keep running around the Seireitei only ever stopping when you feel shinigami patrols appearing.
In hopes of avoiding battles all together you kept to the shadows and thankfully with the sunset there are a lot of those around.
It gives you a sense of accomplishment as all the shinigami simply run past you like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off.
The hardest part of it all is holding back your laughter as the fools completely miss you.

After the coast is clear you begin running once more.
Soon you'll reach the Senzaikyū and you can go on with your plan.

But as you are running at full speed you ran around a corner and finally see the street leading to the shrine itself...
And...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5OCfgW4OnA

Your heart skips a beat.
You blink once. You blink twice. The image doesn't change
An image. A voice. A heartbeat. A smell. A name.

Your eyes begin to water and your breathing becomes irregular.
The sensation of your pulse rising makes you all the more tense.
She is not looking at you. It seems she is talking with some obstructed figure. She hasn't noticed you yet.

But your grip loosens on your sword and when it falls to the ground she turns around from the noise.
She looks at you and freezes in place, just like you.
For several moments neither of you speak and time appears to be frozen.

After several moments of just looking at you her lips begin to tremble.
"Siegfried..."

Suddenly you feel as if someone stabbed you in your non-existent heart.
You feel all manners of emotions and currently you don't know what to even feel.
"Rike..."
You manage to mutter.

The only thing that snaps you back into reality is your own survival instincts when you feel someone with killing intent attacking you.
Unconsciously you step on the hilt of your sword and it springs up with a fast spin.

You catch and draw the blade just in time to block the approaching sword with the 5 cms of metal you managed to draw.
As you are crashing down to reality the first thing you see is a white robe flowing with the wind.
For a brief moment you see the upside down symbol. It reads: 9.
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>>672334
OMG might actually be a nice experience if he doesn't immediately go for the kill. He and Kaizar share a certain outlook on things.
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>>672342

This is why in SPOOK WE TRUST
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>>672342
You fukken what

YOU FUKKEN WHAT
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>>672262
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy-NsMdVhok

>you hear bells in the distance
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Your grip is weak on your blade but you manage to get a steady hold of your opponent regardless.
Once the white robe settles down your attention begins to focus on the man who just attacked you.
To your surprise it's also the face of someone you know.

A pair of glasses, short brown hair, the features of a shinigami you've met before.
Rike screams at her.
"CAPTAIN ASATO!
WAI-"

"Fall back third seat! THIS IS AN ORDER!"
He shouts but his tone quickly changes to a more calm one.
"I'm sorry Chisato... I fear we might have been looking for the same thing all these years..."
He then turns his attention to you.
"Isn't that right? KAIZAR SOIZE!"

With a final shout he pushes you back and actually sends you flying.
In the air you do a double somersault and land on your feet.
For a brief moment you focus on the captain assaulting you.

"How?"

He tosses his white Haori aside and his swords sheathe.
"You might have changed your shape demon!
But... there is no way... MY SWORD WILL EVER FAIL TO RECOGNIZE YOU!"

After a swift swing of his blade it transforms into a yataghan.
The blade is the same as you've last seen it many years ago. Tiny holes in the blade and a flint lock at the grip.
You also noticed something else: He didn't call out the swords name.

You don't know what to do. You don't even know how to feel at this point.

>Stay and fight.
>Run away.
>Try to speak. (what do you say?)
>Other? (write-in)

Also, how do you feel?
>Write-in
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>>672373
who is rike?
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>>672373

>Stay and fight.
>Barely controllable desires born from an a place we haven't felt in along time. wanting to scream but lacking a mouth.
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>>672373
>>Try to speak. (what do you say?)
THAT IS MY WIFE!
Sheer Unalduterated rage at him for getting between us.
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>>672377
The waifu.
>>672373
>Stay and fight.
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>>672373
>Also, how do you feel?
Insulted. Fighting him might be a necessity depending on how hard he insists on it, but does he REALLY think we'd attack our own wife?
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>>672373
>Run away.
This body is squishy,
Rike became a Shinigami, we became a Hollow, the universe is a cunt. we both have a new life now.
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>>672373
>Stare with a glare of death, slowly pouring out reiatsu and sharpening it with intense feelings of grief, and killing intent.

"You... dare stand between me and my wife?"
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>>672373
>Try not to cry
>Cry a lot
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>>672391
Sure, I'll go with this
I probably would in the same situation. Too many conflicting, powerful emotions at once.
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>>672373
>>Try to speak. (what do you say?)
"Really, is that any way to speak to someone who spared you after you tried to kill him? Always insisting your opponents are nothing but malevolent monsters. Honestly, you lot are almost as bad as the Quincy."
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>>672373
Lets not mention the wife thing. Could get us in trouble.
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>>672393
>>672391
>Not Overwhelming desire to throw the guy out of the way and hug her.
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>>672377
The wife of Siegfried Krieger.
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>>672391
Thirded
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>>672373
>Try to speak. (what do you say?)
"You're a goddamn Captain, you know what causes souls to become hollows as well as I do. And if, knowing that, you can't set aside your own personal grudge for long enough for me to speak with my wife? That makes you the demon here."

"Don't even try and fucking argue, yes it does and anyone with a sense of human decency would know it."
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>>672400
I mean, we can still do that! It's not exactly mutually exclusive. Crying, and hugging, and crying some more.

If anyone asks, no, those weren't tears - we were trying to summon water for an attack, obviously
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>>672407
>If anyone asks, no, those weren't tears - we were trying to summon water for an attack, obviously

This.
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Trying to talk with hostile reaction if necessary wins

>Writing
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>>672411
And once more.

Roll 3d10 for combat.
This time it's the best of 3.

Dc:20 Crit:25

High DC because of emotional distress
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Rolled 4, 9, 2 = 15 (3d10)

>>672413
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Rolled 7, 9, 7 = 23 (3d10)

>>672413
ITS RAINING I SWEAR
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Rolled 6, 10, 9 = 25 (3d10)

>>672413
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Rolled 2, 1, 7 = 10 (3d10)

>>672413
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>>672417

Thank you Kenpachi for guiding this anon to the truth.
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>>672373
>Stay and fight.
>Try to speak. (what do you say?)
>"Please get out of the way. I need to speak to Rike."
With as much murderous intent and despair directed his way as is possible.

>how do you feel?
Bitter that the universe has chosen such diametrically opposed afterlives for the two of us. Full of grief at the knowledge that, even if we have found her again, time has made fools of us. Things can never go back to what they once were.

And fucking furious that somebody is standing in the way of this reunion.
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>>672417
Is this what unlock our resureccion?

What the fuck would happen if a hollow unlocked that here?
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>>672417
yay
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>>672417
IT'S TIME
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>>672423
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>>672435
>>672417
>mfw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztB6NSUePMI

You begin emitting reiatsu, not caring about revealing your hollow nature anymore.
Looking into your eyes one could see killing intent brighter than a star.

"Move!"
You order the shinigami before you quietly but firmly.

"Make me."

With a loud scream your tears begin to fall as you charge the shinigami with your drawn sword.
As you are trying to ram the guy at full speed he presses the trigger on his sword and the flint strikes steel.
You see the sparks igniting the air and a snake made of fire slowly coursing through the air.
Once it reaches you the fire explodes in a myriad of colors.

With a furious scream you run right through the ball of fire straight at him.
Your swords clash once more but you can't make him budge.
"MOVE!"
Your tears are running like a waterfall.
"THAT'S MY WIFE YOU MONSTER!"

"AND THOSE WERE MY FRIENDS YOU'VE SLAUGHTERED!"
With a flick of his thumb his sword begins to emit some sort of gas that envelops the blade.
Once the flint ignites it the fire infuses the blade with insane power and he pushes you back.
"I SWORE I'D AVENGE THOSE YOU'VE MURDERED THAT DAY!
ALL THE SUFFERING YOU CAUSED! ALL THE PAIN YOU CREATED! ALL THAT SUFFERING!
THE DEAD WILL NOT REST UNTIL YOU PAY!"

You begin twirling in the air, preparing Danza de la Serpiente Profana.
The movements were not meant for a human body so with every strike you feel your muscles tearing themselves apart and your arms jumping in and out of their sockets but you don't care.

Asato is capable of at least keeping up with you.
Not one of your strikes connect but neither do his.
At the end of your chain attack you put every ounce of force you can into your attack and so does he.

A circle of fire erupts around you briefly when your swords connect.
You both grit your teeth and growl at the other.
As you are locked in such a manner you grab his still flaming sword with your left hand.

You scream as the blade cuts into you and the fire melts your flesh but you manage to pull it aside and when you do you headbutt the shinigami as strong as you can.
He reels back a bit and you see his nose bleeding and his glasses shattering.

"THE ONE TRUE MONSTER HERE IS THE ONE WHO DOESN'T LET A POOR MAN TALK WITH HIS WIFE!
NOW MOVE!"

He doesn't seem to be eager to stop but a figure approaches him from behind.
A hand is put upon his shoulder and he is met with tearful eyes.
"C-c-captain... PLEASE STOP!
I BEG OF YOU!"
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>>672462
>inb4 he stabs her for disobeying him.
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>>672475
Then he learns what happens when he truly makes Kaizer mad.
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>>672475
'Okay that's it everybody dies'

>Segunda Etapa
>Schnellgang
>Destroy half the Seireitei in one punch
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>>672484
>Wife dies in-front of us
>Has flash backs
>Gigi explodes
>FINAL ROUND, BEGIN.
>Marr and Old Man Genocide, including Kenpachi all turn towards our direction.
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>>672485
10000000% MAD
NANOHOLLOWS, SON
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>>672487
>Old Man Genocide just stops and waits
>Matt's half way interested in our development
>Meanwhile we're mid flip out and feeding Kenpachi his own sword.
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>>672525
>>672487
Marr I mean.
Autocorrect.
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>>672525
OH NO, MATT'S HERE. THE FINAL BOSS APPROACHES.
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>>672532
I suppose I deserve that.
kill me
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>>672539
I hope we meet an inexplicably strong character named matt now.
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>>672544
>Gaijin wanted to go to Glorious Nippon Afterlife so bad he punched his way through 3 other Soul Societies to get here.
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>>672462
man the sad part about this is, without a doubt kaizer is the bad guy in this
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>>672556
>Bad guy
>Wanting to talk to his wife
Anon what?
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>>672553
Oh God he thrives on the power of weabo. His zanpaukto better give him full gundam theemed samurai armor and a terrible fake Japanese accent.
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>>672556
We're morally "meh" at worst.
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>>672556
Fucking Barragan, if he hadn't dusted the entirety of Heuco, we wouldn't have eaten all those Shinigami!
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He stops for a moment.
"Chisato..."
It looks like he truly feels sorry for her.

"Please... Please Captain..."
She clenches her fist around the other shinigamis shihakusho.
"Let me at least talk with him...
Th-then I'll... I'll..."

The captain lowers his sword and it returns to a regular katana.
After sheathing his weapon he puts a hand on her shoulder.
"Go.
But I can't leave you alone with it."

"T-thank you..."
The captain then goes and picks up his haori and leans against a wall as he watches you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTGPg95I7Vg

Rike slowly walks to you with eyes full of tears and shaking legs.
You watch her slowly come closer and the memories flood your mind.

*How long has it been... since I last saw her?
How long has it been... since the last time I thought about her?
How long has it been... since I've heard her voice?
How long has it been... since I've seen her face?*
You keep asking yourself such questions.

You are so lost in thought that you haven't realized that she is standing before you.
"Is that truly you? Siegfried?"

Your heart wrenches as she speaks.
Words fail to come out of your mouth so instead you hug her tightly and begin crying.
Up until this point tears kept running down your cheeks but it was nothing compared to what you are doing now.
Bawling like a child you sob on your wifes shoulder and speak.

"I-I thought I'd never see you again my black tulip!"

Rike begins screaming in a mixture of joy and happiness and you can feel her grabbing hold of you tightly.
For a while the two of you sob gently and you hug her even tighter.
You wished with your entire being that this moment would last forever.

But you simply had to let go.
The desire to look into her eyes and speak with her heart to heart was too strong.

She tries to wipe her tears away but it proves to be futile.
Not being able to look at you with all those tears she looks down and keeps sobbing.
"For so long...
I was looking for you for so long my warrior!
For I knew that one day... one day I'd find you."
She looks up at you with her typical bright smile. The tears disappeared as if they are not worthy of tarnishing her.
"And look at me.
I'm a mess! I don't even know where to start!
Hah...
I- uh- I have friends here... not many though...
I eat plenty and exercise a lot! I think I even lost weight with all this sword swingin'!
How... how have you been?"

>Be honest.
>Tell half truths
>Lie completely
>Other? (write-in)
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>>672556
Not even close, anon. Kaizar may not be 100% good, and he may have done some things as a common hollow he shouldn't be proud of, but he's earnestly tried to make the best of a shit situation for himself and others like him. Asato's letting his own thirst for revenge twist his sense of duty.
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>>672574
>Tell half truths
>Cry and hold her tight.
>Ask if the child is also in the SS or they lost him.
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>>672574
>>Be honest.
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>>672574
Be honest.
We're helping hollows out in hueco mundo by providing an alternative food source, and rudimentary traces of civilized society have started to form as a result. Shit is pretty cash.
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Don't tell her about SharktitsDon't tell her about SharktitsDon't tell her about SharktitsDon't tell her about Sharktits
AAAAA
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>>672574
>Tell half truths
DO NOT TELL HER ABOUT HARRIBEL!
Do tell her about Asher though, Seh'd probably find it funny.
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>>672574
>Be honest
Ya don't lie to some people. And for certain reasons. This is one of those.
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>>672574
Making me feel bad here Spooks.

Changing my vote here >>672585 too >Be honest.

But please drive home the point we thought it was all over.
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>>672574
>Be honest.
If there is one person out there we can trust and be honest with its our black tulip
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>>672589
>>672594

I don't think we should lie about that even through omission, anon
It's a pretty big deal. And she probably would understand. It WAS until death do us part, and we did part at death.
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>>672574
>Be honest
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>>672574
>Other? (write-in)
>"I died that day, car went off the road and I awoke with a chain stuck to my chest. I ran to you, until every breath felt like fire, and when I found you, that fire was nothing in comparison."
>Be honest.
>Your captain has every right to be angry, I have done horrible things to keep my friends safe.
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>>672574
>Be honest.
"I saw what happened to you and our child, Rike. It nearly destroyed everything I was, and it's taken decades to even come close to recovering from it. In that time I've done things to survive that looking back I can't be proud of. I had to learn to set aside any hope of getting back what we lost, to make something for myself and protect it with my own two hands. And at that I succeeded... a little misfit band of hollows, all trying our damnedest to be better than what had become of us."

"But seeing you again like this out of the blue... part of being a hollow is that you can never really move on, never forget. Only cope with varying degrees of success."
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honest response wins

>Writing
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>>672574
Also,
>Black Tulip
Don't think for one second I didn't see what you did there, Bubi.
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>>672620
W-wha?

I honestly just picked a random black flower I found cool
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>>672622
Erich Hartmann, the highest-scoring fighter ace of all time, used a characteristic "black tulip" marking around the engine cowling of his aircraft. At least he DID, until the Soviets wised up and refused to ever engage a plane with those markings.
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>>672626
oh I thought you were talking about the book Black Tulip
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By the way, is/was our wife actually german?

I mean, black hair, being in Soul Society which is pretty much more of a Japan thing... Did Kaisar marry a japanese woman? Germany and Japan were allies now that I think of it.
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>>672673
well, I don't think Rike's a german name is it?
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>>672673
>>672678
Rike is a German name, and in canon it's at least heavily implied that the Universalists are right and everyone ends up in the same 'system' when they die.
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>>672682
ah cool, didn't know that.
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You grab her and bring her closer so you can hug her once more.
Your hands slowly run through her hair as you take a deep breath to feel her more.
As the somber moment passes you begin whispering to her.

"I... died the same day you did."
You can hear a gasp from her.
"When I heard you were in the hospital I rushed there as fast as I could but... there was an accident.
I awoke with a chain stuck to my chest... but even so I ran... I ran until I couldn't run more.
Then I kept going anyway until every breath felt like fire filling my lungs.
When I arrived..."
You begin sobbing once more.
"You... you were both gone!
And I was stuck back there!"
You hear Rike covering her mouth with her hand.
"Since then... I wandered the planet as a hollow.
On that day I also lost a piece of what made me human and I've been trying to reclaim it since."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2aM5btBLVU

You pull her away from you and look her in the eyes.
"Rike!
I've done many terrible things. Your captain has every right to hate me and so does the rest of the world.
For decades I've been trying to survive in a world that was not meant for me.
In order to survive I had to let go of my past for the sake of my future.
I've made friends just so that reality wouldn't weigh on us so much. Each of us tried to scrape together enough just so we could live until we couldn't take it anymore.
From the filth and muck we tried to make SOMETHING we could call our own.
Since that time I've been guarding what I now call my home, a small group of misfit hollows trying to atone for our sins and maybe live a normal life, with everything that I have and maybe make it better."

"Siegfried..."
She tries to reach out for you.

"Please Rike...
Don't do this... The hardest decision of my life was to let go of my past...
I have a family now... One that I swore to protect this time... No matter what."

You take a few steps back from her but she jumps at you and plants her lips on yours.
Once she is done she grabs you by the collar and shoves you away.
Her eyes are filled to the brim with tears and determination.

"That was a farewell gift Siegfried.
And remember..."
She plants her hand on her chest.
"I made a promise that I'd be your wife.
My heart will always belong to you. Remember that."

Memories come back to you once more.
You see a swing, a few drops of blood on the ground and the face of a little girl patching your wound up.
A group of girls bullied you for being an awkward little kid and as such, an easy target.
But Rike drove them off and patched your wounds.

Later you met her at the same swing under a tree with a bunch of cookies you made with your mom as a way of thanking her.
As she munched on the sweets she gave you a cheeky smile and a thumbs up.
"You know what Siegfried?
Since you are such a whimp I'll be your wife and protect you!"
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>>672682

Well, I suppose whether Soul Society is universal depends on what Spooky decides. SSQ had Valhallans and what not, so who knows how Spooky sees it all.
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>>672697
>We betrayed something so adorable.

Oh, boy now i'm sad and angry.
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>>672697
ahhhghghgh.... it hurts... it hurts so bad....
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>>672697
Uh.. we should stick with her still. No way we're losing her again.
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Can we take her with us?
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>I can't hold all these feels
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>>672697
Our course of action is clear.
Deal with Aizen
Create peace between ss and Las noches
Introduce tulip waifu and shark waifu
Make it work somehow.
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>>672697
>>672703
Like I said, it's not possible to really "move on": especially for hollows. Things may never go back to the way they were, but it's clear that Siegfried and Rike still mean a lot to each other.
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>>672721
>>672712
>>672710
>>672709
>>672707
>>672706
ANON'S THE PATH IS CLEAR. WE MUST STEAL NOT ONLY SWORDS, But the user as well.
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>>672727
Technically Rike wouldn't be "stealing". Death separated us temporarily, then we met each other again. Depending on Kaizar's vows they may still technically be married.
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Man, how can we make Heuco and SS work to function as a respectable afterlife?
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>>672732
Fair point

>>672733
kill the SS noblity and try to get Hollows to eat Soul Food again instead of innocent people.
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>>672727
I mean he is very obviously not over this

So I see no reason why we shouldn't at least try to bring her back with us.

Hell vanaheim is basically better than SS in every way, free food, free housing, gladatorial arena fights, what's not to love?

Because let's be 100% honest, the mission is so fucked it isn't even funny. We've been leaking our hollow juice for god knows how long now, our cover is blown with everyone, or will be soon.
There's no going back to incognito now, so we shouldn't leave without Rike, at least not without trying to fill our hole.
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>>672751
>Jams her into our hole
>I can't carry you, Too many swords to steal!
>I can help!
>Shush woman, Swords are sharps!
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so I just woke up caught this thread and now I read about kaizar's reunion with his old wife... whelp that's one to wake up I guess.
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You look at her in bewilderment.
She hasn't changed since the last time you've seen her.
When you were hurting she was there to help you, when you were at your strongest she was there to cheer with you.
Rike always knew how you felt and what was best for you.
Perhaps she is as torn right now as you were when you went hollow but she just doesn't show it.

You see the captain preparing to continue your fight so you ask the last thing that's on your mind.
"Rike...
My son... is he also here?"

She nods with small tears forming in her eyes.
But despite that she doesn't allow them to fall down.

"Please... don't tell him about me.
It's better he doesn't know his father is a monster."

"Fine but you should remember something as well."
She draws her sword and points it at you.
"I'm a shinigami of the Gotei 13 now. That makes us enemies.
I'll kill you not only because it's a part of my duty but because I can't stand you suffering my warrior."

Your eyes go wide.
"What?"

"Do you know what happens when a shinigami kills a hollow?
Their soul is sent here... to the Soul Society...
Your pain will end Siegfried."

You look at the captain.
"Is this true?"

He nods.
"Yes... but if you were a sinner in life then you go to hell."

You hunh forward and begin laughing as your tears roll once more.
"HAH!
That's good!"
You've never told the grimm details to your tulip so she doesn't know just how bad career choices you made.
With that delicious twist of fate you are finally grounded in reality once more.
You draw your sword and point it at the captain.
"Thanks shinigami! I needed that!"

What do you do now?
>Give the captain what he wants and fight
>Run away
>Other? (write-in)
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poor shark....
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>>672733
1. Fix hueco mundo, make it a lush jungle again with plenty of reishi fruit to minimize the cravings of hollows
2. setup a policing force of arrancars to handle the hollows that continue hunting and killing when it is no longer needed.
3. Somehow get SS to actually talk to us.
4. setup information exchange with ss to identify/catch the ones that slip by the HM police.
5. setup 2 joint operations teams one for ss and one for hm each comprised of both arrancars and shinigami.
6. let a lot of time pass for people to start getting used to eachother.
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>>672759
>>Run away
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>>672759
>Give the captain what he wants and fight
>Full release

He will pay the full price and we will ensure she never wields a sword again.
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>>672751
That's kind of where I had wanted this to go the whole time. Shit's so fucked up that saying we can never associate ever again feels wrong, because it's so important to both of them, but clearly things will never be the same either.

There needs to be a conversation at some point.
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>>672759
>>Run away
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>>672759
>Give the captain what he wants and fight
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>>672759
>Give the captain what he wants.
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>>672759
>run away
If we weren't in out Gigi could we take him?
We've been in this form so long I don't remember how much it inhibits our abilities.
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>>672759
>Give the captain what he wants and fight
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>>672759
>Run away
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>>672759
>Run away

We need to prepare for Aizen's shit. And we better not cripple those who can stand against him.
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>>672773
our cover is already blown and if he gets away. He'll tell them who and where we are. We need to fight him here or else the others are in trouble because they 'assocated' with a Hollow such as ourself.
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>>672759
>Run away
remember folks, we can't exit this shitty meat puppet of a body right now because old hat and clogs turned it into pure spirt energy so we'd be fighting gimped
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>>672759
>Run away
We aren't ready to kick it (again), you do your duty, and we ours.
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>>672759
>Run away
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>>672778
True that, I'm changing to fighting him
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>>672788
Might as well keep it. Nobody seems to realize how fucked everybody else will be, And how many Captains and LT's will be looking for us now. It seems we're running and fucking things up worse.
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>>672759
Fight
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>>672759
>Run away

>>672778
cover's blown anyways, when we first started fighting him we started leaking hollow reiatsu everywhere.

It really will not take long at all for them to put 2 and 2 together.
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>>672759
>Run away
"I've made many mistakes, my black tulip, both as Siegfried and as Kaizar. Creating and protecting Vanaheim isn't one of them, and if when this is all over you'd come and see it with me you'd understand why."

"I will never raise a finger to you, but I can't afford to die again either. Not yet."
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>>672759
>>672809
This
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>>672804
yes but if we deal with him, They could think we slipped in afterwords. Instead now they'll know we are associated with both Rikua and her friends.
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if we stay we are going to get swarmed by shinigami and if we die it's hell boys and that if myuri doesn't show up and wants our body
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>>672796
yeah but we're fighting at full strength right now (or at least as high as we can while trapped in our gigai) and the captain has only released his sword, he still hasn't released his banki yet.
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>>672818
you´re forgetting our wife is trying to kill us.
and kaizar won´t hit her.
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>>672820
Our wife wants to help us, She'd be easy as shit to disable. I doubt we'd kill her.
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Running away wins.

>Writing
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I wonder if releasing Segunda etapa would break us out of the gigai
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>>672824
she thinks killing us will put us in the Soul Society>"Do you know what happens when a shinigami kills a hollow?Their soul is sent here... to the Soul Society...
>I'll kill you not only because it's a part of my duty but because I can't stand you suffering my warrior.
TL;DR she things we dindu nuffin and will go to this afterlife instead of hell for being a nazi
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>>672824
she believes we'd go to the SS since she thinks we're a good person and as such if she kills us we'd just show up here one day. But we were a nazi SS in life and did some horrible shit so we'd just go to hell and she has no idea about that side of us.

So in short she won't hold back because she honestly believes that by slaying us she's helping us.
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>>672816
Except that we are kind of recognizable by reiatsu.

The fear eater, who is known for drastically changing its shape.

Combine that with medic's testimony and it's really simple to know who we were.

Combine that with god knows how many people coming for our ass now that they know we're here, if we stay and fight then it's just as sure that we will be identified by one of the countless shinigami that are coming to put us down.

>>672824
Kaizar is not going to fight his wife.
Like if you want to kill him, send his wife after him. It's probably the easiest way to get rid of him.
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We are not risking our hide against a swarm of Shinigami in this weak body, we have too much riding on us making it back!

Aizen is going to keikaku us for this, unless we somehow indirectly helped him.
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>>672834
>Going to hell means you were a bad guy
Too be fair alot of fucks that would be 'evil' never had a hell gate appear.

>>672838
>>672836
Fair point I'll cede. Its just a shame that this body is now a real issue and we have to play hide and seek but maybe it will buy the others more time to get to Rukia.
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>>672834
>>672836
How does hell work?

Like sure we were a nazi in life.
And sure the beginning of our life as a hollow was pretty horrific as well.

But we have done a shitload of good since then.
We have what? 40~ years of actively making the lives of hollows better. Like hollows can live normally instead of constant kill or be killed while constantly starving. I think at some point that's gonna beat a couple years of genocide.
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so quick question to you all

think Azian planned this little meeting as well or is this the first wrench to appear in his plans?
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>>672852
Honestly it could be either.
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>>672851
i´d rather know why there´s a hell but there´s no heaven.
Like wtf man, you reward for being a good person is going to feudal japan afterlife.
In any case, i´d rather not find out.
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>>672834
Well, there's a massive argument to be had there over collective and individual guilt, the limits of free will, the position of soldiers in society, and a lot of other nuances. What we see in hell are people that not only do bad things, but who revel in it. Kaizar's choices since dying have tended to suggest that he's in that grey area a lot of Germans were in, where for one reason or another he did things he wouldn't ordinarily do for their own unique reasons.

Not to excuse Nazis of course, or to deny that if there IS a hell it's not full of them. But while we can pass legal and social judgement on Kaizar based on what little we know that's not wrapped up in his own sense of guilt, based on the only precedents we have even he's not twisted enough for Bleach-Hell because he regrets it all and has been earnestly trying to atone in what limited ways he can.
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>>672852

Wrench, if we're found out then there's a chance, however small, of us outing aizen before he can give Rukia a Plotrockosectomy.
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>>672861
if anything, i think if we were sent to hell we´d just climb out, Kratos style.
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>672861

This and we essentially helped a jewsih boy become magneto. We didn't kill jews because we loved massacre, but because we thought it was for the greater good.
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>>672877
>thinking it´s for the greater good prevents hell
so is hitler on the ss?
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>>672877
Although we did have a legitimately funny episode regarding a gillies noes
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>>672861
I doubt Kaizar is hell material, the only one in bleach that I remember went to hell was a psycho-murder, and as you said, Kaizar has been as kind as the situation let him be (which is really not much, but that's just part of being a Hollow).
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>>672879
I don't see any jews in SS, do you?
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>>672857
yeah kaziar, kinda came to the same conclusion that if the SS is heaven then he's kinda glad he became a hollow since he things his little slice of heaven is vastly superior to the SS and it's feudal run bullshit.
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>>672889
>only japs and germans we´ve seen so far in ss
if we found a italian we could definitely say that according to the soul society hitler did nothing wrong
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>>672879

There's a great many 'great' people kinda missing from SS too, so another reason why I don't think SS is the endpoint for all souls, not the Japan part of it anyway
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>>672886
well in bleach anything you do as a hollow is forgiven since it's seen more as a curse then the person's fault (I think that's how it was explained) but any bad thing you did in life, whelp off to hell with you. And it was hinted at in the first thread that Kaziar did some bad things since he wouldn't have his men do anything he himself wouldn't do.
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>>672891
Only issue is that the news of our wife will reach Aizen's ears.

And oh god will that fuck us over so hard.

Not even on the " I know your weakness" but that he will be planning on getting rid of us as can he really trust someone to go through with his war on SS when that man's wife is in SS.
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>>672877
That's not even the sense I got from that. It always came across to me that as a soldier and loyal German Siegfried saw no viable alternative than to make what he could of a shit situation. And to be honest, he'd need only to look at Spain as an example of what could happen if things went wrong: half a million dead at least, massive civilian displacement, summary executions and political purges. Even if you weren't an anti-Semite it'd be easy to go along with things at first with that perspective, and it's a named trend that once you get involved in something that fucked up it's almost impossible to divest yourself from it even if you hate it: it'd basically be the Executioner's Dilemma.

Again, not to excuse Nazis, but Kaizar blames himself far more harshly than most Germans after the war ever were able to: and it's actually driven him to extraordinary lengths to try and begin atoning for it. In terms of whatever cosmic scales may be at work here that's got to be worth a lot.

Even people who have suffered directly or indirectly for things Kaizar/Siegfried was a part of recognize that IC.
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>>672897
That makes him a good man though.
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>>672897
Could be, but I think it's more about the how than the what, though. Still, I agree that he could be sentenced to hell for his doing in life, but seeing the way he behaved in his hollow form I dont picture him as hell material in life.
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You flip your sword and point it downward.
With it's edge facing the captain you cut the ground under you and send dirt flying towards the captain.
He doesn't seem to be too bothered by this and simply annihilates the dust with a swipe of his flaming sword.

But in the timeframe of his blade obstructing his vision you used a fully powered sonído to get the hell away from the vengeful shinigami.
Once you are away you suppress your reiatsu and begin formulating a plan.
It's quite insane so it might just work.

It was quite difficult to zip around while trying to conceal your location and a captain tailing you but you didn't have to do it for too long.
The plan was simple, find a way to blend in as it's nigh impossible to find you via reiryoku sensing.
And since you just let out some hollow energy every shinigami in the sector swarmed the area in no time.

All you really had to do is stand out and slap your bum while making rude remarks to the shinigami and they charged you in an instant.
After beating them senseless you took the shihakusho of the guy who was closes to you in size and violà, you managed to completely disappear from everyones radar.

Once that was done you used an interesting bit of information you gathered with your pesquísa.
Namely that apparently the Seireitei has quite a sewer system underneath the pavement.
As you lifted the large slab of stone you felt a familiar reiatsu coming to you from the Senzaikyu.

"It seems Ichigo is really going at it.
Hopefully captain douche is still busy looking for me."
Meanwhile at the Senzaikyu:

Ichigo received a rather nasty cut to his left side from Zabimaru.
Couple that with the fact that his right arm still hasn't healed yet and it was fairly obvious that he either beats Renji with one strike or he dies.
The difference in experience between the two was showing quite a lot.

But just as he is preparing to speak up he feels something.
Waves of entangled reiatsu wash over him as the energy of the fight between Captain Asato and Kaizar finally reaches his location.
His eyes go wide in wonder.
"What the-"

He was a bit shocked at first but as he saw Renji being distracted he used this opportunity to raise his sword in the air and focus his reiryoku.
By the time Renji notices him the preparations are complete.
"Okay Renji...
Here it is, my resolve to kill."

With a downward slice Renji is slammed against a wall, his zanpakuto shattered, his muscles shredded.
"F-fuck...
This is a joke... no matter how much I try...
I can't get the stray dog out of me..."
He shambles to Ichigo and grabs hold of him.
"Please... if you really want to do this... save Rukia... for me."

Then he collapses onto the ground and Ichigo is dragged down to the underground sewer system by Hanataro.
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>>672907
Siegfried's body was grist for the mill, but Kaizar's body is free from the Reich. In a strange way, Kaizar's better off as a hollow than he was as a human, able to do things the way he probably wished he could in life but that reality barred him from.
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>>672892
Pesci appears to be italian iirc, and he's a nice guy ... I bet he'd have ended up in ss if not for becoming a hollow.
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So, do people sent to soul society not usually lose their memories in this quest?
Because if they do lose their memories most of the time, I'm guessing our wife doesn't know about that if she's recommending this.
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>>672930
from what I understand, almost every soul that enter the SS are without their memories however some do regain them as time goes on. kinda like we did back at the concetration camp
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>>672940
>>672930
There was the parrot boy that Chad saved.
He apparently kept his memories of the living world.

I don't know if it's canon or not but I treat it that way.
Since many sources say that souls often try to reunite with their families but fail
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>>672940
Nah if I remember right they only remember bits and pieces usually.
Kaizar and his wife are actually weird shit cases.
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>>672950
most start with bits but remember over time if they have strong enough spiritual pressure
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I wonder how our wife is taking the fact that we would rather run than die and be with her and our son.
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>>672967
just wait until she finds out we have another wife and a grandson.
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>>672967
we told her everything, she of all people should know the lengths we go to, to protect what is dear to us.
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Isn't it time to leave? Our cover is blown.
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You've made your way into the severs.
Judging from the lack of any signs of life down there it's fairly apparent that the shinigami rarely if ever show up here.
After enduring all of that shit you didn't feel like doing much of anything so you reverted to a state you once were comfortable with and curled up in a dark corner, hoping that the bad things would go away when you wake up.

It was cold and lonely in the darkness and you couldn't sleep well.
As you were rolling around you kept calling out to someone, longing for their presence.
"Tia... I feel so alone..."


Meanwhile at the Captains' Assembly Hall.
All the captains were ordered to gather for a class 1 situation.

The Captain Commander looks over them and grumbles.
"I'm glad you've all come in such a short notice.
As you might have heard... Captain of the fifth division has passed away.
The initial autopsy revealed that the Saketsu Hakusui were both destroyed and his heart was impaled with his own sword.
In addition to that 3 of our lieutenants and several lower ranking officers were gravely injured and sent to the 4th division for medical attention.
Currently we attribute all these to the invading ryoka until further investigation.
As such I'm authorizing all shinigami to carry their Zanpakuto with them at all times and to release them if necessary."
The old shinigami looks over the captains.
"Ichimaru your punishment for letting the ryoka get away will be postponed until the invaders are captured or killed.
And captain Asato... I believe you have something to say."

The 9th division captain steps forth.
"Yes Commander.
As the captain of the 9th it's my duty to protect the Seireitei."

"Humph.
Shows how well you are doing your job.
The ryoka are still running amok!"
Captain Mayuri spoke up.

"It's your division that keeps alerting me of invading hollows.
The one who actively helps them is you Captain Kurotsuchi.
But yes, that's also a part of what I wish to say.
Since the ryoka penetrated the Sekki stones barrier hollows have been pouring in from the breach.
As chief of security I had to deal with these creatures first and during one of my patrols I found something... troubling.
I've found a maximum threat level hollow infiltrating the court of pure souls. The infamous Fear Eater."

That got the attention of most captains.
"My, my how troublesome..."
Gin muses.
"That's the one that can hide its spirit energy ain't it?"

"Indeed.
And even worse, I think it might have acquired a gigai and is somehow possessing it."

"Pfft how preposterous.
If you knew anything about hollow anatomy you'd know they are incapable of using gigai!
They have a 100% rejection rate."

"And if you've witnessed the beast first hand Kurotsuchi you wouldn't be so skeptic about it's abilities."

The Captain commander slams his cane down.
"Enough!"
He looks at Junichi.
"Is it with the ryoka, Captain Asato?"

"I don't know."
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>>672967
She probably gets it. Everything Spooky said about her so far paints her as the type you couldn't ever hide something from, and we didn't exactly try and hide our reaction to the news that "sinners go to hell" or the fact that we didn't describe ourselves as "becoming" a monster.

My guess is she realizes that we weren't innocent in life, and that we're trying to balance things out while we have a chance.
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>>672977
Thank goodness they don't know we are with the others :^)
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>>672985
THey talk to Isane they will.
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>>672985
The second they talk to thr medic they will.

So basically they will know before we see any of them again.
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>Kaizars face when he realizes he will never be with his waifu and son
>HFW the only person he could probably chat with on this is fucking spoony.
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>>673013
What are you talking about? Asher knows all about that
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You awaken from a long restless sleep and climb out of the sewer feeling more exhausted than you were before.
In hopes of alleviating this problem you took your last food pill and hope you can make it count this time.
As you stretch your back you see a few shinigami calling out to you.

"Hey buddy! What are you doing here?
What squad are you fro-"
The shinigami begins eyeing you and then erupts in a nervous shout.
"GUYS! IT'S HIM!
THE FEAR EATER! SOUND THE-"

But before he could finish you drew your blade and knocked him out with the blunt end of your sword.
And just in case you did the same to his pals as well.

Feeling quite annoyed about your cover already being blown you tap your ear in hopes of contacting Jester.
To your surprise he actually picks up.
"Hello?"

"Jester it's me."

"Ah how's it going my little subordinate?"

"SNAFU.
My cover's blown. What should I do?
Pull out?"

"Eh... not necessarily no.
It's not like things can get much worse.
And besides the interesting part is already happening. You might as well stick around just to see it."

"Okay but what do I do then?"

"Hmmm... I'd say go and change your patrol route so you run by the Senzaikyu.
But that's just a recommendation.
Get creative, go nuts! It's not like anyone can stop what's going to happen now."

*sigh*
"You are as useful as ever.
Kaizar out."

"Over and out."

>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
>Try to find some of the kids (Who?)
>Locate Isane somehow
>Other? (write-in)
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>>673025
>>Locate Isane somehow
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>>673025
>go back to jail, cause massive ass distraction by letting everything out since our covers blown anyways.
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>>673013
I wouldn't count Kaizar out just yet. He's doing a cosmic-scale good deed from the ground up, something he can proudly say he did for his loved ones including Rike and their son. Creating a Hueco Mundo where hollows don't kill to survive, and moreover doing so for entirely selfless reasons, is a huge deal.

If that doesn't obliterate any misgivings Rike has over seeing Kaizar as "her Solider" again nothing ever would.
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>>673025
>>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
i mean what's left really?
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>>673025
>Locate Isane via pesquisa
Who knows what she's up to today.
Why she could even be at..
>Swing by the shrine of penitence.
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>>673025
>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
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>>673025
>Other? (write-in)
Creativity? Go nuts? How about sitting down to have a calm, reasonable conversation with a Captain or Lieutenant about this whole "Fear Eater" thing being old news? I know nothing that'd fuck with people more, and hey. Maybe in the long run it'll do some good.
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>>673025
>>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
and if we happen to run across her

>>Locate Isane somehow
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>>673025
>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
What could possibly go wrong with following his advice?
He has never let us down before.
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>>673025
>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
>Other? (write-in)
Quick radar check on the kids, who is where and more importantly, are they still alive?
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>>673025
>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.

Might as well.
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So when do we drop the meat suit go full hollow and just say fuck it?

Cause to be honest I think we're getting really close to that threshold.
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>>673025
>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
>Drop the outfit
its a hinderance now.
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>>673055
i agree i think its time to ditch the gigai
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>>673055
When Aizen steals the rock and everyone gets transported back to Heuco? Seems like an appropriate time. Assuming of course Aizen doesn't leave us.
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>>673025
>>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
>>check if any of the kids are nearby
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>>673025
>Locate Isane somehow
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It's the shrine of penitence then.
I'll also incorporate some stuff if I can.

>Writing

Also vote on whether or not you want to ditch the meat suit.
>drop it
>keep it
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>>673084
>>drop it
there's no point keeping a handicap when there are people who want us dead hunting us.
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>>673084
>drop it
If the mooks recognize us anyway there's no point. It's just dead weight, and maybe next time we inevitably see Rike she'll actually believe that we've reached a point where we're not suffering. We're at a point where we can actually make a difference for once.
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>>673084
drop
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>>673084
I thought we couldn't leave ignore as I thought was turned into spirit particles?
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>>673084
>keep it
I want to see the surprise on everyone's face when we go full hollow at the execution site.
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>>673097
i think our little rage moment fixed that problem
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>>673084

>drop it

They want the fear eater, give them the fucking fear eater.

Also Fuck Aizen, but that goes without saying.

Bonus points if we can somehow find a way to stick it to the bastard before we have to bail.
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>>673084
>drop it

Let our adorable wriggly things be free!
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>>673084
>>drop it
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>>673084
>keep it
Maybe our favorite doctor would like this meat suit top experiment on.
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>>673084
>drop it
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>>673084
I thought you said we were trapped in it since the gate we took to get her turned it into spirt energy and kinda binded us inside the damn thing until we could turn it back into a true meat suit again.
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>>673025
>Do as Jester said and go to the Shrine of Penitence.
>Drop the meat suit or at the very least start using basilisco
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>>673084
>Keep pieces of it for our Yata.
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>>673084
Drop it
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>>673084
Drop it, we are already fucked. And if we run into a captain again we won't be able to fight him off of we are still in it
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OOOOH. can we start stealing swords?
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>>673162
We should just steal them, then hide them away somewhere as a minor inconvenience to people
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You do a quick scan with your pesquísa to see if the kids are still alive or not and sure enough they are still kickin'.
Uryu and Orihime couldn't be farther away from the shrine but at least Chad and Tatsuki are on their way there and funnily enough Ichigo has actually reached it already.

"Welp, might as well kill two birds with one stone."
You muse to yourself as you make your way to the prison.

On your way however you make a decision.
You take Captain Wiggles out of your pocket and put him on the ground.
"Stay."
He seems to nod in agreement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNTwpYg3Jkc

Then after that you begin getting rid of your meaty suit.
You draw the shinigami blade and slam it into your own chest.
As the body dies around you your true form erupts from it's confines.
Finally not being constricted like that you pick up wiggles who squeaks from joy as he looks at you.

The two of you do some gill wagging and put him back to your pocket.
"Remind me to thank Captain Douche for showing me the way to taking this thing off Wiggles."

It seems that the shinigami at least noticed the glowing reishi and began swarming you.
You count several dozens of them.
With a satisfied smile you finally put away that toy sword and draw Basilisco.
After swinging the heavy blade once the shinigami scatter in the wind.

One of the shinigami has the bright idea to get up from the ground and tries to backstab you but you grab him by the neck and choke slam him into the ground.
As you step on his neck you look at him with disappointed eyes.
"Next time don't try attacking the Fear Eater, dipshit."

You begin to wonder about the kids reaction when they see you just as you are getting closer to Ichigo.
But as you are getting closer you start feeling something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy-NsMdVhok

"Fuuuuuuck..."
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>>673169
>Finally not being constricted like that you pick up wiggles who squeaks from joy as he looks at you.

IT IS TIME CAPTAIN, WE STRIKE.
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And that's where I'll end for today.

It's very unlikely that I'll be able to continue tomorrow or Sunday but I'll do one on monday if nothing else works.

I'll post on twitter when I can get a concrete time
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>>673169
Well that didn't take long, as least he didn't catch us in the meat puppet.
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>>673180
You fucking tease Spooky. Thanks for the run.
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>>673180
THanks for running spook.
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>>673180
I'M SO HYPED
Thanks for the run spooky, have a good one!
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>>673169
That theme!

FUCK YES!
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>>673180
so where are we time wise right now? Are we actually at the part where ichgo is actually saving rukia right before she dies or is that still a bit further off?
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>>673169
KENNY!
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That was crazy.

God bless you 10 10 10 bro
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thank you fir running
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Clarification time!

>>673213
No the timeline goes this in Ichigo fights:
Ikkaku>Renji>Kenny>Bankai Training>Byakuya

We are currently when Ichigo fights kenny in canon. That hasn't changed.
Which means Chad getting fucked is soon and so is Uryu vs Mayuri
>All the feels this thread
N-no I didn't cry like a bitch baka!
I just had ninjas cut invisible onions near me, that's all

>Rike

Rike is the short form of Friederike, meaning "peaceful ruler".
Black tulips symbolize power and strength and are considered to be royal flowers.
Their other name of black tulips is "Queen of the Night tulip".

Siegfried Krieger literally translates to Victorious Warrior.

Their pet names to each other ("tulip" and "warrior") are actually puns on the others name
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>>673277
Given what Kaizar knows of Rike, is there a chance that at some point she could understand that Kaizar's honestly better off doing what he can as an arrancar? And that despite the fact that things are FUBAR they don't have to be enemies?
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>>673298
they are not enemies.

But remember that Rike was fed misinformation by the shinigami for roughly 60 years.
She honestly believes that purifying Kaizar will help him as she truly thinks he is a good man despite what even He might think of himself
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>>673312
Clearly the answer is to take her sword away and hug her into submission.
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>>673325
Clearly you missed the hint i dropped at the very beginning.
You should be more considerate when messing around with shinigami swords...

Ikkaku
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>>673348

I saw it, Spooky
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>>673348
I saw it, however, I arrived late to the party and couldn't comment on it. Besides, just touching a sword won't fuck with it, we know that much. Need to put some hollow juice in it to do PLOT.
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>>673368
Tell that to Hozukimaru

or better yet, pray so Ikkaku doesn't recover for a while.
let's just say that squad 11 mentality proves to be quite a fertile soil for the seed
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>>673375
Ichigo's attack did fuckery with his sword. Come on. Otherwise Asato's sword would have been bitching at us for ages. Or any of the shinigami whose blades collided with basilico, since the sword is 100% hollow shittery. Or any sword any arrancar grabs for any reason.

Too flimsy.
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>>673312
So what you're saying is that the next time we come to SS we just need to take her for a trip to see Vanaheim.

And make sure we vigorously threaten Dante to be on his best behavior beforehand.
Like I'm not saying we rip off all his limbs, I'm just implying it.
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I sorta just wanna drop the vasto lorde bomb, As well as the secret to becoming a Vasto lorde, and beyond
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>>673375
So how are people going to react when they learn that the gigai was just based loosely on what Kaizar actually looks like? Varied degrees of pants-shitting from most and a lot of "told you so" from Captain Facepaint?
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>>673604
Ahh dude it was not based loosely on, it is legitimately what he looked like as a teen
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>>673180
SPOOKY! IMPORTANT QUESTION!
ARE WE STILL WEARING THE HAT!
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>>674574
Because if so that will be an AMAZING dramatic moment when the scooby gang see the hat and captain wiggles and realize we totally are siegfried!
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>>673375
so the more like kaisar the shinigami is the more the goo affects them?
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>>675006
Pretty sure he is saying since Squad 11 already runs on the "might makes right" and survival of the fittest mentality they would be very viable for some amount of hollowfication. They wouldn't freak out as much as some other squads would.

Of course I really doubt that matters, since OMG would probably set his foot down and tell them to fuck off with that hollow shit or kill them.
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>>674574
No.
It got burned pretty badly thanks to Asato and it got ripped to shreds when you destroyed the gigai
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>>675721
Sup Spoopy, missed the thread but still great.
Sucks about the hat
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>>675721
Does Marr know we're here? I imagine our reiatsu would be quite familiar to someone so attuned to their senses as him.
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>>675835
1.) He always sucked at sensing reiatsu
2.) Muken pretty much cuts off all information about the outside world. Not even reiatsu makes it down there
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>>675850
Makes sense.
It's probably better for everyone that he doesn't know
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>>675850
Can we goo the hat?

If we die and get sent to hell... There was this one dude who managed to escape it kinda and was going to use Ichigo to be completely free.

We can do that due to friends we made
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRG2RcJ86TQ

As you finally get closer you notice the ungodly reiatsu that's being released by an individual.
It's quite hard to compare it to anything but if you had to pick one then it'd probably be Marr.
You find it hard to believe something like this could slip by your pesquísa but it happened.
The only explanation you can come up with is that the man was probably not leaking this much spirit energy up until this point.

Looking down at the scene you witness Ichigo, Ganju and a third shinigami who looks quite weak.
"Ganju, Hanataro!
GO AHEAD AND SAVE RUKIA! I'M COUNTING ON YOU!"
Ichigo screams at them and after showing a little reluctance they leave him alone with the shinigami captain.

With a quick burst of movement the man descends from atop the wall and lands behind Ichigo.
The boy was so absorbed by the mans overwhelming reiatsu that he didn't even notice when he got behind him.

"How long are you gonna stare over there?"
The man asks.
You see Ichigo reaching for his chest as if he just got stabbed.

"He too can do that?"
You wonder as you see the hallucination induced by the mans sheer bloodlust.

The bells on the mans hair ring.
"You're Kurosaki Ichigo right?"

"How do you know my name?"
Ichigo asks, clearly nervous.
"Who the hell are you?"

"11th squad Captain, Zaraki Kenpachi.
I came here to fight you to the death."
Ichigo draws his sword and calls out its name.
He begins pouring out a lot of reiatsu but something is amiss.

The captain looks at him and muses a bit.
"Oh?
What's wrong? Nervous?"
He reaches to his chest and pulls his clothes apart, revealing his bare chest.
"There. How about I give you an advantage?
I'll let you cut me once."

"What the hell are you talking about?!
Are you making fun of me?!"

"Huh? I ain't makin' fun of no one.
I told you, I'll give you a chance. Cut me wherever you like, my throat, my eyes.
You could kill me with this one swing."

Ichigo screams and charges the man in desperation.
He swings down his sword with as much force as he can muster but you already see how this is going to end.
The boy is too scared to properly focus on his reiatsu so calling that attack half-assed would be quite generous.

The moment Zangetsu connects with the mans chest blood begins to spill.
Too bad it's on the wrong end of the blade.
You can see Ichigo staring at his bleeding hand in disbelief.

"You have to be kidding...
Why? Why isn't he harmed? Why is my hand torn instead?!"

"Maan... what a buzzkill."
The captain touches the edge of Ichigos sword barehanded and lifts it up.
As Ichigo jumps away from him the captain draws his sword.
"I was bustin' my ass on that rooftop for this?
Well, now it's my turn. At least let me get the rust off this baby.
Can you do that ryoka?"
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Meanwhile somewhere else:

Tatsuki and Chad are currently on their way to the Senzaikyu.
Soon they'll catch up to the others and hopefully they can leave this god forsaken place.
But just as they get to a large clearing a rather large man, clad in armor stands in their way.

Wearing his white haori Captain Komamura draws his sword and speaks.
"Bankai, Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō!"

Tatsuki and Chad look in horror at the monster before them.
"What the fuck???"

Ichigo and Captain Zaraki then engage in pitched combat but it's clear to anyone that the captain is going easy on him.
He even lets Ichigo cut him a few more times but every time the result is the same. Nothing happens.
The worst part about this is that based on what you know about the boy and his capabilities this would not happen if he wasn't shitting his pants this entire fight.
If he just took the time to fall back for a moment and collect his resolve it might be an interesting fight but as it stands it's quite pathetic to watch.

>Toss Ichigo aside and show him how it's done.
>Wait and see if Ichigo gets his shit together
>Use this little distraction to go to the Senzaikyu.
>Other? (write-in)
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>>676374
>>Use this little distraction to go to the Senzaikyu.
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>>676374
>Use this little distraction to go to the Senzaikyu.

We need to let Ichigo grow. Let's go on our business.
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>>676374
>Wait and see if Ichigo gets his shit together
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>>676374
>>Wait and see if Ichigo gets his shit together
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>>676374
>toss inchigo aside

Come on you fucks
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>>676374
>Toss Ichigo aside and show him how it's done
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>>676374
>>Wait and see if Ichigo gets his shit together
Yes nurture that silver bullet, nurture it.
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Waiting wins only by one.

>Writing
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>anons not wanting to do anything but sit around again.

Oh boy here we go again
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>>676426
This time I made sure there are only legit choices on offer
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>>676430
Our problems shouldn'tbe solved via a godkin. I hope Ichigo gets killed
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>>676438
They'll be times to fight kenpachi later, idiot strawberry needs a lesson in not being so shit. Now if we can just make chad into not a fucking jobber....
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You decided to sit by and watch the fight as it unfolds.
"This should be interesting.
Ain't that right Wiggles?"
Your pet squeeks at you as you squat down and stare at the two fighting shinigami.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpkkpD-XALU

After a few more failed attempts at cutting his opponent Ichigo chickens out and starts running.
For a while he is trying his damnedest to avoid the captain but it proves to be futile.

As he is running however he stops for a moment and you see him being lost in thought.
His breathing is heavy and irregular but it's apparent that he's trying to calm himself down.
When the wall begins cracking next to him he gets ready.

The stone breaks and Captain Zaraki jumps out.
Ichigo locks eyes with him and attacks once more.
His attacks are on point and they have some actual weight behind them this time.

The boy swiftly ducks under a swing and focuses all of his reiatsu to sharpen his blade.
For the first time Kenpachi receives an actual blood and his blood begins to trickle down his chest.
Rather than being distraught he smiles.

"HAHA!
THAT'S THE SPIRIT!
NOW RYOKA, MAKE SURE YOU KEEP THIS UP FOR THE FUN STARTS NOW!"

The two go at each others throats again.
This time Ichigo manages to block all of his opponents attacks and in addition he keeps piling scar upon scar on his enemies skin as he exploits the fact that his enemy can only see with his right eye.
But no matter how many cuts, slashes and lacerations he receives Kenpachi doesn't let up.
The brutish man seems to keep going harder and harder the more injured he gets, like a boar.

As the fight goes on Ichigo gets more and more stressed out at the fact that his enemy just keeps attacking him harder in response to getting injured.
Ichigo hears the ringing of the bells behind him.
Almost immediately he turns around and blocks the enemies sword with the side of his.
He grins smugly now that he found the resolve to fight his enemy properly.

"That's not a bad sword you got ryoka!"
Kenpachi shouts.

"I hope you've realized now that you won't beat me with that sword!
So come on, release it!"

"Huh?
What's that?
My sword ain't got no name. That shit is for those not strong enough to fight on their own!"

"Well that's a relief.
Then your weapon is as strong as it's going to get!"

Kenpachi sighs.
"Man... what a letdown."

"Huh?"

"I told you not to let your reiatsu slip..."
And in that moment Kenpachis sword pierces Ichigos cleanly.

The blade moves forward and impales Ichigo in the chest.
His zanpakuto then promptly snaps and breaks in half.

As Ichigo collapses Kenpachi puts his sword on his shoulder and sighs.
"Maaaan...
When was the last time someone exploited my eye-patch AND my bells..."
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>>676430
Spooks. This tho >>676235
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>>676472
>strawberry being anything but a cunt who flips flops in battle and should've died many times due to it.

I don't know if you can cure him to be honest
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>>676499
Keep going for the kill on him. Eventually he'll be not shit or dead. Not sure wch is better in the long run tho
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>>676502
Well at the moment he got fisted. So dead soonish
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>>676504
I forget wether or not his sword got broken in canon at this part. Cause i remember them nearly killing each other
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>>676522
It did, but that is when he first contacted Old Man Zangetsu, not sure of Old-Getsu fixed it or if it was Ichigo, I say we maybe step in and grab him if things get too dire and it looks like he will die.

Worst comes to worst we could use our goop on Ichigo... but I would rather not. I would almost rather let him die than give that special snowflake MORE powers, I know he is already a fullbringer but we powered up Asher with his second exposure, no clue what it could do to strawberry. If it wasn't for Aizen's plan and the fact he would destroy all we loved if we let snowflake die, I would totally let Kenpachi dissect this strawberry.

Wait if Ichigo is a strawberry does that make his mom... a Strawberry Bush >///>
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>>676522
His sword gets fucked up alot of times in canon.
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You sigh in disappointment as well and stand up.
"Well... That's my cue Wiggles."
You stand up in preparations to save Ichigo but...

As the young shinigami is lying face first in a pool of his own blood time seems to crawl to a halt as he watches his soon to be murderer walk away from him.
From the shadows he hears a familiar voice speaking to him.
"Wow...
I think I actually died a little this time..."
The voice reverberates in a familiar manner and Ichigo witnesses his surroundings melt and reveal his inner world, full of sideways skyscrapers.

"Yo...
Ichigo..."

"Zangetsu.
Why am I here again?
And better yet, how am I here? I'm bleeding out back in reality for crying out loud!"

"Shut up!
Man you are annoying... This is the inner realm of your soul and time works different here.
It's exactly as fast as the electric signals in your brain, so we have plenty of time."

"Oh... You are going to help me?"

"Idiot!
I'm taking over..."

"What?!"

"Believe it or not but I'd rather not die.
And to me it seems like you can't be trusted with that task.
In fact I'm not sure you deserve that thing."
Zangetsu, who looks like a carbon copy of Ichigo minus the colors, points at the sword in Ichigos hand and it disappears.

"W-what the hell?"
He speaks as he notices a regular katana in his hand.

"That's an asauchi. A nameless, powerless sword.
Perfectly fitting for some garbage like you."

"B-but this isn't my sword! It's you Zangetsu!
I thought we were partners!"

"Tch...
Partners?
Tell me Ichigo, do you become best buddies with someone just by asking their name?"
Ichigos eyes go wide.
"Oh? Ye'r cathin' on?
Some scum like you who doesn't know jack about his sword trash talking others? Laughable!"
Zangetsu then begins spinning the sword around by its cloth.
"DID YOU HONESTLY THINK YOU MASTERED ME BY LEARNING MY NAME?! Pathetic!"
In that moment gargantuan amounts of reiatsu begin pouring out from Zangetsu.

Ichigo stares at his own Zanpakuto spirit in disbelief as it tries to kill him.
He is forced to dodge the sword that's being hurled at him and he begins thinking.
*I've never realized Zangetsu was so powerful.
And he's right... I'm not worthy of it after failing so miserably.
Who am I even to criticize others while I did nothing to bond with him?!
He's right... this sword fits me well. It might as well be made out of wood...*

In that moment Ichigo stops and spreads his arms wide, welcoming imminent death.
"Sorry... Zangetsu...
If only I wasn't such a thick idiot and tried to get to know you...
I only regret realizing this too late."

Then Zangetsus blade pierces him right through the heart.
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>>676548
WE SPEED THE PROCESS UP
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>>676549
Are we even skipping anything by speeding up ichigos canon shit?
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>>676568
We're skipping alot of bullshit fillers so fair enough
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Ichigos eyes open in confusion as he was not in fact dead after getting hit by Zangetsu.
Though the blade is protruding from him he feels no pain.
Zangetsu walks up to him and removes the blade from his chest.

"Idiot...
Throwing your life away like that...
I told you that I don't want to die and here you go doing something stupid like this.
Well it's not like this blade can hurt you anyways."

He hands the sword back to its master.
"Thank you... but why?"

"Because you apologized. That's why.
Now let me tell you again. I don't want to die so if you go ahead and get yourself killed one more time I'll do good on my word and de-throne you King.
I'll help you this time... and I'll even give you a fragment of my power... or more accurately, your power."

"What?
But aren't we supposed to be partners and help each other?"

"That's where ye'r wrong kid.
We aren't buddies, we aren't friends and we are most certainly not allies.
I am you and you are me. We are one and the same. My power is your power.
If you finally stop being a bitch and quit denying your instincts then you'll see just how much of Me do you truly posses."

Zangetsu then pats Ichigo on the back and the boy returns to the Seireitei with renewed vigor.
He stands up with a burst of reiatsu and his sword regrows its lost blade.

Kenpachi stares at him and grins.
"HAH!
That's what I'm talking about!
How did your wound disappear? How did your sword grow back? How did you get so frikkin' strong?!"
Then the captain clashes swords with the young boy once more.
"ACTUALLY, SCREW THAT! IT DOESN'T MATTER!
NOW KUROSAKI ICHIGO! SHOW ME WHAT YOU HAVE BEHIND THOSE FREAKIN' SCARY EYES!"

As you stare in disbelief at the boy you begin to wonder where he was hiding all that power.
But as these two titanic reiatsus clash and Ichigo slowly but surely turns Kenpachi into minced meat you notice two additional spirit energies emerging.
One of the is coming from the Senzaikyu and it belongs to a certain snobbish prick you really want to get back at.
And the other one is coming from the gigantic, black armour that appeared in the distance.
You feel conflicted about what to do.

>This is interesting so you want to watch how it ends.
>Go to the Senzaikyu, get revenge on a certain captain and save Rukia.
>Fall back and help out Tatsuki and Chad.
>Other? (write-in)
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>>676602
>>Go to the Senzaikyu, get revenge on a certain captain and save Rukia.
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>>676602
>Help Tatsuki and Chad.
We need them to not be jobbers
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>>676602
>>Fall back and help out Tatsuki and Chad.
any excuse to beat up Komamura
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>>676602
>>Go to the Senzaikyu, get revenge on a certain captain and save Rukia.
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>>676602
>Go to the Senzaikyu, get revenge on a certain captain and save Rukia.
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>>676602
>Go to the Senzaikyu, get revenge on a certain captain and save Rukia.

Finish the mission, so we can just pick everyone up and gtfo.
The longer we dick around the more we'll get dogpiled by strong guys.
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>>676602
>Go to the Senzaikyu, get revenge on a certain captain and save Rukia.
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>676602
1. Rukia
2. Tatsuki and Chad

Not sure, I'll flip a coin about it.
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>>676602
>Go to the Senzaikyu, get revenge on a certain captain and save Rukia.
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>>676607
They should be smart enough to work together to win. Or is this choice us going and yelling at them for being idiots?
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This was pretty one sided.

>writing
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It seems like Ichigo got this so you simply left to pursue your main objective.
As you are leaving however you hear a fiendish laughter from behind you going:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3MnPW-U24

"FINALLY! I CAN FIGHT SERIOUSLY ONCE MORE!"
As Kenpachi removes his eye-patch and reveals his missing right eye his full reiatsu finally erupts.

Meanwhile the spirit of Zangetsu appears next to Ichigo.
"Yo...
Looks like you are in a bind."

"Yeah.
Any advice?"

"Sure. I'll tell you how to use one of my techniques.
Put your hand over your face... and once you feel the urge to kill... don't let it go.
No matter what."

Ichigo does according to Zangetsus instruction and his reiatsu exponentially increases.
"Listen to me boy...
I hate the rain...
When you are alone in this world the sound of rain is like explosions going off in your ear and every drop feels like nails being hammered into your skin.
Once it starts to rain I feel scared and alone...
If you feel conflicted clouds begin to appear and once you give into despair it starts to rain...
So remember: There are two kinds of people, those who are scared of their own power and those fit to be Kings...
SO GO AND RIP HIM TO SHREDS, ICHIGO!"

Ichigo then takes the cloth of his sword and begins spinning it around at ludicrous speeds.
The true fight is only starting now.

At the same time near the Shrine of Penitence:
"Please Ganju-san!
There's nothing we can do about him, we should cut our losses and retreat while we can!"

But the young Shiba doesn't pay him much attention and punches him off the bridge of the Senzaikyu.
"Sorry Hana-chan but you are right...
There's nothing we can do so it'd be pointless for both of us to die here."
He turns to face the captain before him.
"So... Kuchiki Byakuya, the most well known and feared shinigami out there.
Bring it on!"

"Hmph.
Surely you jest.
Do you honestly believe you achieved anything?
I shall eradicate you and that traitor shinigami within one second."
He raises his sword vertically.
"Scatter, Senbo-"

But before he could finish you plant both of your feet into his face at maximum speed.
The power of your bropkick shatters the ornaments in his hair and breaks the railings of the bridge.
As the captain is flying off into the distance you look at Ganju.

"Hopefully the only thing that scatters now is his brain but I'm not going to be that lucky..."

"W-wha? Who a-"
But then Ganju notices Captain Wiggles.
"Krieger?!"

"Take the Kuchiki girl and follow that shinigami down.
I'm afraid this won't stop him completely."
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>>676791
>facekicked byakuya
yes
yeeesssss
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>>676791
>>676830
Did we just dynamic entry?!
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>>676853
yes yes we did
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>>676853
As kiga no kage should. Just wait till we steal Byakuya's sword.
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Before Ganju could react in any way you disappear via Sonído and arrive before the Captain just as he's crawling out of the crater he made.
He looks at you as blood trickles down his forehead.
"You...
That speed, that strength, this twisted spiritual pressure...
You are that hollow the 9th division captain warned us about. Aren't you?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJzxpmOogqg

You crack your knuckles and neck as you answer him.
"Who knows?
All I know is that you messed me up in the human world pretty badly...
Now it's time for some good old fashioned payback!"

"Humph.
It seems that the upstart captain wasn't completely insane after all.
I wonder... just what were your plans beast. Were you the one who killed Captain Aizen?
What made you so desperate to hide your fiendish nature?
I suppose it doesn't matter now that I'm going to annihilate you."
He drops his sword to the ground.
"Bankai, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi."

In that moment a thousand swords emerge from the ground and then disperse into millions of small blades that radiate with a pink glow as the light reflects from them.
If you were still in your gigai then this'd be quite worrying but as you are now you simply smirk.

"Nice show boy.
But all these petals won't help you when I pull you off your high horse and choke you with your silk scarf, you pampered milksop!"

You draw Basilisco from its scabbard and you can already feel the blades hunger for blood sharpening it as you run reiatsu through it.

>Fight him as you are
>Use Resurrección
>Activate Assault mode
>Other? (write-in)
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>>676884
>use resurrection
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>>676884
>>Fight him as you are
we're probably more than a match for him like this, anything else is overkill.
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>>676884
>Were you the one who killed Captain Aizen?
Should we take this opportunity to boast something, not necessarily this, to fill him with misinformation?

Also,
>Fight him as you are
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>>676884
>>Fight him as you are
the hero doesn't use his trumps card at the start of the fight
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>>676884
>>Use Resurrección
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>>676884
>Were you the one who killed Aizen?
Can we please ask what he means our boss is dead
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>>676884
>Fight him as you are
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>>676904

So fucking tempting, but no.

We're still playing the good little soldier after all.

For now.
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>>676884
>Use Resurrección
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>>676884
>>Fight him as you are
>>
>use resurrección
Can we call out "BANKAI" when we use it to fuck with him?
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>>676884
>Fight him as you are
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>>676938
That'd be pretty great
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>>676884
Fight normally
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>>676938
If we do we totally should. Keeping them guessing is both productive and hilarious.

...especially considering Byakuya's mental bent with Bankai.
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Fighting regularly wins

>Writing

Also start rolling 3d10s
Dc of 17 Crit is 23

High dc because you choose the most difficult/manly way of fighting
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Rolled 6, 3, 2 = 11 (3d10)

>>676999
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Rolled 2, 10, 6 = 18 (3d10)

>>676999
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>>676938
>use Resurreccion
>Say "BANKAI" while releasing it
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Rolled 7, 2, 7 = 16 (3d10)

>>676999
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Rolled 4, 3, 2 = 9 (3d10)

>>676999
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Rolled 1, 9, 9 = 19 (3d10)

>>676999
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>>677007
Good save anon
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>>677007
juuust barely
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>>677019
Thats what we get for holding back
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>>677024
Never show your hand too soon. I think the only people who have actually fought an arrancar before in the current Captain lineup are OMG and Unohana, maybe Shunsui and Ukitake. So we have a lot of tricks to show Byakuya.
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So are we going to just beat him up or kill him?
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>>677082
Depends on if he gets backup.
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>>677082
He's a bitch but that doesn't mean we need to kill him.
Sparing him will probably fuck him up worde, and might avoid some trouble down the line.
Also, as much of a bitch as he is, didn't he become less so later on?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzxQeDWZMl0

You turn your blade sideways so the edge of Basilisco points at Kuchiki.
"But to answer your question...
Yes, yes I did kill that captain. And I'm looking to add another tally mark to my sword."
It was quite difficult to say this without smirking as you are quite certain Aizen isn't actually dead. You are not that lucky.

"Hmph...
At least we finally have our culprit. The rest of his squad can finally rejoice when I present your head to them."

You lift up your sword and point it straight at him.
"Well... shall we begin?
BANKAI!"
You begin building up your reiatsu and allow him to actually feel it.
His expression is priceless.
"Just kidding."
You speak up once you look up from behind your sword.

But before he has any time to react you use Sonído to appear right beside the captain.
With savage fury you swing your sword but find a tidal-wave of petals in your way.
Basilisco bounces off the ocean of flowing steel harmlessly and you curse the rose petals.

With another Sonído you clear the area before the counter-attack commences.
As you get away your enemy begins assaulting you from multiple directions with his river of blades.
It feels so satisfying to use your body to its fullest potential once more and dodge every attack in the air.
Naturally a few stray blades do cut you but they do barely anything to your Hierro.

When you manage to get close to deliver your next attack Kuchiki begins moving his hands around and you notice the blades of Senbonzakura almost doubling in speed.
Once more you are forced to retreat via Sonído but this time you keep using it to teleport between a few spots, creating several mirages in the process.

As the blades attack every area where only your afterimage remains you conclude that the shinigami must be controlling his attacks at all times and that they are incapable of attacking automatically.

You jump back after getting a good look at his attack pattern and raise Basilisco into the air.
"I tire of this charade.
Let's get rid of these pesky blades."

You grab hold of Basiliscos grip with both hands and swing down with all your might.
As the blade is coming down you give it a quick twirl and watch as the immense kinetic energy flies off from the blade, scattering all of Senbonzakuras petals.
Once the deadly wind cleaved a path you use Sonído to get behind the shinigami and with a hearty laugh you grab hold of his shoulder as you bring down your weapon with the other hand.
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>>677108
>didn't he become less so later on?
Dramatically so. But really the big deal would be a hollow who had the chance to kill a Captain sparing his life instead. Add that to Rike's testimony about her Soldier's character, and the chance we may have to address people before leaving the SS, and we may be able to put some serious doubt in peoples' minds as to whether we're really the bad guy we've been made out to be.
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>>677127
Well except that we have claimed to have killed Aizen.

Shit's gonna be real confusing for them.
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>>677177
Obviously we claim that we said that to draw heat off the kids onto ourselves, because we can handle it. That and it'd be funny as shit to be the only one who really called bullshit.
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>>677181
>tfw the shinigami mooks know that kiga no kage himself is loose in the seritae striking down captains and collecting their blades
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>>677196
>tfw one of them says to another "Wait, he left the Captain's sword impaled in his chest? Yeah, no, he definitely didn't kill him."
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>>677181
We could always turn it into an actual factual thing after he goes all heel-turn here in a bit then just look at Byakuya.
"I don't like traitors"
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>Yes, yes I did kill that captain. And I'm looking to add another tally mark to my sword."
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After you conclude that your assault was a success you disengage before the pink blades swarm you once more.
From a safe distance you observe as the last of the noblemans hair ornaments shatter and blood begins to drench his clothes on the right side.
He pants heavily as he looks at you.

"Zanjutsu Ōgi: Kamaitachi...
How is this possible? A hollow shouldn't-"

"It's not as complicated as you think.
You shinigami think yourself so mighty but I'd wager any half decent hollow could do your techniques better if they tried."
You cut him off.

"I see...
So you not only mock us by tarnishing the name of Bankai but you dare to steal and corrupt our very arts as well."
As blood begins to drip to the ground you notice it beginning to glow with a familiar pink hue.

In short notice the sky darkens and you see many blades beginning to encircle you on multiple levels, completely sealing you inside a dome of swords.
"Senkei, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi."
One of the blades stop from floating around and teleport to Kuchikis hand.
He raises the blade to you.
"This form sacrifices all of my Bankais defensive abilities for sheer power.
I only ever show this to those I swore to kill myself, you are the second one to have seen it."

"Huh... neat.
So are these all going to attack me at once?"

"No.
I'll instead make sure you draw your last breath with my very hands."

"That's nice but I don't think I can give you an appropriately flashy response.
But let me tell you this..."

>"Mend and Maim..."
>"You are not the only one who can use his blood as a weapon."
>"Endlösung."
>Other? (write-in)
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>>677256
>>"Mend and Maim..."
>>"You are not the only one who can use his blood as a weapon."
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>>677256
>"Mend and Maim..."
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>>677256
>"Mend and Maim..."
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>>677256
>>"Endlösung."
save the release for when we actually struggle
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>>677256
Will endlosung kill him? If no,
>Endlosung.
I feel like resurrecion is playing our cards too soon.
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>>677256
>Endlosung
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>>677256
"Nothing is ever as it seems. Even things that seem clear cut and stare you right in the face can end up being the exact opposite of what you expect."
Cero absoluto.
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>>677256
>"Endlösung."
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>>677256
>"Endlösung."

Let's keep our Resurreción to ourselves for now.
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>>677256

>>"Endlösung."
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>>677279
Might break a limb. He's too quick to be completely caught by it.
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>>677298
You'd think, but he's apparently pretty injured.
I'm sure we don't HAVE to kill him with it though.
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>>677256
>>"Mend and Maim..."
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>>677256
As long as it doesn't kill him
>endoslung
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>>677256
>"Endlösung."
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>>677320
Fuck typing on phone
>Endlösung
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>>677256
>"Endlösung."
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>Writing

Also roll for damage
Since Senkei already limits the area of movement it's a guaranteed hit.

Damage above 22 will finish the fight
Taking highest of 3
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Rolled 4, 4, 10 = 18 (3d10)

>>677344
first roll of quest!
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Rolled 5, 10, 5 = 20 (3d10)

>>677344
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Rolled 10, 3, 4 = 17 (3d10)

>>677344
Can we take his scarf after we beat him?
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Rolled 4, 4, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>677344
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Rolled 4, 2, 8 = 14 (3d10)

>>677344
hi
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>>677351
Almost got him. He isn't having a fun day, regardless. Is this the part where he uses his silly halo thing?
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>>677344
>>677352
>Can we take his scarf after we beat him?
Seconding question because we are a fashion thief by necessity. Meaning, we wear this stuff better.
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>>677351
well he is hurt but not dead.
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>>677352
We already have the red one we dyed in marr's blood, might as well add a pink one too.
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>>677351
>Nearly
>Byakuya gets the hit in
>Regen
>Fffffffuuuu
>Gets a stiff backhand across the mouth to deal the last 2
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>>677361
I totally agree with taking a war trophy.

But if we don't kill him then Byakuya is the kind to bother us continuously. Eventually he will get strong enough to be a pain in the ass, simply through sheer persistence.

So I am kind of iffy on taking the scarf, it would be humiliating but the thing is Byakuya is not the type to spare innocents, he would try to wipe out all of Vanaheim. Then again if we beat him and leave him alone he will probably try that anyway. Straight up killing him might be better, but it would make working with Soul Society even more impossible.

Whatever, Byakubitch is going to be a pain either way, so lets just steal his scarf.
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>>677453
pretty much, byakuya is a faggot either way, but us killing him will get more people on our ass then not.
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>>677453
>stealing the scarf
>not the sword
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>>677444
>He basically shreds us
>"You think this is funny?! DO YOU?!! It's...not...as...funny... As your face."
>*REGENS*
>Oh fuck
>PIMP SLAP!
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>>677453
>tfw you realize that the mooks in Vanaheim are almost all seated shinigami level because of fruit buffs
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>>677486
We are espada 2. A vasto lorde arrancar. It was not a joke when it is said that ten of them could level SS to the ground.
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>>677470
Nah.
>Grab the sword
>No defense huh?
>...
>SLAP!
"Work on that arrogance huh? Or I won't go easy on you next time."
Then walk the fuck off.
Also anybody else laughing about the fact that Rukia's least favorite(most favorite?) scary story is at least tangentially trying to save her life?
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>>677498
the worst past is its not even just regular lolvasto arrencar, several people in vanaheim actually have second releases including us, ol 2 face probably spoony by this point and sadbats.
SS is actually pretty screwed this time around, not even throwing fucking starrk into the equation.
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>>677470
Our basic regen isn't that good anymore, Cell. Only that good when in ressurrection.
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Y'all realize we're going to have to do introductions again right?
>Greetings! I am Kaizar Soze, in life I was known as Siegfried Krieger, to the hollows of auschwitz I am El Savaje, to the soul reapers I am Fear Eater, around campfires I am the Kiga no Kage, and to my subordinates I am The Segunda Espada, Aspect of Grief. It is a pleasure to meet you all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hRTLdvdnk

"You might think you got everything figured out. My identity, my fate and how this invasion will end.
Well hate to break it to you friend but the ride hasn't even begun yet!"

Without any further notice you attack him and clash blades with him.
Since he is pretty much limited to only using one hand you do the honorable thing and only use your right hand as well, while you spin threads with your left that is.

As you keep exchanging blows your opponent sometimes withdraws and begins showering you with all kinds of shinigami spells.
His lower level binding spells don't do much to stop you and his offensive ones are little more than distractions that are often followed by much more dangerous, melee attacks.
The only spell that managed to do anything to halt you was Bakudo #81, which created a nigh impenetrable barrier before him much to your displeasure.

But after a few minutes of fencing you grew tired of his little game and decided to finish the fight.
"ENDLÖSUNG!"

At your command the threads of mucus that were scattered all over the place begin converging at Captain Kuchiki.
To his credit he saw what you were doing and did a fine job of mostly avoiding the threads up until now but even he realized that there was no escape from this situation.
He tried his best to use Shunpo in order to get away but all he managed to do was limiting the area which you affected.

All the threads converge on his remaining good arm and once the weight begins too much you hear tissues ripping apart, bones crunching and blood splattering as his arm gives in.
He has only his injured right arm left to fight with as the left has been taken out of commission.

But you aren't done yet.
With all of your might you begin swinging the shinigami around like a rag-doll by the single, thick thread connecting you and begin slamming him into the ground left and right.
From all that stress the thread breaks apart and the shinigami falls to the ground one last time.

Much to your amazement he manages to stand up and still hold onto his sword.
He spits some blood before he manages to speak.
"This... isn't... over..."

You let Basilisco get some rest on your shoulder.
"I think it is.
Look at you, wasted and gasping for air.
But you won't get to go yet... No... Killing you would be mercy at this point.
Once I'm done with the Seireitei, then you'll have my permission to die."

The Captain begins to gather the last remnants of his power and shouts.
"Senbonzakura Ōgi! Ikka Senjinka!"

In an instant all the numerous blades attack and impale you at once.
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>>677531
Ouchie. Something tells me he hit our vital organs. All of them.
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>>677559
Meh. We can walk it off.
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>>677531
>blowing the last of your power to impale a regenerating guy who probably just will end up pulling shit out regening and just knocking him out.
he should have thought this one out a bit better.
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>>677564
hes a well known sore looser
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>>677564
To be fair that probably would have insta-gibbed most of the arrancar since massive amounts of trauma can and will still kill most of them. Kaizar just has a knack for surviving with burst organs. Spoony could probably make it with his instant regen release, and probably double A when he looks like a giant bloblegs, because I don't know where his organs go like that. But it would have killed Sadbats since he can't regen his major organs and this probably would have pierced his heart.

Honestly this attack is absolutely horrifying to anything.
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>>677531
>I-I swear I'll kill you with my own hands!
>Waaah he won't die because I'm a Kuchki!
>Senbonzakura! Do literally all the work for me while I sit here drinking tea!
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>>677581
if we REALLY want to humiliate him, we should just drop his knocked out ass right outside the 4 division headquarters so he knows he got spared by a fucking hollow of all things when he wakes up.
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>>677531
Kuchiki doesn't know when to bloody quit.

We might have to release our sword to regenerate from that, mind, which is going to draw literally every single captain to our position near instantly.
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>>677590
>Just throw him at Isane
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>>677590
Oh god, this.
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>>677590
>yfw Unohana sees us
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>>677594
you know, the only ones i kind of worry about in all honesty is ice shota and yamamoto since they kind of hard counter our abilities, Gin as well but he can't be assed to give enough of a fuck to actually fight us.
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>>677596
>I broke another one
>Fix it
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>>677596
LITERALLY throwing
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>>677590
I would love that. Pimp slap him until he's KOed, telling him he's one hell of a sore loser, then drop him off
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>>677531
Kaizar is a big guy, for byakuya.
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>>677603
Yamamoto is a hard counter to everything short of the asspull characters. His bankai is hotter than the surface of the sun.
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>>677622
that or he can literally throw skellies at you till you get swarmed and murdernated.
him losing to the quincy king was retarded shit.
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>>677602
just gives us her smile
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>>677622
Heck, his Bankai is so hot it actually can tear the whole of soul society apart with how hot it is, single touch and you die.
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>>677631
i imagine kaizar would nope the fuck out of there from that.
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>>677637
Damn right he would.

Kaiser's a soldier, he knows a killer when he sees one.
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>>677637
>flashbacks to dr. mengele
>Fuckthisshiti'mout.gif
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>>677590
>>677605
>>677606
i need this
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>>677645
that and he knows not to mess with the medics
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>>677651
From her smile he would probably recognize she isn't a medic. He knows a monster when he sees one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Vw2_mAxzk

He looks at you with his typical emotionless face.
"F-finally... the beast... is slain..."
But his eyes go wide when he is hit in the stomach by one of your mercury bullets.

The nobleman gets on his knees as you slowly walk over to him with the blades sticking out of you.
Upon closer inspection he sees you holding one of his swords in your hands that you caught before it could impale your pocket.
As you crush the sword in your hand you begin speaking.

"You know... if you did this right off the bat it MIGHT have worked."
When you finish that sentence you reach for one of the swords sticking out of you and pull it free, revealing that most of the blade got destroyed upon impact with your Híerro and only a very small portion of the sword managed to actually stab you.
As the petals crumble into dust the Senkei disappears and his sword returns to its sealed state.

The captain looks at you in utter horror as his powers begin to dissipate.
"And the worst part is... that these won't even leave a scar."
You speak your last line before the light of consciousness fades from his eyes.
As a final act of insulting him you poke his forehead and he falls over like a sack of potatoes.

When all of that is done Wiggles pokes his head out of the solitary pocket you protected from the captains final attack.
He squeaks a bit and begins licking your blood off from your coat.
"I'm okay Wiggles, I just oh-"
Your vision goes blurry a bit thanks to the blood loss.

As you get a hold of your reiatsu you briefly release Basilisco in a controlled manner in order to heal your wounds.
While you are standing there you take a quick look around yourself and see several toppled structures in the distance.
It seems that while you were in there the other fights concluded.

The problem now is that you don't have any idea where the kids are.
There's one trail left by someone with Captain class reiatsu that mingled with a bunch of other signals.
And since you have nothing else that could've lead you to the kids you decided to follow it.

But before you go you take another look at the injured Captain.
>Leave him up to fate
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (hard landing)
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)
>Other? (write-in)
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>>677656
The fuckyy thing is
She is, one of the best.
She just started into it looking for structural weaknesses, got bored of being MADE of murder, and applied what she learned from pulling people apart to putting them back together.
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>>677659
>>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)
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>>677659
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (hard landing)
Also take his sword
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>>677659
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (Aim it so he lands on a squad 11 member)
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>>677667
>>677659
This.
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>>677659
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)
Take his scarf and wear it.
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>>677659
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)
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>>677659
>>677667
Also
>Take his scarf, cut a piece off it, wrap it around captain wiggles's neck
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>>677659
>Toss him in the direction of Squad 4
Soft landing.
Not sure if a hard landing would kill him.
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>>677659
>>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)
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>>677661
Medics don't learn to be medics because they want to have more fun stabbing people. We call them psychopaths.

>>677659
>>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)

Don't want to break any of Squad 4's stuff.
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>>677659
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)
And no more sword stealing. That sort of shit breeds a degree of hostility we don't need.
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>>677659
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (hard landing)
>with the words "kiza no kage is back baby, and shes not happy" scrawled in bad writing and grammer
confuse the fuck out of them
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>>677659
Also scarf.
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>>677659
>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)
Write a note on him with our mucus: "if found please return to Isane
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>>677676
Yo, this
and
>>>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (soft landing)
>>677659
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>>677659
>>677667
>>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (Aim it so he lands on a squad 11 member)

Preferably more than one.
Like if he could get a group of 3-4, it'd be ideal.

I think that would count as a soft landing for him, and a hard landing for the other's bodies.
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>with the words "kiza no kage is back baby, and shes not happy" scrawled in bad writing and grammer
ANON WHAT
WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING
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>>677676
I wasn't expecting that. I support this action.
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>>677676
Nigga that's kawaii af let's do it
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>>677695
... did we ever learn how to write japanese?
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>>677695
...blame it all on aimee?
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>>677659
>Take his scarf
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As long as captain wiggles and us have a matching scarf im happy.
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>>677659
>>Toss him vaguely in the direction of Squad 4 (hard landing)
Also take his sword for a bit. MAYBE return it to him eventually.

Nothing like a good old fashioned call back. Also with his attitude he doesn't deserve that blade.

He can't talk like an adult on a plan to save his own sister, he doesnt deserve a sword, much less a noble title.

He should have had WAY more contingency plans than "just let her die" if he actually was worthy of nobility.
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>>677707
Anon.
No.
Fuck that.p
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The one problem is that if we take his sword, then we need to take more of his scarf to make a scarf for the sword, and I don't know if there's enough scarf for that.
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>>677714
This is a good arguement for taking the sword.
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Make sure we get his scarf spooky
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>>677712
I agree
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man thats depressing, he was completely and utterly useless and did less then jack shit as a captain to a hollow, then he gets spared and now we are talking about taking his sword and scarf as trophies for him being a complete asshat.
he might very well end up committing sudoku at this point when he realizes all this.
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>>677659
Voting these

>>677676
>>677667
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>>677659
Take sword and scarf
Soft landing near squad 4
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>>677714
You know what, I'll throw my support behind taking the sword art least for a bit. Drop it before we leave though, we don't actually want to keep it
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>>677722
>>677722
Byakuya seriously needs to develop as a person. Without his sword he will actually have to work on something besides tea ceremonies and masturbating to how much Rukia looks like his dead wife but being too flaccid to make a move or move on.

But also, we are known for taking the swords of our enemies to humiliate them, especially when they refuse to be reasonable after we give them the chance.

So I say take his sword, and Asano's sword too if we get the chance.
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>>677744
honestly i'd hide it somewhere where it would be a pain in the ass to get too, like at the bottom of the prison or some shit.
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>>677659
Adding too this>>677741 TAKE HIS SWORD
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>>677744
>Not wanting more choices in canes
We can give this one a flower design
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>Soft landing wins

>Writing
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>>677714
I'll second taking his sword for a little while too.
I don't want to actually goop it or anything.
Maybe throw it into the middle of the next captains meeting from a great distance to stir shit up even more.
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>>677752
This would be really cool as well, plays into the myth of kiga no kage
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>>677748
>by the end of the quest we will literally end up with a small pile of asano's swords, and end up giving them back with him actually wondering what the actual fuck to do with all of these.
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>>677764
We know what to do with them anon. You make canes and umbrellas out of them.
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>>677784
>Kisuke thinks we are stealing his shtick since we wanted a hat like his and have swords that are disguised (poorly) as canes

>then we show up one day wearing clogs

RIP, hat clone.
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>>677759
>walk into meeting
>stab Senbonzakura into the ground
>"I didn't do anything funny to it. I just want to teach that rat fuck Byakuya a lesson."
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>>677784
oh no, i mean i imagine if by some miracle that we haven't killed him at that point, i can imagine after kaizar gets like 10 or 12 of his swords hes gonna give them all back to asano at the same time with asano confused as almighty fuck sinces hes now got more swords then being a person by that point.
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>>677798
>tfw when spooky gave us a warning about messing with shinigami's swords but we keep doing it and wouldnt have it any other way
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>>677796
>>677764
Goop the sword, make him a Vizard.

To actually matter with his non conceptual Bankai he needs a boost.

And having to partially become what you hate to matter is like accepting Shadow in persona
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>>677820
Wait didn't we goop the squad 11 guy to heal his wounds back during hiroshima? Is this why he's going vizard now?
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>>677817
We should take the swords of every mook we can find that has a release and fuck with them. Just to stir up shit.
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>>677817
we wouldn't even be really messing with the sword itself, just pissing shinigami off to no end since we literally don't care since once we die we are screwed anyways theres nothing to care about beyond a point.
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>>677820
I'd rather not.
Rike maybe
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>>677820
Infect everyone

SS Civil War now
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>>677829
All according to keikaku
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You decided that you couldn't just leave him lying around.
Sparing his life would have been for nothing if he bleeds out like a mangy dog on the streets.
But before you did that you have some quite malicious plans in store for him.

After sealing your sword you began "taking care of him".

The first thing you did was cutting out a tiny square from his scarf and using it as a means of making Wiggles a scarf that matches your own.
You took extra care of cutting out a piece of cloth right from the middle of it too.

Once that was done you dipped your finger in his blood and wrote a message onto his exposed skin reading:
"Dear shinigami, I found this little boy at the side of a road.
Pretty please return it to Kotetsu Isane from the 4th division.
With love: Kiga no Kage."
And finally you took his sword away from him.

With the preparations complete you took his captain haori and filled it with slime in order to cushion his fall and you threw him as hard as you could in the general direction of the Squad 4 barracks.
As you watched him soar through the sky like a majestic pigeon you were secretly hoping he'd land on some squad 11 jackasses.

You wasted precious time with all of this but you believe it was worth the effort.
Following the faint trail of reiatsu you managed to find a secret entrance to some underground area underneath a hill.
Since it was a safe bet that the others are here you instead took off to initiate phase 2 of your master plan.

From the symbol on his robe you knew that Kuchiki is the captain of the sixth division.
After interrogating a few shinigami about the whereabouts of the barracks you quickly entered the area unnoticed.
It didn't take long afterwards to find a suitable place to hide the sword.

You wanted to hide it in plain side in the hopes of confusing as many shinigami as possible.
Using a nail you put it on display above the entrance to the mess hall where everyone would see it and simply write it off as a piece of decoration.

With your nefarious plot complete you left the area while chuckling to yourself.
In short time you got back to the large underground hideout and entered.
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>>677831
quincies would be major screwed by reason of quincies eat major shit to hollow powers and if all of SS is hollow shit by then Quincy king will pretty much singlehandedly get his ass handed to him by yamamoto.
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>>677843
>kaizars face when
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>>677843
Kuchiki clan BTFO will they ever recover

SS terror alert upgraded to ultraviolet
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>tfw OMG wants to smile at Byakuya finally getting taught a lesson about being a little faggot but he's stuck in a meeting

Being surrounded by impudent whelps is suffering.
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As you walk downstairs you begin feelin various reiatsus from the building.
And as you get closer and closer you begin hearing various voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWclabjS7c

"Rukia! It's so good to see you!"

"Damn it Ichigo! This is not the time for a reunion you idiot!
Do you have any idea how much trouble we are in? The entire Seireitei will probably come after us once they-"

But before she could finish you entered through the door and almost immediately you are ambushed by a stark naked woman holding a knife to your throat.
She has dark skin and golden eyes and it doesn't look like she is in a good mood.
"Don't move an inch or you are dead."

Ichigo begins covering his eyes.
"W-what are you doing Yoruichi-san?
Why are you holding a knife to Siegf-"

"Shut up Ichigo and take a good look at this man!"

Ichigo dares to open his eyes and looks at you in bewilderment.
"Wh-who are you?
You look like our friend but..."

"This is an arrancar Ichigo."
Yoruichi speaks.
And just now you realize that this woman is supposed to be the black cat that led you here.
"Your "friend" has been lying to you since the very beginning."

"An arran-what?"

"Arrancar."
You speak up after clearing your throat.
With a simple gesture towards your chest you ask Yoruichi.
"May I?"

She nods and you begin undoing your buttons one by one.
When you pull your shirt away your hole becomes plain to see for everyone and you see Ichigo reaching for his sword as well in fear.
"W-what is the meaning of this?!
Why is Krieger older? WHY DOES HE HAVE A HOLE? TELL ME YORUICHI-SAN!"

"Kisuke suspected that he might not be what he claimed to be.
But there were way too many evidences that contradicted each other.
The most prominent was that a hollow CAN'T use a gigai. Still we were aware that something was quite off about this exchange student of yours.
Tell me Arrancar, how did you brainwash all those people? And please give me a reason why I shouldn't slit your throat right now?"

"Well for starters you shouldn't cut my throat because it'd be a shame if your knife broke."
In that moment you felt her trying to cut your skin but then you also heard metal clattering on the ground.
You look at her with a mixture of "I told you so" and annoyance on your face.
"May I finish?"
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And that's where I'll be ending off the thread.

I'd go on but with a late start I'm already past my limit and I keep piling on mistakes in my writing.

Archive is literally the same.
I'll do the pastes sometime later.

Have a good one
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>>677954
night!
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>>677954
Aw, peace Spooky.
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>>677954
>And that's where I'll be ending off the thread.
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>>677954
Ittttttts tiiiiime. Itttts time for anti aizen plotting next round!
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>>677944
You know, if we were a less reasonable person she might have gotten stabbed for attempted murder.

Do people not think before they act?
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thanks for running mate. makes my weekend morning great reading these.
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>>677944
so we need to
A:tell our story
B: convice yourichi and co to help us stop aizen
C: deal with aizens non canon escape
D: free marr if we learn IC where he is
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While a terrible idea, I want to respond to the brainwashing accusation by dropping the son bomb on them.
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you know we have to oggle yourich while she is naked.... get things nice and awkward....
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>>677972
Is telling them asher is our son truly a bad idea tho? Helps with the shock factor and shows we're not a normal hollow/arrancar
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>>677971

Sounds like a plan to me.

Im in.
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>>677978
>Nigga I didn't brainwash shit, I saved that boy from Auschwitz, where's your good deed for the day?

I see no way in which this can possibly go wrong.
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>>677976
Still have to tell her our wife has better ones after all.
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>>677981
Shit, i just realized how fucked the SS is when they mess with Tia's and ours family. Thats gonna make both of them fight at 2000%
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>>677986
>inb4 word spreads that Rike is our wife and Yoruichi becomes very self-conscious because she doesn't understand

>inb4 word spreads that Rike is our wife and Hallibel is very cross with us
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>>677994
We married harribel tho. Technically we're practicing polygamy?
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>>678001
I believe it goes 'Till death do us part' anon
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>>677994
Obviously we say that both our wives are better
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>>678001
No one here knows we married her, though, but we did openly admit to being married to Rike in front of Asato. So once everyone here thinks we are married to Rike which we aren't technically, since we died (Death do us part, y'know) so while we are talking about Hallibel they think we are talking about Rike, but Hallibel hears that and gets upset because jumping to conclusions.

This is very convoluted.
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>>677994
>Inb4 we have to take both to classy restaurants
>inb4 have to be a dad to everybody.
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>>677954
Thanks for running spooks!
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>>678011
>tfw one invites us to a double-dinner
>Kaizar shows up, both waifus are there, wearing matching outfits, asking which wears it better

There is no God that could save him from that Hell (Heaven?).
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>>678003
Not just a fairly recent addition, but not a universal one. And from a legal perspective we died on the same day, and are now living as ghosts, so law really stopped applying in any meaningful or consistent way.

Rike and Kaizar are still technically as "married" as they can agree on.
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also great job defaulting us to the polygamy route OTHER PLAYERS FROM HOWEVERMANY THREADS AGO
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>>678033
>Soul King and Aizen raff as this was just as planned.

>>678042
Anon, I doubt she'd be okay with it. Clearly we're gonna have a Mud battle to the death.
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>>678001
This>>678003
Rike WAS our wife, is still awesome and might still count as a really good friend some day.

Tia is awesome, is entirely capable of being a cut throat bitch where needed, and definitely qualifies as a friend and partner.

We made our choice and beyond that Rike chose to stand with SS, whatever she is, memories or not, she isn't our wife anymore.
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>>678042
The waifus won't agree. Rike will timeskip powerup to OMG levels of strength and there will be a showdown.

I wanted to stay true to the OG waifu, though. Oh well. It is what it is.
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>>678042
Ehh if we go monogamy i'm gonna vote harribel. We've been with her for 40 years now and have a large lovely hollow family with her. Ms.Tulip is shinigami that wants to purify us.
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>>678048
I'm in agreement with you on all this. Rike was a wonderfull wife in life, but Tia is the wife that complements us perfectly in death. Down to even the aspects of Sacrifice and Grief.
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So uh, when Aizen inevitably kills either Hallibel or Rike.

Will we go Assault mode 3? Threegunda Etapa?
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>>678077
SS becomes Hueco Mundo 2.0.
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>>678077
Bankai
Also it'd be tercera etapa.
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>>678116
I was just shitposting anon, but neat, thanks. Now I can get hype about shit that doesn't exist.
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>>678116
That'd be ichigo's lvl of bullshittiery. Of course with our sword stealing ways we might be able to corrupt a shinigami's sword to our will, at wich point bankai could be a thing....
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>>678161
Hey, who knows what being around the hogyoku (briefly) has done to kaizar.

My guess? It did absolutely nothing to him.
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>>678193
But what has it done to Mr. Wiggles?
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>>678240

It gave him a scarf!
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>>678240
He is now Marrr-with-Segunda-Etapa tier, of course
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>>678240
Fuck.
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>>678193
>Inb4 the Eihernjahr are basically liquid Hogyuoku at this point due to exposure.
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>>678161
>Steal ten swords
>Activate ten Bankais all at once
>Segunda Etapa
>Schnellgang

Maximum bullshit mode
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>>678287
>UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS
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>>678287
>Aizen just throws the Hogyoku on the ground and walks away from all this PLOT
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Jokes aside, we should probably steal some of the seki stone to reverse engineer
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>>678391
Absolutely. We know at least one good scientist it'll interest.
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>>678416
I'm not so sure he would be interested in it. Maybe if we told him to see if he could find some way to turn it into a set of armor, or clothes he'd be much more welcoming.

But yeah outside of trolling our friend if we could get him to make something even remotely like that crap it would give our growing empire a huge defensive boast.
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I kinda feel that Krieger looks like faust from shaman king.
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>>677984
YES I SO WANT TO SAY THIS
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>>678042
Well i wanted to find rike again from thread one,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar

I knew our goo had a familiar name.
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>>678042
It's the seeds of drama, not polygamy.
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>>677944
This is a good time for a story, the only one I personally recall from the Bible. It's the reason why most crucifixion scenes show Jesus turning his head to the right: because he wasn't put to death alone. To his left was an unnamed criminal, the Impenitent Thief, who mocked Jesus as being incapable even of saving himself and two lowly thieves. But to his right was the Penitent Thief, identified by some traditions as Saint Dismas on the Cross, who reminded the Impenitent Thief that they had been rightly condemned for their crimes, and that their punishment was just. But he said that Jesus had committed no crimes, that his punishment was unjust, and asked that Jesus remember him when he came into his kingdom. And so Jesus promised to take Dismas to paradise with him that day for his single act of penance.

This story is bullshit.

Saint Dismas had no opportunity to act on the realization that others were being unjustly punished, at least not in life. Sure he became a patron saint to some, but he lost his ability to act directly to spare the unjustly punished from their suffering instead of merely rewarding them for their faith after the fact.

Kaizar has to live with the weight of his mistakes, yes, but he also has the chance to help others who he feels don't deserve to suffer as hollows. Maybe that'd be a good way to frame his situation when explaining it, maybe not. I dunno.
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>>678949
Funny you should mention that.

I was actually planning on giving Ichigo an ACTUAL MOVE other than zangetsuhameha (I know, shocking) which would look a lot like Yohs very first oversoul.

With an apparition of Zangetsus mask enveloping the sword near the grip and creating an actual guard for the damn thing
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>>680720
well hollow souls are only purified if killed with a zanpaktuo i belive im not sure what happens to them if they die and dont become canabalized
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>>680753
That applies to hollows, anon. The manga doesn't explain what happens to menos, who are giant masses of individual hollows under the direction of one dominant personality, or to arrancars. One film does show that Aaroniero and Szayelapporo went to hell as they were when they died, likely for what they did AS menos and later as arrancar: because it would be fundamentally unfair if the result of thousands of souls merging would be punished for the sins of any one of its components.

Ultimately nobody has ANY idea what would happen to Kaizar if he were killed by Rike or any other shinigami. OOC I highly doubt Kaizar would end up in hell, but in character Kaizar would realize that being in Hell means he can't do anything to atone, and that dying and being reborn in the Soul Society would not only mean turning his back on his responsibilities as "Kaizar Soize" but would reset his power to a point where he'd likely be useless in the coming conflict. So to his mind what happens if he gets purged is irrelevant, because it would be bad for everyone he cares about: human, hollow, and shinigami alike.
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>>680763
Would he lose his power though?

I mean marr's still an absolute monster after reincarnation, albeit he didn't die via shinigami sword.
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To get up to speed and as an alternative to the suptg archives - pure story text:

German Hollow Quest 2-15: http://pastebin.com/qaYP7Nf2
German Hollow Quest 16-29: http://pastebin.com/JEwk2hrb
German Hollow Quest 30-38: http://pastebin.com/9EufSJe9
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>>680767
Clearly he's not at 100% if someone could haul him in like that. But my point is that IN CHARACTER Kaizar has no idea what would happen or whether he'd be able to keep doing what he's been doing. And he has every reason to suspect he'd probably end up in Hell, which is an unacceptable outcome.
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>>680775
Yes he lost the majority of his power.
But he still managed to fight Kenny without his eye-patch on and he even took his eye.

He's still a beast but he's not even a shadow of his former self.

>>680715
Glad someone gets it
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>>680775
Oh yeah, I was just speculating OOC.

>>680785
Now this is an important question
Did marr eat it?
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>>680788
No. He punched it out and it became a fine red mist.
There was nothing to eat and besides it happened in a pitched battle
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How long until Captain Wiggles becomes the first axolotl fullbringer?
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>>685805
I jokingly asked spooky about this on his ask
He said maybe.
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>>686458
That's acting like it'd be the most bullshit thing to come out of bleach.
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Ehh, not really. In this quest animals have souls and Marr was originally a dinosaur, meaning that animals can turn into hollows.
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i have a question, since arrancar are a huge amount of souls and zanpakto purify the soul of hollows, doesn't that mean every time a arrancar dies thousand of souls go to the souls society, and if that is true since the soul society believes in balance won't they have to purge some former residents of the districts in order to make way for new souls. so if we die then that means we are indirectly responsible for new deaths
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See i wanna make the hollow equivalent of the Mg 42, make something that fires 1200 balas a minute. if we research that stone we might have all the materials needed to make something like that, Since the stone would not only make a good Stahlhelm but a good machinegun barrel.
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Also Jesus i wish spook would post links to his Ask, twitter, Pastebin and the archives
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>>686955
Finding the twitter and ask aren't hard, nor are the archives, and the pastes are linked on his twitter.

Have you tried searching "spooky" on twitter? Should be one of the results you get.

And if you can't find the archives that's just sad.
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>>687220
Sadder than sad.
Like, mega sad.
Sadder than sadbat.
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>>686955
story so far in >>680771
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>>687220
For the archives no that is easy, The Ask, had no indication he went by the same name before i found it. Also, Not that guy, Twatter, for newfags there is once again no indication in spooks posts implying him having one
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>>687341
>newfags
They aren't people, they either sink or swim in this quest.
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>>687341
So you're saying Spooky should make the quest more accessible by putting twitter/archive/pastebin links at the top of new threads in the OP?

Pic fucking related.
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>>687439
There's absolutely nothing wrong with putting links at the top of the thread, or at the end of a thread. Either one works, though OP is typically preferred.
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>>687458
>>686955

Anybody invested in the quest will inevitably go to the archives to catch up on stuff (as leaving out crucial details will inevitably lead to shittery),
there they'll find my twitter, ask and pastebin links.
I found it redundant to keep posting it over and over again as it's not that hard to find

Since you've asked I'll post them now but I won't be spoonfeeding anymore.

Twitter:@SpookyngQM
Ask:@Spookyng

The twitter has the links to the pastebins and I assume you know how to use the archive itself.
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>>689449
Sorry spook
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>>689451
Don't be.
You asked and I delivered.

I just gave my reasoning as to why I don't post my links every thread.
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>In Aztec mythology, Xolotl ([ˈʃolot͡ɬ]) was the god with associations to both lightning and death. He was associated with the sunset and would guard the Sun as it traveled through the underworld every night. Dogs were associated with Xolotl. This deity and a dog were believed to lead the soul on its journey to the underworld.[1] He was commonly depicted as a monstrous dog. Xolotl was the god of fire and lightning.[2] He was also god of twins, monsters, misfortune, sickness, and deformities. Xolotl is the canine brother and twin of Quetzalcoatl,[3] the pair being sons of the virgin Coatlicue. He is the dark personification of Venus, the evening star, and was associated with heavenly fire.
Jesus christ.
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>>689822
Believe me, things like these are ALL big coincidences
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Just rereading old threads.
"On your way out you ask Pesci.

"Have you ever made contact with a human before?"

"Only once. I burnt her skin, almost as if I poured acid on her." "

Who did he burn? Someone he knew in life, you reckon?



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