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Episode 52: Annihilation
My internal organs seem to have avoided the worst damage. Although I have been pierced like a magicians box, the blades have only pierced my flesh. I should be grateful, however one twitch and they could kill me.
I close my eyes and smile. "You God's of Death are so admirable...I enjoyed this fight – it was certainly a challenge for me...However you should have finished me off while you had the chance...Colgado, Dibujado y Quartered..." And for an ironic punishment the guardians of Karakura have their Zanpakuto's inverted as they are gored by my own wounds. I have dealt the four of them mortal wounds. As I retract my spikes they fall like hailstones, shattering the ground beneath them. Today I have just killed four Gods...and the lust for more Deities continues.
"Looks like your the only one left." I crudely smile at my final opponent. He grips his scythes as he prepares for judgement. As my razorwires extend towards his position they are entangled by the blade of another Shinigami warrior.
"Brother..." I curse the fact my enemy has to be my brother.
His spectacles reflect the sunlight, hiding his gaze. "Even though I knew you were a hollow, I still didn't think you had it in you to kill...this is most disappointing." He adjusts his spectacles before wrenching his blade from the razorwire. "
"I suggest you take your comrade and flee back to your nest in Seretei Michael, I've already killed four Vice-captains in one blow, I can kill another one whether you're my brother or not."
"I will not back down. It is the duty of a Shinigami to protect pure souls...I will die by your blade protecting this city." He berates the name of his Zanpakuto. Now that I remember it's nasty power I can fight on par with his weapon.
"SEEK...JUSTIO CASTIGO..." With my powers Resurrected we begin our dual of the immortals. He crashes his large scythe down on my bladed-claws. I reach out my little claw and extend it...He is caught by surprise but he pulls back so I only take off his glasses.
"Heh...Resorting to sneak attacks are we?" He twirls his scythe in front of his body. Soon it appears as one swirling mass of darkness. I'm caught by this amazing display – almost entranced by it. Soon I return to the painful reality as something shoots through my chest.
"Urk." I clutch my bullet sized wound. Soon another small energy bullet fires from the swirling scythe.
"HAH! You think your little specks of energy will hurt me?" I decide to demonstrate how to create true havoc by forming eight orbs of destruction on the tips of my fingers.
"Jucio Cero..." The sky is lit a blood red as my cero beams carve up the city. Masses of souls rise from the inferno but they too succumb before they can fully materialise. Nothing can make it out alive from the cero – it is the agent of nothingness. Not even my Shinigami brother could have survived that blast.
Damn it! I see he has remained intact along with that other Shinigami. Their bodies were shielded by a white haori with the kanji number '10'. I grit my teeth when the Captain about-faces.
"So my brother worships you...Sheehari..."
The man who gave me the key to hell...has risen to become one of the most elite Shinigami in Soul Society...Where is the justice? And now my brother follows his orders? How pathetic...Will they enter my hell? Or am I setting myself up for 'purification'? Don't miss the next exhuberant chapter!
