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The dark matter from his back rose and grew out. As Yhwach looked up, he was shocked to see the Soul King's Right Hand. A hand with an eye in the centre of its palm, made from dark matter. "H-How?! I absorbed you...There should be nothing left of..." The darkness that was restricting him began seeping into his body. "S-Stop..." The darkness covered his entire body, leaving him looking like nothing but a mass of darkness.

"STOP!!!!"

Yhwach's eyes shot open as he came back to his senses. Was that...an illusion?

Yhwach became further confused when he saw someone in front of him. It was Aizen...but he was restricted to the chair again. Not only that, but they were in the same position when Yhwach first entered the Seireitei using the gate. Smirking, Aizen said, "I'd like to welcome you...to MY Soul Society."

I've been through this before...what the hell...what is this?!

Chapter 681: THE BREAKING HYPNOSIS

"What's wrong? You look troubled, Yhwach." Aizen remarked as Yhwach stared at him, mouth slightly open. "I suppose it's only natural. The fact that you've come back from the Soul King's Palace like this means that Ichigo Kurosaki gave you a much harder time than you-" Before he could continue on, Yhwach used the dark matter to pierce through Aizen.

I have perfect control...what's going on with me? Is this Aizen's Bankai?

Yhwach took one step towards Aizen and without so much as a rumble, the ground split open and Yhwach began falling. Lava began creeping up from the crack and Yhwach quickly manifested spikes to lunge them into either wall and stopped falling. However, the lava suddenly erupted and began burning Yhwach's legs. The lava stayed there and out of the lava, came out goopy messes.

They grabbed onto Yhwach who attempted to fend them off with his dark matter which then stopped and clung tightly onto Yhwach's body again, the right hand arising. "What is-" Yhwach's eyes widened as the goopy messes of lava began taking form as bloodied bodies of several of his Sternritters. "Haschwalth, Gerard, Lille..."

The bloodied corpses clung onto Yhwach and began dragging him down to join them in the sea of lava. "Stop this insolence!! You're all dead!! I!!" Their fingers dug into Yhwach's flesh and began ripping him apart. "Stop, stop!!! Ah...AAAAAH!!!" Yhwach let out a bloodcurdling scream as his body began getting mutilated by his dead former comrades...

"I'd like to welcome you...to MY Soul Society."

Yhwach fell on his knees, gasping for breath, desperately. He looked at up at Aizen, sitting in his chair. Smirking, Aizen asked, "What is wrong? Did Ichigo Kurosaki give you that much trouble? Or is this the side effect of taking in the Soul King's Right Arm?"

"Aizen...Aizen...AIZEN!!!" Yhwach stomped towards the restricted Aizen and reached out, ready to completely take apart his body. As his right arm was raised, white vines suddenly came out of the ground and wrapped around his body. The darkness once again seeped in and the vines squeezed and squeezed.

Until his arms, legs and neck were squeezed so much to the point where they were completely crushed...

Yhwach fell back, desperately gasping for air. "How amusing. You look like you've seen a ghost." Aizen said, watching as Yhwach looked at him with terrified eyes.

Why is this happening? Am I trapped in a spiral of illusions? When? When he stabbed me? Just what is this?!

Yhwach got up, his body swaying as he did. He took one step and in an instant, Aizen and the Seireitei completely vanished. Rather, Yhwach was in a different place. The destroyed room of Wahrwelt. In front of Yhwach was Ichigo Kurosaki, wearing a white sleeveless shihakusho, white boots, black bow in his left hand and blade in the other. Ah...that's his fused Shinigami-Quincy form. But I took his Quincy powers...

Yhwach's mind didn't even register properly what had just happened. Ichigo swung and cut off his left arm, like what he did last time Yhwach faced off against him in that form. He jumped up and released a flurry of arrows that pierced through Yhwach's body. Ichigo then landed and proceeded to decapitate Yhwach.

"I'd like to welcome you...to MY Soul Society."

Yhwach didn't even move. He didn't gasp for air. He stood in complete shock and eyes widened as the scene repeated.

- Gate -

"Wah!!" Ichigo's left foot completely went through the feeble reishi path. He quickly got up thanks to Renji. "You okay?" Renji asked, slightly out of breath. The gate Yhwach constructed acted similar to the Garganta. To pass, they needed to construct a reishi path. Both Ichigo and Renji charged straight ahead, leaving Rukia, Ginjo and Tsukishima behind in the dust. Unfortunately, the two of them aren't so good when it comes to making pathways by manipulating reishi so the pathway they made is very fragile.

"I'm good." Ichigo nodded. "But, Renji...don't you think you should've stayed behind with Orihime? Your wounds are kinda bad so maybe-"

Annoyed, Renji quickly punched Ichigo's face. He then proceeded to karate chop his head and almost landed another blow on his face when Ichigo blocked it, complaining, "How many times are you gonna hit me?!"

"Listen...I'm only telling you this since it's us two here. For a long time...for decades, Rukia and I drifted so far apart that we'd barely pass by each other. The one who closed that distance between us...was you." Renji turned around. "That's when I decided. If you couldn't keep going anymore...if you couldn't keep fighting anymore, that I would then keep pushing on, picking you up and keep you going. Even if I had to die doing so. So from now on, until the day I breathe my last, I'm not gonna stop moving forward. So don't tell me to stay back, damnit."

Ichigo smiled. "Wow. Sometimes, you're slightly cool."

"Shaddup."

- Soul Society -

"GAAAAH!!!" Yhwach sputtered blood from his mouth as Ichigo ran his sword through his chest. The white vines appeared and began choking him. Yhwach's eyes began getting fuzzy. Dark...it's getting dark. Will I die? Will I die like this...How many times have I already died? Every single time I die, I get sent back to this pitch black darkness. I can't see. I can't hear. I can't feel. Just like when I was born. My senses are waning. I...can't...

Aizen stared at the unmoving Yhwach. He was standing a few feet away from Aizen, completely still, with the wound that Aizen gave him earlier in their exchange. "Everyone is afraid. They're afraid of monsters. Of demons. Of life. Of death. Of darkness." Aizen slowly stepped towards Yhwach. "What you fear, Yhwach, is going back to that state where you had nothing. No sight. No hearing. No sense of feeling. That state where you could not speak or move. As a result, you also fear the things that may lead to it. You feared your comrades of the Sternritter would've dragged you down and force you to come with them to their deaths. You feared any unnatural events occurring that may have caused you to die. You fear Ichigo Kurosaki, whose power had, at one point, eclipsed your own."

Aizen stopped walking towards Yhwach and raised his blade. "And my Bankai, Kyofu no Han'ei, takes advantage of that. It traps you in an illusionary world of your own fears and your five senses are extremely heightened. So much so that a part of the damage done to you in the illusionary world affects your real body. After being stabbed by my blade in a Bankai state, you were subjected to facing your own fears and will constantly keep dying. Not only that, but your reiatsu will keep being drained until the last drop. Once that happens, you truly will die."

(*T/N: Reflection of the Fear)

Aizen turned around and looked up at the sky. "Hm. To have been able to shake the Heavens and force Yhwach down. Ichigo Kurosaki...you are indeed a most irritable and interesting man."

"Do you have time to look away?"

Aizen whipped around and stepped back as Yhwach began to move again, the dark matter now spilling around his feet. "That was an interesting experience. But I've grown tired of it." Yhwach grinned, finally free of those illusions. Before Aizen could ask how, Yhwach opened up a portion of his chest to let Aizen see for himself.

Aizen smiled. "I see. So then, you crushed your own heart to escape? Indeed, if you die, then my Bankai upon you will be dispelled. I'm amazed that you realised. It seems that, even with no heart, with just the Soul King's Right Arm, you are able to stay alive."

"Indeed. I thank you, Sosuke Aizen. By relishing in my fears once more, you have steeled my resolve. I shall put an end to it all. And you as well." Yhwach raised his hand and prepared an attack before a wave of yellow energy came inbetween both him and Aizen. "You...!!"

Isshin smiled as he stood near Aizen. "How have ya been?" Isshin asked.

"Why did you bother trying to protect me from that attack?" Aizen asked, still with a smile on his face.

"Well, you know what they say: the enemy of my enemy is my ally!! Even if I wanted to complain, I can't. If we don't kill Yhwach then literally everything ends." Isshin said. "So then, team up?"

Aizen sighed. "What disgustingly sweet words. Very well. Don't go getting so shocked if I accidentally stab you instead though."

"Same goes to you!!

The enemies of yesterday are today's kinda allies? Isshin and Aizen form an unlikely team up!!

To Be Continued in Chapter 682: Frenzy For All Three Worlds