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Chapter 685: AN ARROW SHOT FOR ALL THREE WORLDS

Ichigo smiled. "I couldn't have put it better myself!!" Ichigo then raised his left hand and used it to cover his face. "Let's end this...Yhwach!!" He concentrated his reiatsu and then dragged his hand down in a ripping fashion. As he did, large amounts of black reiatsu appeared and covered his face. The resulting action caused wind pressure that nearly blew away everyone, apart from Yhwach, who stood absolutely still.

The black reiatsu dispersed and what was left was a white mask on Ichigo's face that had a thick red x shape on it. Ichigo stared right at Yhwach, both his eyes looking like a Hollow's.

"Hollowfication? So you still had one more meager trick up your sleeve?" The darkness on the ground near Yhwach began bulging. "Very well. Let's also test this power of yours!!" The bulges sprung up and were black bodies in the shape of Yhwach yet all that was visible were mouths and black all over the body, riddled with yellow eyes.

They charged at Ichigo who charged at them. In a second, he cut them all down and proceeded to go for Yhwach. Yhwach raised his sword in response before Ichigo vanished from his sights and suddenly, he appeared next to Yhwach. Ichigo grabbed Yhwach's head and they both took off, a bit away from the battlefield before Ichigo threw Yhwach onto the ground, cracking it and leaving a mini crater.

He then swung his sword and Yhwach dodged, the slash creating a thin, deep gap in the ground. His physical abilities have gone up and his speed is back to normal...rather, it's gotten slightly faster.

"BUT WHAT OF IT?!" Yhwach created more clones of darkness that Ichigo cleaved in half. He then slit his own wrist and the blood began gathering towards the tip of his sword.

"A Gran Rey Cero, huh?!" Yhwach chuckled, seeing a bright violet 'Cero' appear at the sword's tip. "An attack that will be easy to count-" Before Yhwach could finish his sentence, Ichigo vanished again. Feeling his presence behind him, Yhwach whipped around but anticipating his response, Ichigo used Sonido again to reappear in front of him while he was turned around.

He then slashed with the 'Gran Rey Cero', creating a violet crescent-shaped slash, that was cutting into Yhwach's body.

"Grk!!" Yhwach grunted in pain slightly as the darkness spread onto the slash and destroyed the attack. "Tch." Ichigo stepped back a bit before beginning to run around Yhwach, creating the illusion of a thousand of him running about.

Even if I go by his reiatsu, he's just a step faster. So...

Yhwach swung to the right of him, destroying three of the illusions and then all of them came at him at once, the real Ichigo stabbing him from behind. Yhwach grinned. "I got you!!" The darkness burst forth from Yhwach's body and stained Ichigo's right hand which held his blade. Immediately, Ichigo jumped away as the darkness began twisting his right hand and part of his arm and then they came off. Ichigo slightly winced in pain and quickly landed.

He then jumped back up, retrieved the arm using his left hand and stuck it back on, a bit of black reiatsu binding it back on. "Your high-speed regeneration has been revitalized as well!!" Yhwach slammed his right hand onto the ground and swiped it up, creating spikes that extended towards Ichigo. "RAAAAAAHHH!!!" At astonishing speeds, Ichigo swung his sword, destroying the spikes in a matter of seconds.

"Getsuga..." White reiatsu gathered around his blade. "JIGOKUSHO!!!" Ichigo let loose the thin streak of white reiatsu which Yhwach easily caught and destroyed. "Don't get cocky, brat!!" he spat, jumping up as well, some darkness on the floor clinging onto him. They clashed swords and after a brief struggle, Yhwach pushed Ichigo back who quickly used Sonido to get back on the ground, Yhwach following suit using Hirenkyaku.

He then jumped back up as Byakuya appeared and tried to manipulate the cherry blossoms to sweep at his feet. He then pointed a finger at Byakuya and the darkness on the ground once again burst out and splashed all over Byakuya's left hand. It started travelling up and before it could go further, Byakuya created a condensed blade of cherry blossoms and sliced his left arm off, it then getting absorbed and crushed by the darkness.

Yhwach grinned as he prepared to deliver the death blow but for what seemed like the umpteenth time, Ichigo appeared and got on top of him, stabbing Yhwach in the back. "Your opponent is me!!" he growled before unleashing a 'Getsuga Tensho' through his upper body, creating a giant hole.

"How many times must I repeat myself?! That won't work!!!"

The hole closed as Yhwach landed on the ground and prepared his sword. Ichigo landed back and the two stared each other down. Ichigo was about to go on the offensive again when he spotted something. "Uryu?!"

Uryu Ishida appeared, drawing back his bow with a silver arrowhead. He fired but due to Ichigo's reaction, Yhwach sidestepped and the arrow landed on the ground near him. "Shit!!" Uryu cursed. Before Yhwach could see what Uryu fired, he performed Hirenkyaku, grabbed the arrowhead, covered it by clenching it in his hand and used Hirenkyaku again to get to Ichigo's side.

"You okay?" Ichigo asked.

"Yeah. Listen, Kurosaki. I have a plan to take Yhwach down." Uryu said.

"I'm all ears."

"I need to fire a certain arrow at him. But I have to charge this silver arrowhead with my reiatsu first. I came at the same time as Ryuken but kept in hiding to keep charging it all the while. What I need you to do, since Yhwach dodged that, is keeping him busy while recharge the arrowhead. Then get him into a position where I can safely fire this arrowhead into him."

"'Keep him busy'? What the hell do you think I've been doing? I've been pushing him back and back and back again but this guy won't quit. So? What will the arrowhead do?"

"You'll see. But first, pressure him down."

Zangetsu. How much longer?

A little over 3 minutes left. You can probably strain it further but I'd say if you do, it'll cost ya.

Well...nothing new.

"Alright, let's go!!"

Ichigo charged at Yhwach. "No matter what kind of plan you've formulated, it's useless before my power!!" Yhwach once again created more darkness goons which Ichigo began cutting through. "It seems that the crux of your plan lies with Uryu. So I'll kill him first!!" Yhwach went past the distracted Ichigo and went straight for Uryu.

"Hado 78: Zangerin*."

(*T/N: Slicing Flower Ring)

A streak of green energy separated Yhwach from Uryu and prevented him from reaching. "Aizen!! You still stand in my way?!" Yhwach exclaimed as Aizen charged at him. "Tch. What a bother." Yhwach swiped his hand horizontally and spikes emerged, piercing through Aizen's body.

"What's the point in attacking rubble?"

For a second, Yhwach's vision faded and what he saw pierced was nothing but a large rock. Absolute Hypnosis!!

Yhwach turned around and took a step back, Aizen's slash only grazing his shoulder. Aizen himself took a step back and fired 'Sokatsui' at him. Yhwach caught the large amounts of blue energy and redirected it into the sky. "Getsuga Tensho!!" Having dealt with all the clones, Ichigo appeared behind Yhwach and with a Getsuga-wrapped blade, swung and hit Yhwach's neck. However, the slash didn't even cut through Yhwach and Ichigo saw a faint blue vein pattern.

"Blut Vene!" Ichigo retracted his sword and swung again, this time, Yhwach clashing against it with his own sword. Aizen took this opportunity to charge in himself and Yhwach created another blade to stop Aizen's. He then pushed the two back and turned to face Ichigo.

"Your resistance has been mildly amusing. The least you can all do for me, is become one with me as I devour Soul Society whole!!" The eyes on Yhwach glowed and the darkness began expanding towards every inch of the Seireitei, as the damaged structures began getting covered with it.

"Shut the fuck up!!!" Kenpachi sliced one of Yhwach's arms off and slashed at his waist, horizontally. "How are you still alive?!" Yhwach gritted his teeth in anger at Kenpachi who was still conscious despite missing his right arm and left leg. Yhwach stuck all severed parts of him back together and delivered a blast of darkness through one of Kenpachi's lungs, which left a giant hole going through his right side of his chest.

Kenpachi spewed up blood and fell face flat, finally unconscious but Ichigo used that chance to summon and fire a white 'Gran Rey Cero' before jumping up and unleashing 'Getsuga Tensho', creating multiple crescent-shaped slashes, all hurling towards Yhwach. The Quincy King smashed through them all and jumped up towards Ichigo.

Ready!!

Uryu drew back the ready silver arrowhead and fired while Yhwach was still in midair. Noticing, Yhwach bat the arrow back, though he didn't notice what it truly was as it immediately began coming back with extreme speeds and struck through Uryu's chest. Ichigo called out his friend's name and clashed swords with Yhwach. Ryuken appeared and saw Uryu falling back, showing for once, a face of worry.

As Uryu fell back, words he once spoke to Haschwalth rung in his head. The 'Antithesis' is the ability to reverse events between two designated points.

He smiled.

Ryuken saw this smile and realised what Uryu was gonna do as he saw Uryu demonstrate that ability towards Haschwalth earlier. He then turned his eyes towards Yhwach, who was still clashing swords with Ichigo. He smiled too.

Souken once told me this: should an arrowhead forged from the silver clot that appears in a person affected by the 'Auswahlen' pierce the person who initiated the 'Auswahlen'...then for a little while, his powers would be suppressed.

Uryu activated his 'Antithesis', reversing the event of his wound made by the arrow.

The arrow and the wound on Uryu disappeared and the arrow appeared through Yhwach's chest, where he had fired the arrow into Uryu. "What is...?" Yhwach looked down at the arrow which disintegrated. A blue vein pattern appeared all over Yhwach's body and the darkness created by absorbing the Soul King's Right Arm that covered his entire body...vanished.

A last minute miracle!! With his powers negated for a short while, this is their time to strike!!!

To Be Continued in Chapter 686: The End of Your World