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Chapter 42: Black God and White God

(Que Story OP – Hello Sleepwalkers "Hyakkiyakou")

All that Ruby could see was red and all she could feel was a pressure on her very mind that pushed her far over the edge. Even Cristina's voice was an echo to Ruby, and her silver eyes darkened and the iris bleeding red as they glared at Shao. He took her Ichigo away, a person who managed to take a very special place in her heart. She was so inexperienced with love, and yet her time with the orange-haired teenager was a heavenly experience for her. She understood the concept of the love of friends and family, but Ichigo was far more different.

The thought of losing him brought out Ruby's dark side that was pure power led by carnage. Not even Cristina could keep control since this wasn't sentient but instinct.

Black and violet reiatsu swirled around Ruby as her eyes turned blood red among pitch black. Her glaive groaned in her tightening hold as the reiatsu flowed into the white weapon, dulling its once brilliant gleam. Dark violet reiatsu burned off like a flame off the blades. The power of a Hollow was cold as ice going through her veins of blood. She disappeared in a burst of static and faster than anyone on the field reappeared getting the drop on Shao. With a guttural roar she slammed down her glaive like a hammer and thunder cracked on impact. There was an explosion of the vile energy followed by Shao crashing into the earth.

Ruby smashed down and grabbed Shao by his neck to then slam him down. She picked him up again to bat him away with a wild swing of her glaive in one hand. Shao had to slit thorns of bone through his heel to anchor into the ground to stop his velocity. Next, the arrancar grew out his entire spine from and pulled out a pale double-edge broadsword of bone wielded in two hands.

Like a bullet Ruby was on him again in rabid madness. Unlike before where she attacked with grace and brilliance, Ruby swung her glaive wildy, relentlessly, and lacking aim. Technique was abandoned for savagery because Ruby only wanted one thing in this fight. She wanted to see this filth dead, dead, dead!

But as her crimson eyes glared at Shao's golden orbs with her massive killing intent, she didn't see the fear. She wanted this so-called king and god to be in terror of his demise, to know that his actions brought on his suffering at her hands and to know exactly he should fear as his own life was snuffed in her own hands. Yet, there was none of that except of a maniacal gleam as though Shao had won the lottery. Her Hollow having overtaken her mentality, it all served to boil Ruby's blood in fury.

To just insult Ruby's vengeance and further bring out the beast, Shao roared in laughter. "HA-HA-HA-HA. This is it! This is what I've been looking for! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Magnificent! This is the peak of us Hollows. Unstoppable. Indomitable. Pure savagery and supremacy that none can surpass. Show me more! Show me more of your hatred."

ROOOAAAAR!

Ruby unleashed a bellowing roar of one that belongs to a great beast of epic power. Her wolf mask formed over her face followed by the addition of curling horns of her Vasto Lorde form. The ground crumbled just at her voice alone and the Vizards were struggling just to keep themselves in place from the oppressive spiritual pressure Ruby was releasing. It was worse for the Remnanties as though their living nightmares were screaming into their heads, but even more so for Yang and Blake present. Blake was in a full submissive stance with all four of her limbs on the ground whimpering in fear unable to even look in the way of Ruby from the sheer killing intent. And Yang was probably the worst out of everyone as she was physically unable to move her eyes away from her sister. She wanted to see her Ruby Rose, her little sister was a total geek with weapons and an addict to cookies and strawberries. Yet at the same time there was a voice in her head that screamed monster every second Yang looked to the hybrid. Her mind was quite literally splitting in two from the trauma of seeing the Ruby she knew growing becoming into something that was just so - demonic.

Every swing of Ruby's glaive carved a trench into the ground that carried on for tens of meters. Each impact carried too much strength for Shao to effectively counter, but he couldn't help being so thrilled. The power from this soul was making him drool and he wanted more. In the split seconds between the clashes of their weapons, Shao eyes spotted an opportunity to get what he wanted.

Shao disappeared in a buzz of static a microsecond later. Ruby looked around frantically too engrossed in her wrath to use her sensing abilities. It was Shao in the end calling out to her and Ruby snapped her head around. Her red eyes widened behind the mask as she saw Shao holding Yang by her neck with a sharp bone aimed at her back.

"It seems these poor souls that you so dearly protect are barely alive under our spiritual pressure." Shao mocked. "But what is another lifeless pile of flesh any consequence? Better to put this one out of her misery."

That's when Ruby snapped, her eyes dilating to a dot almost. The world went in slow motion as she watched Shao pulled his arm back to impale Yang. Black reiatsu swelled and erupted around her, then turning violet before completely shrouding her in a mass of spiritual pressure. Faster than even Shao the mass of reiatsu closed the distance between them and swiped Yang from his grasp.

Yang blinked to the sudden cold feeling around her waist only to have her vision filled with purple. She glanced behind her to see a black arm wrapped around her waist holding her like baggage, and her eyes trailed up the limb only to stop in shock. Her heart just stopped seeing Ruby's chest erupt in blood and a hollow hole took its place.

ROOOOAAAR!

Right before Yang's eyes Ruby turned into that - thing again. Everything about the monster holding her was just so vile from the horned mask and the blood red eyes that had no sentience to them. The maw opened to let out a blood curdling howl followed by the growth of a violet orb between the horns.

Kisuke was absolutely floored by the sheer spiritual pressure from the Vasto Lorde. No, not even a Vasto Lorde would come close to this walking calamity. He never imagined that Ichigo or even Ruby held such massive spiritual pressure that he ever felt in his life. The former captain would be ranked as top tier among Soul Society, but he could only feel he was a tiny drop compared to this sea of power rolling off of Ruby. It made sweat roll down his face and his heart pound in terror. Worst of all, Kisuke's brilliant mind was completely blank on what to do.

"Yes, that's it!" Cried Shao, ecstatic. "Compassion is unnecessary. Let your heart disappear into an endless void. Embrace the darkness. Turn anything you desire into dust."

Ruby's response in her berserk state was to give another howl and the cero between her horns grew bigger till she unleashed in a devastating blast that sucked in the light of the battlefield. Shao still grinned before disappearing with sonido at the last second and watched as the giant cero sailed over the city to the landscape in the distance. As it passed, the horizon of mountains and forests erupted in massive explosions that would have taken a number of his ceros to even accomplish.

"That's it, show me more!" Shao egged on. At this point, he didn't care if he couldn't grab this power for himself because he just wanted to be able to witness this wonder in his eyes that was the peak of what Hollows can be. He may loathe to admit it, but right there within the body of that shinigami was a truer Hollow than even himself; a walking god meant for destruction. It made Shao insane with glee. "Show me more of your wonderful power!"

Shao purposely positioned himself lower to the city so the next cero from Ruby will ultimately destroy the populace. An even bigger cero started to charge between her horns. Yang knew that Ruby would never hurt innocent people, so she knew that she wasn't the one behind the wheel to say. If there's one thing she was best at, it was snapping her sister to attention.

"Ruby, stop!" Yang shouted with all her willpower through the killing intent the Vasto Lorde was emitting. "You are in control of yourself. Not this thing! So snap out of it!"

It seemed the Vasto Lorde faltered in her actions as those red eyes trailed to a pair of lilac. The glare alone was almost enough to make Yang pass out from terror alone, but she held onto hope in all that bloodlust was her sister. It also gave enough time for a scared shitless Kisuke to swipe Yang away from Ruby's clutches with a few quick bursts of shunpo.

"What are you waiting for!?" Shouted Shao. "Don't you want me dead?! Listen to your instincts and give in to your rage. Make me suffer. Do it!"

She wanted to. Ruby wanted to everything he shouted so badly that her body was shaking in anticipation. She's a Hollow after all so she should be allowed to, right!? Hollows are just beings of savagery, carnage, and hatred so it was just all natural. Yet, Ruby thought back to Cristina the living embodiment of what a Hollow is. On the first she filled the category of bloodthirsty, hateful, and sadistic, but there was far more to it than that when Ruby treated Cristina not as a Hollow. At her core, Cristina wasn't that different from, well, anybody. Twisted, yet oddly human.

'It doesn't have to be this way!'

The cero dissipated to Shao's surprise and Ruby wrenched one of the horns off her head. It started a chain reaction of her Hollow body chipping off to her real skin underneath while the Hollow transformation struggled to keep itself alive.

"You're wrong." Said Ruby, her voice distorted between gurgling and growling. "You may be correct that Hollows don't have a heart, but that doesn't make you right. The heart is more than just a ball of flesh. It connects our mind and soul, gives our will, and fuels our emotions. It's still there even in Hollows despite the void they so desperately want to fill. That need brings pain, and that pain brings hatred that makes you lash out, but I refuse to believe that is what defines you're existence."

"What nonsense are you spouting?" Snarled Shao.

Ruby continued, ripping off Hollow skin as they grew. "Hollows are seen as soulless abominations, but from personal experience I am inclined to pity you. You're just lost, trying to find the life you once had."

Ruby thought back to the moment that she conquered her Hollow side. Cristina was at her mercy, but yet she didn't curse or rampage like a beast. Despite being an entity bent on violence and instinct, she begged for a life and cried real tears.

"I say that Hollows can be more than just killers and the villains they are painted to be." Ruby claimed. "In the end, you're just like the rest of us. You're just trying to reach for something that's just barely out of your grasp. For you it's that spark of life that you lost when you died and it's why you defy passing on. But putting on that hated of that eternal struggle on others is just a waste of energy. It's right in front of you, yet you've lost sight of it because you're consumed by that darkness that you've embraced. I may not claim to fully understand the life of a Hollow," Yet again, Cristina crying flashed in Ruby's mind, and the Hollow matter regrew, "but I at least know it's not all that they are meant to be; Hollows are much more than beasts! So even if I become a Hollow, I won't become like you because I will still have my heart!"

(Que Bleach ost "Cometh the Hour Part B")

The Vasto Lorde transformation fully repaired itself around Ruby, and Shao was left in a silent tantrum at Ruby's words how she basically defied the, or at least his, life of the Hollow. They are supposed to let that instinct drive them, no matter where it took them or what it did. To say that Hollows can become anything else was heresy. They are meant to be monsters of destruction and ruin.

There was a few tense moments as the body of Ruby stood completely still with a still silence only broken by the whistle of the wind and the chilling breathes. A violet aura surrounded the wolf Vasto Lorde following a crushing pressure that threatened to flatten them all. Even Kisuke could hardly move a muscle, still in shock by this godly reiatsu. She reared her head and gave an earth-shattering howl to the heavens.

"You lost control after all." Laughed Shao, feeling smug that the hybrid was proven wrong.

In the roaring storm of spiritual pressure that surrounded Ruby she stilled herself instead of going on a rampage. Her hands then to take a hold of her mask and the hole over her heart. Kisuke, the Vizards, and the Remnanties stared transfixed at the strange motion then widened their eyes as Ruby's right hand was slowly cracking the mask. But none were as shocked as Shao as he saw the hole over the heart shrinking in size. His breath caught in his throat watching as flesh knit together till there was no hole to fill.

"N-Nani!?" Shao choked out.

He couldn't believe it. He didn't want to believe it even as the impossibility stood right in front of him. There was a Hollow with a heart standing right in front of his eyes!

A loud crack brought back attention to the mask that finally shattered and split second later a bright violet light surrounded Ruby to the point the onlookers had to cover their eyes. A minute later the light died down for everyone to see the new Ruby that stood where the Vasto Lorde once was. She was completely normal without any fur or the clawed digits but there was a new set of differences none of them were expecting. Her shinigami uniform was replaced by a crimson jacket with white trimming that hugged her curves, black hakama pants, and a black sash. At her hip was a single-edged sword in a sheath, revealing the red handle wrapped in a black grip and an oval-shaped guard. The only physical changes were the richer tone to her skin, the addition of a curled horn on the right side of her head, just between her right wolf ear and eye, which was red, and white bone at the root of the horn reached to the last bit of the mask of the wolf Vasto Lorde being the upper jawline of the mask on her right cheek.

While the Remnanties and shinigami were shocked by Ruby's new appearance, Shao's face contorted in a mix of rage and disbelief. He knew that was a successful transformation into an arrancar yet there was more to it than that. Her reserves were still as low before her Hollowfication, probably from what he was seeing right now. There was no sign of a hollow hole.

"Impossible." Growled Shao, his rage growing at this blasphemy.

(End ost)

Ruby took one step forward before collapsing onto her knees in a panting mess. She was already drained before Hollowfication but now she was left mentally exhausted as well from fighting for control. So Ruby could do nothing as an enraged Shao fired a massive cero. She wanted to scream in pain as the doom blast burned her skin and scorched her body when it suddenly exploded. The shockwave sent her soaring through the air to the shore, unable to stop the velocity with her meager reserves of reiatsu. She was too weak to even let out a peep of her voice.

'I'm done.' Thought Ruby. 'I can't go on, but they are still in danger! If I have to give up my power or my life, I will gladly do it. Just please someone... anyone... save them!'

Ruby felt herself plummeting towards the ocean. Her senses of hearing and sight were beginning to darken the more she lost consciousness. If this was her death, Ruby only had one wish to be granted. To be held in the gentle arms of Ichigo and feel his aura of safety again.

"Where'd you get that horn?"

The voice! That strong voice that as soon as it was heard somehow made Ruby's senses come back to her if only to see if it was true. Her eyes, now heterochromatic between silver and red, snapped open and met another heterochromatic pair with warm brown with a glowing blue iris and pitch black with a golden iris. But it was the familiar bright orange hair that made Ruby's heart soar. Ichigo had returned, holding her in a bridal-style hold grinning down at her.

As her senses were coming back to her, Ruby noticed that the hybrid had a dark line running down his eye from a long jagged horn sticking out of the side of his head. Next were, to Ruby's amazement, an array of six pairs of black wings of pure reishi from his back complete with feathers that flickered like embers. He no longer at the giant cleaver that was his Shikai on his back or the daito of his Bankai. Instead, there were two swords sheathed at his hip with the hilts opposing each other in the colors of white and black. His Faunas (Hollow) tail wrapped around Ruby's waist and to her disappointment released her out of Ichigo's hands.

"Orange-head's back!" Cheered Yang, knowing somehow that victory was on the horizon. "And check him out!"

Indeed the shinigami were but for totally different reasons. It wasn't the Hollow horn on his head this time, but it was the wings of reishi on Ichigo's back. Kisuke knew of only one technique that could produce this state. A smirk played on his lips that he was floored yet again by Ichigo's potential.

'Well I'll be damned.' Thought Kisuke. 'Your legacy lives on, Masaki-san.'

Kisuke wasn't the only one as Shao stared unblinkingly at the black wings on Ichigo's back. It wasn't in interest or anger, but it was fear. His mind flashed back when the last time he saw those wings. Humans would call them angels but to Hollows they were demons of slaughter. Their very reishi was meant to eliminate them from existence. Shao has fought the race of the Quincy before and for an age long ago thought them no different from the shinigami. That is until he met their "King".

Even when Shao, the Grave God, fought the likes of Yammato and barely survived he didn't fear the Head Captain for he was still a man that can be killed by power. He was far, far worse. He was not a king but a god. No matter what he did, Shao couldn't do nothing against that thing. He was no mortal, not a thing that could be just killed with power. He made him feel true fear through torture that made him learn the meaning of being powerless and helpless. He made sure that no matter how much power he could ever get Shao knew that he would always be a pebble to him.

And to see another of his kind when they should be extinct with those insufferable wings as well drove Shao over the edge. But it also brought the fact that this human, no, this anomaly was the combination of three in one. Shao couldn't help his jaw falling when he was hit by that realization.

"V-Vollstandig!?" Exclaimed Shao, taking steps back in fear. "Y-You're a Quincy as well!? HOW!? HOW ARE YOU REAL?! If you're a Quincy and a Hollow as well, you should be dead! You should be killing yourself being poisoned by your own blood!"

Ichigo ignored him as he floated down to the ground and set Ruby down gently. His features turned into cold indifference as he stared back at Shao. Shao gritted his teeth in frustration seeing as Ichigo was refusing to speak to him and just stare.

"ANSWE-"

Shao choked down his words when those eyes were suddenly too close to comfort. In the time he blinked Ichigo had closed down the distance between them in an instant without even making the usual buzz of sonido or even the whistle of wind of shunpo.

"Your voice is annoying me." Ichigo stated in a bored tone.

Shao froze on the spot from those words. That was the exact same sentence he said. In the high of his fear, Shao saw him again, looking down at him like a bug with his long hair hiding away his face in shadows with the cloak flapping in the wind. In that same deep voice, the mirage of that thing spoke.

"Your voice is annoying me."

Shao gave a cry of terror and jumped back from the hybrid. His eyes were wild and his instincts screamed to survive. It was why his hands moved in a motion Kisuke realized but was too late to warn Ichigo.

"S-Stay away!" Shao cried. "Hado #90: Kurohitsugi."

The demon art spell of the Black Coffin took form in a pitch black box that built around Ichigo growing to resemble a tower three stories tall. The spiritual pressure exerted into the spell was enough to make any loose pebbles float in the air. Shao had a maniacal grin on his face thinking of being free from that monstrosity to live another day.

When the black box was forming the lid to encase Ichigo completely, the reishi structure suddenly fell apart. Piece by piece the black box reversed its construction and the reishi turned back into a formless state surging into a single singularity. The walls broke down revealing that the reishi was being absorbed into the reishi on Ichigo's back till the black box was no longer there.

(Que Bleach ost "Fade to Black")

"Wh-What are you!?" Exclaimed Shao in terror, backing away from this monster.

Ichigo didn't answer the arrancar and instead held out his hand into the air. A purple mist permeated the air around him as Ichigo's spiritual pressure was exerted and, surprisingly, into a focused point unlike his usual novice control. Kisuke's eyes widened in surprise and Ruby was slack jawed when they realized what Ichigo was doing and that he was succeeding in doing it. That manipulation of spiritual pressure could only be Kido.

"Hado #90: Kurohitsugi."

And it was the very same Kido that was once fired back at him. Shao was too late to stop the black reishi boxing him in a tower four stories tall. The spiritual pressure cracked the earth as gravitational forces inside the coffin ravaged whatever was inside. After ten seconds, the black coffin dissipated and showed Shao on one knee bleeding from gashes and lacerations all over his body. He tried to speak but only coughed out blood.

'So that's how.' Kisuke theorized internally. 'Those wings on his back absorbed the reishi of the Kido then traced the reading of that reishi to its exact frequency to recreate the Kido. Ichigo, just where does your potential end?'

Behind his cold composure, Ichigo was having his own debate between his zanpakuto, Zangetsu Y and X.

'Careful, Ichigo.' Zangetsu X warned. 'This is your first time using Vollstandig and your Hollowed state. If you use Shikai or even Bankai, you'll tear your body apart if you persist for too long.'

'How long do I have if I use Shikai?' Ichigo asked.

Zangetsu Y answered. 'About five minutes before your soul commits soul suicide, and only ten seconds in Bankai. Make it quick, King.'

'I plan to.'

In the blink of an eye, Ichigo withdrew his new dual zanpakuto from his hip, the steel gleaming in the light. Shao, in his frantic terror, disappeared with sonido to retreat high in the air not wanting to be anywhere near Ichigo. The Kurosaki took a deep breath before crossing the blades into an 'X' in front of himself and chanted.

"Black God, redeem your sins; White God, kill on instinct - ZANGETSU!"

Black, red, white, and blue reiatsu exploded off of Ichigo's body and focused into a mighty twister that reached the heavens. Blake and Yang were blown away like leaves in a hurricane from the winds generated from Ichigo's spiritual pressure. Ruby used her slowly regaining strength to lift her arms up and catch her friends and pull them down to endure the storm. The twister died away in an instant as a shockwave swept the battlefield. Ichigo's new Shikai was now a dual-type of two giant khyber knives as long as his body and yet he could easily wield with one hand. The khyber sword in his right arm had a white hilt with a pitch black blade, and the sword in his left hand had the blade as white as snow with a coal black hilt. Red-laced black reiatsu swirled on his right arm, and blue-laced white reiatsu swirled on his left arm. Combined with his Hollow horn and tail and Vollstandig wings Ichigo was the picture of a man of war. For Ruby, drool fell from the corner of her mouth, a nosebleed bled shamelessly, and her eyes glazed into an aimless stare that switched between Ichigo himself and his weapons that looked, in her opinion, to have been crafted by the hands of the gods. Her mind was completely blank with only one word.

'Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hothothothothothothothot!'

It was amazing how she didn't faint from blood loss.

(Que Bleach ost "Number One Else")

"No!" Growled Shao. "I didn't live these centuries just to be killed some shitty brat."

Without even a sound, Ichigo was already upon him both Zangetsus raised over his head. Shao barely had time to summon a pair of bone bokken to defend himself. The two locked in a stalemate for only a second until he was overwhelmed by pure strength by Ichigo. The hybrid gave a roar and sent down Shao like a bullet. The arrancar picked himself up and summoned giant pikes of bone that launched at super high speeds. Ichigo narrowed his eyes watching as the pikes came closer. He swayed to the side at the last second when the first one came and swatted it away like it was a fly. The second pike was simply parried away with a flick of the blade of Zangetsu Y. The last two came at the same time and Ichigo had to place himself between them and pushed the khyber blades to his sides to send them away.

Seeing that was the end of Shao's attack, Ichigo took his own turn and raised both blades in the air. Their respective reiatsus burned off the blades like an inferno, read to be unleashed at Ichigo's command.

"Getsuga Tensho!"

With two swings, Ichigo launched two different waves of reiatsu, one red-laced black and the other blue-laced white. In his defense Shao put up a wall of solid bone. When the black Getsuga Tensho struck it tore through the wall like butter and it continued on ripping a trench through the earth. With the wall down, it revealed a shocked Shao with his left arm missing. Before the other Getsuga Tensho hit Shao avoided it with sonido into the air above the stump of the bone tree.

"I," Cried Shao, veins visible on his golden eyes, "I will not die here!"

Shao extended his remaining palm and charged a pitch black cero.

"Cero Obscuras."

The massive doom blast fired down upon Ichigo and blanked out any light. Ichigo didn't even flinch to the raging reiatsu and put Zangetsu in a cross guard. The cero impacted with little effect to Ichigo's defense, and only managed to crumble the ground behind him and skid his feet back a few inches. Having enough, Ichigo charged reiatsu in his blades once again, but this time the point where the khyber blades met made a pitch black singularity.

"Getsuga Jujisho!"

Two Getsuga Tenshos blasted off combined as one in cross-shaped wave that sliced through the cero. Shao stepped far to the side with sonido to avoid the unstoppable reiatsu as it ripped through the bone tree stump and continued on to the distance of the ocean until it exploded far away but big enough for all to see and truly measure the destructive capability of the Getsuga Jujisho.

Ichigo was upon him again slicing both Zangetsu blades in an upward arc. His Hierro hardly had a chance against the blades and he was sent into the air blood splashing from two deep gashes in his shoulders. He tumbled for a few more meters on return to the ground. Shao bit his lips in agony struggling to get himself up and stare back at that indifferent face of Ichigo.

"You wanted power, right?" Ichigo spoke menacingly, his reiatsu skyrocketing beyond captain levels. "Did that power have to put so many people in harm? Did it have to cost the lives of innocent bystanders? I hate people like you who have no remorse for the lives of others. It's why no matter where I go or who I become I will always be a protector. For the crime of your greed, I will show you real power."

Black, red, blue, and white swirled into a twister around Ichigo that condensed into a thick aura of power. A blue shimmer that was Ichigo's own Aura flared to life and becoming brighter by the second the more reiatsu was focused.

"Bankai."

Ichigo slammed the two khyber blades together causing a bright light that shined for all for miles to see. It disappeared as it soon it appeared and in its place was a sword of epic proportions that its very presence put fear into Shao's heart. The hilt itself, made of black iron, was longer than Ichigo's arm ending with a long chain that could wrap around a person. The blade itself had no guard and was enormous even bigger than the khyber blades of his Shikai, and was double edged. One side was pitch black to represent his Quincy origins and the other was snow white in representation of his Hollow side, and separating the two edges was a gap that ran from the hilt to almost the tip filled with not white, black, red, or blue but gold reiatsu that looked to be liquid gold.

"Let's go," Shouted Ichigo, "Tensa Zangetsu."

Ichigo launched from towards Shao faster than any being the arrancar had ever faced. His vision was blinded by the golden reiatsu emitted from the blade as it was carried from Ichigo's side ready to cleave through any its way. Time slowed down for Shao and it was then that Kami chose to let the arrancar review his entire life. He saw himself as a regular Hollow, going up the ranks of Menos till he became Vasto Lorde. In all his life all he knew was the hunger, the ever going hunger that forced him to eat souls. But a thought crossed his mind if it was really necessary. Could he have truly stopped when he became a Vasto Lorde? Was there more to a heart then the void Shao was always reminded of when he touched his chest?

'Perhaps,' Thought Shao, accepting his fate as Tensa Zangetsu touched his skin, 'you had a point, Ruby Rose.'

"Getsuga Goddokira." (Moon Fang God Killer)

As soon as the giant blade passed through Shao, a giant wave of pure reiatsu was unleashed pushing the very ocean back to the very horizon and parting the gathering clouds back. Shao didn't even feel pain since the very massive amount of reiatsu put into the attack vaporized his body in less than a second. All the spectators saw was majestic golden flash and felt spiritual pressure practically shaking to their very core. As the waves of the ocean came back and the winds returned, the battle that Remnant would remember forever as one of the first of the shinigami was over.

Wow, did not expect this chapter to be so damn long. Usually you would find a chapter of this size in The Sins' Return, but it work well either way. From how much I put into this chapter it is so far one of the best in this story. As for Ruby, I decided to make her an arrancar for now as she masters both sides of her power.

Next is Chapter 43: Aftermath

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