"He went to do something, as you can see there are a lot of kids here so were need to get out of." Wolbach answers the rude man.
"Shut up I didn't ask for an explanation, I only asked where he was." the man says to her, but for whatever reason, the man seems to not even want to be in front of her.
Shino watches as the other three men begin to walk around and judging by the expressions of disgust and arrogant smirks she can tell that they didn't grow up on this side of the soul society.
"He's out, do you want to leave a message or would you like to wait for him?" Wolbach says to the man her voice is calm, but Shino can see that Wolbach's right eye is beginning to twitch.
Because the man has his back turned to her Shino isn't able to see his expression, but if it's anything like the one on the other three's faces she can tell that he sent planning anything good.
The other three men act as if they're reaching for their swords and as a result, all of the kids start to run, some run towards Aqua and Eris others to Wolbach.
More than half of them run into the city \ town or towards the bushes where Kazuma had fought the hollows a day ago.
The men begin to laugh as the three women glare at them, Shino isn't able to take any more and so takes the stance that she learned in the academy.
One of the soul reapers notices her and begins to smirk before signaling to his friends to turn and look at her.
The rest of the men just grin, they don't even consider her a threat.
"You know this place is off limits to civilians, lots of hollows appear here, and here you are three defenseless women raising children." the soul reaper says to Wolbach as he walks closer to her.
Yuki draws his sword and is about to run towards the man that has his back turned to them but before he's able to the soul reaper's body is thrown to the side by something that exploded next to his leg.
"What!?" the other three men scream in confusion, as a pillar of water erupts from the ground throwing one man into the air.
While the man next t him grabs his neck when a bubble made of gray light surrounds his head and the air is pulled out of his lungs and he's stopped from being able to breathe.
The last of the men is grabbed by different colored chains and held in the air, as the three spirits gently free themselves from the children's trembling hands and stand before their captured enemy.
All three women place a finger on the man's head and Shino is forced to look away as the man begins to scream when the man stopped screaming Shino opens her eyes and finds that he's now laying on the ground.
The three women repeat the same action on the other three men who in turn screamed as the three spirits did whatever they are doing to them.
"And with that." Aqua says to everyone the spirit's long blue hair is briefly moved by the wind.
As Shino watches the spirit's long blue hair make contact with Wolbach's short pink hair, she feels herself begin to relax, she knows that there isn't a reason for her to worry anymore.
She turns to look at Yuki, who has already lowered his sword, unfortunately, their relief is short-lived as the air is pulled from their lungs.
Shino can feel her body begin to break under the spiritual pressure of someone something that she can't even see, she can hear the children around her screaming in agony as the monster that hasn't even made itself known to them is killing them with its very existence.
She doesn't know what's happening anymore, as she isn't able to see or hear anything anymore, she doesn't even know if she closed her eyes or if she's even on the ground.
The pain is gone now and the sounds of children crying reaches her ears, Shino doesn't even know when Yuki, yes Yuki that was his name right?
It has to be, she doesn't even know when Yuki grabbed her and began to shake her out of desperation.
She knows that he's desperately saying something to her, but she can't understand anything that's coming out of his mouth, it's as if her very sense of understanding had been taken from her.
Yuki has stopped shaking her and her head falls uselessly onto her shoulder, she can see a blue light covering the entire area, and she can feel her body beginning to cry out in pain as it's being repaired from the inside out.
In one moment everything rushes back to her and she can't help but let out a pain-filled cry that comes out of her very core and carries all of the horrors that she just experienced.
She desperately begins to look around for any signs of the monster that rendered her helpless and took her to the edge of death, but she is unable to find it.
Her eyes are wide and filled with madness as she gasps for air and searches for any signs of the threat, but it isn't anywhere to be seen and neither are the three spirits that were left behind to watch over the children.
As she slowly realizes that she isn't in danger, she turns her attention towards Yuki who is staring at something that's not too far from them.
Shino feels her chest lighten and the weight of the madness that she felt just seconds ago vanish as she sees Kazuma standing between her and a man that's wearing a white suit.
Kazuma's three Zanpakutō spirits are floating behind him and from the looks of it, they are ready to attack the man with the long blond hair.
Shino watches as the man hands Kazuma something before he turns and walks away.
She watches the monster walk away, the same creature that nearly killed her was forced to leave by her teacher.
Even as Kazuma and his tree Zanpakutō spirits walk back to them, no one makes a sound, the reality of the situation is so ridiculous that no one can believe it.
Slowly the sounds of infants and children sniffing and then crying are heard and Shino doesn't even realize that she is crying along with them, she turns to Yuki and sees him crying.
She yells at him to stop crying even as she cries out of desperation, relief, and helplessness today was supposed to be one of the best days of her life.
Today was the day that she had made her sword bond with her and gained her Zanpakutō, but rather than hear her teachers praise she had been forced to realize just how weak she truly was, not once but twice.
She feels a warm hand on her head and as she looks up to see who it is she sees Kazuma smiling at her, his kind expression helps her to relax and as she wipes away the tears from her eyes she notices that his other hand is on Yuki's head.
Her childhood friend, the very person that kept her from throwing herself in the river and ending the constant pain that was her life was right next to her, just as he always had been, just like he always would be.
It was because of him that she had managed to live through her childhood, it was because of him that she had entered the academy, and it was because of him that she left it with the excuse of bringing him back.
And it was because of him that they both had found a teacher that could keep such a monster away.
She began to reach for Yuki's hand and grabbed it, she held his hand tightly as she made sure that Yuki wouldn't leave her again.
"hey look at that so you made it change, good job.' Kazuma says to her, as the air around her and Yuki begins to change.
The air around them around her feels warm, it feels kind.