BG9 widen his eyes in astonishment as he took in at what he just heard from Tatsuki.
'You are telling me...that boy's master art...is the ability to rewrite the laws of physics!?' The Sternriter exclaimed in astonishment 'I thought his Fullbring broke them down?'
Tatsuki then huffed. 'Not every mastered art is an extension of users fullbring, sometimes, they get an opposite ability that makes them more aligned with the user's true self or duality'
BG9 then held his chin. 'So what you are saying is that your friend's ability to break and restructure reality is tied to his unique persona, how?'
Mizuiro then joins in on the conversation. 'Keigo himself has always been a man who rebels against rules when it suits him' The young man then paused and smiled softly 'However at the same time that doesn't mean he wants chaos to go unchecked and have it harm others in the process. But rather he is a man who wants to restructure the rules to better suit both himself and everyone else'
Tatsuki then nodded. 'To put it in layman's terms, Keigo's true power is the ability to dismantle and restructure reality around him and others, and with that kind of power he can basically do anything'
BG9 then nodded in interest. 'I see...but surely there has to downsize to such a power correct?' The scientist asked both Mizuiro and Tatsuki, but both remain eerily quiet. Until the latter spoke up.
'Well...let's just say there is a reason why we hoped he has good control over it'
Meanwhile within the white dimension .
(Soundtrack of Choice: On the Precipice of Defeat)
Keigo was kneeling on the floor with a slashed arm, while Roka looked over him coldly. Her sword pointed directly at his head.
The Vanguard breathed in deeply as he looked at the sword pointed at his face and chuckled. 'Well...I didn't think you would adapt to my Master Art so soon' he complimented, but Roka merely stared at him.
'...You made it too easy...' she criticized. 'It was obvious that you controlled this realm to an extent to where you can negate all but a few of my abilities' she then narrowed her eyes. 'However, what gave you away was that you could only alter the rules of your dimension by using specific gestures and when I tried them myself...' she then remained silent as the Espada remembered stepping backward to teleport herself behind Keigo and slash at his back. 'Well...it inevitably lead to this'
Asano then smiled, and laugh a bit more. 'Wow when you put it like that...' he then rubbed the back of his head 'It was obvious wasn't it?'
Roka then frowns at his cheery demeanor. 'Are sure those are the last words you want to say human?' She sneered. 'For if you went with a killing blow, while I was caught off guard, you might have won'
Keigo then chuckled. 'Yeah I properly might have, but all I was doing was testing how powerful you are and I guess I got carried away a bit'
The Espada then narrowed her eyes 'Is that so?' She then readied her sword to strike. 'Too bad you will not have another chance' she then thrust her weapon to impale the arrogant man in the skull.
Back outside
I see...' BG9 commented while rubbing his chin. 'His Master Art enables him to rewrite the laws of physics...but he becomes bound to them as well'
Tatsuki nodded her head. 'Yeah and that's why it's so difficult to control. Because Keigo could easily screw himself over with his power or his opponents can turn it against him' She then looks over to the white dome. 'The safest thing he can do is rewrite laws that can disable his enemies personal abilities and at best that just evens the playing field'
'Hmm...' BG9 mused and his arms around himself. 'And This Keigo is part of the Vanguard correct?'
Tatsuki shrugged. 'Well, he has that platinum emblem to symbolize it. But even with that, I don't like the chances of Keigo fighting that Espada alone'
'Then you are underestimating him'
Tatsuki and Mizuiro then looked at the scientist in confusion.
'What are you talking about, even if Keigo has the highest quality emblem to boost himself, there is no guarantee that it would make him strong enough to take down an Espada in their Segunda Etapa form!' Tatsuki argued.
BG9 then raised an eyebrow. '...Even when it could very place him in the same league as the Schutzstaffel?'
Both the Fullbringers then gasp, stun by what Quincy said.
'But...' Mizuiro begins to say. 'I thought that only Aura was on that level...'
BG9 shook his head. 'At the time that was stated and became public knowledge. Only Aura had wielded a plantain emblem. But the truth is that any full-bringer who manages to get their hands on one and has the potential to wield it. Are pretty much within the same league of power as her and thus on the same level as his majesties imperial guards'
The Sternritter then places his hands on the dome as he narrows his eyes. While Keigo and Mizuiro were still reeling from how powerful their friend has become.
'And even then...'B9 said forebodingly. 'That is not even getting into the level of training needed to wield that power to its full capacity...'
Back inside the dome
Roka stared blankly into space for a moment, until she heard a clanking of metal on the ground and then looked at her now empty hand and her sword that lay on the ground. Much to her confusion and concern, before picking it back up.
'What...' she thought in confusion as she looked back at the still-kneeling Keigo. 'How could I not notice him disarming me without me seeing or noticing his movements?' she then grunted her teeth.
'I supposed this is another one of the laws you rewrote in your dimension?' She questioned with bitter annoyance but the young man shook his head.
'Nah, none of the laws I wrote, have anything to do with melee weapons, basic strength, or skill. Just laws that negate anything that resembling hax or power-ups...aside from creating melee weapons'
Roka then eyed her opponent warningly as she picked up her blade. 'I find that hard to believe. For it would be impossible for you to disarm me without me noticing'
(Soundtrack of Choice: Nora Tan)
Keigo then smiled at her again. But this time it appeared much more mischievous. 'Impossible you say?'
Then without warning, Keigo with bringer light appeared right in front of Roka, much to her bafflement as he casually grasped her blade with his right hand.
'I will admit you are a pretty powerful lady and I was even more worried about all those abilities you had' Then the fullbringer gripped the sword to the point it began to crack. 'But unfortunately after getting a good grasp of your full strength...you are nowhere near the level of my boss' Then Keigo conjured a blade of air from his hand with a solid carbon handle and slashed the Sword apart with ease. Much to Roka's shock, but she quickly regains her composer and conjures another sword in her hands.
'I may not know who you're boss is...' Roka said while raising her spiritual pressure which glowed a violent white and gold. 'But you are a fool if you think I have used my full power on you' she boasted while she then swung her weapon at her dismissive foe and unleashed a massive slash of spiritual energy at him.
But Keigo quickly deflected it away with a single slash from his air blades and once again the Espada was rendered speechless.
'I think you misunderstand me when I said I got a sense of your full strength I meant your spiritual power, not pressure, there is a difference' Asano corrected as he walked up to Roka. 'And I can tell that more clearly now than ever, since you can't use any of your broken abilities. Including ones that draw power from an outside source,' he then created another blade of air in his other hand. 'And since you can no longer use them as a crunch...' he then immediately slashed both of his swords at Roka, who used everything she had to dodge out of the way at the last minute, while Keigo stared at her with the unfeeling eyes of a predator. 'It is already game over for you'
Now feeling fear for the first time in battle. The Espada tried to use sondio to keep her distance from the advancing Fullbringer. But Keigo easily stayed within striking range of his weapon and forced Roka to block his strikes with her leather sword which she could barely parry against.
'Your pretty adept with the blade Ms' Keigo complemented rather only to then narrow his eyes. 'But you still leave yourself with way too many openings...'
Then without warning, the teen slashes through Espada's chest causing blood to gush out of it and making her grunt in pain. Desperate Roka then tried to turn the Dimension against her foe like last time, first by pushing her left foot back which caused the entire to flip upside, and then by stepping her right foot forward she was able to immediately get behind her adversary ready to stab him in the back again.
SWRIPP!
...only for Keigo to instantly stab her through the stomach with his air blades without even turning around himself.
'You call me foolish, yet you thought I wouldn't suspect that you would use my abilities against me again, especially since you openly telegraph your intent?' Asano criticized and mocked the stun and injured Espada before slowly turning his head to face her. 'Quit trying to embarrass yourself'
Frustrated. Roka then used Sondio to back away over a hundred feet then commanded all the threads on her body to enlarge and become spears numbering in the hundreds and launched them all at the Vanguard. But Keigo then combines his air blades by the hilt and created a doubled-bladed staff, before quickly and nimbly dodging and cutting through all the spear threads the Espada attack him with. In Response, Roka tried to create more spear threads to impale Keigo in hopes of overwhelming him. But the latter proved far too fast and agile to be caught and before the Arrancar realized it, her enemy had already closed the distance between her and slash at her right leg, cutting it off and making her howl in agony as she collapsed and bleeds on the floor.
Asano then in a reverse of their previous status pointed his blade at her head. 'If you know what is good for you I suggest that you surrender now...or I will be forced to kill you'
Roka then stared at Keigo for a moment, giving him a sad smile.
'As if I or any of us Espada have a choice in that matter...' She then raises up her spiritual power to its peak while sending her Negation threads at the agent, forcing him back.
'For any Arrancar who has achieved the status of Espada, they must constantly prove their worth to the God-King, in order to maintain their right as his swords, lest they be discarded and replaced. But to surrender to an enemy?' Roku then slowly shook her head. 'Not only is that an admission of weakness, but also of that of treachery which is punished by the death of devourment'
Keigo then breathed inward in sympathy, While the Espada continued.
'However, it is not the fear of such a fate, that drives me to pursue victory...' her eyes began to soften, and placed a hand over her heart. '...But the promise that I will reunite with the one I hold most dear to my heart!
Asano then remain silent for a bit as he began to tighten the grip of his swords. 'And who that might be?'
Roka was about to call out their name...but then stopped herself and smile sadly once more. 'It doesn't matter. I doubt he even wants anything to do with me after all the atrocities I have committed...'But it will be all worth it so long that he lives the life that was once taken from him'
The Espada's body then burst open with brilliant white spiritual power as all the golden Negation threads began to wrap and fold themselves into a single shining greatsword that she wielded with one hand. She then pointed the weapon at Keigo. 'Even If I have to sacrifice my own life to make it happen'
