Ichigo breathed heavily as he continued to battle through hoards of dragon tooth warriors with no end in sight even long after he escaped the temple his human body was strong enough to crack through concrete and he was skilled enough to wipe entire hoards of enemies at once. He was still much more limited than his shinigmai form who could do the same for days on in straight and with far less effort.

Even now he was still far from reaching his home base.

'I just got to keep going until I can get my badge' he said to himself while surrounded by dragon tooth warriors.

Until he suddenly felt a massive presence standing behind him alongside the giggle of a little girl.

Meanwhile, Kisuke continues to battle Caster in a magical duel.

While dodging dozens of rays of light. Kisuke waves out his zanpaktou and casts a kido spell.

'Hado number 32 Okasen!' He shouted out and a large wave blast of yellow that was several times wider than his body shot out from the edge of his zanpaktou and directly at the caster, who merely smirked as she causally conjured a barrier that effortlessly blocked the yellow wave of energy"

"You are wasting your time shinigmai" Caster mocked. "For like magi of this era your kido is a pale imitation of the magecraft from the age of the gods" she then boasted smugly. "After all the very fact that you can only cast your spells as fast as mine. At the expense of their full might. Only further proves its inferiority!"

Kisuke then frowns while continuing to lower his hat down. 'You may have a point there…however" The shingmai then appeared right behind Caster with the use of the flash step and then tilted his zanpakuto causing it to spend "Unlike Magcraft a kido's power is not just limited to it's rank"

"Hado 58. Tenran!" The shopkeeper called out and before Caster's surprised eyes, a huge vortex of wind large enough to level the entire temple came rushing at her and forced the Servant to act quickly.

"Aero!" the Servant uttered and from her right hand a plague wind-like spell countered Tenran causing the two wind-like forces to collide with one another before dispersing into massive gusts.

Kisuke then appeared behind Caster again but suddenly found himself frozen in place by the density of the air itself.

"You have become too predictable shinigami if you thought you could use that same trick to get the jump over me again" She then aims her magical circles at the shinigami. "Now die!"

All six of the circles then fired six beams of light at Urahara however the man even while trapped in place. Stared down the approaching magical blasts down before uttering another spell.

"Bakudo 88. Danku!" And suddenly a transparent rectangle barrier formed right in front of Kisuke and blocked the six beams of light. To the point that not even the smoke from the spell's detonation got through it. Much to Caster's shock.

Then in a second later Kisuke had pointed his left fingers at the bewildered servant and quickly cast another spell.

Bakudo Bakudō #61. Rikujōkōrō!'

And then right before the Servent knew it six bars of light slammed into her midsection paralyzing her body and before she could respond Kisuke immediately appeared behind her back once more and this time had the blade of his zanpakuto right at her neck. Much to her bafflement.

"I suggest that if you don't want to lose your head you will call off your skeletal warriors and surrender…" Kisuke said in a calm yet cold voice that signified his killer intent.

But then before he could do anything else, he sensed someone approaching right behind him at tremendous speed. Then at the last second Kisuke used a flash step to dodge out of the way of a powerful axe kick. That shattered and uprooted the ground beneath upon impact, while Caster oddly enough to the shopkeeper showed more concern for her savior than herself.

Kisuke then got a better look at his attacker and saw that he was middle age man, with pale skin, thin cheek bones and dark pale hair. dressed in a dark green business suit while seemingly emotionless black eyes were covered with a pair of classes. While also noticing that that both of his arms and legs were reinforced with powerful magecraft.

"Souichirou Kuzuki…" Caster said worryingly while the man looked stoically at her.

'Are you alright?' He asked and the servent in relief nodded and then men looked towards to Kisuke.

'It seems that this Shinigami is far more troublesome then expected' Souichirou deducted while readying a fighting stance. 'Caster…please allow me to aid you in defeating him'

The servent then hesitated for moment and then let out deep yet silent breath. "Of course my master"

Kisuke then raised an eyebrow at the two. "Oh, so it seems I will have deal with a team up then" he then readied his zanpaktou and stared at Souichirou. "But still are you sure that a master like you should participate in this fight?"

Souichirou the rushed up at Kisuke in less then a second. "You should say that to yourself" he spoke in blatant yet stoic tone and then stuck at Kisuke with a single hand strike that seem to bend behind Kisuke's back to attack behind his neck.

Yet Kisuke's though at first surprise by the assault immediately countered by stopping the strike by blocking it with his arm. Which Souichirou retaliated by performing several confusing yet lethal blows at the shinigmai one after the other in rapid succession. Even changing the direction of the stiels at mid-launch in hopes of catching the shinigami off guard. As if his fist were lick a living steel snake.

Yet Kisuke aside from a slight strain expression. Proceeds to dodge and block each of the strikes. Hardly unsettled by the man's unusual fighting style.

But then, as if sensing an opening Souichirou then used his right to deliver what he believed to be a fatal blow to Kisuke's neck and even if the shinigmai dodged he could just use his fingers to grab hold of it through him aside.

However to the Master's surprise, Kisuke ended up catching the the man's arm and stop it in its tracks even as thr air and ground pushed back against the Shinigami.

Before using a flash step to get out of Souchirou's range.

'Impressive…' Kisuke praise while flexing his right arm and feels and notices the bruises on it. "From that fighting style I can assume that you were train as an elite assassin. With the martial you are using being designed to take out your target as quick as possible to prevent them from adapting and countering you" His expression then became stern. "However it is far less effective to those have been train in a similar style and discipline"

Caster then gave a look of agitation. 'So not only this shinigmai is comparable to me in magic with that kido of his. But he is enough of an expert in hand to hand fighter to analyze Kuzuki's fighting style after just a single exchange?' She then contemplated. 'No…it is far more then that'

The Servent then remembered all the different tactics that Kisuke used. From trying to take her out with that laser had she not noticed it at the last second, his speed which made him almost fast enough to take her out in a single blow. The destructive power of his zanpakuto being the equivalent of an anti-army noble phantasm...

'It's as if he is servent that embodies several of the other classes all into one, with the swordsman's skills of a Saber, the magical power of a Caster, the concealment of an assassin and speed on the level of a Lancer...' Caster concluded as she rose up into the air and with a thought six purple magical circle appeared above her with her wand at the ready. 'As much as I hate to admit I have underestimated this Shinigami…severely" she then tighten the grip of her staff. 'And it is clear now that if I want any chance for any of my plans to succeed…he needs to be eliminated first…'

She then gaze over to gate were her Servent was battling the other shinigmai. 'As of now there are two outcomes for this battle, either I and Kuzuki managed to somehow defeat this man and take out the other shinigmai with my servent…or my servant manages to defeat that other shinigami and all thee of us work together take this one out'

Caster then begins to charge her spells. 'Either way…it seems they I have no choice but let this outcome be decided by the hands of fate…'

Meanwhile as the Assassin faced against Mayrui he held a look of dismay and annoyance as he notices the captain's blade was blocking every single one of his strikes.

"It is rather disappointing that a Captain level shinigmai such as yourself has to use cheap tricks like that sensor of yours to engage in a duel of blades" Assissan criticized. "I was expecting far more from such an opponent of such supposed caibler"

Mayrui then gave a dismissive huff. "It is something that cannot be helped" he explained. "As the head of the Department of Research and Development. I simply do not have the time to practice in such trifles" He then flash steps behind Assisan to attack him from behind to strike him down at his backs which the Servent easily blocked. "But of course they are trifles for a reason"

Assassin then narrowed his eyes. "Is that what you think?"

Then within a flash assinsan slide through the flat end of Mayrui's blade and to bypass the shinigami's guard. Forcing the captain to duck his head at the last minute in surprise, least he be decapated while Nemu's heart skip a beat upon seeing the near fatal blow.

"Your sensor maybe adapt in in blocking sword precise sword strikes, but that is all that it can due and because of that limitation it is incapable of dealing with techniques that are able to bypass its user's guard" he then glared at Mayrui. "if you wish to capture me you need more then just a mere cheat to overcome me"

'Hmm…' Mayrui then mused. "I suppose so" he then raised up his Zanpakuto ..

"'Rip Ashisogi Jizō!"

Mayuri's blade then transform into into golden trident blade with a grotesque baby face at it center that breathed out pinked mist while the left and right pongs were shaped like that of claws.

"Which means that in order to properly take you in as an experiment I will first need to neutralize all your limbs!" he boasted while smiling sadistically and then rushed at Assasin at full speed who in turn rises up his guard.

Yet right when he did so, Nemu then came out of the bushes to grabbed hold of Assissan while Mayrui smiled in triumph.

'It is over…' he thought. 'With nemu grabbing hold of him on the right and him at the front at close range. He would be incapable of disposing us both at the same and as so long as the foolish daughter of mind keeps hold on to that servent unlike last time. His body will be completely paralyzed by Ashisogi Jizō and at that point it will just be a matter of securing him and bringing him back to the soul society' he plabbed out in his head while grinning in excitement.

Assassin then closed his eyes…but it was not one of resignation.

"How unfortunate…"

Then as the servent swung his katana, he blocked Mayuri's sword…while two other slashes stuck cut through him and his daughter Nemui at the same time.

"W-WHAT!?" the captain screamed out as he collapsed to his knees as blood gushed out his body staining his robes and white haori, while Nemu collapsed to the ground unconscious.

'Impossible…' mayrui thought. 'There is no way that Servent could of blocked my attack and landed a blow on me and Nemu at the same time. Not with his level of speed…unless he has an ability to somehow manipulate space in time?' The captain while fighting through the pain and struggling to maintain his composer. 'But if that was the case why didn't I sense a change in his mana of him using such an ability. As those things would of given it away if it were some sort of magecraft or noble phantasm'

'You know in spite of how underhanded your tactic is it would of have actually defeated me…had you not chosen to use while I standing on an even surface' the Assassin remarked cooly.

Mayrui then bared his teeth. 'Are you seriously trying to lecture me on making a mistake!?' He spat.

Assinsin then closed his eyes. "No…" he answered then open them back up. "It is as I have said before…a chance of misfortune" he then swiped the blood off his sword. "But regardless…do you still intended to continue this fight in the state your in?"

The captain was tempted to use his bankai and take out the arrogant Servent here and now…but given the boundary field that was in place around the temple which was design to severely weaken spiritual beings including shingimai.

So he reluctantly he stabs himself into the neck much to Assinsin's surprise. Before then exploding into green goo as his black and white mask fell to the ground.

'You may have beaten me servant…but it once I have recover my body and we face again you will not be so forchenante…' he spoke in an echoeing disemboided voice tbefore green oze spreed itself apart and faded away. While leaving behind an injured and bleeding Nemu on the ground and to the Serventa further surprise she was already rapidly healing her wounds.

Meanwhile Urahara was busy dodging and countering Caster's rays of light and Kazuki's martial art blows with none of them seeming able to land a blow on each other.

However when all them sense the other's captain lowered Spiritual pressure along with his vice captain's Caster flash a grin in triumph.

"Seems your associate has lost…" she boasted and Urahara then lowered his his heads

"So it would seem…" he said resignated and then immediately placed his right palm on the ground and cast another spell.

"Bakudō #21. Sekienton!"

A blast of red smoke then engulfed the entire area obscuring Caster's and her master's version and by the time the the smoke cleared the shinigami was gone.

As Urahara made it down the starway he came across the Servent Assassin who managed to defeat mayrui while a barley conciseness and blending nemu laid near him. Thankfully however Urahara was able to grab hold of the vice captain with the Servent not interfering.

Later at the Ryuudou Temple Caster then evaluated the situation with her master after Kisuke Urahara managed to retreat.

'Well…aside from that little interference I belive this operation turn out well for us in the long run' Caster mused while Kuzuki looked over to her.

'Is it because your Servent manged to defeat one of the shinigmai Captains?' he question and the sevent smirked.

"It's much more then that my love" she corrected. "As of now we know nearly the full capabilities of one of their most dangerous allies. While one of their most powerful has been indispose of"

Kuzuki then silently raised his eyes a bit perplexed. "Did you manged to take down the other shinigmai with your dragon tooth warriors?"

Caster then let a low chuckle. "Not exactly…"