One Piece: Kaido's adopted son, starts with the Eight Gates Formation.

"No!"

"wrong!"

Kuchiki Byakuya slammed the hilt of his sword into his chest. The intense pain brought a sliver of clarity back to his shattered will!

He gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead, using all his strength to resist the terrifying assimilative force from the level of world rules!

"My glory... belongs only to the Kuchiki family... only to... the Seireitei..."

His consciousness was struggling violently.

On the other side, Toshiro Hitsugaya, Soi Fon, and other captains with strong wills were also struggling to hold on, their faces filled with pain and contortion.

Lynn noticed these few disobedient "little bugs".

He floated up to Byakuya Kuchiki and curiously examined the man who was trembling all over.

"Huh? Why are you resisting?"

Lynn tilted her head, looking puzzled.

"Wouldn't it be better to be my subordinate?"

"You can go to lots of fun places, eat lots of delicious food, and fight every day."

"Look how nice it is."

He used a tone that suggested, "Why don't you want such great benefits?" to gently persuade her.

Kuchiki Byakuya did not answer; he simply stared intently at Lynn with his cold, unyielding eyes.

"What a hassle."

Lynn pursed her lips.

"Fine, I'll give you a choice."

He held up a chubby finger.

"Or, be a good girl and listen to me."

Then, he casually and lightly pointed at a tall tower next to him with his finger.

No sound.

There was no light.

The tower that had stood for hundreds of years vanished silently from bottom to top before Byakuya Kuchiki's very eyes, as if erased by an eraser.

To be completely erased from this world.

Not even a trace of its existence was left.

"Or, just like that tower, disappear."

Lynn withdrew his finger, looked at Kuchiki Byakuya, and his face still had that innocent expression.

"You choose for yourself."

That's not a threat.

That was simply a deity stating the simplest, coldest truth.

Byakuya Kuchiki's pupils suddenly contracted to their maximum size.

He stared intently at the spot where the tower had once stood, now empty, as if there had never been anything there in the first place.

That's not destruction.

That is... erasure.

From cause and effect, from time, from everyone's memory, completely and cleanly erase an "existence".

His body trembled violently from extreme shock and fear.

His noble pride, his unyielding spirit, seemed so pale and ridiculous in the face of this absolute power that could distort reality and erase existence.

Revolt?

What can we use to resist?

Will you use your Bankai, which you're so proud of?

Then, along with himself, along with Senbonzakura, and along with the name "Kuchiki Byakuya," he was completely erased from this world.

What is the meaning of that so-called glory?

If even "existence" itself ceases to exist, then who can we protect the glory that requires life to safeguard?

At this moment, for the first time, a crack appeared in Byakuya Kuchiki's unwavering will.

He thought of his younger sister, Rukia.

He thought of the thousands of members of the Kuchiki family.

He thought of the entire Seireitei, and the countless Shinigami who trusted him.

If they choose to "disappear," will they also be erased at will by this capricious demon child?