Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

"In an instant, without any warning from the spiritual particles, His Majesty was forcibly taken away. What kind of spatial displacement ability is this?"

Just as he was pondering, the captains of the Gotei 13, who had been scattered in various places, as well as the group of strange Arrancar, had all gathered around and subtly surrounded him in the center.

Hasward smiled elegantly, one hand behind his back, and raised an eyebrow slightly.

"It seems that you all have the misconception that you can rebel because His Majesty is not here?"

He took half a step forward, and a terrifying spiritual pressure surged forth.

"You can't even use Bankai, which is the most fundamental thing that Shinigami rely on."

Haschward's gaze swept across the faces of the captains, then turned to the Espada on the periphery with a hint of mockery.

"With these beast-like, coarse, broken-faced men, and you bunch of defeated soldiers who have lost all your trump cards..."

"How could they be our opponent?"

"You damn pretty boy, who are you calling a beast?!" Grimmjow roared, making a move to pounce.

Before they could react further, a sinister, grating laugh suddenly came from behind them.

"The Quincy who fled like stray dogs a thousand years ago, now lingering in the shadows, haven't improved their skills at all..."

"You've really learned how to make tough statements quite well."

Everyone turned around and saw Mayuri Kurotsuchi's face, covered in black and white paint, peeking out from behind a building ruin.

"When did you generate...?" Mayuri Kurotsuchi stuck out his long tongue, licked his golden teeth, and his smile became even more sinister. "We can't use Bankai illusions?"

Upon hearing this, all the team captains present were suddenly taken aback.

Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni turned his head and asked seriously, "Captain Kurotsuchi, have you... achieved any results?"

“Of course,” Mayuri Kurotsuchi said, grinning. “I wasn’t idle while you were fighting.”

"I have found a way to break the Quincy's ability to steal my Bankai."

He stretched out his hand, casually holding a small, transparent glass medicine bottle between his index and middle fingers.

The bottle contained dozens of tiny pills that had an eerie blackish-purple color.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi shook her wrist, causing the pills inside to collide with each other.

"After extracting samples of the spiritual particles left over from the Quincy attacks and conducting thousands of rigorous and meticulous experiments..."

"I discovered that the power of Hollows is poisonous to Quincy. As long as the power of Hollows is mixed into Bankai, Quincy cannot take it away."

"Furthermore, for those Bankai that have already been stolen, as long as you take this and let your spiritual pressure be imbued with Hollow characteristics, the Bankai will return to its master!"

"I've named this potion the 'Void Transformation Potion'."

Seeing the shocked expressions on everyone's faces, Mayuri Kurotsuchi continued her explanation with satisfaction.

"Within one day of taking it, it can imbue the user's Zanpakuto, and even their own spiritual pressure, with a small amount of 'Hollow' power."

"Of course, all captains can rest assured."

He seemed to have guessed some people's concerns and immediately added.

"This is not about making you fall into depravity like those 'masks'."

"This is just a very small amount of coating, and it will not cause any fundamental change to your Bankai, nor will it pollute the purity of your Shinigami souls."

"The effects of one dose last for three days. Once the effects wear off, the weakness will dissipate on its own without leaving any aftereffects."

Upon hearing this perfect solution, the morale of Death's side visibly soared.

"You're really capable, Captain Kurotsuchi." Toshiro Hitsugaya smiled. "With this, we don't need to hold ourselves back anymore."

"of course."

Upon hearing this praise, Mayuri Kurotsuchi raised his chin slightly, narrowed his eyes into slits, and spoke with pride and arrogance.

"I am the captain of the 12th Division and the director of the Technology Development Bureau. No one's technical skills are stronger than mine!"

He turned his head and snapped his fingers.

"Yinmeng, don't just stand there."

"Distribute my masterpiece to all the captains."

"Yes, Lord Mayuri."

Nie Yinmeng bowed slightly, took out identical small medicine bottles from the box she carried with her, and began to quickly move between the captains.

"..."

In the wind and snow, Hasward watched this scene silently, his face grim.

If what the Shinigami said is true, and the Captains-Commanders really can regain their Bankai and become immune to the Star Seal's acquisition...

Even with his ability to "harmonize the world," facing such a large number of Captain-level Shinigami, plus the combined attack of a group of equally formidable Arrancar...

Even he alone would feel somewhat overwhelmed.

"It seems that not all of those Grim Reapers are fools," Hasward thought to himself. "The current situation is extremely unfavorable for us."

He raised his head, his gaze fixed on the gray sky, his eyes deep and thoughtful.

Originally, His Majesty's plan was to seize Yamamoto Shigekuni's Bankai and then annihilate them with overwhelming force.

But Sasuke Uchiha not only interrupted His Majesty's retreat, but also used this strange spatial ability to forcibly take His Majesty away.

Now, we can only place our hopes on His Majesty's ability to defeat that brat as soon as possible and return to this battlefield.

Haschward gripped the cross-shaped longsword in his hand, the "Scapegoat Shield" emitting a faint glow on his forearm.

"Before that..."

He looked at the Shinigami who had already started taking pills and whose spiritual pressure was rising rapidly, and took a deep breath.

"I will clean up the Seireitei for His Majesty."

........

In an unfamiliar space, a massive glacier, like an inverted sword, pierces the gray sky, while a biting wind howls and rages, carrying snow and ice.

Yhwach stood atop an ice peak, tilting his head slightly as his gaze slowly swept across his surroundings, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

This is an extremely pure method of spatial isolation. Is it a technique similar to the 'Shadow Realm'?

Yhwach silently assessed the situation in his mind.

"It's truly surprising that you deliberately used this ability to forcibly remove me from Seireitei..."

"Is it to protect those insignificant Grim Reapers?"

"I thought someone like you wouldn't care about those things."

"I never imagined that you would harbor such weak 'feelings' towards Soul Society."

Sasuke looked at Yhwach quietly: "Protect Soul Society? Don't misunderstand, Yhwach."

"I brought you to this space for the reason you said before."

"I'm just choosing a death ritual for you that suits your so-called identity as the 'Queen King'."

"What do you think of this 'icy and snowy space' as your burial ground?"

This is one of the "Amanokamikazuki" origin space spaces that Kaguya Otsutsuki used to deal with him.

After Sasuke used the "Saintly Servant" to obtain Kaguya's body and will, all of her abilities naturally fell into Sasuke's hands.

"Arrogant." Yhwach sneered. "You boastful brat, do you think you can bury me with this mere alternate dimension?"

He raised his right hand, and the metal disc engraved with the Quincy pentagram cross lay quietly in his palm.

"Right here, with the flames that Yamamoto Shigekuni is so proud of, I will burn you, along with your laughable icy graveyard, to ashes!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an extremely terrifying and intensely hot spiritual pressure erupted.

"Remnant Fire Sword!"

The raging blizzard was abruptly dispersed in that instant.

The surrounding icebergs began to melt, and white vapor spread out.

In Yhwach's hands, a long sword with a charred, seemingly broken blade slowly took shape.

But at that moment, an incredibly clear and distinct strange sound came from the star emblem in his hand.

"what happened?"

Yhwach froze, instinctively looking down at his hand gripping the Zanpakuto.

On the charred blade, a layer of fine and eerie black markings had appeared at some unknown time.

The markings writhed and spread across the blade like living things, emanating an aura that made him extremely uncomfortable, even disgusted.

In that brief instant, the engravings on the surface of the Star Badge began to flash wildly, and the "Broken Flame Katana" transformed into a streak of light in the air, breaking through the wind and snow and flying towards an unknown direction.

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Yhwach watched the departing streak of light, his brows slightly raised.

"That's quite surprising."

"Those Grim Reapers actually figured out a way to deal with it so quickly."

Yhwach raised his eyes to look at the indifferent silver-haired boy opposite him. "Let me guess, how could someone so quickly and accurately pinpoint the blind spot of 'hollow spirit particles' and apply it to practical use..."

"Is it Urahara Kisuke?"

As one of the "Five Special Forces" he listed, that man's "methods" certainly deserved that assessment.

Sasuke did not deny Yhwach's speculation.

In his opinion, apart from that guy who's always waving a fan, probably no one else in Soul Society could come up with something like this.

However, none of this matters.

"It's a pity that I can't use Yamamoto Shigekuni's power to send you off to your funeral."

Yhwach casually tossed the tarnished star emblem into the snowstorm, and with a gentle clench of his right hand in the air, a lightsaber materialized in his palm.

"But it doesn't matter."