Chapter 16
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When Byakuya staggered the shallow strike, he also saw the spirit son light cord wrapped around the scabbard.
"The Fourth Way of Binding: This Rope"
"call out!"
The shallow strike was like a gravity ball, instantly entangling Byakuya with the light cord.
Although Byakuya has been as careful as possible, it seems that his level of caution is still not enough: since he has long known that Haruto can use double chanting, he must be even more careful about the traps hidden under the bright side.
"The Eleven of the Broken Path"
The orange electric light quickly spread to Byakuya along the light cable.
"Lightning!"
"Bah."
As the lightning flashed around, several wisps of thick black smoke immediately erupted from Byakuya's body. The strong sense of paralysis gave him a control effect that was even more exciting than the binding method.
The broken path that Haruto uses the most is white thunder, but he is proficient in more than just white thunder. Haruto also likes the thunder and lightning type broken path.
If it weren't for the fact that lightning can only be transmitted through links, the number of times it can be used may be more... Of course, in that case, Byakuya may be on guard.
at the same time.
"Thirty-three of the Broken Paths"
Taking advantage of the opponent's inability to fight back, Haruto raised his arm sideways and aimed his three staggered fingers at Byakuya.
"Blue Fire Pendant!"
The blue-white pillar of fire roared towards me——
"boom!!"
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"Are you convinced?"
"I'm convinced... you're so big!"
The two of them sat cross-legged in the middle of the field.
Byakuya crossed his arms with an unconvinced expression on his face.
On the other hand, the damage caused by the Thunderbolt and Blue Fire Pendant has been fully recovered by this time - Byakuya is now the vice-captain level of the fifth-level spiritual power, and Haruto's Kidō will not cause much harm to him.
The rules for their discussion have never changed:
Anyone who is unprepared and is hit by a ghost or a shallow blow will be directly sentenced to lose.
"Chant the destruction, double chant, transform the ghost path, combine the ghost path."
Byakuya pulled away his fingers and began to count them one by one...counting how heartless Haruto had been just now.
"Simulation battle, do you understand simulation!"
Byakuya repeatedly emphasized the significance of this competition.
"Even when ghosts fight, they don't have so many tricks, right?"
"..."
Haruto curled his lips.
"Your spiritual pressure is already at the deputy captain level. Let's not think about the future for now. What happens to the opponent in the simulated battle should be based on the deputy captain, right?"
This time it was Haruto who used his fingers to reason with Byakuya:
"It's bullying to say that you are a deputy captain of ghosts, but if you are a deputy captain of any squad who is good at ghosts, these chores will be more exciting than mine."
"Do you admit this?"
Unexpectedly, after Haruto’s earnest words, Byakuya completely missed the point:
"vice captain?"
"Um?"
Haruto raised his eyebrows, he didn't understand what Byakuya meant.
"Are you saying that I already want to be a vice-captain level opponent?"
"......well."
Haruto held his forehead and let out a long sigh:
"Master Byakuya, can we have some self-awareness?"
"It is true that spiritual power measurement is no longer popular in Seireitei now, but you still have to be a bit confident in your own abilities."
The battle just now was quite smooth, and with the time they spent talking trash, the fight lasted for almost two minutes; but without the restriction of Shunpo, Haruto's Kidou wouldn't even have a chance to lock on to the target. , Byakuya can kill him in two turns.
"Although what you said is quite unpleasant, it still feels like you are praising me?"
"......right!"
Haruto gritted his teeth in affirmation.
This was not unconscionable, but mainly because Haruto thought about the possibility that Byakuya would keep pulling him to practice in the future - the captain of the Gotei 13 team could not say whether he was busy or not, but the vice-captain was definitely exhausted.
Even the young master of the Kuchiki family didn't have the energy to serve him.
"oops."
Hearing Haruto's words, Byakuya scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Actually, it's not as powerful as you say~"
Given Byakuya's identity, he usually hears a lot of flattery, but most of them come from people he doesn't like in the first place. His relatives who really care about Byakuya seldom praise him because they are worried about his youth and frivolity.
The same goes for Haruto.
Ever since the relationship between the two parties became familiar, it was already rare for Haruto to not undermine him in a roundabout way, let alone praise him face to face.
"But I think what you said, Haruto, is actually right."
Byakuya patted Haruto hard on the shoulder twice.
There was a big gap between his height and Haruto's, but at this time, the two of them were standing and sitting together, and Byakuya was stunned to put on a condescending... look.
"The goal I want to surpass now is to be the vice-captain of each division!"
"...What's that look in your eyes?"
Haruto shook Byakuya's hand off his shoulder with a little force.
"Of course I urge you to work harder."
Byakuya put on an uncharacteristically mature look.
"Seventh level spiritual power..."
"If you don't reach the level of deputy captain, I won't be able to use my full strength to compete with you. I'm afraid that if this continues, I will forget that I can still teleport during actual combat~"
"#!"
If it weren't for the fact that this kid's instant step was a bit fast, Haruto would definitely beat him up on the spot.
"So!"
Bai Ya came closer again.
"So that you can catch up earlier..."
Bai Ya took out a delicate and small square box with a rope from somewhere.
"This is for you, no need to thank me."
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"What is this?"
Haruto looked at the box in his hand for a while.
He didn't have much pressure from people. After confirming that it was not a prank by Bai Ya, he casually pulled open the rope just above.
In it.
Inside the glass bead as clear and transparent as jade, the mist was rolling and moving.
"..."
When seeing this scene, even Bai Ya paused for a moment because of surprise: it was the first time he saw what was inside the box.
"My father's situation, Haruto, you should know it?"
"Yes."
Bai Ya's father, Kuchiki Sojun, is the current vice-captain of the 6th Division.
He is a brilliant master in both Kidō and Zanpakutō. In front of his father, even Byakuya is nothing like a genius.
Unfortunately.
Kuchiki Sojun is in poor health, even worse than the captain of the 13th Division, Ukitake Jushiro. He has to stay in bed for a long time after a fight.
If not.
Kuchiki Ginrin would have handed over the responsibilities of the head of the family and the captain to him long ago, and he wouldn't have to fight on the front line at such an old age.
"Grandpa has searched all kinds of methods in Soul Society to help my father recover."
"The most effective one..."
Byakuya pointed to the glass bead in the middle of the box and said:
"This is it."
"So, what is it?"
Haruto carefully pinched the glass bead in the box.
"Captain of the 12th Division, the 'Tenrumaru' invented by Hikifune Kiryu."
Hikifune Kiryu?
Haruto is not unfamiliar with this name:
The current captain of the 12th Division who was promoted to the Zero Division for laying the foundation for the development of the "Gikkonmaru", a purple-haired beauty with the title of "Valley King".
"Captain Hikifune's most powerful ability is to place her own spiritual pressure in the food in an unattended state, so that the spiritual pressure level of the eater will soar."
Even if the relevant technology of the Gikonmaru is not taken into account, Hikifune Kiryu's ability can be called abnormal-although it does not have the ability to raise the upper limit, it can allow any Shinigami to increase his spiritual pressure to his limit at the fastest speed.
Of course.
The prerequisite is that the body of the eater can withstand his own spiritual pressure, otherwise the sudden strong power will only lead to death by explosion.
Of course, Hikifune Kiryu's ability is limited to more than these. To make such a powerful dish, the consumption of her own spiritual pressure is also very exaggerated-Hikfune Kiryu must first spend a long time to eat herself into a super fat man, so as to store enough spiritual pressure in her body to meet the huge spiritual pressure demand when making dishes.
"In order to make the Shinigami who eat the food have enough physical fitness to support the sudden increase in spiritual pressure, Captain Hikifune invented this Tenru Pill."
"......Why have I never heard of it before."
Haruto looked at the Tenru Pill in his hand with some confusion.
"Of course."
"Because the materials used to make it are very rare and cannot be guaranteed to be 100% safe, after the initial trial production of three pieces, it was listed as a prohibited item by the Central 46th Office and was not allowed to be produced."
"What materials?"
At this time, the Central 46th Office was a group of old-fashioned people, but their cautious style of doing things really met Yamamoto Shigekuni's requirements.
The thing that can be listed as a prohibited item by the Central 46th Office...
"Hollow."
"Huh?"
Haruto suspected that he had heard it wrong.
