Chapter 307: vs Ywhach

Chapter 307: vs Ywhach

(Ryoto's pov)

Ywhach and I crossed blades for a few moments, which allowed me to evaluate the situation better. It seems that neither Shunsui-senpai nor Jushiro-senpai is nearby. I could still feel their Reiatsu, and they were both in combat. I looked behind Ywhach to see his right-hand man being there, but he didn't look like he planned on moving for now.

That's fine by me. Not to mention all the rain, which gives me an advantage, but I plan on starting this round 2 with something completely different, so I pulled my head back as I gathered energy in my forehead.

"Megaton Head!"

A blue hand made of energy materialized behind me, and with a headbutt motion, it flew towards Ywhach, who was forced to block. He seemed shocked at the move I made, which made me smirk.

"Not bad for a first attempt. Don't you think so?"

At my brazen attempt at provocation, the Quincy King narrowed his eyes.

"You are being arrogant, Ryoto Yuuki. I admit that you are unpredictable to an annoying degree, but you are not stronger than Yamamoto Genryusai. If you believe that, you are being delusional, which doesn't suit what we know about you."

He wasn't exactly wrong.

"You may be right. I'm not stronger than my teacher. After all, he is a monster among monsters. But here's a difference. You know about Yama-jii a lot, to the point you could manipulate him to use all his strength. You can't do this with me. You don't know what I'm capable of and what I would do if you ticked me off too much. Not to mention, I am capable of something Yama-jii isn't, which is killing you. Also, you are surrounded."

That last statement confused him. I was here alone, so I believed a demonstration was in order. I put my Zanpakuto in my mouth to free my sole arm, and with it and with some precise motions, I pulled a lot of drops of water together in a body of water the size of an arm. With that, I moved it towards my amputated limb to create a prosthetic limb of sorts. The whole process didn't take a long time in total, but it wasn't easy by any means. Moving the water arm alone would take some effort, but at least I'll have both arms in this fight.

I 'flexed' my new arm to test it a few times. It's fairly challenging to make water in the shape of an arm and keep it for a prolonged period of time, but not impossible. A powerful waterbender is able to control multiple water tentacles at the same time and what fingers are, if not small and short tentacles. The shape is pretty rough, but I won't complain.

I stretched out my newly formed arm towards Ywhach to grab him, but as soon as the water was in his range, a sword appeared in his hand, and he effortlessly cut it in half.

Seeing how my attack was stopped so easily, I was shocked... not.

The two halves of water encircled the man in black, and I tried to crush him, but it was for naught, as he broke off of it quite easily. It wasn't really a problem since I wasn't expecting it to work. The water flew in all directions until it suddenly stopped, quickly turning into ice mid-air and flying back at Yhwach with a vengeance.

"You've been having a lot of good fortune to avoid any injuries until this point and acquiring new powers."

Saying these words, something shifted. I don't know what, but it did, and suddenly, I slipped as I lost my footing, and my foe capitalized on this chance and pierced my shoulder. Even protecting it with Haki was not enough to stop the injury, and what's worse, it was on my better side. He didn't take his blade out of me, pushed me to the ground, and pinned me down. My blood started to slowly eat away at the blade, which only made the broadsword seem even more impressive, but I shouldn't be too surprised since it was the same sword that broke Ichigo's Bankai in Canon.

At the same time, I could see a giant Reishi bow above me, and it started to draw an arrow. My spider sense flared up as it conveyed to me the incoming danger.

I tried to free myself and struggled using my uninjured side, but I was quickly subdued by slamming a shield there. Learning from his mistake, he didn't break through my skin this time, so he wouldn't risk touching my blood. Time was ticking as I was restrained, and my blood wouldn't be fast enough to destroy the sword that was holding me down. However, it was doing its job as Haschwalt's sword seemed to slowly go deeper and deeper into me, but it was merely an optical illusion because the sword was getting shorter and shorter and was pushed deeper and deeper to keep me down. Not having a lot of options, I activated Shunko, and a fiery aura exploded, pushing Haschwalth back and giving me enough space to dodge just in time.

That was dangerous, so trying to buy myself some time, I changed all the water around into thick mist that would obstruct their vision while I would still be able to move just as well as I was before, thanks to both Haki and my eyes.

I distanced myself as far as I could because what I was planning on doing would be flashy. I started doing wide and slow motions to gather lighting. I needed to hurry because I didn't have a doubt in my mind that they would notice it. It was a very flashy technique, after all, and thankfully, despite lack of practice, I created lightning in record time. I then pointed two fingers at one of my enemies, and the lightning shot out of them at blinding speed.

The attack hit its target... I was honestly expecting it to miss or be blocked, but I'm not going to look a gifted horse in the mouth, so I rushed in to finish the job. By the Aura signature, I managed to hit Haschwalth, and as I used Shunpo and brought my Zanpakuto above my head, my spider sense started tingling, so believing in it, I backed off, and once again, this decision saved my life because the place where I was attacked and destroyed.

From my experience, Ywhach was somehow weaker than he should be. I don't believe that I would have stood a chance if that was the case, and Haschwalt joining the fight only confirmed this theory even more. However, it seems that playtime is over because Ywhach took out a Medallion. It was the same one that Quincy used to steal Bankai from Shinigami.

"Because of you, we were forced to move our plans up in the timeline, but we were able to create this prototype. We managed to make only one such Medallion. Do you wish to guess what it does?"

Not waiting for the answer to this rhetorical question, I tried to use the surrounding water to stop him from using it because it would be really bad for me, but no matter how hard I tried to restrain him and prevent him from talking by using water, I didn't succeed.

"Bankai... Zanka no Tachi."

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