NOVEL WEB Chapter 324: Chapter 324: Yamamoto's Resolve
Starting with the appearance of Muramasa, and then releasing its Bankai, it was all within just a short span of time.
Many shinigami, no matter whether they were the strong ones, participating in the battle, or ordinary shinigami keeping an eye out, they all found that there was a figure beside them, and this figure was their... very own Zanpakuto.
'Zanpakuto had materialized in reality?'
If such a thing happened for the first time, it would obviously be a very shocking event, but fortunately, this was not the first time it happened, rather the second time.
In Seireitei, there had been a Zanpakuto rebellion some time back, which caused quite a stir.
In the end, it was Mazuru, the then captain of the Third Division, who turned the tide and prevented the incident from spreading, which in turn could cause even greater turmoil.
But today, it was worth mentioning that Mazuru had become an enemy and stood on the opposite side. At the same time, the Zanpakuto, Muramasa, which was supposed to have disappeared with the death of its master, was still existing, and it actually stood with Mazuru, its former mortal enemy.
Byakuya looked at Senbonzakura who had materialized beside him, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Mazuru, trying to suppress his anger, "What did you do?"
When solving the Zanpakuto rebellion incident, Muramasa was dealt with by Mazuru.
Now it seemed that Mazuru didn't directly deal with Muramasa at that time, but kept him.
"As you can see, Muramasa has been subjugated by me."
Mazuru responded to Byakuya's question.
Normally, ordinary Zanpakuto, after the death of its master, would soon seize to exist due to the loss of the master's reiatsu supply, and then degenerate into an asauchi.
During this process, if new reiatsu supply could be obtained, it might not be impossible to evolve again, but the evolved Zanapkuto would be different from the original Zanpakuto.
For example, the Suzumushi in the hands of Kaname was inherited from the Zanpakuto of his deceased friend. Both the Zanpakuto were Suzumushi, but though they had the same name, there were still some differences in their abilities.
In the final analysis, this was because the Zanpakuto was the manifestation of shinigami's soul. Even the same sword would bloom different flowers (powers) because of the difference in the master's soul and in the reiatsu supplied.
Of course, the situation in front of them was somewhat different from Suzumushi in the hands of Kaname.
After all, Mazuru already had his own Zanpakuto, so it was obviously impossible to have another regular Zanpakuto. The reason why it was called a regular Zanpakuto was that Mazuru already had the Enrakyōten from Tsunayashiro Tokinada in his possession, which could be called a unique or rather, unconventional Zanpakuto.
The way Mazuru was manipulating Muramasa was to turn his soul into his own slave, and because of this, even if Muramasa was used by him, he could only use it under the effect of this special space after releasing his Bankai.
But he did not tell the others about these things.
Byakuya and others also didn't bother to trace the reason.
Because in addition to the enemies from Hueco Mundo in front of them, with Muramasa getting their Zanpakuto to rebel, they had another group of enemies, and it was an enemy that was very familiar to each of them.
Though, with the rebellion of the Zanpakuto last time, they had gained a lot of experience in dealing with their own Zanpakuto.
But one thing that was glaring, was that, after their Zanpakuto's mutiny, many of them were now unable to use their Zanpakuto's abilities to their full extent.
This made them greatly weakened when facing the arrancars in front of them, and they could only deal with the enemy with other techniques they had learned, that is, Zankensoki.
"So, this is your trump card!"
Yamamoto looked at the tall figure shrouded in flames in front of him, and his expression was a little ugly.
"Are you surprised?"
Yamamoto responded with his actions, and rushed towards Ryūjin Jakka, who had materialized into reality in front of him.
Ryūjin Jakka immediately released raging flames, engulfing Yamamoto.
However, unsurprisingly, the old but still strong figure rushed out of the raging flames, regardless of his body being burned by the flames, and his fist slammed on Ryūjin Jakka's body.
It was just like the previous battle, where Yamamoto had shown his unprecedented and superb Hakuda skills.
After Wonderweiss sealed his Ryūjin Jakka in the previous battle and thought that he could easily defeat him. In the end, he was brutally destroyed by Yamamoto's bare hands. Right now, after his own Zanpakuto's betrayal, the way Yamamoto chose was exactly the same, to use Hakuda to deal with him.
Even though Ryūjin Jakka was the oldest and strongest Zanpakuto of the fire-department.
But this was also because that it was in his hands, that it was dubbed the strongest.
For thousands of years, Yamamoto had honed his power and knew Ryūjin Jakka too well.
*Bang*
*Bang*
*Boom*
Raging flames erupted, Yamamoto ignored Ryūjin Jakka's scorching flames, and continued beating Ryūjin Jakka with just pure Hakuda. Moments later, Ryūjin Jakka, which had materialized into reality, had disappeared.
It had returned to the Zanpakuto, while being surrounded by blazing flames, in the hands of Yamamoto.
"It's really... just as expected of you."
Watching Yamamoto defeating Ryūjin Jakka in such a short time and re-subdue it, Mazuru remained silent for a while, and then sighed.
Is Yamamoto strong?
Of course, rather, he was too strong, if not, it would have been impossible to be the head-captain of Gotei 13.
But it was precisely because he was too strong that his performance in the original work was always very unsatisfactory.
In the Ryoka Invasion arc, he was stabbed in the back by his own apprentices and was dragged back.
His subsequent appearances had also been unsatisfactory.
The Bakkōtō arc, the flames of Ryūjin Jakka was nullified by Shusuke's Bakkōtō, in the Zanpakuto Rebellion arc, Ryūjin Jakka betrayed, and in order to keep the secret of Koga's sealing location, he sealed himself.
In Battle at Fake Karakura Town arc, Ryūjin Jakka was once again restrained by being sealed by Wonderweiss' Extinguir.
It could be said that it was precisely because Yamamoto was too strong and his combination with Ryūjin Jakka was even more deadly, that almost everyone who were hostile to Yamamoto would choose to first concoct a plan targeting his Ryūjin Jakka.
…
During the Zanpakuto Rebellion arc, although Muramasa once let Ryūjin Jakka betray him and forced him to close his own heart.
But right now, it seemed that Muramasa's ability did not cause too much trouble to Yamamoto. The reason why Yamamoto sat back and watched Ryūjin Jakka's betrayal last time was simply because he knew that the perpetrator wanted the secrets in his mind and so his priority was to protect them.
If he was willing to deal with Ryūjin Jakka, with his strength, he could easily defeat Ryūjin Jakka.
Yamamoto held Ryūjin Jakka, looked at shinigami of the Soul Society who were at a disadvantage under the siege of their own Zanpakuto and arrancars, and said in a deep voice, "Originally, I wanted to measure your strength, but right now, it seems unnecessary!"
"Bankai—"
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