Chapter 72

His strength had undergone an all-around metamorphosis.

In this rescue, he had actually defeated the "Scientist" Nemu Kurotsuchi.

But because of his own butterfly effect.

This time, Shi Tianyu did not encounter Nemu Kurotsuchi, but instead happened to run into the First Generation Kenpachi—Unohana Retsu!

……

"Captain Senya!"

Several dozen Shinigami members bowed respectfully, their gazes curious and awed as they sized up this elusive captain of the Second Division.

The possessor of the strongest Kido-type Zanpakuto, the number one genius of Soul Society!

"Another captain!"

Shi Tianyu and Inoue Orihime were both startled, every muscle in their bodies tensing, their backs soaked in cold sweat.

They'd hit the jackpot.

They'd only just landed, and already bumped into two captains!

"Pay up."

Kuchiki Senya did not make a move, merely casting a casual glance at the wine fountain the two had smashed apart.

It was utterly shattered, wine pooling across the ground.

"The wine fountain, plus the contaminated fine wine—two million rings."

Kuchiki Senya yawned and said lazily.

What!

Two million rings?

Everyone present was utterly shocked!

One had to understand that the Shinigami present only earned a few hundred rings a month in salary, varying up to a thousand.

Two million rings would take them a full two hundred years of work!

Unohana Retsu was also taken aback for a moment.

The wealth of the Kuchiki clan, foremost of the Four Great Noble Houses, was displayed before everyone's eyes for the first time!

Inoue Orihime and Shi Tianyu's expressions froze.

In Soul Society, a single ring was worth a thousand sakura coins!

A compensation of two million rings…

Selling them off wouldn't even cover it!

"Orihime, run!"

Shi Tianyu roared, his body shooting forth like an arrow leaving the bowstring, leaving streaks of afterimages in the air!

Inoue Orihime also reacted, scrambling to flee.

If they really got held here, working for over a century to pay off the debt…

It would be worse than death!

"Heh."

Kuchiki Senya shook his head slightly.

"Snap—"

The sound of the finger-snap was crystalline clear.

Everyone felt a pressure of spirit as vast as the heavens, heavy as a mountain range, crashing down in every direction.

However.

In just a moment, it vanished without a trace.

Beads of cold sweat rolled down the foreheads of the elite Shinigami, who gasped for breath like fish pulled from the water.

Their gazes toward Kuchiki Senya were filled with awe and fear.

"Crack—"

"Crack—"

The sound of shattering glass seemed to ring in their ears.

Unohana Retsu's eyes narrowed slightly, her gaze fixed intently on the lazy figure before her.

With Kuchiki Senya's finger-snap, wave after wave of invisible, formless yet razor-sharp sword qi, like blades cleaving the heavens, was released from his fingertips.

Released from his fingertips.

In just a moment.

The barrier space within three hundred meters instantly collapsed! Revealing dark, dense spatial rifts that seemed as though they would tear and crush everything!

Everyone.

Was confined within the three-hundred-meter space!

Only where Unohana Retsu and the elite Shinigami stood was unaffected—the space remained perfectly intact.

The constantly-released Shikai of Tenchi no Kiwami.

Just the slightest leakage of sword-light was enough to shatter space!

"This…"

Shi Tianyu and Inoue Orihime's eyes went wide, their faces a mask of terror and disbelief!

The terrifying power emanating from the pitch-black spatial rifts made their brows knit tightly.

What kind of power was this, that it could destroy space so easily!

"Wait…"

"That guy is still drinking!"

Inoue Orihime stared at Kuchiki Senya, who had casually taken a sip of wine, and cried out in alarm.

The black cat's warning echoed in her mind.

Don't provoke the old man with a cane.

Don't provoke the young man drinking on the street…

He!

He's that young man drinking!

His strength has actually reached such a level!

Shi Tianyu's face darkened like the bottom of a wok, and the arm gripping his bow suddenly tightened. "If that's the case, then we can only break through from there!"

Saying so.

He looked toward the spot beside Unohana Retsu, where several dozen Shinigami stood.

There.

It was the only place not affected by the spatial collapse, and behind it was a passage connecting to the outside!

As long as they defeated that woman, they could escape successfully!

"Quincy Cross!"

Shi Tianyu roared, and the spirit bow in his hand instantly blazed with dazzling light, brimming with a fierce, oppressive aura…

He charged fiercely toward Unohana Retsu, momentum like a bamboo splitting, unstoppable!

……

Beside him.

Kuchiki Senya merely savored the fragrant, mellow wine at his leisure.

He watched with great interest as Shi Tianyu charged toward Unohana Retsu.

It had to be said.

Shi Tianyu was very brave.

Unohana Retsu was not some scientist like Mayuri Kurotsuchi…

She was the first Kenpachi.

She possessed the Zanpakuto Ashitoki.

Although.

Her Shikai was nothing more than an ordinary healing skill, but her Bankai…

Anyone who truly treated Sister Hua as just a healer and thought she was easy to bully would be in for a miserable time.

Kuchiki Senya lay on a rocking chair, like a noble Young Master out on vacation, watching the fight before him with appreciation.