As Sora and Ichigo had locked gazes with Senbonzakura and Byakuya a loud explosion with dust happened almost next to them and Ikkaku was sent flying past them.
Hōzukimaru appeared staring at Ikkaku who struggled to get up before briefly looked at the four of them... It was only a split look before he turned towards Ikkaku again...
Hozukimaru: "Ikkaku what is wrong???"
Hozukimaru: "Is this is all you have got??"
Ichigo turned to him and started cursing, but Ikkaku told him to wait and stepped out of the crater.
Ikkaku: "Ichigo do not interfere... I will handle this on my own..."
He assumed a battle stance before rushing himself forward with great momentum and resumed his battle with him....
Sora: "Ichigo, these are their battles spirit, things have changed you know that..."
Ichigo: "I know but still!!!"
Sora: "Well, for now, focus on................ Shit!!!!!"
When Ichigo and Sora were distracted by Ikkaku, Byakuya and Senbozakura took this chance and vanished from there leaving behind empty air...
Ichigo could hear from the side where Sora was his fists crackling and started sweating as he knew it was his fault...
At the side of Kujaku, he was looking at an exhausted Yumichika...
Kujaku: "I like that the look on your face, it is the look of fear which overcomes one right before death. I hope you die beautifully."
Yumichika: "I have decided...."
Kujaku: "About what??"
Yumichika: "I have no intention of accepting my death. I have decided to defeat you..."
Kujaku: "Hahahahahaha....."
Yumichika: "I admit i'm worried what Ikkaku and Zaraki might think of me..."
Yumichika: "But i would still choose death over allowing others to see our true Shikai."
Standing up, Yumichika stated there is much more to it and begins to glow with green Reiatsu. As the flowers on the vines begin to bloom faster, Kujaku demands to know what Yumichika is doing and says the flowers will grow faster the more Reiryoku Yumichika uses until his life force has been depleted.
Stating this will not happen, Yumichika uses Hadō Arts 31 : Shakkahō, which exploded in his hand and made him enable to use his injure now hand... He reached down, and grabbed his sword and cuts two of the vines away before pulling on the ones coiled around his left arm.
As a yelling Yumichika cuts away the remaining vines, Ruri'iro Kujaku expressed surprise with the stunt he pulled off and managed to free himself...
Yumichika: "I will always belong to the strongest of the Gotei 13. I am a member of the 11th Division..."
Yumichika: "This is our style and our pride are at stake. We will continue fighting until the job is done."
Yumichika: "You can laugh at me if i die later..."
Yumichika clashes with Ruri'iro Kujaku and pushed him lightly back. Crossing blades with Ruri'iro Kujaku once more, Yumichika slashes at him. When Ruri'iro Kujaku moves back, Yumichika slashes at him horizontally.
When Ruri'iro Kujaku blocks Yumichika's attack, he and Yumichika struggled with each other before Yumichika pushed Ruri'iro Kujaku back once more and attacked him.
Kujaku: "Hahahaha, if this is the best you can come up with. The 11th Division has fallen."
Kujaku: "I will fight all of the way to the end using only my sense of aesthetics."
Raising his sword, his sword glowed green and transforms into several multicoloured vines, Kujaku reminds Yumichika of how he said Ruri'iro Kujaku could laugh at him if his pride meant the end of him in battle and proclaims he intends to give the biggest laugh Yumichika has ever heard in his life.
As the vines move toward him, Yumichika uses Bakudō Arts 4 : Hainawa, which binds the vines together with yellow energy.
As he expressed surprise at Yumichika using a Bakudō spell, Ruri'iro Kujaku looks up to see Yumichika has vanished. And it wasn't that long before he felt something behind him and heard a few words...
Yumichika: "This game is over."
As Ruri'iro Kujaku expresses surprise, and slowly reverting back to a being a sword he heard Yumichika says a few last words...
Yumichika: "I'm lucky, because you stubborn and overconfident like myself and i would not have had any chance of winning at all, if you had stopped talking so much..."
With the reversion of Kujaku into a sword, Yumichika collapsed there as he was completely drained of all his Reiatsu and had hit his limit...