Except for Kunou and Tanis who had brought Claire to the medical facility, Kisuke led everyone else to the surveillance room and after turning up the barrier around the mansion to the max, he turned on the numerous screens present and they started displaying Ophis who's silently waiting.
"Who did you invite that someone like her has to receive?" Tenjirou asked curiously while rubbing his chin. Since he had already stepped onto this boat, he decided to become comfortable, 'Ichibei has something to do with those maggots as Urahara calls them. Might as well see where this is going. In any case, I'm still fulfilling my job technically.'
Senjumaru also had the same train of thought but she was still a bit apprehensive of where they are right now, 'It won't be easy fighting those nigh infinite maggots no matter how weak they are individually. But it has to be done even if the Zero Division is gone.'
"You'll see." Kisuke just gave him a short answer.
And after waiting for about half an hour, something finally happened and Ophis summoned a gigantic snake.
"...Is that... Aizen Sosuke?" Mayuri muttered while furrowing his brows, "I was expecting that you'd free him at some point, but I didn't know that he was already wandering around. And looking at him, he has already recovered most of his abilities." He was also trying to hide his surprise at Ophis equally duking it out with a monster like Aizen, 'Another monster, huh? The aura around her is also familiar... Ah, that's right. It was those roars that sounded like trumpets of the apocalypse.'
Tenjirou turned to Kisuke who still had a calm demeanor and said, "I know you're crazy... But you're actually suicidal. You do realize that he could do more damage than Yhwach and it's only because he got overconfident that you were able to seal him, right?"
"And to properly kill him, Ichibei once mentioned that you have to kill him at least a hundred thousand times." Senjumaru added while her eyes were still glued on the screen, watching the two of them attempt to destroy each other with no avail, 'Aizen is one thing, but is this little girl actually invulnerable?'
Meanwhile, Ouetsu was much more interested in Kisuke's intention of letting Ophis face Aizen, and a few moments later, a lightbulb went off in his head, "Ah... So that's what you're trying to do."
"Well, if we want him to sit down on the same level as us, we have to do this first," Kisuke replied. He was not surprised that Ouetsu was able to guess his intention since he already had a rough idea of Ophis' abilities.
Soon, the moment Kisuke was waiting for arrived and he finally made his move.
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Aizen and Ophis exchanged various ranged attacks but neither of them moved an inch. While Aizen would instantly regenerate any damage done to him, Ophis remained still as a cold rock without any speck of dust on her.
If this was the Ophis of the past, no matter how durable she was, she wouldn't remain safe from someone like Aizen, but she had finally learnt how to defend herself with her dense, infinite energy. Only some people like Claire who can ignore or disable defenses, could hurt her.
Aizen momentarily stopped his attacks and so did Ophis, "What are you trying to achieve here? And where's Urahara?"
However, Ophis only kept staring at him, waiting for his next actions.
Aizen smirked and continued, "Well, you don't have to answer."
All of a sudden, Ophis felt something strange on her stomach and when she looked down, she saw an arm sticking out from it, "I just have to force that guy to come out." she heard Aizen's voice from behind. When she looked back up, she saw 'Aizen' in the distance in front of her slowly disappearing.
For the first time, there's a change in Ophis' expression but it was not what Aizen was expecting, 'She's smiling?'
Aizen hurriedly pulled out his arm but before he could do so, he felt a sting on it. Aizen made a distance between him and Ophis to figure out what the latter was planning. In that instant, he also took a look at the arm he used to pierce her stomach and found two small holes in it, "Snake bite?"
He wanted to continue his assault but Aizen decided against it when he felt another presence approaching. A few seconds later, he saw Kisuke appearing beside Ophis with a Flash Step.
"That's quite a rude greeting, wasn't it?" Aizen complained with a smile.
But Kisuke didn't immediately address him and turned to Ophis, "Did it work?"
Ophis nodded and nine small snakes instantly manifested in her hand that she raised in front of her. Without any further instruction from Kisuke, eight of the nine snakes started flying towards the mansion while the last one attached itself to Kisuke's palm, becoming a tattoo.
Aizen wanted to intercept the snakes but before he could even move forward, he was surprised that an invisible slash stopped his tracks and gave his arm a wound. However, Aizen was not surprised that he was wounded. He turned to Kisuke and asked, "Kyouka Suigetsu didn't work on you, huh?"
Kisuke chuckled while holding Tiamat and showed him the tattoo of the snake, "Sorry about this rude welcome. I have to take measures for us to properly talk, you see?"
Aizen turned to the snakes that had already entered the mansion and sighed, "I guess that's true. But I'd like some proper compensation for this harassment."
Kisuke sighed in relief, "You're much more open to this than I initially thought."
"You'll understand once the burden of ambition leaves your consciousness."
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The snakes arrived at the surveillance room and the one who took the initiative to receive them like Kisuke was Ouetsu, "You have to touch Kyouka Suigetsu's blade to render it ineffective. Since Aizen fused with his Zanpakuto, his entire body has essentially become Kyouka Suigetsu's blade. Its advantage is apparent since he could put everyone into an illusion by just laying your eyes on him, but so is its weakness. The little girl was giving us a way to deny his Zanpakuto's ability."
Ouetsu's explanation was easy to understand. And after a few moments of hesitation, everyone accepted the snakes in their palms.