Breathe in... breathe out...
I did this little calming exercise a few more times before I started giggling.
I tried to stop myself, I was in the middle of enemy territory and therefore not in a place for giggling, but I couldn't. I... I had just nearly died. Not in a battle, but against a guy that might as well be a god to me.
I had been an ant and Yhwach a boot.
It was... an eye opening experience. Nothing in my memories from before waking up as Cain or since then managed to come close and a part of me was telling me that nothing that wasn't named Yhwach would.
"I need to get laid." I said with a sigh. "Or just hit something really hard." Either option was good.
Then as if the heavens themselves was listening to me, which it couldn't since the King couldn't do that anymore, a huge wave of reiatsu appeared in the north to my direction.
"Convenient stress ball, found." I muttered to myself as I started to levitate and then shot towards the energy.
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"BANKAI!" The captain with the clown-like makeup yelled and Tatsuki finally understood what Cain had meant about captain class Shinigamis being far beyond them.
She could admit that she had lost her temper when this son of a bitch had used his own subordinates as fucking bombs that had nearly gotten Orihime, which wasn't helped at all when it turned out that the bastard intended to put Tatsuki and her friend on an operating table and experiment on them for his sick curiosity and then finally got far worse when it turned out that the piece of shit had orchestrated the murder of several Quincies; including Ishida's grandfather.
It had started out pretty damn well, she had taken out the bastard's lieutenant with surprising amount of ease while Ishida was keeping him busy and then they double teamed the bastard; despite Ishida's insistence of taking his vengeance himself. It even felt like they were getting close to beating him.
Then Ishida collapsed from the poison.
Maybe it had been due to their former opponents being all either scrubs or people with straightforward abilities but she hadn't given much of a thought about the captain's weird three pronged sword with gas coming out of it. In hindsight, that thing being poisonous had been rather obvious.
Ishida somehow managed to rejoin the battler only after a minute of her fighting the bastard one on one, using spirit threads to manipulate his own body like a puppet, but she knew that she herself was going to be out of commission soon. The poison was affecting her too, just more slowly compared to Ishida; probably due to her being a dragon.
So knowing that her time was limited, she used the one moment of opening Ishida made during his high speed movement distraction and spew out the biggest fireball she could; which blew up the moment it connected with the captain and Tatsuki fell down as she felt the shockwave, the paralysis poison finally getting to her. Just in time for victory.
Or that's how it was supposed to be.
"What... is that?" She gasped out as she looked at the giant baby and insect hybrid that was glaring down at her, purple smoke coming out of its mouth.
"It's no wonder plebeians such as you two would not know. You see, us captains all have another release for our zanpakuto. The final release, bankai." The clown faced fucker said with a huge smile that showed his yellow teeth. "It's rather embarrassing to use it agains some pathetic Ryouka but your agony should make me feel better before I take your remains and take them back to my lab!" And then shouted with maniacal glee.
This... this was basically the worst case scenario possible. Even under the threat of sure death, she could not move. She barely managed to move her neck enough to look at Ishida, who had a determined look in his eyes for some reason as he gripped one of the extensions of his glove.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Only for a voice above to stop him and then Tatsuki felt herself go up. "Damn, you guys are in terrible shape."
"Cain." She gasped out as she forced herself to look up and see the guy that had given her her powers, smiling like he always did.
No, not like always. There was something... cold in his eyes.
"You think another trash coming here will change anything?!" Clown fucker yelled and Tatsuki felt herself move as Cain turned to him.
"Tatsuki, Ishida; let me give you guys a lesson about bankai. One that even some captains tend to ignore." He said as his sword materialized in his hand.
"And what's that supposed to be?! You worthless maggot-GAH!" Tatsuki wasn't sure what the captain was going to say. She just felt the wind on her skin and suddenly she and Cain were in front of the clown bastard, with Cain's sword piercing through his chest.
"You see." Cain said as he swiped his sword, slicing captain in half and causing his higher half to fall on the ground with sick splatting sound; followed by the baby bug monster to disappear. "When a shinigami is near death state, their bankai forcibly deactivate themselves."
"You... you bastard." The half of the captain on the ground gasped out, blood rushing out of his mouth.
"Obviously there are some exceptions to this role as in every other rule in the universe, but for a bankai that summons a huge avatar; it tends to hold true." Cain kept talking uncaring of the half-dead man at his feet.
It was unnerving.
"I'll kill you!" But not as much as the said half-dead man suddenly declaring as he pulled out a syringe and then stabbed himself with it, followed by the half-dead man blowing up in form of green slime.
"Hmm, interesting. I guess that's one way to avoid dying." Cain said with a disinterested voice as he handed her over to wide eyed Ishida. "Take her to Orihime, she shouldn't be too far."
"What... what about you?" Ishida asked, his voice shaking.
"I have a little side job, I'll catch up later." Cain said as he turned around and Ishida started to run away with her in his arms, his limbs shaking the whole way. Yet as her consciousness started to fade, and the final thing she saw was Cain's back, Tatsuki couldn't help but wonder.
What had happened to him?
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"Now then, it's about time you people come out." I called out with my sword resting on my shoulder as two people appeared with high speed movement.
Both of them with white captain haoris.
"I will be asking this for one final time, ryōka. Surrender." And one of them was Toshiro in his fun-sized glory. And the other was a huge guy with a helmet. Oh yeah, the doggo captain was supposed to be hiding his face these days.
"I apologize, but you both have caught me at a very bad moment." I said with a sigh, finding myself uncaring of the consequences of what I was about to do. "So I'll be taking my stress on you two."
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