This sentence seemed to touch Stark's heartstrings.
His face was still indifferent but he suddenly paused before he performed the soul partition action, "What do you want to say?"
Mazuru's figure is nowhere to be found but his voice continued resounding faintly, "Power requires a price. Sometimes too much power brings boundless loneliness. This is why people often say that… a high place is unbearably cold and the master is lonely."
"From the fact that you have split your own soul into two separate entities, I can see that you are lonely."
Starrk's complexion sank when he heard this, because Mazuru stated the biggest secret in his heart as a plain fact.
From the moment he became conscious, he had been alone.
And because he is too strong, those weak hollows will die if they get close to him, let alone become his companions.
The perennial loneliness finally caused him to split a part of his soul, and that part is Lilynette, but even so, this was actually just a self-deceiving way to resolve his loneliness.
Because whether it is him or Lilynette, both are him ultimately.
This kind of companionship is nothing more than being with yourself.
"So, you used Bankai just to tell me this nonsense?!"
Starrk's deep voice sounded.
Even if Mazuru revealed his biggest secret, he didn't waver in any way.
At the end of the day, Mazuru is a shinigami.
Hollow and shinigami are natural enemies and they cannot be companions.
Starrk didn't hesitate anymore and used his strongest move, a terrifying reiatsu erupted and then the two guns in his hands disappeared at the same time. Huge ferocious wolves appeared in front of him, and without the slightest hesitation, they attacked in the direction where Mazuru's voice came from.
He didn't care whether Mazuru's figure appeared or not, as long as Mazuru showed the slightest trace, the pack of wolves would hunt him down to the end.
In the next moment, in the crimson world, the ground surged and huge crimson waves swept in, meeting the pack of wolves rushing to kill Mazuru.
Starrk's face was calm without the slightest panic.
These wolves seem to be different entities, but they are actually a part of his own soul that he partotioned out. They are not afraid of any physical attacks, and when they touch the enemy, they will produce a terrifying explosion.
Although due to the limited strength of his soul, the number of wolves is not unlimited and will disappear after all the explosions, but as long as he can defeat the enemy, Starrk doesn't care about his own shortcomings.
However, to his surprise, when the wolves touched the crimson waves, they seemed to be suppressed by some kind of natural pressure and crimson chains appeared one by one, binding the wolves, letting them struggle constantly but still unable to break free from the shackles of these chains.
Then, a layer of crimson film covered the bodies of the wolves, making it impossible for them to inflict damage by self-destructing.
Starrk's eyes were fixed, he was shocked for the first time since the beginning of his fight with Mazuru. Before his Cero Metralleta was restrained by Mazuru's Bankai's reiatsu extracting and immortality abilities. And now, after using the method of Soul Partition ∙ Wolves, it is still restricted.
"Do you understand now?"
Mazuru's figure suddenly formed beside Starrk, "Why I used my Bankai against you?"
Of course Starrk understood.
Mazuru means that he used his Bankai just to defeat Starrk.
Judging from the current situation, Mazuru's Bankai is indeed very restraining against his abilities, whether it is Cero Metralleta or the Soul Partition ∙ Wolves, under Mazuru's Bankai, they are all restrained to the ultimate.
But Starrk was unwilling to accept such a result.
The pack of wolves disappeared and turned into pure reiatsu. Then, Starrk raised his hands, and swords made of reiatsu appeared in each of his hands.
Using the swords, Starrk attacked Mazuru.
Mazuru raised his hand and the blood mist around him also condensed into blood-red swords appearing in both of his hands.
Two swords against two swords.
They touched each other and in the end, the swords condensed by reiatsu in Starrk's hand were suppressed by the world rules of Chikai no Senjō, shattering first and turned into spirit particles resulting in their disappearance.
Mazuru's dual swords slashed across Stark's body, leaving huge scars.
*Puff*
Blood gushed out and Starrk's body fell to the ground.
He looked at the crimson world, and murmured, "I really got a bad opponent."
"His Bankai is simply ridiculous!"
Starrk was really unwilling, he didn't expect that all his abilities would be restrained to such a degree by Mazuru's Bankai.
Therefore, it was not that he was weak but it was simply that he was restrained too much.
"Although I know you are very unwilling, but I want to say that there are many uncertainties in battles and such a Bankai does exist."
Mazuru came to Starrk's side, watching Starrk, who was seriously injured and lying on the ground. He didn't intend to deliver the final blow, instead he started talking with Starrk.
Is Starrk strong?
Of course, he is very strong. If another shinigami faced Starrk, they would definitely not be as relaxed as Mazuru. Unfortunately, Starrk's powerful methods that he relied on to fight against the enemy were severely restrained by Mazuru's Bankai.
Mazuru used Bankai the last time when he dealt with Tokinada in order to cut off all of Tokinada's chances of escape, but when facing Starrk, it was purely because he knew that his Bankai greatly restrains Starrk's abilities.
Starrk doesn't know Mazuru's Bankai's ability, but because of the original plot, Mazuru knows Starrk's techniques well. When Mazuru had such an informational advantage, he will of course choose to use Bankai to defeat Starrk.
After using Bankai, in this area, all reiatsu attacks will be absorbed by the crimson world and become a part of Chikai no Senjō. So Starrk's Cero Metralleta became useless first. Afterwards, he partitioned his soul and transformed them into a pack of wolves which was also greatly restricted in this space.
Although the pack of wolves can ignore physical attacks, and will automatically track the target and explode violently when it touches the target, their essence is, after all, a part of Starrk's soul.
Here, in this crimson world, Mazuru has a special attack bonus against the soul.
His Zanpakuto has the ability to forcibly imprison the souls of the enemies who died by his hands.
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