"Want to take me back? I suppose you want to put me on trial according to the laws of Soul Society?"
Mazuru was still sitting on the throne. He lowered his head and looked at Byakuya.
"Byakuya, do you have the strength to take me back?"
Byakuya did not respond with yes or no, after all, words were meaningless, only action would have any effect at this point, and so he directly responded to Mazuru with his actions.
"Scatter, Senbonzakura!"
He pulled out his Zanpakuto of its sheath, and then released it directly. Pink cherry blossom petals flew towards Mazuru like a tide.
Seeing Byakuya in action and feeling his determination.
Yachiru couldn't help but whisper to herself, "Byakkun..."
Although Maki doesn't know the whole story, he also knows that Mazuru is Byakuya's teacher. Knowing about his teacher's betrayal, Byakuya's mood seemed to be very complicated which was understandable.
This live-scene of master-apprentice breaking up made him feel a little bit complicated.
But he knew that now was not the time to say anything, so he quietly stared at the situation in front of him. He really wanted to know who would win and who would lose, whether it was Mazuru, the teacher, who was stronger, or Byakuya, the student, who surpasses his teacher.
Zaraki yelled a little unwillingly.
He was certainly surprised that Mazuru was a traitor, but what really made him uncomfortable was that he was injured and had no strength to fight at the moment, otherwise, he would have fought Mazuru and brought him back to the Soul Society to fight him again.
Sojiro who saw Byakuya attacked Mazuru directly, was also a little surprised.
He originally wanted to make a move.
But thinking of Mazuru's constant calmness from the beginning, he was a little doubtful.
'Did he also expected that these captains will come here and had already figured out about how he will he deal with them?'
Unohana also sighed when Byakuya attacked.
She didn't stop Byakuya, she even made up her mind that if Byakuya couldn't bring Mazuru back to Soul Society, she would take action herself, even if it becomes a situation of two against one, she would defeat Mazuru, and then take him back.
She and Mazuru have practiced swordsmanship together for many years, and she knew Mazuru's true strength very well.
As soon as the pink cherry blossoms arrived in front of Mazuru, he raised his palm lightly, and a layer of reiatsu wall suddenly emerged, all the pink cherry blossoms were directly blocked by the powerful wall of reiatsu even before they could touch Mazuru.
With the emergence of this layer of reiatsu cover, a powerful and vast amount reiatsu burst out from his body.
After feeling Mazuru's reiatsu, the people watching the battle trembled.
"Reiatsu of this intensity, this guy..." Sojiro's expression changed slightly behind the mask.
Maki also looked horrified, and Zaraki, who was supported by him, became more and more unwilling.
This was supposed to be his opponent, it was supposed to be his battle, his fun, but because of that bastard Szayelaporro, he didn't have an ounce of energy to face Mazuru.
"Byakkun, you can do it!" Yachiru whispered to herself and cheered Byakuya.
Unohana didn't seem surprised by Mazuru's bursting out reiatsu of this level, and her expression remained the same.
Byakuya sighed, "As expected of you…"
He also knew that Mazuru was very powerful, and this was the first time he had confronted Mazuru head-on, or in other words, he never thought that one day he would be on the opposite side against his teacher.
But even if he knew that Mazuru was very strong, he wouldn't be swayed by it.
After Senbonzakura's attack was blocked by Mazuru's reiatsu cover that had condensed around his body, his figure suddenly disappeared, and with the help of Shunpo, he came closer to Mazuru.
The cherry blossoms scattered by Senbonzakura retreated first, and then poured down again, hitting the reiatsu cover around Mazuru's body again and again.
"It's useless."
Mazuru said, and the reiatsu cover around his body suddenly spread with a motion of his palm, and the attacking Senbonzakura scattered immediately, and the he slowly got up from the throne.
Next, before anyone could understand how he moved, he had come to Byakuya's side.
Without even drawing his sword, he just made a hand knife gesture and attacked, but just that made Byakuya feel an unprecedented sense of crisis.
It was too late to recall Senbonzakura back for his defense.
Byakuya could only adjust his body's position as much as possible in a hurry.
*Boom*
Mazuru's hand fell on Byakuya's shoulder, and Byakuya staggered and flew out immediately.
"I taught you your skills, and I know exactly what kind of strength and abilities you have."
Mazuru looked at Byakuya who had flew out and said indifferently.
Byakuya stood up slowly, even though it was just a hand knife, Mazuru's attack made him feel a sharp pain throughout his body.
Even more so, this is Mazuru's mercy.
If he had used his Zanpakuto instead of a hand knife in that attack, it would obviously be a different situation.
It was precisely because of Mazuru's act of mercy that Byakuya was more determined that Mazuru was not hopeless, and he must take Mazuru back to Soul Society.
"Bankai! Senbonzakura Kageyoshi!"
A huge amount of reiatsu burst out from Byakuya's body, and the re-condensed Zanpakuto in his hands fell vertically towards the ground, and then it fell into a ripple within the ground. Countless huge blades rose from the ground behind him, then, like cherry blossoms flying down, the blades broke out at the same time and turned into uncountable pink cherry blossom petals.
No one present thought that Byakuya would directly release his Bankai, but thinking about it carefully, it was a reasonable thing to do.
After all, his opponent was his teacher, Mazuru.
To defeat someone of Mazuru's caliber and bring him back, it was obviously impossible to do by relying on shikai alone.
The uncountable pink cherry blossom petals spread out and swept towards Mazuru like a tsunami.
Facing Byakuya's Bankai, Mazuru finally drew his sword.
In an instant, a sword pressure was slashed out by him, cutting open the sea of pink cherry blossoms.
Before more cherry blossoms came, Mazuru's voice sounded accompanied by a flickering crimson light.
"Eternal sinking, trapped in a thousand catastrophes!"
"Nezā Chi no Kawa!"
Mazuru had released his shikai.
With his shikai's release, a crimson light kike blood filled the air, forming a crimson shield made of threads, blocking the cherry blossoms' attack.
Byakuya who already knew some of Mazuru Zanpakuto's abilities, seeing this scene, no longer used his mind to manipulate those cherry blossom blades, but switched to using his hands to manipulate them.
Manipulating these cherry blossoms with both of his hands might seem to be a lot more cumbersome, but their flying speed would become much faster, and at the same time, he could also unleash more powerful techniques.
"Gōkei (Mawscape) - Senbonzakura Kageyoshi!"
Under his control, the cherry blossom petal-shaped blades quickly multiplied and surrounded Mazuru in a spherical shape, covering an incomparably wide area, and one could feel the extremely powerful sense of oppression just by looking at it.
Then, Byakuya put his hands together, covering Mazuru's surroundings, and the layers of cherry blossoms squeezed and turned towards Mazuru in a way that it became a 360-degree-formation without any dead ends.
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