Byakuya was shocked by Unohana's statement.
Mazuru's strength was extremely strong, his Zankensoki (Cut-Fist-Run-Spirit) were very balanced, all of them being at the top level.
Don't look at the fact that they've already killed Mazuru twice, but that's actually only possible after the 3v1 scenario, plus the unique dissolving factor of Unohana's Bankai.
It was extremely difficult to kill someone like Mazuru more than thirty times.
Byakuya was very aware of his own situation.
After unleashing his Bankai, he launched many large-scale attacks one after another.
His reiatsu had already consumed more than half of its full capacity.
Although he was still in the state of Bankai, most of his power was being spent in keeping and maintaining the vast number of cherry blossoms after using his Bankai, the faster he uses them as blades to restrict Mazuru's movements, the better. He did not dare to use the attack methods like the Shūkei: Hakuteiken at all.
Even so, he estimated that the Bankai-state could not be maintained for too long.
After all, once he released his Bankai, no matter whether he used the large-scale attack method or not, the consumption of reiatsu would be huge.
If his Bankai could not be maintained, could Senbonzakura in its shikai-state alone really limit him?
Byakuya was a little pessimistic about that.
Senbonzakura's speed in its shikai-state was actually not slow at all, but for a person like Mazuru, it really couldn't pose much of a threat.
While having this thoughts, Byakuya thought of another thing.
"Captain Unohana, you killed him thirty-seven times?"
"Captain Kuchiki, you are thinking too much. The reason why I was able to kill him thirty-seven times was that he deliberately gave up his defense in order to learn the different types of swordsmanship from me, just to personally experience my blade!"
Unohana's voice rang in Byakuya's ears.
"Just look at the situation now, after we killed him twice, he had become more alert, and now on, it will only become more and more difficult to hurt him!"
When Byakuya heard these words, his heart sank even more. He did not know at this point that how much his emotions were through rollercoaster that day.
Then, he had to get rid of the distracting thoughts and refocus his attention on the fight.
Because although Unohana already said the worst-case situation, but the action of their hands did not stop because of this, and continued to attack Mazuru with the intention to kill.
No matter how difficult it was, procrastinating until Mazuru was unable to maintain his Bankai was the only way to defeat him.
They have no other choice.
They could only try to continue fighting Mazuru and kill him as many times as possible.
It was said that his limit was more than thirty-seven times, but now Mazuru might not even be able to maintain immortal for thirty-seven times. After all, he had fought against Byakuya before that.
Almost all the people were watching Unohana fight for the first time.
This included Sojiro and Maki. Maki used to be a shinigami of the Eleventh Division, and even though Sojiro wasn't even an official shinigami during his time in Soul Society, but this did not have any effect on their knowledge of Unohana.
The captain of the Fourth Division was a famous and compassionate female shinigami with highest-level of mastery of Kaidō in Soul Society.
No one thought that the sword that used to save people in the hands of the doctor would become so terrifying after changing its form, and what made people even more amazed was her fighting skills.
The techniques showcased by the mastery of blade was phenomenal, it gave a unique sense of both dread and beauty.
In comparison, the attacks of the contemprary Kenpachi, Zaraki, who was famous for his straightforward and overwhelming slashing skills, couldn't be called slashing techniques at all, and he had no skills at all.
He just slashes people with a sword to hack them to death.
If it was an ordinary enemy, he could rely on his own powerful sword pressure that unleashes his monstrous reiatsu and could defeat the enemy in a straightforward manner with pure strength, but it was not enough to face Mazuru.
Mazuru's grasp of timing was really too subtle and precise, he could always see through Zaraki's flaw at the first moment, and then pass through this flaw to give Zaraki a sharp blow.
Although because of Unohana's following attacks, he quickly gives up attacking Zaraki, and then blocks the attacks released by Unohana.
But since Zaraki had started to rush to Mazuru after he revived, he had been injured several times by Mazuru already.
And his sword was only able to leave two insignificant wounds on Mazuru's body, and those wounds had already disappeared with Mazuru's regeneration.
"It seems that the ending is almost settled…"
Watching the battle between Mazuru and Unohana, Byakuya murmured softly. He was utterly unable to participate in the frontal battle in any way, and could only assist others by harassing Mazuru.
On the other hand, Zaraki, was now like a clown being teased by Mazuru. It was painfully obvious that Mazuru didn't even take him seriously.
Only Unohana was capable of dealing damage to him but she alone was not enough to kill him. Their odds of winning were obviously very low.
Sojiro also put away his worries about Mazuru.
He had also heard the previous conversation between Unohana and Byakuya.
Mazuru's own strength was extremely strong, and he still had at least dozens of chances to be resurrected. He really couldn't imagine Mazuru losing with such favorable odds.
It seemed to him that Unohana in the field was the only shinigami who could pose a threat to Mazuru, especially the sword in her hand, which could dissolve the enemy it cuts. It was really a terrible weapon.
But compared to Mazuru's Bankai, Unohana's Bankai seemed to be nothing significant.
Compared with the battle between Mazuru and Unohana, Sojiro had another thing to deal with. He flashed, and suddenly came to Maki, "If I remember correctly, you seem to belong to the Bount's group, but now you choose to betray?"
"Could it be that you can't give up on Soul Society after all this time?"
Sojiro and Maki were not familiar, but they were not completely unfamiliar either.
When Sojiro first came to Las Noches, it was Maki who as a fellow shinigami told him about the situation of Las Noches.
It was only later when some words spoken Maki accidentally pierced the pain points in Sojiro's heart that Sojiro chose to separate from Maki.
Hearing Sojiro's questioning, Maki looked a bit complicated, but still responded, "They saved my life."
"So you chose to help them and bring them here?" Sojiro didn't understand what happened to Maki, but he knew one thing.
"That's really a pity. It seems that your saviors can't hold on for too long."
The reason for saying this was because just now in the frontal clash, Unohana's sword did not hit Mazuru, but Mazuru's sword in turn left a hideous wound on Unohana's body.
*Puff*
Blood spurted out from her body.
Even just looking at it from a distance hurts people psychologically due to the seriousness of the wound.
Even Unohana, who was the only one who could pose a threat to Mazuru, was gravely injured. How long could the rest, such as Zaraki, a reckless man, and Byakuya, who was not already close to being completely exhausted, last?
"Ken-chan will not lose!"
Yachiru, who was listening to the conversation between Sojiro and Maki Ichinose, suddenly spoke with great determination.
She had confidence in Zaraki.
She didn't explain why she had confidence but from her face, she was sure of it. Then, she looked at Sojiro, and asked a thing that both Byakuya and Unohana had in their minds but couldn't voice it because of the circumstances, "The Zanpakuto in your hand is Hyōrinmaru, right?"
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