Chapter 158: Veteran Captains Fighting Side By Side
Yadoumaru Lisa held the flat blade in one hand, looked toward Starrk's position vigorously and said to the people beside her: "Pay attention to cover me. This guy is scary!"
"Be careful of his attacks!"
Love Aikawa and Muguruma Kensei frowned and pulled out their fighting spirit.
"You guys are so long-winded!" After Yadoumaru Lisa finished speaking, she appeared a hundred meters away in the blink of an eye. She held the spear's handle with one hand and pressed her other hand against the bottom of the flat blade, shouting: "Wind-Splitting Kill!"
The blade of Tekken Tsuchinanako transformed into a flat blade that split into several pieces. Under Yadoumaru Lisa's fierce push, all the surrounding air was cut open, turning into violent wind blades—extremely sharp.
"Are you similar to Arrancar?"
Seeing the masked Yadoumaru Lisa approaching, Starrk asked first. But Yadoumaru Lisa didn't reply to Starrk, instead continuing to attack him.
Facing the metal wind blade that had already reached him, Starrk didn't dodge but said to himself: "Don't want to answer? That's fine. Then please be quiet for a while."
In Yadoumaru Lisa's sight, Starrk before her just slightly raised his left hand, then slowly spread his five fingers. At that moment, she only felt the pressure around her increase sharply, and an invisible presence seemed to envelop her.
BOOM!!
With Starrk's hand swaying down, a blue beam of light emerged from the ground, engulfing Yadoumaru Lisa's delicate body instantly. There was no time to dodge or react—just like with Kyoraku before, enemies locked onto by Starrk's sight experienced brief spiritual paralysis.
"Lisa-chan!!"
"Lisa!!"
The moment Starrk shot, Kyoraku, Kensei and the others saw that the flat blade in Yadoumaru Lisa's hand had been broken, and the mask on her face disappeared immediately. Her entire body seemed crushed by gravity, blood spreading all over as she fell feebly to the ground.
Whoosh!
Kyoraku used multiple Shunpo to reach Yadoumaru Lisa and embrace her. His eyes were filled with unspeakable distress. Blood soon soaked through his death god uniform. He had to place Lisa on a safer rooftop before turning back to the battlefield.
"How is it? Is Lisa okay?" Love Aikawa asked.
"Don't worry, it's not life-threatening, but urgent treatment is needed." Kyoraku lowered his head and said in a muffled voice.
"I asked Hirako to take her away from here. I found out just now that there seemed to be a few familiar Reiatsu outside this barrier pillar." After Love Aikawa finished speaking, he left, leaving only Muguruma Kensei and Kyoraku to face Starrk.
"Don't worry. I didn't do anything terrible to that little girl. I just think letting a young woman like her test me made me a little angry."
"How about it, Mr. Captain? Is it time for me to meet... your Bankai?"
Starrk gradually approached the two, his right hand slowly opening as a pistol transformed by Reiatsu appeared in his hand again.
"I can't help it, so I'll go first!"
The situation was critical. Muguruma Kensei threw the hat on his head toward his feet, then a short sword with a ring appeared in his hand: "Bankai..."
At this time, subtle wind began appearing around Muguruma Kensei, quickly converging toward him.
"Tekken Tachikaze!"
With the completion of Muguruma Kensei's chanting, numerous whirlwinds emerged around his body. Holding a serrated knuckle duster in each hand, his arms were wrapped by armor connected behind his back, which was also covered with armor.
After completing Bankai, Muguruma Kensei, with blue veins exposed on his forehead, jumped above Starrk's head and slammed down toward him: "Kazaguruma!"
The knuckles in Muguruma Kensei's hands smashed through the air. With a muffled explosion sound, several huge hurricanes hit Starrk directly.
Starrk was about to dodge when a man with an afro holding a mace appeared behind him: "Sorry, the situation forced it. You can't blame me!"
After handing Yadoumaru Lisa to Hirako Shinji, Love Aikawa after Shikai seized the opportunity to quickly appear behind Starrk.
"Hifuki no Kozuchi!"
The flaming mace ruthlessly swung toward Starrk's back. In a panic, Starrk couldn't dodge, so he hastily blocked the blow with the spear in his hand.
BOOM!
After the mace hit the spear in Starrk's hand, the attack didn't stop. Love Aikawa suddenly retreated rapidly, and the spear in Starrk's hand was smashed with a gap at some point—the gap was covered with red magma.
"Burst, Tengumaru!"
With Love Aikawa's angry shout, red magma appeared in the air and covered Starrk. Immediately afterward, the hurricane shot by Muguruma Kensei also quickly converged, directly forming a hurricane eye that trapped Starrk within.
BOOM!!
A violent sonic boom immediately sounded in the air. Kyoraku, Muguruma Kensei, and Love Aikawa also took the opportunity to regroup.
"Hirako took Yadoumaru Lisa out. You don't have to worry. Just don't know if our attack will work against this Arrancar."
Love Aikawa carried the mace on his shoulders, his eyes fixed on the explosion's center.
"Hmph, no matter what kind of monster he is, give me a few more punches, and I'll see how long he can last!"
Muguruma Kensei snorted coldly, clenched his fists tightly, and said unconvinced.
While the two were chatting, Kyoraku suddenly sensed something was wrong. Just about to say something, a thunderous blue ball of light flew out of the explosion's smoke and dust at extreme speed, directly hitting the three unsuspecting fighters.
As the air was once again covered by white light for a few seconds, Starrk waved his spear lightly, breaking up the air's smoke and appearing in everyone's sight.
"That was really dangerous!"
"I... almost let you guys... succeed!"
"Cough cough, what are you talking about? Aren't you... unscathed?"
On the other side, the three people counterattacked by Starrk showed their figures in a very embarrassing way in the smoke and dust.
Looking at the disheveled Kyoraku trio, Starrk took a deep breath, then exhaled again: "Really... I wanted to meet your Bankai, Mr. Captain, but you kept holding back and saying nothing. It really disappoints me!"
"Wolves Break!"
After the words fell, Starrk's eyes froze, and terrifying killing intent erupted from his body. The long spear in his hand was lifted up again and thrown toward Kyoraku.
However, to Starrk's astonishment, the direction he threw was in the opposite direction—the long spear he just threw was shooting toward Baraggan, who was fighting with Soi-Fon.
"Damn it!"
Starrk, who had no time to stop all this, could only watch helplessly as his attack detonated where Baraggan was.
At this moment, a man with short yellow hair and a knife handle twirling on one finger was walking toward Starrk while standing upside down with a smile on his face.
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