Yamabuki lightly jumped into the Underground Training Ground, only to find it pitch black. Who turned off the lights?
As soon as he landed, Yamabuki felt something sticky and soft under his feet. That sensation was very uncomfortable.
He quickly kicked it, and those things scattered. At the same time, his face felt itchy. He reached out and squeezed, killing an insect, though in the darkness, he didn't know what kind it was.
What exactly was Spirit Form, that brat, up to? Yamabuki frowned. Just then, the door at the top of the Training Ground opened, and Spirit Form's voice came through.
"Yamabuki, we share common memories. I know best what you're most afraid of. Do you remember that big centipede that fell on your face when you were taking a nap at Grandma's house as a child?"
Of course, Yamabuki remembered. When he was a child, he went to his grandmother's house in the countryside. It was a scorching summer day, and Yamabuki was lying on the heated brick bed taking a nap when a twenty-centimeter-long centipede fell directly from the wall, landing squarely on the face of the then six-year-old Yamabuki.
That was a lifelong psychological trauma. From then on, he would avoid any multi-legged insects.
As for snakes, which had no legs, Yamabuki at most felt disgusted and would just chop them to death. But facing a dense mass of centipedes covered in legs, that was a fear from the bottom of his heart. Wait, what kind of insect did I just squeeze to death? Yamabuki vaguely felt that something wasn't quite right. He stiffly touched the insect's blood on his face, but his strength just now was too great, directly crushing the insect into a pulp. At this point, it was impossible to tell what it was.
Spirit Form continued from above: "Remember, to control the power of a Hollow, you must always remain calm and not let negative emotions take over. Go for it, I believe in you! Oh, and don't say I didn't help you; I'm lending you my pumpkin lamp. Remember to give it back to me later."
Spirit Form dropped her beloved pumpkin lamp from above. Yamabuki quickly reached out and caught it. Then, the door closed.
Yamabuki raised the pumpkin lamp and shone it around, instantly getting goosebumps all over his body. He saw the ground of the Training Ground was densely covered with centipedes a foot long, layer upon layer, easily half a foot high. He was standing on who knew how many centipedes. Not only the ground, but also the walls and ceiling were covered with centipedes of all sizes and types. A chill shot directly from Yamabuki's tailbone straight to the top of his head.
How strong a person is and whether he is afraid are completely different matters. A human's strength is far greater than a cockroach's, but how many ladies scream in terror upon seeing one? Everyone has their weaknesses, and Yamabuki is no exception. Centipedes are what he fears, and now, the entire Training Ground had become an ocean of them. Yamabuki felt his sanity rapidly evaporating.
Plop!
A fat centipede dropped onto Yamabuki's face. This was the final straw that broke the camel's back.
"Ah ah ah!!! Goryutenmetsu!!!"
Right now, he had completely forgotten to question where Spirit Form found so many centipedes. There was only one thought left in his mind: wipe out all these insects!
With one Goryutenmetsu, a massive number of centipedes turned to dust. After unleashing the powerful Kidō, Yamabuki quickly patted his clothes, afraid that centipedes might crawl into them.
Unbeknownst to him, after he used Goryutenmetsu to eliminate a large number of centipedes, Saizō Sakahone above chuckled and poured down even more centipedes, then high-fived Spirit Form.
Let this kid learn what it means to respect the old and cherish the young. See if I don't screw him over.
Opportunities for open revenge were rare, and Saizō Sakahone seized this chance perfectly.
Yamabuki had just managed to eliminate a wave of centipedes when he suddenly felt an itch on his neck. He reached up and touched it—a fat centipede was leisurely crawling on his neck!
"..." Yamabuki felt his sanity had turned to ashes. The light of the pumpkin lamp provided him with what little sense of security he had.
The unseen darkness was filled with the rustling sounds of crawling insects. Yamabuki trembled all over as more and more centipedes dropped onto him from the ceiling.
When his sanity broke down, the power of the Hollow hidden within his body was activated. White liquid began to ooze from his eyes, nose, ears, and even his mouth. These liquids condensed on Yamabuki's face, forming a bizarre mask.
Vollständig!
The violent spiritual pressure erupted, directly crushing all the nearby centipedes to death. Then, in the Training Ground, he desperately launched Ceros. After entering the Hollowfied state, he had no intelligence, acting entirely on instinct, bombarding the centipedes wildly. Infinite Ceros swept from east to west, as if spiritual pressure was free.
While he was completely rampaging, all the Captains of the Gotei 13 were alerted. In the eyes of outsiders, a Hollow with strength far exceeding that of a Captain had suddenly appeared in Seireitei. This was a major event, and even Captain-Commander Yamamoto was dispatched.
Within two minutes, all the Captains had gathered at Yamabuki's doorstep.
"What happened?" Chika Shihōin asked.
Batsu'unsai Katori knew that Yamabuki must have Hollowfied again, so she activated her Bankai in advance. This was the Soul Society, and the Captain Commander was right there, so she wasn't worried about Yamabuki causing any trouble.
Upon entering the room, Yachiru Unohana looked helpless. Why did everyone come?
Spirit Form, smiling, explained the current situation.
Captain-Commander Yamamoto's expression was very strange: "So, this kid Yamabuki was scared into Hollowfication by a group of centipedes?"
"Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm!" Spirit Form nodded obediently.
Yamamoto sighed: "What an immature kid. I'll go down and subdue him."
Yamamoto jumped down without a word. Instantly, the violent, scorching spiritual pressure incinerated all the centipedes.
Yamabuki, after Hollowfication, also felt the threat and glared fiercely at Captain-Commander Yamamoto.
The Captain Commander plunged his sword into the ground: "Fighting you with a sword is bullying you. Come on, Old Man, I'll spar with you empty-handed!"
Yamabuki roared and charged forward. Who are you looking down on?
Unohana and Katori, who had seen Yamabuki's Hollowfication, were both worried about the Captain Commander. Yamabuki's strength after Hollowfication was not weak. Was the Captain Commander being too overconfident?
However, in the next second, Yamamoto grabbed Yamabuki's head and slammed him to the ground, then straddled him and gave him a good beating.
Yamabuki was beaten until he was crouching with his head in his hands, completely unable to resist, and was forced out of his Hollowfied state.
The Captain Commander is awesome.
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