"No!"
Seeing her own doll killed by Kariya Jin, Soma Yoshino cried out in pain and immediately rushed over, embracing Getter's lifeless body.
The next moment, a strange scene unfolded: the fiery doll Getter's corpse actually merged with Soma Yoshino.
In an instant, the flames surged, and Soma Yoshino transformed entirely into a slender, fiery human.
"Whoosh!"
Having become a fiery human, Soma Yoshino's speed suddenly surged, and two ferocious fire snakes condensed between her palms, striking towards Kariya Jin.
"Die, Kariya Jin!"
Soma Yoshino's voice, filled with rage, rang out.
Two massive fire snakes, like living creatures, charged at Kariya Jin, directly sending him flying dozens of feet.
"Bang!"
The raging fire snakes devastated the pier behind them, turning it into a pile of rubble, with thick smoke drifting above the ruins.
"Hahaha, yes, this is the power, Yoshino! I knew you had this potential!"
From the rubble, Kariya Jin laughed as he stood up, dusting off his clothes.
At this moment, Soma Yoshino, who had merged with her own doll, was somewhat incredulous. She hadn't expected that her full-strength attack wouldn't even break Kariya Jin's defense.
"Whoosh!"
Kariya Jin concentrated the power of the invisible windstorm between his feet, and in an instant, he appeared behind Soma Yoshino at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.
"Pfft!"
An invisible storm swirled around his right palm, and he directly used his hand as a blade, piercing through Soma Yoshino's chest.
"Yoshino, did you think you were the only one who could merge with a doll? I achieved this hundreds of years ago."
Soma Yoshino, now transformed into a fiery human, looked down at the bloody hole in her abdomen and let out an unwilling roar.
"Kariya Jin!"
Then, the flames around her body instantly surged, and Soma Yoshino, now a fiery human, continued to increase in temperature, then she unexpectedly embraced Kariya Jin around the waist.
"Let's go to destruction together!"
Soma Yoshino held Kariya Jin like that, pushing the power of her flames to their limit. She intended to self-destruct here and perish with her former lover, Kariya Jin, thereby ending this entangled, ill-fated relationship of several hundred years.
"I won't die until I've completely destroyed Soul Society!"
Kariya Jin's eyes were cold.
Suddenly, a steel object resembling a bellows appeared on his right arm—it was his doll, Mesa. A wind blade instantly shot out from the end of the steel pipe, directly piercing Soma Yoshino again.
The flames on Soma Yoshino's body were directly scattered by this strike. A large amount of blood flowed from the wound in her abdomen.
The next moment, a Hollow mask appeared on Kariya Jin's face, clearly indicating that he had fully mastered the Hollowfication ability.
"Gak!"
To the shock of the Bounts present, Kariya Jin bit into Soma Yoshino's pale neck and then, like a Menos Grande devouring a soul, completely consumed Soma Yoshino until not even a speck remained.
"This Hollowfication ability is truly useful, Yoshino! I can feel your power!"
After absorbing Soma Yoshino, a look of madness appeared on Kariya Jin's face.
Seeing Kariya Jin so brutal as to directly devour Soma Yoshino, Udagawa Ryo couldn't help but swallow hard.
"Kariya Jin has gone mad!"
After being absolutely crushed by Szayelaporro's strength, Udagawa Ryo had clearly realized his own weakness; with their power, they simply couldn't overthrow Soul Society.
The reason Kariya Jin still had the confidence to lead them in revenge was merely to use the power of the Barrier Seal to turn each of them into spiritual particle-absorbing bombs, achieving mutual destruction with Soul Society!
In other words, no matter what, their campaign against Soul Society would only lead to their deaths.
Although Udagawa Ryo had lived for several hundred years, he still hadn't lived enough. As long as he didn't want to die, he could continue to live. After all, Bounts could live forever as long as they continuously absorbed souls. Rather than running to Soul Society to die, it was better to hide in the Human World and live a long, free life.
Having seen the truth, Udagawa Ryo immediately prepared to slip away.
"Udagawa, where are you going?"
Unexpectedly, his small movement was immediately noticed by Kariya Jin.
"Whoosh!"
In an instant, a wall of flames rose, blocking Udagawa Ryo's retreat.
"Kariya Jin has gone mad! Do you really think this lunatic can lead you to destroy Soul Society? He's taking you all to your deaths! He even killed Soma Yoshino; why would he care about you? Why don't we join forces and kill him? How about we share his soul?"
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Udagawa Ryo tried to persuade the other Bounts to join him against Kariya Jin. Unexpectedly, the Bounts ignored his impassioned speech, instead showing expressions of disdain.
"We've lived too long; it's time to settle things with Soul Society!"
Koga Go, standing nearby, glanced at Udagawa Ryo, who looked like a clown, and spoke calmly.
"Mad, you're all mad!"
Udagawa Ryo waved the snake whip in his hand, transforming the surrounding dirt, rocks, and wood chips into pythons, which lunged towards Kariya Jin. He then took this opportunity to flee for his life.
Unfortunately, these pythons were instantly scattered by a hurricane conjured by Kariya Jin's wave of a hand. Udagawa Ryo hadn't even taken two steps before he was hit directly by a pillar of fire rising from the ground.
"Ah!"
Udagawa Ryo instantly burst into flames, turning into a fire person, rolling on the ground in pain.
"Yoshino, your power is truly amazing!"
Clearly, Kariya Jin was very satisfied with the power of the flames.
"Whoosh!"
Ichinose Maki, who was behind Kariya Jin, suddenly rushed out and beheaded Udagawa Ryo, who had become a fire person.
"Clap, clap, clap!"
"What a fine show of internal strife!"
Kurosaki Hiro clapped his hands as he emerged from the shadows.
Kariya Jin merely snorted in response.
"Hmph, you're late!"
Facing Kariya Jin's rebuke, Kurosaki Hiro simply chuckled. He didn't need to waste words on a bunch of expendables.
"Don't rush, the timing is just right now!"
Meanwhile, in Hueco Mundo, somewhere in the Great Hollow Forest.
Wonderweiss looked at the hundreds of spatial rifts that had suddenly appeared before him, then turned to the one-eyed giant Arrancar behind him and said:
"Fleur, spit out more!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the gigantic Arrancar behind him, whose body was comparable to a mountain, immediately spewed out countless miscellaneous Hollows from his mouth, including many Gillians, continuously feeding them in batches into the spatial rifts before them.
At the same time, hundreds of Hueco Mundo mouths opened in various parts of Soul Society, and countless miscellaneous Hollows, mixed with a small number of Gillians, appeared simultaneously in various locations throughout Soul Society.
This was the opportunity Kurosaki Hiro had been waiting for. Due to spatial turbulence, certain areas between Hueco Mundo and Soul Society would intersect every few hundred years.
At that time, the spatial barrier between Hueco Mundo and Soul Society would become extremely thin. Many temporary passages would even appear.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he first used these temporary passages to deploy a large number of miscellaneous Hollows throughout Soul Society to distract the Gotei 13.
These temporary passages were extremely unstable; only one in ten of the miscellaneous Hollows sent through would reach Soul Society, with most dying in the spatial turbulence.
Fortunately, Hueco Mundo had no shortage of these low-level Hollows; there were as many as he wanted!
Three years ago, after Szayelaporro sent Kariya Jin the Hollowfication ability, Kurosaki Hiro made contact with Kariya Jin.
The two hit it off immediately. Kurosaki Hiro promised to help him open a Senkaimon at a specific time to enter Soul Society together. What Kariya Jin had to do was to escalate the situation and stir up trouble.
In fact, Kurosaki Hiro's contributions were indispensable to Kariya Jin's ability to fully master Hollowfication within just three short years.
Kariya Jin's doll, Mesa, also had wind properties. Originally, Kariya Jin's strength was on par with that of his cheap old man, Kurosaki Tomohiko, who had mastered Vollständig.
However, with the added benefit of Hollowfication and having just absorbed Soma Yoshino's power, Kurosaki Hiro estimated that his current strength was at least that of a Twelfth Division Captain.
It was naturally impossible to expect this group of weaklings to destroy Soul Society, but they were more than enough to serve as targets to draw fire!
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