248. One by One

The other Sternritters stood stupified. Their face grew grave seeing another one of them down, and this happened after they got into battle mode.

" Hey Bambeitta, who the hell is this guy? "

" Coyote Stark, an Arrancar."

" Bullshit!! We killed off many of those trash, none of them were this scary."

While speaking they lost sight of Stark again.

Bang!

Their body went stiff and turned around mechanically. Stark stood near a woman's body, like the other two Sternritters her head was also blast open.

" Lily!! Bastard!! I am gonna kill ya!! "

Bambeitta's reishi went nuts, dozens of swords made of reishi emerged around her. Her body was also cloaked by reishi, to protect from Stark's attacks.

" Die! "

Swords rained down on Stark, but..... she lost sight of him!

Her heart went cold, without even trying to search for him she dodged from where she stood.

Flying above the Soul Society she tried to spot him only to be greeted by the sight of terror from other Sternritters!

" Idiot! Move! "

Sweat trickled down her face, she felt someone behind her. Those cold eyes made her shiver, don't know whether it was due to instinct or not her reishi flared, trying to injure Stark.

Stark was covered by a hail of reishi weapons.

Bambeitta was breathing heavily, in that instant she had used a great deal of Reishi. She retreated towards the others but.....

Bang!

The others watched as Bambeitta's head got blast open like a watermelon. Her body fell down with a loud thud.

Gulp!

For the first time since they invaded Soul Society they felt fear, fear of death.

They now understand what despair meant, to not even have the ability to defend for a single second, to not even be able to scratch your opponent.

Stark emerged from the Reishi storm, not a speck of dirt was on his body. His eyes stared at the remaining Sternritters.

" What kind of monster did the Soul Society release? "

Giselle, an elite among Sternritters asked. Even he didn't have the confidence to live facing such a monster.

" Stark.... an Arrancar? Was he this strong? Or are we missing something? "

The Quincies have no idea about Ryu nor his friends. Also the news about Stark leaving with Ryu wasn't widely known so they had no idea how strong Stark was.

" Anyway, that guy's eyes are creepy. Did we kill someone close to him? "

" Probably... nope, that's definitely it."

" Sh*t! He is gone again! "

The remaining Sternritters stood back to back, that way they can atleast identify his direction of attack.

Bazz B suddenly yelled.

" Get down! "

Stark was now standing Infront of Meninas, his gun pointed to her head.

Meninas found herself unable to move, she could only state at death stand before her.

" I don't want to die! I don't want to die!! Help me!! "

Bang!

He pulled the trigger.

Thud!

Another one dead. The other Sternritter took this chance and attacked.

" Burner Finger Number One!! "

Flames danced around Bazz B as he pointed his right index finger at Stark.

At the same time, Giselle held a bow made of Reishi and fired at Stark.

Stark seemed to vanish from their sights whenever he moved, like a ghost he appeared right infront of Bazz B who was covered in flames.

His gun was already pointed at Bazz B's wrist.

Bang!

" Aaaaahhhhh...

A wretched wail rang through the field. The Sternritters watched in fear as Stark stood beside Bazz B.

Bazz B looked at his arm which lacked a palm. Blood dripped down like a small waterfall forming a puddle beneath him.

Stark held his gun to his head, and without hesitation.

Bang!

Bazz B fell down, dead.

Sternritters remaining, one.

Shunsui and other Captains witnessed what was happening. All of them showed a stunned expression.

" Do you still take in people? "

Shunsui suddenly asked.

" Nope. The number is set."

" Lucky him."

" Haha, Shunsui this is good."

Jushiro laughed out loud and patted Shunsui's shoulder. He then turned to Ryu and asked

" Can you heal Head Captain? "

" Hmm, yes. Let's go."

Ryu had already sensed Yamamoto's condition when he stepped inside Soul Society. He went ahead along others to where Yamamoto was but Kenpachi stayed behind.

" Kenpachi, come with me. There will be opponents for you but not here."

" Che! He went crazy and killed them all."

" Let's go Kenny. The stronger ones should be up there."

Yachiru pointed up, Kenpachi grinned and left with Ryu.

" You can't still be thinking about stealing one under him right? "

Kenpachi grinned, he got down and disappeared.

Stark looked at the last Sternritter.

Giselle was petrified, she didn't think all of them would be killed this easily. What was laughable was that Stark didn't even seem to look at them like enemies rather... bugs to be squashed.

Bang!

Giselle's head disappeared with that sound. Stark put down Los Lobos, he took a deep breath and disappeared.

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4th Division....

Ryu stood beside a bed, a worn out bloodied body laid before him. That last wisp of his life could go out at any second.

" Yamamoto... you took my warning but still you couldn't realise it's true purpose until the last second."