Chapter 14

Kisuke, the members of the 2nd Division, and the guards of the 5 Nobles Families gathered outside of the entrance to the Central 46 Compound. Because of the large walls and lake of water surrounding the facility, the only way to gain access to it was by getting through the front gate and crossing a large bridge.

And thanks to the invaders and traitors needing to centralize their forces before attacking the facility, it gave Kisuke enough time to form a defensive perimeter.

"Commander Urahara. All the forces are in place as you have ordered and the barriers are set up. We have also torn down the outer roofs to create barricades that can keep us from getting sniped by the Quincies."

A member of the 2nd Division walked up to Kisuke and informed him.

Kisuke nodded while reading the reports of the invaders and his forces. His brows frowned as he saw the number disparity.

'They have about double our numbers. Also, among the rebels are quite a few officers and a couple of former lieutenants. Adding in the leaders of the Quincies and we don't know how many of them have those last-resort gloves, this is looking very bad for us. Looks like I may need to go all out if backup doesn't get here in time.'

Just as Kisuke was deciding whether or not he wanted to expose that he was truly qualified to become a captain or not, he saw the first volley of energy arrows coming his way.

'We will think about that later. Let's just try to survive for now!'

Kisuke drew his katana before charging to the frontlines, ahead of every other shinigami and into the hail of arrows. With only a few swings, he was able to cut down every arrow that neared him until he was too close to the traitorous shinigami for the Quincies to continue firing.

"Awaken, Benehime!"

Kisuke's katana transformed into a sleek, medium-sized sword. The hilt's grip, which has a gentle black-decorative wrapping, bent forward at the end, with a pommel-shaped overlap three times, and a crimson tassel dangling from its base. Instead of a tsuba, there was a U-shape guard covering three inches of the blade, with a flower petal design. At the base of the guard was a red string wrapped thrice around the hilt, with a three-loop bow on the back side and a folded paper decoration on the front side. The blades' hamon was straight, colored black with a silver edge.

"Nake, Benehime!"

Kisuke stab his sword into the ground before slashing forward with it, unleashing a wave of red energy that cut through dozens of shinigami before it ran out of energy.

Many of the traitors looked at the path that Kisuke had just carved for a moment but when they did, the man dove in and began cutting apart shinigami.

Mr. Hyde was let loose.

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Beneath the 1st Division, a few dozen men and women were killing every guard that came before them. These shinigami may have been members of the 1st Division and experts, the prisoners of the 1st floor of the Central Prison were not to be underestimated either. They had numbers and experience on their sides.

Those that were part of the first floor of the Central Prison were former officers that had shown signs of betraying Soul Society. Even without their zanpakuto, they were deadly combatants.

At first, they were only able to kill a few guards. But after taking the zanpakuto of each guard they killed, the fight became more and more on the prisoners' side.

When Kukaku arrived with her Demolition Corps, the last of the guards had just been killed or beaten down while some of the prisoners had been able to turn the dead guards' zanpakuto into their own and had already unleashed their shikai.

Seeing that the situation was already so dire, Kukaku did not hesitate to bring out her own shikai.

"Katsu, Leonhart!"

Kukaku's sword transformed from a small tanto into a sword with a revolver chamber, which serves as the hilt for the blade. The blade and revolver portion of the blade were pure silver in color while the handle of the blade was black. It had a small chain connected to the end of the handle that was only a few inches in length.

Kukaku raised her gunblade and pointed the tip at the prisoners before pulling the trigger. A red symbol appeared on the chest of one of the prisoners appeared before detonating and sending them backward.

After their body landed on the floor and the smoke cleared, one could see a giant hole in the charred remains of the escapee.

Kukaku aimed the gun and pulled the trigger 5 more times, killing another 5 prisoners before the blade started emitting steam from its tip for a few moments. Once the steam went away, Kukaku fired 6 more times as the prisoners were still confused. All of her shots were precise as she aimed for each of the prisoners that had managed to get a zanpakuto and awaken it.

By the time she was done with her second volley, only a single one of the escapees had a shikai awakened while the rest had normal zanpakuto.

The other members of the Demolition Corps were standing in a line on both sides of Kukaku with various hado spells ready to kill as many of the prisoners as they could in a single blast.

"I am not in the fucking mood today! So either you get down on your knees this very second or I'm blowing your fucking heads off!"

One prisoner hurried to pick up a guard and held a blade to his throat.

"Stop there, you bitch! I'll kill this..."

The man ended up having his face blown off with the explosion also killing the guard he had just taken hostage.

"You have till I reach 2, motherfuckers! And I'm skipping 1!"