Chapter 220: Combat Readiness

My exams are near, so I am tight on schedule. Sorry about this.

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In Karakura Town, such a vicious incident happened, it naturally attracted the attention of the substitute shinigami, Kurosaki Ichigo.

Even though the hollow in his body made him feel troubled and annoyed all this time, but Karakura Town was his hometown after all, how could he tolerate hollows destroying his home and do nothing.

After Yammy performed the "Soul Absorption", ordinary people around him died one after another. After sensing such a huge movement, Ichigo rushed towards that place quickly.

Yammy also seemed to have sensed Ichigo's approaching reiatsu.

When he came to the world of living earlier, he wanted to test Ichigo's strength but was blocked by Mazuru. In the end, it was Ulquiorra who completed the task, which made him a little depressed. Now that he came to the world of living again, even though Ichigo's strength had been tested by Ulquiorra earlier, and he concluded that it was "not worth enough to worry about", but if he encountered him, he would not mind fighting with the opponent to have some fun.

Even more so, Yammy gave birth to some other ideas.

For example, since Ichigo is "not worth wnough to worry about", could he kill him?

While Yammy was waiting, Ichigo had already arrived nearby.

"It's you!"

Ichigo looked at Yammy, and immediately recognized that it was the same arrancar from that day, and then he noticed the human beings lying on the ground with no breath all around him.

"What did you do to them?" 

"What did I do? Of course I ate their souls as food." Yammy grinned and responded calmly, "To be honest, their souls are not tasty at all. I really want to know how your soul tastes. It should be delicious."

Yammy looked at Ichigo expectantly.

Ichigo immediately became even angrier, he waved Zangetsu without any hesitation.

"Getsuga Tensho!"

A crescent-shaped slash flew out, sweeping towards Yammy.

Yammy snorted, opened his mouth slightly, and in an instant, several Bala (Spanish for "Bullet", Japanese for "Hollow Bullet") flew out, defeating the attack sent out by Ichigo.

"Cero?"

Ichigo was taken aback, 'No, it is much faster than Cero.'

Since Ichigo had never seen an attack that was less powerful than Cero but faster than it, he had no time to think about what kind of attack it was. Yammy spat out several Bala flying towards him, and Ichigo immediately swung Zangetsu several times and sent out several Getsuga Tensho to collide with Yammy's Bala.

At the same time, he turned around and quickly approached Yammy, and Zangetsu was swung by him at Yammy. However, when Zangetsu landed on Yammy's body, Ichigo felt like he was slashing on steel. In the past, there was no such thing on the hollows that he encountered in the past, and they were torn apart by Zangetsu.

"What the hell?!"

While Ichigo was startled, Yammy turned his head to look at him, and another Bala was released by him.

Ichigo hurriedly dodged, but the speed of the attack was too fast, and it still grazed his body, causing him serious injuried.

He stepped back, and blood dripped down his body. 

Yammy looked at him indifferently, "Sure enough, I shouldn't have expected anything from you."

Ichigo gritted his teeth. Originally, he was afraid to use his power too much, but now, facing Yammy's tyranny, he could no longer afford to hold back any longer, "Bankai——"

The black reiatsu soared into the sky, wrapping his body in an instant, and when the reiatsu spread out, the Shihakusho on his body also changed into a black tight-fitting shirt, and Zangetsu, which looked like a big kitchen knife in his hand, also changed into a slender black Zanpakuto.

After using his Bankai, Ichigo's speed had been greatly improved. His figure flashed, bringing out an afterimage, and came to Yammy in an instant. Even if Yammy avoided his Shunpo, Tensa Zangetsu in Ichigo's hand still fell on his Hierro and it was was torn apart, leaving a long and thin wound on his body and blood spurted out from the wound. Feeling the pain in the body, Yammy became extremely angry.

"Ahhhhhh!!!"

"A mere worm, how dare you hurt me?!"

He opened his mouth, and a series of Bala were released by him, Ichigo avoided them instantly. After using his Bankai, no matter how fast the Bala were, he was not afraid.

However, suddenly, his movements suddenly froze along with his expression. He felt that in his body, another force began to riot, vying for the dominance over his body.

"No… not now"

This moment of stagnation gave Yammy an opportunity.

Two Bala hit him immediately, causing him another round of serious injuries. It was also because of this attack that Ichigo no longer had the consciousness to suppress the hollow powers in his body. A white mask appeared on his face, and in his reiatsu, hollow reiatsu also appeared.

Ichigo was about to go berserk, and at that same moment, a barrier appeared over Ichigo's body, restraining him.

A few more figures appeared around, and one of them, was a man with yellow hair reaching his ears. He opened his mouth, showing an exaggerated smile, and couldn't help but complain, "Really, you know for a fact that the hollow power in your body will go berserk, but you are still going on fighting all the time. Haven't you made up your mind?"

The man was Hirako Shinji, and there were several other figures beside him, which were the Visored.

Yammy was about to deal the final blow to Ichigo, when he suddenly noticed a few more figures appeared, stunning him, and then he brazenly launched an attack on the Visored.

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Soul Society.

A captain's meeting was taking place.

In the meeting room of the First Division, Head-captain Yamamoto spoke very seriously.

"It is already clear. Aizen Sosuke and his gang escaped to Hueco Mundo and used some means to make Menos Grande evolve into arrancars and this will be a huge disaster for the Soul Society!"

"Therefore, I hereby officially announce that from now on, Seireitei will enter a state of combat readiness! All members of the Gotei 13 are allowed to liberate Zanpakuto at any sign of the enemy!!"

During the earlier Zanpakuto rebellion, the First and Tenth Division teamed up to issue the highest warning and allowed the shinigami to liberate their Zanpakuto at any time, but that was a special case after all.

But right now, after discovering the existence of arrancar and the power of arrancar, Yamamoto immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

Especially through the observation of the Twelfth Division, he learned what happened in the world of living.

Arrancar, the new type of Menos Grande, were much more difficult than the normal Menos Grande.

It was first announced that they had entered a state of wartime, and immediately, Yamamoto issued another order.

"Because of the arrancar's attack on the world of living, Kyo Mazuru, the captain of the Third Division, is now appointed to lead Matsumoto Rangiku, Madarame Ikkaku, Ayasegawa Yumichika, Abarai Renji and Kuchiki Rukia to the world of living and station there to fight against future invasions by the arrancars!"

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