Chapter 659 Battle of The Show-Offs

He stepped forward, signaling Tosen and Gin to withdraw.

Then, Aizen slowly drew the Zanpakuto from his waist.

"Then pardon my rudeness."

The moment the words left his mouth and the blade was fully drawn, Aizen's left hand suddenly rose.

"Hado #88, Hiryu Gekizoku Shinten Raiho!"

He opened with an advanced #88 Kido.

A violent thunder cannon erupted from his palm, instantly flooding the entire plaza with a blinding golden light.

The lightning pillar, carrying devastating Reiatsu, surged toward Makoto's direction. It didn't just target him alone, but also covered Nel, Psykos, and the others beside him within its attack range.

Its power was far beyond an ordinary Tailed Beast Bomb. The mere aftershock caused the surfaces of the stone pillars on either side of the plaza to crack.

But in the face of this thunder cannon, capable of reducing a mountain to dust, Makoto's subordinates remained completely unruffled.

This reaction filled Gin and Tosen behind Aizen with confusion.

'Weren't they afraid at all?'

And the next moment, Makoto gave them the answer.

The chainsaws on his arms simultaneously erupted with a deafening roar. The three chainsaws spun at high speed, tracing three cold arcs as he moved.

Instantly, that #88 Kido, capable of pulverizing a mountain, was split in two from the middle and dissipated in the next second.

As if it had never existed at all.

'What kind of ability was that?!'

Not just Gin and Tosen, but even Aizen's eyes behind his black-rimmed glasses showed genuine surprise for the first time.

He had been secretly collecting the souls of Shinigami and researching Hollow structure and evolution rules.

He naturally knew that Hollows, upon evolving, often awakened various unique abilities, much like Shinigami awakening Zanpakuto.

But an ability that could make his #88 Kido vanish into thin air... this was his first time seeing such a thing.

"Quite an interesting ability."

As soon as he finished speaking, Aizen attacked again.

This time, he simultaneously released Hado #73: Soren Sokatsui, which was less powerful than his previous thunder cannon but had a wider range.

Two massive blue flame clusters attacked Makoto from both sides simultaneously.

The heat of the flames vaporized the white sand along their path into glass-like crystals, filling the air with scorching heatwaves.

But Makoto simply swung his chainsaws left and right, and the two massive blue flames vanished upon touching the jagged edges.

Through these two moves, Aizen had already gleaned some insights from Makoto's fighting style.

The corner of his mouth curled into a meaningful smile as he used Shunpo to vanish from his spot.

The next moment, his figure appeared high above. Looking down at Makoto, he raised his index finger again.

"Bakudo #75, Gochutekkan."

"Bakudo #79, Kuyo Shibari."

Aizen unleashed two high-level binding Kido at once.

Five massive iron pillars crashed down from the void, embedding themselves at five positions around Makoto, locking his movement space within a narrow range.

Simultaneously, nine Reishi Cords wound around from all directions, tightly binding Makoto's arms and torso.

Even a Vasto Lorde-class Hollow couldn't break free from this in a short time.

"Your ability seems to require your blades to activate, doesn't it?"

Aizen descended a short distance from the sky. "In other words, as long as I seal your movements, my attacks can still reach you... isn't that right?"

With that, Aizen raised his right hand and began to chant.

With each word that left his mouth, the surrounding Reishi trembled violently. The air grew thick and oppressive.

"Seeping crest of turbidity. Arrogant vessel of lunacy. Boil forth and deny. Grow numb and flicker. Disrupt sleep. Crawling queen of iron. Eternally self-destructing doll of mud. Unite. Repulse. Fill with soil and know your own powerlessness..."

"Hado #90... Kurohitsugi!!"

The moment the chant finished, a massive black cube descended from the void, engulfing Makoto along with the iron pillars and cords binding him.

The height of that black coffin nearly matched the main hall of Las Noches. Its surface was densely covered with flowing dark purple patterns, each one radiating a terrifying Reiatsu capable of distorting space.

Inside the black coffin, countless invisible blades simultaneously attacked, cutting and shattering everything within from a molecular level.

This was the fully chanted #90 Kido, with power that the shortened version could never match.

"Aizen-sama is being serious."

Gin looked up at the sky-covering black coffin, a complex emotion flashing in his fox-like eyes.

Even without Kyoka Suigetsu, Aizen's own strength was quite fearsome.

Behind them, Yu and the others watching the battle also tightened their grips on their weapons.

Before this, they hadn't taken Aizen's group seriously at all.

But as the battle went on, they found that this bespectacled Shinigami possessed power far beyond their expectations.

Especially this Kurohitsugi technique. Whether it was Ulquiorra or Yu, they had to admit that neither of them was a hundred percent confident they could take this attack head-on.

Just as the countless blades inside the Kurohitsugi were about to activate—

A black light ignited from the center of the black coffin.

Then, a great sword wreathed in raging black flames pierced out from within the black coffin. Its tip penetrated the thick barrier of the coffin, black flames spreading crazily along the cracks.

Then came a second, a third...

Those great swords thrust out from different directions simultaneously, tearing the coffin's barrier to shreds.

Aizen's brow furrowed slightly.

He could clearly feel an incredibly powerful force resisting from inside the black coffin, already far beyond his existing understanding of Vasto Lorde.

Finally, the two immense energies inside and outside exploded simultaneously.

The wreckage of the Kurohitsugi and the fragments of the black great swords were swept outward by the shockwave, forming a devastating storm of Reishi.

Wherever the storm passed, the ground was torn up, white sand blown away.

Tosen and Gin behind Aizen were forced back step by step by the impact.

And the many Vasto Lorde behind Makoto also raised their arms to shield themselves, their feet carving long trenches in the sand.

Even part of Las Noches's main hall was affected by the shockwave. Several decorative pillars collapsed, falling stone fragments kicking up clouds of dust.

When the shockwave finally dissipated, everyone looked again.

A colossal Chakra Giant stood in the center of the plaza, covered in scars. Its body, made of deep blue Chakra and black flames, was riddled with fine cracks from the Kurohitsugi's cuts.

And Makoto stood at the center of that giant's brow, his eyes beneath the chainsaw helmet revealing no emotion.

"He actually blocked Aizen-sama's fully chanted Kurohitsugi?!"

Tosen's voice was filled with unbelieving shock.

If it had been a shortened, directly released Kurohitsugi, that would be one thing. But Aizen had just completed that long full chant, amplifying its power to its utmost limit.

To block a Kurohitsugi in that state head-on... this level of defense was simply beyond his comprehension.

But Yu, the Four Gay Bros, and the others' shock was no less than Tosen's.

"He actually managed to damage the Commander's ultimate Susanoo like that..."

Tosen was shocked that Makoto could block Aizen's perfectly chanted Kurohitsugi.

And Yu and the others were shocked that Aizen's technique could actually damage Makoto's Susanoo.

Both sides silently categorized the other as 'monsters' in their minds, while the two central figures at the heart of the storm remained remarkably calm.