>>2413798
>Target the large one first.

>>2413798
>>Allow Kai to make the first move.
And whichever of the two is quicker to attempt a counterattack is the greater threat that needs neutralizing.

>>2413798
>>Target the large one first.

>3d10, best of three
>DC 17, critical 23

Rolled 1, 7, 3 = 11 (3d10)

>>2413892

Rolled 5, 1, 9 = 15 (3d10)

>>2413892

Rolled 6, 7, 6 = 19 (3d10)

>>2413892

>>2413892
>writing

>>2413936
With a swift step and a wide swing you smash Sesshōseki into the back of the larger arrancar's head, bending his body forward with the sheer power behind the blow until his forehead embeds itself into the pavement below. His smaller partner takes a sidestep, having noticed your attack before you had the chance to follow up and do the same to him.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gacs4oPR8pU

“I see,” you mutter, effortlessly twirling Sesshōseki's released form around one finger with a deep, thrumming hum. “You have my apologies, arrancar. I underestimated your senses, it will not happen again.”

“We are his Majesty Baraggan Louisenbairn's fracciones,” the short arrancar smirks at you. “Who are you, shinigami? What is your rank?”

“Mirai, of Lady Kusajishi Riku's Commando unit,” you reply. “A pleasure.”

“So that would make you a Third Seat then?” the arrancar's smirk widens into a grin. “Then you should get out of the way. “Someone who's not even a Lieutenant...”

The arrancar's boast is cut short as a round slams into his leg, buckling it slightly at the knee. In a flash you've closed and leaned in, swinging Sesshōseki in a wide arc over your head towards his skull. But to your frustration he uses a sonido to give himself space, craning his head to see where the shot came from.

You know of course that it's Kai, watching your battle from a distance in a concealed position.

“A sniper?” the short arrancar frowns. “How annoying. You ants just don't know when you're outmatched.”

“Nirgge!” he shouts. “On your feet, what are you doing!?”

His partner is slow to get up, having taken the full force of a blow from your zanpakuto that would have caved most shinigami's skulls in. He shakes his head slowly, then winces as that proves to have been a mistake.

“That hurt!” he complains at you. “Who the hell are you? Ggio, who the hell is this woman?”

“A nobody,” the short one named Ggio insists. “Let's kill her and deal with that sniper. Then we can kill that helpless Captain.”

“Kill 'that Captain', you say?” you reply calmly, Sesshōseki still humming through the air as it spins. “So your master understands the tactical situation, as we predicted. In that case I cannot allow you to pass.”

“Unfortunately that means I shall be your opponent.”
>1/2

>>2414022
“You, fight both of us?” Ggio scoffs, his tone dripping with arrogance so thick you can practically smell it from here. “What a joke. How do you think you're gonna beat us between just you and that sniper friend of yours? A weakling Third Seat and a coward who won't even show his face?”

“I will beat you with my club,” you explain, using simple words for him so he can understand. “To death.”

The arrancar cackles at you, drawing a sword that seems to have been cut abruptly through its middle. “I see, so you're simply a madwoman?”

“I learned from watching the best,” you reply.

“Then I'll just have to kill you then,” he smirks.

>Wait for Kai to take another shot and use it as an opportunity to strike.
>Use kidō to trip Ggio up, and then crack him over the head with Sesshōseki.
>Use kidō to keep Ggio busy, but hit Nirgge again. He's already dazed.
>Other?

>>2414052
>Use kidō to keep Ggio busy, but hit Nirgge again. He's already dazed.

>>2414052
>>Use kidō to trip Ggio up, and then crack him over the head with Sesshōseki.
>>Other?
Line up the swing to bowl Ggio over to Nirgge.

>>2414022
So Mirai and Kai vs Ggio & Nirgge
Lets see what Mirai and Kai have for their shikai and Bankai....

>Mirai (Reiatsu: ?) – Atk:10–Def:6–Mob:7–Kidō:7–Int:8–Str:7
Sesshōseki: seki-stone war club. Bankai: Seisha Hicchū, a bow that uses seki-stone arrowheads

>Nikko Kai (Reiatsu: B) - Atk:8–Def:10–Mob:8–Kidō:6–Int:8–Str:8
Kamitinbe: a rounded shield and a rifle with a bayonet. Bankai: Kamitinbe Nu Ya Ishigaki, a re-configurable stone fortress.

>>2414052
>Use kidō to keep Ggio busy, but hit Nirgge again. He's already dazed.
>other: Position yourself so that Ggio's movements will collide head-on with Nirgge. club 2 idiots with one swing.

>>2414066
I'll support this.

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>>2413798
>does danbooru search on Ggio
> within first five images comes up is this thing.
Gosh darnit these two jerks look cute together.

>3d10, dc 17, crit 23

Rolled 10, 1, 2 = 13 (3d10)

>>2414118

Rolled 9, 4, 9 = 22 (3d10)

>>2414118
DICE YOU BITCH. I'MMA CLOBBER YOU WITH A CAT.
>>2414123
That first roll bodes ill.

Rolled 3, 9, 3 = 15 (3d10)

>>2414118

>>2414129
Thats just a normal roll for me

>>2414129
Aw. Close, but no crit homerun.

>writing

Rolled 2, 6, 8 = 16 (3d10)

>>2414148
And I need to roll as well.

>>2414202
DANG IT KAI.

>>2414148
“Feel free to try,” you shrug, dismissing the arrancar's repeated boasts.

“Alright then, I will!” he agrees. But as he uses sonido to close the distance you're already a step ahead of him.

“Bakudo #9, Hōrin!” you call out, pushing a spinning tendril of kidō forward from your fingertips that Ggio plows headfirst into.

“Damn you!” he curses as the winding rope of reishi tangles around him.

But you're not done yet. “Disintegrate, black dog of Rondanini! Look upon yourself with horror and tear out your own throat!”

As the power of your bakudō suddenly redoubles, a shunpō brings you into striking distance against Nirgge. For the second time in as many minutes Sesshōseki falls heavily on the arrancar's head. He staggers, though despite the power behind the blow you've failed a second time to knock him unconscious. It must be the hardness of his mask fragment... which if this is any indication must be far harder and denser than bone, basically meaning both these arrancar have natural helmets capable of defending against your strikes.

“Inconvenient,” you mutter, having otherwise silently reached that tenuous conclusion.

“Damn, you've got that right!” Nirgge groans. “That club of yours...”

Thankfully a shot from Kai's rifle interrupts him before he can put words to that thought, the projectile shattering against Ggio's ribs and knocking him off his feet.

“Would you stop that!?” he shouts in a blind rage.

“No,” you deny his request.

>Hadō, try and land a second kidō against Ggio before Nirgge fully recovers.
>Sesshōseki, continue ringing Nirgge's proverbial bell until something breaks.
>Bakduō, continue engaging the arrancar one at a time until they wear down.
>Other?

>>2414223
>Bakduō, continue engaging the arrancar one at a time until they wear down.

>>2414223
>>Bakudō, continue engaging the arrancar one at a time until they wear down.

>>2414223
>Sesshōseki, continue ringing Nirgge's proverbial bell until something breaks.

>>2414223
>>Bakduō, continue engaging the arrancar one at a time until they wear down.

>>2414223
>>Sesshōseki, continue ringing Nirgge's proverbial bell until something breaks.

Rolled 3, 9, 1 = 13 (3d10)

>3d10, DC 17, critical 23
>rolling for Kai again

Rolled 7, 10, 6 = 23 (3d10)

>>2414304
DANG IT KAI.

Rolled 1, 6, 2 = 9 (3d10)

>>2414304

Rolled 4, 7, 2 = 13 (3d10)

>>2414304

>writing

>>2414347
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0weNpM3cO8

“Shitotsu Sansen!” you call out, having swiftly traced a triangle in the air with your two free fingers and fired a trio of light fangs that slam into Nirgge. Instead of lifting him off his feet as it would had you taken the time out to chant beforehand, it simply knocks him over and pins him to the ground... which works fine for now.

In the time it takes you to ensure Nirgge won't interfere Ggio manages to break your kidō with a roar. “Now you'll pay!”

He leads in with a backhanded slash of his shortened sword, which you smack out of the way with Sesshōseki in a blow to his wrist. He winces as the radius snaps, only to take a second spiraling blow to the back of his head as you turn your waist to step gracefully behind him with the shortest shunpō you can manage: more of a flicker than a proper step.

“The hell was that!?” he demands, shifting his zanpakuto to his unhurt arm and charging again. This time he feints with the sword, and instead sweeps his right leg up towards your head. You meet it with a kick of your own, then hook your leg around his knee and lean back to plant a snap-kick against the underside of his jaw.

You tuck your knee and roll off him as he staggers and catches himself, carefully balancing atop Sesshōseki by planting its far end against the ground and turning slightly on your palm with your legs still stretched carefully skyward.

“I'll kill you!” Ggio shouts, coming at you again and totally dropping his guard in a blind rage.

Falling to one side and tucking your arms in, you roll to build as much power as you can and slam Sesshōseki upwards into Ggio's crotch with a sickening crunch. The blow lifts the arrancar off his feet and into the air, tossing him in a lazy arc where he lands on the back of his neck.

You quickly get to your feet to find that Nirgge has broken free by destroying the ground beneath him in a loud boom, and you hear a crack as he closes in. But instead you raise your club and deflect a stray shot that would otherwise have hit you straight into Nirgge's face.

“Why the head again!?” he demands as you spin Sesshōseki to build up the force.

“Very well,” you accept his implicit request. A single blow breaks his knee, dropping him down to your level so you can turn on your toes and slam the end of your zanpakuto into his gut then push it upward with your hand until it catches his chin.

He reels back and falls, clutching his knee. “God DAMN that was rhetorical!”
>1/2

>>2414052
>“I see, so you're simply a madwoman?”
>“I learned from watching the best,” you reply.
I love that she basically called Riku crazy.

>>2414478
Are you implying she isn't?

>>2414223
>“Disintegrate, black dog of Rondanini! Look upon yourself with horror and tear out your own throat!”
That spell incantation is fucking metal.

>>2414500
No, but the fact it's being tacitly admitted to an enemy is hilarious.

>>2414539
>meanwhile Riku has an urge to sneeze. She manages to hold it in. "Dang it. That's the fourth time today". Riku sniffles, either it's the city's inherently cold atmosphere that's getting to her or someone called her insane. Rosa grumbles and tells her that it's probably the latter.

>>2414450
“So are you going to release your swords now?” you ask, in what you'd almost call a playful tone. “Or do you prefer not having testicles?”

“This... woman...” Ggio gasps for air as he struggles back to his feet. “What... the hell...”

“I was gonna tell you,” Nirgge admits, “but I got distracted... that club ignores the hardness of anything she hits.”

“I... see...” Ggio grunts, tossing his sword into the air for dramatic effect. And catching it in a reverse grip with his good arm. “Bite off... Tigre Estoque!”

“You do it too, Nirgge!” he demands, having shifted forms into his resurreccion. His hair has formed a longer and stronger braid, with a blade tied into the end of it, with two similar blades on his wrists. His feet now end in fuzzy little cat-like feet with claws at the ends of his toes.

The larger arrancar grumbles in dissatisfaction. “Can't believe we've gotta rely on this.”

“Trample, Mamut!”

With a burst of reiatsu Nirgge grows even larger, sprouting a long trunk out of his face and a thick coat of green fur all over his body. It's rather unsightly... but his increased mass is annoying. It's gonna make it hard to break his bones, and even an arrow might have a slightly harder time penetrating that thick hide of his.

“Now you're gonna die,” Ggio growls angrily. “With such an increase in reiatsu our resurreccion should counter whatever ability of yours you've been using... I'm gonna take my sweet time carving you to pieces.”

“No,” you reply.

“What do you mean no?” Ggio smirks. “How're you gonna fight back against us like this?”

“This is growing tiresome,” you sigh over the familiar hum of your spinning club. “Either attack me or leave, but all this talking and posturing is only wasting my time.”

>Allow Ggio to attack, then counter. He won't be expecting Sesshōseki to hit just as hard as before.
>Use a bakudō to pin Ggio again, try and put Nirgge out for good this time.
>Release your Bankai. Your arrows should be immediately fatal to both of these fighters if they hit.
>Other?

>>2414563
>>Use a bakudō to pin Ggio again, try and put Nirgge out for good this time.

>>2414563
>Use a bakudō to pin Ggio again, try and put Nirgge out for good this time.
>other: Smash Ggio's cat feet after you've pinned him to keep him down.

>>2414563
>>Allow Ggio to attack, then counter. He won't be expecting Sesshōseki to hit just as hard as before.

>>2414563
>>Use a bakudō to pin Ggio again, try and put Nirgge out for good this time.

>>2414563
>Use a bakudō to pin Ggio again, try and put Nirgge out for good this time.

>>2414563
>>Allow Ggio to attack, then counter. He won't be expecting Sesshōseki to hit just as hard as before.

>>2414563
Maybe call Kai down? Sniping is good, but with Kamitinbe he should be able to wrangle the mammoth while we finish off the tiger.

>3d10, DC 18, crit 22

Rolled 8, 4, 6 = 18 (3d10)

>>2414640
SMASH DAT DICE. SMASH DAT CAT. LEMME SMASH.

Rolled 1, 5, 1 = 7 (3d10)

>>2414640

Rolled 2, 5, 1 = 8 (3d10)

>>2414640

Rolled 5, 2, 10 = 17 (3d10)

>>2414640

>>2414645
>>2414647
ROLL WITH FEELING! ROLL WITH A BATTLE CRY! THAT'S HOW I GET THE DICE TO WORK. NOW YOU TRY IT NEXT TIME!

Rolled 5, 2, 10 = 17 (3d10)

>sorry, forgot to do this

>>2414689
and Kai is STILL mediocre.

>>2414689
With a wordless cry of outrage Ggio attacks you with a sonido at the same time as Nirgge charges you from the opposite side. The unfortunate reality is that you cannot follow your plan of using bakudō to pin Ggio and let you beat on Nirgge unhindered for a little while. But the bright side is that you can come up with something just about as effective, and in its own way far more brutal.

Instead you duck at the last second and slam Sesshōseki's far end into Ggio's gut, causing him to double over and cough as the air escapes his lungs all at once. Then you use the moment of opportunity to withdraw your weapon and slam the end into the arrancar's left foot... the one that a right-handed swordsman would typically push off of, as your Captain taught you. The blow easily crushes his unprotected toes, which would have made him scream if he still had any air left in his lungs.

So rather than scream he vomits a little.

“What!?” Nirgge shouts, realizing too late that something's very wrong with this situation. A shot from Kai's rifle finds the side of his knee, throwing him slightly off balance.

“Hōrin!” you shout, wrapping the arrancar in a binding rope of kidō and pulling him past you, bouncing him off a still visibly-stunned Ggio before the slack runs out. Then you reel him back in only for your zanpakuto to slam into him. He raises his knee to defend himself at the last second, and you can feel his patella shatter under the force of the blow as a seki-stone stud digs deep into the bone.

Nirgge slams into Ggio a second time, sending the duo sprawling.

“That's ridiculous!” Nirgge insists.

“You'll pay!” Ggio screams with the first lungful of air he's managed to recover, crossing his arms in front of him and pouring out massive amounts of magenta reiatsu. “Die you bitch! Die! Die!”

“Tigre Estoque!” he shouts, having rapidly bulked up as he begins to reabsorb the reiatsu directly into his muscles in a twisted, imperfect version of your Captain's shunkō. “El Sable!”

“Wait!” Nirgge tries to caution his partner. “Her weapon...”

>3d10, higher is better

Rolled 4, 2, 8 = 14 (3d10)

>>2414718

Rolled 3, 10, 3 = 16 (3d10)

>>2414718

Rolled 4, 6, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>2414718

Rolled 5, 6, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>2414718
This should be good.

>>2414726
>>2414725
>>2414721
>>2414732
doesn't look like a good number.

>>2414718
The blow from your zanpakuto sends him reeling, snapping off one of his mask fragment's oversized fangs where it meets the jaw. You have to tilt your head to avoid it, and Ggio bounces once off the ground before rolling to his feet.

“I'll wipe you all out!” Ggio screams, charging a massive glowing cero. Behind you is...

“Captain Shiba,” you realize, your brow suddenly furrowed. “Shit.”

“Ggio, we need to work together!” Nirgge shouts as he begins to do the same, taking a hard hit to the back in place of his monomaniacally focused peer. To his credit Nirgge only stumbles slightly from the round's impact. Kai must still be trying to conserve power... but you realize that he has a good reason. His Bankai is even more draining than yours is after all.

>Bankai. Counterattack through the cero to dissipate it and kill Ggio in the same move.
>Use your Shikai to break up the ceros before they can reach Captain Shiba.
>Count on Kai to raise his Bankai's barriers in time, attack head-on before they can fire.
>Other?

>>2414778
>Bankai. Counterattack through the cero to dissipate it and kill Ggio in the same move.

>>2414778
>Bankai. Counterattack through the cero to dissipate it and kill Ggio in the same move.

>>2414778
>>Bankai. Counterattack through the cero to dissipate it and kill Ggio in the same move.

>>2414778
>Use your Shikai to break up the ceros before they can reach Captain Shiba.
>other: Cero Baseball/tennis anyone?

>>2414778
>>Bankai. Counterattack through the cero to dissipate it and kill Ggio in the same move.

>>2414778
>Bankai. Counterattack through the cero to dissipate it and kill Ggio in the same move.
No more playing with our food.

Rolled 9, 10, 9, 8 = 36 (4d10)

>3d10, best of three

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>>2414840
By the power of shark!

Rolled 10, 4, 4 = 18 (3d10)

PEW PEW KITTY CAT.
>>2414840

Rolled 1, 8, 9 = 18 (3d10)

>>2414840

Rolled 8, 4, 10 = 22 (3d10)

>>2414840

>>2414843
>>2414851
huh it worked

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>>2414851
good job anon. a 20+ result on a roll is a good roll.

>>2414857
Even more so when i keep rolling under 10

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>>2414843
>writing in a few minutes, I have to take care of IRL bullshit

>>2414894
You decide that there's one very simple way to end this.

“Bankai: Seisha Hichhū.”

The familiar sensation of your own Bankai courses through your veins, and your wrists ache as the gloves Captain Urahara made for you strain to contain the raw power. Your club is replaced by a bow, and you swiftly nock an arrow as Ggio releases his cero.

Where your projectiles meet there's a powerful flash, and the magenta reishi scatters as the cero comes apart from the power of your counterattack. Bits of it cause small explosions where they dig into the concrete and asphalt all around you, but you stand your ground.

When your line of sight clears you can see Ggio with your arrow through his neck, having severed his spinal column and emerged through his heavy braid of black and yellow hair. His eyes are wide in disbelief, as are Nirgge's for a reason that's immediately obvious: Kai must have released his Bankai in record time, because not only has he erected a protective stone shell all around Captain Shiba but he's also used several stone slabs to entrap Nirgge's arm.

So he's helpless when you grab hold of your arrow, after using a shunpō, and your eyes meet.

With a powerful kick of your feet you push yourself clear of Ggio's body pulling your arrow with you, and in the same single movement you nock the arrow before releasing it. The second shot, still wet with Ggio's blood, embeds itself deep in Nirgge's chest.

When you land in a crouch you watch as Nirgge's resurreccion crumbles away from him, and his body shrinks back down to size as he collapses to his hands and knees.

“You must have realized by now as my Captain did,” you explain, “that what my zanpakuto ignores is not hardness. What it ignores is reiatsu. The moment you assumed that your high reiatsu guaranteed you victory was the same moment you lost.”

“Kill me,” Nirgge insists, exhaustion evident in his voice.

“No,” you deny him flatly. “Killing a helpless foe in cold blood is not my style.”

“Your part in this fight is over.”

>>2415044
>The second shot, still wet with Ggio's blood, embeds itself deep in Nirgge's chest.
Wait does Mirai's Bankai only give her the one arrow?

>>2415084
ya but its an OP "FUCK YOU" arrow

>>2415084
it ignores reiatsu. That much "fuck you" can only be concentrated into one arrow. If she had a quiver full of those damn arrows, the world would break in two.
Which the way she fights reminds me of this nifty game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rf9khR4vLc

>>2415044
>spared elephant man
>killed cheetah boy.
sigh... win some lose some.

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>>2415044
As Mirai glances up at the crowd of Aizen's forces still watching her battle, she sees the throne beneath this “Lord Baraggan” shatter into a cloud of bony white splinters.

“Some army,” Nnoitra Gilga cackles. “Man, they got their asses kicked!”

“What did you call those shinigami down there, ants was it?” Gerard shakes his head. “What does that make your army then, Baraggan? What does that make you?”

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suwfJMiXauU&t=46s

“I guess if I want it done I'll have to do it myself!” Baraggan finally roars, grabbing hold of his broad axe. “I am going to murder them for this insult!”

With a single sonido he appears behind Mirai's back. However as she turns to defend herself the axe falls not on her neck, but on Nirgge's. The arrancar's head rolls across the pavement towards Baraggan's foot, and when it rolls to a stop he caves its skull in with his heel.

Mirai's eyes widen at the sight... a leader executing a subordinate in such a ruthless, bloodthirsty manner simply for failing in an unwinnable fight? Such things don't happen in the Ninth Division, first and foremost because its officers would not ask their subordinates to perform a mission on their own which they had no chance of surviving.

A bala finishes off the unconscious and mortally wounded Ggio next, too quick for Mirai to even collect her thoughts.

“You are next, girl,” Baraggan scowls... until something else attracts his interest.

“I fear I cannot allow you to do as you wish,” Tia Halibel interrupts, glaring sharply at the Espada before her. “A friend of mine is very fond of this officer. She would be quite cross if I allowed her to perish.”

“And who are you to interfere with the King of Hueco Mundo?” Baraggan demands angrily.

“I am not surprised you failed to recognize me, it has been a while,” Halibel admits, calmly sliding her blade free of its sheath and spinning it into her palm. “You still call yourself 'King'... so I suppose that would make me 'Empress' then. Though I have no particular attachment to the title.”

“Halibel...” Baraggan realizes aloud, a grin spreading across his face. “Girl, leave. My mood has improved substantially, so you had best take advantage of the fact and escape while I will allow it.”
>1/2

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>>2415172
You are Tia Halibel, and of all the many possible outcomes for this day you can only say that you were looking forward to one with something approaching excitement. Such battles are too often pointless, neither side gains enough to excuse the sacrifices required especially when one considers both sides to be fundamentally equal.

One gains while the other loses: the spoils balance out like that, whereas the suffering inflicted simply takes a cumulative toll.

But Baraggan Louisenbairn is a different subject. This is the individual most nearly 'responsible' for how hollows are forced to live. The army he maintains, his grim powers, his unquenchable desire for domination... all of it the darkest of what any hollow can inflect on the world. And worse, he seems to do it more for a lack of anything better to do with his endless time. Some older people in the living world take up a hobby, Baraggan decided to become the undead overlord of a barren, moonlit wasteland.

Same principle, really. And it's because of who he is that not only do you know in your heart you must destroy him for the state of Hueco Mundo to improve, but you have something of a personal interest in doing the deed.

“You are stronger than you were when last we saw each other,” you admit, “and faster too. But I must wonder, between Aizen's gift to you and Riku's influence on me, which of us has grown more in that time?”

“It hardly matters, Halibel,” Baraggan growls. “No matter how strong or swift you have become, you will still fall before my power. This is a cold, hard, fact.”

“Well, we will certainly see if that is true,” you admit.

All around you can feel reiatsu swirling as two more of Aizen's vanguard advance: one, the arrancar with a massive fabric spoon behind his head. The other, a scrappy-looking blonde boy in a quincy uniform. You're almost surprised it took this long for Kenpachi to join the fray, but he finally does as he charges the arrancar. Nobody rushes to challenge the quincy... it seems everyone else is wise enough to show somerestraint rather than leaping into battle with an unknown foe.

“Your corpse will make a fine stepping stone on our path towards domination,” Baraggan taunts you, hefting his own axe.

>Start slow. Use your cero liberally to try and get a feel for Baraggan's fighting style and reactions.
>Engage directly. You would be willing to bet you have trained more than he has, giving you an advantage.
>Try to outspeed him with sonido, gain an advantageous position and strike from it.
>Other?

>>2415246
>Start slow. Use your cero liberally to try and get a feel for Baraggan's fighting style and reactions.

Pride should make him use his abilities openly. Then we can work around that.

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>>2415246
>>Start slow. Use your cero liberally to try and get a feel for Baraggan's fighting style and reactions.

>>2415246
>>Start slow. Use your cero liberally to try and get a feel for Baraggan's fighting style and reactions.

>>2415246
Ima be frank, I think we should go full power right now. Second release, go for the kill. We do NOT want Barragan to release. If he does, we’re immediately at a disadvantage. Our best chance is to go full power right out the gate, and give him everything we’ve got. Don’t even let him release.

>>2415280
I doubt someone of his age is going to fall to being rushed down.

>>2415246
>Segunda now. no one expects the trump card played right out of the bat.

>>2415280
supporting.

>>2415246
>>Other?
I kinda want to go full throttle.

I don't actually expect this to win and am totally okay with the slow and steady approach.

>>2415289
and what do you expect? the problem with old fighters is that they kick ass once you give them a warm-up. And they're slow to react. Plus, he's spent much of his life being a slouch being safe and comfortable due to his baseline powers.

>>2415289
Perhaps, but he’s not going to fall to anything, if we let him release. Assuming he can age water, we’re going to be at a huge disadvantage unless we receive support from someone who can counter his ability. Besides, if it fails, we don’t really lose much. We were going to have to ramp it up to this level against him eventually, we’re just speeding the process up a bit.

>>2415316
You do remember that Halibel in this continuity can control water through all three states, right?

>>2415246
>other
Going all out straight away makes sense here.

>>2415289
Barragan's powerset is that of the gradual grinder. He basically lets people wear themselves out due to their powers before he leisurely kills them with his mere presence. It's slow to start but it ramps HARD. So he's susceptible to all-in kind of fighting, where he doesn't have the time nor luxury to react. You stop people like him by killing him quickly before they get a proper chance to ramp up.

>>2415316
I don't recall water being susceptible to entropy since at the molecule level it's already at it's base components. it's not a complex organic matter where entropy breaks the compounds down to it's base matter since water is already at it's base form.

>>2415338
Wait, she can? Well, that kind of changes things. I do still think going full throttle right out of the gate is our surest bet though. If we fully release, we’ll probably have at least a second or two before he himself releases. We flash over, hit him as hard as we can in the solar plexus to take all the wind out of his proverbial sails, and then hit him with our strongest attack. At the worst, it fails and the fight starts in earnest, at best we kill Barragan with minimal loss of energy and completely demoralize the enemy Arrancar.

Alright, I'll be asking for a 3d10 roll here. Best of three. DC is 16, critical is 24.

>>2415355
I mean, it is susceptible, but its on time scales usually akin to galactic movement as opposed to what mr skellington does.

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Rolled 4, 8, 1 = 13 (3d10)

>>2415368

Rolled 10, 2, 9 = 21 (3d10)

>>2415371
TITS ON A SHARKGIRL

Rolled 8, 7, 1 = 16 (3d10)

>>2415358

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Rolled 4, 7, 7 = 18 (3d10)

>>2415375
shit i linked to the wrong post.
>>2415368

>>2415377
this one didn't count so we need ONE MORE ROLL. we're already succeeding on this dc. WE HAVE ONE MORE CHANCE TO ROLL A CRIT.

>>2415383
this roll didn't count as well. not linked properly.

Rolled 10, 10, 1 = 21 (3d10)

>>2415368

>writing

>>2415410
“Avenge, Tiburón!” you call out, reversing your grip on your sword in one hand and releasing its power. Your body is swiftly transformed, and it seems your immediate and almost uncharacteristic release caught Baraggan off guard.

He holds out his own axe. “Rot... Arrogante!”

In a spiraling mass of purple-black reiatsu your age-old enemy transforms as well, taking on a more spectral form which you recognize immediately as a return to how he once appeared. At least he does for a moment.

In the time it takes him to release his zanpakuto you've already charged your attack.

“La Gota.”

The powerful surge of water slams into Baraggan the same second his transformation is completed, but to your mild surprise it dissipates into a fine mist rather than smashing Baraggan into nothingness. He stands amid the cloud, glaring up at you with eyes empty of everything but hate.

“Are you wondering why your attack failed to hit me, Halibel?” he taunts you.

“Not really,” you admit. “Hirviendo.”

In an instant the mist around Baraggan's body flashes into steam, scalding him in a howl of pain and surprise. He uses sonido to escape, but not before you inflict what you can only imagine to be immense pain. To follow up you fire three more times at him, each La Gota seeming to hit but ending up dissipating. It seems he has the ability to speed up its evaporation somehow, probably related to his ability to induce aging in his victims.

“So he's retained that ability,” you muse thoughtfully to yourself. “And even expanded on it.”

So that means... it's going to be very difficult to damage him. In fact, you're not entirely sure you have the ability to do so at all.

Baraggan, however, has an ability he seems to think will do the job of killing you.

“Respira...”
>3d10, best of four

Rolled 5, 5, 7 = 17 (3d10)

>>2415410

>>2415399
Close but no cigar

Rolled 4, 6, 3 = 13 (3d10)

>>2415512
Oh boy here it comes.

Rolled 5, 7, 1 = 13 (3d10)

>>2415512

Rolled 3, 9, 3 = 15 (3d10)

>>2415512

>>2415521
>>2415523
>>2415527
>>2415531
Hallo Darkness my old friend...

>>2415512
You watch the arrancar release a miasma, seemingly from his own body, and the toxic gas rolls out from around him. A gas, is it? Interesting, but you aren't sure at the moment what that does for you in terms of beating him.

“Now, Halibel,” Baraggan declares from behind his skeletal face, “you will know the embrace of death.”

The swirling miasma begins to eat away at the ground around his feet, crumbling the asphalt streets and crumbling away whole chunks of building as though you were watching hundreds of years of neglect take their toll in seconds.

He isn't kidding. If that touches you... you can say goodbye to whatever part of you it touched.

>Raise a watery barrier. Water does not age in a way that leads to its decomposition.
>Attack through his miasma using a Cascada, which the miasma may not defend against.
>You once used an attack against Riku using steam explosions. Perhaps that might work.
>Other?

>>2415626
>You once used an attack against Riku using steam explosions. Perhaps that might work.

>>2415626
>>You once used an attack against Riku using steam explosions. Perhaps that might work.

>>2415626
>You once used an attack against Riku using steam explosions. Perhaps that might work.

>>2415626
>You once used an attack against Riku using steam explosions. Perhaps that might work.
>other: capture some of the miasma with water and then freeze it. This is not an attack this is a setup for later when we hurl a miasma infused Ice lance at him.

>>2415626
>>Attack through his miasma using a Cascada, which the miasma may not defend against.

>3d10, best of three
>higher is better

Rolled 1, 9, 2 = 12 (3d10)

>>2415694

Rolled 10, 8, 5 = 23 (3d10)

>>2415694

Rolled 9, 10, 3 = 22 (3d10)

>>2415694

Rolled 6, 9, 1 = 16 (3d10)

>>2415626
>>You once used an attack against Riku using steam explosions. Perhaps that might work.
Hmm... How about surrounding this steam explosion within a dense volume (liquid or ice) and funnel it out a narrow exit? The pressure jet might also draw in some of the miasma through it.

>>2415694
Welp, late vote. Rolling anyway.

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>>2415701
Nice one!

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>>2415704
we could expand upon that. I wonder if it's possible to capture some of Barragan's miasma in ice? We could fight fire with fire by hurling miasma-infused/trapped ice at the bone man.

>>2415743
Well if it's a literal miasma, then in theory it's a liquid mist. Not a powder. If it's water soluble, then easy-peasy, we can actually dilute it to ueslessness. If it's hydrophobic like oil, then it'd actually just concentrate the shit by turning it into a big bubble of the substance, or a slick sitting on the surface.

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>>2415704
You used an attack against Lady Riku once, in sparring. You held back at the time, but they were devastatingly effective. Repeating that technique might just tell you how the Respira will respond to water in each of its phases.

“La Gota,” you repeat, firing three columns of hardened ice at Baraggan. They each explode in an expanding cloud of steam and razor-sharp ice. The sequence of blasts leave him ragged around the edges, with the ice shards having left deep slashes in the self-proclaimed King's body.

He laughs as the damage slowly disappears. “You will have to do much more than that to kill me, 'Empress'. Of all the powers that exist in this world... only mine are absolute.”

This last word he practically spits at you, as if it still bothers him that another hollow might have attained a power that can match his own.

But for all his bluster, you can tell that he was actually damaged by that attack even if it was not much. And that gives you the beginning of an idea.

You manage to evade a wave of miasma by using a wide cero to kick up a blast of dirt and wind, which pushes the deadly vapors back and gives you that much stronger a belief that this might just work. So when you feel that the moment is right you gather a mass of the water vapors in the surrounding battlefield and gather that mass together.

“Cascada.”

The water crushes down in an apocalyptic torrent which flash-freezes amid the Respira before you flash the layer of ice closest to the ground into steam. The entire pane of ice explodes, showering Baraggan with shrapnel that flies so dense he can't dodge it all.

“How annoying,” Baraggan grumbles, stretching out one skeletal hand and grasping the long haft of a wicked-looking black axe that seems to materialize out of his sleeve. “Gran Caída... shall we finish this, Halibel?”

“Yes,” you agree. “In fact, the final blow has already been struck.”

“What do you think you are saying?” Baraggan demands.

“I am saying... that you always had a habit of talking for too long.”

“Hm?” he glances down, seeming to realize there is a mist clinging close to his body. A mist of your creation, a suspension of his own miasma contained within it, which has already begun to sink into the wounds created by the shrapnel. “What is this... what is this!?”

You simply stare down at him, your expression hard and cold as ice. The worst part is... you have to admit a sense of closure to the act.

“Long live the King.”

>>2415821
And that's where I'll have to leave off for now. Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed, and keep an eye on twitter and/or the discord for announcements on when I'll continue. Should be next weekend at 10am PST as usual.

Next time the battles will start to intensify, so I'm definitely looking forward to it.

>>2415821
>“Long live the King.”
dayum, what a bond one-liner.
>>2415845
A lovely thread you've made and a lovely session.

>>2415845
>“You still call yourself 'King'... so I suppose that would make me 'Empress' then. Though I have no particular attachment to the title.”
question: when did Tia gain such a moniker? back when she was a vasto lorde hollow? And what trait of her was the title attributed to?

>>2415845
Thanks for running, Queen!

>>2415871
I think it was just a reference to the fact that she beat Baraggan once before.

Honestly that exchange reminded me of Kill Bill.

>How come I always have to get the sake? You listen well... for thirty years, you make the fish, I get the sake. If this were the military, I'd be General by now!

>Oh, so you'd be General, huh? If you were General, I'd be Emperor, and you'd STILL get the sake! So shut up and get the sake!

>>2415871
Mostly just what passes as a 'joke' to her, since she suspected the whole time that she's slightly stronger than Baraggan even discounting her Segunda Etapa or her small amount of divine reiatsu. Which if Baraggan is a 'King', makes her something even higher than that.

>>2415890
>>2415845
so what's next on the list? Kenny and the SpooN?

Mirai is maximum overwaifu. Goddamn. She's like, twice as triple as best as any other girl. That's a lot of best.

>>2415924
that maximum overwaifu belongs to a smooth coyote man named Starrk.

Holy shit did Halibel just kill Barragan or was it more of a mortal blow but didnt actually finish the job? If he's still alive I hope Halibel gets to show off her second release. Actually, it might be better to save that for sadbat. Show him he's not the only arancar with a second release. Lol and then there's Apacci too

>>2416013
Apparently it's a yes.

sadbat actually defected from Aizen's army and went AWOL. He left to find his own sense of purpose and meaning after being talked out of fighting by Riku.

>>2415246
>All around you can feel reiatsu swirling as two more of Aizen's vanguard advance: one, the arrancar with a massive fabric spoon behind his head. The other, a scrappy-looking blonde boy in a quincy uniform. You're almost surprised it took this long for Kenpachi to join the fray, but he finally does as he charges the arrancar. Nobody rushes to challenge the quincy... it seems everyone else is wise enough to show somerestraint rather than leaping into battle with an unknown foe.
Huh, I was expecting Nel to fight the Spoonhead.

>>2416024
Wait, he did? I can't believe I missed that, gotta go through the archives again.

What are the enemy forces looking like, by the way? We've offed three Espada and forced one to withdraw at this point, if memory serves, and we've eliminated...four? Yeah, four, Sternritters, in gimp guy, Du Cang, Bambietta (Unless she's already been replaced) and that wrestler jackass. So what does that leave? Six Espada and six Sternritters?

>>2416362
the exact count is iffy desu. don't forget there's Gigi who is there to mass ressurect the ones killed in the internal purge of Aizen's army. So we have to deal with THAT too. That's why it looks like we're taking so few casualties. Queen did say it will ramp up from here on out.

>>2416385
We should probably focus and eliminating Gigi at some point, huh. Fighting every one of our opponents twice would be rather inconvenient. Maybe see if Little Bee can assassinate her? Without her zombies, she should be a fairly easy target.

>>2416435
>Without her zombies, she should be a fairly easy target.
>eliminating Gigi
>whose entire motif is based around a cockroach.
>and powers based around being patient zero of a zombie apocalypse with all the special zombie powers of Resident Evil.
anon. There is a reason why Gigi is in the vanguard of Aizen's army.

>>2416479
Frankly, even if she's tough to kill, our best option is going to be to take her out early. The longer the fighting drags on and the casualties start piling up, she's going to become more and more of an inconvenience.

>>2416479
Mirai's arrow would drop him.

>>2416524
>good_luck_i'm_behind_an_army_of_5000_zombie_nazis_and_zombie_samurai_and_20_captain_class_zombie_fighters.jpg

>>2416548
or we could just throw Stark at it.

>>2416564
Just go grab Ryujin Jakka and convince it to go nuclear+++++ then run like hell. Yamamoto isn't dead in my heart.

>>2416634
>Yamamoto isn't dead in my heart.
technicly whats his name saved yamato's arm which still had reiatsu so Orehemi could use her powers and "heal" him

>>2416548
>Hey, I thought Nazi Zombies were supposed to be all the rage? Why are you so upset?

>>2417473
>Since when were you under the impression that I wasn't upset?

>>2422142
>Bankai: Saltizakura Kageyoshi

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>>2413798
>You are Third Seat Mirai. No last name, just 'Mirai'.
I've got to say, of all the 'protégés' I'm happiest with how Mirai has turned out. Went from not confident, leaking power, pretty weak to a fairly strong confident dangerous badass. The character development between her and Riku where Riku went above and beyond to help her out and in doing so earned her trust and loyalty is a really strong subplot imo, one of my favourites for sure.
Maybe I'm just biased towards characters that are dangerous without being lulz tier powerful though
Don't really know where I was going with this... Just posting for posting's sake I guess

>>2423812
The best mini me we could've ever asked for

>Will continue as usual on Saturday

>>2427248
Is it possible for one of the spatial tears that Riku uses to be moved after it opens?

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>>2428796
If you've been paying attention, you'll notice that whether or not it's possible and whether or not Riku can do it are actually not as related as you might expect

>About 8 hours or so

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>>2415821
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MGXvKHno6Q

Long live the King, she said... what a mockery.

But even worse than a mockery was the thought of dying to a hollow that would lower itself to working with a shinigami of its own volition, a weak and pathetic creature who would happily bow its head before another. Not even an ant, a totally worthless existence too weak to even face him directly.

He hated her.

He hated the way she gazed down at him impassively, as if to say that this was his own fault. That he had been reckless and arrogant. He hated her cowardice in refusing to face him so many years ago, and he hated even worse that she had gotten away with it for so long. He hated how she had become a stronger arrancar even than he, that her subordinates had grown stronger than his. He hated that she would take shinigami as her allies, that they would treat each other as equals and then have the impudence to look down on him, the King of a whole realm of existence.

And above all else, he hated himself.

He had allowed himself to be taken as a subordinate to Aizen Sōsuke, nothing more than a traitor shinigami. He hated the other Espada for thinking themselves his better, he hated that brat Wonderweiss for being his better. And the quincy... those damned quincy bastards...

He had lost. He knew he was dying.

But he would not go alone.

“You bastard!” he roars, even as his body deteriorates into nothingness.

He slings his broad axe, Gran Caida, with one skeletal arm. Halibel raises her own massive blade, readying herself for a desperate last-ditch effort... only to watch the axe spin in a lethal arc towards someone else.

Baraggan Louisenbairn watches his weapon fly true, straight towards Lille Barro. Even as the disintegration of his body reaches his head and shoulders, it seems almost as if he's willing the attack towards its target...

But Lille Barro doesn't even move.

A single shot shatters the axe in less than an instant, and penetrates what little remains of Baraggan's skull-like mask. His crown falls, itself dissipating before it can hit the ground below.

“How insulting,” Lille grumbles, lifting the muzzle of his rifle and staring Halibel down. “I understand that Aizen made us partners so that we would one day try to kill each other, but did he really think he could do it with an attack like that?”
>1/2

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>>2434168
>Several minutes earlier...

You are Zaraki Kenpachi, current Kenpachi, the Kenpachi specifically from Zaraki. Zaraki's Kenpachi.

You keep yourself amused.

But today, it's this guy who's gonna be keeping you amused. It was such a pain in the ass to have to wait your damn turn, but the Head Captain was pretty clear how he wanted things to work. The Lieutenants had to get their turn first so that he could see how the enemy wanted to deal with things, and that was fine. After all these years you've learned that everyone plays to their strengths, and while thinking isn't exactly what you're good at the Head Captain could benefit from a few minutes to observe.

Of course you got pretty bored pretty quickly, so that's kinda fallen by the wayside a little.

The guy you're facing is tall and lanky, with an eyepatch. You've never been much for poetry, but in your head this is kinda what it looks like. He's perfect.

“You're in my way,” he tells you. “Move it.”

“Make me, tough guy!” you roar, sweeping your sword towards him where it clashes against that ridiculous thing he calls a zanpakuto.

His expression splits into a manic grin. “I was hoping you'd say that!”

He manages to push you away with his weapon. “Tesla, go attack one of those damn pillars or somethin', you're in my way here!”

“If that is your order, Master Nnoitra,” a second arrancar with an eyepatch responds with a bow.

“Beat it.”

The arrancar does as instructed, dashing off towards the pillar that's being defended by one of those arrancar who keeps hanging around with Riku... Apacci, you think her name is. Meanwhile that old fart in the chair's fighting that dark-skinned broad... wasn't her name...

“Tch,” the arrancar in front of you scoffs, watching the same thing you are. “That's that 'Halibel' bitch I guess?”

“I guess,” you shrug.

“He's gonna kill her,” he tells you.

“Not my problem.”

>Go for the throat.
>Go for the right elbow.
>Go for the optics.
>Other?

>>2434181
>>Go for the throat.

>>2434181
>>Go for the throat.
Go for the jugular

>>2434181
>Go for the throat

Also glad to see these two fight, some things are always happen no matter what.

>>2434181
>Go for the throat.
Huh, I thought Nel was going to fight him?

>>2434228
It's the lessons in being cunning bearing fruit. At least I'd like to think so.

>>2434228
In this continuity she has no real reason to.
Which is why she's not here.

>3d10, DC is 28, critical is 30
>best of five, because Nnoitra's being a good sport

Rolled 3, 1, 3 = 7 (3d10)

>>2434275

Rolled 1, 7, 9 = 17 (3d10)

>>2434275

Rolled 3, 3, 10 = 16 (3d10)

>>2434275

>>2434283
>>2434293
>>2434298
Ah, like a kitten playing with a ball of yarn. Still need two more.

Rolled 8, 7, 3 = 18 (3d10)

>>2434275

Rolled 9, 8, 8 = 25 (3d10)

>>2434275

>>2434275
“Tell ya what,” the arrancar smirks, holding his hands out at his sides. “I'll be a nice guy and let you take a free shot at me. Anywhere you like, big guy...”

Without pause you immediately put the point of your blade through his left eye socket, with a thrust powerful enough that it blows straight out the back of his skull... hey, wait a minute. Don't these guys have that skin thing...

The arrancar cackles madly and kicks you in the gut, sending you sliding back through the air before his weapon comes crashing down against the edge of your sword in a shower of sparks.

“Nice try!” he crows, as the patch over his left eye falls away revealing that his hollow hole goes straight through his head where his left eye should be. It's lined with mask fragments all along the top and bottom edges like two rows of teeth.

You manage to break the lock without his massive zanpakuto cracking you over the head.

“I'm the Fifth Espada, Nnoitra Gilga,” he declares. “And I'm the guy who's gonna kill you.”

“I'm glad that didn't kill you so quick,” you admit with a grin of your own. “That woulda been disappointing.”

With an almost gleeful cry he tries to bring his weapon down on you again, but you sidestep and aim a swing of your own at the tendons of his right elbow... only for the edge of your blade to spark against his skin.

That's... not right.

Nnoitra grabs your sword with his bare hand and pulls you in so he can plant his knee in your chest, then turns to bring his weapon down on your back and send you crashing into the street below. The force of your impact cracks the foundations of the buildings nearby, shattering windows in a rain of glass.

Then a cero follows, crashing against your blade with titanic force that brings the already damaged buildings down all around you.

Nnoitra's grin fades a little as he watches you emerge from the dust practically unscathed, zanpakuto still raised against the incoming blast.

“Zaraki Kenpachi,” you announce.

“Kenpachi, is it?” Nnoitra spits. “Sounds kinda like somethin' a shinigami'd come up with. Pretentious as hell... but not so bad that I won't take it from ya.”

“Over my dead corpse.”

“Funny...” the arrancar replies, using one of his kind's quick-step-thingies to keep attacking you, battering his blade against yours. “I was thinkin' the same thing!”
>1/2

>>2434349
This isn't really going to well right now. Your sword just keeps bouncing off the guy, and his attacks are hitting like a damn battering ram.

You may not be the sharpest crayon in the shed, but even you can tell that something's gotta change here.

>Try attacking him with your sword... from behind!
>Take off your eyepatch. Kinda lame to do this so early... but then again, so's what you've BEEN doing.
>Maybe if you mix in some fistfighting moves you can get a better feel for how hard his skin is.
>Other?

>>2434385
>>Maybe if you mix in some fistfighting moves you can get a better feel for how hard his skin is.

>>2434385
>try two hands

>>2434385
>Maybe if you mix in some fistfighting moves you can get a better feel for how hard his skin is.

>>2434385
>>Take off your eyepatch. Kinda lame to do this so early... but then again, so's what you've BEEN doing.
His eyepatch gig's up early and it's just more lame anyway.

>>2434385
>Maybe if you mix in some fistfighting moves you can get a better feel for how hard his skin is.
>other: Swing your sword Harder! use your fist and sword to hit the same spot!

>>2434385
>Maybe if you mix in some fistfighting moves you can get a better feel for how hard his skin is.

>Try two handing

>>2434463
>>2434385
Linking it

>>2434385
>ZARAKI CASTS FIST!
>3d10, DC 20, critical 25
>Best of three

Rolled 9, 2, 9 = 20 (3d10)

>>2434474
YOU CAN DO IT KENNY!

Rolled 10, 1, 4 = 15 (3d10)

>>2434474

Rolled 10, 3, 4 = 17 (3d10)

>>2434474

Alright, I just got Halloween Yoruichi AND TT Rukia off of 4 30 million downloads summons tickets, and I just wanted to say I love the quest and I'm really, really sad I won't be able to see the end because I'm going to die in a horribly unlucky accident soon.

Rolled 9, 3, 4 = 16 (3d10)

>>2434474

>>2434349
>all these votes saying Kenny goes for the throat
>Queen writes the update saying that Kenny goes for Nnorita's eyepatch.
QUEEEEEEEEN!

>>2434528
Not gonna lie, I keep getting interrupted by other shit. So I forgot what you were TRYING to target.

If it's any consolation, the outcome wouldn't have been too different. It was more for the off chance you rolled particularly well.

>>2434541
Well, if his skin's hard it's just a matter of figuring out how hard his skin is. Then you'll be able to cut him. And logically the best way to figure out how hard his skin is would be to punch him, really hard, which will let you feel it much better than the feedback you get through a sword.

So you get closer, sliding your zanpakuto against the haft of his stupid weapon, until he grasps its blade. But instead of trying to pull away, you pull yourself in closer and slam your forehead against his.

Okay, maybe not the brightest of plans, but you've never let that slow you down before. So you follow up with three quick punches with your left hand, one each aimed at his chest, then his gut, then his head before you grab him by the collar and sling him through the air.

He rights himself almost immediately, and stretches his neck with an audible pop.

“You got guts, shinigami,” he admits with a grin that you guess is supposed to be menacing but really just makes him look like he's taking a really happy shit. “I'll give ya that much, but my hierro's the hardest of all the espada! You're gonna have to do a lot better than that.”

Better than that, huh?

You glance at your left hand... only two fingers are broken, and not badly enough that you can't pop 'em all back in place just by flexing them. So how hard can he possibly be if you only broke two fingers? It also seems like if you'd punched Riku like that she'd have broken your arm at the elbow before you could land a second hit... meaning this guy's speed's nothing special compared to what you've seen before.

So it really is just this 'hierro' of his you've gotta beat.

You could release shikai, but is that really smart... you'd have to ask someone, because you've never had a shikai to keep hidden as an 'ace' before. It's more thinking than you like to do, so if you're gonna do it it's best to just go for it.

Or you could adjust your own reiatsu to match. If it's anything like your reiatsu it's stopping your strikes before they touch him, so removing your eyepatch and just really focusing on the job should make this a closer match.

The third option, as much as you hate it, is you could actually... you know. Try. Use both your hands, with actual technique.

Ew.

>Shikai, get this over with already.
>Remove your eyepatch, make this a better fight.
>Maybe kendō won't be that bad this time.
>Other?

>>2434615
>>Remove your eyepatch, make this a better fight.

>>2434615
>>Maybe kendō won't be that bad this time.

>>2434615
>Maybe kendō won't be that bad this time.

>>2434615
>Maybe kendō won't be that bad this time.
Kenny will start loving how to turkey carve if we crit this.
>Zen Kata?

>>2434615
>Remove your eyepatch, make this a better fight.

>>2434615
>remove your eyepatch, make this a better fight

Lets get a good fight going

>>2434615
>Remove your eyepatch, make this a better fight.

Gonna need a tiebreaker here. I really don't think doing both is in Kenny's character.

>>2434708
Nevermind, literally as I was writing.
>3d10, DC 19, critical 24

>>2434708
It's four to three Queen in favor of eyepatch.

Rolled 4, 5, 9 = 18 (3d10)

>>2434710

Rolled 9, 2, 1 = 12 (3d10)

>>2434710
This ain't gonna work with kenny's luck.

Rolled 4, 1, 4 = 9 (3d10)

>>2434710

>>2434710

Rolled 10, 8, 3 = 21 (3d10)

>>2434710

Rolled 10, 1, 1 = 12 (3d10)

>>2434725
Oops. Let's see what I would've gotten.

>>2434723
inb4 I roll even worse.

Well, looks like kenny's having a tough time of it. But you know what they say about what doesn't kill you.

>>2434758
“Man, just my luck,” you grumble. “An' here I was hopin' to keep this a secret just a little while longer...”

Reaching up with your free hand, you slip a finger under your eyepatch and rip it off your head. Your reiatsu pours out like a bomb just went off, rattling the debris strewn about this fake town you've all been trashing.

You charge in and swing your sword, only to find it stuck between the two wide crescent-moon shapes of the Espada's weapon, which he uses to nearly wrench the sword out of your hands before kicking off the air behind him and slamming one of their inner curves into your face.

The blade bites into your skin, nearly cutting off your nose even with your reiatsu... is it just not densely focused enough to stop him? Man, what a pain.

The broad sides of the blade find the right side of your face and your left ribs, but you manage to push yourself away from him before he can use it to flip you around.

He pauses for a moment as you wipe the blood from your face.

“That bitch is stronger than I thought...” he realizes aloud, before narrowing his eyes. “What's that idiot doing...”
>1/2

>>2434789
Come on kenny, stop jobbing and kill this smuck.

>>2434807
and make kenny bored from killing mantisman too quickly? Kenny needs a warm-up! and Mantis man is perfect for Kenny.

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>>2434789
You are Emilou Apacci, and this isn't what you were expecting to happen next.

"Who the hell are you supposed to be?" you demand from your seat atop the pillar you've taken it upon yourself to defend. "Get lost."

"Tesla Lindocruz, arrancar number Fifty," the blonde man introduces himself. "I've come to destroy this pillar."

"I'm espada number 'fuck off loser'," you shoot back angrily. "But you can just call me Apacci."

"Didn't you see what happened to the last guy?"

'Tesla' frowns and draws his sword, an odd-looking thing katana that looks like it abruptly decided to try being a chakram haflway through, then decided that was a dumb idea and went back to being a katana.

God, who designs these things?

"Well, you do what you've gotta," you sigh, hopping down off the top of the pillar and catching yourself on a little reishi platform. "And I'll do what I've gotta."
>3d10, DC 15, critical 21

Rolled 7, 5, 1 = 13 (3d10)

>>2434832

Rolled 8, 9, 10 = 27 (3d10)

>>2434832

Rolled 1, 8, 6 = 15 (3d10)

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>>2434846
Wow.

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>>2434846
WELP. Apacci's goin huntin with her cero shotgun!

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>>2434846
The arrancar's eye starts to glow slightly... so he can shoot cero from his eyes too, huh? Neat, but he's telegraphing.

“You dare introduce yourself as an 'espada'...” Tesla growls at you. “How arrogant can you possibly be?”

“Cero Cornea!”

But to his shock you're prepared for it. “Escudo.”

You raise your arm and generate an elongated shield of much more powerful energy than this pitiful blast is packing, and backhand the small cero straight back at its creator. The blast goes off in his face, almost knocking him out of the air before he can catch himself. He stares at you in shock, clearly hurt by the force of his own reflected attack.

“What... how did you...”

“What, you thought that was new?” you scoff. “I've known how to do that technique for like fifty years. And power-wise... I barely even consider that a cero.”

>You wanna see what I call a 'cero'?
>You think I'm lying? I can do it with BOTH eyes.
>Leave. Fighting you's gonna make me look like a bully.
>Other?

>>2434897
>>You think I'm lying? I can do it with BOTH eyes.

>>2434897
>>You wanna see what I call a 'cero'?

>>2434897
>>You wanna see what I call a 'cero'?

>>2434897
>>You think I'm lying? I can do it with BOTH eyes.

>>2434897
>You think I'm lying? I can do it with BOTH eyes.

>>2434897
>You wanna see what I call a 'cero'?

>>2434897
>>>You wanna see what I call a 'cero'?
>>You think I'm lying? I can do it with BOTH eyes.

BOTH

BOOOOOTH

>>2434897
>You think I'm lying? I can do it with BOTH eyes.
With both hands tied behind my back, uphill both ways, in the snow.

>>2434897
>Leave. Fighting you's gonna make me look like a bully.
if Tesla doesn't wise up
>You wanna see what I call a 'cero'?

>>2434897
>“I've known how to do that technique for like fifty years. And power-wise... I barely even consider that a cero.”
Someone's been reading some SUPAMAN

>>2434897
>You think I'm lying? I can do it with BOTH eyes.

>3d10, critical 20
>best of three

Rolled 4, 3, 9 = 16 (3d10)

>>2434962
Here lies Tesla, he didn't know how shit he was.

Rolled 7, 1, 10 = 18 (3d10)

>>2434962

Rolled 10, 5, 1 = 16 (3d10)

>>2434962
Another Tesla going into space.

Rolled 6, 2, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>2434962
DANG IT NOW THE CRIT DICE IS LATE

>>2434962
“If you think I'm bluffing,” you continue, swiftly charging two cero with your eyes and repeating Tesla's technique with both of them. One hits him, but he manages to raise his sword and fill the goofy chakram thing at the center of it with reiatsu and use it as a shield to protect himself. The other misses wide, demolishing a good part of a building's facade somewhere to his left.

“Sorry,” you apologize as Tesla lowers his zanpakuto. “I forgot to account for my non-dominant eye. Been a while since I tried that, but do you get it now?”

“You can't win. Whatever leader sent you here to fight me is just wasting your life.”

“Those are my orders,” he replies stubbornly. “Following master Nnoitra's orders isn't a waste! It's my reason for being!”

He holds out his zanpakuto and shouts its name. “Crush, Verruga!”

His transformation... isn't impressive. It's on a similar scale to most of Baraggan's fracciones, which means that unless it gives him some sort of exotic power it's no threat to you. And when his new physique and boar-like mask are revealed, it becomes obvious that his resurreccion is a pure power-type.

He cocks back his arm and throws a punch, charging you with a sonido...
>Bala to the face.
>Catch his arm, cero to the shoulder.
>Release, and use your knives to disarm him.
>Other?

>>2435011
>Bala to the face
Pew pew

>>2435011
>Bala to the face.

>>2435011
>Bala to the face.

>>2435011
>>Bala to the face.

>>2435011
>>Bala to the face.

>>2435011
>>Bala to the face.

>>2435011
>other: BALA BUCKSHOT to the face!~

>>2435011
>Bala to the face.

>3d10, best of four
>higher is good

Rolled 2, 6, 9 = 17 (3d10)

>>2435095

Rolled 7, 1, 8 = 16 (3d10)

>>2435095
IT'S HUNTAN SEASON

Rolled 8, 2, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>2435095

Rolled 7, 8, 5 = 20 (3d10)

>>2435095

>>2435104
that'll do pig. that'll do.

Rolled 5, 9, 1 = 15 (3d10)

>>2435095

>>2435107
I'm a donkey, racist.

>>2435109
You can't be a donkey because i'm you, and that means you aren't you, and i'm an A-10 Warthog

>>2435119
Personally I identify as a superiority fighter, thank you very much.
>writing

>>2435119
I see, that means I'm actually a Tomahawk Missile...

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>>2435125
You reach out with both your hands, which meet at the heels of your palms with your fingers outstretched. Balls of reishi gather at your fingertips before Tesla can reach you.

“Bala Buckshot!”

The charging arrancar, to his credit, demonstrates impressive speed as he uses a sonido to dodge the brilliantly-colored Bala, but his eyes widen as he slows from his movement technique and finds your right hand pointed at him underneath your left with five Bala still prepared.

Only then does he realize you only fired half the first time, and now it's too late.

The Bala slam into his body all at the same time, blasting him backwards and sending him crashing through the top of an apartment building. Which of course collapses immediately, giving you some cover to move through with a sonido of your own.

He looks up from his little crater, covered in blood and dust.

“You...”

Then his attention is drawn by the overwhelming sensation of Lady Halibel's reiatsu as she prepares a massive attack that batters Baraggan in a torrent of water. An ankle-deep surge of it actually reaches you, splashing around the cement bench you've perched atop and drenching Tesla.

After a moment you decide to remind him you're here. “You were saying?”

“How the hell are you people so damn strong?” he demands.

“It's not that we're especially strong,” you correct him. “It's that you're all so petty and arrogant that you never learn, because of that you never improve.”

“I accepted that I was weak, that I could learn from others. And that's how I became strong.”

Telsa staggers to his feet, breathing heavily. “You're not making any sense. You're actually suggesting a hollow can grow? Ridiculous.”

“We're not humans, and we'll never be accepted as human. So stop acting like your little fantasy of being one has made you better than us!”

He's clearly preparing a massive cero... but it's not aimed at you.

>Finish him. He'll just keep trying until he's dead.
>Take off his arms. Maim him badly enough and he'll lose too much reiatsu to fight.
>Release your sword, tank his final blast. He'll learn how futile this really is.
>Other?

>>2435209
>>Release your sword, tank his final blast. He'll learn how futile this really is.