NOVEL NEXT Chapter 268: Chapter 268: Carbon-copy
Mazuru had asked Sojiro to wait, even though Sojiro was a little unwilling, he could only choose to wait silently.
Of course, what Mazuru said was absolutely true, there was indeed no need to wait too long.
With Espada and those powerful arrancars going to the world of living to participate in the decisive battle against the Soul Society, Ichigo and others were almost rampant in the Las Noches. Although the idle arrancars were also strong, they were definitely not Ichigo and his party's opponents.
Not to mention, there were also the three captains of Soul Society who came to Hueco Mundo, and they were also a strong support for Ichigo.
"What a coincidence."
Mazuru sensed two familiar reiatsu approaching the Las Noches and a faint smile formed on the corner of his mouth.
Sojiro heard Mazuru whispering to himself, glanced at him, and decided to not leave, and stay in the main hall of Las Noches. After all, he was not familiar with Las Noches, the only thing he was familiar with was Beelzebub, who was also gone.
It's pointless to continue wandering around the rest of Las Noches, it's better to stay there.
He also wanted to see what kind of plans and schemes was brewing in Mazuru's mind.
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In another part of the Las Noches, Szayelaporro was fighting against Zaraki.
Because of his defeat at the hands of Unohana earlier, he was extremely cautious in this battle. From the fact that he brought his two subordinate officers, Lumina and Verona, to this fight, it could be seen that he was completely serious about this battle.
Lumina and Verona were not natural-born hollows, but created by him with some special means.
The essence of their bodies was actually healing drugs. In other words, although Szayelaporro lost his ability of using High-Speed Regeneration after arrancarization, he could instantly heal his injuries as long as he swallows these two subordinates.
Of course, this was a method that would only be used when it was absolutely necessary.
Under normal circumstances, no matter how seriously injured he is, as long as he successfully launches the Gabriel, a new body could be born in the enemy's body, and then the old body would be discarded.
Even if he was seriously injured, he could be recovered instantly due to his rebirth.
Again, because of the previous defeat at the hands of Unohana, Szayelaporro was deeply wary of the captains of Soul Society, so at the beginning of the battle, after he blocked Zaraki's sword, he immediately opened up the distance and directed used his Resurrección.
"Sip! Fornicarás!"
After swallowing his sword, Szayelaporro's reiatsu exploded in an instant, and his body started swelling suddenly.
In his released form, the lower half of his body became a multitude of purple tentacles reminiscent of a sea anemone. His feet extended from under the tentacles, which were then replaced by a layered dress-like garment. His upper torso became a segmented and form-fitting gray garment, with white sleeves extending from the elbow and down to a wide opening at the wrist that reveal a purple interior. Three small, dark purple extensions span upward from the elbow, while four long, dark purple strands that look like falling drops hang from the underside of the sleeve itself. His hands turned white, and his fingertips became slightly elongated and purple. His hair gained various purple drop-like strands as well. His hollow mask took the form of a headdress that formed a thin band across his forehead, as well as what appeared to be half the bottom structure of his hollow mask "glasses", which was attached on either side of his head by fan-like coverings. His left eye gained purple markings that took the shape of four lines on the top and bottom. He also grew four large, gray branch structures on his back, two on each side, which formed a shape similar to the wings of a butterfly.
"Szayelaporro-sama...!"
The injured arrancar couldn't help being shocked when he saw Szayelaporro released his blade at the very beginning when he felt the powerful reiatsu coming from Szayelaporro.
"What a strong reiatsu, this is a level of power only Espadas can have!"
"Congratulations, shinigami! Congratulations on your death facing such a calamity!"
Watching Szayelaporro, the injured arrancar began to celebrate. He seemed to be extremely gloating. After all, he had suffered a lot under the hands of Zaraki these days. He had great hopes for Zaraki getting defeated and dying.
Then, Szayelaporro, whom he was expecting to kill Zaraki instantly, was hacked by Zaraki.
The arrancar for a moment thought he had hallucinations. But after looking carefully again he realized that he had seen it right, Zaraki just went straight and attacked with a simple and crude slash.
For Zaraki, it doesn't matter what kind of means the enemy uses, anyway, as long as the enemy was hacked to death, it would be over.
Compared with the previous attack, the speed of this attack of his was even faster.
But having seen more subtle and tricky swordmanship from Unohana, Szayelaporro felt that Zaraki's attack was too clumsy.
The tentacles beneath him moved, blocking Zaraki.
The Zanpakuto in Zaraki's hand didn't stop, and directly cut off the tentacles.
But there was no pain on Szayelaporro's face, but a mysterious smile was outlined instead.
'Got you!'
At the same time as the tentacles were severed, a lot of mucus began to spew out from behind him like sewage. Zaraki didn't have the slightest defense against it as all of his attention was on the tentacles, and so he was immediately contaminated by the mucus.
A figure exactly like him suddenly emerged from the mucus.
"Um?"
Zaraki glanced at his replica next to him curiously, and then looked at Szayelaporro.
"Although I don't know what you did, but what's the use of knowing it. As long as I cut you down, everything will be over, right!"
Zaraki spoke, and ignoring the replica beside him, he continued to slash towards Szayelaporro.
The previous attack only cut off two tentacles, and for the next attack, the target was Szayelaporro's head.
But at the moment of the attack, Zaraki found himself stopped because a figure appeared in front of him and blocked his attack with the same movement.
What blocked him was the duplicate that drilled out of the mucus.
"It can fight like me? It seems a bit interesting. I haven't done anything like fighting myself before!"
Zaraki didn't feel annoyed when he saw his duplicate blocking him, but became even more interested.
He swung his sword.
The clone also did the same, and he soon discovered that the clone's movements were exactly the same as his.
No, it's not exactly the same, it seemed that the movements were in sync with him, Zaraki still felt that it was a little uncoordinated.
"Do you only imitate?"
He looked at the figure in front of him that was exactly the same as himself and asked.
It's a pity that the other party seemed to only imitate his actions, but couldn't do more. It couldn't even speak.
Zaraki also discovered this, and then swung his sword even faster. Even though the clone in front of him tried its best to imitate, Zaraki grasped the momentary gap.
With a single slash at the opponent's body, the clone was killed off by him.
Zaraki easily dealt with the duplicate, and was about to kill Szayelaporro next, but before he moved his feet, a burst of heart palpitations hit him, and then the severe pain made his body convulse.
"As expected of a captain of Gotei 13, you are really amazing, but now, you are my doll."
Szayelaporro spoke softly while watching Zaraki.
In his hand, there was a small doll similar to Zaraki, and he was playing with it wantonly at the moment.
Previously, he spit slime to cover Zaraki, but not only created a carbon-copy of Zaraki, but also created this doll using Teatro de Titere (Japanese and Spanish for "Puppet Theater").
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