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Ugu Zenmaru

Vs.

Rednal Ak'Thias

The large seven foot tall shinigami walked in from the entrance of the arena. After a moment of walking he reached the elevated floor that his opponent has already stood on. Ugu then jumped up from the ground and onto the wooden flooring.

A tremor shook the wooden flooring the second the man's feet landed. He pulled out his soul cutter from his sheath, gripping it with both of his hands. The man kept the sword in front of himself, loosely bobbing the tip of the blade in front of himself. No words were spoken from Ugu's mouth. He squared his stance, and straightened his back. The man waited for his opponent to make the first move.

Ugu looked down at his short opponent with his lime eyes. Six yards, or so, was the only space between the two fighters. A smile crept onto Ugu's lips.

Ugu muttered something along the lines of "Red Ocher Renewal, Egeus" and remained fixed in his stance. His sword, beginning to enter its shikai, grew a foot after a glowing light emitted from from its shiny metal. Its rounded katana-like tip turned to a more European shaped edge as it turned into its stronger form.

A then whisper fell from his lips, again, as he awoke a technique from his soul slayer. ".. Chishio Sakurifaisu.." Egeus, Ugu's soul cutter, gleamed from its base to its furthest tip.

The shinigami let out a breath as he remained in his sturdy stance.

Ugu let out a small breath. Rednal was roughly five or more times slower than the shinigami that Ugu had just defeated. From what Ugu gauged, anyways. So Ugu remained standing with his sword in front of himself, un fazed by his opponent's boot-jutsu.

He kept his blade up as he chanted a minor incantation. "... Way of Binding No. 12 Chains of Earth, Constrict your soul, Bound by my will, Chains of earth constrict and coil...." Within moments several chains would burst from the wooden flooring beneath Rednal. The twelve-some chains would send several hundred splinters up into the air as they would attempt tp grapple upon Rednal. Each thick chain link sprun up around Rednal, threatening to twist and wrap the shorter shinigami.

His eyes watched his opponent just 'pass by' his holding kidou. Then he let out another breath, and he tensed his grip on his blade so that he'd had a better 'snap' action if his opponent showed up at his sides. He let out another small breath from his mouth.

He began chanting, quickly stringing together the words of his next kidou. "Ages remorse, thunderous shallows...."

Focus. Eternal focus. The shinigami quieted himself, centering his mind and spirit energy inside of himself and inside his soul cutter. 'The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered,' he thought to himself, within a heaven splitting flash of thought, as he reminded himself of Confucius.

Ugu's shikai finally entered its full state. Two three foot long pauldrons shaped themselves on the large shingami's shoulders. Rednal's blade then connected to Ugu's left plate and was blocked. A chuckle came from Ugu while he finished his spell. "... evaporating shallows."

"A tree hits harder, Rednal," the shinigami added cleverly. A ground ripping gale then tore from Ugu, bringing up splinters and exploding chunks of wood from the ground. For 21.88 yards the wind road out, pushing away the air and splinters with the kidou technique. With that powerful wind rushing out from Ugu's pores, a flame viciously flowed out for a scorching 10.94 yards.

At the beginning of the fight Rednal was at the center of the 12x12 floor (Post 2: "the boy walked back towards the middle of the arena"). That meant that Rednal was 6 yards from the edges of the arena. At the beginning of the match, Ugu position himself at the edge of the elevated ground (Post 3: "Six yards, or so, was the only space between the two fighters"). That'd meant that Rednal had appeared behind Ugu, in the air or on a very thin piece of wooden battleground.

Coupled with the blast of flame-wind, Rednal would most probably find himself flying into the crowd.

"See?" We aren't late," Okuni smiled as she walked int from the gates for the audience.

Zenmaru-kun seems to be doing well isn't he?" She smiled as she looked back at the following Bukotsu whom was behind her. Taking a seat she watched as Ugu faced his opponent. She looked to see if Bukotsu was still behind her was well before she sat down.

As Rednal neared his opponent, he used Shunpo to finish the distance and reappeared only two feet in front of his enemy. It was entirely unnecessary, but a dash forward at the end succeeded in putting others off balance mentally nearly ninety-nine percent of the time, giving it good enough odds for Rednal to use. He was not worried about a counter this time.


His first boost this time around, Heaven's Tracker, was a nasty little kidou. Against the name, it did not allow him to track targets through umpteen miles of wilderness. Not by far. Instead, the technique sent information to Rednal's subconscious mind, telling him exactly what the weak spots in anything were. For the first time around, it was getting through his opponent's stance.


That was not enough, however, to be of true use. So he immediately went onto stage two and located the points on his opponent's shoulder guards where it would break if struck correctly, his technique allowing this to be done at the speed of thought. Everything had a weakness, after all, you simply had to know what it does. Having located that, the boy twisted his blade around so he was holding it in one hand and brought it up to hit both of the guards simultaneously.


This was the reason he had chosen Heartbreaker as his second. Heartbreaker, surprisingly, did rather what it sounded like it might. The technique allowed Rednal to shatter things that ordinarily he would be unable to. As an integral part of his blade, Rednal's boosting spells were of a high enough level to be effective even against Shikai, and possibly Bankai. That second part, however, had not yet been proved, and the boy had no intention of testing it anytime soon. He was confident, however, that his opponent couldn't withstand the less-flashy aspect of Rednal's precious Ein Sou.


The entire move had taken approximatly half a second.

"Alright alright," Bukotsu said taking his seat and observing the match. His eyes hadn't left the match when he had heard from Okuni that Ugu was doing well.

Ugu could not be psyched out mentally, his mind was very fortified, and a very powerful body to add onto that. The opponent however, was using spells to boost his power, and clearly seeing that he also used reistu draining spells to give him that power.

The only thing that Bukotsu had sought about that the shingami named Rednal was that he was relying too much on boost or bonus stats from his spells. Although, to him Ugu was also very technical with his style of fighting, and that was what gave him edge with his match before. But Ugu did have some weaknesses.

Bukotsu had been sitting there with an observative look on his face. In his mind, power is not what makes you powerful, it is how you deal with other power make you powerful. One of the many ideas that Bukotsu had learned from his previous match.