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Hei winced when the steroids were injected, he never really liked that feeling of things being pushed into his bloodstream. It was not sickening, it was just discomforting to have his veins expand slightly due to the extra fluids being forced inside. As Tsukiko turned his head to look at her, he put a hand on hers and gave it a small squeeze, then pulled it away. After grabbing his katana and slipping it into it's saya, he spoke his Bankai's sealing command which caused his appearance to revert to normal, also causing his Shihakushō and Haori to reform. Rising to his feet, he moved his hand to the back of her head and ruffled her hair affectionately. "You figured it all out on your own, I'm proud of your insight. You've grown into a fine young woman with an intellect to match my own, you should take pride in yourself for that much. And thank you, for following through with the path I set forth and bringing me back." Casting her a smile and Asami a look of mild annoyance before turning towards the edge of the Hill. As he approached it, he extended his left hand, causing his white katana to flip out of the destroyed grave and fly towards his hand, where he caught it just below the tsuba and slid it into his hakama-himo.

Taking a single step forward, Hei was suddenly in front of Aurelius and he would have been chest to chest with the Exaequare had he not been about a foot to the right. He stood in a relaxed pose, his left arm folded and sticking out at the elbow while resting his wrist on Aurelius' left shoulder. He kept his eyes trained on the scenery behind the boy and as he stood in total silence, his Kuromijin caught up with him. Since they were not being directed to do anything at the moment, they decided to form themselves in the loose image of a large dragon's mouth and swoop over towards Vesper, preparing to "swallow" him whole. However, before they could do anything, they halted a foot away from the Exaequare as Hei snapped the fingers of his left hand, then floated back towards him obediently. Directing his gaze to his left, Hei moved his right hand to his hip and began to speak in a low voice to Aurelius, knowing full well the boy was terrified of him.

"You're incredibly lucky Tsukiko took you off cryogenic stasis, because I would have never done it. In fact, my original intention was to leave you like that and leave it up to science to find out where you guys lived and let Tsukiko determine from there how to get to there, and then do what she had to do. I still resent your for trying to kill my sister, and that won't change. However, I'm not so stupid as to kill off the one person who can send me where I need to go immediately. So you live for another day, and you will now send me to wherever this place is along with those two ladies on top of the Hill. Understood?" Increasing the volume of his voice, he directed his next statement to everyone else in the meadow. "And if those two are still alive when I get back, they will die, and the rest of you will be severely punished for being so embarrassingly weak." Releasing Aurelius, he stepped over to his tomb to check on something, the stone petals that he thought he had felt on his chest while he had still been in the coffin. When he saw a few lying in the hole he had been in, he knew Zenos had been here, but did not know the reason.

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『 Black Star twitched his brows. His attack had been mostly negated by Vesper's weird technique, his ears had a ring to them now, and Nanashi just used his face as some sort of stepping stool. "Friggin'... b*****d!" He wiped his face as he looked at Nanashi. "You stole my spot light! Who the nom nom nom, hell do you think you are, interrupting the biggest star here?!" Blood veins had popped up and his legs had spread apart, he was pointing straight at the freak while speaking. He took his anger out on a punch to Tadashi's arm. "Tadashi, shut and attack!!! GAWD! You're annoying me to no ends! Just stop harassing my stardom, and trying to steal it, and just get yer own stage ta stand on!" His anger was still apparent as he was taking it out on Tadashi. "You're incapable of working with anyone, if you aren't going to try to do something on your own! If you want to work with me, it'll just happen!" He spoke louder once more, it was amazing how loud his voice could get, but still remain such a young tone.

"Oi, Exaequare, my name IS Black Star. And don't make light of it..." He lowered his head as he concentrated his Reiatsu. Tsubaki wrapped herself around Black Star as he put both hands into a hand seal, two large shuriken appeared out of no where beside of him, which he quickly took hold of. "Now's your chance, Tadashi, follow my stardom~! Heyah!!" He flung one Shuriken for Vesper's legs and the other for his head, he knew that Vesper would use his warping ability to avoid the attack, that is why he was working with Tadashi for the moment. He wanted him to find him and attack him when he appeared. Black Star took hold of Tsubaki as he chain unraveled and fell. He flung Tsubaki into the air, which quickly formed into star on the ground with the chain coming back down in the middle of one of the points into his hand. Using Trap Star as a fail-safe if Tadashi managed to not do what he relaying on him for. He concentrated and closed his eyes, fully relying on his sense; if Vesper would enter the star formation, it would be bad news for him.

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Tadashi reacted instantly upon seeing Vesper's movement - he'd been preparing himself for any possibility regarding Vesper's counter, whether it be an attack of his own or a simple evasion such as what he'd just done. He flash-stepped and appeared to Vesper's left, his eyes shining with killing intent. Pouring all his energy into swinging the currently unwieldy Tenma, he managed to move it seamlessly through the air, its target Vesper's arm or shoulder. He was fully focused on drawing blood, but that didn't mean he had to get sloppy either. Even while moving the blades of Tenma down, he cast an incantationless Sekienton that was just large enough to fog up the air around the two so it would be harder for Vesper to efficiently react. It was true Vesper was now stronger, that much was clear, but perhaps he wasn't substantially faster because of it.

Pulling his mouth into a cat grin, he smiled at the praise he was given, but quickly denied his prowess for whatever reason. "Dakarananda?! 11th or not, I ain't that damn good! Hoo..." Letting a small breath escape from his teeth, he grinned and looked at Kwang-Sun just as Cornix aimed another arrow at Tadashi. "If ya want something to do, heal someone like the good little 4th Divisioner ya are. I got a few baby cuts from that pointy b*****d over there, want to fix me up? Ah, forget it. I'll just lick them and use ki-ai later to fix-heal them, none of yer nasty medicine." Though it was not in Nanashi's nature to be mean or hostile, he didn't like the 4th Division all too much since they focused more on healing then fighting, a trait in people his disliked. That and he was being serious, which was annoying in itself.

Tilting his head towards Hei, Nanashi laughed to himself at Hei's comment of him being punished if they were still here when he got back. If that was the case, then he'd just have to beat them, no questions asked. As he watched Hei move towards his grave, he scratched his right cheek gently, taking a minute to marvel at his stature and overall demeanor; it was like nothing could be made to affect him. "Mei-Ō, eh? I can why after that madness." Turning back to Cornix, Nanashi raised his eyebrow in amusement as Cornix did the one thing he apparently thought would get Nanashi riled up; go after Suzume. "Aho..." With a rapid shunpo, Nanashi was quickly next to his trident, his right foot slipped into the gap in the pole part of the trident. As he fired the arrows, Nanashi grinned widely at the idea of cutting him open and launched his trident into the air flicking his leg upward. Jumping up to meet it, he grabbed it by the handle, teleported to the bottom of the hill and slapped a rather large boulder with his free hand, applied Daikōshōshin to it and vanished once more.

Instead of appearing between the arrows and Suzume, however, he appeared to the right of Cornix and his arrow sphere. At this time, Nanashi did something completely unprecedented and unorthodox; he twirled his trident and forced his Shikai to seal itself, causing it to turn into the golden-handled katana it was when sealed. "Should have just come after me, arrow-chan, I know damn well the little girl can take care of herself." Grinning widely, he flicked his katana to the side and proceeded to execute a series of rapid shunpo and cuts to the arrow sphere, which coupled with his speed and strength would slice and dice it open like a fruit. "Uōsaō, Sōshinome!" As it fell apart, Nanashi looked to the sky, twirled his katana and released it once more, dropping the heavy trident into the ground, throwing dirt and cratering the ground next to his feet. "Daikōshōshin: Shinkūidō." With a hysterical laugh, Nanashi snapped his fingers and the boulder vanished and appeared above Cornix as he was distracted with the sphere that was falling apart. Looking towards his Captain, Nanashi cupped both hands over his mouth and called out to her. "Ne, pretty lady, can I use it now?" He asked hopefully, clearly expecting her to know what he was referring to.

Kwang-Sun 4th Division Lieutenant





Kwang-Sun smirked and looked at Nanashi direction. Usually,Kwang would not have taken such a harsh tone and words from a person before on any circumstance. However, Kwang knew that the 4th division wasn't liked by alot of other people in different divisions. He suspected that people didn't think that people in the 4th division could fight and were just weak. Kwang knew that his fighting skills were just as good as anyone else but he couldn't prove it at the moment. It was fine with him. He'd would just have to prove to Nanashi that he shouldn't doubt the fighting skills of anyone in the 4th division.

by watching the fights unfold,Kwang assumed that it would be much long till it was all over. The Exequares were not weak but they seemed to lack motivation. It felt as if they were trying to hurry through the fight.By doing that they exert a lot of energy and basically rush to there own death. Kwang, didn't find this all that surprising. It was obvious that the two Exequares bite more than they could chew by challenging the combatants in the 13 court squads. Kwang never understood why people always challenged others if they knew the odds of them succeeding would be very slim. It seems people do reckless things like that all the time and die a brutal death or suffer great losses because of it.

Kwang diverted his attention from the battle to his wondering thoughts of when his captain would return. Since hei came back to life he thought all of them would have returned by now. Even if they were in fighting he thought at least they retreat to fight another day with Hei at there side so there odds of winning would increase Ten fold. Kwang had a feeling that there were no serious injuries and even if they were he knew that his captain would heal them up as soon and quickly as possible.

Asami watched what was going on in the battle with fairly little interest. Not caring about the enemies, but merely observing her Lieutenant in action. He was a highly capable combatant and made her proud to have him as a lieutenant even if he was slightly annoying at times. A smirk rested upon her face as he resealed his shikai and destroyed the sphere of arrows with nothing but sheer speed and his swordsmanship. Had she been closer she probably would have gave him some sort of praise. However a few moments later he cupped his hands over his mouth and shouted towards her asking for permission to use ‘it’ now, which Asami knew he was referring to his Bankai. Though not a problem, he referred to her as ‘pretty lady’ which to most women would be a compliment it wasn’t a good way for a lieutenant to refer to their captain. The smirk on her face shifted to a frown as she mulled over allowing him to use it. She was almost tempted to tell him no simply for referring to her in an unprofessional way but then decided not to punish him since he did after all compliment her.

To answer him she cupped her hands over her mouth just as he had done. “If you think you really need it then of course you can use it, dear.” She shouted through her cupped hands, aiding her voice in carrying across the gap to Nana. After a brief pause she continued. “However if you use it I suggest you crush both of them and not use it for just one.” She removed her hands from her mouth after her second sentence and returned them into the shallow pockets of her pants. Now she just needed to sit and wait for Aurelius to take them to the leader of their race to they could crush him.

"Keh," grunted Tadashi as soon as he was fairly certain his blades were stained with blood. His next reaction was to step away and turn back to get as far away as possible now that his objective was completed. In the very moment he was about to flash-step, however, he felt a searing pain on his left arm and saw several shining lights in the red smoke of the Sekienton. 'Damn...this smokescreen worked against me...I couldn't see those coming.' Tadashi used his shunpo to get out of the Sekienton, and was about to do another one to return to Black Star's side. That's when he felt the sonito for a torturous few seconds, but Tadashi was able to keep his mind focused on his shunpo and appeared next to Black Star.

"Exaequare...it seems you've underestimated me," said Tadashi, smiling like a maniac and holding up Tenma for Vesper to see. The wound on his arm where the arrow had grazed him was dripping with blood, and it looked as if a piece of flesh was no longer there - but Sakamoto paid this no mind.

Anyone watching would only see an idiot Lieutenant marvelling at landing a slight blow on his opponent, and he knew it too. But at the moment, he didn't care what he looked like or how much of a weakling he thought he was. All that mattered was that Vesper died.

"Ketsueki...Sakushi," said Tadashi, activating Tenma's strongest ability. The claws shone for a moment and cleaned themselves of Vesper's blood, few drops as they were. In the next moment, Vesper would have his sight and hearing malfunction to the point of probable insanity. His eyes could show him two or three Tadashi's, or perhaps random colors would appear as if the world was a canvas and paint was being spilled on it, and sometimes vision would either completely or partially black out. His ears would be affected as well - whether he went temporarily deaf or volume was magnified enormously. He might even hear shrill screams in his ears, horrifying terrible screams - an effect which Tadashi found suited Tenma's sadistic tastes. Vesper had a similar power in regards to disorienting his opponent's, but the Blood Illusion would prove to likely be a nightmarish experience in comparison.

He remembered when Eriko was subjected to the Blood Illusion, and how he was almost unable to stop it and spare her mind the torment. This time, he would not stop it, and there would be no mercy involved.

(Effect lasts for 3 of my turns).