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If Rednal had not still been moving, the technique would have blown a large and very painful hole straight through Rednal. However, Rednal took only a gash on the arm instead because he had not stopped moving. He never assumed his opponents had no way to counter unless they were truly disabled from doing so. This one could obviously think on his feet.

Rednal was pleased about the block, however. Twisting his blade so its edge was against his opponent's blade's flat side, the boy smiled as his weapon dug in and cracked his opponent's blade. Heartbreaker let him break things when there wasn't too great of a difference in strength. While a Shikai was indeed much more powerful than a normal blade, this sword in and of itself was not strong enough to resist the spell. Not that it wasn't still quite strong, but Rednal's spells were the subtle side of his own Shikai, and were not so measly themselves.

As soon as he had pulled his blade back, the boy then made two quick slashes, first up and then down, and vanished from sight. Shunpo was quite helpful.

"That was unsual," Okuni had concluded after seeing what had happened. She had seen that a crack had been landed on Egeus. Ugu's shikai had been halted.

"I think he should've saved his shikai for later..." She spoke softly as she observed the match, she knew very well that the other shinigami was using boosting spells to himself. To her it was odd for shinigami to things, but if it was a strategy, it was a strategy. She smirked, "Ugu's in trouble, but I think that Rednal is being straightforward with some attacks, shattering Ugu's blade would be original, but according to rules, it's allowable, Let's see what Ugu does next, most likely he has a plan forged," Okuni smirked standing up and walking over to the rail for a closer view.

Ugu appeared on the battleground's floor, ready to be greeted by any of Rednal's attacks. However, he wasn't in his usual 'stance'. The shinigami was on the ground with his legs crosslegged. His buttox was against the still burning timber of the field, keeping himself balanced in his small amount of space. He wasn't standing, his back wasn't straight, and he wasn't even holding his soul cutter to defend against his opponent.

He had closed his eyes. No aura burst from the man's clothing, no mass of spirit energy pressured the area around him, and nor did any 'magick trick' slam his opponent's shoulders into the ground. The giant shinigami remained firm in his position un-harrowed by his opponent's flashy downward cutting attack.

A calm breath left Ugu's mouth to intertwine with the air around him.

Ugu brought his left hand up from his lap. His left hand opened to reveal his large palm, showing its massive amounts of scars accumulated over the past several years of training. Endless days and nights of mind retching training was shown in the single glimpse of Ugu's hand.

And his hand remained open, focused as ever, to catch Rednal's incoming blow. It landed neatly into Ugu's palm and was aptly pushed to the side. Rednal's move then flew away from Ugu to screech away into the sky above the arena, totally missing the stands in which the viewers currently sat in.

"Rednal. Do you wish to quit now?" Ugu asked. His eyes remained closed, and his left hand remained slightly above his shoulder where he had deflected the Zanjutsu. "Because I do not believe that you will receive the chance later to do so. From this point on, if you refuse to surrender, I will be forced to end this match in the most expedient way possible."

Bukotsu was rather surprised, walking up to the rail with Okuni he smiled lightly, "The match just became more interesting..." Bukotsu said referring to how Rednal had opened shikai. He himself observing the match go on.

"From this view however, to me it seem's like a test of wills at this point," Bukotsu said as he watched the match go on, "At this point, Ugu seems like he's in trouble," Bukotsu said as he watched Rednal make his move.

Ugu remained sitting. He brought down his hands and folded them together on his lap. Ugu's breathing remained constant and unnervingly calm as he remained focused. All around him the voices of the crowd entered an eerie silence. The small and dying out flames around him then instantly died out as a small wind flew in from the north.

His clothing ruffled from the slightly cold wind. Ugu put a minute amount of his reiatsu into his feet readying for a flash-step attack.

Rednal moved only those muscles that he couldn't control. Some people claimed to not move a single muscle sometimes, something the young Shinigami found incredibly unlikely. Nobody controlled their body that well. Nobody. Period. Instead, he simply remained still, in his basic stance. Switching to either offense or defense at a moment's notice would be simple for him. The boy then began speaking quietly under his breath.

And Rednal waited. He would wait as long as was necessary to defeat his opponent. Though, he thought wryly, he probably wouldn't have to wait too long.

There was a bright flash of light from Rednal's shoulder and his sword as Zenmaru's attack took effect. Only a small amount of blood splashed towards the exposed blade before the wound was stopped. Rednal was more surprised than his opponent probably was, but a moment of quick thought answered the question. Ghost Diver. Definitely the most useful of his spells, it had gone beyond what he thought it did to fulfill its function. He felt a bit more drained than he should have, because it had needed more energy to perform its duty, but it had worked.

Ghost Diver's power was countering all attacks. Nasty technique. Like the others, the truest way past it was overloading it, but this hadn't been enough; and while it drained a lot more energy than his other spells because it was so much stronger, Rednal's regular practice with it had built up his raw spiritual energy. Zenmaru almost had overridden the spell, but there was tw more facets of it he probably hadn't counted on, even had he known the spell. First, Platinum Singer was also active. A companion spell, it raised his physical and spiritual defense. That gave a boost to Ghost Diver's ability. On top of that, Rednal had not been muttering nonsense under his breath. Hanging in his hand was a glimmering pair of golden blades. "Ein Sou." the boy said. His Sacred Spells were part of his Shikai, and when that was unbound, they were stronger. Zenmaru had pulled an incredibly good move on Rednal, and under almost any circumstance, it probably would have worked.

His error was sitting down like he had. Rednal was cautious, not headstrong. Instead of preparing for an attack of his own, he had chosen to do all he could to thwart Zenmaru's next move. It had been obvious he was planning something nasty, and the boy did not want to get hit by it. If he hadn't revealed he was going to do something that way, it would likely have taken Rednal out then and there.

Instead.... apparent coup de grace.

The boy did a flash-step of his own and moved behind his opponent. The boy crossed his blades a moment later so that Zenmaru's head was between them. "Do you wish to quit now?" he asked wryly. "If you refuse to surrender, I will be forced to end this match in the most expedient way possible."