“Gah…”
After suffering a severe laceration that reached his internal organs, Tokinada’s clothes were soaked in blood.
He careened backward and was about to turn up to the heavens, but he just barely stopped himself and kept standing. He planted his feet on the ground even more resolutely than before.
Then he laughed. Breaking into a cold sweat, he used kaido he was inexperienced with in order to forcibly stop the bleeding, and he continued to laugh.
“Ha ha…ha ha ha ha ha! I can’t believe you would…you would be able to defeat Kyoka Suigetsu with something like that!”
“You stubborn mule, you’re still alive?” Ginjo seemed exasperated as he readied his longsword in order to seal the deal.
In the next moment, Tokinada ejected a strange cloth from his left sleeve.
“What is that?”
In caution, Ginjo kept a step back.
The fabric seemed to wriggle like a living creature as it instantly created a swirl around Tokinada like a tornado. It revolved forcefully as it wrapped around his body.
“That’s…the thing that was in Abarai’s report…”
It was cloth that had been infused with special kido in order to force one to change locations.
Aizen had created the special equipment in an era when teleportation was completely banned. Its existence was confirmed when it was used by Aizen and Ichimaru to escape the scene after having murdered the Central 46 and by Kaname Tosen, when he simultaneously abducted Abarai and Rukia.
“You plan on using this opportunity to run? I think coming in quietly would be best for your sake.”
“Don’t be so foolish, Kyoraku. If I’m going to spend the rest of my life in tedium until the day I die, I would much rather just die!”
Even as blood dribbled from his mouth, he raised a voice that was so filled with determination that he didn’t seem as though he were half dead.
“In that case, let us kill you quietly.”
Ginjo swung his sword, but in the moment before, the cloth had closed up any openings. After the fabric was cut up by the longsword, Tokinada had already disappeared.
“Tsk…I let him get away! Where’d he disappear to?”
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