"Tenya?!"
Kirino's eyes widened, as if she had seen a savior, and she looked at him with tear-filled eyes.
"It's alright, Kirino."
Tenya gently stroked her head, his warm smile soothing the fear in her heart.
"Tenya!!!"
Kyousuke suddenly erupted, forcefully breaking free from the suppression of Conqueror's Haki, his palms instantly transforming into beastly claws, striking fiercely at Tenya.
Tenya ignored this, instead turning and kicking backward.
Sonido!
The instant movement technique of a Hollow.
Kyousuke's figure instantly moved behind Tenya, but the latter had anticipated his movement and kicked him away.
Bang!
Kyousuke's back hit the wall, and a mouthful of blood overflowed from his mask.
"Tenya, he...."
A hint of unbearable emotion flashed across Kirino's face, after all, he was her biological brother.
"Kirino, I'm very sorry. This man in front of you is no longer your biological brother."
Tenya activated his Rinnegan, and with its powerful ocular power, he instantly saw the true nature of the latter.
Kyousuke himself had been attacked by a Hollow, and his body and soul had completely Hollowfied.
Logically speaking, normal humans devoured by a Hollow cannot revert to human form. Yet, the Hollow in front of him was disguised as Kyousuke, it must have been under artificial control.
'The only one who could do this is Aizen. Was this intentional, or merely a Hollowfication experiment?' Tenya showed a thoughtful expression.
"Wooooah!!!"
The injured Kyousuke's body Hollowfied further, and a tail grew from behind him. Both his strength and speed were further enhanced.
Whoosh!
His coiled tail, like a spring, caused his body to spring forth.
Bang!
Tenya's right Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan firmly locked onto his movements. Tenya raised his knee and struck, hitting the latter's chin squarely. Kyousuke was sent flying by the immense force, his body smashing through the ceiling and soaring upwards.
Bang!
The roof of the Kousaka family's house was pierced through.
"This, what exactly....?"
Kirino collapsed to the ground, looking up at her brother who had been sent flying into the sky, utterly dumbfounded.
"Don't worry, Kirino. Everything will be resolved." Tenya stepped on empty air and flew upwards.
"Kirino is mine!!!"
Kyousuke let out an angry roar, wildly swinging his fists and launching dark red energy spheres, like cannonballs.
Whoosh... Whoosh... Whoosh...
The light of the Cero streaked across the sky, its speed even breaking the sound barrier.
Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi!
Tenya's right Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan instantly condensed black flame blades, clashing with and dispersing each Cero one by one.
Sonido!
Kyousuke's figure vanished into thin air, then instantly reappeared behind Tenya, slashing his claw at the back of his head. However, the sharp claw passed directly through Tenya's head, as if passing through an afterimage..
But as the opponent's claw left his head, Tenya's body instantly solidified again, and he raised his hand, firmly grasping Kyousuke's wrist.
Kyousuke's reaction was swift. He countered by firmly clamping Tenya's palm with his other claw, and outputting a Hollowfication erosion ability, releasing white substance to try and devour Tenya's body.
"Heh."
"This level of power, and you think you can erode me?"
The devil totem on Tenya's wrist rapidly expanded, black patterns covering his arm, and at the same time, he counter-infected the Hollow's white substance, turning it black, and the black further eroded Kyousuke's arm.
Life-freezing ice covered Kyousuke's entire arm. In his fright, a fierce expression emerged on his face, and with his other claw, he forcefully tore off his frozen left arm.
Kyousuke clutched his severed arm, his face twisted in a ferocious grimace, and then, with a wriggling of his body, a new arm quickly grew from his severed limb.
'High-speed regeneration....'
'Is his recovery speed far beyond that of a normal Hollow? This is what they call an Arrancar.'
Tenya could now confirm that the Kyousuke in front of him was indeed an experiment from Aizen.
"Kyousuke, I'll still call you by that name for now. Tell me everything you know."
Tenya raised his hand and grabbed at the opponent from a distance, releasing a powerful gravitational force from his palm.
Bansho Ten'in.
Kyousuke's claws gripped the ground tightly, trying to resist the gravity. However, as Tenya increased the Rinnegan's ocular power output, the gravitational force released from his palm became even more terrifying, even reaching the point of tearing the earth apart. Kyousuke could no longer escape, his body uncontrollably flew towards Tenya.
"Damn human! Don't underestimate the power of a Hollow."
Kyousuke roared, opening his mouth and condensing a dark red light: Cero!
Facing Kyousuke's charged attack, Tenya chose to confront it head-on, his bare hands enveloped in a massive layer of Tremor-Tremor Fruit power.
Spacequake!
Bang!
The surrounding space, like shattered glass, was shaken with numerous cracks. The dark red flash of the Cero was shattered and dispersed.
"Don't move."
Tenya's hand firmly gripped Kyousuke's neck.
Kyousuke was still defiant, and his fingers twitched.
Buzz!
Tenya used the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, applying it to Kyousuke's body. The terrifying Tremor-Tremor Fruit power shattered all of the latter's bones, along with his internal organs.
"Wahhhh!"
Kyousuke spat out a large amount of blood, and his aura instantly became extremely weak.
"I told you not to move. Now, can you speak?"
Tenya threw the blood-stained, limp Kyousuke onto the ground like trash.
"I don't know anything."
"One night, when I went out to the convenience store to buy a late-night snack, I encountered a masked monster with a hole in its chest, and then I lost consciousness."
"At first, I thought it was just a dream. I never thought I would turn into such a monster."
Severely wounded, Kyousuke's eyes became clearer.
"Did you see any suspicious individuals, or did anyone say anything to you?" Tenya continued to press.
"Suspicious person..."
Kyousuke seemed to be deep in thought, then seemed to recall something and was about to explain.
But suddenly, dense incantations appeared on his body, forming a gigantic black rectangular prism with himself as the center.
"No, don't....!"
"Save me! Save me!"
Kyousuke seemed to sense that something was wrong, and he screamed in terror.
The sudden change, that gigantic black rectangular prism, enveloped Tenya.
Kamui!
Tenya's right Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan activated its ocular technique, transferring his body into a different dimension.
The black rectangular prisms connected, forming an airtight black coffin. It possessed extremely powerful crushing force on the internal space.
Tenya recognized this technique; it was Aizen's signature high-level Kidō: Hadō #90. Kurohitsugi!
Rumble!!!
The power of the attack was immense, even capable of causing spatial collapse. This meant that Tenya, even while hiding in the other dimension, could not completely avoid the damage.