187: Chapter 187 How many "carts" of strength do you have?

"I want to try my best and see if I can cut you down."

Hearing Aizen's slightly arrogant voice, Mia felt a bit more at ease.

The [Twelve Labors of Love Formation] was finally having some effect; at least he wasn't so calm right now.

The blade light, obscured by the rainy night, pierced through the tattoo on Mia's lower abdomen. "Hmm? A beautiful tattoo? My apologies, I've ruined it."

Just as Aizen was about to change his thrust into a horizontal slash to disembowel Mia, a beautiful hand wearing a sexy silk glove grabbed his tsuba.

"Caught you..." Mia's voice was weak, yet tinged with excitement.

Seven [Profane Nails] accurately pierced through several of Aizen's vital points.

He abandoned his sword and retreated, propping himself up on the ground as he coughed up mouthfuls of blood.

"Ugh..." Mia endured the pain as she pulled [Kyoka Suigetsu] out of her body inch by inch. She then splashed [Vitality Potion EX] onto the wound.

"Hehe, heh... Hahahahaha..." In the rainy night, the heavily injured Aizen laughed very happily.

"Why aren't you affected by [Kyoka Suigetsu]? Is it because you're carrying some special magical tool?" He finally asked the question he had suppressed out of pride.

"Also, I don't believe I ever told you the method to break [Kyoka Suigetsu]?"

"Yeah, talking to smart people is so much easier. I don't even have to tell you specifically." Mia forced herself to stand steady and sheathed Aizen's zanpakuto at her waist.

Her left hand brushed over [Soul Blade: One Person], assuming a drawing stance.

All the remaining clones lunged at Aizen as if they cost nothing.

Gathering her energy and focus, a [Battojutsu] strike that extremely drained her mind seemed to shred even the curtain of rain as it swept toward Aizen.

"I call this move [Setsuna]. Although it won't kill you, it'll at least force you to reveal another trump card." Mia stood in the torrential rain, looking as if she could collapse into a pool of blood at any moment, swaying precariously.

The "Sosuke Aizen" from just now was sliced in two, falling into the rain with eyes wide open in death.

"How did you know it wouldn't kill me?" A curious, refined baritone voice echoed from all directions.

"Because you are Sosuke Aizen, that's why!" Mia seemed to find Aizen's question a bit beneath her, her voice carrying a hint of disdain alongside its sexiness and huskiness.

"I'm truly flattered by such high regard!" Aizen's voice drifted over. "Then I shall take my leave. I'll leave my sword with you for now. It's fine. If you survive, you can come find me."

"By the way, the Captains are about to arrive. I wonder what they'll think when they see a ground full of Soul Reapers killed by you? Rest assured, the effects glossed over by [Kyoka Suigetsu] are quite reliable."

"Furthermore, since when did you have the illusion that Rangiku hadn't been taken away by me? Hmm?"

Mia ignored him. Rangiku had the succubus mark she had planted earlier; the Paradise Lost System's judgment would not be wrong.

Aizen's psychological warfare didn't have the slightest effect. It only made him value Mia—a woman with both beauty and strength—even more.

However, he hadn't lied about two things: Isshin Shiba, Rojuro Otoribashi, and Kensei Muguruma had arrived at the 11th Division barracks.

The three of them looked at the corpses littering the ground, somewhat dazed.

The scene before them was Mia having slaughtered no fewer than a hundred Soul Reaper members. Although some of them clearly didn't look normal, the young girl standing in the pool of blood was a total scene-stealer. She looked even more abnormal.

Kensei Muguruma, being upright to a fault, didn't bother consulting the two beside him and went straight to Bankai, [Tekken Tachikaze: Hurricane], smashing a fist into Mia's abdomen...

A soft chuckle came from the darkness, heard only by Isshin Shiba. He realized instantly that Mia might not be the culprit and the three of them had been played.

At the end of her rope, Mia was nearly punched clean through by this strike.

The wound previously inflicted by Aizen completely burst open. Like a butterfly with torn wings, she was sent flying, silently falling into the deep crater created when she attacked Aizen, and was swallowed by the rainwater...

"Is this the power of one 'Kensei'? Truly trash..." Before falling unconscious, Mia's final thought was actually to complain about 'Kensei' as a unit of measurement.

"Kamishini no Yari!" A young boy's roar full of hatred drowned out the booming thunder of the rainy night.

Blade light that the eye couldn't possibly track pierced out hundreds of times in an instant, nearly turning Kensei Muguruma—who had a defensive bonus after Bankai—into a sieve. Gin Ichimaru's Bankai seemed to be more than half-complete.

Gin Ichimaru, having just arrived at the battlefield with eyes spitting fire and wearing the white casual clothes Mia had hand-knitted for him, insta-killed the guy who had hurt the sister who adopted him!

Then, using [Shunpo], he reached Mia's side. Together with Rangiku, he took the last remaining potion from Mia's person and poured it into her red lips, which always seemed as delicate as if they were dripping with nectar.

Behind him, Byakuya Kuchiki and Ginrei Kuchiki did not interfere with Gin Ichimaru's actions at all, and even showed a subtle hint of support.

Byakuya held Rukia, who was crying and clamoring to see her "Sister," standing there coldly, forming a de facto confrontation with Isshin Kurosaki and the others.

Gin Ichimaru didn't have the resolve to kill Kensei Muguruma; it was simply rage that gave him the courage to swing his blade at a Soul Reaper Captain.

Rojuro squatted beside Kensei and saw he was still breathing, so he used Kido to call for the 4th Division Captain.

The two groups stood in the rain waiting until Captain Unohana arrived at the 11th Division with Isane...

Isane examined the cause of death of the Hollowfied Soul Reapers on the ground, clearing Mia of suspicion. In an instant, Mia went from a criminal who harmed colleagues to a hero who protected the Seireitei.

Captain Unohana used Mia's potion to help stabilize her injuries.

As for Kensei Muguruma, he was completely ignored the entire time. Rojuro also realized a major problem: the person Kensei had almost killed was the Vice-Captain of the 4th Division...

Ultimately, under the interrogation of "righteousness," Sajin Komamura gambled his future and life to petition Captain-Commander Yamamoto to re-verify the orders from Central 46.

The old man looked at the disciple he had raised with utter helplessness. After informing Sajin of the severe consequences, he took him to verify the previous orders, only to discover that Central 46 knew nothing about the matter.

Chōjirō Sasakibe quickly activated [Tenteikura] to notify Isshin Shiba and the other two. If they had really killed the 11th Division's cafeteria lady and the family's helm without cause, who knew if that lunatic Kenpachi Zaraki would tear down half of the Seireitei?

...On the other hand, due to feeling uneasy, Kenpachi Zaraki, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Ryan, Tuaner, and Mia's clone all desperately completed their designated targets without even taking time to speak, returning at least three days earlier than expected.

On the way back, the clone's face, which looked exactly like Mia's, began to shed tears involuntarily, which couldn't be wiped dry no matter how she tried.

Yachiru urged Kenpachi to cut down the "Koutotsu." When the group bid farewell to the other expedition members and returned to the 11th Division covered in dust, they saw only a ground full of ruins...

Sensing the aura of Kensei's Bankai on the broken walls and debris, Kenpachi Zaraki didn't say a word. He tore off the eyepatch that suppressed his spiritual pressure and headed straight for the 9th Division barracks...