Chapter 45 - Crushing Strength

“Oji-sama, please leave it to me this time.”

Watanabe Ichiro, who held a grudge against Kimura Muyang, immediately asked his uncle to let him handle Kimura Muyang by himself.

Seeing Watanabe Ichiro’s determination, Watanabe Keiryū gave it a little thought and nodded immediately after. He only saw Kimura Muyangas a lucky brat, that’s all. He was quite skilled indeed, but not that skilled. Besides, he could always step in when things got a bit dicey, so this should be a good chancefor his nephew to have a little workout.

More importantly, Watanabe Ichiro’sZanpakutohad a slightly special ability, and those who didn’t know about it would definitely have a hard time against him.

“Hm?”

Kimura Muyang was a little surprised when he saw thatWatanabe Keiryū actually sent Watanabe Ichiro all by himself to fight him. He was laughing deep down as this 5th Division Captain clearly didn’t take him seriously.

“It’s fine if you gang up on me, actually.Yet you send the weakest one out of you three. Are you alright in the head?”

Kimura Muyangsmiled as he observed them one by one.

Watanabe Ichiro snapped. The veins on his forehead were bulging. He couldn’t endure this humiliation and glared at Kimura Muyang fiercely.

“Let me make it beforehand; I’m not with those two.”

Kimura Muyangfrowned. As fellow Lieutenant, Kimura Muyangobviouslyrecognized who he was, even though he barely knew anything about him mainly because he seemed so hard to approach.

What does this guy mean, and on which sidewas he?

Kimura Muyang really couldn’t figure out what this oddball was thinking. He hated dealing with this kind of guy the most. Besides, how could Kimura Muyang believe that he was not with the other two just because he said it?

“Kimura Muyang, I’ll pay you back for the humiliation you’ve put me through.”

Watanabe Ichiro gnashedhis teeth as he glared at Kimura Muyang.

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Kimura Muyang was puzzled as he didn’t remember doing anything to humiliate him. As far as he was concerned, they were complete strangers.

“You haven’t seen my Zanpakuto yet.”

Watanabe Ichiro gradually regained his composure.

“Besides, a prodigy like you could care less about other students’ business.”

Kimura Muyang was a little embarrassed because Watanabe Ichiro wasn’t that far off from the truth. He rarely socialized with his classmates, let alone the students from another class. The onlyperson he talked to on a daily basis was probably the dense and weirdAranmaruShishin.

“Okay, I’m not here to hear your gibberish.” Kimura Muyang raised his hand to stop Watanabe Ichiro from spouting nonsense.

“Come to think of it, you are Lieutenant now, huh?” Watanabe Ichiro smiled and quickly took his stance. From his stance, it was safe to say that he had experiences in actual combat and wasn’t just a complete amateur.

“If that’s the case, disperse, Seikiripiru!”

“Hm? “

The mist that was almost invisible to the naked eye was suddenly emanated from the Zanpakuto in Watanabe Ichiro’s hand. At the same time, everything around Watanabe Ichiro suddenly became hazy.

What is this ability?

Seeing the mist around Watanabe Ichiro’s body gradually spread out, Kimura Muyang suddenly kept his guard up. Although he was confident in his own strength, he couldn’t afford to just ignore this unknown ability in front of him.

“My Zanpakuto’s name is Seikiripiru. The smoke that Seikiripiru discharged has a psychedelic effect, and I can freely manipulate your visual perception while you’re in this mist.”

Watanabe Ichiro looked at Kimura Muyangsmugly as if he had already won.

“For example, what are you seeing now?”

Watanabe Ichiro suddenly split into two right in front of Kimura Muyangand both of them looked at Kimura Muyang smugly.

“Do you know which one is me? Well, even if you know which one, how about this?”

Both of Watanabe Ichiro multiplied and kept multiplying, and before Kimura Muyang knew it, he was already surrounded by 100 people, all of whom had the same face and expression.

There were 100 Watanabe Ichiro around Kimura Muyang and all of them talked simultaneously: “How about now? Can you find my real body? How do you plan to deal with this situation? No matter how skilled you are, you can’t possibly attack all 100 of us at the same time, but I can attack you at will… like this!”

All 100 of them attacked Kimura Muyang at the same time. They all looked exactly like Watanabe Ichiro, but the rest of them knew it was just illusions created by his Zanpakuto. Even so, there was no effective way to deal with it. As Watanabe Ichiro said, even though Kimura Muyang knew it was just an illusion, there was no point unless he destroyed them all at the same time because there was  no way to distinguish which one was the real Watanabe Ichiro. Meanwhile, Watanabe Ichiro could blend among these illusions and attacked Kimura Muyang from his blind spot.

Even the apathetic Ryūzaki Sengyo were in awe upon seeing the ability of Watanabe Ichiro’s Zanpakuto. It was no wonder that Watanabe Ichiro was so arrogant. It was all because this ability was really difficult to deal with. Even most Shinigami would’ve panicked in this situation. Furthermore, Watanabe Ichiro himself couldn’t be underestimated either.

Even with 100 people rushing at him, Kimura Muyang was still unfazed and smiled as he drew his Zanpakuto slowly.

Kimura Muyang effortlessly blocked all the attack from all directions simply by slightly swinging his Zanpakuto.

“I’d be so disappointed if this is all you got.” Kimura Muyang said after blocking all attacks and flashed out of the encirclement shortly after.

“You little…!” Seeing his proud technique didn’t even faze Kimura Muyang was really unbearable for him, and the finishing blow was Kimura Muyang’s insult.

“I have at least 3 ways to deal with your ability .”

Kimura Muyang said mockingly as he raised 3 fingers. He would be as thorough as possible when it came to crushing his enemies. He’d crush them both pyhsically and mentally.

“First .”

Kimura Muyang suddenly disappeared and flashed accross all of Watanabe Ichiro’s clones, destroying them all at once. Kimura Muyang wasn’t even out of breath as he stood in front of the real Watanabe Ichiro

“Underestimating me is your first mistake. Even if those 100 illusions were real, I can crush them all by myself.”

Watanabe Ichiro was furious, but it was a fact that the ability he was so proud of was easily dealt with by Kimura Muyang. “Even if you crush 100 clones, I can make more clones. If 100 didn’t work, I’ll make 200. If 200 doesn’t work, I’ll make 1000. Can you keep this up forever?”

As Watanabe Ichiro was done talking, there were around 300 Watanabe Ichiro surrounding Kimura Muyang this time.

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“Feel free to try again, and the number will keep rising, can you do it again? It’s not like you have unlimited stamina. Once you show any sign of exhaustion, the real me will finish you off!” All Watanabe Ichiro’s clones said at the same time and with the exact same expression.

“Have you found the real me?”

Kimura Muyang just sighed.

“Did you think I accidentally left out your real body just now?”

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