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Tōshirō and the others stared in shock at Aaron, who had appeared out of thin air.
Their astonishment wasn't just due to Aaron's incredible speed but, more importantly, the terrifying power he had just demonstrated.
In all honesty, while Tōshirō and the others were confident they could defeat Ruby, the thought of eliminating him in a single move—like Aaron had just done—had never even crossed their minds.
After all, regardless of how weak Ruby might have been, he had still reached the level of a Gotei 13 captain.
As they remained silent, still processing their shock, a dark shadow suddenly emerged behind Aaron.
"Senior! Be careful!" Tōshirō and the others shouted in warning.
However, just as the black figure appeared behind Aaron, an unseen force instantly struck it away.
With a deafening crash, Wang Daweisi—who had just been standing there—was now struggling to stabilize himself in midair, his feet skimming through the air with enough friction to spark flames.
Tōshirō and the others exhaled in relief, shifting their attention to the blond boy who had unexpectedly been thrown into chaos.
Witnessing this scene, a figure turned to Aaron with a gleeful expression, as if he had stumbled upon something amusing.
"Wanda Wise! He's mine! You're not allowed to interfere!" the figure, now identified as Kūkabura, declared in a commanding tone.
At that moment, Wang Daweisi pulled out a peculiar palm-sized creature from within his robes and tossed it high into the air.
"Roar!"
With a strange and furious bellow, the gray creature rapidly expanded, transforming into a massive monstrosity in an instant.
It turned out to be Fowler, the entity Wanda Wise had rescued after Kūkabura had discarded it.
By now, Fowler had mutated into a colossal, worm-like beast.
The grotesque creature stood nearly a hundred meters tall and long, its head featuring a single, spiraling eye.
Though resembling a worm, it possessed four enormous, razor-sharp claws.
Most unsettling of all, the coverings on its claws bore an eerie resemblance to the masks of Gillians.
"Roar!"
Fowler let out another feral cry as a crimson light began gathering within its spiral eye.
It was preparing to unleash a devastating Cero.
"What the hell is that?! A Menos Grande?" Renji gasped, his eyes widening in disbelief at the towering monstrosity above.
"The energy inside that thing… it's at least ten times stronger than an ordinary Gillian's Cero!" Rangiku exclaimed, equally stunned.
"Everyone, stay on guard! We need to adapt to the situation as it unfolds!" Tōshirō commanded, forcing himself to stay calm.
"What's so special about that piece of trash? Come fight me instead! Hahahaha!"
Kūkabura glanced at Fowler before bursting into eerie laughter.
As his overwhelming Reiatsu erupted, he launched himself toward Aaron at blinding speed.
Aaron remained unfazed, his gaze cold as he let out a faint snort, preparing a counterattack.
At that moment, a pentagram-shaped light barrier above him began to radiate with a brilliant glow.
As Kūkabura closed the distance, Aaron met his charge with a single, powerful punch.
A golden fist, infused with an unparalleled force, struck Kūkabura's body head-on.
With a pained scream, the childlike Kūkabura was sent hurtling hundreds of meters away in an instant.
Uninterested in wasting time, Aaron instantly vanished, reappearing beside Fowler in the blink of an eye.
His entire form was now encased in a golden aura, as if he had descended from the heavens themselves.
A brilliant pentagram streaked across the sky and was grasped tightly in Aaron's hand.
"Roar?"
Before Fowler could complete its Cero, Aaron, now wielding the pentagram, struck with a force so overwhelming that Fowler was obliterated before it could react.
"With a punch like that… wouldn't we all be reduced to ash?" Rangiku muttered, her eyes wide as she imagined herself in Fowler's place.
Beside her, Gong Qin gently ran his fingers through his hair, as if trying to mask his inner dread.
Blinking, he whispered, "If I got hit by that… it would be anything but graceful."
Madarame Ikkaku, on the other hand, looked absolutely ecstatic, an almost reverent urge rising within him.
In his heart, even Zaraki Kenpachi didn't exude this kind of raw, overwhelming combat spirit.
Because to him, there was no purer form of battle—one punch was the ultimate expression of strength.
Meanwhile, Kūkabura—despite being knocked away—remained eerily intact from the neck up, though the rest of his body had been utterly torn apart.
His grotesque form, stitched together from mismatched flesh, shambled forward step by step, a far cry from his previous appearance.
As he moved, a strange white substance oozed from his wounds, rapidly regenerating his mutilated body.
In mere moments, Kūkabura had restored himself to his original form.
"This isn't fun! Not fun at all!
You dare treat Kūkabura like this?!
Kūkabura will devour you! Damn you!"
His furious screams filled the air, his voice oscillating between that of a tantrum-throwing child and the deep, rumbling echoes of rolling thunder.
The sheer intensity of his voice caused the very space around them to tremble.
Aaron regarded Kūkabura with calm curiosity, his interest piqued.
Moments earlier, he had noticed something peculiar about the strange child's eyes.
Instead of pupils, numbers were etched into them: "1" and "0."
"A little interesting," Aaron murmured, a faint smile playing on his lips.
The sight of those numbers immediately brought to mind Yammy, whom he had previously slain.
In the original history of the Gotei 13, Yammy was ranked "10" in the Espada but could transform into "0" when enraged, claiming himself to be the strongest among them.
But now, in Kūkabura, Aaron saw a similar pattern.
This revelation only deepened his intrigue.
"It seems that killing Yammy had unforeseen consequences on the original timeline," Aaron mused inwardly.
As Kūkabura—still in his childlike form—began to undergo a dramatic transformation, the observers watched in silent horror.
Their shock was short-lived, as an ear-splitting, hellish roar suddenly echoed from the distance.
In an instant, multiple black rifts split open around them.
Several enormous, gaping maws extended from within the void, snapping down on those wielding their Zanpakutōs, momentarily immobilizing them.
Meanwhile, not far from the chaos, a monstrous, towering figure loomed behind Aaron.
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