Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 393 The Unsettling Tapir Blade

"Damn it! That blindfolded guy got away!"

Jintai, carrying the huge spiked club, ran angrily to Asuka.

Looking at the cleanly severed right arm on the ground, still oozing blood, he spat fiercely: "He's lucky he ran fast! Otherwise, I would have smashed his head into his stomach!"

Xiaoyu silently put away the heavy spirit cannon, lowered her head, and walked to Jintai's side, her eyes still somewhat timid.

It was as if the ruthless gunner who had been unleashing her full firepower on the battlefield just moments before wasn't her at all.

The bird simply crouched down and silently gazed at the severed arm.

"Mr. Asuka!"

As the time barrier was lifted, the sliding door of Urahara Store was suddenly pushed open.

Shinobu Kocho rushed out of the store looking anxious, abandoning her usual elegant demeanor, and ran all the way to Asuka's side.

After checking that Asuka had no new wounds, her tense shoulders relaxed slightly: "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Asuka let her wipe her cheek. "He was just trash, he's already been dealt with."

After saying that, Asuka turned to look at Kisuke Urahara, whose brows were furrowed: "You shrewd businessman, what happened just now?"

"...Asuka-kun, you've stumped me." Kisuke Urahara tapped his palm lightly with his folding fan. "My shop is just a regular general store, and I'm completely baffled by this violent demolition."

Ignoring his joking remarks, Feibiao pressed on, "Those guys with those broken eyeball knives... judging from their behavior, they must be the assassins sent by that Yunjing that those two idiots mentioned."

"But what about that man in the suit who appeared last?"

"He claims to be a Fullbringer... If I remember correctly, that's a human mutant from the modern world, right?"

"Why would a noble clan head from Soul Society, wanting to assassinate his own patriarch, get involved with a Fullbringer from the human world?"

Upon hearing Asuka's analysis, Shinobu Kocho, who was standing to the side, also showed a thoughtful expression.

"That's right," Shinobu Kocho echoed softly.

Although the existence of Fullbringers is not common knowledge in Soul Society, she knew a little about it through her relationship with Urahara.

"Although Fullbringers possess spiritual power, they are still essentially human beings from this world."

"The nobles of Soul Society have always held themselves in high esteem. Why would they lower themselves to hire humans from the human world to carry out assassination missions? This is highly unusual."

Kisuke Urahara walked up to the severed arm, gently nudged it with his toe, and his eyes became deep.

"That is indeed a point of incongruity..."

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Kisuke Urahara murmured, repeating the name Kiriko Rizawa had just mentioned: "Xcution...Xcution."

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He rested his chin on a folding fan, frantically searching through the vast information database in his mind.

"If I remember correctly, this should be a mutual aid organization secretly formed by Fullbringers from the real world, active in the neighboring Naruki City."

"Their methods are covert; they rarely operate in the open, let alone actively get involved in the conflicts of the Soul Society..."

Then, as if he had thought of something more important, his tone suddenly became unusually serious.

"However, compared to that escaped Fullbringer and the organization behind him..." Kisuke Urahara pointed at the ravaged street with his fan bone, "Asuka, I want to ask you, how did you feel when you were fighting those assassins just now?"

"Feelings?" Asuka recalled the brief exchange just now and curled her lip indifferently: "What feelings could there be?"

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"Their movements were full of flaws. I didn't even need to release the 'stealing' technique; their bones would break with just a little force."

In Feibiao's view, both the four masked assassins and the middle-aged man pretending to be a ghost were pitifully weak.

If it weren't for Rhoze's bizarre rule-based Fullbring technique that slightly delayed things, this battle would probably have ended in an instant.

"Too weak, not even a warm-up," Asuka gave her final assessment.

Kisuke Urahara shook his head: "Asuka-kun, that's from your perspective."

"However, I hope you can temporarily set aside your perspective that surpasses that of ordinary Grim Reapers and reassess the battle from the viewpoint of an ordinary swordsman."

Kisuke Urahara stared into Asuka's eyes: "When you clashed swords with him, did you sense the level of spiritual pressure emanating from him?"

The bird frowned.

Although he didn't understand why Urahara was getting hung up on such a trivial question, he still carefully recalled the details from earlier.

"Their basic spiritual pressure is extremely weak, even weaker than that of the teachers who taught me at the Shinigami Academy."

"If I had to say... I'd say I barely reached the level of a patrol squad member," Asuka answered truthfully.

"So, here's the problem."

Hearing Asuka's dismissive reply, Kisuke Urahara felt no relief; instead, his brows furrowed even more.

"Since their spiritual pressure is only at the level of an ordinary squad member, do you remember the force with which they swung their swords just now?"

Upon hearing this, the scene of the battle just now flashed through Asuka's mind like lightning.

The assassin slashed at Xiaoyu in mid-air...

"That level of slashing power is at least up to the standard of a mid-to-lower-ranking officer in the Gotei 13."

"That's right." Kisuke Urahara nodded. "Although the price of this power is the extraction of the user's life force, it did indeed elevate him from an ordinary squad member to the rank of captain..."

He walked to the only strange knife that hadn't been taken away in time, squatted down, and pulled out a pair of tweezers that emitted a ghostly light from his wide sleeve.

The two gathered around, their eyes focused on Kisuke Urahara's movements.

Urahara Kisuke carefully picked up the strange knife that had fallen to the ground with tweezers.

After being separated from its owner, the dark red light that the knife originally emitted gradually dimmed.

The huge, bloodshot eyeball on the hilt of the knife now seemed to have lost its life force, becoming shriveled and cloudy, and even faintly emitting a putrid smell.

When Kisuke Urahara lifted the sword, Asuka could still see some remaining flesh and blood that were slowly being digested inside the tissue that had originally been attached to the hilt, which resembled fleshy tentacles.

"vomit..."

Even the usually carefree Jinta felt a wave of nausea wash over him upon seeing this scene.

Although Shinobu Kocho was a medical professional accustomed to bloodshed, she couldn't help but feel a sense of physical discomfort upon seeing this illogical and evil structure, and subconsciously moved closer to Asuka.

"Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the greatest sin committed by the Kasumi clan, which is probably also the core bargaining chip in the cooperation between the Kumoi Yosuke and the Tsunayo clan—the Baku-yō-tō."

"Bakuya-tō? Is it a type of Zanpakutō?" Asuka looked at the repulsive weapon with a puzzled expression.

"No." Kisuke Urahara pointed to the withered, fleshy tentacles and explained in a deep voice, "Zanpakuto are weapons forged by the sword god Oetsu, which gain power by communicating with the sword spirit."

"But this knife operates on a completely different mechanism."

His eyes revealed a deep disgust: "It has no sword spirit, nor does it have the concepts of Shikai and Bankai..."

"Its essence is a bloodsucking worm that parasitizes the user."