People are in death, unlimited sword control at the beginning.

After apologizing to Byakuya Kuchiki, Abarai Renji turned around and looked forward.

There, the Quincy who was tied up by his own Snaketail Ball was covered by Captain Kuchiki's Senbonzakura.

After the torrent-like Senbonzakura condensed and took shape again in the hands of Byakuya Kuchiki, Abarai Renji was surprised to find that the Ace Nott who was trapped by him was actually intact under the attack of Captain Kuchiki's Senbonzakura?
Of course, Abarai Renji felt relieved because even though the opponent was not injured by his and Captain Kuchiki's attacks, he was unable to break free from the restraints of his Snake Tail Maru.

This should also be considered a defect of the "blood suit".

The Quincy's "Moving Blood Equipment" and "Static Blood Equipment" cannot be used at the same time.

When using the "Still Blood Suit" to enhance his defense, the Quincy's defense is increased to the strongest, but his attack does not change much.

Now Ace Nott was tied up by Abarai Renji's snake tail ball. If he dared to cancel the "Still Blood Suit", he would be injured or rolled into several pieces by Abarai Renji's snake tail ball in the first place.

If he doesn't cancel the "Still Blood Suit", with Esnot's own strength, he can't use the "Moving Blood Suit" and won't be able to escape from the Snake Tail Pill at all.

"Not next time?"

Ace Nott raised his head and looked at Byakuya Kuchiki and Renji Abarai.

“Fear is not something that you can stop being afraid of just by saying you are not afraid.”

After saying these words word by word, seven or eight blue ice cones appeared around Es Nott.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

These ice cones broke through the sound barrier at an extremely fast speed and attacked Abarai Renji and Kuchiki Byakuya.

"Scatter - Senbonzakura!"

Byakuya Kuchiki placed his Zanpakutō in front of his chest and recited the release words of his Zanpakutō.

In an instant, the blade of the Zanpakutō in Byakuya Kuchiki's hand turned into a cherry-colored sea of ​​flowers, and like a cherry-colored tsunami wave, it formed a cherry-colored barrier in front of Abarai Renji.

"Bah, bah, bah..."

Seven or eight blue ice cones pierced the barrier formed by Kuchiki Byakuya's Thousand Sakura, transforming a part of the cherry-colored sword blades into black terrifying spiritual pressure, but it was soon shattered by more cherry-colored sword blades.

"what?"

Feeling Ace Nott's attack, Byakuya Kuchiki let out a light exclamation.

Ace Nott's attack was much weaker than he expected.

Although the terrifying spiritual pressure in this attack would evoke some fear in his heart, under his powerful spiritual pressure, these strange spiritual pressures would soon be annihilated.

For Byakuya Kuchiki, the attack power displayed by Ace Nott is very disproportionate to his defense power.

Shinigami can concentrate their spiritual pressure to a high degree to defend against attacks. The stronger the spiritual pressure, the stronger the defense.

Even someone like Zaraki, whose spiritual pressure is too strong, can strengthen his body to a certain extent.

It can be said that the defensive power of Zaraki's body is even stronger than the "steel skin" unique to Hollows.

Attacks below the captain level can't even break Zaraki's hide.

If calculated based on the fact that Ace Nott can defend against the Death God's first release attack, the strength of Ace Nott's attack will be at least three to five times stronger than it is now.

"In other words, is this some kind of defensive trick or ability?" After just one fight, Byakuya Kuchiki analyzed Ace Nott's current condition.

However, while Byakuya Kuchiki was able to use his powerful spiritual pressure to tap into Ace Nott's spiritual pressure, Renji Abarai was not able to do so.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah……"

The black spiritual pressure spread along the snake tail pill to Abarai Renji's body. These spiritual pressures brought out the deepest fear in Abarai Renji's heart.

Ever since he lived in Rukongai, Abarai Renji knew that if he wanted to survive, he could only become a "wild dog" that competed with others for food.

Under normal circumstances, Abarai Renji's life would be no different from those of the street kids in Rukongai.

He steals, cheats, and robs other people's food to sustain his own survival, lingers on in Rukongai like a wounded stray dog, and eventually dies alone one day.

But fortunately, he met Rukia.

Although Rukia is also a homeless child in Rukongai, unlike "wild dogs" like Abarai Renji, although Rukia can cheat, steal, and rob, she herself is like a noble Persian cat, and she seems to be incompatible with Rukongai.

Their group of brothers and sisters were all attracted by Rukia's temperament, and gathered around Rukia, forming a family with Rukia as the "big sister" and Abarai Renji as the "big brother".

After the death of her brothers and sisters, Rukia wanted to become a god of death, so Abarai Renji followed Rukia to participate in the examination of the Maou Spiritual Academy, and finally successfully entered the Soul Society.

Because of his good talent in slashing techniques, Abarai Renji successfully entered Class A when the classes were divided. However, Rukia's talent in slashing techniques was weaker than Abarai Renji's, so she could only enter Class B regretfully.

At that time, Abarai Renji thought that if he became stronger than Rukia in the future, he must protect Rukia.

However, later on, Rukia was accepted as a disciple by Captain Eileen and left the Shinō Spiritual Academy, making Rukia an existence that Abarai Renji could not even reach.

However, Abarai Renji did not get discouraged.

He is a wild dog.

If he managed to survive in Rukongai when he had no power, how much more so in Seireitei?
However, even if he was a wild dog, he still tried desperately to close the distance between himself and Rukia.

After graduation, Abarai Renji joined the 11th Division and directly became Madarame's apprentice, occasionally receiving guidance from Alin.

After completing his Zanpakutō Shikai training, Abarai Renji accepted the invitation of Byakuya Kuchiki and became the vice-captain of the 6th Division.

But even so, if he has time, Abarai Renji will still go to the 11th Division to ask Madarame Ikkaku for advice on how to practice Bankai.

It can be said that among the vice-captains of the Gotei 13 this generation, Abarai Renji's strength is enough to rank among the top three.

However, he felt that he seemed to be further away from Rukia.

Because now Rukia is no longer the vice-captain of the 13th Division, but the captain of the 9th Division.

Whether it is strength or status, the gap between them is too big.

For Abarai Renji, he is not afraid of death.

However, what he feared most was that one day in the future, the distance between him and Rukia would be so great that he would not even dare to think about it.

For Abarai Renji, that was a hundred times more terrifying than death.

Normally, Abarai Renji kept all these things in his heart, but under the power of Ace Knot, Abarai Renji's fear of the distance between himself and Rukia was directly triggered by Ace Knot. (End of this chapter)