Chapter 2

There, I've set the stage for you. After all, you are the great Kenpachi Zaraki. You deserve to play your part on a grand stage.

What is all this, some kind of spell or something?

It is neither a spell nor an illusion. It's real.

I am Gremmy, "The Visionary" who turns fantasy into reality.

You know, you're actually very lucky that you get to fight me, because I think you'll find that of all the Stern Ritters, I am the strongest.

Is that right?

Allow me to say it again: I can transform fantasy into reality.

You see what I did just now? By simply imagining that my body was stronger than steel, I made it so, and therefore impervious...

Come on. If you'd said you were gonna make yourself stronger than steel, then it wouldn't have taken me two blows of my sword to bring you down.

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Hey what's with that look? Did you really think I couldn't cut you?

Listen, little man... That puny imagination of yours can't dream up anything that I can't cut down. Y'know why?

Because I'm Kenpachi.

What is that thing? What is going on up there?

That...That huge Spiritual Pressure! It's Captain Zaraki!

Look at that. Now we've gone and drawn a crowd.

Let them cheer. Now that you're here, they think they can win the war. And they're free to imagine that.

So you're able to heal your own wounds, huh?

Oh, am I? You're right. It seems I am. All I had to do was imagine that my wound was healed and the next thing you know, it was.

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My power probably seems like a bad joke to you, doesn't it?

People like you never fully appreciate it, until you've been defeated by it.

Come on, then. Have at me, Kenpachi Zaraki. I won't say I'll beat you with just one finger or anything corny like that. I won't even need one finger.

I'm going to kill you using nothing more than what's inside my head.

You've got mad powers, I'll give you that. But I've got no problem dealing with that kind of crazy!

Yachiru, what are you doing? Take cover!

Oh, don't be so hard on her right now. Because of my power, every bone in her body is made of cookies.

And what the hell is a "cookie," huh?

You've never had a cookie? Wow, I guess I should've said rakugan or something.

Oh, rakugan. Why the hell didn't you say that in the first place?

You sure do talk in circles, you little squirt!

Hng?

Pretty absurd, isn't it? You thought you were jumping through the air, when you were actually underwater.

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Now die a slow death, surrounded by water and crushed by the pressure of the earth.

No matter how much of a beast you are, that should take an hour at the most.

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Looks like Yachiru's bones are back to normal again.

You can't mess with two minds at once. While you were busy with mine, you lost your grip on hers.