Chapter 4

You're repeating yourself. I told you, I can cut through steel!

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(It's stuck!)

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You're repeating yourself. And it didn't work any better this time.

Hn...

(Crap!)

You're too slow!

(I realized too late that I had been cut! That momentary lapse has left me open to his next blow!)

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(No way. Why can't I stop his sword? Am I really going to lose to...to this?)

(No! Impossible! It can't be! This can't be happening!)

What's the matter? Did you just imagine yourself losing this fight to me?

You're right! Thank you.

What the hell for?

What you said, it made me realize that all I had to do was wipe away any thoughts of defeat and death. Now I can no longer die. Do you regret saying it?

I never regret anything!

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Let me repay you by showing you my greatest power.

A doppelganger?

Much more than that.

I can even create living beings with my imagination.

Neither of me can be wounded. Neither of me can be killed. And what's more...

The power of my imagination is multiplied by two.

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What the hell is that thing?

A meteor. One that will obliterate you and the Seireitei itself.

Only I will survive amidst the rubble.

A meteor. Well, I've never tried cutting one of those before.

See that, Nozarashi? This is exciting, ain't it?

Let's say, speaking hypothetically, that what I had imagined there for a moment came true. Let's just suppose that you did manage to kill me somehow.

It would do you no good. The meteor's a reality, it's not going away.

Its impact will obliterate you all. I'll be the only one left standing, just as I imagined it.

Nothing you can do. So face it: you've lost, Kenpachi Zaraki.

"Nothing I can do," huh? Oh come on, where's your imagination?

Drink, Nozarashi!