2-3 A Loathsome Soul Reaper

I'm sure Ichigo is safe and headed for Rukia as we speak, right?

We better join up with him quick.

He'll charge in alone and bungle the job unless we back him up.

Orihime!

Get away from those guys now!!!

Well, a Quincy, eh?

Such a rarity these days. In fact, it's been years since I've seen a live specimen.

Huh!

But I'm sorry to disappoint you. I long ago finished researching your pathetic species.

I'm no longer interested in dealing with your kind. So, just get out of my way.

Finished researching? What do you mean by that?

Just who the hell are you?

You don't know? What do you Ryoka do, just storm into the enemy's base without doing any research into who it is you're attacking?

How very careless of you. I would think you would at least commit to memory the names of the thirteen captains.

I'm the Captain of Squad 12, as well as the second-generation Chief of Research and Development, Mayuri Kurotsuchi.

You don't need to remember that, though, because soon you will no longer know anything.

Orihime!

Run, get out of here!

You do seem to have some good moves.

Both in this attack and the time before, you used Hirenkyaku, right?

It's an advanced Quincy technique to achieve high speed by gathering spirit energy into a current beneath the feet.

I am surprised to find someone as young as you has been able to master it.

It would appear that you are a talented specimen indeed.

However, chasing you around this way really is a bit of a bother.

So, I've decided to use the method that requires the least amount of energy and effort...in order to kill you.

Claw out...

...Ashisogi Jizo.

Heh heh... Look how you're sweating.

I can tell you're in pain, and yet you take it without crying out. Not so much as a whimper. That is some iron will you have.

My arm... It won't move!

My, my, it would seem a bit dense of you to only now be noticing such a thing.

This robs the mobility from all four limbs of whomever is cut by it. My Zanpakuto immobilizes the body of whoever it cuts.

A tranquilizer?

Don't be ridiculous. I never use such primitive technologies.

This process looks at all the countless signals fired from your brain and selectively severs only the signals controlling the neural impulses for movement. That's how sophisticated this is.

It takes away the ability to move, but unlike tranquilizers, it leaves intact the pain receptors and nerve endings. In other words...

...not an ounce of your pain is lost.

Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!