4-6 Renji's Vow

Renji, you are not ready to use your Bankai in battle.

The weakness of Bankai lies in its sheer size...and the overwhelming power it releases.

It goes far beyond the abilities of any normal weapon.

It is for that reason that it is said one must train for ten years after learning Bankai in order to control it completely.

I don't need your lectures.

I already knew all of that when I came here in the first place!

Put down your sword and you may yet live.

Unless you still have some hopeless idea about winning.

In case you've forgotten, or if perhaps it didn't occur to you, I'll remind you Renji... that I, too, have Bankai.

Huh!

Bankai!

Scatter, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi!

It's not over.

Do not move. You will only hasten your death.

It's not over. I can still fight.

Didn't you hear me?

I told you not to move.

You must have noticed by now that your Bankai is gone.

When one's Bankai disappears without the permission of its master, it means that the master's time of death draws near.

Soon enough now, you will begin to fade away.

So, I shall ask you this one more time.

Will you at long last give up this foolish dream of yours of saving Rukia?

You know the answer to that.

Hm?

Because I swore. I swore that I'd save her.

You swore this? You swore it to whom?

No one. I just swore it. I just...swore it...

...to myself!!!

Dammit.

Congratulations. Very admirable.

That time, your fang definitely reached me.

Renji?

Impossible... Until just now when it faded, it was so powerful I couldn't tell whose Spiritual Pressure that was. It was Renji!

Renji! Why... Why'd you do it?!

Renji!