Bleach 348

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[Side text: The wait is over!! The Zanpakutou Contest results are here!!]
Kon: LADIIIIIIIIIIIIIES AAAAAAAAAND // GENTELMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!! // It's finally time for the results of our Zan - paku - tou - CONTEST~~~!! ALL RIIIIIIIIGHT!! Haahh... haahhhh...
Ichigo: ...What's up with you?
Kon: Shut it, you!! Whaddaya mean "what's up with you", dumbass?!! / It's a ZANPAKUTOU contest!! A ZANPAKUTOU contest!! That ain't got the slightest bit to do with me!! // I was excluded from the rankings before the contest even started, and you expect me to fire up the mood?!! How the hell does that work?!! // Besides, who came up with the stupid idea of a Zanpakutou contest, anyway?! It's not right!! It's unfair!!
Ichigo: Oh... / By the way, apparently this time round we're counting packs of votes that came stuffed into a cardboard box as just one, okay? // I'm sure you put in plenty of effort going to the trouble, but the younger kids don't have the money to go out and buy all those postcards, so let's keep things fair, yeah? / Sorry 'bout that. / Well then, the results are on the next page...

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[Insert text right: Thank you for all your votes!!]
[Insert text bottom-left: Results are in for the First Zanpakutou Contest!!]
[Ranking:]
1st: Hyourinmaru (Hitsugaya Toushirou)
[TN: Why is the guy so goddamn popular? ~_~]
2nd: Sode no Shirayuki (Kuchiki Rukia)
3rd: Zangetsu (Kurosaki Ichigo)
4th: Wabisuke (Kira Izuru)
5th: Senbonzakura (Kuchiki Byakuya)
[/Ranking]

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Ulquiorra: Observe, // Kurosaki Ichigo. // This is the face... // ...of true... / ...despair.

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Bleach 348
The Lust2

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Orihime: ...It's amazing... / ...this thing.
Ishida: I learned how to create it when we travelled through Garganta. / It was while I was on my way here that I realised that I can use it in Hueco Mundo as well. // If I'd only realised a little sooner... / ...I could have put it to use in battle...
Orihime: ............... // .........Ishida-ku -

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Orihime: ......!
Ishida: ...Wha.........?! // What's this...?! // From above the dome.........

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Ishida: What... is this...?! // Is this... reiatsu......?! // It's just too... different! I've never felt anything like it... // It's not just the strength or the size of it... // There's a fundamental difference. // It's so thick, so dense, that it doesn't even feel like reiatsu at all......... // It feels almost as though there's an ocean up there above the sky...
Orihime: .........This is just...!
Ishida: ...Not good...... // Let's hurry...!!

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Ulquiorra: Resurrección Segunda Etapa.
[TN: "Resurrection Second Stage"]
Ulquiorra: I alone among the Espada... // ...have achieved this second level of release. // Even Aizen-sama himself... / ...has yet to witness the form you now see.

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Ulquiorra: ...Even having witnessed this form... // ...do you still have the will to fight?

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Ulquiorra: (His mind has not been thrown into such a state that he has lost his sense of fear... // And yet those eyes do not speak of throwing away his life... // He actually believes... // ...that he can prevail?) // .........Very well. // Then allow me to make you understand your folly... // ...if I have to turn your body to dust in the process.

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[no text just here he comes]

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[no text just ichigo you're seriously dead]

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[no text just extremely one-sided battle]

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Ulquiorra: You are a fool... / ...Kurosaki Ichigo. // You willingly seek to challenge an opponent so much more powerful than you... // ...that it strikes a primal fear into your being. // Incomprehensible.

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Ulquiorra: ...If this is the work of the "heart" that you people speak of, // then it is because you possess this "heart" that you humans bring hurt upon yourself... // ...because you possess this "heart"... // ...that you lose your lives.

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Ichigo: It's not... // ...that I'm fighting like this because I think I can win...... // I'm fighting like this because... // ...I have to win...!

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Ulquiorra: Nonsense.
Ishida: I can't feel Kurosaki's reiatsu... // Where is it?!

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Ulquiorra: ...There you are... // ...Girl.

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Orihime: ...Kuro... / ...saki... // ...kun......?
Ulquiorra: Perfect timing. / Take a good look. // Observe as the life of the man in whom you placed your hope... // ...is sealed in chains forever.
[TN: He uses the word "tozasu", "to close" or "to lock", with the kanji for "chain", just like in his release command.]

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Orihime: STOP!!!!
[Insert text: In a single instant!!]