Bleach 384

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[Side text: Aizen finally makes his own move...!! Meanwhile, what is the nature of the power Tousen is about to reveal...?!]
Komamura: Tousen... // You do not mean.........!

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Komamura: ............... // Tousen.........!!

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Komamura: Have you fallen that low?!! // Tousen!!!
Hisagi: ............... // ...Captain...!!

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Bleach 384
Can't Fear Your Own Sword
[Insert text: White despair...!!]

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Hisagi: .................. // ...Hollow transformation... // Is... // Is this a Hollow transformation, Captain Tousen...?!!
Tousen: Indeed.
Hisagi: ......Why............

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Hisagi: Wha...

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Komamura: HISAGI!! // TENKEN!!!

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Komamura: What?!!!

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Komamura: What is... this......... // ...power.........

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Tousen: ...Your attitude is strange... // The half-Shinigami boy you call your ally... // ...possesses this very same Hollow transformation capability. // Is my obtaining of this power... // ...truly deserving of such revulsion?
Komamura: That boy... / Kurosaki Ichigo did not seek that Hollow transformation of his own volition... // But you are different... / You chose that forbidden path for yourself, despite already possessing more than sufficient power as a Shinigami.........!!

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Komamura: You have... // ...debased yourself, Tousen......!!
Tousen: Debased myself? // Why must changing from a Shinigami to something closer to a Hollow constitute debasement? // Your words stem from stunted, two-dimensional principles, identifying Shinigami as righteous and Hollow as evil.
Komamura: No! / It is your betrayal of your allies, betrayal of your friends, betrayal of your own subordinates... // ...all for the purpose of obtaining this unnatural power that I refer to as debasement!!
Tousen: ...Komamura...

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Tousen: !!

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Tousen: ...So I did not slice deeply enough. // I still have a way to go...
Hisagi: No... // I reflexively dodged by half a step. // When one draws a blade to do battle, one should always be ready to move half a step aside at any time........

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Hisagi: Captain Tousen... // You taught me that.
Flashback!Tousen: ...What is wrong? // Hisagi. // Calling me out to such a place... // What is it that you wish to discuss?
Flashback!Hisagi: Captain Tousen...

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Flashback!Hisagi: Please...... // ...remove me from my seated position...!
Flashback!Tousen: ...That is what you wanted...? // If this is about your slip-up yesterday, think nothing of it / Nobody is perfect to begin with.
Flashback!Hisagi: That's not it!! // The reason I was late to that training session wasn't because of some slip-up or absent-mindedness... // I was... // ...afraid.........! // A long time ago, I went to the real world for a training session... / ...and it was there that I got the scar on my right eye. // Since then, I've been hopeless... / Every time I draw my blade, every time I face the enemy... / ...on the inside, I'm always taking a half-step back...!

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Flashback!Hisagi: Captain Tousen, I......... // I'm afraid of battle............!!
Hisagi: Back then... / ...this is what you told me. // "That is why you are fit to hold a seated position."
Flashback!Tousen: The most important thing for a warrior is not to have power... / It is to fear battle. // It is precisely because we fear battle... / ...that we can take our swords in hand and fight... / ...for the sake of those who fear battle as we do.

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Flashback!Tousen: One who does not even fear the blade he wields has no right to wield that blade. // Hisagi. / If you truly fear battle from the bottom of your heart...
Hisagi: "Then you have already obtained... // ...that which is truly invaluable to a warrior...!" // ...I... // I just can't understand it, Captain Tousen... // Why would you, the same man who told me those words... / ...choose to abandon everything for the sake of power...?! // What exactly... // ...do you fear right now?!!

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Hisagi: ...Cap... / ...tain... // ...Tousen............

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Flashback!Tousen: Oh, I have fear. // For the past hundred years, I have been afraid... / ...afraid of dying like the rest of you Shinigami.
Komamura: ...BANKAI! // KOKUJOU TENGEN MYOUOU!
[Side text: Codes of justice...!!]