Bleach 289

1
[side text: Ichigo cornered by Noitra! Is there any way for him to win?!]

2-3
Bleach
289. The Scarmask
[insert text: Life and death - all within oneself]

4
Noitra: Too slow.

5
[no text]

6
Noitra: What's this? // That killing intent of yours just for show?

7
Noitra: And in dodging, I have the advantage.

8
Tesla: I hope you don't think... // ...that you could hope to defeat me with your abilities. // The extent of your power is immense... / ...but the "Rikka", the spiritual beings in which that power is manifested, are pathetically fragile. // Even I could destroy them with the greatest of ease. // There is only one reason why I do not do so. // That is because your abilities are the property of Aizen-sama. // Aizen-sama has ordered us... / "As long as she does not attack you, you must not destroy the Rikka."

9
Tesla: If you do attack me, I shall destroy them. // I advise you not to resist.
Orihime: (.................. // ...Kurosaki-kun......! // ! // Come to think of it... // I can't see Nell-chan...!)
Tesla: What is it?

10
Orihime: (Oh, no......!) // Ah... // No...
Tesla: Come to think of it... // I don't see that Arrancar who was accompanying you to begin with.
Orihime: Ah...
Tesla: ...Over there.

11
Nell: Aaah!!
Orihime: Nell-chan!
Nell: Aaaah... // Aaaahhhhh...
Orihime: ...Nell-chan...?

12
Nell: ...I...

13
Noitra: Are you... / Nell?
Orihime: ...huh...?

14
Noitra: I thought so... // You're that Estigma! // Well, look how the mighty have fallen... / ...I mean, just look at you!! // How is it...? // Is your broken mask aching...? // Eh?!
Nell: ...Ahh... // Uaaaah...

15
Ichigo: ...What the hell's going on... // You... // You say you know Nell...?
Dondochakka: OWAWAWAWAWAAAA!!!

16
Dondochakka: I'm scared, Uryuu!!
Ishida: Agh!!
Dondochakka: H... how could you dodge me like that?!! / I was clinging to you in fear!! I just wanted you to hug me!!
Ishida: Don't say things like that!! // Your "clinging" just looks like an attack from where I'm standing!!

17
Ishida: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!
Fake!Dondo: Why, you!! // How could you dodge the ultimate "Dondochakka Press"?!!
Ishida: See, it IS an attack!! // ...............!!!
Dondochakka: Waaaaaaah!! // I can't take it any more!! We don't have time to be messing around like this!!
Ishida: What the?!!
Dondochakka: We have to go and search for Nell!!

18
Ishida: I know that! / We're going to go and search for her! Just as soon as we escape from this place!
Dondochakka: That's no good! // We have to find her right now!! // I can feel it... // For a while now... / For a while now, Nell's been terrified...... // This is no good... // If she... // If she goes any deeper into Las Noches...
Noitra: The hell?

19
Noitra: I was wondering what this brat was doin' in a place like this... // Are ya tellin' me you brought her here? // ...Whatever. / It's written all over your face. // You've been dragging the brat around with you with no idea who the hell she really is.
Ichigo: What's that... // ...supposed to mean......?
Noitra: ...If ya really don't know, I'll tell ya. // This is Nell. // Nelliel Tu Oderschwank.

20
Noitra: A former... // Espada.
[side text: Shock... the stunning truth!!]
[bottom text: Next issue, Ichigo's group is driven even further into a corner! And Nell! What secrets lie in her past?!]