Bleach 323

1
[insert text: The battleground is Karakura Town!! Izuru VS Abirama!!!]
Abirama: Don't think of my Aguila... // ...as a mere pair of wings. // These wings smash up anything they meet... // They're my heavier-than-rock wings of steel!!

2-3
BLEACH
[insert text: Swaying... Rustling... A portrait of him.]

4
Kira: "Wings of steel", eh......? // Nice little title you've got there... It's got real kick to it. // However... // When it comes down to it, they're still just a pair of wings.

5
Abirama: ...? / What kind of technique is this now?
Kira: Hadou #58.

6
Kira: "Tenran"!!!!
[TN: "Silent Storm"]
Abirama: !

7
Abirama: ...So if they're "just a pair of wings"... / ...you figure a tornado should work? / NOT A CHANCE IN HELL!!!

8
Abirama: ...Tch. // Stop that sneakin' around... // ...ya little rat!! // Devorar Pluma!!!
[TN: "Devouring Feathers".]

9
Kira: Tch... // So he can penetrate right through into the building...!
Abirama: There you are!!

10
[no text just slicing]

11
Abirama: Ya little shit!! // Hiding yourself behind everything you can find!!
Kira: (It doesn't feel like he's running out of feathers in the slightest... // This must be some form of high-speed regeneration. // They just grow straight back the moment he's fired them... // In that case...)
Abirama: While you're running around hiding like that... // ...you're probably trying to come up with some kind of plan... // ...but I won't let you!

12
Abirama: GUOOOOOOOOOGHHH!!
Kira: What... // ...What is he doing...?!

13
Kira: !!!

14
[no text just flying~]

15
Abirama: Hah! // Now, where have you run to this time...?

16
Abirama: Huuuuh?! / What, you break a leg or something? Couldn't even dodge this time? // I wasn't even trying to be particularly fast there, you know!!
Kira: Thanks for that... // It was your long-range attacks that were really bothering me... / All this time, I've just been wondering how to get you to engage me in close combat. // My sword, you see... // ...isn't much use when it comes to weapons that are separated from their wielder's body.
Abirama: I don't get you at all! // What the hell is that freaky-shaped blade of yours meant to cut, anyway?!

17
Abirama: What...... // ...the... // ...hell......?!

18
Abirama: ...Ngh... / ...Shit... // What's wrong...? My wing just suddenly...
Kira: Doubling the weight of anything it slices. // A second slice means double that. // And a third doubles it yet again.

19
Kira: That is the power... // ...of my zanpakutou, "Wabisuke". // When you made that charge just then... / ...I sliced almost every feather on the wing you used to attack four times. // If those wings of yours truly are "heavier than rock"... // ...then there's no way you should be able to fly now.
Abirama: Playing tricks on me, huh? That's pretty dirty... // And you call yourself a true warrior...?!
Kira: "Dirty"?

20
Kira: ...Oh. / I see. // Come to think of it, before we began the battle, you were performing some kind of ridiculous pumping-up ritual, weren't you. // If that's what you call acting like a "true warrior"... // Then no, I'm afraid I don't get it at all. // The flower of the Third Division is the marigold. // A flower that holds the meaning of "despair". / You might call it the price of the Third Division. // Battle is not a stage for empty heroics... // ...and nor is it something to take pleasure in. // Battle is filled with despair. // Dark... // Terrifying... // ...That is the way that it should be. // That way, people learn to fear battle... // ...and to choose the path of non-violence where possible.

21
Kira: I feel that my zanpakutou, Wabisuke... // ...more so than any other zanpakutou... / ...represents to the fullest the philosophy of the Third Division. // As the opponent it slices increases in weight... // ...that opponent will become unable to bear the pressure, and fall to heir hands and knees... / ...until finally... // ...as though begging in apology... // ...they lie prostrated before me. // Thus, / "Wabisuke". // I believe you asked... / ...what exactly I mean to slice with this "freaky-shaped blade".

22
Abirama: W... // Wait, please...!
Kira: A warrior... // ...should never plead for his own life.
[side text: Despair... darkness...]