Bleach 329

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[side text: The battle is at hand! All that remains is to defeat the enemies before them!!]

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Yamamoto: Attack!!!

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Yamamoto: Place everything you have on the line, and crush them where they stand! // Even if they should tear your flesh from your bones, make every last fragment of those bones an iron wall!!

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Yamamoto: They... // ...must not be permitted to set a single foot upon Soul Society's ground!
Shunsui: ...Dear me... / I'm getting jumpy. // Seeing Yama-jii all worked up like this... / ...kind of gets me worked up too...
Ukitake: Very true. // Once we've dealed with this situation, shall we rub our old master's shoulders again like old times?

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Shunsui: Nah, nah... / It's my shoulders that are getting stiff today!
Ukitake: Oh, don't be ridiculous. / Since when have your shoulders ever been stiff?
SoiFon: Oomaeda! // Your teeth are chattering. / What, are you afraid, going into battle for once? // It's so pathetic I can barely stand to watch. // This is an excellent chance. // You can take this opportunity to die an unfortunate death.
Oomaeda: Whaaa?! // Haha~h! What're you saying, huh?! / I ain't scared, and my teeth ain't chattering neither!! // And I sure as hell ain't gonna die!!

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SoiFon: ...I see. // Then see that you don't.
Oomaeda: You don't have to tell me that!!
Hitsugaya: ...Here we go. / Matsumoto. // Is there any unrest in your heart?
Rangiku: Whatever could you mean?

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Hitsugaya: ...Never mind. // Let's go. // Don't let your guard down, Matsumoto!
Rangiku: Yes, sir!

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Bleach 329
Raging Rampage

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Barragan: Kill them. // Do not allow even a single one of these ants to escape with his life. // If you lose here, there will be no place for you to return to. // Do not disappoint me.

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Barragan: Do not force me to walk a path... // ...not stained with the blood of my enemies. // Say it! // Who do you serve?!!
Fracción: Yes, sir! // We are Fracción serving under Barragan Luisenbarne the Great!!

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Fracción: We will crush all enemies before us... // ...and without fail... / ...show you a battleground strewn with the flesh and blood of your enemies!!
Shunsui: ...That kid.

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Shunsui: ...Could I ask you to send her... // ...away for a while?
Stark: ............... // ...And why would that be?
Shunsui: With her around, I won't be able to go all-out. // Don't you feel the same way?
Lilinette: WHAT WAS THAT?!
Stark: Quiet, Lilinette. // ...That's fine. / I don't mind if you don't fight at full strength. // I won't use my full strength either.

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Ukitake: ...What do you mean?
Stark: Well, I'm just not cut out for that kind of stuff, you know? / It's such a pain. // Could we maybe just kind of pretend to be fighting, and wait around until everyone else is done?
Ukitake: What are you -
Shunsui: Ahhhh, that would be great~~~~~~~~~~!! // Oh, I mean it! I'd really prefer to do things that way! // I don't feel like getting hurt, after all! // But I'm afraid this once... // I'm not at liberty to do that. / Sorry.
Stark: ...I see.

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Stark: ...How very irritating.
Rangiku: Captain. // I'll handle these three. // You concentrate on the Espada.
Hitsugaya: ...Can you take them?
Rangiku: I can.
Hitsugaya: ...Understood. // They're yours.

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Apache: Oh no, you don't!!
Halibel: Wait!

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[no text just combatready]

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[insert text: The battle begins!!]