Bleach 289

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Sidetext: Ichigo closes the distance on 5th Espada Noitra! Is there a chance to win?

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BLEACH289. The Scarmask
Sidetext: Life and death - both in one being.

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Noitra: Too slow.

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no text, just speedy Bankai-dodging

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Ichigo: !
Noitra: Wha's up?
Doesn't look like you're aiming to kill at all.

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Noitra: I dodge, you lose...

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Tesla: Madam's techniques...
...it's unthinkable that they could defeat me.
Madam's techniques are nigh divine, but
the composition of the Six Flowers' spirit bodies makes them fragile.
One could destroy them with ease.
But one will not, for but one reason.
That is, Madam's ability is "the property of Aizen-sama".
Aizen-sama's orders are thus:
"Only attack and destroy the Six Flowers if absolutely unavoidable."

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Tesla: But in such a situation, one would aim to kill.
Please, do not resist.
Inoue (thinks): ...
...Kurosaki-kun...!
!
That's right...
Nell-chan's not here...!
Tesla: What troubles you?

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Inoue (thinks): Oh no...!
Inoue: Um...
Nothing...
Tesla: ...That's right.
Earlier, wasn't Madam accompanied by something like an Arrancar?
Inoue: No...
Tesla: Thataway?
Eye SFX: PING

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Nell: Waa!!
Inoue: Nell-chan!
Nell: Uuu...
Uuuuu...
Inoue: ...Nell-chan...?

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Nell: I...

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Noitra: You're...
Nell, right?
Inoue: ...eh...?

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Noitra: I knew it.
That Estigma!*
You've totally let yourself go.
The hell happened to you, huh!?
Wha's up?
That split mask hurtin' ya?
Hey!
Nell: ...uh...
Auu...

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Ichigo: ...What're you saying...
...YOU...
...know Nell...?
Dondochakka: AWAWAWAWAWA~~~~!

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Dondochakka: It's scary, Uryuu, don'tcha know!!
Ishida: Uwaa!!
Dondochakka: It ... it's not nice to avoid your friends, don'tcha know!!
I'm just scared, don'tcha know!! You shoulda caught me, don'tcha know!!
Ishida: DON'T TALK NONSENSE!!
You're so clingy it looks like you're attacking me!!

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Dondochakka: UWAAAAAAAA!!!
Dondochakka clones: How slippery!!
You dodged the Sure-Kill "Dondochakka Press"!!
Ishida: See, it IS an attack!!
...!!!
Dondochakka: UWAAA!!
I can't take it any more don'tcha know!! No one understands our situation don'tcha kno~~~w!!
Ishida: WHAT IS IT!!
Dondochakka: We should be searching for Nell, don'tcha know!!

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Ishida: I get it!
We'll look for Nell-chan too! As soon as we escape from this place!
Dondochakka: It's no good, don'tcha know!
Searching soon isn't good enough, don'tcha know!!
I feel it, don'tcha know...
From a while ago...
Nell's been scared for a while now, don'tcha know...
It's just no good, don'tcha know...
This is the end...
It was over as soon as we brought Nell inside Las Noches...
Noitra: Wha's this?

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Noitra: Thought ya came here together.
Ya teamed up to get in here, right?
...Whatever. Just look at that face, if ya can bear it.
Ya really didn't know who this kid was when ya took her along?
Ichigo: ...What...
do you mean...?
Noitra: If ya still dunno, I'll tell ya.
That there's Nell.
Nerielle Tou Oderschvank.

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Noitra: Formerly
of the Espada.
Sidetext: Shocker --- the truth's impact!!

*Japanese reads "crested mask," "patterned mask" or presumably "scarred mask". Spanish reads "stigma" or "scar".