Ika could feel the Shinigami retreating and it was at that point he knew, he had won, the Soul Society was his, but there was something more to do.. And there was someone left over being a thorn in his fucking side, and shitting on his pride.. As Seo continued to heal him, Ika smiled as Kokoro Nashi approached him.. "Well, shouldn't you be fleeing with the rest of the cowards Kokoro?.. The Soul Society is mine now after-all. But I suppose I can let you stay if you just.. kneel." Ika smirked wildly from ear-to-ear, standing up slowly.. He was no-where near 100%, and he hoped that bravado would help hide that fact from Kokoro but.. Well..

Let's just say he doubted it.. And with that in mind he sent Soul away to gather up Reno and Kazuku, if they were unoccupied he would need them, period. He couldn't win this on his own though boy.. boy did he hope it didn't come to that.. "Come on now Kokoro, be a good boy.."

Kokoro smirked across the way at Ika, flinging one dispatched ally of Ika's on the ground in front of him, kicking the bloody maimed corpse towards him, "That's called foreshadowing Mazi, you'll soon join this corpse..."

Ika smirked at the man and raised his Zanpakuto to parry Kokoro whom, without announcing his attack, Shunpo'd forth to behead Ika in an instant. Needless to say, Ika was weakened, but even in a weakened state he wouldn't be folding to that. "Come on now Kokoro.. You know better than that.."

Kokoro smirked ever so slightly, using tentacles to restrain Ika as he launched a straight right rocket-punch with his tentacles. He would then aim to impale him with them in an instant, but he would be silly to think it would work this early in the game, despite the fact that once again, Ika was certainly weakened by his previous encounter.. This was the best shot Kokoro would get at dispatching the man. He had to take advantage, it was that simple.

Ika felt himself restricted by the tentacles and gritted his teeth in pain, nearly dropping to a knee, the adrenaline being the only reason he was able to narrowly avoid having his head taken off by Kokoro's rocket punch. It was at this point that Kokoro tried to impale him with tentacles, and Ika settled for cutting the ones coming from the perimeter, as one went through his stomach causing him to bleed from the mouth.. Thankfully, he had already cut himself free with his Zanpakuto, and Shunpo'd forwards to attack Kokoro with whatever he had left. Throwing a ball of acid in the air as he went..

Ika launched 12 Bala's at the man, hoping to blow him away in an instant and he was delighted to see that 3 had hit their mark, though he was not quite as happy to see they had done minimal damage. Ika manipulated the dispersed acid, and had it splatter all over Kokoro's body. Tentacles deflected that move, and Ika would be lying if he said he hadn't seen that coming. Annoyed with how this was going Ika opted to push the pace as Kokoro was recovering.

Acid Rain began to fall at an immaculate pace as Ika pushed forwards, making a series of Zanpakuto slashes which were all summarily parried by Kokoro. The acid was burning through Kokoro at a staggering rate, and in an instant he felt three cero's explode on him. The acid had gotten to the bombs inside of his tentacles, the ones he had planned on using on Ika.. He was burned from head to toe, and the fight was only beginning.. This man wasn't even at 100%, how in the blue fuck was he pushing the pace so successfully?.. Was the gap truly that wide?.. "Well Ika, I think it's about time I showed you to hell where you belong!" Ika smirked momentarily till he felt Kokoro grab him, impaling himself on Ika's zanpakuto in the process.. What the hell was he?.. "Hadou 90, Kurohitsugi.."

Ika's eyes widened in an instant, as he struggled unsuccessfully to escape Kokoro's clutches. "YOU CRAZY FUCK YOU'LL KILL BOTH OF US!" Ika's eyes echo'd the mentality of a man whom had come to close to death, far too many times today.. But they also echo'd the scared look of a man unable to stop what was coming. Blades penetrated both of them at all angles, leaving them both lacerated and impaled from various angles. Ika dropped to the ground, leaking his acid insides all over the field of battle.. What scared him most was not the damages he had already incurred, but rather the damages Kokoro was shrugging off.. "What in the fuck.. ARE you?.. What the hell is wrong with you you bastard!" Ika punched the ground in a fit of rage as he tried to crawl to his feet, incapable of finding his footing until Kokoro lifted him to it.. Kokoro had mangled two of his five hearts, and regenerating that much damage was going to be hell. As Ika saw the man pull his scythe back to impale him he made one last desperation move.. The blood in his mouth, he spit it at the man and splattered it, much like cobra venom, mangling Kokoro's eyes causing him to be unable to see..

Kokoro stumbled back only after feeling his arm severed by an upward swing by Ika. As his arm was severed, he began trying to fix his eyes, and he noticed Ika was weak enough at this point that realistically, he was no threat on his own.. The fight was his to win, he just needed to be able to see so he could be sure. His sensing was never as refined as it should've been, and it was costing him, as Ika had apparently used the last of his energy to use Bakudo 26.. Fucking bastard..

Ika smirked, as he felt Reno appear in the Gotei... He would know what to do. Now?.. To try not to fucking die..

Reno took a puff of his weed cigarette and blew it out as he kept shunpo'ing through Gotei, idiot hadn't brought him from the get go and now he was in dire straights. Lovely. He was half tempted to kill the man himself but then he'd have to lead a pack of morons and that thought displeased him more than Ika's behavior. Within minutes he showed up just for some shinigami to use a forbidden Kidou Reno recognized all too well against Ika, as Ika had a habit of using the very same Kidou, before Ika disappeared, wounded but not dead.

Figuring this would be his order had he bothered asking he blurred his speed as he shunpo'd into the battle and stabbed Kokoro in the back with both of his zanpaktou's aiming for the lungs since he had noticed the man seemed to be a regenerator and hoped it would be enough damage to slow that crap down. Assuming the stabs connected he would rip his zanpaktou's out both sides of the man leaving him barely attached by his spine alone before releasing an unspoken Hadou 90 Kurohitsugi against Kokoro while jumping backwards out of the way of his own attack.

The man was too shocked by the surprise attack to avoid the blows to his back and was subsequently hit by the Hadou lacerating him from head to toe. Regenerating or not the man was on the ground struggling to remain alive. His spiritual energy had not diminished enough to make Reno believe he would DIE from the damage however.. and thus moved to aim a stab at his target's skull hoping to end it. He hadn't yet stabbed but was proceeding to.

Kokoro was searching for Ika, and completely disregarded the incoming spiritual pressure until it was far too late.. Reno Kitsugi had impaled him through both lungs, and ripped out the sides. Then, Kokoro felt himself lifted up by a Hadou 90, and once again he was bludgeoned to death by a multitude of blades. He was down to one heart, and he couldn't even begin to heal the damages he had currently withstood. Kokoro had reverted back to his sealed state, he was incapable of providing much of anything in the way of resistance.. Blood poured out of Kokoro's mouth as he presumed Reno was planning to go for the kill, but Ika stopped him. "Wait! Reno, no..."

Ika smiled as he slowly brought himself to his feet, slowly dragging his half-beaten carcass over towards the crippled mangled mess known as Kokoro Nashi.. "I have plans for you Kokoro, I have a gift you see.. It is the same gift you helped bestow unto me all those years ago.." Kokoro's eyes widened as Ika said this, "You bastard.." Ika's smirk grew before he would reply, "Now let's not resort to name-calling Kokoro, and to think I even saved your life.. where are your allies? When will THEY save you?.. What will they do when they find out you've been changed, that you're one of us?.." Kokoro knew the answer but he wasn't going to bother wasting the energy to mumble it out.. Ika pulled him close and whispered in his ear. "I think we both know what will happen.."

Ika's grin continued as Kokoro remained stone-faced, and Ika took the syringe from the square box presented to him by his allies. He pushed it into Kokoro's chest and injected the serum, it was the first time he had ever seen anything resembling pain etched across Kokoro's face. "There, maybe now you'll chill the fuck out.. Leave him be, we have other shit to do.." Kokoro would lay on the ground, boiling with rage, but even that couldn't keep him from becoming unconscious soon after...

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