Bleach TYBW Episode 34

In Wahrwelt, 6th Division Lieutenant Renji Abarai collapses after being shot through the chest by a Heilig Pfeil from Sternritter "A" Uryū Ishida, who deactivates his Quincy: Vollständig and walks over to Renji as blood pools underneath his body. With Uryū standing solemnly over Renji, Sternritter "X" Lille Barro eyes him from his perch on a different branch and holsters his Spirit Weapon, Diagramm, before watching the remaining captains and lieutenants regroup on the streets below and continue running toward the central palace.

Simultaneously, on Vier Ast, 11th Division Captain Kenpachi Zaraki runs down the street with his 3rd Seat, Ikkaku Madarame, and 5th Seat, Yumichika Ayasegawa, as 12th Division Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi accompanies him with his lieutenant, Nemu Kurotsuchi. Suddenly, Kenpachi comes to a halt upon seeing Sternritter "C" Pernida Parnkgjas standing before them, and when he wonders what it is, Mayuri questions if he is actually asking this or just talking to himself because there cannot be anyone in the Gotei 13 stupid enough to ask someone about something that neither of them has ever seen before.

While Mayuri continues to insult his intelligence, Kenpachi decides to kill Pernida and rushes forward, leaving Mayuri to bluntly ask Nemu if there is anything she wishes to say and Nemu to deny this. However, just as Kenpachi begins to slash at Pernida, a shocked Mayuri warns him to wait, prompting a startled Kenpachi to stop his attack and leap backward just as a flicker of light appears between himself and Pernida. When Mayuri addresses him after he lands, Kenpachi claims that he is fine and simply lost an arm, which has been heavily twisted and mangled, in exchange for cracking open Pernida's head, which bleeds heavily into the air.

Despite this, Pernida remains upright and contorts its body further underneath the hood before several tendrils appear and extend into the nearby buildings with great force, punching holes in the walls and littering the ground with rubble. With a bewildered Kenpachi questioning what this is, a grinning Mayuri simply asks him if he is asking a question or talking to himself again. As Pernida's body continues to ripple underneath the hood, Kenpachi observes that its head is growing bigger, and when Mayuri admits that these changes seem unsuitable for combat and calls it creepy, Kenpachi counters that he is not fit to call anything else creepy.

From far behind them, Ikkaku watches the confrontation in an alleyway with Yumichika and Nemu, where he muses that they missed their opportunity to join the battle. When an aghast Yumichika points out that they were never going to do this because Kenpachi would get upset, Nemu concurs with this and responds to Ikkaku noting that it is rare for her to voice her opinion by explaining that she is always under orders to stand by until Mayuri calls for her, though she does not think that Mayuri will ever feel threatened enough to require her assistance. In turn, a smirking Ikkaku asserts that the same holds true for them and Kenpachi.

Suddenly, Kenpachi's mangled arm begins rotating and twisting even further, spraying blood in all directions, before beginning to move his Zanpakutō in the direction of his head, forcing Kenpachi to grab his right arm by the fist and rip it off at the shoulder. After retrieving his Zanpakutō from the relaxed grip of his severed arm, Kenpachi watches as it is drawn toward Pernida and contorts further until it is ripped apart in a shower of blood in front of Pernida. With Ikkaku and Yumichika astonished by this, Mayuri approaches Kenpachi and praises his decision to rip off his arm immediately because his body would have been reduced to meatballs otherwise.

After wondering if Mayuri is praising him or looking for a fight, which Mayuri declines to answer, Kenpachi questions how Pernida's power works, leading an exasperated Mayuri to point out that he is asking a question with no answer again and state that the best option right now is to stay away from Pernida, to Kenpachi's surprise. While Nemu bandages his stump at Mayuri's behest, Kenpachi curses and wonders how he is supposed to cut Pernida without getting close to it, but when Mayuri asserts that cutting is not the only way to fight and promises to find a way to deal with Pernida without going near it, Kenpachi claims that he was talking to himself.

Running forward despite Mayuri's protests, Kenpachi declares that he does not need to know how Pernida's power works if he can just cut it in half before its power reaches him and slams his Zanpakutō down onto Pernida, whose head folds around the blade. With Mayuri drawing his own Zanpakutō, a grinning Kenpachi finds his entire body beginning to twist and fold in on itself, resulting in his legs breaking and blood gushing out from several parts of his body. As Ikkaku and Yumichika call out to him in concern, a groaning Kenpachi is stabbed through the chest from behind by Mayuri's Shikai, Ashisogi Jizō, which paralyzes his limbs.

Kenpachi drops his Zanpakutō and looks back incredulously at Mayuri, whom he curses, as the latter confirms his hypothesis of the rest of Kenpachi's body breaking when his limbs are paralyzed. When Mayuri initiates Ashisogi Jizō, Kyōdo Yon by sticking his thumb into the left eye on his Shikai, causing it to begin screaming, Nemu warns Ikkaku and Yumichika to cover their ears because hearing this for four seconds will paralyze them. Four seconds later, Kenpachi's entire body is paralyzed and Mayuri seals his Zanpakutō while expressing relief at the anesthesia working, as he can still make use of Kenpachi's physical strength later.

After approaching Pernida and stopping several feet away, Mayuri observes that the success of the anesthesia explains the nature of Pernida's power and reveals that The Compulsory consists of Pernida slipping its nerves into its enemies' bodies to control their movements. Recalling how Quincy can turn Reishi into physical power by pouring it into their veins, Mayuri asserts that it is reasonable to assume some can go further and control parts of their bodies with Reishi before concluding that there is no need to fear Pernida's power now that he understands it. In response, Pernida rips up the ground with several thick nerves.

However, when the nerves hurtle toward him, Mayuri simply takes out a vial of acid and splashes it across them, causing Pernida to screech in pain and hunch over as the nerves retract. While he calls Pernida's power intriguing and promises to take his time enjoying it since he has countless drugs for the nervous system, Mayuri walks over to Kenpachi and asserts that he paralyzed the latter for his own good, which is why he does not deserve to be looked at like this. With Kenpachi moving his eye to glare at him, Mayuri calls him a monster for still being able to move even this and decides to improve the paralyzing capabilities of Ashisogi Jizō.

Mayuri proclaims that he has nothing but gratitude for Kenpachi because the latter helped him identify both the enemy's power and an area of Ashisogi Jizō that needs improvement. Nearby, Ikkaku curses Mayuri for intentionally letting Kenpachi charge in to test The Compulsory, and after musing that Kenpachi was in the way of Mayuri getting to fight an intriguing enemy alone, Yumichika tells Nemu that her captain has not changed at all, but Nemu merely states that she hopes this is true, to Yumichika's confusion. Returning to Pernida, Mayuri clarifies that they have obtained valuable information about its abilities by sacrificing a Gotei 13 captain.

With Pernida not responding to him asking it if it knows what this means, Mayuri elaborates that this touching sacrifice brings tears to his eyes because noble victories are always achieved through noble sacrifices, to Ikkaku's frustration, before concluding that Pernida should honor this sacrifice by offering itself to Mayuri as a test subject. However, Pernida begins screeching as the two dots of light underneath its hood rapidly move around, leading Mayuri to assume that it does not understand the beauty of this, prior to expand its body far enough to rip through its cloak, revealing itself to be a giant left hand with a dual-pupiled eye on its palm.

Initially surprised by this, Mayuri admits that this is not what he was expecting and identifies Pernida as the left arm of the Soul King just before Pernida grows a full arm from the bottom of its body and extends nerves from the end of it to anchor itself into the ground and raise its body upright to tower over the Shinigami. As a shocked Ikkaku and Yumichika wonder if this means the Soul King was a giant, Mayuri states that he does not know since he has not met the Soul King and clarifies that Pernida's Reiatsu is almost identical to what he collected from 13th Division Captain Jūshirō Ukitake after the latter performed Kamikake.

After recounting how Ukitake formed a contract with Mimihagi, the right arm of the Soul King, Mayuri points out that it is not surprising for the left arm of the Soul King to also be detached and roaming around freely, though Yumichika disputes this, and that Pernida's form of a large hand with a single eye matches the legend that Kisuke Urahara recounted. When a roaring Pernida extends several nerves into the ground, forcing Ikkaku and Yumichika to flee, Mayuri simply extends a Kikaisan above himself to intercept them, which causes it to scream in pain, and wonders why the left arm of the Soul King is choosing to work for Yhwach.

Extending another Kikaisan to intercept more nerves, Mayuri admits that this question pales in comparison to the joy he feels right now, and when Pernida inquires about this while firing more nerves, Mayuri continues protecting himself with multiple Kikaisans and praises the development of Pernida being able to speak as he wonders what organs are being used to produce its voice. Far behind Mayuri, Ikkaku tells him to run and questions how he can be so happy under these circumstances, only for Mayuri to explain that he has found a subject to observe which he has never met before and who is exceeding every expectation, which completely thrills him.

Pernida rears up and begins rapidly firing nerves around itself in all directions, tearing up the ground and forcing Mayuri to move back while encouraging it to show him more and addressing it as the left arm of the Soul King. When Pernida asserts that its name is Pernida Parnkgjas, an unimpressed Mayuri claims that this is too long and that discovering Pernida gives him the right to name it, though he admits that he could make a special exception this time since Pernida is the one making the request on the condition that he decides how the name is spelled, leading an unimpressed Ikkaku and Yumichika to comment on how he is always talking nonsense.

Unable to fully understand what Mayuri is saying, Pernida assumes that it is an insult and that it extends to all Quincy, and when Mayuri inquires about what will happen if he was insulting it, Pernida declares this is unforgiveable and fires more nerves into the ground, where they spread across the stone and raise a gigantic stone hand in front of Mayuri, who is shocked that it can extend its nerves into inorganic matter and claims to love it just before leaping into the air to avoid the hand as it slams down. Releasing Jabarakaina with his left hand, Mayuri uses it to grab onto a distant tower and pull himself toward it.

With Pernida extending its nerves into the ground and up the side of the tower that Mayuri is reeling himself onto, Mayuri sees them covering the wall in front of him and kicks back from it just before they form another stone hand that rips out of the wall and begins following Mayuri through the air. After latching onto another building with Jabarakaina, Mayuri quickly pulls himself away and onto a lower rooftop, but as he jumps off the end of it, Pernida forms another stone hand from a nearby tower and slams both hands into Mayuri from opposite sides, creating a large cloud of debris and seemingly crushing Mayuri.

During this, outside of Silbern, Sternritter "G" Liltotto Lamperd infers that "H" Bazz-B has a personal score to settle with "B" Jugram Haschwalth and tells him to take care of it while she and "Z" Giselle Gewelle handle killing Yhwach. Scoffing at this, Bazz-B promises to kill them both himself and asserts that it is time to go once Giselle fantasizes about seeing Yhwach and Haschwalth as zombies. Back on Vier Ast, Ikkaku and Yumichika call out to Mayuri in alarm, only for Mayuri to emerge unharmed from the cloud of debris without his glowing clothing and reveal that his Explosive Reactive Armor detonated.

Refusing to explain how this works and telling Ikkaku and Yumichika to look it up themselves, Mayuri hurtles toward the ground, which is covered in Pernida's nerves, and responds to Yumichika's panicked warning by smirking and pressing a button on his shoes, which creates a disc of blue Reishi underneath each and allows Mayuri to stand on the air above the ground. With Pernida startled by this, Mayuri infers that this looks familiar to it and reveals that he is using Hirenkyaku, which he describes as the aerial Hohō used by Quincy and admits might have a different original name since this is what Uryū and Sōken Ishida called it.

Mayuri concludes that Pernida's nerves are harmless even if spread through the ground so long as he does not step on them and launches a Jinmen Himo, which groans and laments its situation as it wraps itself around Pernida's pinky finger. Once Mayuri presses a trigger to take a sample as planned, the Jinmen Himo detonates, severing Pernida's pinky in a shower of blood as it screams in pain. With the large pinky flopping on the ground before him, Mayuri douses it in a preservative and explains that he will prepare a storage tank once the battle is over, with the preservative meant to keep the finger fresh until then.

Suddenly, an eye opens on the first joint of the pinky and unleashes several nerves, catching Mayuri off-guard as they begin infiltrating his right arm. Upon seeing his pinky bend backward until it breaks, Mayuri rapidly operates on his right arm with his left arm until it is covered in stitches to reconfigure its arrangements of nerves, muscles, and blood vessels, which he explains to Pernida prior to proclaiming that he will not be controlled so easily. With Mayuri calling his work sloppy and embarrassing because he is out of practice from not performing surgery with one arm for a long time, Pernida wonders if he is referring to himself for panicking.

Though Mayuri denies this, Pernida asks him if he wants to panic more before the severed pinky rapidly grows into a full hand and runs on its fingers toward Mayuri, who launches another Jinmen Himo at it using Jabarakaina in order to repel it with the explosion and looks at the hand writhing on the ground, now bearing an eye on its palm as well. Realizing that the severed finger has become a copy of Pernida, Mayuri muses that taking it back with him in pieces is no longer an option just before Pernida rips off its middle finger and repeats its inquiry about Mayuri panicking more while the severed finger begins growing additional fingers.

While Pernida complains about blood from the stump dripping into its eye, Mayuri recalls reading a book when he was young that stated the Soul King's right hand controls stillness while the left controls advancement and admits that knowledge gained from books is merely knowledge which he does not believe until he has proven it himself, but expresses delight at being able to experience both in succession like this. With Pernida and its two clones rearing up before him, Mayuri activates his Bankai, causing Yumichika to assume that he is going to flood the area with poison using Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō and rush toward Kenpachi in concern alongside Ikkaku.

However, Mayuri decries the idea of doing something so wasteful as a large purple mass emerges from the tip of his Zanpakutō and takes the shape of a massive baby, which falls on its side on the ground. With the mass growing into a fully-formed infant that waves its limbs around before several layers of organs appear to prop up and support it, Mayuri addresses it as Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō: Matai Fukuin Shōtai. Stopping alongside Yumichika while running away with Kenpachi on his back, Ikkaku looks back and demands to know what this is, leading Mayuri to identify it as a Modified Bankai which he created.

Mayuri explains that Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō: Matai Fukuin Shōtai has the ability to give birth to a new Ashisogi Jizō based on data that he sends it during combat, and as Pernida's eye widens in confusion at this, Mayuri promises it will understand soon prior to the large infant roaring in pain and splitting its stomach open to produce a large, black-eyed Ashisogi Jizō that falls on the ground and immediately begins screeching in agony while Mayuri details how its nerves are on the outside of its body, causing it immense pain just from touching the air or ground, which he dismisses as an irrelevant aspect of its existence.

When Pernida fires three nerves at the Ashisogi Jizō, they splay across its face as Mayuri reveals that its nerves are separated into 70,000 layers, which means that The Compulsory can only peel back one outer layer at a time. With the areas of its face touched by Pernida's nerves peeling back a single layer of skin, the Ashisogi Jizō roars and charges toward Pernida and its clones, whom it devours whole one at a time. Assuring Pernida that it is okay to resist if it can fire its nerves 70,000 times before being consumed, Mayuri cackles madly while the Ashisogi Jizō burps and Nemu watches solemnly from the side.