Bleach:Re Chapter 85. DOGS

-LET’S GET WILD!

At those exact words, water came from the edge of Fune’s Shikai as it started surrounding the very blade. Much like a chainsaw made of clear water; vibrations could now be heard near the blade.

-Jiro-Kun, stay behind. Now, I will be the one to protect you.
- What? Stop it dumba-

But Fune didn’t even listen to the young man. With a wide jump, she quickly closed the gap between Perro & her. Her huge sword above her head, the Shinigami was ready to strike at any moment, but so was her opponent.

- What’s that? Your blade just got bigger!
- Hmph!

Both swung their swords with all their might. But as one would expect, Perro was faster. The Zanpakuto of Fune was bigger, stronger, but it also was heavier.

- HA!
- Shakkahō!

Coming from his left side, a huge ball made of red energy violently hit Perro in the flank. The attack wasn’t strong enough to deal major damage but it was enough to make him lost his balance and stop his assault.

- Urgh!
- Don’t touch her you rotten dog!
- (This bastard…)

Suddenly, a shadow covered the Arrancar’s face as he heard this noise of vibration coming closer. But the moment he reacted, it was too late. 

- I’M YOUR OPPONENT!!
- Shi-

With a huge swing, Fune sliced through Perro’s left shoulder, almost tearing his arm apart. The wound was deep; blood was gushing out even a few seconds after. In a very short time, a puddle of the red liquid was at the Arrancar’s feet.

He was breathing heavily as his right hand was holding tightly on this wound of his. The attack was even stronger than it seemed.

- (Shit… Didn’t think she could land such attacks… Not only is my left arm totally out of service… I think the water-chainsaw did touch a lung …)

Perro was spitting insane amount of blood with regular intervals. Though, it more looked like he was throwing up than spitting according the quantity of blood he lost.

- (My breathing won’t get better… I need to act quickly.)
- This fight is over. Let me put an end to your life, Arrancar.
- Eh…That’s my line!

With an incredible growth of Reiatsu, Perro licked the blood on his blade. Slowly, his tongue made all the way from the guard to the tip of the blade. And when it finally reached the hand, the man pronounced those words.

- Yakikorosu. (焼き殺す To burn up)

The ground slowly started to burn up as the heat became quickly unsustainable. Nearby plants were igniting, water slowly vaporing.

Immediately, Fune reacted; holding her Zanpakuto tightly with her two hands she was ready to strike at any moment. 

- Hmph!
- FUNE STAND BACK!

Finally, Perro disappeared in flames with a smile on his lips.

- CERBERO! (黒丸三地獄, Jap: Black ring of the 3 hells; Spa: Cerberus)

From the very center of the flames were Perro just was engulfed, a huge shockwave happened made the ground shake. 

With a silence of death, the sphere of flames slowly vanished in a vortex shape with only dust remaining from the freshly burned ground.

- What the fuck…
- … Is that?!

Nothing was left from Perro’s old appearance. Actually, grotesque was the only way to describe this whole new being.

His torso now was a huge mass of flames with not muscles or bone apparent. Only some animal-like skull & two black rings floating at the shoulder level could be seen.  The lower part on his body though looked more physical as it seemed to be some huge beast legs covered in a dark-red fur. As such, his feet now were replaced by paws with 4 massive black claws.

- Aaahhhhh~ 

A breath of fire came out of Perro’s jaw as the Arrancar seemed to be cooling down. Perro kept Fune straight in his eyesight while flames poured out of his skull.

- You… Dead.

Upon those words, both Shinigamis entered in a defensive position. But it was literally a few seconds too late. Before they could even react, blood spurted in the air.

With a red trail coming from her mouth, Fune saw herself with a hole the size of a hand piercing through her body. The wound was neat with only few drops of blood dripping. 

- W-What…

As she looked up to see her opponent, she saw smoke in a shape of circle coming from Perro’s mouth. His attack was fast & strong. Way too strong. 

Her breath was heavy and sweat was pearling the long of her face.

- FUNNEEE!!!

With an excess of anger, Jiro jumped from the place where he was standing, a few meters away, to Perro’s in an instant. The man literally was blinded by rage as he stretched his left arm to reach his opponent. He didn’t have any plan. He didn’t know what he was doing. He just wanted his enemy to pay.

But quickly, blood covered up the sky once again as the young man saw his left arm sliced apart at an insane speed. The cut was clean; so clean it may have been compared to the slash of a sword.

- Hrgh!

As a reflex, Jiro instantly grabbed what was left of his arm to cover the wound with the palm of his right hand. As he did that, he took a glance at Perro to see how he attacked him.

- (Chains?!!)

Indeed, coming from the rings floating on the Arrancar flame body were long dark chains still smoking, probably heated up to the very maximum.

- (This piece of shit… He used that as a whip…) 

The boy quickly fell to the floor heavily.

Aside of Jiro, Fune was lying on the ground with blood flowing from her wound. Her injury was serious & her life was on the line, Jiro knew that too well. But then.

Only the frightening sound of the claws screeching the ground broke the short silence as Perro slowly approached his opponents with a silhouette of death.

- Welcome…to the Hell!