"Playlife: World of Revelry!"
Two voices rang out in perfect unison.
[World of Revelry: The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really Love You (Uncensored)]
[Theme: Fight and Super-Super-Super!]
[Rule: The loser must be completely drained by everyone present before losing consciousness!]
[Note: Even the weak have the right to be wrung dry!]
Makoto and the gremlin Zanpakuto surged from their starting points simultaneously. Speed, angle, stride, every detail mirrored perfectly, down to the clouds of sand kicked up beneath their feet.
This was a battle against oneself.
The eternal struggle between Shinigami and Zanpakutō.
Yet, there were differences.
Makoto's eyes narrowed, fixing on the gremlin's petite, short-limbed frame. A glint flickered in his gaze.
Clang!
Their blades met with a dull, resonant thud.
The explosive Reiatsu clash unleashed a gust that roared outward, blasting twin craters into the white sand behind them. The force rippled in widening arcs, shaking the beach.
The instant their swords collided, Makoto's expression froze.
How is she so strong?!
The gremlin twisted her sword with a flick, the edge slashing upward. Makoto staggered back, narrowly dodging the cunning strike only for her to follow with a swift cut aimed at his thigh.
Clang!
Screeech!
Makoto reversed his grip on the hilt, deflecting her blade along its trajectory. But her strength overwhelmed him. Their swords locked, grinding against each other in a high-pitched wail, sparking a chain of crimson flame. He nearly lost his grip.
In that fleeting deadlock, the gremlin lashed out with a kick. Her slender, pale leg shot forward, cloaked in a swirl of white air.
"Ikkotsu!"
Her childish voice cried out.
Makoto's eyes widened as he flashed backward in an instant.
Her short leg struck the sand where he'd stood.
Boom!
The seemingly delicate blow erupted, hurling a white plume of dust dozens of meters wide. A ferocious gust swept the beach, shattering half the shore with that deceptively simple strike.
From above, the dust-choked sand looked bitten, as if a sea beast had taken a chunk out of it.
Using the cover of the haze, Makoto darted aside with high-speed Shunpo, slashing at her back.
She didn't even glance over. With a casual backhand, she parried his strike.
Spinning on her heel, her blade whipped out with the momentum, her lithe limbs snapping like a whip's tail. A faint hiss sliced the air as she struck.
"First Form - Severing Strike!"
The moment her voice rang out, a thin film of spiritual light shimmered across her blade. Its arc traced a fluid, carefree streak, as ink splashed across a page, forming a flowing ribbon of white that encircled her.
Makoto had no time to react, raising his sword in a frantic block.
Their blades clashed midair, igniting a searing line of sparks. Her spinning force knocked his weapon aside, and in that half-step gap, she lunged closer.
Shing!
The blade flashed, leaving a gleaming trail in its wake.
Makoto stumbled back, midsection guarded, breathing in short gasps.
A footprint scored the pristine sand.
Across his chest, his clothes tore open, a long gash weeping blood.
Half a step more, and she'd have sliced him in two.
A razor-thin escape.
But…
Why was her strength so immense?
Why is her speed so blinding?
And those moves... what were they?
Makoto shared her memories, yet he knew he'd never devised a bone-crushing kick or a steel-severing strike that wove around the body.
"Id~iot~!"
The moment that question flared in his mind, the gremlin tilted her head up with smug delight. Her youthful, adorable features made even this haughty display oddly endearing.
Of course.
That was without a blade in her hand.
Her tone dripped with nine-tenths pride, "If you've never seen it, then obviously I created it myself!"
"You know this already, don't you, Makoto-kun?"
"The king and the steed."
The childish imp hefted a blade nearly as tall as herself, the tassel at its hilt swaying faintly.
A cute smile bloomed on her face as she echoed his own words/
"Two identical beings, who should dominate the fight, and who becomes the one forced to submit?"
"What's the difference between them?"
"Makoto-kun."
"Have you truly understood?"
Makoto's expression faltered at her words.
Before he could respond, the gremlin charged with a speed surpassing her earlier assault, leaving him no room to think.
Her blade struck heavy and relentless, its velocity staggering.
Under this ferocious onslaught, Makoto's mind blanked, his hands barely managing a strained defense.
The gremlin's face radiated glee, as if she'd fully immersed herself in this duel meant solely for the two of them. Her sweeping, unrestrained slashes reminded Makoto of himself in Zaraki, hacking away on pure instinct.
Her weighty blade hammered down like a smith's mallet on an anvil, unburdened by restraint. The air sang with the explosive clang of metal.
The brat's voice rang out, brimming with delight.
"Sluggish! Lazy! Indecisive!"
"I hate all these feelings of yours, Makoto Fujimiya!"
"If it were you, you could flash that look, like you're about to lick every inch of a milf, just a glance at another girl, and she'd break out in goosebumps!"
"And that brilliant expression of yours, like a fly perched on a toilet lid, rubbing its hands while eyeing its target, or a crow circling the rotting flesh of a soon-to-be corpse!"
"With that teddy-unleashed-from-its-cage energy, you could take down anything!"
"But..."
Her voice stretched into a sharp crescendo as she hoisted her blade high, carving a devastating arc downward.
A thunderous blast erupted, sand surging upward in a cascading torrent.
The sheer pressure of her swing tore forward dozens of meters, splitting the sea with a towering white wave.
The gremlin spun around, hefting her oversized sword in one hand, brows arched in blatant displeasure.
"The Makoto Fujimiya right now? Your purity's nowhere near enough!"
"Nowhere!"
Dodging the strike, Makoto bristled with indignation, shouting back.
"W-What's that supposed to mean?!"
"Who the hell are you even talking about?!"
No matter how you sliced it, she'd painted him as some sleazy creep!
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
Makoto refused to accept that image of himself.
"Haven't figured it out yet?" The gremlin gazed at him, letting out a soft, exasperated sigh. She planted her hands on her hips like a stern little teacher. "We're the same, you and I, so why's my strength greater, my speed faster, my creativity sharper…?"
"Isn't the reason obvious?"
The moment her words fell, she vanished from his sight.
A piercing gust sliced the air behind him.
Boom!
Makoto's body tumbled across the sand, scrambling to his feet in a disheveled heap. He turned to face her, his expression growing increasingly uncertain.
Her speed and power had spiked again?!
Was this allowed under the Script's rules?
How?
As the thought raced through his mind, his peripheral vision caught the "girlfriends" standing at the outer edge.
These scantily clad girls now wore looks of worry, their tension palpable as they gazed at him.
A stark shift from their earlier demeanor.
This was…?
The gremlin's voice came softly, "The rules were clear from the start, weren't they? All the Scripts are built from your heart, Makoto Fujimiya."
"Meaning everything that appears here is a world you wanted."
"At its core..."
"It's the pinnacle born from your ugly desires!"
"The embodiment of your wretched cravings."
Her cute, childish voice delivered the words as she turned to him, tilting her head in apparent confusion, "In a place like this, did you really think there'd be anything like 'fair' rules, Makoto Fujimiya?"
At that, a sudden realization jolted through Makoto.
[Host bearer of privileges:
[1. Before the game begins, designate a single 'Pact' as one of the conditions for ending the match.]
[2. Hold the authority to assign 'roles' to both parties.]
[3. Possess the right to request a script change once.]
These 'rules' had been etched into his mind from the very start.
Yes.
His scripts, from the outset, were never fair to both sides.
Makoto snapped his head up at this realization, staring at the gremlin standing mere steps away. A revelation clicked into place.
If the rules were inherently unequal...
Then wasn't it possible his greatest advantage had been hidden in plain sight all along?!
Was that why the gremlin outmatched him?
"Finally figured it out, huh?"
A gleeful smile curled across the imp's adorable face as she let out a soft hum:
"Our biggest edge is 'desire'!"
"Purer, deeper, grander than anyone else's… desire!"
"The more it swells, the stronger we grow, the faster we advance!"
Her words tumbled out in a rush, "Whether it was your first clash with Unohana-mama, your first bout with Saito-chan, the first time you shook off the Sekkiseki stone cuffs in front of Katori-chan, your first Kidō lesson with Kirio-chan, or that moment facing off against Chika Shihōin when your mind couldn't stop conjuring a certain catgirl doujins, every leap from barren to bountiful, every extraordinary, breakneck surge forward!"
"The desire to get freaky! The desire to win! The desire to survive! The desire to show off in front of cute girls..."
"All those desires fuel progress that, within these scripts, can spike tenfold, a hundredfold in an instant!"
Her voice fell, and she leveled her blade at Makoto.
At last, she unleashed the pent-up frustration boiling within.
"Me?!"
"I've been forcibly holding back my Hentai desires to dive into a hedonistic paradise with The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really Love Me, all to fight you to the death here!"
"Do you even get how much I…"
Her tirade cut off mid-sentence.
She turned, catching sight of Makoto rising slowly from the sand, a chilling premonition clawing at her core.
Makoto reached up, brushing back the long bangs framing his forehead, revealing a face utterly at ease. A low chuckle escaped him.
"So… that's how it is."
"Simple as that."
He murmured the words, shaking his head with a wry, self-deprecating smirk.
The sight of his relaxed demeanor only deepened the gremlin's dread.
Something was off.
Before she could react, Makoto turned to face her, hitching up his waistband.
"Honestly, I've been meaning to tell you since the start."
His clean-cut charming features split into a warm affable grin.
"You talk a lot, sure."
"But in this inner world, you're pretty damn cute."
In that instant, the gremlin's body locked up. Makoto's seemingly gentle smile morphed into a devil's rose in her eyes, panic surging like a tidal wave.
As his Zanpakutō, she could feel it, the relentless, tide-like shift of his terrifying desires crashing toward her.
It's over!
Am I… about to get wrecked?!
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Bonus Chapter:
100 Power Stones = 1 BC
300 Power Stones = 2 BC
500 Power Stones = 3 BC
700 Power Stones = 4 BC
1000 Power Stones = 5 BC
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