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Necro powers, activate !

 (Sad Cry of the Slaughter Sword): In its sealed form it takes the form of a long tachi with a special の-shaped tsuba. Its hilt-wrapping is a sullen azure colour and its sheathe is an extremely dark indigo colour.


 * Shikai: The blade is released by the command, “Succumb”. In shikai, the sheathe dissolves and covers the hilt, turning the hilt-wrapping a dark azure colour.


 * Special shikai abilities: Hikyū no Sōtō is a high-power zanpakutō possessing several techniques. Excluding Seitō Kuiaratame, all techniques increase in power the more beings the wielder has killed using Hikyū no Sōtō however this gradually increasing power cannot be accessed while Seitō Kuiaratame still activates; this remains true in bankai.


 * Seitō Kuiaratame (Justified Repentance): Automatically activating upon release, a clear tear-like fluid is constantly secreted from the surface of the blade; the colour of the fluid becomes gradually more blood red as the wielder’s fight becomes more ferocious, violent and intense. This technique serves to restrain Hikyū no Sōtō’s desires and urges, allowing the wielder to control its power output without a second thought. If, for whatever reason, the wielder ends up killing a large number of beings using Hikyū no Sōtō, Seitō Kuiaratame stops activating upon release. Without Seitō Kuiaratame, Hikyū no Sōtō’s overwhelmingly tumultuous desires rein free; there is a danger that these desires and urges can influence the wielder’s thoughts and actions and also makes controlling its power output increasingly difficult. The technique stays active when bankai is released.


 * Kubikirisō (Decapitating Claw): Upon activation of the technique, the blade gains a visible sheathe of spiritual energy that violently revolves along the blade edge like a chainsaw. As well as increasing the cutting power of the blade, every slash wound inflicted with this technique causes two identical slash wounds, 4cm either side of the original, to be inflicted simultaneously with the original slash. This technique remains active for as long as the wielder can manage, but its spiritual energy consumption increases exponentially the longer it is sustained.


 * Kūfukuga (Hungry Fang): The wielder must first pierce the enemy’s body twice; the piercings must be made consecutively of each other and both must be parallel to each other; this determines the ‘bite’ size. Once these conditions have been met, the wielder spreads their hands apart (each hand parallel with each piercing) with their fingers open, simulating an opening mouth; the wielder then clasps their hands together, simulating a predator biting down on its prey. Concurrently with the wielder’s hand motions, a nasty gaping bite wound appears between the two points where the enemy was cut..


 * Fugukōon (Maimed Roar): The wielder reverses their grip on the tachi and then slams the tip of the blade down on a solid object, releasing an omnidirectional burst of reverberating energy that concussively repulses anything within a fifty metre radius of the wielder. The technique also emits a piercingly unsettling screeching noise as it does so.


 * Bankai: Hikyū no Sōtō (Ferocious Leopard-like Beast of Complete Annihilation): If Seitō Kuiaratame no longer activates, bankai automatically releases whenever the wielder is ‘sufficiently’ damaged whilst using shikai. In bankai Hikyū no Sōtō takes on the form of a heavily stylised tachi. It has a 1.2 metre long double-edged blade that is slightly more curved and slightly wider than usual; the blade also features, in the top back edge, middle front edge and bottom back edge. The habaki of the tachi resembles a metallic skeletal vertebrae and the hilt-wrapping is now an extremely dark azure colour. Hikyū no Sōtō and the wielder’s appearance differs depending on whether Seitō Kuiaratame still activates or not. If it still activates, the wielder gains a necklace of protective charms around their neck and mala beads around their non-sword wrist; if it doesn’t activate, the necklace of protective charms appear tattered, the mala beads appear damaged and a vaguely scar-like marking of three slashes diagonally streaks across their face.


 * Special bankai abilities: Having lost sight of its original purpose, Hikyū no Sōtō has given in to its rampant murderous urges and fully embraces its enjoyment for slaughter and utter obliteration; it considers anyone that is not the wielder to be a threat that must be eliminated. Because of this, it is extremely difficult for the wielder to resist Hikyū no Sōtō’s wanton desires (and also regulate its power output). If Seitō Kuiaratame still activates, the aforementioned desires are restrained. Hikyū no Sōtō retains the ability to use its shikai techniques in bankai.


 * Shinku Nyūyoku (Crimson Bathing): A passive technique that enables the wielder and the Hikyū no Sōtō to heal and regenerate from damage by being immersed in the blood of their target(s). If Seitō Kuiaratame no longer activates then as long as the damaged area is covered or splattered in blood, healing/regeneration occurs automatically. If Seitō Kuiaratame still activates, the wielder must activate this technique consciously.


 * Kurobu no Sangen (Black Dance of the Three Phantoms): The spaces left by the three crescent-shaped notches in the blade are normally filled in with the wielder’s spiritual energy; these dissipate when the technique is activated indicating the ‘release’ of the “three phantoms”: the 1st “Kaitō” (Phantom Thief), the 2nd “Genshi” (Phantom Limb) and the 3rd “Tōrima” (Phantom Killer). The bladed notch in the top back edge of the blade holds Kaitō. Cuts made by this notch do not inflict physical damage, but instead pass straight through the body part that is cut; any limb or extremity that is cut by this notch ‘disappears’. This means that the affected area still exists physically, but appears (and to the victim, feels) like the limb/extremity has been cut off. The bladed notch in the middle front edge of the blade holds Genshi. Like Kaitō, cuts made by this notch do not inflict physical damage, but instead pass straight through the body part that is cut; any body part cut by this notch are inflicted with Genshi’s essence which essentially causes the victim to suffer from a much more prominent form of alien limb syndrome. The bladed notch in the bottom back edge of the blade holds Tōrima. Anything organic cut by this notch suffers from rapid necrosis (in the immediate area) instantly after the injury is inflicted. The blade-edged notches continuously emit a subtle dark-coloured wispy energy for as long as this technique is activated. If Seitō Kuiaratame does not activate then this technique is constantly activated.


 * Kirisaku Satsubatsu (Savage Tearing To Pieces): Upon activation, any subsequent cuts or piercings made with the blade become susceptible to this technique’s effects (regardless of whether the cut/piercing was inflicted upon organic, non-organic or inanimate things). The wielder then their fingers before violently splaying their hands outwards, simulating a predator tearing through prey, causing inflicted cuts/piercings to violently rip open as if they were torn open by a ferocious beast. If Seitō Kuiaratame still activates the wielder is able to selectively choose which cuts/piercings rip open; if Seitō Kuiaratame does not activate, the technique is always activated and all cuts/piercings rip open simultaneously (regardless if inflicted upon a being or an inanimate object). The blade continuously glows with the wielder’s spiritual energy for as long as the technique is activated.


 * Kui Saigaku (Devouring Jaw): This technique essentially functions identically to Kūfukuga except in this technique the wielder can inflict the two preceding slashes/stabs on any solid surface in order to generate a much larger ‘bite’ size. The more matter that is in between the two points, the more spiritual energy is consumed performing the technique; if the distance between two points is too large and/or there is too much matter that would be ‘bitten’ away, the technique backfires and the wielder incurs overexertive damage to their body instead.


 * Hikyū no Kaimetsu Tokkan (Ferocious Leopard-like Beast’s Obliteration Rush): This technique cannot be used if Seitō Kuiaratame still activates and also requires that the wielder gives in to Hikyū no Sōtō’s urges and desires. The wielder slices each of their palms and grips the hilt with both hands causing the tachi to explode into a dust-like cloud that completely engulfs and covers the wielder’s body. At that, the wielder’s reiatsu suddenly skyrockets and they become cloaked in a visibly intense hikyū-shaped aura of tremendous spiritual energy whilst two sets of crimson-coloured energy-like blades, each set in a, . Then, with a burst of incredibly immense speed, the wielder destructively smashes into the target with a full-body tackle; due to the orbiting blade rings, coupled with the wielder’s intense velocity, everything that was in the wielder’s trajectory is utterly annihilated and only destruction remains in the wielder’s wake. Because of the nature of this technique, the wielder’s body becomes extremely durable only adding to the destructive power of the attack. This technique ends the moment the wielder strikes their target or they impact something that sufficiently reduces (or outright halts) their momentum.