The furious Saint was sent flying by the ferocious roundhouse planted on his skull, sending the figure flying backwards. Crumbling the building's foundations upon his entry, the debris collapsing onto his body. As soon as the space was created between the two, Shizuka was found readjusting himself into a standing straight position, picking up his feet momentarily to release his sandals from being encroached under the asphalt. The pressure of Santa's weight was divulging him deeper into the earth with every passing millisecond. The Quincy male had arrived as Shizuka was inching his way out of the crater, the Quincy landing to the side of him around several feet away. He ignored Shizuka's friendly attempt to make conversation, but he suddenly fired his arrow into the crumbled debris of the building that the creature lie. Without any words this let Shizuka know what this man's goal was, he was glad he wasn't blindsided by any faction wars or anything of the past. It was refreshing to know that even Quincies could have a sense of justice in the face of a common foe.
Shizuka let out a smirk and without facing Silas said
"Glad we're on the same page here."
Shizuka did not face towards the Quincy for a reason, because immediately after his arrow shot inside of the building he began to hear a strong rumble commence from the building.
It was not over yet.
BOOOM
Immediately afterwards the large Saint let out a roar of energy from the building, as he emerged like a titan from the crumbled debris. His once absent life energy and spiritual pressure was now visible and had viscosity on it's exertion.
“You’ve been a naughty little brat. I will stain these streets red with your blood, and ride victorious on a sleigh made of your bones!”
Shizuka and Silas would be able to see the souls of the dead clearly wrapping around through the air as they surrounded the powerful Klaus. Swirling around, it began to look almost as if the Saint was absorbing the power from the souls he had collected so far, exponentially boosting his power. As the pressure flooded the area, the surroundings became even colder than before reaching a frighteningly negative temperature that collided with the already cold city of Naruki. Reaching even through Shizuka's
severely dampened reiatsu giving him chills.
Shizuka holding his fragmented tsuba in front of his face to guard against the wind and debris flying around, immediately felt the
DIFFERENT reiatsu signature that was emanating from the man. As the turbulence flooded the sound in the area around the three individuals, the latter yelled out while still guarding his face so Silas could hear
"Yeah, this Santa Klaus guy we know is actually not really a living thing at all. He doesn't have the signature of a Hollow, Shinigami, Human, or a Quincy and he's been consuming souls as a treat just by judging from his energy! This thing is a
Bount! and he's immortal!"
That was just a piece of information Shizuka knew about the tribe of Bounts, that was given knowledge from Shin'o Academy. For the most part, Shinigami who end up having some form jurisdiction over the WOTL have common knowledge about these beings. A rare species who've been depicted as the one of the "Wonders or Myths of the World' who in truth can only survive off the strength of souls to truly retain their immortality. They had no other ulterior motives other than to be nuisances and murder innocent souls, at least from Shizuka's perspective. Given their immortality as well, would explain why the Soul Society can not deal with such threats like this eternities on end. Still, there had to be someway to stop the current havoc this being was causing. If Shizuka did not do it, then he would be no better than Arashi Suta, the man he chastised just a few months ago.
As the Saint stopped his charging, the debris flying through the air landed abruptly onto the street crashing into nearby cars and the asphalt below. He put his hands together to his side, and began to charging a energy blast within his palms. Shizuka quickly turned towards the Quincy who was still several feet away and nodded signifying it was time to strike back. The Quincy fired one of his arrows into sky in preparation for an attack, and almost simultaneously Klaus launched his attack directly towards Shizuka.
"Hmph.."
The speed and viscosity of the attack was frightening and it tunneled it's way through the air towards Shizuka. Alot of his options were negated due to the ferocious speed of the attack, and running was not a option due to the devastation the attack could potentially cause to the surroundings and potential frozen citizens in buildings nearby. Not fully comprehending all of the options given inside of his head, he quickly reacted to the first thing on his mind, which was diffusion. Shizuka's reiatsu flickered to an astounding level as he pulled his Zanpakuto from his sheathe which glowed bright blue, in that small instance his sealed Zanpakuto transformed midway into it's sheathe pullout, into a full Zweihander with two lightning coils emanating from its handle. This transition was almost second nature to him, known practitioners of Bankai can instantly form into their Shikai with no release phrase needed. Shizuka then threw his tsuba to the ground upon quickly unsheathing and as the blast encroached towards him he yelled out
Raimei Yōshiki (雷鳴様式 , Thunder Stance)
BOOOOOOOOOM
Less than a second later an enormous thunderclap could be heard from several kilometers away from the origin. Silas and Klaus would feel a strong repulsion of energy hit them, blowing their respective clothing and hair to the side strictly from the force. The deafening clap would also strike their eardrums, making them ring endlessly. There would be smoke emanating from Shizuka's location with a trail of fire encircling his area as if a force field crafted the position of the flames. As the smoke began to clear you could see the devastation of the attack was mediated with Shizuka's released Zanpakuto
Hirameku-Hitouchi in his right hand, his blade glowing in a solid white to signify the change of it's state. His right arm that was holding his Zanpakuto was seared all over, the shihakusho sleeve being smoldered all the way up to his shoulder revealing his entire arm.
"That was strong one right there fat ass!"
Shizuka said this as his face held up a triumphant grin, the searing white smoke emanating from his right arm affecting him in the slightest. As he had been subjected to heat miles beyond the one he was experiencing. Just as he even thought about the small pain he was experiencing, Shizuka's reiatsu began to spike significantly in the jagged shape of lightning bolt, continuously surrounding his entire body. The glistening white glow his Shikai's blade exerted, faded away, revealing it's original sharp metallic hue. Upon that change, the temperature around Naruki City as a whole began to increase significantly and rapidly. The buildings once encased in ice, were melting away at a steady pace like a flame was pressed against them. The snowy climate quickly changed into a shining night overcast, erasing all forms of snowy precipitation formed from Klaus' reiatsu all together. As Hirameku-Hitouchi's heat began to spread vastly outwards Shizuka could feel the warmth and presence of a new Shinigami clashing with his own Zanpakuto’s heat, he was excited, and it was nearing time to end this.
Shizuka simply glanced towards Klaus, and stretched his left hand outwards
"Hainawa!"
A thin rope of light would generate out of Shizuka's palm and would stretch outwards heading to Klaus. He anticipated Klaus' movement to try go to the left or right of Shizuka, but he knew the Quincy had something planned for the Saint in the air. So he contorted the light whip to attempt to wrap around his body as a whole in a series of binding rope coiling around to take the area of his body and a plentiful of space around his entire radius. If caught in the rope of light, it would wrap around his entire torso and Shizuka would drag his left arm into the ground restricting the Saint to the ground as well to allow Silas's encroaching setup to activate.