Sui-Feng marks Yoruichi again and again with her blade's lethal crest, certain victory is near. But when she debuts a technique she believes is hers alone, Yoruichi names it, reveals its origin, and unleashes her own version.
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Summary
As a death crest blooms over Yoruichi's stomach wound, Sui-Feng explains that Suzumebachi brands its target on the first hit, and a second strike to the same mark is fatal. She admits the technique was unfinished when Yoruichi departed, but boasts she has had a hundred years to perfect it, leaving her opponent only able to flee. She lands further strikes on Yoruichi's back and arm, each adding another crest, and taunts her for stalling since the marks vanish only when Sui-Feng chooses to remove them.
Yoruichi kicks a pair of hidden blades at Sui-Feng, who deflects them, then grapples with her, countering an overhead strike by trapping Yoruichi's foot and stabbing her cheek for a fourth crest. Landing on the forest floor, Sui-Feng surrounds herself with a swirling wind-like energy she claims to have invented only days earlier, a fusion of hand-to-hand combat and spellcraft that has no name yet. Yoruichi contradicts her, identifying it as Shunko.
She then explains why the Keisen Shozoku is cut away at the back and shoulders: the technique wraps those areas in dense energy that channels power to the limbs and bursts outward, so any cloth there would be torn off the instant it activates. Demonstrating, Yoruichi triggers her own Shunko, the fabric blowing from her back and shoulders as crackling energy envelops her. Admitting she never wanted to use the move against her former student, she raises a hand and unleashes a huge blast, confessing she still cannot control it well and leaving Sui-Feng speechless.
Key Events
Sui-Feng explains Suzumebachi's two-strike kill and marks Yoruichi four times. She then reveals a technique she believes is her own creation, but Yoruichi names it Shunko, explains its mechanics and connection to the Keisen Shozoku, and activates her own, far outmatching her successor.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What happens in the Bleach chapter Sky Leopardess?
In Sky Leopardess, Sui-Feng explains the lethal two-strike mechanism of her Zanpakuto Suzumebachi and marks Yoruichi Shihoin repeatedly, but when she debuts an unnamed technique, Yoruichi identifies it as Shunko and unleashes her own far stronger version.
How does Sui-Feng's Suzumebachi kill its target in Bleach?
In Sky Leopardess, Sui-Feng explains that Suzumebachi brands a target with a death crest on the first hit, and a second strike to the same mark is fatal, a finishing move called Nigeki Kessatsu.
What is Shunko in Bleach?
In Sky Leopardess, Shunko is revealed as a signature Onmitsukido technique that wraps dense energy around the back and shoulders to channel power into the limbs, which is why the Keisen Shozoku uniform is cut away at those areas so cloth is not torn off when it activates.
Which volume and episode does Sky Leopardess appear in?
Sky Leopardess is chapter 158, the closing chapter of the eighteenth volume THE DEATHBERRY RETURNS, and it was adapted into Episode 56, Supersonic Battle! Determine the Goddess of Battle.
Did Yoruichi invent Shunko before Sui-Feng?
In Sky Leopardess, Sui-Feng believes she created the wind-like technique herself only days earlier, but Yoruichi reveals it as Shunko and demonstrates her own version, showing she originated it, though she admits she still cannot control it well.
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