300. Curse Named Love

Trailing far behind on the ice, the Fourth Division's Hanatarō Yamada slips and sprawls while trying to catch up to Byakuya Kuchiki, who has raced ahead. In the palace's central hall, Zommari Rureaux insists he only meant to treat Byakuya as an equal, but the captain names that very presumption as the pride he condemns. Vowing to grind Byakuya's arrogance down, Zommari triggers his Resurrección, Brujería, twisting his head and folding his blade until a coating sloughs off to reveal a body studded with dozens of eyes and a swollen, face-ringed lower half.

Extending an eye set in his palm, he activates Amor. Byakuya flashes behind him, yet nothing fires, and Zommari reveals the power has already stamped a sun symbol onto the captain's left ankle, claiming that leg as his own. Preaching a doctrine that all things bow to a higher master, he orders the limb to step forward and it obeys. Byakuya answers by cutting through his own leg's muscles to still it. Undeterred, Zommari turns two shoulder eyes on the unconscious Rukia Kuchiki, forcing Byakuya to block their line of sight with his body just as Hanatarō stumbles in, horrified by the blood pooling at the captain's foot.

Zommari releases his Resurrección, Brujería, and uses Amor to seize control of Byakuya's left leg. Byakuya severs his own leg's muscles to resist and shields the helpless Rukia from Zommari's gaze.

The chapter is gathered in the thirty-fourth volume, KING OF THE KILL, which is cover-featured by Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, and was adapted in the episode Byakuya's Bankai, the Quiet Anger.