Spit On Your Own God

Baraggan lectures that death claims humans, beasts, plants, and Shinigami alike, and that anything born to die carries age within it. Kido is no exception, he reasons; a spell might endure a thousand years, yet never truly forever, a word he dismisses as a hollow comfort invented by those who dread growing old. Then he attacks.

Hachi conjures a plank between his palms, replicates it into ranks, and fuses the pieces into a wall that stalls the oncoming Respira. Baraggan insists it will simply rot as the corrosive breath eats into it. When Hachi begins an incantation, the Espada notes shrewdly that reciting one after casting reinforces the spell, but warns he is already too late. Hachi speaks the spell's name regardless, and towering beams erupt to raise a barrier several stories tall between them.

Hachi then calls to Sui-Feng, asking her to ready her Bankai. She bristles, demanding to know how a Visored even knows of it, and makes plain her reluctance to cooperate with anyone linked to Kisuke Urahara. Hachi urges her to set the grudge aside, and when she still refuses, offers a bargain. As Baraggan grows impatient and moves to smash the wall, he senses something at his back. Hachi keeps stacking barriers while the Espada laughs at the futility of caging the master of aging, likening it to spitting in the face of a god.

Hachi corrects him: the barriers were never meant to imprison him. Baraggan had survived Sui-Feng's earlier Bankai only by aging it into a harmless distance before it burst. The wall exists so his decay cannot act quickly enough to spare him this time. A circular gap opens, Sui-Feng slots Jakuho Raikoben through it, and extracts one more promise, that tomorrow Hachi will seal Urahara inside a barrier for a full month. He agrees, she smiles, and she fires, splitting the barrier apart with the blast.

Baraggan argues that his decay outlasts even Kido, then assaults Hachi's defenses with Respira. Hachi raises a towering multi-layered barrier and recruits Sui-Feng despite her distrust of Urahara's associates. He reveals the wall is a containment trap rather than a prison, meant to keep Baraggan within the blast radius. Sui-Feng, promised a month of Urahara sealed away, fires Jakuho Raikoben point blank inside the barrier.

The second chapter of volume 43, Kingdom of Hollows, adapted into episode 280, Hisagi and Tosen, the Moment of Parting. It pairs Hachi's barrier Kido with Sui-Feng's assassination Bankai and plays on the long history between the Visored and Kisuke Urahara.