THE KILLERS HIGH 2

Riding an unfamiliar high, Gremmy cannot even name the look on his face but revels in the sensation as Kenpachi renews his attack. He raises a bladed metal dome, which the captain shreds, and when Kenpachi buries his sword in Gremmy's body a giant stone hand pins him from above. Kenpachi tears up through it and reopens the Quincy's chest, exploiting the instant his focus lapses.

Bleeding badly, Gremmy grows unable to stop the blade and starts to picture his own loss, which weakens his defenses further. Kenpachi feels the resistance fade and asks whether he just imagined losing. Realizing the danger, Gremmy heals himself and thanks his opponent for scrubbing every thought of death from his mind, declaring that he now cannot die.

To repay Kenpachi, Gremmy splits off a clone, insisting it is no illusion but true life born of his imagination. When Kenpachi strikes the original, it shrugs the blow off unharmed, and Gremmy announces that with two of him the power of his mind simply doubles. High above the city a colossal meteor takes shape, which he promises will annihilate Kenpachi and the whole Seireitei while sparing only himself. Unfazed, Kenpachi remarks to Nozarashi that he has never cut a meteor before.

Kenpachi keeps wounding Gremmy despite the Quincy's defenses, and nearly wins when Gremmy accidentally imagines his own defeat. Gremmy recovers, convinces himself he can no longer die, and creates a living clone of himself. He then summons a massive meteor intended to obliterate Kenpachi and the Seireitei, leaving only himself alive.

Part of Volume 64, DEATH IN VISION, cover character Gremmy Thoumeaux. The chapter was adapted in Episode 386, I AM THE EDGE. A flashback recalls Guenael Lee. It sits between THE KILLERS HIGH and the blade-titled chapter that follows.