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Sat Aug 05, 2023 12:08 pm
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KAGAYAKU NO MURASAKI | CAPTAIN COMMANDER

It had been quite a while since Murasaki was put into a position where she'd be seeing combat. She wasn't the sort who relished battle or anything like that, so that wasn't much of a problem in her eyes, but as a sword, she still enjoyed the opportunity to face anyone. This, however, wasn't entirely the same as a typical request. Nagoshi Kanae was a captain, yes, and that meant Murasaki put some degree of trust in her. But that trust extended only to doing her job, and her job was that of combat captain. Anything further than that, and Murasaki had zero faith in the woman.

But, maybe a match like this could change that. Or, maybe it wouldn't. If it didn't, though, then it would give her a better idea of what the woman was really like when all the cards were on the table. After all, Murasaki wasn't the kind of person who would take it easy on her opponent. If they were requesting a spar with the captain commander, then they should naturally expect something more severe than they'd find anywhere else. Hand on the hilt of her zanpakuto as she entered the well-reinforced arena, Murasaki greeted the other captain with a smile, cheerful though not overly so.

"Let's get right to it, then. Unless you had anything you wanted to talk about first?"

Murasaki drew her sword confidently, taking up an orthodox stance as her eyes studied Kanae. The radical developments in her zanpakuto were still unknown to nearly everyone, not that she necessarily minded that changing in the course of this bout. After all, the captain commander's job wasn't just to be a trump card. She had to be a deterrent, too.

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Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:00 pm
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KAGAYAKU NO MURASAKI | CAPTAIN COMMANDER

Murasaki watched her opponent with sharp eyes, aware of the battlefield at a level beyond what her chipper way of speaking implied. This was a spar between Commander and Captain, a far cry from a real fight, and so Murasaki kept that smile up even as she watched Kanae come toward her. She knew, of course, that Kanae wasn't really the type to enjoy a friendly bout, that she wasn't especially friendly at all. That was fine though, and Murasaki wasn't looking to invite her over for tea. Just to keep her in line if she had to.

"Okidoke!"

Kanae was obviously fast, but Murasaki was unquestionably one of the fastest people in Soul Society. She stepped back as her opponent's blade flashed throught the air, only to take advantage of the window of opportunity after an attack. Murasaki's body seemed to have already been ready to make this strike without even needing to adjust, as if she'd been prepared for this exact circumstance. She took one step forward now, but rather than simply returning to her starting point, she flash stepped past Kanae, her zanpakuto moving in her first strike of this spar.

Senzai Issen (千載一遇, Once in a Lifetime Killing Stroke).

Countless slashes of the zanpakuto whistled through the air in the blink of an eye, cutting toward Kanae in that briefest moment where Murasaki had moved past her in the course of her flash step. Such a technique had once been her pride and joy, something she'd gone so far as to consider a "signature technique," but she'd still been naive then, immature in her pursuit. Still, it was a good way to open a match, and it had plenty of use to put anyone to the test. After all, it might have been child's play to Murasaki, but she knew plenty well that most people couldn't have replicated it.

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Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:41 am
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KAGAYAKU NO MURASAKI | CAPTAIN COMMANDER

"Hmmm? Ya think so?"

Murasaki's countenance was far from that of the stern captain commander, or even a warrior fighting with all they had. She was still casual, calm, the intensity of her battlefield awareness was wildly at odds with the sense of ease she exuded. She studied Kanae's every movement as the 4th Captain came toward her, and as the attack came, Murasaki's own reaction came as easily and as naturally as breathing. Her foot moved barely, her legs tensing as she immediately utilized a hoho technique of her own creation.

Manbai Ochiba (万枚落葉, 10,000 Falling Leaves)

Attacks from above were something any shinigami at a high level ought to be ready for. Many of her peers and predecessors seemed to forget that, and she'd heard of more than one fight that someone lost becuase they just didn't think about their opponent being able to get the high ground so easily. Manbai Ochiba was designed to mitigate that inevitability, a series of steps in tight, but unpredictable, formation, and she continued to speak even as she evaded each of Kanae's strikes from above, knowing at least that the woman would likely maintain a consistent trajectory.

"I'm not so sure about that one. I think they handled things pretty bad, and I never really saw eye to eye with the old way of runnin' the place. Don't really care one way or another if Yamamoto'd be proud. I'll be better than he ever was anyway."

Though she had certainly made that assertion before to those close to her, Murasaki didn't always speak so openly about that ambition. However, she saw no reason to hide it, and if anything, she felt it was something that ought to be made more widely known. She'd never dream of trying to live up to the Gotei of the past, when she could simply be better than they ever had been instead.

As she evaded the overhead strikes, the final step turned her around, a faint bit of more serious effort now in her expression, like the glint of a slightly drawn sword. Murasaki's blade had already begun to move even as Kanae was still landing, a cut more practiced and with more intention behind it than her almost casual Senzai Issen had been. It was only a single strike, but one refined by Murasaki for the sake of speed above all else, to be finished before most opponents could even fathom the attack had been made.

Daisetsuzan: Oroshi (諦切斬・疎思, "Truth Cutting Slash: Unfinished Thought")

Kanae was a Captain, after all, and one of those lauded Captains from the first generation. She ought to be able to handle a cut at that speed, even if she couldn't match it outright.

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Sat Aug 19, 2023 3:35 am
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KAGAYAKU NO MURASAKI | CAPTAIN COMMANDER

Oh, that had been impressive. Considering Murasaki's skill with the zanpakuto, it took a lot for a technique to catch her attention. She was a master of the blade, but she was (relatively) less skilled with other forms of combat, and so Kanae's hime kick was enough to force Murasaki to move to defense, stepping back in a flash and readying for Kanae's strike. She was aiming to knock away her sword, she could tell that much, so Murasaki naturally went with the flow of combat. Their blades met, and all at once the zanpakuto flew from Murasaki's hand, even as its wielder seemed to move without any concern for the loss.

"That's good, then. I don't think many people could go from an outcast to Captain Commander, so call me pretty ambitious."

One step was all she needed to avoid the vertical slash, though it told her she ought to start taking this bout more seriously. It was still just a spar, but Murasaki was a woman with exceptional instinct, and she could feel it in her gut that she ought to send a message. Without further words, she once again dashed to face Kanae head-on, seemingly unconcerned with the fact that her blade had been lost and her hand was empty. She drew back her hand as if to swing--

And all at once, her zanpakuto was simply there once more, as if she had never lost it. She struck out without a moment of hesitation for Kanae's side, the speed of her blade only seeming to have increased yet again. A crack echoed through the battlefield as her blade moved well beyond the speed of sound, and the cut left a vacuum in its wake that immediately collapsed. Even that was still far from Murasaki's best, but she was definitely picking up the pace now.

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Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:30 am
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KAGAYAKU NO MURASAKI | CAPTAIN COMMANDER

Murasaki was beginning to get a better sense of the bout, the longer it went. That was the kind of instinct you built up on the battlefield, the inherent understanding that only a sword could truly know. There wasn't simple desire to grow or practice behind Kanae's strikes; there was more there. Murasaki wasn't a mind reader, and so she couldn't make much of any claim as to what it was definitively. As her blade was once again thrown from her hand, allowing it to happen simply to throw the flow of battle away from what most would expect, she once again made her zanpakuto in her hand, and met each of Kanae's strikes with one of her own.

She could feel it in every clash of blades, even if she could never explain it to anyone else in words. It was the very same thing that filled her existence when she drew her blade with nothing else in mind, and so with a deep breath, she thought perhaps she ought to show Kanae the gap between them on that front, too. Stepping back, taking full advantage of her own speed, Murasaki's eyes narrowed, the smile falling from her face as all her thoughts cleared. She wouldn't need long. No, she didn't need this at all. It was about sending a message.

Musonzai.

Her spiritual pressure, all exertion of what was undoubtedly a titanic pool of reiryoku, simply disappeared from the battlefield. There was no presence now but the Captain Commander herself, sword in hand, and a gaze that seemed to cut through one's being as easily as a sword through flesh. She stepped again toward her opponent, but there was no fanciful technique in it. Now, it was the simple speed of a body honed leagues past what most could ever dream of matching, and as she bore down on her opponent once again, Murasaki did not strike with the elegant bladework of the greatest zanjutsu master in the Gotei.

She simply cut.

As a surgical, merciless line was drawn by her sword, It was clear to anyone that, in that moment, the act of cutting through Kanae would be no different to Murasaki than if the blade simply moved through the air. Killing intent? There was no need for something like that. One needed only look at the name of what she was at her most fundamental level, after all:

A zanpakuto—a soul-killing blade.

[Musonzai will end in the following post.]

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