"Renji, please, help me!" Rukia pleaded.
"Tch!" Looking at the tears in Rukia's eyes, Renji gritted his teeth in frustration, but ultimately stepped forward and leaped into the air, catching the falling Ichigo!
When he brought Ichigo back to the ground and saw his injuries, both Rukia and Renji were stunned.
Because even though Byakuya had recalled Senbonzakura, two cherry blossom-colored long swords formed from Senbonzakura petals were still embedded in Ichigo's Saketsu and Hakusui points!
"Ichigo..."
Looking at Ichigo's chest, Rukia, who understood perfectly what these two locations meant, silently pulled out the two long swords.
Once a Shinigami's Saketsu and Hakusui are destroyed, they would lost all their Shinigami power.
Simultaneously, looking at Ichigo's condition, Renji also fell silent.
The other party had given his all for Rukia until the very end. What about him? Could he do the same?
Renji couldn't answer that at the moment.
But under the circumstances, Rukia's matter was certainly concluded.
He could only look at Rukia, "Has the dream ended? If it has, let's go."
"Ah..." Rukia sighed, as if waking from a dream. Ichigo having his powers destroyed was already the best possible outcome.
"Indeed, my dream should also end now!" Rukia murmured.
After saying this, giving Ichigo one last lingering look, Rukia silently stood up and walked towards Byakuya.
Watching their reactions, the live stream audience was very confused.
"What does that mean? What dream ended? It doesn't look like Ichigo's injuries are that severe?"
"Wait, are they really leaving just like that? Ichigo hasn't even said anything yet!"
"Hey, stop! And Ichigo, wake up! Rukia-chan is about to be taken away!"
And as if truly hearing everyone's calls, Ichigo's fingers slowly began to twitch.
"Rukia..."
A hoarse voice emerged!
Hearing Ichigo's voice, Rukia, who had just started walking, froze as if struck by lightning, unable to move further.
Seeing this, Byakuya said, puzzled:
"What? His Saketsu and Hakusui have both been destroyed by me. Even if he doesn't die, surviving will mean losing all his Reiryoku. Are you still expecting him to get up and save you?"
Hearing Byakuya's explanation, the live stream audience finally understood why Renji and Rukia's expressions were so strange.
"Holy crap, this Byakuya is ruthless! He crippled Ichigo!"
"True, I was about to say earlier, the places those two swords were stuck were very strange!"
"Ah, so those places are the weak point of Shinigami!"
"Hey, hey, is now the time to be concerned about that? If Ichigo is crippled, doesn't that mean all his strength is gone?"
"It's over, it's over! This 14 billion game coin bet has caused a disaster!"
Many Dongguo people felt terrible about Ichigo's plight.
Seeing the complaints in the live stream, the Xiguo people, who had been keeping a low profile for a long time, finally came out to gloat.
"Hahaha, serves him right!"
"Hahaha, your belief in Ichigo backfired, didn't it?"
"Having the entire country bet on him, he got too arrogant. Indeed, such arrogance leads to trouble!"
"Last time you said our betting caused problems, haha! Now you've killed your own player with your own hands!"
"Serves you right! Serves you right!"
"You there, say that one more time!"
Seeing Ichigo in trouble, many Xiguo people who saw him as a thorn in their side insanely mocked!
Facing the Xiguo people, the Dongguo people once again launched a full-scale counterattack.
But one undeniable fact was that if Ichigo was crippled, he would make Dongguo a perpetual laughingstock!
In the future, whenever mentioned, people would say:
"Oh, there was this really powerful guy. What a pity, later the people of his country trusted him too much and used game coins to crush him to death. What a shame!"
The thought of such a scene made all Dongguo people shudder.
On various social media platforms, topics about Ichigo being crippled skyrocketed!
For a moment, everyone's focus was on whether Ichigo was truly crippled or not!
Therefore, they didn't hear the last words Ichigo said to Rukia.
What Ichigo said was: "Rukia, get out of the way!"
Hearing Ichigo's words, Rukia instinctively dived to the side, simultaneously pulling Renji with her.
And Ichigo, lying on the ground, covered in blood, stood up resolutely at that moment!