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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 6
Erich wakes with a gasp and twists free of his tangled blankets, heart beating a frantic pace in his chest and mouth sour with the taste of blood— (He drank— he drank blood!) (He drank Yhwach’s blood!) His body is trembling, cold and hot and restless with the memory of— of Yhwach laughing at him. …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 5
Erich has no idea how long it takes for his tears to finally run out, he just knows that it feels like an eternity. An eternity of clinging to Urahara’s jinbei — clinging to Urahara’s spiritual power — and sobbing like a goddamned child after some… some nightmare or something. (He’s never going to be …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 4
((Warning for a couple of paragraphs where Erich is throwing up. It’s not a very graphic description, and not from his POV at all, but it’s there. If you want to skip it, it’s the three paragraphs immediately after where Erich chokes and covers his mouth.)) “Thank you, Ishida-kun,” Kisuke says as Ishida unlocks the …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 3
Kisuke resists the urge to press his cheek against Rerugen’s head, knowing that he has no right to such a blatant show of affection when the man can barely stand his presence; it’s a testament of exactly how exhausted Rerugen is that Kisuke’s reiatsu trick actually worked on him instead of the man just shrugging …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 2
The sunlight is almost blinding when they leave the palace and return to Soul Society, and Erich shields his eyes against the glare, feeling even more exhausted than before as he catches sight of their welcoming party. Urahara he expected, given the man’s investment in Kurosaki’s wellbeing, and Kyoraku and Ukitake are… not really a …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 1
“It’s a shame we never found you sooner. An Echt of your strength… you’d have been a credit to the Wandenreich,” Yhwach declares as he stalks closer, gaze fixed on Erich. “I wonder what sort of Schrift you would have manifested.” Erich grits his teeth and ignores Yhwach’s words, straining against the foreign presence threaded …
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