Sajin Komamura vs. Bambietta Basterbine

Sajin Komamura vs. Bambietta Basterbine is a fight taking place during the second invasion of the Quincy Blood War, focusing upon the second conflict between 7th Division Captain Sajin Komamura and Sternritter "E" Bambietta Basterbine.

Prelude[]

After Kisuke Urahara's Shin'eiyaku removes 7th Division Captain Sajin Komamura's Bankai from her Medallion, Sternritter "E" Bambietta Basterbine charges it into a bomb and tosses it at a tower behind her, where it detonates in a large explosion and gruesomely kills multiple Shinigami perched on its side,^[2] while admonishing her fellow Sternritter for panicking over the loss of a power they never owned to begin with, which she considers idiotic. Additionally, Bambietta points out how Komamura is not even here despite being her mandated opponent and complains about not being informed of his absence earlier.^[3]

However, upon turning to the Bambies for their thoughts on the matter, only to discover that Liltotto Lamperd, Candice Catnipp, Meninas McAllon, and Giselle Gewelle are not there either. Angered by this because it makes her look like she is talking to herself and because Liltotto was the one who suggested they act as a group today, Bambietta demands that her friends show themselves and unleashes a vast explosion from her body that levels the surrounding area before promising to smoke out her friends as retribution for them embarrassing her.^[4]

Suddenly, Komamura tells her to stop and crashes down in front of her. Upon seeing that Komamura is wearing full-body armor and a helmet, Bambietta observes that it did not take long for him to come back and questions why he is wearing a bucket, prompting Komamura to assert that it was a gift. Deciding that she will just take it off him later, Bambietta suggests that this is too early for the hero to show up and that Komamura should have waited until the Seireitei had been further destroyed, but Shinji appears behind her and decides they cannot be heroes because they are not patient enough to wait for this to happen.^[5]

Suddenly, as she wonders who he is, Bambietta begins to see the world around her warp and twist. When a grinning Shinji inquires if she is feeling sick, Bambietta wonders what is happening, prompting Shinji to reveal that this is the effect of his Shikai, Sakanade, reversing her sense of direction and making it impossible for her to fight effectively, and admit that he has also been practicing speaking backward so his opponents can still understand him while Bambietta rushes toward him in frustration. Reappearing behind Bambietta and telling her that it is useless, Shinji introduces himself to her.^[6]

Bambietta is unable to understand Shinji due to hearing his words in reverse and loses sight of him when the world warps around her once again, causing her to collapse. As he approaches her from behind, Shinji muses that he is not a fan of killing girls and apologizes. However, a spike of energy forms on Bambietta's chest before her Quincy: Vollständig, Zofiel is activated. With Komamura watching the light and Shinji questioning what this is, Bambietta reveals that it is Quincy: Vollständig and that she had been unable to use it until now because keeping Komamura's Bankai prevented her from doing so.^[7]

As he wonders what this is, Shinji is struck by a powerful and concentrated explosion. Elsewhere, on a rooftop, Candice notices the wings of her own Quincy: Vollständig, Barbarriel, coming out due to resonance, prompting Giselle to recall that Candice just learned to use the ability and declines to do the same herself since it tires her out, though an irritated Candice claims that she does not want to either. Looking over the city, Meninas observes that Bambietta seems to be using it, and as Liltotto affirms this since Bambietta was already enraged by their disappearance earlier, Giselle calls out Bambietta using the technique as scary because her stupidity might end the entire war very quickly.^[8]

Battle[]

Shinji is sent flying back into the surrounding rubble, where another Reishi projectile from Bambietta strikes and engulfs him in a second explosion, leaving his chest smoking with a large wound, as Bambietta calls him messing up her sense of direction lame and declares that she will simply destroy everything around herself with The Explode if she cannot determine up or down. After flying into the air and blanketing the ground below with explosions, Bambietta is startled when the smoke clears to reveal Komamura standing over Shinji. With Bambietta mockingly smiling at this, 5th Division Lieutenant Momo Hinamori leaps into the air behind her while calling out to Shinji, and when Bambietta asks her whose lieutenant she is, Hinamori attempts to attack her with her Shikai, Tobiume, only for a manically grinning Bambietta to fire dozens of Reishi projectiles at her in turn, forcing Komamura to leap several meters up, grab Hinamori, and pull her out of the air before she gets hit by the ensuing explosion.^[9]

Landing on a rooftop below, Komamura chastises Hinamori for being so reckless and warns her that the projectiles cannot be stopped by Tobiume or without armor. Suddenly, Bambietta flies right behind Komamura and deduces from this assumption that Komamura believes his helmet can protect him, prompting Komamura to draw his Zanpakutō and slash at her. After evading this and flying higher into the air, Bambietta fires a projectile at him as Komamura mentally notes that he instead believes his armor will be sufficient to turn the projectile aside since bombs have a momentary pause between impact and detonation, allowing his armor to negate the impact and his strong body to turn it aside instantly for deflection. However, just before the projectile strikes him, Komamura notices something about it and moves his head to the side at the last second as his left forearm blocks the blast.^[10]

Expressing slight disappointment and praising this, Bambietta details Komamura's response and attributes his action to animal instinct before confirming her projectiles cannot be blocked. While revealing the Reishi projectiles are not bombs themselves, but instead turn anything they touch into a bomb, Bambietta concludes trying to deflect them at the last minute will not do anything and fires dozens more projectiles at Komamura, who has Hinamori get behind him just before the projectiles engulf the two of them in a massive explosion. However, with Bambietta inferring only his armor is destroyed and hoping to see what lies beneath, she is confused when the smoke clears to reveal Komamura with a Human face and body.^[11]

After recalling his grandfather teaching him the Humanization Technique that lets him briefly return to his clan's original form and with Bambietta staring at him in shock, Komamura grabs his sheathed Zanpakutō and activates Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō: Dangai Jōe, which summons his Bankai and shatters the armor encasing it while flames begin burning in its eye sockets.^[12] Bewildered by this, Bambietta narrowly dodges a powerful strike from Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō and flies back as she comments on the lack of wolfen traits even in Komamura's Bankai, questions if there is a wolf beneath its monstrous visage, and fires dozens more projectiles at it.^[13]

However, after Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō blocks the projectiles with its left hand, Bambietta is shocked to see the resulting hole in its palm rapidly closing up as its tissue is restored, leading Komamura to explain that Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō is an armored Bankai imbued with life and that Dangai Jōe strips it of its armor, leaving only its Reiatsu and power behind and preventing The Explode from properly harming it. With Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō slamming its hand down into her and a building below, Bambietta blows through its hand with another explosion and flies out of the smoke cloud with a singed uniform as she asserts that its Reiatsu being exposed means Komamura's weaknesses are as well, due to The Explode letting her turn whatever she fires her own Reiatsu at into bombs, and detonates several projectiles along the length of the left arm of Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō.^[14]

However, Komamura states that becoming a bomb and exploding is only frightening to something that is alive, such that there is no fear to be had when something is not alive. With Bambietta bewildered by this, Komamura clarifies that the life of Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō lies within its armor, meaning that Dangai Jōe strips it of its life as well. While ripping off her damaged cloak, Bambietta demands to know what Komamura is talking about since she knows how Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō works from possessing it up until a few moments ago and is aware that its status is linked to that of its possessor before firing a dozen more projectiles directly into the chest of Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō, resulting in a corresponding explosion on Komamura's own chest. Despite this, an initially confident Bambietta falters in her claim that Komamura is vulnerable even if Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō is not when she sees that his heart is missing from his chest, leaving a gaping hole on the left side.^[15]

Komamura details how his body is now an empty shell meant for nothing more than the defeat of Bambietta's people and reveals that the Humanization Technique offers his clan temporarily immortal bodies in return for their hearts, which means that he cannot die so long as he is in this form. Alarmed by this, a frightened Bambietta begins fleeing, with Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō leaping into the air after her and preparing to attack, and fires hundreds of projectiles behind herself as she expresses disbelief at Komamura throwing his life away since the point of battle is to avoid dying, which makes his choice apparently pointless. However, Komamura counters that he has staked his life instead of throwing it away since Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto did the same for this war and proclaims that he had left his life behind before he even entered this battle while having Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō slash its sword into Bambietta, creating a massive explosion.^[16]

Aftermath[]

A stunned Bambietta realizes that her projectiles are not detonating in time and deduces that the force of the attack from Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō is pushing the projectiles back into her body before they can explode, which she expresses disbelief at before the resulting explosion immolates her and sends her crashing into the ground below as Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō lands nearby and looks at Silbern in the distance. Suddenly, as it begins approaching Silbern, Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō falls to its knees alongside Komamura ands begin cracking while its head shatters. Komamura begs the Humanization Technique and his heart to last a little longer so he can reach Silbern and kill Yhwach before forcing himself to stand up as his canine teeth begin to lengthen into fangs. With his ears transforming into large wolfen ones, Komamura sees his left arm transform into a large, four-fingered paw.^[17]

Initially unsure of what this is, Komamura has fur envelop his body and feels his face protruding outward while his feet transform into furred paws as well, leading him to realize this is the price he must pay for the Humanization Technique. Moments later, Komamura lies on the ground, now a fully-transformed and ordinary-sized wolf, and muses that this is the price of selling his soul for revenge and sullying the name of the Gotei 13 rather than taking his words to Kaname Tōsen as a warning to himself. Suddenly, his lieutenant, Tetsuzaemon Iba, appears nearby with Shunpo, hoists Komamura over his shoulders, begins walking toward Silbern, and asserts that he did nothing wrong before declaring they will confront Yhwach and avenge Yamamoto.^[18]

Elsewhere, Bambietta lies among the rubble in a different location with smoke coiling off her body and expresses disbelief at losing to a Shinigami, as well as at being the first of the Bambies to lose, prior to denouncing the situation as unacceptable. However, she is interrupted when Candice, Liltotto, Meninas, and Giselle appear and stand over her, with Giselle promising to help her since they would be lonely without her despite Bambietta's frantic pleas for her to stop.^[19]

References[]

Navigation[]

Quincy Blood War
Major Participants	Ichigo Kurosaki • Uryū Ishida • Yasutora Sado • Orihime Inoue • Kisuke Urahara • Isshin Kurosaki • Gotei 13 • Royal Guard • Visored • Tier Harribel • Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez • Wandenreich • Sternritter • Asguiaro Ebern
Events
Fights & Events	The New Shinigami Guardians & the Broken Balance • Ichigo Kurosaki vs. Asguiaro Ebern • Rise of the Wandenreich • Return to Hueco Mundo • Wandenreich vs. The Arrancar • Fall of the Seireitei • Ichigo Kurosaki & Ayon vs. Quilge Opie • Byakuya Kuchiki vs. Äs Nödt • Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto vs. Driscoll Berci • Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto vs. Royd Lloyd • Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto vs. Yhwach • Ichigo Kurosaki vs. Yhwach • The Royal Guard Arrive • Royal Training • Kenpachi Zaraki vs. Retsu Unohana • The Rise & Fall of Masaki Kurosaki • Isshin Shiba & Masaki Kurosaki vs. White • Soul Society: Battle Ready • Rise of Uryū Ishida • Wartime Coordination • Tōshirō Hitsugaya & Rangiku Matsumoto vs. Bazz-B • Suì-Fēng vs. BG9 • Tōshirō Hitsugaya vs. Cang Du • Sajin Komamura vs. Bambietta Basterbine • Kensei Muguruma & Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi vs. Mask De Masculine • Renji Abarai vs. Mask De Masculine • Rukia Kuchiki vs. Äs Nödt • Yachiru Kusajishi vs. Guenael Lee • Kenpachi Zaraki vs. Gremmy Thoumeaux • Ichigo Kurosaki vs. The Bambies • The Gotei 13 vs. The Sternritter • Battle of the Zombies • The Royal Guard vs. The Wandenreich • Ōetsu Nimaiya vs. the Schutzstaffel • Ichibē Hyōsube vs. Yhwach • Fall of the Soul King • Bazz-B vs. Jugram Haschwalth • Mayuri Kurotsuchi & Nemu Kurotsuchi vs. Pernida Parnkgjas • Shunsui Kyōraku vs. Lille Barro • The Gotei 13 & The Visored vs. Gerard Valkyrie • Nanao Ise vs. Lille Barro • Uryū Ishida vs. Jugram Haschwalth • Yoruichi Shihōin vs. Askin Nakk Le Vaar • Kisuke Urahara vs. Askin Nakk Le Vaar • Ichigo Kurosaki vs. Yhwach: Rematch • Ichigo Kurosaki vs. Yhwach: Final Fight