Chapter 269: Teatro de Titere
Previously, Szayelaporro used slime to create a clone that was exactly like Zaraki. That technique was called "Carbon-Copy". The clone had all the abilities of the cloned object, but the disadvantage was that it could only imitate.
In the face of ordinary enemies, even if the speed of imitation was a little slower, it could still cause a lot of trouble to the enemy, but in the face of beasts like Zaraki Kenpachi, that momentary flaw of lagging behind was the difference between winner and loser.
But Szayelaporro had no intention of defeating Zaraki with Carbon-Copy.
The clone was essentially to hold the Zaraki for a while.
And after the slime was previously sprinkled all over Zaraki's body, he had quietly used another ability of his.
It's called — Teatro de Titere (Japanese and Spanish for "Puppet Theater")!
If Carbon-Copy was to copy a clone that was exactly the same as the opponent, then Teatro de Titere is to create a voodoo-like doll based on the opponent. Any damage done to the doll's internal organs, accessed by taking them apart and removing the organs (with no damage to the original), is done to the original, debilitating them from the inside.
Of course, Szayelaporro's intention was not to kill Zaraki outright.
He also wanted to use Zaraki as the mother-vessel for his Gabriel and create a stronger body for himself.
However, Zaraki needed to be rendered incapacitated before Gabriel could be performed.
So going with this in mind, Szayelaporro continued to pull the doll in his hand.