The sword struck the place, where he was just a moment ago. Cogimo stopped, but in the same moment his "father" appeared next to him, striking with his sword. Tho', he didn't make it, because land under his feet disappeared in the same moment. He went down as a rock in well like hole, that was made in the ground. Next to the hole the shinigami had thrust his Bakkōtō in the ground, what was also the reason for this sudden trap.
Without a minute of stalling, he bent down, making electricity appear between his finger tips, and then touched the water, making it light up in a shining, blue color. Firs, Shigoru smirked, believing, that he had got the man in the trap, but then something seemed off, when the light became more and more intense, making the water boil and land around crack. He backed away, but it wasn't enough and when the land burst, letting out a huge amount of wild, sky blue energy, he was also swept away by the after shock of the raw force.
Barely managing to land on his feet, Cogimo saw, that from the man, who stood in a middle of huge crater, sky blue flames flickered, reveling now his spiritual energy. For first time he spoke, his voice being surprisingly calm.
"You are a fool to fall in this trap! Everything was set up just too easy and you just let your curiosity drive to your end. Like he said you would. I'm going to say it once, if you promise to entertain me for a moment more, I'm giving you the honor to see my Shikai."
For the first time Cogimoes eyes widen in real shock. Wasn't this his Shikai all the time? And, if it wasn't his Shikai, then what kind of power it could hold.
But to think it more through the shinigami had no time, because Markus, it was the mans name, started once again to act. His sword light up in blue light, before scattering into tiny pieces. After that above him appeared three sky blue energy swords and and a long steel halberd formed in his arms. The enemy raised his gaze from the weapon in his arms, but Cogimo was nowhere to be seen. In that place four water tentacles emerged from earth, wrapping around the mans body and starting to squeeze him tighter. Of course, his strength was greater, then ones tentacles possessed, so only with it the man started to brake out of them. But as he was doing it, the water suddenly compressed really tight and went all along his body and back in earth, leaving long lines of cut marks along it. He let out something of a growl and laugh at the same time, before hitting the land under him with his bare fist, making the earth split into pieces and making himself fall in the water.
While the versed version of Shigoru senior was activating his sealed zanpakutōs full power, Cogimo wasn't wasting the given time and set a trap and a battle area under the current battlefield. Fusing the land with his blade, he let more and more Reishi to flow through his Bakkōtō and so, turned it into pure water, creating a small sea. And so, leaving the blade in second evolution state, he felt more confident. His human appearance had almost dropped. While the body structure until waste was still like him, in place of legs there was eight octopus tentacles. His flesh now resembled a wrap together of multiple tentacles, his face was covered with ten small Bakkōtō eyes, while the eleventh was three times bigger and was located in the middle of the face. A huge gap with multiple lines of teeth, could be called his mouth and it seemed, that everything about the male seemed a bit more stretched.
As the man looked confused around himself, Cogimo ordered the water pressure made on his enemies body to grow and grow. From distance it looked like both would have some sort of staring contest. All of the liquid pushed closer and closer to the center, which in this moment was Markus. But then the expressionless face turned into a smirk as in inch after inch he moved his arms, again sending out more and more of his spiritual energy. With a massive push, the guy shoot like a rocket in water, going straight for Cogimo. He used the tentacles to propel himself away, trying to avoid the impact with his enemies weapon. But, in a quite a bit of distance with his "son", the versed father just slashed his halberd. Cogimo suspected, that something more, then before will come at him, but to believe, that a shock wave of that kind of force and size would come at him, that was something quite grand. Feeling the push in his back, the male was roughly hit against the solid end of his little, fake sea. If he would actually have any bones, they would snap all, but thanks to the molusk type body, it didn't. Tho', how long this will help, who knows.