He saw a bright light and registered what Yue had suggested. He slid around Hayate's body after smashing it into one direction and utilizing that time to position himself toward the tendrils. Kouta's shoto slashed through the tendrils, breaking the control the Hollow had over Hayate's body which fell lifelessly to the ground. The man had to be dead considering the physical condition he now lay in. 

Kouta leapt toward the retreating tendrils and slashed at the Hollow. Unfortunately, the blade phased right through it. The blunt ends of the tentrils he had cut smashed into his abdomen and flung him back a considerable distance. "Damn it," he groaned in pain. "Yue, get out of here!" he roared, knowing his Bankai was unstable and could very well overpower the girl. "Tsuki no Ōkami, Unari!"

Yue couldn't see Kouta but she heard everything; the urgency in his voice scared her enough to listen to him and try backing off. She knew how powerful Bankai was; she'd seen her father release it once and frankly, she didn't want to see it ever again. However, despite her best attempts to get away, the Hollow could still sense her reiatsu through the mist. Had she been able to suppress it, it would've been much easier to make herself invisible but that was one lesson they still hadn't taught at the Academy. Her spiritual pressure acted like a beacon, allowing the Hollow's tendrils to pursue her relentlessly. 

As a tendril snapped and curled toward her, the temperature dropped considerably more. She would have shivered if she wasn't running. But strangely enough, snow began to fall around her. The snow behaved normally except when it fell on the attacking tendril. The blackness was encased with a heavy ice that weighed it down. Kouta was there soon after and shattered the black tentacles and the Hollow shrieked once more. 

Having seen what the deceitful snow could do, Yue tried to avoid it as much as possible while making her way out of the mist, tripping over bodies and fending off a random tendril or two. However, it wasn't exactly easy to avoid snow and she continuously shook it out of her hair and off her body, just incase it decided to expand into ice. She had no clue how much control Kouta had over his Bankai but she wasn't going to take any chances and instead obeyed, finally emerging into an area slightly less foggy. 

Snow continued to fall around the Hollow and explode into reiatsu-infused ice that refused to break, shatter, or melt. Kouta bashed the Hollow, fracturing it into hundreds of pieces. This time there was only silence and he re-sealed his Zanpakuto, having used up the remainder of his free reiryoku in the short time the Bankai was active.

When the mist cleared, they could see the bodies around them lying lifeless on the forest floor. Hayate still looked like a spirit or a demon with his discoloration and the Yukihiro clanmen were dismembered and beaten to death, all by Kouta himself. He knelt to the ground, both out of respect for the fallen men and fatigue. He looked behind him, hoping to see Yue approaching the generally safe area.