"Pass it on, the Chief of Staff turned into a Hollow and ran away, only needs to be captured alive!" Shinigami A said.
"Pass it on, the Chief of Staff turned into a Hollow and ran away, does not need to be captured alive!" Shinigami B said.
"Pass it on, the Chief of Staff eloped with a Hollow, capture both of them!" Shinigami C said.
In short, what was originally a very simple order became increasingly absurd. By the time it reached the end, these Shinigami had already imagined a tragic and moving love story.
The Chief of Staff broke through worldly prejudices and married a Hollow, but the Captain Commander disagreed, so the Chief of Staff could only take his beloved and escape to Hueco Mundo.
The Captain Commander ordered both of them to be brought back.
Ōban Danjirō was walking with a Shinigami when he saw a large number of Shinigami running in the opposite direction. As a cheerful and warm-hearted young man, Ōban Danjirō, with his natural kindness, grabbed a Shinigami and asked, "Excuse me, what happened? Why are you all so tense? Do you need my help?"
Unbeknownst to him, the Shinigami he grabbed was Chika Shihōin.
"Who are you? I don't seem to have seen you in the squad?" Shihōin Chika asked.
Ōban Danjirō took out his letter of introduction: "My name is Ōban Danjirō. Chief of Staff Yamabuki invited me to join the Gotei 13. I was just about to report."
Shihōin Chika looked at Ōban Danjirō with a strange expression: "Since that's the case, you can skip the reporting. Hurry up and come with me to catch someone."
"Catch someone?" Ōban Danjirō looked confused. Catch who?
"Yamabuki Hollowfied and completely turned into a Hollow, escaping to Hueco Mundo. The Captain Commander has ordered that he be captured at all costs," Shihōin Chika said.
Ōban Danjirō's face turned strange. The person who introduced him to his job had turned into a Hollow. Could he still keep his job?
Before he could finish thinking, Shihōin Chika grabbed his clothes and ran desperately towards the Twelfth Division. There was a large Senkaimon there that could open a passage to Hueco Mundo.
Thus, the Gotei 13 began its largest operation in history.
...
Yamabuki looked at the vast desert before him, completely bewildered. Why was he here? Who was he? What was he doing?
He looked down and saw the corpse of a Hollow at his feet. Yamabuki tilted his head slightly, then suddenly extended his hand, and a tentacle shot out from his palm, devouring the Hollow's corpse completely.
Yamabuki walked aimlessly through the desert, occasionally looking up at the moon in the sky. It was quiet and comforting. Perhaps, this was how he had always lived.
But he really wanted to know who he was. What should he do? Did anyone nearby know who he was?
Yamabuki began to search for creatures around him. He picked up a small lizard from the ground and then solemnly asked, "Who am I?"
The small lizard shook its head blankly.
Don't know? Then you're useless. Yamabuki directly devoured the small lizard and then continued to search for his next target. One day, he would find someone who knew him.
He continued to ask and eat along the way, and his spiritual pressure unknowingly increased.
But the more he ate, the more confused Yamabuki felt his thoughts become. Sometimes, he couldn't even remember what he had done the second before.
"Honestly, I shouldn't have returned the Hollow's power to you so quickly," a gentle voice said. Then, a pair of small hands gently wrapped around Yamabuki's neck. Yamabuki's neck twisted 180 degrees, and he saw that the one hugging him was a little girl, wearing a cute black gothic lolita dress and holding a pumpkin lantern.
Who am I?
Yamabuki asked the question that troubled him the most.
"You are me," the girl replied, then gently stroked his head: "You can't keep eating. The reason you haven't completely lost your sanity right now is because the Shinigami and Quincy powers are suppressing the Hollow power within you. But if you keep eating, the Hollow power will devour these two powers, and then you truly won't be able to come back. What should we do?"
The girl accompanied Yamabuki as they looked at the moon in the sky. She also couldn't figure out where the problem lay.
With Yamabuki's Shinigami and Quincy powers, he shouldn't have lost control so quickly.
What did he see in his fantasy that made his sanity completely collapse?
Just as the Spirit Form was trying to find a way to weaken the Hollow's power, two reishi signatures came from a distance. Based on the judgment, these were neither Shinigami reishi nor Hollow reishi, but Quincy reishi.
The Spirit Form took Yamabuki and hid in the desert. Before long, they saw two people wearing Quincy uniforms walking over.
"Honestly, why do we have to patrol this desolate place? Hueco Mundo is a godforsaken place," the male Quincy said.
"Don't complain. So many people died all at once before, and the Captain was furious. Luckily, His Majesty hasn't woken up yet, or else there would be another bloodbath," the female Quincy said helplessly: "But you're right, there's not even a cup of coffee in this wretched place. When can we leave here?!"
The Spirit Form looked at the two Quincies who appeared, and suddenly thought, Yamabuki devours Hollows to increase the Hollow power within him. If he devours Quincies, could he use that to increase his Quincy power? And then use the Quincy power to suppress the Hollow power, temporarily allowing him to regain his sanity.
"Yamabuki, do you see those two Quincies? Can you devour them?" the Spirit Form asked.
Yamabuki looked at the male and female Quincies with disdain. Their reishi was too weak; even if he ate them, he wouldn't be full.
But Yamabuki believed deep down that the Spirit Form would not lie to him, so he still extended his poisonous hand towards these two innocent Quincies.
The female Quincy was complaining about how barren life in Hueco Mundo was, when the next second, her companion's head suddenly disappeared, and blood spurted from his neck!
The female Quincy froze for a second or two before realizing she had been attacked by an enemy, and quickly took out her reishi bow.
But when she saw Yamabuki appear before her, the terrifying spiritual pressure instantly made her lose all thought of resistance.
At this moment, Yamabuki was in his complete Hollow form, with pale skin, a bizarre blood-tear mask, and eerie wings twisted from tentacles behind him.
If this wasn't Hueco Mundo, the female Quincy would have thought this was a demon from some knight novel.
"Don't come any closer, or I won't be polite!" the female Quincy threatened with a pitiful voice, trembling.
As Yamabuki took two steps forward, the female Quincy suddenly rolled her eyes.
At this time, Yamabuki's spiritual pressure already far exceeded Captain-level. Without any suppression, ordinary souls would simply vanish by getting close.
However, he didn't waste them. He still devoured these two Quincies, and the Spirit Form clearly felt that Yamabuki's Quincy ability had increased by a bit.
"My guess was right. Let's go to the Quincy headquarters," the Spirit Form said excitedly.
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