Author Notes: With this chapter, the Quincy leader arc finally concludes.
With this, I confirm the origins of the current Quincy generation powers- a truly nightmarish one that I always figured to be the case, being a sense of darkly humorous irony.
I always felt bad for Yhwach because regardless of his actions, he's also Zangetsu that helped Ichigo along the way. So I'm giving him some more redeeming traits.
The Hollow Demon is named after two famous Architects, which fits its disproportionately massive ego.
Chapter 38: ß- the Final Letter- A4
I doubt my hands can defeat them..., but with my Hidariashi (Left Foot)- they'll lose their powers and the Migiashi (Right Foot), I can make them weak-, Yhwach thought before Joanna spoke.
"Gottes Taufe (God's Baptism).," she said as the markings on Yhwach vanished, he then saw solid air particles containing Spiritual Power as they dissolved away.
"I've emptied the aspect of the Soul King from you...and he's restored to where he belonged in the original timeline...the Yhwach of this timeline will still possess his own Soul King powers...," the blond explained.
"You always thought my ability to empty my Reishi rather than keep it to be worthless...and you're facing us..., you know what you must do to defeat us now...," Joanna said with a determined look in her eyes.
Yhwach summoned his swords and placed them in a crucifix position.
"Vollständig: El-Gottes Eifersucht (God's Jealousy).,"Yhwach said as he exploded in a supernova like light, remerging looking like a massive Abrahamic God archetype with twelve wings with red iris eyes adorning them. He had a long white beard, but something felt off...his clothes looked like a straight jacket to hide something repulsive.
The area simultaneously exploded and recreated at the same time due to his presence.
"In a straight fight, there's no defeating him! We have to remove the sin from his heart!," Joanna shouted.
Yhwach then generated a sword that looked like it was made of the cosmic sky itself and struck it down onto Joanna.
"We can't drag this out...it needs to be won immediately...," Morana noted as she sensed something within Yhwach that was untraceable before.
"I was the one who created the Ice for the Silbern (Silver) in order to preserve our longevity through my Ice's Reiatsu...," she said modestly.
"We've managed to corner it and we just need to drag it out.," said the horned Quincy.
"Gottes Eiszeit (God's Ice Age).," Morana said as she froze the entire being, knocking Yhwach unconscious from the sheer shock of the power being used on him.
"My powers is inducing corruption within purity to draw out the malignancy within an individual and unite virtue with sin to make a more complete power...as well as manipulating the aspects of sin as well.," the black eyed Quincy explained.
"Gottes Nihilismus (God's Nihilism)," Anomias said as he used his black energy to erode Yhwach's form, exposing on his ribcage around his heart- what looked like an unusually red masked cyclopean Hollow with an imp-like face- with a hooked nose and a wide smile of need-like incisors, with a long, purple serpentine body with a Hollow hole in its chest area...except it also had bat-like wings made of a dark matter Kazui wasn't even sure was Reishi.
"You managed to expose me...Gaudí Eero...the original Hollow created by the Dio Hueco...I envy the rest who became Menos..., but being attached to an Emperor like a parasite isn't too bad...You know what- Fuck those losers, they all die like the trash they are compared to the OG Hollow...," said the creature with a combination of Yhwach's voice and its own voice- a raspy, high pitched shrill. Its eyes burst out of its mask, revealing a pair of deranged, hypnotic eyes with blue and purple rings that expanded constantly outwards from a square white pupil.
"What the fuck is that?," Tsuki asked in horror.
"The accursed deal that the Soul Emperor made to allow Juha to live...unknowingly being a host to a hellish parasite that corrupted the Quincy legacy...," Mechayemet explained.
"To be more specific...I'm an Akuma-Quincy-Hollow Hybrid early experiment...because if Hollows are poisonous to Quincy...Demons or Akuma are kept in hell for the same reason...and unfortunately, for me, Quincy are our toxin..so being a Hybrid balanced out due to my shared traits...it was an early test befre they made the Hollow-Akuma Hybrids known as the Imiter that would kill and replace a Soul Reaper that got too uppity for their own good..repressing the true Zanpakuto...," Gauí added with an even wider smile, which made Kazui drop the curiosity and feel revolted by this truth.
"Every Quincy has an aspect of myself in their genes due to Abeseimei slipping me into Juha's drink to make him immobile and more agreeable to have my traits be unknowingly passed on to his students and his successors by acquiring the Reishi I attach to whenever they used specific techniques attached to my Reiatsu It was an experiment by Lord Tezcatil to aid Abeseimiei in his pursuit to overthrow the Soul King and become the Soul Emperor to also pursue his own goals to get the Deus Ex Machina through Kisuke and Aizen's experimentations with the Hogyokū- a result from wanting to break the boundaries of Hollow and Man- a result that my Lord planned in advance. Whenever a Quincy touched a Hollow- a signal would be sent and I would absorb them and my aspects would send it back to my creators to absorb and whenever Yhwach did his little Selection trick- it would send their powers back to me- back to the Soul Emperor...I'm not sure how the Imiters feel, but I enjoy perverting angelic goody two shoes who don't know better...and the original schmuck bought as little brothers always love to look up to their aloof brothers..," he explained with increasingly harsh malice.
"You're just a lab rat...you know that...," Tsuki sarcastically remarked.
This caused Gauí's pupils to almost engulf his eyes as he recalled his past.
"I was once a king when I was a normal creature that controlled everyone including how they died, how they would mutilate each other, how I'd rape the innocent, lie about sparing their loved ones and eating them in front of their eyes. When I died, I was too attached to life to pass on- becoming a skinny Preta until Lord Tezcatil gave me this wonderful opportunity! What fun!," he screamed with insane laughter as his eyes rolled to the back of his head.
Kazui felt an intense anger for the Soul Emperor, even more than before as he looked at Tsuki, with the intentions of killing it then and there for the Hollow's own disgusting personality.
"You have to be a Quincy to kill the Demon, but the Hollow Reiatsu will kill you..., but you be a Soul Reaper, the Hollow aspect would die and you'd die from the Demon Poison...there's no way to be both...And you can't even touch me...," he gloated as he dematerialized along with Yhwach's current form.
"That was just his physical form of his Vollständig- a shell...his true form..is far more vast...," Mechayemet said as he looked up and saw a Black Reiatsu dissolve into a white mass of Reiatsu.
"Vollständig-Finale:Gott der Vater (God- The Father)," said Gaudí/Yhwach's voice coming from countless, giant faces of Yhwach that were charging golden eye beams to fire at the group.
I'm everywhere and nowhere- there's no way he'll get me!, thought the repulsive Hollow.
"My Modest...the power that consists of Acceptance to my brother's Rejection, submitting to the inevitable truth and nullifying all attempts to deny it- even defying altered fate to do so...," he said to Kazui.
Kazui felt a physical embodiment of Reiatsu that corresponded to Acceptance, enter his being and make his mind clearer to understand the Quincy's logic.
"Hollows/Preta are born from loneliness. Beasts are born from desire. Asura are born from pride. Humans are born from knowledge. Quincy are born from virtue. Akuma are born from sin...all of them are aspects of everyone...no person is incapable of becoming one of these...for they are fundamental...therefore...it's impossible for anyone to be alone from their aspects...to be a Kami is to embrace these aspects and transcend them having all aspects mastered...," Mechayemet explained to Kazui.
Kazui then closed his eyes and he began to think back to his original father, the tragedy of Grin, the implications of Orihime's origins, the cowardly methods that the Soul Emperor used to undermine his own family. The bastardizing truth of the arts Uryū and Mizuryū took pride in. The Dio Hueco who aided Abeseimei in his goals and the deaths of his father twice due to their actions. Along with Rukia- Ichika's mom. Then he thought of the more positive traits of the Soul Reapers, the Quincy he knew, along with the Arrancar and humans that he met along the way of his current life. And came to this belief-
I hate the truth..., but the lie allowed me to grow and experience the world in order to come to my own conclusions...there's good and bad in everything...I am all and all is me...
The Omega Quincy then noticed the area turning a golden hue for some reason, much to his immediate suspicions of what would happen..., but froze in time before he could do anything.
"Vollständig: Amanuel-Gottes Erbe (God's Heir)..." Kazui said before he noticed a tall physically fit humanoid with golden skinned clad in clock themed samurai armor with sundial shoulder guard, an hourglass abdomen guard, hourglass arm guards, watch-clock knee guards, clocks in the center of his sandals, the kanji for "King" in the center of his chest armor and the Kanji for "Time on his thigh/leg guards and a helmet with a yellow crescent with a stream of yellow feather protruding from the back of the helmet. His most unusual feature was his face that was shaped like an anthropomorphic yellow clock face with the hands serving as a mustache to a round nose, and sharp orifices of a steep inward slant; from which emerge small, round red eyes eyes without sclera, with pronounced eye sockets that possess fragmented pupils in the pattern of a 12 hour clock. In the center of the crescent was a smaller identical face with darker hue of gold. Both were in a constant state of perpetual rage and repressed fury.
It was the Soul Emperor, but manifesting as an avatar in Kazui's mind for some reason.
Kazui instantly froze with fear, but couldn't move due to being stopped.
"The father dies and the son rises up as he plans to avenge him...I've seen this play out for years and years as they always failed to do so...I'm sick of you whelps who cling to their mothers and fathers...especially the Shiba Clan..,"the creature said aloud.
"The only reason the human race indulge compassion and sense of moral was because they somehow believe they're the superior life form. The moment they realize there's a truly superior species over them, something seems to take control of them, acting on instinct from that point on...And the true superior knows the prey's game- the human'll either attack regardless of danger to regain their sense of normality or submit like the good pet he is.,"he said as he slashed Kazui's throat.
"It's a good thing I put in a built in failsafe within the Hollow, in case a Quincy managed to overcome the truth...Now, then...What could I do to pass the time...?," Abeseimei said to himself, before Yhwach appeared to Kazui.
While his powers were being controlled by the Hollow, his consciousness manifested as himself.
"Stop it...this is pointless.I am beyond him and beyond you..I will offer salvation if you merge with me instead and return the powers you've stolen from me when you were born.," Abeseimei said with indifference.
"What was your thought when I was born...?," Yhwach asked.
"Affection...Come now...stop this futility and unite with...," Abeseimei lied with his dual eyes looking to the side.
Images of Seimei grinding his head against Juha when the latter suggested mercy for some Ryoka that had broken the law for the sake of their friends, locking the latter in a dark room due to apparently annoying his elder brother, and later witnessing Seimei kill their own mother in her sleep out of sheer disgust from knowing her true lineage.
Yhwach reached into his chest and pulled out his Hollow parasite, which caused the Abeseimei's pupils to become pinprick with horror.
"Y-you won't have your powers! You're going to be helpless-," Abeseimei shouted with panic.
"I will have my true powers back...you weren't the supportive brother..that was Ashiyama...as annoying as he is...even now he wants to care for me through my heir to achieve his true power and help me in the process...and this boy managed to gain the aid of the four Quincy would've changed the war to my favor just through empathy and not sheer power...I submit...," he said with a sigh.
"Most of the time we spent together was physically and mentally abusive, you saw me as a parasite...being under your teachings has caused nothing except ruin...under him it might lead to something more meaningful.," the raven haired Quincy explained.
Yhwach merged with Kazui, causing Yhwach's black hair to become orange briefly.
Abeseimei shook in hesitation as he didn't even try to fight back, but slowly inched away.
"I...may have been a bully..., but you turned out for the better...," the tin tyrant said before the being instantly closed the space between them
"What are you?," he snarled with primal fear and anger.
"I am what I am...," said the being with Kazui and Yhwach's voice in unison, forcing Abeseimei out of his headspace with a concussive blast from his hands.
Time resumed as the Vollständig of Yhwach vanished and Gauí fell to the ground, looking very nervous now that for some reason he wasn't attached to the Quincy King.
"Crap...I have no leverage!," the Hollow shouted in fear.
The four Quincy smiled as they merged into the Kazui/Yhwach being who turned back into Kazui.
Congrats..., said the Sinfulness.
The next step...will be telling your mother the truth...,said the Ëmpty.
And overthrowing the usurpers...,added the Ïce.
And for giving him an opportunity to see the light..., concluded the Modest.
Kazui saw Yhwach materialize...his expression shadowed...
"I was never an Emperor...just a puppet...and now I am another puppet...," the Quincy king said.
"Pretty much...I'll just be much better...and my world will be better...," Kazui replied.
"You're not satisfied with a humble life? Like your father?," Yhwach asked.
"No...I'm a king...," Kazui said with a pouty frown.
Yhwach laughed whole heartedly as he revealed his eyes- blue as the sky instead of the angered red of blood.
He smiled more genuinely as he vanished into Kazui.
Kazui's body was then covered in the Alphabet from A-Z, Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü and ſ in blue coloring...which then collected together into an ß.
Countless eons of information rushed through Kazui's head from the past, present and the future of countless timelines, universes, multiverses, and the omniverse.
Kazui then briefly clenched his head from the pain and then breathed slowly as the ß dimmed into a dark blue in the center of his chest.
Kazui looked at Tsuki who looked at him with annoyance.
"Yeah, it wasn't my victory..., but hey...I feel this now...a bit...more...complete..," Kazui said as he patted his chest.
Kazui rode Kazui to the outside of his mind.
Real World- Kurosaki Household
Ashiyama looked with astonished tears as Kazui returned to his normal state and opened his eyes.
He pulled out his Rei-ken and smiled.
"I'm so happy for you!," Ashiyama cried as he hugged Kazui.
"Managed to have help this time around...did you know my mom-," Kazui said cheerfully before he sensed something emerging from the celling above.
It then landed in front of the two and rose unawake with dazed eyes.
The Hollow, Gauí got up and realized it was no longer huge..the size of a garden snake...and he was back in the real world.
He turned to see Ashiyama as well as Kazui looking very angrily at him and this caused the Hollow to phase out of the house in fear of what they'd do to him...
Only to land in front of a very pleased Ichika.
"I don't know what this is..., but I'm killing it.," she said with a menacing smily.
"Damn...," Chalchu muttered.
Then he noticed Kazui looking down on him from the window above.
"Lord Third!," Akuzu shouted.
"Well, fuck me...," The Dio Hueco said with a gulp of dread.
"Sorry guys, but my family's taking over...," Kazui said to his colleagues, which confused the latter.
"What's this we stuff...?," Ichika asked.
"They're here with me...," Kazui explained as the ß on his chest glowed blue.
Damnit...our deal with Abeseimei just went down the drain..., thought the Dio Hueco as he took a battle stance.
"Oh well, Tezcatil won't complain if this kid's now a genuine threat.," Chalchu muttered to himself.
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