A long time ago when I first arrived in the Soul Society as a purified soul with no memory of my past life. I once dream of becoming a powerful Sternritter.

Powerful Quincies who guarded the realms of life and death and killed monstrous beasts to protect the innocent. Like the fabled heroes in legends past.

But I soon realized that only those that could meet the standards of the Soul Society's elite, partially those who had a past of life where they achieved great accomplishments or were part of a magnificent legacy could gain such a privileges. While the rest were discarded away into manual labor in the holds.

Or like me who was all but sold into slavery by working to near death in the mines for a group of outcaste Quincy Nobles.

For sure, we were paid and not held against our will, but since I and others now live in a remote village in the wildness that was filled with dangerous animals, highwaymen, and no real knowledge on how to get back to Silver City or any other town. We had little choice but to accept our circumstances or risk our lives for an uncertain future, that may lead to nothing more than an early grave.

But even then I still tried to make a life for myself, by working hard in earning my keep, and in hopes of saving enough money to escape the hellhole that was my current life. Even as more of my comrades died in accidents, exhaustion, or never return by trying their luck in the woods. Until eventually I was the only one left.

But then all of that changed when I meant the one person who changed my life forever.

Fifty years ago.

So you must be Kyiv Jaeger?' A large ape-like man spoke out to a lean shirtless young man with messy black hair.

'Yes?' he answered plainly.

'I heard that you are the only miner that works here anymore, to the point that the entire place has nearly been dried up...and I can't help but be curious on why someone like you keeps on going'

Jaeger then stared at the man for a moment, unsure how to respond, but just decided to shrug answer anyway. 'I guess...stubbornness and luck?' He responded but the animal man chuckled.

'If it was just stubbornness and luck, you wouldn't be in such good condition as you are right now or worked as long as you did' The man explained to Kyiv who still looked at him in confusion.

'Well...maybe I just have a better-built body than most' The miner reasoned and then lowered his head. 'But I don't see how that makes me special or anything, especially since I have been working here for nearly a century now.

The large man then hummed. 'Really...and tell me, kid...how much do you eat a day?

'Kyiv then thought about it for a moment. 'Uh...abouit three meals. But it is not like I live in luxury or anything I just do so to keep my strength up'

The large man then nodded. 'And since was the last time you have taken a break or rest?'

Kyiv then once again thought about what the man said to him for a long moment. 'Um...about a week, probably, though I am still feeling pretty fresh'

The man then grins. 'I see...He then walked up to the boy. 'Kyiv Jaeger...' The man announced. 'I am Jerome Guizbatt Sternritter who bares the Schrift of the Roar and I wish to recruit you into joining the Army of the Holy Kingdom' He then reached out his hand. 'Do you accept?'

Kyiv then winded his eyes in shock. 'W-What me, a Quincy but I am just-'

'The Holy Kingdom seeks out souls within all of Soul Society with high levels of spiritual power to join within their ranks. From what I have sensed and learned. Your spiritual power is greater than most of the other recruits I have ever met' The man then smiled at Kyiv 'And I also suspect that you can reach even greater heights'

Jeager then stared at the man silently with his jaw open unable to even make a response.

'So I ask again do you accept my offer?'

Then after hesitating for a few moments the boy begin to cry tears of joy, smiled, and gasped at the large man's hand as hard as he could just to make sure it was real.

'Yes, I will!'

And since that day forward I was recruited as a Soldat within Jerome Guizbatt's hunting squad. A division that specializes in tracking down and eliminating hollows that either invaded the holds in the Soul Society or settled down in the world of the living.

Though the training was harsh and the missions were deadly, for the first time in my reborn life, I was able to fulfill my dream as Quincy. Battling spirits of the damn and protecting the innocent. Then as the decades went by my strength and power grew until I eventually reached the rank of Apprentice Knight and earn the respect and friendship of my entire squad.

Eventually, however, that dream came to a bitter end.

Twenty Years Ago in the Northern Mountains Holds of the Soul Society.

Kyiv breathed in heavily as he walked up the rocky path carrying a massive backpack of supplies on his back. Having just returned from a month-long scouting mission assigned by his captain Jerome for Hollow activity nearby in the wilderness. But from all his time there was none were present aside from regular wildlife.

However, just as the man was about to relax, as he finally walked over the hill to see the fortress of his squadron. He winded his eyes in horror at what he saw instead.

The mountain fortress which was meant to be a haven for Kyiv and his companions. Was now flaming wreckage littered with the hundreds of bodies of his squadron. Who were either torn to pieces, blown apart, or crushed into mush, and in the center of the carnage were three women Arrancar who gathered around two larger figures.

One was a hulking monster, with bulging yellow eyes, a large mouth full of human-like teeth covered in a main of dark brown fur, a snake tail that stretched from the lower back of his body, and antlers sticking out of his head. While in the beast's right hand was his beloved captain Jerome. With his jaw was now broken, his face was bleeding, and his entire body was being crushed by the beast. All the while the woman laughed delightfully at the man's torment and then when Jerome saw that Kyiv had arrived. He then pointed his left finger out at him...before his neck was snapped by the monster.

Consumed by loss, rage, and a new power flowing through him. Kyiv let out a furious roar that summon a massive snowstorm that covered the entire mountain range much to the shock of the three Arrancar girls and their beast, and before they could do anything else. Kyiv lunged at them with all the power and speed he could muster and soon, cries of pain and terror echoed throughout the blizzard and then gradually went silent as everything faded from red to white.

Present time

(Soundtrack of Choice: Yami o Kiru)

Kyiv swings his ice cutlets at Tia Harribel and while at first, it seemed that the Knight was a couple of feet out of reach. The Espada knew through her keen spiritual senses what the true nature of the attack was and bend her body backward to avoid the swing and when she did, a whole row of buildings was suddenly frozen over solid, before spilling horizontally in half.

Next, the Sternritter then discarded his sword and created a pair of twin ice daggers and charged at Tia, and became far faster and more agile as a result. As he unleashed a cyclone fury of slashes, stabs, and kicks at his enemy without pause. Yet despite this, The Espada was just as quick to counter his unrelenting assault and even when he tried to throw his twin daggers at his enemy to catch her off guard. Harribel dodged them and immediately blocked his sneak attack from behind with a new pair of daggers.

'It seems odd that you keep using the same moves as in our last fight...' She said dismissively and then focused her gaze on Kyiv. 'Did you think I wouldn't be able to counter them now?'

Jaeger then chucked. 'Well aside from countering them, you don't seem to have any new moves yourself' He teased while backing away and then raising an eyebrow. 'Especially since you don't seem to be in a hurry to go all out like last time'

Tia Harribel then huffed. 'That is because I want to get a good sense of how strong you have gotten, before revealing my full power...and then crushing you with it!'

Kyiv then became silent and stared at Tia for a few moments before answering. 'And are you satisfied yet?'

Tia glared at him murderously and then unzipped her jacket, revealing her monstrous hollow mask covering her mouth, neck, and breasts.

'Not even close!' She snapped viciously and then lunged at Kyiv once more and clashed against his hastily reformed formed ice cutlets and even he blocked the strike it still pushed him back across the ground. 'Did you think I will forgive you after what you had taken from me and the humiliation you put me through!' She roared out, before unleashing a point-blank Ol Oslo from the hollow end of her blade. Shattering Kyiv's gas mask, sword and sending him flying up into the air.

However instead of expressing pain or anger at being attacked. His expression was one of solemnness and guilt.

He then readjusted himself and then landed back on the ground. 'I never once believed you would forgive me for what I have done... any more than I once could never forgive what you have taken from me' He then crafted an ice-encrusted halberd and then swung his weapon at Tia and unleashed a massive tidal wave of snow that froze everything that came in contact with it. However, Tia Harribel countered by unleashing an equally massive Ol Oslos to cut through the wave.

But to her shock, the snow tidal managed to freeze the energy blast solid, before engulfing the Espada and sealing her in a structure of ice.

'But I can assure you that me stopping you has less to do with settling a grudge and more with preventing you from massacring my people' He explained and then to his lack of surprise. The ice that imprisoned Tia Harribel glowed a blinding yellow before cracking and bursting apart and flooding the entire area with her spiritual pressure. While glaring hatefully at Kyiv.

'Don't you dare compare your loss to the same as mine! she spoke in a low and disgusted tone. 'You Quincies have always viewed us Hollows as nothing more than Beasts to either be contained or exterminated and it is only right that your kind should be punished by that evil in blood!'

Jaeger then stared back at the Furious Espada. 'Paying evil on to evil is still evil Tia, regardless of how justified you feel about doing it' He then readied his halberd. 'And as my pride as a Quincy and as a Sternritter of The Holy Kingdom, I will not stand by and allow you to destroy my people!'

Harribal then shook her fists and intensified her glare on her hated foe. 'So you view delivering justice and vengeance as evil?' She then pointed her zanpaktou at Kyive as her spiritual power intensified. 'Then I will become a mistress of evil that will drag you deep into the bowels of Hell itself! She then hold her blade in front of her and pointed it down.

'Destroy...Tiburón!'

The Espada has then engulfed in heart shape cocoon cyclone of water, which she quickly cut herself out of and revealed her Resurreccion form.

Her hollow mask was gone, exposing the face of a beautiful dark-skin woman, while her mask fragments that covered the nipples of her breast and turn into shoulder pads, her arms were fastened with shark-shaped spaulders and two white ribbons like protrusions that stretched out on her back, while her belly was covered by spin like structure. She also wore a mini skirt composed of bones and a black undergarment, while also wearing long knee boots and shoulder gloves and in her right hand she wielded a board pata in the shape of an elegant shark tooth with gills, and a guard that hides away her right hand. While on her face sported two blue lighting bolt marks on her cheeks.

Seeing that the fight will now become that much more dangerous, Kyiv then began to raise his own spiritual pressure to the point that a storm began to stretch over the entire sky and beyond the horizon.