"Are you sure about your plan Kurosaki-san? It is a good one but there are a few flaws here and there. It could backfire in a very bad way." Kisuke spoke as he and Tessai stood at the door while their guest stood on the porch and getting ready to leave. "I hope you are prepared for the consequences."
Ichigo slightly smirked. "Don't worry about me Urahara-san. I know what I'm doing. Just stick to the plan and we'll be good."
"Very well. Good luck Kurosaki-san, you will need it."
"I don't need luck." Ichigo groaned. "What I need is a good fight." The moment he finished that statement he disappeared in a blink of an eye, leaving no trace that he was ever there in the first place. Kisuke once again tried to feel his reiatsu signature, but it was just like when Aizen used the Hogyoku to evolve into a transcendent being.
"You do not trust him." A booming voice made itself known behind him.
"No I don't, even though my mind tells to do so." Kisuke responded.
"What about your heart? What does it say?" Tessai asked, but the scientist chuckled darkly as he closed the door. "Tessai-san, you know as well as I do that such a thing does not exist within me."
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'He does not trust you. Not completely anyway.' The Reio's voice echoed in the hybrid's head as Ichigo continued to wonder through the streets of Karakura Town.
'I know. He would be stupid to do so, and Getaboshi will never be stupid.' Ichigo responded as he watched people stare at him. Most of the people greeted him while others had this curious look on their faces, as if they had seen him before but couldn't figure out where. There were some more amusing looks he received, such as a few men who gave him dirty looks with jealousy mixed in there while the women looked at him with longing and lust, and the dual-layered cackles echoing in his head were not exactly helping. If Senjumaru and Kirio found out he had been having sex with random women without telling them first-hand, they would remove his balls and feed them to him or worse, give him the cold shoulder and force him to sleep on the couch.
'That's an experience I don't wanna repeat.' Shiro spoke, causing the Reio, Juha Bach and Ichigo to chuckle at the rare misfortune of pissing off Senjumaru and Kirio and the consequences for doing so.
"Excuse me, sir." Ichigo stopped walking and turned around to look at an average-looking man with a very smart and expensive suit and black hair smiling at him with a fake smile on his face. "Can I help you?" Ichigo asked.
The man smiled. "Do you believe in miracles?"
"…I'm sorry?"
"Perhaps I was not loud enough. Do you believe in miracles sir?"Ichigo blinked multiple times before narrowing his eyes. "Did you interrupt my peaceful walk just for you to ask me that?"
The man saw Ichigo's expression and started to feel nervous. However, before he could say anything his phone rang. He held up his finger as he answered it (a finger Ichigo wanted to burn) before putting down the phone. "Forgive me for that sir, business as usual. I do apologise for wasting your time, so please accept this." The man then reached into his pocket, pulling out a flyer and an orange envelope and giving them to Ichigo. When Ichigo opened it up, his eyebrows rose as he saw what was in the envelope. The raven-haired man was slowly getting annoyed, but he eventually took the 'gifts' but when he looked up to thank the man, he had disappeared.
'That was weird.' He thought to himself as he continued to walk through the streets of Karakura Town. As he neared the forest, he could not help but look at the flyer. He saw a woman with short black hair which was longer on her left side. She wore a black business-style suit with a white scarf around her neck, and a golden, X-shaped lapel pin on the chest. However, Ichigo was distracted by her face as she was incredibly beautiful and her body which looked curvy and delicious, something he could not wait to do what he wanted, when he wanted to it and he thought of ravishing the naked woman beneath him made Ichigo feel excited.
He then frowned to himself as he stopped his train of thought. Ever since he accepted who he was and all the aspects that came with it, some of those aspects have been difficult to control, particularly his instincts. He had mastered his control of bloodlust when he first unlocked Resurreccion but his lust and the desire to bed both a strong and powerful woman, and a weak submissive woman beneath his feet was getting more and more pronounced as time went on. Shiro, embodying his instincts, tried to reduce that lust as much as he possibly could from time to time but later told Ichigo to deal with it in a healthy way, which Senjumaru and Kirio were more than happy to help him. They decided to role play and asked a few of the female Zanpakuto to help out. He chuckled to himself as he remembered that night distinctly well.
He decided to try and ignore the woman and read the other information. Apparently this woman's name was Michibane Aura and she had the ability to perform 'miracles'. So that was why that strange man asked him about believing in miracles. Even though the flyer did not state the miracles he was talking about, they had to be impressive if this group called XCUTION had over seven hundred thousand members registered in the group. He didn't know if this was real or fake, but he would find out when everything was said and done. 'Anything you do now will not affect the plans, so you might as well enjoy yourself.' Well if the Reio said it's okay then why not enjoy himself for a while until they come to him? He looked up to the sky as a Garganta opened up far away before quickly closing. Knowing his guests were going to be here in a few minutes, he closed his eyes and concentrated on what he was about to do.
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There were quite a few things that caused the King of Quincies to feel an odd mixture of frustration and fascination as he sat on his throne. Frustration; Yamamoto gone soft, the weak and current Gotei 13, Hyōsube Ichibēi, the Reio and major plans not going according to plan. Fascination; Aizen Sosuke, the Reio's limbs and power, the first generation of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads and the latest to be added on the list, the mystery man who nearly killed him with a single and deceptively powerful Cero.
Yhwach could not help but be impressed at the way the man used his overconfidence against him, because the middle-aged looking man didn't notice how strong the Cero was until it was too late and his arm had been completely destroyed. And speaking of his overconfidence, Yhwach could not help but wonder as how to how the puzzle of a man knew about him. He did notice that the man fell out of the sky wearing an inverted version of the Royal Guard's Haori, which meant that the man had been living in the Royal Palace the whole time. But as far as he knew, the Zero Division only had five members; Hikifune Kirio, Kirinji Tenjirō, Shutara Senjumaru, Nimaiya Ōetsu and that man. He had no knowledge as to whom this mysterious sixth member was and he highly doubted his subordinates knew more than him. He had to know who this man was and why was he intent in killing him. The other thing he was interested in was the fact that he (the man's voice and body structure indicated that he was a male) was not only as strong as him and as much as he hated to admit it perhaps even more, but also that he could use the techniques of the Shinigami with the usage of Shunpo, the Arrancars with the usage of that black Cero, and surprisingly the Quincies with the usage of that black Blut Vene that appeared on his skin. That meant he was an unholy hybrid which confused him. The only hybrids he knew were the group that called themselves the Vizard and Aizen even though his fusion was only temporary thanks to the power of the Hōgyoku, and there was no way that anyone knew about the Wandenreich watching them from the shadows, plus Hyōsube Ichibēi could not have recruited any member of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads without his knowledge. The only other hybrid was Kurosaki Ichigo, but he died getting devoured by Hollows.
Then it suddenly hit him like a ton of stones. He thought Kurosaki Ichigo was dead because the boy was devoured by Hollows, but that's the thing. He never saw Ichigo get devoured by the Hollows because he was not interested seeing that image. He gritted his teeth as he realized that the Zero Division could have rescued the orange-haired boy while he was busy updating the list of Special War Threats, which could also mean that they knew that he, along with the rest of the Sternritter, were watching each and every person of interest. But that was impossible. There was no way that they could have known about him still being alive, they would need the power of the Almighty to know the future…Wait a minute, he thought to himself as his eyes widened in realisation and betrayal. The Reio, his own father, may have been helping the same people who imprisoned him in that dreadful crystal! That is impossible, the rational side of him reasoned. 'Father despises the Shinigami for what they did to him. There is no way he would stoop so low as to help the people that dismembered him. Do not be so ignorant,' the dark side of him argued. 'It is the only reasonable explanation. One of the powers of the Almighty is to see the future, how else can Squad Zero know about you? As far as I can tell, none of them have the power to see the future. Yhwach could not help but agree. Watch the meeting between the Thirteen Court Guard Squads and the Zero Division.' Meeting… Ah yes. The one he told himself not to watch as that would not change a thing. He really needed to reduce his overconfidence as it was now going on borderline arrogance, so he opened the monitors and rewind the footage to the first invasion.
Meanwhile Haschwalth, with his cape flapping around behind him as if it had a mind of its own, made his way towards Yhwach's throne room in deep thought because of one man; the raven-haired man who single-handedly defeated him with seemingly little to no effort. The blonde man began remembering his fight with the man. While he did not wish to remember his humiliating loss at the hands of him, one thing did stick out as odd; he made him furious for the first time since he was a teenager. This was not the case of being angry with your opponent because they were being a bit difficult to defeat. Whoever that man was made Jugram Haschwalth, Wandenreich Emperor Aide and Sternritter Grandmaster, so mad that he wanted to end his life in the most brutal way imaginable. Ever since joining the Wandenreich, Haschwalth had always learned to cast aside emotions when fighting and he did this so well, he almost never felt any when killing an opponent. He sometimes felt a small amount of catharsis when defeating a very difficult opponent, but always managed to hide it with a mask of indifference.
'I REFUSE TO BE HUMILIATED BY THIS MAN!' Haschwalth frowned as he thought about his declaration. He could not remember the last time he felt angry at someone other than Bazz-B, but that was more of being annoyed than being angry. That was being desperate to kill the man for humiliating him that way, and the part he was really concerned about it was that anger was not the only emotion he felt. The fury and humiliation he felt when the man defeated him while using a single finger. The immense catharsis he felt when he used his Balance to wound him. The shock and, dare he say it, despair when the unknown man regenerated and crushed him with his reiatsu up to the point where it made him lose consciousness. And after all of that, there was a very small part in his soul that respected his strength. His power was unlike anything he had ever felt before. He had a hunch that one of the battles ahead would have the mystery man fighting him, his Majesty, one of the Schuzstaffel, or the new recruit in Ishida Uryū.
"Jugo."
The blonde-haired man forced himself to remain calm as he heard the annoyingly familiar voice behind him. He turned around and saw his fellow Sternritter and former best friend Bazzard Black, also known as Bazz-B by the rest of the Sternritter and Sternritter H, Black or The Heat by His Majesty. This man had green eyes and kept his red hair in a long Mohawk and had two metal nuts pierced into his upper-left ear, and a bolt through his lower-right ear. His attire was a variation of the Sternritter's typical white uniform that consisted of the order's signature hooded cloak, a thigh-length trench coat, black gloves, and pants which were cropped just above a pair of black military boots. He also wore a thin chain with the Wandenreich emblem attached to it around his neck and black armbands around his biceps, with a skull and cross bones design on it. He actually looked like a punkish thug, more than anything and had a smug grin on his face. "I heard you got your ass kicked by a Shinigami. How the mighty have fallen."
Haschwalth narrowed his eyes. "Sternritter Black."
Bazz-B's expression turned into a scowl. "I hate that about you. You used to call me Bazz-B, not Sternritter B or Black or any of that formal shit."
"Is there something you want or are you here to just to annoy me as you usually do Sternritter Black?" Haschwalth asked, taking a very small enjoyment at seeing his former best friend frown in anger at the emphasis of his name. "I do not have time to spar with you today."
Bazz-B's eyebrow twitched before his expression turned mostly neutral towards Haschwalth. "What happened in the Soul Society man? I know you're not as strong as His Majesty and the Schuzstaffel, but you should have been able to beat whoever that guy is. Not only that, you used your Schrift and everything, and what's this I hear about His Majesty getting his arm blown off?" The man with the Mohawk stared at the blonde man with incredulity on his face, clearly wanting a reasonable explanation from Haschwalth. The Sternritter Grandmaster merely stared at Bazz-B. He knew the means as to how Bazz-B got that information, it was no secret in the Wandenreich, and he knew that Bazz-B would not stop pestering him until he gave him some information.
"Most, if not everything you have heard of is correct. His Majesty did have his arm blown off, and I did use my Schrift, however I was soundly defeated by whoever that man was. That is all you need to know." Haschwalth responded before turning around and walking away. He must have irritated Bazz-B, because he was stopped by a wall of flames that appeared right in front of him.
"Don't you fucking ignore me!" The Sternritter with the Mohawk growled at the blonde man who merely just stared at him with a dispassionate look on his face.
"If you truly wish to die, you may go after him if you wish." Haschwalth spoke, and Bazz-B quickly noticed a change in the air. "But if you fail at successfully detaining and/or killing that man, I can assure you that your death will follow shortly thereafter. It is just the matter of who will take your life; that stranger, His Majesty...or me." He coldly finished. He saw Sternritter Black stars at him with a look of shock and apprehension of what he just heard, before turning into that look of cockiness he always had. He prepared to listen to him speak with a look of boredom, before his expression quickly turned into a look of surprise and terror as he felt a massive wave of familiar reiatsu crashing down on him and Bazz-B, filling their souls with pure unadulterated anger coming from the Throne Room.
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Beneath Silbern was a special room, or a vault if you were being technical, that was specifically designed to lock something or someone in than lock something or someone out. That something or someone was currently staring up at the ceiling as he felt his creator's reiatsu crashing down on him, however he was safe due to a forcefield that surrounded them that negated that reiatsu.
"Never seen His Majesty be this mad. I wonder what happened?"
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"This is His Majesty's reiatsu. Something must have angered him greatly."
"Oh really? Is that what you gathered? I am so impressed."
"Now is not the time for your sarcasm, Nakk Le Vaar. Even your realise that this is abnormal."
"..."
"You are correct! It is pointless to speculate, we will wait for His Majesty to tell us if he wants to!"
"..."
"Very well."
"...How the hell do you understand that guy?"
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"Your Majesty!" Haschwalth shouted as he and Bazz-B burst into the Throne Room, before being greeted a sight more terrifying than his first time seeing the Almighty and one of the members of the Schuzstaffel. A sight that will haunt him for a long time to come.
Yhwach...was laughing.
It was a terrifying sound, one that was smeared into his memory and echoed throughout the entire room while also simultaneously scaring his former best friend who was standing behind him.
"Is everything alright, Your Majesty?"
The Quincy King stopped laughing as he registered the presence of the former friends, but a very sinister grin became the replacement for the laugh as he stared at both Haschwalth and Black. As he looked at them, he quickly got an idea. "Sternritter Grandmaster, go to Sternritter B and Sternritter T and tell them they are being summoned by me. Sternritter B, you stay here."
"Of course Your Majesty, but why those two?"
Yhwach's grin merely got wider. "Because there is a mission I want them to do."