"Mayuri, your mouth is still as foul; it's really disgusting."
What the real Halibel said, these people didn't know, but at least under Kyōka Suigetsu's influence, the Hiyori she was portraying said these words.
"Is that so..." Mayuri Kurotsuchi said with a fake smile. "How interesting. I don't remember when my subordinates would talk like that."
"At that time, I was the Lieutenant, and you were just the 3rd Seat," 'Hiyori' continued. "I don't remember when a 3rd Seat could talk to a Lieutenant like that!"
"Don't waste words," Baraggan said coldly. "I just want to kill these people now."
With the strength of their eight, killing these three captains would be as easy as pie.
However, there was no trace of panic on Mayuri Kurotsuchi's face; instead, he wore a hint of mockery: "How pathetic. After Hollowfication, has your spirit become no different from a Hollow's? In that case, why not let you escape the void and pain sooner?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he pressed a button, and then...
The doors of the surrounding rooms opened, and out walked...
Baraggan's pupils contracted sharply because he saw the guy with the straw hat he had fought before.
Hadn't he already gone to the Human World?
And he wasn't the only one shocked; there were also...
"Hey, Mayuri!" Shiba Isshin looked at another version of himself and couldn't help but say: "What the hell are you doing? What's going on? Why is there another me?"
Not only another him, but from the various rooms emerged Kyōraku Shunsui, Jūshirō Ukitake, Suì-Fēng, and Kuchiki Byakuya!
Five captains!
Plus the three of them, that made eight people. Eight against eight—no matter how you looked at it, they had the advantage!
"Don't look at Mayuri like that; this has nothing to do with him."
The other Shiba Isshin said to his original: "Mayuri just discovered us; he didn't create us."
"Don't look at me like that; I'm real," Kyōraku Shunsui shrugged and said.
"Me, Ukitake, and Captain Suì-Fēng are all real. As for Captain Kuchiki and Captain Shiba... according to Captain Kurotsuchi, they seem to have been created using Tenshintai. Because of their obsessions, they targeted the Bull-Head Hollow from before, so they cooperated with Mayuri."
Mayuri Kurotsuchi had actually known about the imaginary bodies for a long time, because the moment the imaginary bodies appeared, his own imaginary body had secretly contacted him.
After obtaining information on Tenshintai from the Daireishokairō, he further confirmed one of the components of Tenshintai.
So he judged that the Gotei 13 captains had definitely been replaced, and considering the opponent might be Kisuke Urahara, Mayuri Kurotsuchi was happy to compete with Kisuke Urahara.
Thus, he secretly found the replaced and trapped captains, released them, and kept them as his trump cards.
Like the ones appearing now...
As for 'Kuchiki Byakuya' and 'Shiba Isshin,' they had come to him on their own because their target was the Bull-Head Hollow in Hueco Mundo. To go to Hueco Mundo, they needed Mayuri Kurotsuchi's help.
Mayuri Kurotsuchi used this to secretly hide five captains!
That's why he allowed Retsu Unohana to fight her imposter in Dangai, because he knew leaving Retsu Unohana wouldn't be useful.
She probably wouldn't contribute in battle and could only play a supporting role; it was better to let her leave, making the enemy think their combat power had decreased, thus launching a full attack!
Only when the enemy attacked could he counterattack!
"Kisuke Urahara, you think you're so smart, but all of this is within my plans."
Mayuri Kurotsuchi said confidently.
The imaginary bodies of Kuchiki Byakuya and Shiba Isshin were also maintained by his reiatsu amplifiers, so even if the other side wanted to make them disappear, they couldn't. At least...
Surviving this great battle wouldn't be a problem.
"Are you... smug?" Halibel looked at the triumphant Mayuri Kurotsuchi and couldn't help but say: "Unfortunately, all of this is within Aizen-sama's expectations."
Under Kyōka Suigetsu's embellishment, what others heard was of course not "Aizen-sama," but it was replaced with "Kisuke Urahara."
"What if eight against three becomes eight against eight?"
"Eight sharks can devour eight goldfish in one bite!"
Crack, crack, crack...
The space suddenly made strange sounds, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi furrowed his brows.
"The Garganta has already been sealed. You can wait here; when Soul Society sends people to check, they'll only find your gnawed corpses."
Eight against eight, Espada against captains—the battle was about to erupt!
...
And just as the war erupted in Hueco Mundo, Yoshio received a message that shocked him immensely.
This message didn't come from Hollows, but from Shinigami.
"What?"
Yoshio said somewhat surprised: "Kisuke Urahara has launched an attack on Karakura Town?"
He received the message from the Gotei 13 communicator: Kisuke Urahara was leading the Visoreds to surround the Third Division heading toward Honshu Island. Now, the Sixth Division and Seventh Division had rushed there, and the previously supporting Ukitake and Shunsui had also arrived.
Now, the Fifth Division was also required to rush to the battlefield immediately.
This message left Yoshio unable to process it right away.
What the hell? Kisuke Urahara isn't coming to Hueco Mundo to save lives, but instead launching an attack on Shinigami in the Human World?!
After confirming that Kisuke Urahara and the others had appeared in Karakura Town, all squads in the Human World had rushed toward Karakura Town.
And since Yoruichi Shihouin had already escaped, they expanded the target area to Tokyo, preparing to turn the entire Tokyo upside down.
However, not only did Kisuke Urahara not flee with the Visoreds, but he actively launched an encirclement against the Shinigami in the Human World?
No, we're just trying to draw aggro for you; you don't need to jump out and draw the Gotei 13's hatred yourself, right?
Yoshio didn't understand Kisuke Urahara's intention at first, but soon he realized.
Although Yoshio and Aizen were both in Hueco Mundo, they still had Aizen's clone left by Kyōka Suigetsu in the Human World, as well as their comrade Ichimaru Gin!
So...
Kisuke Urahara was directly targeting Ichimaru Gin and their clones!
If something happened to the clones, then...
If the clones impersonating him and Aizen in the Human World met with misfortune, then in the eyes of the Gotei 13, he and Aizen would truly be dead!
Then this identity would be wasted!
So they had to protect their identities and not let themselves become clones!
This way, they would leave Hueco Mundo!