Yoruichi was on the verge of a total mental breakdown.
Back in Soul Society, with her identity and status, everyone treated her with utmost respect. Even after she fled the Seireitei, because of her noble background, she was never hunted like the Visored were.
Rather than "hiding" in the Human World for a hundred years, she'd basically spent a hundred years playing around there.
But now?
She'd come to a foreign country, where the residents were Quincies filled with hatred toward Soul Reapers…
And she'd run into a Quincies freak like this.
Worst of all—she couldn't fight back. If she did, it could trigger a chain reaction across the entire Wandenreich.
So what was she supposed to do?!
Seeing Yoruichi frozen in place, Bambietta's lips curved slightly. She casually swung her pale foot and smiled.
"What, are you too surprised by the reward I'm giving you?"
Yoruichi's mouth twitched. While her mind was collapsing, an impulse to silence someone forever also rose up.
Reward?
This is a scare, okay?!
Forcing herself to stay calm under Bambietta's gaze, Yoruichi hurriedly pointed at the bathroom.
"Bambietta-sama, I suddenly remembered I haven't washed either. Please wait here—let me go take a quick bath, and then I'll come back to serve you."
Before Bambietta could answer, Yoruichi bolted deeper into the castle in a blind panic.
She was so nervous she even got tripped by the carpet mid-run.
Up on the second floor, Cole watched, utterly speechless.
"Is this really the Flash Goddess Yoruichi…?"
If this got back to the Seireitei, nobody would believe Yoruichi could stumble on flat ground.
Bambietta also found it funny, blinking in surprise.
"Why are you so nervous? I'm not going to eat you. And you ran the wrong way—over there is the second floor, not the bathroom."
She reached out as if to grab Yoruichi's hand—
But how could Yoruichi let herself be caught?
Even though she was only using a step technique she'd just learned, her control over movement was still exquisite. She slipped past Bambietta in an instant.
Bambietta's hand grabbed nothing, and her eyes widened.
"Fast. That fast?!"
That speed was already quicker than some of the Sternritter.
It made Bambietta even more interested.
Yoruichi rushed up to Cole, teary-eyed, and whispered in misery:
"Cole, save me… this woman is a total freak…"
Cole couldn't help laughing, eyes smiling.
"Yoruichi-san, this kind of experience is rare. Want to try it out and embrace your spirit of adventure?"
Yoruichi shook her head like a rattle drum.
Even if she died, she absolutely wasn't doing that.
Licking another woman's foot?
Disgusting.
If it were Soi fong… she might barely be able to consider it.
"Cole, it's your turn," Yoruichi said with hopeful eyes, shamelessly selling someone else out. "Just conquer her. I won't tell Rukia anything about what happens here."
Cole went silent for a moment.
"You want me to lick her foot?"
Yoruichi's face twisted with conflict. She did feel it wasn't right to push that humiliation onto Cole…
But she didn't want that humiliation either.
After a few seconds of thinking, Yoruichi's expression turned sharp, an uncommon chill in her eyes.
"Then… how about we just kill her? Before anyone notices. We lead the Seireitei in and wipe this place out."
The Wandenreich's combat power was terrifying, yes—but she still believed in Cole and the Captain-Commander.
Those two were monsters.
And at worst, Zero Division could still cover them.
As for the Soul King… she figured, when you reach the mountain, a path appears. If they tried hard enough, they'd find some substitute.
Cole chuckled.
"I don't mind. But who are you planning to sacrifice as the next Soul King candidate?"
Yoruichi instantly hesitated again.
Who could replace the Soul King?
With the Soul King's supreme power, who in existence could possibly take that role?
"Th-then… what do we do?!"
Yoruichi stared at Cole, tortured by indecision.
Did she really have to pay such a huge price…?
Cole rubbed his chin slightly.
"I can go stabilize her for now. But afterward, you'll still have to come help me."
Yoruichi's eyes lit up. She nodded rapidly.
As long as she didn't have to do the foot thing, she'd do anything.
"…Hey. Are you coming down or not?!"
Bambietta lay on the table, swinging her feet, looking up toward the second floor with growing impatience.
"If you keep dragging your feet, believe it or not, I'll kill you."
She was a member of the Sternritter's girl group. Normally, all she had to do was curl her toes, and a pile of male Quincies would come kneel and fawn over her.
Only this man today—
He kept rejecting her, again and again.
"Bambietta-sama, you're in such a hurry?"
Cole's voice came from the stairs as he walked down with a smile, stopping beside her.
Bambietta glanced at him, feeling even more speechless.
"Why did you put your clothes back on again?"
In the militarized Wandenreich, in hundreds of years of life, she'd never seen someone this bizarre.
But his difference only made her more interested.
Bambietta lifted her foot again, curling her toes, and laughed lightly.
"Forget it. It doesn't matter. Hurry up and kneel down."
Cole raised an eyebrow, completely ignoring the command. He strode forward instead.
"Bambietta-sama, don't underestimate me."
Bambietta's expression flickered with shock.
She clearly hadn't expected him to resist at a time like this.
Even if you don't care about rank…
You're still a man, aren't you?
But then, Bambietta suddenly realized something.
This man really was different from every other Quincy she'd met.
He didn't seem obsessed with her looks at all.
Before she could think further, a shadow covered her view. She reflexively looked up.
The tall man was standing over her, looking down with a heavy pressure.
"Wait—"
Bambietta panicked. She'd never experienced a situation like this in her entire life, and her mouth moved before her mind caught up, trying to stop him.
But Cole didn't pause.
In a single motion, he seized her and flipped her over, forcing her into an extremely humiliating position on the table.
"Wait, you bastard—"
Bambietta's face turned red. Even with her temperament, she still felt a deep humiliation at that moment.
This damned man.
He dared treat her like this.
Not as a superior officer—like something he could manhandle at will.
In response to her struggle, Cole lifted his hand and slapped down hard.
"Be quiet."
Bambietta's body stiffened. Her eyes went wide in disbelief as she turned her head.
"Y-you dared hit me…!"
A mere Soldat dared lay hands on a Sternritter?
If this were outside, he'd be executed on the spot.
Rage surged through Bambietta. An astonishing spiritual pressure burst outward.
"You filthy man… do you think I'm going to forgive you after this?!"
The white towel around her was torn apart by her violent reishi.
At her shoulder blades, enormous amounts of blue reishi gathered, forming a pair of wings—pink interwoven with blood-red.
It made her look even more dazzling and dangerous at the same time, as her aura skyrocketed.
On the second-floor stairs, Yoruichi sucked in a cold breath.
"So this is a Quincy's Vollständig (Complete Holy Form)…?"
From what they'd extracted from captured Quincies, Vollständig was the highest secret art the Quincy could wield—similar to a Soul Reaper's Bankai.
In this state, a Quincy's overall power rose dramatically.
But Yoruichi still hadn't expected it to feel this overwhelming. In raw pressure alone, it already surpassed many Captains.
If you added in the abilities she'd learned about before…
The Quincy's combat potential was even more terrifying than she'd imagined.
Yet facing Bambietta in this form, Cole's lips curved instead.
He forced his spiritual power through his body, flooding it into his blood vessels.
This was partly based on his earlier observations, and partly instinct—power that fused with his living body.
Spiritual power poured into arteries, veins, capillaries, merging with the heated blood.
It was something a Soul Reaper could never do.
A Soul Reaper's "blood" was formed from soul and reishi, fundamentally different from a living human's blood, and couldn't merge in the same way.
"How is this possible… your power…"
Bambietta stared at Cole's face in shock.
Blue patterns appeared on his cheek—an external sign of Blut Arterie, the fusion of reishi with blood vessels.
Even in the Wandenreich, only a handful of Quincies could master Blut.
But what truly shocked Bambietta wasn't that he had Blut Arterie—
It was how terrifying his strength was in that state.
Just Blut Arterie…
Yet it suppressed her Vollständig.
Especially that pure, brutal physical force—several times greater than hers.
"Even if Blut can raise your strength, yours is way too absurd… just how much reishi do you have—"
Her sentence cut off as the situation spiraled into chaos.
What followed was a long, humiliating struggle that Bambietta could neither accept nor easily escape.
Hours passed.
Then more time.
By the time it finally ended, Bambietta—who had begun with absolute arrogance—was left completely shaken, her pride crushed, unable to keep pretending she was in control.
Afterward, Cole finally stood up—then looked toward the second floor, where Yoruichi was staring down with a face so red it could burn.
Cole sighed, exasperated.
"Yoruichi-san… were you enjoying the show?"
Yoruichi snapped back, furious and flustered.
"Shut up! I was observing the Quincy's nature—studying how their power differs from Soul Reapers!"
"Sure," Cole said, not bothering to correct her. He stretched lazily and headed for the bathroom. "I'm covered in sweat. I'm going to wash up. Next, it's your turn."
"…My turn?!" Yoruichi panicked and tried to stop him, but his figure vanished from her sight.
Left behind, she could only stare at Bambietta with a troubled face.
"What am I supposed to do now…"
She took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and transformed into Cole's appearance.
Then she grabbed Bambietta by the hair.
"Hey, you rotten woman."
"What did you want me to do earlier?"
Half an hour later—
Cole came out of the bath refreshed, took one look at the living room, and froze in shock.
"…What is this?"
Yoruichi—still wearing his appearance—was sitting on the table like a queen.
And the once-arrogant Bambietta was now completely humbled, kneeling in front of "Cole" with an obedient, dazed look.
"Roles reversed?!"
Cole laughed, didn't stop them, and simply went upstairs to rest.
Time passed.
In the blink of an eye, a full week went by.
In the Wandenreich, inside a luxuriously decorated room, the Sternritter's girl group gathered together.
Candice sat on a sofa with one leg crossed over the other, sipping red wine and swirling the glass as she asked curiously:
"Come to think of it… I haven't seen Lil Bambi in days. Have any of you seen her?"
(End of Chapter)
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