"Soul Eater!"
Yekawa looked at Osaki Masahiro's body on the ground and immediately activated Soul Eater without a word.
As a dark golden vortex rose behind Yekawa, Osaki Masahiro on the ground gradually turned into spiritons until he was completely devoured.
"This is…"
After completely devouring Osaki Masahiro, Ito Makoto found that although his spiritual pressure had increased, the increase was not significant. However, what made Yekawa happy was not this slight increase in spiritual pressure, but the changes deep within his own soul.
Yekawa even seemed momentarily dazed, as if the mask on his face had loosened slightly.
Discovering his own change with surprise, Yekawa immediately showed a look of ecstasy:
"Perhaps if I just devour enough Shinigami with Soul Eater, I can become an Arrancar on my own, just like Starrk!"
With this surprising discovery, Yekawa felt invigorated and let out a long howl of excitement.
As for devouring Shinigami, Ito Makoto naturally had no psychological burden. He had already been reborn as a Hollow, so what was wrong with devouring some souls?
He hadn't gone to devour the souls of ordinary people in the Human World; he was already a moral paragon.
After all, devouring souls was a Hollow's instinct!
As for Yekawa having a Shinigami clone, he could essentially be considered a Shinigami.
What did the devouring of souls by the Menos Grande Yekawa have to do with the Shinigami Ito Makoto?
…
Inside a tree hollow in the Great Hollow Forest.
Amagai Shūsuke looked at the twelve light spots in the palm of his right hand with disbelief.
The brightest of those light spots instantly dimmed, then vanished without a trace. Soon, it completely lost its light.
"Captain Osaki… is dead!"
He never expected that their Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force had not yet made a grand display, and their Captain had already encountered a mysterious Menos Grande and been directly killed.
Hiding inside the tree hollow, Amagai Shūsuke recalled Yekawa's terrifying and chilling spiritual pressure, and his mind couldn't help but tremble.
"I must become stronger, I must become stronger than that Menos Grande, stronger than anyone. Only then can I have my revenge!"
The reason Amagai Shūsuke joined the Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force was to temper himself in endless bloody battles, to make himself strong, so he could complete his great revenge.
This was a secret he had always buried deep in his heart: he wanted to take revenge on the strongest Shinigami of the past thousand years—Yamamoto Genryūsai—for his father!
Therefore, he was willing to join this Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force, which had a survival rate of less than one in ten, all to become stronger in the slaughter of Menos Grande and gain enough strength to carry out his revenge plan.
"As long as I gain Squad Captain level strength, plus this blade, I will surely succeed in my revenge!"
Amagai Shūsuke looked at the strange, steel-fork-like blade at his waist, his eyes showing a peculiar glint.
"Is this the Bakuyoto that can seal a Zanpakuto?"
As he spoke, Amagai Shūsuke noticed that the Bakuyoto in his hand had disappeared at some point. He looked up and suddenly realized that the Bakuyoto, which he considered his greatest secret, had fallen into the hands of that mysterious Menos Grande.
Yekawa, on the other hand, curiously examined the steel fork in his hand, filled with curiosity. After all, this was the Bakuyoto that could seal Ryujin Jakka. Acquiring this item would also be a major trump card for Yekawa in his future contention with Aizen and even the Soul Society.
"Since this blade can seal Ryujin Jakka, it should be able to seal Kyōka Suigetsu as well…"
Although Yekawa didn't entirely rely on this blade, one more preparation meant one more chance of success!
"Give me… give me spiritual pressure!"
Yekawa, holding the Bakuyoto, seemed to hear the blade calling, actually demanding that Yekawa input spiritual pressure into it.
"Does this blade have a life of its own?"
The Bakuyoto gave Yekawa a feeling that it wasn't a blade at all, but rather a living creature.
Therefore, Yekawa didn't indulge it. He immediately unleashed arcs of dark golden lightning from his palm and ruthlessly tormented this steel-fork-shaped Bakuyoto.
The blade instantly quieted down and no longer made any sound.
"You won't behave unless I show you some color, huh?!"
"You Hollow, what nonsense are you spouting?"
Amagai Shūsuke, standing nearby, was completely stunned. His deepest secret had been so easily exposed, how could he not panic!
He immediately drew the Zanpakuto at his waist, roared, and charged towards Yekawa.
"Sever, Raikazuchi!"
His Zanpakuto instantly transformed into a long blade with a hook-shaped tip, wreathed in wisps of flame.
Amagai Shūsuke, with a crazed expression, charged at Yekawa with Raikazuchi. Yekawa merely raised his hand and waved, and Amagai Shūsuke flew backward, crashing into the tree trunk.
"Bang!"
He even made a large dent in the thick tree trunk!
At this moment, Amagai Shūsuke had only recently joined the Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force. The Squad Captain level strength he displayed when he appeared in the anime was far from his current level; he could at best be considered a high-ranking seat officer, not even reaching the Vice-Captain standard.
Naturally, he was no match for Yekawa.
"Amagai Shūsuke, your father, Kisuke Amagai, died at the hands of Yamamoto Genryūsai, the Captain-Commander of the Soul Society's Gotei 13. Now you've joined the Shinigami Expeditionary Force, with the goal of avenging your father!"
"To achieve revenge, you even colluded with Yunoi, a retainer of the Kasumioji Family, to obtain the Bakuyoto."
"Am I not completely correct?"
Yekawa said casually, playing with the Bakuyoto in his hand.
"How could this be?"
Amagai Shūsuke, stuck in the tree hollow, slowly got up. Upon hearing Yekawa's words, his pupils suddenly constricted, and he looked at Yekawa with an incredulous gaze. These secrets he had always hidden deep in his heart, never telling anyone, yet this bizarre Menos Grande knew everything.
"Could his ability be mind-reading?"
Amagai Shūsuke's face alternated between green and red. After a brief silence, he spoke with a ferocious expression:
"How in the world did you know these things?!"
Seeing Amagai Shūsuke's ghost-struck expression, Yekawa secretly scoffed to himself.
"Didn't expect it, did you? I have an omniscient perspective!"
He then continued to speak to Amagai Shūsuke:
"How I know is irrelevant to you, but if you are willing to submit to me, I can help you complete your grand revenge plan. How about it?"
"Submit to you?"
Upon hearing Yekawa's words, Amagai Shūsuke's face showed a look of astonishment.
He naturally hated Yamamoto Genryūsai, who killed his father, Kisuke Amagai, to the bone, but he had never thought that he, a dignified Shinigami, would need to borrow the power of a Hollow to achieve revenge.
"What? Still unwilling to abandon your so-called Shinigami pride? Don't want to use the power of a Menos Grande to achieve revenge?"
Yekawa looked at him with a half-smile, as if nothing could be hidden from his eyes.
Amagai Shūsuke remained silent. Even though he hated Yamamoto Genryūsai, he was born and raised in the Soul Society. In his subconscious, Hollows were inherently evil spirits, inherently opposed to Shinigami.
Even with his revenge plan, no matter how desperate the situation became, he had never considered cooperating with a Hollow.
"If you have such foolish, black-and-white thinking, then you will never be able to defeat Yamamoto Genryūsai in this lifetime!"
Yekawa's voice was resolute, causing a ripple of wavering in Amagai Shūsuke's heart.
"Whether Hollows or Shinigami, both are members of the Three Realms. Since they exist, there must be a reason for their existence. Not all Shinigami are good people, and similarly, not all Hollows are inherently evil!"
"This world is neither black nor white, but a delicate shade of gray!"
"Power itself has no right or wrong; it only depends on whose hands it is in. If you are still holding onto your false pride and wish to end your journey here, abandoning your revenge, then I don't mind sending you on your way right now!"
As he spoke, dark golden lightning surged on Yekawa's right hand, as if Amagai Shūsuke would be decapitated in the next instant if he didn't submit.
After hearing Yekawa's words, Amagai Shūsuke initially frowned with a look of resistance, then seemed to have come to a realization. After a long sigh, he directly knelt on one knee and bowed to Yekawa from a distance.
"My Lord, I beg you to grant me strength to help me exact my revenge!"
Yekawa took the opportunity of his speaking to directly launch a lightning ball into his mouth.
Amagai Shūsuke was startled at first, clutching his neck, but after finding it futile, he could only give a wry smile. He knew that from this moment on, he was on Yekawa's pirate ship.
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