Serafall just smiled upon Aizen's question, "What do you mean?"
"Urahara showed me some of his memories and it looks like he wanted my assistance to deal with that mechanical being trying to invade your world." Aizen paused for a moment before continuing, "However, I've been thinking back to that moment and concluded that that thing does not have a soul. They have something else entirely different. Combining that with its strength, I'll just become a common cannon fodder the moment my ability doesn't work on it."
It was hard for Aizen to admit, but he was sure that his only advantage against the mechanical being that Ophis fended off was his undying body. Everyone in this world could cut through physical objects, however, whether they are a Shinigami, Fullbringer, Quincy, or Witch, they are far more effective against Spiritual Beings.
It's the reason why everyone has to expend a bit more effort against insect invaders.
Yhwach's Almighty may be useful because it's an ability that he uses on himself to see and control the future but that couldn't be said the same for Aizen, 'Against soulless beings, it might be interesting to study them, but I won't accept a one-sided beating.'
"Even if you use the entirety of this world's help, it'll only be a small helping hand against those things. At most, it'll be a standstill because they probably won't be able to do much against those with strong souls. After all, Spiritual Power could only be fully countered by another Spiritual Power..." In the middle of speaking, Aizen had a sudden epiphany. With furrowed brows, his voice trailed, "Unless..."
Serafall's smile disappeared and sighed, 'I guess it's about time for them to be properly filled in. In the first place, they are not a part of this world's defense.'
"Ehem..." Serafall cleared her throat first, "Let me preface this first by saying that we have no intention of controlling your freedom, Sosuke-chan. We know that if we try anything like that, you'd be one of our biggest problems and we don't really like taking on unnecessarily difficult ones."
Aizen was a bit taken aback by the way she called his first name but didn't say anything about it and just continued listening.
"What we really wanted was just letting everyone know of your existence. To explain further..."
Serafall started narrating to them the current state of affairs in the previous world, putting emphasis on the existence of both Evies and Etouldes.
After hearing the bigger picture, Aizen finally understood the role they wanted him to take and spoke while chuckling, "These Etouldes are helping your world but you want a deterrence against them? How I pity them."
"Can you really say in your good conscience that they are only trying to help?"
"Of course not. But this is also only making it worse for you. If they are as large and expansive as you described them to be, then not just the Evies, but you'll also earn the Etouldes' hostility. Even if they are enemies, it's easy for them to decide if your world is worth it or not."
Serafall nodded in agreement, "That's true. But I'll say it again. They are large and expansive. In other words, they are the last thing from being monolithic."
"Hooh..." Aizen understood where her boldness was coming from, "So you're already working behind their frontlines. Hmmm... In that case, I'll be your little scarecrow since I also stand to benefit." He then turned to the silent King of Quincies, "I can do your bidding on a whim, but how are you going to convince him? Don't tell me you're going to control him?"
Serafall shrugged her shoulders, "We honestly thought about that, but the same as you, that's also a bit unrealistic."
Serafall has already heard about Yhwach from the Shinigamis, especially from Ouetsu, 'He's someone who resented how the world works and wanted to remove the boundary between life and death, essentially removing both concepts from this world and letting the souls 'live' without the fear of 'death'.'
She waited to see if Yhwach would say anything but to her disappointment, he didn't say a word.
"Now let's go back to the previous topic. How are these girls doing?"
"They surprisingly learned both Shinigami and Quincy techniques, however, the Zanpakuto releases and Vollständig were still far from their reach." Due to Ophis and Lilith's unusual nature, Aizen thinks that he's going back to his younger days when he drowned himself in his research and felt excited. He's also very cooperative because he has a feeling that observing them could further unlock the potential he didn't know still existed.
'I thought I was almost at the end of my path, but it turned out there's a lot more into it... Urahara, I resent you, but I'm grateful for this opportunity.'
'However, for all of this to come to fruition, Urahara first has to succeed. He charged into that hellhole confidently so he probably has a few things in his arsenal, but I think it's going to be that easy. Ultimately, Hyousube Ichibei won't allow any changes to this world.'
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It had been a few days since Kisuke had descended into the depths of Hell and Ichibei was still sitting on top of the pulsing flesh. He, on the other hand, was still in the distance, but in contrast with Ichibei, Kisuke was lying in his own pool of blood without any sign of his regeneration kicking in, his cane snapped into two, and the blade of his dagger cracked and fractured into a hundred pieces.
"How peculiar. How are you still holding on for your dear life?" Although Ichibei's voice was only at conversational volume, it still managed to reach the distant Kisuke.
Nevertheless, Kisuke ignored him and did his best to stay alive while also asking his tenants, 'Are you guys still intact?'
[...Intact? I was snapped!]
[Consciously speaking, we're still fine, for now.]
'I see. That's good.'
[What's good!? We're at the end of the road!] Benihime shouted in his mind. Although she sounds energetic, there's an apparent weariness in her voice.
'That's true isn't it?' Kisuke coughed out blood as he tried to raise his head to look at Ichibei, 'But he also can't see where he's walking.' He thought with a grin.
Editors:
28th00: Well now, this’ll be something.
These past few days, Kisuke has been attacking Ichibei and the obviously very important thing under him, the pulsing flesh.
Kisuke has used almost everything, including activating both his Shunko and Bankai at the same time. In addition, the insects around them didn't bother him and kept on eating the walls of the cavern without any care about what was happening.
Despite all of this effort, he couldn't deal any meaningful damage to either Ichibei and the flesh would regenerate endlessly and effortlessly.
Meanwhile, black spears that seem to be made out of blank ink would manifest out of nowhere and would unbelievably pierce through all of Kisuke's defenses with ease.
He tried dodging and blocking them but these spears would appear without any indicator. It's as if they are already there in the first place and Kisuke himself just walked into them.
'Another reality warper... How terrifying.' Kisuke tried sitting up while the various holes in his body were leaking blood.
Worst of all, Ichibei and the pulsing flesh seem to have some ability to negate both Shinigami and Hollow powers, which resulted in Benihime and Tiamat returning to their sealed forms and his Hollow transformation being dispelled, which included his ability to regenerate.
Although he's not sure of what's happening yet, there's only a single entity who could possibly achieve that, 'And that's the Soul King... The origin of all Spiritual Power in this world.'
Thankfully, his use of Magic Power was still available and he was able to keep himself alive thanks to it.
After closing his wounds up, Kisuke stood up while swaying, "Are you trying to become the next Soul King now that the lynchpin has disappeared?"
But instead of answering his question, Ichibei talked about a completely different topic, "If you have brought that being in the form of a young girl, you could have a chance. Why did you come alone to face me? Was it pride?"
Like him, Kisuke ignored his question and continued on his line of thinking, "No... You're not trying to become the Soul King. That's evident in the fact that you're now trying to devour everything. You just want to keep things in order until the day you can achieve your goal."
Ichibei went quiet.
"And you're asking why I didn't bring Ophis-chan with me, right? I have no intention of serving you food. Though I doubt you could actually do it, I still don't want to risk it."
Kisuke then started picking up the snapped and shattered blade slowly as he continued speaking, "I guess that Ophis-chan made you realize something and you had no choice but to skip a few things."
Kisuke paused for a moment before turning his eyes toward Ichibei, "Did you forget that you're not the real thing and never will be one?"
As soon as he finished his words, Kisuke realized that five black spears were piercing his body and he started coughing blood again, 'Seriously... I still can't find the telegraph for these things... But I was able to confirm its rules.'
"You dodged." Muttered Ichibei and the black spears disappeared. He intended to insert all of those spears on his head, but strangely enough, they appeared all over his body and only dealt non-fatal wounds, "I was still underestimating you it seems. I didn't expect you to figure them out."
For the first time in this 'fight' Ichibei raised his arm and in an instant, a hundred black spears appeared. To his surprise, however, none of them appeared in Kisuke's body and were instead strewn around him.
Kisuke closed his wounds with Magic and a grin appeared on his face, "Finally trying to kill me for real? Did I hit the mark?"
Ichibei didn't immediately reply and gestured his hand. This time, a thousand spears appeared but the same as before, none of them appeared in Kisuke.
Ichibei tried a few more times and Kisuke just smirked at him while watching the countless spears flashing in and out of existence, "Thanks to you looking down on me, I was able to ascertain some of my theories."
Multiple Magic Circles appeared around Kisuke and the scattered pieces of both of his Zanpakutos gathered and rearranged themselves into their original forms.
Ichibei became interested and asked, "Theories, huh? What are they?" He also stopped summoning the black spears and started concocting another form of attack.
"First is that you can't see everything that the Soul King was doing, especially after his death."
"..."
"Second is that you thought that you kept him from disclosing the real situation by setting up what I can only be called a world-spanning barrier. However, the Soul King had a tough time because he had to do it in a roundabout way every time just so that you wouldn't be able to figure it out. To this day, those three, Kurosaki Ichigo, Aizen Sosuke, and Yhwach, still have no idea that the Soul King wanted them to disrupt you."
Ichibei grinned and acknowledged Kisuke's words, "He's good at choosing people with potential, but not so much as a person. Aizen was too ambitious. Kurosaki was too naive. Yhwach, on the other hand, was too drowned in his ideals."
"But I'm standing in front of you now, no?"
Ichibei nodded, still with the same grin, "That's true. However, you're already too late. Even if you successfully evaded my palms, I'm already on the verge of completing it."
'Palms? Is that what he called the net that catches everyone that the Soul King comes into contact with? In any case, he's already confirmed it. He's trying to resurrect this thing by 'completing' himself.'
Kisuke's mind went back to the time that the Soul King's last vestige spoke to him, 'A being that shouldn't have been born, huh?'
Editors:
28th00: Is this an Orphan of Kos situation? Bruh.
Goyya: I actually have no idea what “Orphan of Kos” is and had to google it. And yep, I never played Bloodborne.
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