"Hey? Who are you?"
A panicked female voice sounded next to Rosse's ear, followed immediately by two more female voices, "Idiot Mila, doesn't this look like a human?"
"No, this is clearly a Shinigami. How could a human appear in Hueco Mundo?"
Hearing the voices from behind him, Rosse didn't pay attention to the battle. Instead, he turned around, smiling leisurely at the three-headed Hollow in front of him, shaped like a deer, snake, and lion, and said, "Let me introduce myself. Jaygarcia Rosse, just a passing Hollow."
"You're lying! You don't look like a Hollow at all!"
The deer Hollow, Apacci, couldn't help but question. She had never seen a Hollow that looked so human.
At the momen
t, Rosse's appearance was almost indistinguishable from a human's.
Strictly speaking, he was in his awakened divine-beast form, his body still carried some beast-like traits, and his entire presence radiated a sense of divinity that made it hard to even look directly at him.
"This gentleman… you're the same as Lady Harribel, aren't you? A Vasto Lorde?"
The white snake Hollow, Sung-Sun, eyed Rosse warily. For someone to suddenly appear in their hiding place without them even noticing at first, it could only mean this person was stronger than Lady Harribel herself.
Whether he was truly a Hollow or not didn't matter. Since he said he was one, that was good enough.
"Hey, Sung-Sun, look at him! He's obviously an enemy," the lion Hollow, Mila Rose, complained.
"With the strength this gentleman jus
t showed, whatever he wants to do, we wouldn't be able to stop him anyway, right?", Sung-Sun raised her head, shooting a disdainful glance at her two companions.
'With intelligence like that, they still have the nerve to follow Lady Harribel?'
"What's that look?", Feeling Sung-Sun's gaze, Apacci immediately got angry and looked like she was about to argue.
Rosse only smiled at the little drama and pointed toward the battlefield behind them.
"I'm not in a hurry, but if you delay any longer, your so-called Lady Harribel will lose."
"Impossible!"
The three Hollows cried out in unison and hurriedly turned toward the battlefield.
But just as Rosse said, Harribel was being completely overpowered by her opponent, it was obvious she was already struggling.
Seeing this, Apacci and the others immediately grew tense.
The most intelligent among them, Sung-Sun, suddenly looked at Rosse, her forked tongue flicking as she said, "Since you've appeared before us, you must be willing to help Lady Harribel, right?"
"I can help. But what about the price?"
Rosse looked at the little snake in front of him with amusement. He was somewhat interested in these Hollows.
They could become Arrancars, or he could even keep them as pets.
Pets with intelligence like this were no different from beasts that had eaten a Human-Human Fruit, far better than the dumb animals of Rosse's world.
"I'm willing to follow you, as a servant or a slave, whatever you wish. But please, help Lady Harribel," The look in Sung-Sun's eyes made it clear she knew exactly what Rosse was thinking.
But with Harribel on the verge of defeat, they had no other choice.
She had once heard it said in Hueco Mundo that the stronger a Hollow became, the closer they resembled humans, and the fewer beast-like traits they retained.
And Rosse, whose beast traits were far fewer than Harribel's, was living proof of how powerful he must be.
"Sung-Sun, what are you saying?"
But not everyone understood Sung-Sun, at least not Apacci and Mila Rose.
They looked at her in shock, as if she had just betrayed them.
Before Rosse had even made any demands, she had already offered herself, wasn't that just throwing herself at him?
Rosse ignored the two agitated Hollows and simply nodded with a smile.
"Deal."
With that, he stepped toward the battlefield.
If he didn't show up soon, those watching from afar would start to make their move.
"Harribel, you'll never know just how powerful I've become now!"
The shark-like Arrancar let out a crazed laugh, slamming his fist into Harribel's back and smashing her heavily into the ground.
As she lay on the ground, the shark Arrancar's face twisted with bloodlust. Reishis condensed in his hand, forming a blade of pure reiryoku, which he thrust downward.
Harribel's expression hardened slightly, ready to dodge.
But from Rosse's point of view, the direction she was dodging toward was actually right in the path of the shark Arrancar's swing.
Though their strengths weren't far apart, with someone secretly manipulating the fight from behind, she really had no room to resist.
Buzz!
In that instant, Rosse appeared in front of Harribel.
Under her shocked gaze, Rosse casually reached out and caught the shark Arrancar's spiritual blade between his fingers.
"Didn't eat enough today?", Feeling the force in the reiryoku blade, Rosse cast him a disdainful glance.
"Who are you?", The shark Arrancar stared at Rosse, trying to pull his arm back, but under Rosse's grip, he couldn't move at all.
Seeing this, the Arrancar's face twisted with fury. He leapt up, kicking toward Rosse.
What a joke.
He had gained the power of an Arrancar, how could he be so easily handled by some unknown Hollow?
"The Shinigami say battle is all about spiritual pressure, and it does make sense. When you're in soul form, the difference in Reishi density can't normally be overcome."
Rosse didn't even bother dodging. The kick landed squarely, but it didn't move him an inch.
In the world of the Shinigami, spirit bodies are made of reishi, and the total amount is called reiatsu, while the density is reishi density.
A spirit body's defense depends directly on that density.
Normally, the higher one's reiatsu, the denser their reishi.
But right now, Rosse was in an abnormal state.
Though he hadn't trained his soul, and his reiatsu strength was only around S+, his physical body was so overwhelmingly powerful, and the system had seemingly optimized his spirit form, that his reishi density was a solid SS+.
In other words, his stamina was S+, but his defense was SS+.
With that level of defense, not even this Arrancar, not even Aizen himself, in his current stage, could break through it.
"Boring."
Rosse glanced at the struggling Arrancar and, using his hand like a blade, made a light slash.
Shhk!
Before everyone's stunned eyes, the Arrancar was sliced cleanly in half, top and bottom, collapsing onto the ground in two pieces.
A single move, and a foe who had fought a Vasto Lorde to a stalemate was instantly killed.
This sight didn't just shock Harribel and her followers, even Aizen and his group watching from afar were shaken.
"Well, well, Captain Aizen, this Hollow seems a bit too strong, doesn't he?", Gin Ichimaru's smile widened as he teased the man beside him.
For an unexpected powerhouse to appear halfway through the "script", one who wasn't in Aizen's plans, Gin couldn't help but wonder what his dear captain was thinking now.
"Gin, he's the Hollow we've been looking for," Aizen pushed up his glasses, his eyes flickering with a feverish light.
He had been wondering why such a weak Hueco Mundo was so closely monitored by Soul Society.
Now he understood.
The truly powerful Hollows… had all been hiding in the shadows.
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