Right in front of Sui Feng, Candice drew a tube of her blood and, under her gaze, injected it straight into her own body.
"What are you doing?", Sui Feng's expression tightened slightly.
"Your power isn't bad. It matches me pretty well. It's mine now."
Candice felt the sudden addition of Shinigami power inside her body and could not help but show a look of satisfaction.
She knew about Kurosaki Masaki's situation. With three original powers merging and converging within the body, growth was indeed not slow, but it still took time.
Although that person's sequence ranked above hers, in terms of strength, there was still quite a gap.
Her current situation was more suited to directly injecting captain-level Shinigami power, immediately balancing it with the Hollow power and Quincy power within her.
Now that she had finally caught a ready-made captain, how could she not squeeze everything out?
However, although the Shinigami power came from Sui Feng, because Candice's soul was different from Sui Feng's, the Zanpakuto that would form later would be related, but still different.
And Sui Feng had long since exhausted her spiritual pressure. She had no ability to resist at all and could only watch helplessly as the other party acted recklessly.
Before long, she watched with her own eyes as Candice's strength grew noticeably stronger, and she even gained a short blade in her hand that resembled her own Zanpakuto.
"What exactly are you doing?", Sui Feng could not help but shout.
After the brief rest just now, she had at least recovered a bit of strength.
At the very least, when she shouted now, there was a bit of force to it, no longer as weak and limp as before.
"Of course I'm harvesting your power. And now, you're useless."
Candice's smile was like a demon's mask. She slowly and brutally injected the liquid from that syringe into Sui Feng's body.
In an instant, an icy and violent torrent tore apart the flow of spirit particles within Sui Feng.
That was not power, but pollution, an invasion.
Immediately after, countless chaotic, hungry, and savage thoughts surged into her mind like a tide, crazily gnawing at the barriers of her will.
"This is... a Hollow!"
Sui Feng's body convulsed violently. She suddenly raised her head, her bloodshot eyes locking onto the other party as her teeth bit through her lip until it bled.
"You're going to turn me into... a monster?"
"This is evolution, idiot."
Candice sneered, lifting her foot and casually pressing the tip of her shoe against Sui Feng's chest.
BOOM!
That seemingly casual stomp contained power as heavy as a mountain.
The Hollow power that had just been rampaging inside Sui Feng was instantly crushed by this external force, whining as it shrank back into the corner of her heart, like a tamed venomous snake.
Candice did not withdraw her foot. She simply looked down at her from above, her eyes devoid of mockery, filled only with pure indifference.
"From today onward, you are a subordinate officer of me, Candice Catnip. Put away that pitiful look of yours. You are now merely my possession. Oh, right..."
As if she had remembered something, her voice dragged on.
"You wouldn't want that Shihoin Yoruichi to see you like this, neither Shinigami nor Hollow, would you?"
She flicked out several photographs and casually scattered them beside Sui Feng's face, like tossing away trash.
In the photos was the figure she had yearned for over a hundred years, Shihoin Yoruichi.
But in the pictures, Shihoin Yoruichi was happily chatting with the man she hated most, Urahara Kisuke, in front of a small shop.
In that instant, the string of Sui Feng's reason snapped with a sharp "bang," completely breaking.
"Yoruichi... sama?"
It was as if her throat had been seized. She let out a hoarse cry that did not sound human. Then she struggled like a madwoman, her hands tearing and clawing frantically at the sand as she screamed a shrill question at Candice.
"Where is she? Where exactly are she and that bastard man? Say it!"
BANG!
The answer she received was a merciless kick.
Sui Feng's body flew out like a rag doll, tumbling and crashing across the sand, carving a long trench as she smashed through dozens of sand dunes before finally coming to a stop.
The pain of shattered bones was not even one ten-thousandth of the torment in her heart.
From several hundred meters away, Candice's lazy yet cruel voice carried over clearly.
"Crawl over here. As long as you crawl back to my feet, I'll tell you where she is."
Before meeting her true master, of course the taming had to be completed.
And Candice had an especially great interest in taming this sort of thing.
In front of the other Espada, she had sworn with full confidence that she would give Rosse an obedient servant.
"I..."
Sui Feng struggled to get up, but the smile on Yoruichi's face in the photos, and that hateful face of Urahara Kisuke, were like two red-hot branding irons seared deep into her soul.
'You left...'
'But why didn't you take me with you?'
'Do you know what I endured for you?'
'And now you're with him, smiling so happily?'
Betrayal, anger, love, hate...
All emotions twisted together into a black flame that burned away her pride and dignity.
Silently, she dropped to the ground.
She bent the back that once symbolized the honor of the Punishment Force, went down on all fours, and like a beast that had been completely crushed, slowly and humiliatingly crawled inch by inch toward the direction the voice came from.
From the moment she was born, she had been taught to give everything to the Shihoin family.
Whether it was killing and arson, or being a toy or a dog, it was all her destined fate.
But now, she had had enough.
Find her, kill her, and then end this damned, painful fate.
For that, let alone crawling, even if she had to chew on her own flesh, she would do it without hesitation.
After crawling several hundred meters like this, Sui Feng finally reached Candice's front.
It was thanks to the slight recovery of spiritual pressure and stamina earlier. Otherwise, she would have collapsed halfway.
"Not bad. They're currently in the World of the Living, Karakura Town, xxx grocery shop."
Candice's lips curved into a playful smile as she kept her word and revealed Shihoin Yoruichi's location.
Hearing this exact location, Sui Feng finally relaxed. Her body collapsed completely onto the ground, and she fell into unconsciousness.
At this moment, both her body and her mind had reached their limits.
But before losing consciousness, she firmly engraved this location in her memory and placed it in the most important spot in her heart.
"Tsk! You're no fun at all."
Candice looked at Sui Feng with boredom, grabbed her, and casually tossed her aside, flinging her into a Garganta that had just opened.
Following this Garganta laid out with Candice's spirit particles, Sui Feng would quickly return to that prison cell.
The seed had already been planted. There would be plenty of chances to slowly train her later.
Now, it was time for the Hueco Mundo royal palace to carry out a grand hunt.
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