Chapter 21: Blue Flame

I thought I heard voices...

That's impossible. Everyone from over there is here with us now. Except the dead bodies, of course.

This is horrible...

Oh no... There really are no survivors...

I didn't think so. That's how they operate.

See that blue flame? That's a flame of condensed Reishi they use.

Thanks to that, even the rocks and sand of Hueco Mundo that normally wouldn't burn were turned to ashes.

Faced with their ability that we've never seen before, we lost all direction and means. We had no choice but to flee...

What about the guys they took with them?

They're most likely being taken to their territory to be separated into those that'll be killed and those that'll be taken away. Then...

I get it. Let's go help them.

Huh?! Wh-Wh-What did you just say?!

Wait, wait! Dondochakka wasn't in that group! I didn't feel his Spiritual Pressure!

So what? We're gonna save Dondochakka anyway. What difference is saving a few people before that?

Well... If you put it that way... *Gasp* Wait, Ichigo Kurosaki! Hey!

Oh boy. I wonder if he realizes the people he's trying to help used to be his enemies just a little while ago.

I-Indeed!

You both knew, Ichigo and you...

...that Ichigo would react this way. That's why you and Nel came to Ichigo for help, right?

You had no doubt that "Ichigo would do something about it."

We should go too, Chad!

Uh-huh!

Okay, quiet please! We will now hold the Hollow-Arrancar mixed invitational tournament! Will you live or will you die?!

All of you are the chosen ones that possessed the luck, wit, and power to survive the first attack!

So please do not waste this opportunity!

This is strange. I thought we confiscated all their swords.

Lord Aizen's soldier, Loly Aivirrne!

Likewise, Menoly Mallia!

Don't even think you underlings can take us out!

His Majesty's orders were to bring back idiots with courage.

Those girls pass. Hurt them just enough that you don't kill them.

But boy, this Aizen fellow must not be all that to keep Arrancars of this level on his side.

Then again, Tier Halibel, who ruled Hueco Mundo after Aizen's death, was no match against His Majesty.

It stands to reason.

Who are you women?

You talk trash about Halibel, yet you don't even know who we are?! I guess underlings really are clueless!