Chapter 6: The Endgame

Why are you doing this?

Why? Isn't it obvious?

Because I want to see what happens.

Well? If there's anyone you want to see, I'll let you see them. Starting with Aura!

Understood.

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Damn it.

Huh?!

What a pain. Send them all out at once.

You stoop as low as playing with corpses?

I'm not playing with them.

Hikone, Aura. Oh, Seinosuke, too.

Empty, unwavering beings like them are boring, so I've only tested this out on you Hollows.

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However, I go out of my way to fill in what you're missing and this is what I end up with?!

You're nothing but ghosts roaming in search of something else.

Even a counterfeit vessel could be filled, but a defective product full of holes is useless.

No matter how many times I try to smooth it over, it can't be done. Because you're all the same, you're all rotting from the inside.

Oh... Well, in that regard, Soul Reapers are the same. They only have value once they've fully decayed.

If I tell you it's part of a ritual to eliminate all the carrion from this world, could you accept your death?

Even if sacrifices are required for ideals or proof, I don't plan on becoming your toy.

Ha, ha, ha! Your determination is like that of a Soul Reaper's as well! All right then, let's see what you've got.

Damn.

Simply allowing you to fall into despair would be boring. We'll all end up in the same nothingness one day anyway.

Causing confusion would be far more amusing.

You may think, "Why is he doing this? Why me?"

Hope, betrayal, resignation, and eventually, involuntary despair. Nothing brings me more joy than seeing that progression.

I can't stop.

You scumbag.

That's right, call me whatever you want.

But I'm bored of playing with you. Let's end this.

You can come at me all at once.

Watch closely, Hikone.

This is...

(How was that, Kakyo?)

(Nothing has changed.)

............

That was quite an interesting plan, but our "games" end here.

Another fun activity awaits us. I'm looking forward to it.

If you're looking forward to it, Lord Tokinada, then I am, too!

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(Some of the Reishi that made up the duplicates was released to Hueco Mundo.)

(Whether or not it finally reintegrates with its original forms is down to fate now.)

What's wrong, Aura? Is something on your mind?

It's nothing, Lord Tokinada.

All right then, let's go.

Yes, sir!