Chapter 71 - Titled Part. I (1/2)

Ichibe after receiving the report that Senjumaru and Keiko sent decided to come to Soul society to come and look at Ichigo and his friends himself. Keiko in his report made Ichigo look like the next Soul King himself, stating that if Ichigo reaches his full potential he can take place of Soul King himself and bring a balance to the worlds.

Meanwhile, Byakuya and Hitsugaya reported back on the condition of Ichigo's family starting with his father Isshin who was suspected to be an exiled Shinigami while his sister also had high Reiatsu within their souls making them able to feel the presence of Hollows. Isshin was the formal commander of division 10 and captain of Hitsugaya when he was within the division as a normal member itself, thus leading Hitsugaya to recognize Isshin immediately. Keiko had sent both Hitsugaya and Byakuya with specific instructions to only observe and report back, not to personally take any action until the Human world is any kind of danger. Thus after collecting all the information, both reported back to Yamamoto about Ichigo's family and classmates.

On another front, the research regarding the Gagai artificial body of Arrancar and Vasto Lorde completed, and his whole army was mixed in within the Human World where the formally exiled captains and other members of Aizen's failed experiments of Hollowfication which were now known as Visored lived. Using Thousands of Hollows and Shinigami souls, Keiko has powered his Hogyoku to make a more perfect form out of his Arrancar and Vasto Lorde. There were around 20 Arrancar who were above or at least at Yamamoto's power level while 50 of Vasto Lorde just bit less powerful them him. He ordered his Vasto Lorde's to go and capture Visored for experiment purposes.

Bounts which he had captured were taken into his dimension, he began his experimentation by ripping on to the soul of one of the member Sawatari who's doll was Baura, who's power mainly focused on Space which was completely useless for Keiko who had Kumai which was pretty much a more stronger version of this ability. Keiko first took Sawatari to Hueco Mundo out layer and let him there to observe from a faraway distance, Bounts due to having High Reiatsu within Human form were mostly hunted down by Hollows all over the world thus Sawatari quickly attracted all the small weak and few middle-range powered Hollows to himself.

Sawatari's Reiatsu slowly degraded while fighting, He lost an arm and a lot of blood but the wave of Hollows didn't stop, weakening and injuring him over and over and finally killing him. Seeing this Keiko was disappointed and decided to use another Bount this time he didn't throw the bount into Hueco Mendo but used one of his Hogyoku to experiment with him, He slowly using the same method as Arrancar's creation started Upgrading them giving them power of Hollow in the beginning, but experiment failed to make the bount a complete Hollow and erasing his Bount nature leading to Keiko losing Ryo Utagawa one of his another Bount who Keiko didn't kill but decided to use it as distraction if deemed necessary in the future, same happened with Shinigami power which this time simply destroyed the Reiatsu network of the Bount burning their very soul to ashes thus ending Mabashi. Leaving Keiko with 8 Bounts.

Keiko took out another one and ripped out his soul out to understand it. Research and comparison with other types of souls such as humans, Shinigami, and Hollow developed a theory regarding the concept of the soul's consumption and immortality. After more understanding behind the concept, Keiko decided to try consuming one himself. The soul which were brought into the soul society right after their death were purest and freshest without any identify memory or nature thus Keiko decided to raid those souls.

Keiko first waited for the soul to arrive before taking over it with his Reiatsu erasing it from the system of Reincarnation which Soul kings had going on for himself. Before taking it himself, Keiko feeds it to Bounts under him, this time the test subject was Ugaki who in the storyline died pathetically by his doll. The soul changed the very nature of Ugaki himself giving him a Reiatsu of the level of Lieutient to lower class captain from someone who needed to be constantly fed, Interested in the Changes Keiko stopped experimenting and started the starvation game with Ugaki. Usually due to the low-level constant leak of Reiatsu for Bounts forced them to feed to sustain their powers. Keiko wanted to see how much power would Ugaki lose over time and will be the regular soul of a living Human which was impure due to human nature and such.

As Keiko was waiting for the results he turned his attention toward another thing, While Ichibe along with Oetsu decided to come to Soul society he decided to visit Soul king himself. Turning his brain completely off, activating Hope mode which was Hope who has been with his since the beginning acting like him.

Keiko arrived in front of Soul King who had his eyes close within the crystal

Keiko in front of Soul King: I'm planning on leaving for a while, I have learned everything I can from this world.

Soul King: I see, but still don't have your Zanpakuto. Is their some assistance you need from me regarding this.

Keiko: Thanks but I have decided to collect a few Items myself before making one myself.

Soul King: Okay, Few things I should tell you is that to go to the next world you will need to defeat the strongest person who is not a lesser god in the world.

Keiko: I'm already more powerful then Yamamoto and Ichibe while Yhwach your son is still sealed so, I think I can already go.

Soul King: Yes you're stronger than them but still you can't leave without defeating Yhwach.This is your mission in this world.

Keiko: If I remember correctly, I'm the God of Destruction's successor while you're just a subordinate. So I don't think you can give me missions or tell me what to do.

Soul King: Yes that's correct but this was something which was decided by the primal gods themself along with your pathway into the journey of divinity.

Keiko: I think you're forgetting who's subordinate you are. My actions won't be controlled by anyone, and certainly not by you or those Primal gods.

Soul King: I'm merely stating what I was told. Slay Yhwach and you can leave.

Keiko: Are you threatening me??

Soul King: No, I'm just stating the facts here.

Keiko: I thought you would have understood a little by me in the past 600 years but it seems, I was wrong. I would rather help Yhwach kill you and stay in this world instead of jumping the hops for you.

Soul King with a little smile on his face: Do you think you both can kill me?