Ishida's Dad Is Dead!!!!

"Hey, what are you doing? Trying to defy the heavens?" Ten Unohana asked wickedly.

When the Ishida Family saw that Ten Unohana no longer had those two terrifying weapons in his hands, they knew Katagiri had told the truth. Sōken Ishida said to her, "Good. Tell me what you want!"

Katagiri said carefully, "Would it be all right to let Miss Masaki marry the young master?"

The members of the Ishida Family all fell silent, because—

Ryūken Ishida had gotten drunk after Ten Unohana took Masaki away, leaving him powerless to do anything. That wasn't a big deal in itself, but as the saying went, wine and lust went hand in hand.

Ryūken Ishida had rolled in the sheets with an Ishida Family maid while drunk. Well, that wasn't a big deal either. What was youth without a little romance?

The real tragedy was that the maid wasn't much to look at. Well, a little cosmetic surgery and makeup in secret could have fixed that. And if all else failed, they could have treated it as a family disgrace and kept it from getting out.

But, but the Ishida Family had discovered, to their dismay, that Ryūken Ishida had hit the jackpot on the first try—the maid was pregnant. There was no getting around that. For the Ishida Family, who valued Quincy honor more than life itself, it was a tragedy. In the end, they had no choice but to cover it up for the time being while preparing for Ryūken Ishida's wedding.

And so the maid Katagiri's request left everyone in the Ishida Family speechless.

It also hurt Masaki, who had just come out. She had always thought so much about the Ishida Family, but...

When Ten Unohana heard that Katagiri's request had gone unanswered, he narrowed his eyes. "Looks like the Ishida Family isn't all that impressive! A bunch of thugs who don't keep their word!"

Ten Unohana's words were ambiguous, but they left the Ishida Family with nothing to say.

"Attack!"

Since they had nothing to say, they might as well attack!

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Countless arrows of light shot toward Ten Unohana.

Ten Unohana tilted his head and watched the Reishi arrows fly at him. Then he held out one hand, watching the arrows of light approach.

"Whoosh—"

Ten Unohana watched the countless attacking Reishi arrows of light get drawn into his hand. Then he said, "Catch this. This reflection won't be as simple as the last one."

Ten Unohana looked at the Quincy.

Then he slowly closed his hand, compressing the absorbed attacks tightly together. He extended his index finger and said, "Here it comes, Royal Hollow's Quincy Flash—"

"Dodge!"

"Hirenkyaku!"

"Hirenkyaku!"

Countless people used Hirenkyaku, but many still failed to get out of the way...

Boom—

Ten Unohana looked at the Quincy, who had suffered heavy casualties, then turned to Sōken Ishida. "Well? Do you still want to continue? You should know that after your defeat at the hands of the Soul Reapers, you don't have much fighting strength left."

Sōken Ishida was torn.

Looking at Masaki's strained smile, he hardened his heart and said, "Let's go!"

But someone refused to follow orders.

"I'm going to kill you!" Ryūken Ishida roared.

At the same time, he used Hirenkyaku to rush in front of Ten Unohana.

Ten Unohana said coldly, "You're courting death."

As he spoke, a Hollow mask with a demonic face, fangs, dragon horns, and blood-red markings appeared on his face.

"Screech—"

A Cero condensed in the fanged mouth, while another began gathering at the dragon horns.

"No, come back!" Sōken Ishida shouted, aiming the bow and arrows in his hands at Ten Unohana and attacking to draw his attention away.

Ryūken Ishida ignored the Cero Ten Unohana was gathering and shouted, "Die!" He was clearly planning to take Ten Unohana down with him.

Ten Unohana watched Ryūken Ishida charge at him, his face expressionless.

"Whoosh—"

Ten Unohana felt his chest being pierced. He gripped Ryūken Ishida's neck with one hand and lifted him up.

"Hum—"

Boom—

"No!!!" Sōken Ishida roared.

But the Cero from the fanged mouth and the Cero from the dragon horns still pierced through Ryūken Ishida.

"Ah—!" Sōken Ishida cried, attacking with even greater force.

"That's why I say Quincy are disgusting. For the sake of some pointless honor, you throw away your own lives, your sons, and your loved ones, all for that so-called honor." As Ten Unohana spoke, he pulled the Seele Schneider from his chest.

Then Ten Unohana smiled wickedly and said, "So this is how the Seele Schneider works, and exactly how it's used??"

As it turned out, this had been Ten Unohana's objective all along.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Immediately afterward,

Sōken Ishida's attacks arrived, but...

"Clink."

"Clink."

Several metallic clashes rang out. The Seele Schneider attacks lost their effect as soon as they entered Ten Unohana's body, leaving only their arrow hilts to fall to the ground.

"What?!" Sōken Ishida exclaimed.

Ten Unohana looked at the Seele Schneider arrow hilts on the ground and said, "Now that I know how it works, I can disregard its killing power."

With that, Ten Unohana looked at Sōken Ishida and continued, "And thank you for teaching me the principle behind the Seele Schneider. To show my gratitude, let me show you a new Cero I just developed using your Seele Schneider—Soul-Cutting Cero."

As he spoke, he turned slightly sideways and held both hands straight out. At a glance, he looked like a Quincy drawing a bow.

"Ha! Now, watch closely. Soul-Cutting Cero!"

"Crack—"

"Crack—"

A huge, oval, pitch-black Cero formed between Ten Unohana's hands. Everything in its path was cut in two.

"It—it really worked?!" Sōken Ishida said blankly, paying no heed even to the several Quincy accidentally killed by the Soul-Cutting Cero.

It was common knowledge that a Hollow's Reiatsu was violent and coarse, yet Ten Unohana could now control Hollow Reiatsu to this extent.

Ten Unohana, however, was not satisfied. "Worked?! No, I wouldn't call it a success. It's a long way from what I had in mind."

Sōken Ishida didn't care about any of that. He shouted, "Go, retreat!"

With that, he hoisted Ryūken Ishida's corpse onto his shoulder and left.

Ten Unohana was just about to pursue them when Masaki stepped forward. "Um, Ten Unohana, could you please not chase them? Don't worry, this is the last time, really."

Ten Unohana turned to look at Masaki, then smiled. "All right. I'll listen to you and let them go."

Hiyori shouted, "Why let those assholes with no assholes go!? You know..."

"Hiyori, I told you, no more swearing. All right, that's settled—" Ten Unohana said sternly. The other women said nothing, either. Only Hiyori shot the fleeing Quincy a vicious glare.

The reason Ten Unohana had let the Quincy go was simple: Masaki's heart. Because Ten Unohana had taken her by force, her heart did not belong to him. Although Masaki had always said things to comfort Ten Unohana, he knew she hadn't given up on the Quincy, not until the series of events that had just taken place.

"Come on, bastard! Kill me and let Miss Masaki go." A voice rang out then. Ten Unohana turned around to see Katagiri, the maid who had been with Masaki, shouting with her eyes closed.

"Katagiri?!" Masaki exclaimed, then looked at Ten Unohana.

Ten Unohana said, "Masaki, I never intended to let you go, and I never intended to let you have your life, either. Remember, you two are mine. From now on, whether in life or death, you belong to me in life, and in death—you're my ghosts!!"

Masaki and Katagiri stared blankly at Ten Unohana when they heard this. Only then did they suddenly remember that the man before them had abducted them, and both felt waves of emotion stirring in their hearts.

Hueco Mundo.

The house Ten Unohana had told Starrk to build was finished. It was magnificent, but outside the house,

Starrk and Tier Harribel were looking at two people in front of them.

"Well, Mr. Hollow and Ms. Hollow? Have you given any thought to joining us?" one of the two men asked with a gentle smile.

Harribel looked at them and said, "A silver-haired Soul Reaper who smiles like a snake, and a brown-haired Soul Reaper with a very gentle smile. Looks like you're the Sōsuke Aizen and Gin Ichimaru my future husband mentioned. All right, since it's you, I agree."

Starrk also said lazily, "Then I guess I'll agree too."

"Then thank you, both of you, for joining the future Espada," Aizen said with a gentle smile.

But the two ignored his gentle smile. Turning her back on Aizen and Gin, Harribel said, "In that case, please leave now. My future husband said he doesn't like me spending time with other men." With that, she grabbed Starrk, who looked utterly innocent, and threw him out.

Then she said, "Go to the house next door. Men aren't allowed in this room."

"May I ask who your future husband is, Ms. Hollow?" Aizen asked gently.

"Ten Unohana."

Bang. The door closed.

Starrk said lazily, "I just wanted to see my Lilynette."

"Starrk, I'm fine here. Go have fun on your own," Lilynette's voice came from behind the door.

Starrk immediately burst into tears. He was hurt, though he didn't really care all that much about such things. What Starrk cared about was that he had companions now, but...

Thinking about what Aizen and the others had been doing in Hueco Mundo lately, Starrk slowly walked into the house next door. He had a faint sense of foreboding in his heart.

Meanwhile, Aizen.

Aizen and Gin were alone outside.

"Oh my, Lord Aizen was ignored!" Gin Ichimaru said with a carefree grin.

Aizen didn't retort. He merely said, "Ten... Unohana?"

Still wearing the same smiling expression, Gin Ichimaru said, "That's right! How does Ten Unohana know about you, Lord Aizen?! And in such detail, too."

Aizen's eyes flickered. "And it seems Harribel and Starrk, those two Menos Grande, listen to Ten Unohana. Starrk's fighting strength is even greater than that Hollow who falsely calls himself Arrogante, king of Hueco Mundo. Harribel's fighting strength is also considerable."

Gin Ichimaru smiled and said, "Indeed! So, Lord Aizen, what are you planning to do??"