Hirako encountered Yammy, Luppi Byakuya who encountered Ruby; Yammy's abilities were entirely based on his physique.
Yammy is also Adjuchas- class hero, symbolized by a caterpillar, and his special ability is energy accumulation. Yammy's growth rate is low, or rather, extremely low. He is one of the few useless heroes who hasn't advanced even after becoming Old Nine Arrancar. However, similar to Aaroniero Arruruerie, who can evolve infinitely and transform into Kaien, both of them are strong in their special abilities.
Yammy's ability to accumulate energy allows him to store the Spiritual Power he absorbs into his body, essentially making him a human-shaped Spiritual Power storage device. His extremely low growth rate may also be related to this special ability.
Yammy's strength lies in his ability to use accumulated power to enhance himself, thanks to his Yammy strong physique, which can withstand enormous Spiritual Power.
However, this guy's weaknesses are also obvious. Putting aside his comical Zero-level character in the original work, let's just talk about how long it takes him to accumulate power. Even if he can temporarily transform into Zero once, it's still a powerful attack that can only be used once every few years.
Yammy didn't Arrancar after Aizen betrayed Soul Society; Aizen had already nearly become Espada long before, and it involved several changes in leadership—something that couldn't be accomplished in just a few months.
So, Yammy is basically a bottom-tier opponent against Hirako; he's not allowed to unleash his ultimate move, which is one of his trump cards—a truly hilarious trump card.
Yammy, who doesn't Resurrección to unleash his Spiritual Power, is also a weakling among the Adjuchas- class monsters. He's similar to a degraded version of the beetle Adjuchas you encountered during your first Expedition —he's tanky and has decent attack power, but his speed and everything else is abysmal.
"I'm here~" Hirako dodged Yammy's charge once again, leaving Yammy exasperated. Hirako casually twirled his sword; this battle couldn't be easier.
Visored this timeline, Aizen's Espada remain largely unchanged, with most of them, except for the top few, just playing minor roles.
"Ahhh!" Yammy roared, finally unleashing a Cero shot.
Yammy's Cero quite something; it's very powerful, and Hirako can't ignore it. However, he still can't hit him. Hirako's agility is something Yammy can't match no matter what.
However Yammy, Hirako is also unable to inflict effective damage on Yammy. Hirako's abilities have very low offensive capabilities. While he might be able to Luppi, he struggles to penetrate a tank like Hirako.
The deeper reason was that Hirako didn't want to end the battle quickly to help the Soul Society, so he was happy to play hide-and-seek with Yammy, since no one had died in the Soul Society yet.
The person Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi encountered was the Eighth Espada, Grado Bendom.
This is an Arrancar didn't appear in the original work. He's the eighth, but that doesn't mean the eighth-ranked Szayelaporro from the original work is gone. It's very likely Szayelaporro is now in some other rank, but this guy still hasn't appeared. It seems Szayelaporro never leaves Hueco Mundo.
This Grado is a male Arrancar, and his abilities are currently unknown. He fought Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi to a standstill, and interestingly, both of them were using soft weapons.
Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi's Shikai, Kinshara, is a whip, or Zabimaru, similar to Renji's Zabimaru in that the weapon itself is segmented. However, each segment of Kinshara Zabimaru, thus classifying it as a whip.
The weapon Grado wielded was a real long whip, a bladeless leather whip, extremely long, extendable, and very sturdy and smooth.
The most annoying thing about fighting with soft weapons is that the weapons easily get tangled. However, the fight between Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi and Grado completely ignored this. At this moment, their weapons clashed, and then the bladed whip and the leather whip flicked and pulled back, resulting in the tips colliding and getting tangled.
The Kinshara is a bladed whip, with three spikes protruding from the center of each section. These spikes are lethal in combat, and the sheer number of spikes can also entangle the opponent's weapon.
However, the Kinshara whip, which was theoretically and practically very effective and was the signature move of Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi, failed this time. Gradō's braid was indeed locked, but just as the two of them pulled hard, the whip seemed to have no friction at all, or as if it could bend and stretch, thicken and thin at will, and it slipped away with a whoosh.
If this happened once or twice, Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi could accept it, but if it happened more than ten times, then that's highly abnormal.
Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi cracked his whip, "Kinshara Luo Music No. 6, Isshin Tan"
Kinshara's long whip transformed into a straight thrust, arriving in an instant. Grado, however, was no pushover; his whip coiled into a shield, blocking the attack. Interestingly, the tip of Kinshara's whip immediately slipped upon contact with the shield.
The whip was round, and the slippery Kinshara whip, coiled up between its two layers, slid diagonally across the groove, then onto the other layer, striking at an angle along a tangent to that layer. But then that layer suddenly pushed outward, changing the tangent's direction, and Kinshara's strike returned parallel to attack Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi.
"Isshin Tan" is the fastest move in the Kinshara Song technique. The back and forth takes only a moment of reaction. Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi really didn't expect his move to be returned by his opponent. He tried his best to dodge, but he was still slashed on the shoulder.
"Hehehe~", Grado's voice, the first sound since the start of the war, sounded somewhat breathless and effeminate, quite unpleasant. "Didn't your attack taste good?"
Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi was a man of few words, suffering from chronic depression. Faced with such witty remarks, his response was. "It's alright, it just means my attack is very strong."
"Hehehe~ We're a perfect match! This was just a spur-of-the-moment idea of mine, I didn't expect it to actually work out, hehehehehe."
"Is that so? Your ability is slippery? The scales on the whip cannot be bound or locked in any way, is that right?"
"Is that what you think? Then think that way, hee hee hee hee," Grado said, and lashed out with his whip.
The whip was incredibly powerful, and Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi could only dodge it. However, the whip suddenly extended, forcing Ōtoribashi to block. But while blocking, he also lowered his height, thus avoiding the attack. However, he was still struck in the back Ōtoribashi.
This was incredibly powerful; Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi was struck so hard he vomited blood. He felt as if he hadn't been whipped, but rather struck on the back by a hammer—not as an adjective, but because the area hit felt like a round hammerhead.
As he watched Grado retract the whip, he finally saw its secret: the whip was transforming. Because the hammer's shape was too large, its thickest part was noticeably too thick. However, as it was being retracted, it slowly returned to its normal thickness, whereas the part at the back of the hammer had been extremely thin.
"It can change shape at will? Is that whip alive?"
However, there was no time for Ōtoribashi to think further. The opponent's next attack arrived, another fierce lash. This time, Ōtoribashi believed in the power of fate and Shunpo retreated.
This greatly excited Grado, who screamed and chased after him. His long whip could attack at will; Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi's Kinshara did not possess such formidable attack power and agility.
For a time, laughter and shouts filled the battlefield between Ōtoribashi and Gradius. Ōtoribashi could only fight and retreat, which even attracted Hirako's attention. However, Hirako glanced at him and smirked. Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi also stopped retreating.
Seeing that Ōtoribashi had stopped running, Grado screamed and lashed out with his whip. However, before his arm could swing properly, he suddenly couldn't swing it anymore. His sleeve was ripped in an instant, but his arm slid down.
"Is his entire body like this?" Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi didn't know what the other party was, but there was no time to think further. "Yes!"
Grado realized the situation was dire, but it was too late; Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi's trap was already set. Ōtoribashi suddenly twirled and retracted his Kinshara, which was now reduced to just a handle.
Countless invisible threads twirled and converged in the air. It turned out that the three spikes on each section of the Kinshara whip were actually connected to silk threads. These individual threads, invisible to the naked eye, combined to form the main body of the Kinshara, which appeared to be a metal pillar.
This time, however, Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi released all the spikes. As a result, invisible threads filled the entire space. When he then retracted them, the tips of the threads, due to the centripetal force generated during the retraction, contracted towards the center, eventually tangling together.
This forms a cage of threads, rapidly enveloping Grado within it. The final product will undoubtedly be a ball of thread, but these threads possess immense destructive power, ultimately slicing the contents of the ball apart, tearing it to shreds.
"You bastard!" Grado roared madly, his laughter far sharper than when he chased Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi. He suddenly lunged in one direction, but the game was already in full swing, and they weren't going to let him out so easily.
His body was indeed extremely slippery, but there were too many threads and the space was too small for a human figure of his size to pass through completely. With countless swift movements, and amidst painful howls, Grado managed to escape, leaving behind his two hands, but he successfully fled without looking back.
Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi took Grado's whip from his Kinshara, but only then did he realize that the whip was connected to Grado's hand, growing out from the palm, yet seemingly glued on.
The whip had lost its vitality, as had the hand. Both had the same scales, and Ōtoribashi dared not touch them, fearing they might contain some kind of toxin, because scales, you know...
After throwing away the trash, Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi glanced at it again as it fell, and noticed...
"That whip is a tail? What exactly is that thing? Ugh, Hollows are such a hassle, and Arrancars are no different."