Clang!
Boom!!!!
Accompanied by a crisp clang and the explosion produced by the collision of terrifying Reiatsu, Nnoitra took a step forward and drew her Zanpakuto to block the attack.
"Hmm? Who are you?" Kenpachi Zaraki asked, his eyes wide and bloodshot with excitement.
"I am the third-ranked Espada, Nirggeyendo Odelsvank."
Nnoitra turned slightly, allowing the fierce wind to blow aside her lake-green hair and reveal the highly conspicuous number three imprinted on her back.
Ulquiorra also tugged down his white top slightly, exposing the number four near the Hollow hole in his left chest.
"Third? So that means you're even stronger than that guy?"
Kenpachi Zaraki glanced from the corner of his eye at Ulquiorra, who was still holding a headless corpse, and a wild, bloodthirsty expression appeared on his face.
Unlike the other Deaths, he felt neither grief nor anger over Kensei Muguruma's death. Instead, he showed nothing but naked, undisguised contempt.
In the eyes of this man whose mind contained nothing but battle, a former Gotei 13 captain who had mastered Bankai being effortlessly killed by his opponent was itself a disgrace. Just like Kenpachi Kiganjo, the former captain of the 13th Division whom he had killed, Kensei was an utter piece of trash. Idiots who overestimated themselves deserved to die.
"Before becoming Arrancar, the top five Espada were all Vasto Lorde-class Hollows who stood among the strongest in Hueco Mundo. So aside from the first-ranked Coyote Starrk, who became an Arrancar on his own, and the second-ranked Barragan Luisenbarn, the oldest being in all of Hueco Mundo, the remaining three are roughly equal in strength," Nnoitra answered directly.
More precisely, the top five Vasto Lorde-class Arrancar had all basically shed the drive of their primal desires and had little competitive instinct.
There was no need to