When Araki returned to the Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force's camp, he saw severed limbs from Great Hollows strewn across the ground, along with a group of ragged 11th Division members.
"Captain, you're back!"
Upon seeing Araki return, some of the division members instinctively nodded to him in respect.
But even more of them stood outside the hot spring pool, staring at the data floating above it as though lost in thought. Even Squad Leaders like Shigyō Nobutsuna, Sanjōji Yuhō, and Saito Furofushi surprisingly said little to Araki. Everyone looked utterly shut down...
"This ranking is about what I expected."
Araki glanced over the leaderboard. He still held first place with 320 points, followed by Unohana with 280. After them came Shigyō Nobutsuna and the other Squad Leaders, each with more than a hundred points. As for the ordinary members of the 11th Division, they had not earned a single point...
This was more or less what Araki had expected. It was perfectly normal for ordinary 11th Division members to be unable to kill Gillians, but Unohana and the Squad Leaders' scores were a little low in Araki's eyes.
"What happened to them?!"
With that, Araki went to Unohana Retsu, who was standing nearby, and asked her.
"My, Araki, you're back~ It seems you've finished what you needed to do!" After greeting Araki, Unohana Retsu looked at the dejected 11th Division members and gently shook her head. "As for them, naturally, you crushed their confidence! After watching you effortlessly kill more than thirty Gillians, they assumed those 'lower Great Hollows' were nothing special. But in reality, these Great Hollows were surprisingly difficult to deal with~"
"After Sanjōji Yuhō used her Zanpakuto to kill eleven Gillians in succession, she stubbornly put it away and tried to crush a Gillian's head with her