The winds sweeping across the sky carried white sand, filling everyone's mouths, noses, and sleeves.
Facing the sandstorm that filled the sky, Asano Kiyoshi slightly closed his eyes. The concentration of Reishi in the air was extremely high. Here, there was practically no need to eat; simply breathing in the nearly liquid Reishi was enough to sustain the consumption of a Soul Body.
Still, even without needing food, occasionally eating Sister Hana's delicious cooking was a kind of comfort for the soul.
Stepping over the slightly soft sand, Asano Kiyoshi looked at the exhausted people in the distance and sighed.
This was already the second day since they had entered Hueco Mundo.
There were twenty people in this expedition team, most of them possessing strength around that of a Fifteenth Seat from the various divisions. Their leader was the Eleventh Division's seventh seat, a tall, muscular man named Maruya Naoto.
His reason for coming to Hueco Mundo was simple. He had neither committed any offense nor harbored thoughts of making great achievements.
He simply wanted to experience life-and-death combat, which was why he had volunteered for the Hueco Mundo Expedition Team, a unit filled with criminals.
Looking at Maruya Naoto in the distance, his body covered in blood, Asano Kiyoshi revealed a complicated expression.
The reason was simple: the blood on Maruya Naoto's body belonged not only to Hollows, but also to Soul Reapers.
It belonged to the Soul Reaper whom he had split in two with a single slash on their first day here.
Asano Kiyoshi still remembered it. The moment they had entered Hueco Mundo and left Seireitei's surveillance, the Hueco Mundo Expedition Team—already filled with desperate outlaws—had immediately descended into chaos.
Before Maruya Naoto could react, that Soul Reaper, who would soon be split in two, had