Sternritter (Part 1)

Sajin Komamura, captain of the Seventh Division, was a member of the werewolf clan. In Soul Society, where everyone was human, that made him exceptionally rare. No wonder he always wore a huge bamboo hat—it was to avoid discrimination from other Soul Reapers. After Aizen defeated him in an instant, however, his appearance had been exposed.

Yet not many Soul Reapers discriminated against him. Perhaps the nobles did, but there were few such people in the Gotei 13. Shen Fei was very curious about the werewolf clan. Logically speaking, Soul Society should not have contained souls other than human ones.

Soul Society only had human souls, not animal souls. That was actually very strange. After all, humans were not the only beings with souls; animals had souls too. According to the Fullbringers, all things possessed spirits.

Shen Fei had no intention of getting to the bottom of it, though. Soul Society had been created, after all. Who knew what the ancestors of the Five Great Noble Families, who had created Soul Society, and the people of that era had done with the Spirit King's power?

The three worlds that now existed—the World of the Living, Hueco Mundo, and Soul Society—had not existed during the Spirit King's era. Back then, everyone had lived in a single world.

According to records left behind by the Tsunayashiro Family, Hueco Mundo had appeared first. Or, more precisely, Hueco Mundo had been connected to the World of the Living at the time. Because of that, humanity in that era had suffered terribly.

It was not until the Spirit King was born that he slaughtered countless Hollows with his own strength. The desert of Hueco Mundo was formed from the lingering reishi left behind by the many Hollows he had slain.

Later, fearing that the Spirit