It was not until over two hundred years ago, when Ailin signed a ceasefire agreement with Sogen Ishida, the "Last Quincy," that the Soul Reapers truly stopped hunting the Quincy.
But by then, Sogen Ishida was the only true Quincy left.
Only two or three branches of Quincy families had survived.
The Ishida Family, the Kurosaki Family, the Katagiri Family...
And each of them had only a single heir.
The Bount clan was not much better off.
Only ten of them had survived centuries of pursuit.
Later, while researching souls, Aizen Sosuke accidentally discovered the Bount clan. After conducting several experiments, Aizen used the Quincy's "Sternritter Badge" as a basis to create "badges" that Bount could imbue with souls and control, forming the Bount's unique form of power—the doll!
Yet even after gaining power, the Bount clan's position had not changed much.
Other than being able to protect themselves from Hollow attacks, they were still rejected by humans and scorned by Soul Reapers.
Of course, what drove the Bount clan into even deeper despair was that, as an accidental product of an experiment, they could not reproduce at all.
Whether with humans or other Bount, they could not produce a next generation.
In other words, the Bount were a race with no future.
It was precisely because he understood this that Kariya Jin had been willing to gamble, even knowing that he and the others were merely pieces on Aizen Sosuke's chessboard.
He wanted to give the Bount clan a dignified ending!
"Hypocritical..."
To Ailin's surprise, after hearing his account, Haruko Kuchiki's judgment of the Bount was those two words.
"What?"
Ailin was a little stunned.
Had he not been empathetic enough just now?
But all of this was based on deductions from his memories of his previous life and