I'm Not His Mother

Yuko frowned, looking somewhat impatient. "So what exactly is a Bavent?"

"It's a Bare..." Kisuke Urahara covered his face and took a deep breath. "Although their numbers aren't large, that race, like the Quincy, consists of beings with special abilities."

Yuko leaned over the table, propping up her cheek with one hand. At this, she raised an eyebrow. "Their numbers aren't large? Don't tell me the Soul Reapers wiped them out too?"

"..."

After a moment of speechlessness, Kisuke Urahara continued, "The difference is that the Quincy only possess the ability to manipulate external reishi and destroy Hollows, whereas the Bavent can absorb human souls as nourishment."

Yuko lifted her eyes. "They sound like vampires."

"That's right. No matter how you put it, the Quincy were born as humans and died as humans." Kisuke Urahara lowered the brim of his hat. "But the Bavent can absorb human souls to gain immortality."

"Depending on the era and location, some of them were apparently called vampires or something like that."

Yuko couldn't help commenting, "There really are vampires?"

She had originally thought the Quincy, with their emphasis on purebloods and mixed bloods, seemed more like vampires.

Yuko tapped her fingers against the table. Vampires who preyed on human souls?

Wasn't this exactly her area of expertise?

Vampires were demons too.

She had no interest in the mess involving Aizen and the Seireitei. As long as they didn't harm ordinary people, she was fine with it. But since these Bavent had endangered ordinary people, then she...

"However, the Bavent have generally only acted to seize human souls during soul burials."

Yuko blinked. "What difference does that make?"

"Huh?" Kisuke Urahara froze for a moment. "I mean, under ordinary circumstances, they don't usually harm ordinary people."

"But humans have souls, don't they? Humans don't