The Still-Not-Fully-Recovered Yhwach

Yuko stood alone in the very center of the open space.

All around her stood Quincy in white uniforms. At a glance, there were at least several dozen of them.

Yuko swept her gaze over them. Nearly every one of the dozen or so people at the front possessed Captain-level strength. There were even several whose power was on par with Kyoraku and Sister Hana.

Yuko raised an eyebrow and could not help sighing in admiration. "This is quite something. Your hand isn't inferior to Old Man Yama's, either, except..."

"You're missing a trump card."

A sudden voice came from behind Yuko.

I didn't sense him?

Yuko's pupils contracted slightly. She slowly turned around, and her already narrowed pupils widened again.

"That's what you wanted to say, right?"

Standing behind Yuko was a middle-aged man with long black hair and a beard. He had a deep, fierce face and wore a cloak.

"You, you're..."

"The useless uncle from the park?"

"..."

What is this guy talking about?

Aside from being surprised by the other party's strength, what intrigued Yuko even more was...

Why did this guy look so much like the spirit of Ichigo's Zanpakuto after it had materialized?

They were not exactly identical, but they were at least as similar as brothers.

Yuko's pupils contracted again.

So that's how it is?

"Looks like you understand now." The middle-aged man named Yhwach spoke calmly. "That wasn't the incarnation of Ichigo Kurosaki's Zanpakuto. It was..."

Yuko's eyes darkened. "The Quincy power Masaki left him."

As the son of a Soul Reaper and a Quincy, and with the Hollow power he had inherited from Masaki, Ichigo possessed three kinds of power within him.

Since all Quincy power originated from this man, the middle-aged useless uncle's image within Ichigo was, without a doubt,