"Big talk?"
Faced with Szayelaporro's challenge, Gaoyu remained unfazed. He walked over to an instrument, ran his hand over it, and sat down.
"If I were you, I'd never speak that way to someone who could help you become a perfect being."
Gaoyu believed that Szayelaporro's obsession with becoming a perfect being was terrifyingly intense.
To become a perfect life-form, he had even been willing to give up his Vasto Lorde-class power in a dump like Hueco Mundo.
One had to understand that if a Hollow devolved, it might never be able to evolve again.
For example, if an Adjuchas devolved into a Gillan, it would never become an Adjuchas again. It would even lose all its intelligence and sink into depravity forever.
Before Szayelaporro, there had never been a case of a Vasto Lorde devolving into an Adjuchas-class Menos Grande. Even he couldn't be sure he could return to being a Vasto Lorde after devolving into an Adjuchas.
And to willingly give up power in a place like Hueco Mundo was an incredibly foolish thing to do. As a Hollow, he should have known that better than anyone.
But he had done it anyway, proving that his obsession with becoming a perfect life-form had reached a truly terrifying level.
So as long as Gaoyu dangled that prospect in front of Szayelaporro, he would accept even the most outrageous treatment from him.
You wouldn't want to lose your chance to become a perfect life-form, would you?
Sure enough, Szayelaporro did nothing. He only sneered. "You say that as if you can actually do it. Do you even know what a perfect life-form is?"
"Well, of course. It's 'immortality.'" After seeing the mockery on Szayelaporro's face, Gaoyu added,
"Not immortality in the sense of being impossible to kill, but 'rebirth after