Kunou closely followed the small Nemu after giving instructions to the members of the 12th and 4th Divisions in case something happened.
Since their destination was in the deepest part it took about half an hour for them to reach Mayuri's lab due to the numerous security protocols that he placed, 'He's going to open this place up soon. Is there a need for such an overly complicated clearance?' Kunou commented while Nemu was opening the final door that would lead them to a wide chamber.
Kunou was already expecting the wide chamber due to the nature of the work being done here. However, she stopped in her tracks when she didn't see what she was imagining, "This is... A server farm?"
'Where are the culture pods that house the Homunculus seeds?' She asked herself as she looked around, trying to find the cylindrical tubes filled with nourishing liquid, 'Is it further inside the room?'
But even after following Nemu for quite some time, Kunou only saw rows of heat, light, and sound-generating boxes of towering computers.
At the end of the chamber was Mayuri, watching the endless stream of data coming in and out of the 60-foot and 10-foot wide screen.
Feeling their presence, Mayuri turned around, "You're here."
"I thought that this is the place where you mass produce the physical bodies for the Soul race?" Kunou asked, still curious and also raising her guard a bit.
Mayuri immediately detected Kunou's guard and said, "Did you really expect me to settle down for his inferior methods?"
Kunou was surprised and confused, "Inferior?"
Mayuri didn't say anything and just snapped his fingers.
At that moment, Kunou's eyes widened and she hurriedly jumped to her left while turning her body to right. She didn't know how they did it, but all of a sudden, there were multiple presences appearing behind one of the black boxes. She immediately pulled out her talismans and her Soul Gear but didn't do anything else and just waited.
"Great. So it was effective." Mayuri commented and urged those who just appeared to come out, "You guys have work to do. Come here."
One by one, four individuals walked out and it became obvious to Kunou that they were Arrancars but felt something amiss when she saw the various stitches present on their bodies, 'Are they perhaps... The reported zombies?'
The Arrancars, Charlotte Chuhlhourne, Cirucci Sanderwicci, Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio, and Luppi Antenor, however, ignored Kunou and Nemu and had very depressed expressions on their faces, "So? What great experiment do we have to do?" Asked Luppi with a nervous tone. In the past experiments they went through, Mayuri wouldn't bother to tell them about it but this time, he actually warned them. They thought that the experiment this time might not just cause them death but also unimaginable suffering.
They contemplated revolt but that idea was immediately thrown in the trash because Mayuri had full control of them and they didn't even know how to get away from it.
Mayuri didn't answer him and turned to Kunou, "I called you here to inspect the Magic aspect of their bodies. While I was able to advance my studies about it, the mysticism still eludes me so I can't establish a reliable baseline to compare with."
Kunou was still curious how these guys were able to evade her senses but set it aside for now and asked back, "Bodies? Where are they?"
Mayuri then took out a bottle of black pills and took out exactly four of them before tossing it towards the unmotivated Arrancars, "Eat it." He gave them a simple command.
The Arrancars first looked at each other before sighing in defeat and popping the pills in their mouths. The pills just look like ordinary medicine and they slid effortlessly in their throats. Nevertheless, they know enough not to think that these are ordinary.
For a minute, they were waiting and nothing was happening. They know that Mayuri's drugs always had instantaneous effects so they wondered what's different this time around. But around one minute more, they felt something in their stomach expanding.
Soon, horror-filled their faces as they clutched their stomachs, "Kurotsuchi! What the hell is this!?" Charlotte shouted as an ache immediately brought him down to his knees. But despite the pain they are feeling, there is actually nothing expanding within their stomachs like they thought. Instead, their skins started blistering and the clothes made out of Reiryoku were dissolving.
The blistering worsened and soon the entire skin and hairs on their bodies disappeared, revealing their bloody muscular tissues.
Strangely enough, they didn't feel anything about it and just continued to endure the expanding feeling in their stomachs.
While watching this, Kunou couldn't help but approach and observe what was happening closer, "T-this is..."
Fortunately for the Arrancars, the pain stopped at the 3-minute mark and soon their skins started regenerating, save for their clothes.
Nemu came running in and gave them each robe she got from who knows where.
Mayuri, on the other hand, turned to the stunned Kunou and asked, "What do you think?"
Kunou didn't answer. Or more accurately, she couldn't answer since her mind was still a mess from what she had witnessed, 'Wait... What was that? Did I see it right? The moment they ate those pills, they started absorbing Magic Power with their spiritual bodies. And from their stomach, a real-time absorption of spiritual particles and growth of physical cells was also happening? Within the span of a few minutes, they managed to convert their spiritual bodies to a physical one?'
When he didn't receive his answer, Mayuri became a bit impatient, "Don't think of how it happened. I told you, I won't settle down with his inferior method. I called you here to check if there's anything wrong with them from your perspective."
Kunou calmed herself down and did what she was asked to do.
She observed the flow of Magic Power that's coming in and out of their bodies and even the slight flow of almost nonexistent Ki in the Soul Society, 'Wait... Ki?'
"...There's nothing wrong I could see, but it's better if you get Sera-neechan or Kisuke-niichan's opinion on this."
"If you think there's nothing wrong. Then we're done here." Mayuri turned around and went back to his work, "I'll call you again after I'm done stabilizing the ones for the special individuals."
Kunou stared at his back for a few moments before silently tracing back her steps to exit his lab. On her way out, she suddenly remembered Kisuke's words about Mayuri when he was briefing them about the Soul Society.
[If it's about biological processes, I don't know anyone better than him. He's a true genius in that regard.]
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