— Soul Society, Technological Development Bureau
— "Look, look!" Torue, a female Technological Development Bureau member, shows her price in her arms to the others: one of the Picarro. She had captured it while playing tag with Yoruichi and Kûkaku. It was asleep, under anaesthesia. — "Wait a minute!!" Kon appears from under some rumble, complaining about the difference in treatment. Why wasn't he captured via Torue's "sweet" trap? He throws himself at her, but she sends him flying. Torue asks Akon where Mayuri is. Apparently, he's on minor business (he took Nemu with him). They couldn't contact him about the captain meeting because there are no communication lines where he's heading.
— Somewhere inside the Garganta
Hollows use the Garganta as a pathway. And the Szayelaporro-lookalike, who has created "a room" in that space, is staring at the corpse of Szayelaporro GRANZ with a frown. Why can't he merge with it? Did Mayuri alter his corpse in some way? He grabs a scalpel, ready to dissect his own corpse, when Mayuri and Nemu appear behind him. Mayuri tells him it's not nice to mangle other people's experiments. In turn, the intruder praises Mayuri for having found him here in the Garganta. — "By the way, who are you?" Mayuri's question annoys him. Who is he? He's Szayelaporro GRANZ! His nemesis sighs and changes the question, — "Well then, what are you?" Is he joking? Or had he already forgotten Szayelaporro's name? — "Hundred years. After administering the superhuman drug to Szayelaporro GRANZ, at least a hundred years should've passed inside him before being penetrated by my blade. Did you experience that passage of time?" What?
— "I took a tiny part of your spiritual-matter from your soul. I've already confirmed that your soul has passed the gates of Hell." Mayuri asks him if he escaped from Hell. If so, then he'd like to know more. The intruder is in shock. It feels as if he can see a row of locked doors in the back of his brain. This can't be… — "It seems my guess was correct. Tell me, when did you first start thinking you were Szayelaporro GRANZ?" This can't be true! The intruder tries to flee via the "threads", but Mayuri tells him he already cut the intruder off from the negación threads before entering the room. Mayuri tells him he could still run by foot, though. Mayuri won't give chase — he's not interested in him anymore, knowing that his guess was correct. — "You're not Szayelaporro GRANZ. You're just… a lump of spiritual-matter of incompletely duplicated memories and information. You're just a computer virus in the masked woman's web." Yes, that masked woman, that's who Mayuri is interested in now. The intruder is insulted. He's below his own tool!? He's below Roca!? ("Oh, that's her name? I'll write that on her name tag later.")
The intruder falls silent, thinks and then… accepts the facts. And when he does, a certain "chain" inside him is released. His spiritual-pressure swells up. Mayuri turns to him, but the intruder is already gone. Leaving a giant hole in the room. Mayuri orders Nemu to measure the residual spiritual-pressure. The results interest him. The figure exceeds the spiritual-pressure of Yammy LLARGO — the strongest Espada with the number #0.
— Somewhere in the Rukongai
The Picarro are missing one member. They can't sense him. They guess that means he's inside Seireitei. Should they save him? The opinions are divided. They need to hurry up or they'll lose to Don! Although they now consist out of more than a hundred children, the Picarro used to be one adjuchas. Long ago, there was a human community. All the caretakers had died and only the children had been left. Those children eventually died by starvation and became earth-bound spirits. No soul reaper appeared to send them to Soul Society. And so, they eventually turned into hollows. They started eating each other, and one hollow was left victorious. Having filled his empty stomach, some of his reason returned and he realised what he had done. The hollow wandered Hueco Mundo and the World of the Living, in search for the friends he had eaten. He eventually evolved into a menos, a gillian and then into a adjuchas. The adjuchas — having now regained intelligence to a degree — would look for other earth-bound spirits of children. He'd propose to become friends. And after they had turned into hollows, he'd feed them with part of his own body, believing there would be no more fighting as long as their empty stomachs were filled. Eventually these hollows also evolved into gillians and then into adjuchas, possessing the same power as him.
And after becoming Szayelaporro's experiment subjects, they were named the Picarro — a group of children-type hollows. The wish of "wanting friends" had been granted. The Garganta opens above the Picarro and the Szayelaporro-lookalike appears. They greet him as Szayelaporro. They realise he was the spiritual-pressure they had sensed when they met Roca in Hueco Mundo earlier. The Szayelaporro-lookalike asks if half of the Picarro will play a game with him. They agree. What will they play? King's game? Treasure hunt? The man says they'll indeed look for a treasure. And they'll use that treasure to create a king. Once that's done, they'll look for Roca PARAMIA. He gives a sinister smile. The unrest which he had felt during his meeting with Mayuri is long gone. The Picarro don't notice how the #8 on the man's body fades. And how the number #100 appears on his left eyeball.