A Long time ago, when I was just eight years old. I lived with my parents in karkaura town and my sister, Mizuho.
We weren't the perfect family. Mizuho Asano constantly bullied me, dad always broke us apart and punished us regardless of who started the fight, and mom often drank and laid around the house like a bum. But even so, we were a family who deeply cared for one another like anyone else, and in the end, I honestly didn't mind going through all that hassle so long as were all together.
However, just like with many others. My family were agents of Xcution and assigned to protect Karakura town from the invading hollow hoards.
And they didn't have a choice. Those born with even slightly above average spiritual power were either drafted to become a Quincy by sharing the soul of another one by injection, or you have a piece of the soul king embedded inside you. Not only so, one can get the abilities of either a Fullbringer or Quincy. But also, so to bring out the full potential of the user. All of which to empower the armies of the soul society and earth to counter the forces of Hueco Mundo.
And mom and pop while they were nothing special when it came to being field agents. They were still strong enough to take down the regular hollows and huge hollows even…Until the Arrancars appeared and slaughtered both of them in an instant and without even time to mourn, I and my sister were immediately drafted in by the Xcution to be trained. To replace our parents who just died.
For just like them we too had no choice as it was our inherited duty to protect karkaura town whether we wanted it or not.
But to me, that very apathy to our wants and desires made me hate and reject my duty. Even when it went against Mizuho's wishes. Resulting in a fight in which beat each other into a bloody mess, and even though I inevitably lost to her, I ended up disowning my sister out of spite.
Even when Mizuho cried out my name and begged me to stay, I ignored her and abandoned her.
As time passed I and my sister grew further and further apart, to the point in which we barely saw each other anymore...Which became all the more ironic when she came to my rescue when I was confronted by Grandfisher
And yet despite Mizuho's aid...I was powerless to save her, incapable of standing against the enemy that threatened her due to my refusal of training, and in the end, I was forced to flee to prevent her sacrifice for saving my ungrateful hide go in vain.
All of this happened...because I allowed my pain to get the better of me and prevent me from doing my duty. To do what was right and made a choice that made everything worse for everyone involved, including me.
So, I pushed myself to the limit and beyond. To master any ability, I had not only to average the death of my sister but to redeem myself for leading to her death.
Even if I have to stare back at my failure face to face.
Keigo continued to star at the form Grandfisher took off his sister Mizuho, and while her appearance was flawless, her outfit remained the same as the hollow's resurrection's only downside. Saved for the absence of the enormous tusks on his shoulders, and instead of being bare-chested, she wore dark leather armor and a necklace made of fanged teeth. That showed off her lean yet muscular trained body.
Yet Espada's vicious grin was still there. Ready to tear his annoying fullbringer foe to shreds.
'Oh, what is the matter, Keigo?' Grandfisher pouted mockingly as he pretended to whip his none existing tears from his female face.
'Don't tell you to feel uncomfortable in attacking your own-'SMACK!'
Before Espada, even realized it. The agent socked him in the jaw and sent him flying into a nearby wall, causing him to collapse on top of it, opening a massive hole to the outside world, and allowing rays of sunlight to come in.
'Don't play that crap with me, Fish Legs, ' Keigo spat dismissively. 'I am not some wangst teenage brat you can emotionally manipulate for your over-bloated amusement. You either fight me seriously or get your ass out of here!'
Grandfisher, while under the rubble, took in everything his enemy said...and his smile grows even more viscously.
With a burst of spiritual pressure, The Espada blew apart the rubble away from him and stared down at Keigo. 'If that's how you want to play it...' He retorted while grappling a smaller version of his spiked club from under his cloak and then got into a battle stance.
The Espada then lunged at Keigo at a speed that took even him off guard for a moment. As the latter hesitantly raised arms and quickly created a shield out of thin air to block the strike. Only for it to immediately shatter upon impact when it was hit by the red spikes and sent the agent flying into one of the pillars. But before he could make contact, Asano once again used his fullbringer powers to make the pillar rubbery, Causing him to bounce off it harmlessly, before landing on the ground.
'I know all about you fullbringers and your little tricks' Granfisher explained while twirling his ax 'Supposedly humans who gain powers from mothers who survived hollows and inherit a piece of the Reio inside of them. With said power can manipulate matter by pulling the very souls that lie within them'
The Espada then eyed the golden crested symbol on one of Keigo's gloves 'And I expect that fullbring of yours operates in a similar matter right?'
Keigo then let out a deep tired breath. 'Your point?'
'My point,' the Espada said coldly while holding his spiked club up. 'My point Is that unless you can keep up with me. It doesn't matter how you manipulate matters. You can't control what you can't touch, and this lure form of mine. It isn't just limited to just being an extension of my body or even shapeshifting into the memories of its target. But also compressive my spiritual power. Making me stronger, tougher, faster...'
The red spikes on Grandfisher's club then extended to several feet beyond his body height as his smile widened. 'Deadlier!'
Keigo's eyes then narrowed in dread. At the same time, Espada continued to walk toward him.
'Now, do you understand the difference in power between us, brat? No matter how strong you have gotten and how much you push yourself. You will never be my equal, as is the weak, fragile nature of your kind, and in the end, for all your efforts. You only delay the inevitable!' Grandfisher boasted while his smile then turned into a sneer.
'Take that knowledge to the grave as I extinguish that miserable, worthless life of yours!'
The 10th Espada then swiped his club at Keigo as the extended spikes on the former club cut through the rubber pillar, the wall behind it, and even though young fullbringer's chest. Tearing apart fabric, and flesh and drawing blood. Yet the wound lucky was shallow.
However, even as Keigo leaps himself up into the air with bringer light. Grandfisher was upon him.
'It is over Keigo Asano. You may push me far beyond what your sister ever did. But never the less, you are still and will forever be my inferior. Take heart that once I devour your soul into my being. You will be reunited with your long-departed sister!' And so, the Espada lunge his spiked club at his enemy for perhaps the last time.
Only for him to hear a crack.
Then before Grandfisher realizes it, Keigo is suddenly behind him, and the Espada, unable to help himself, gasps in bafflement and fright before swinging his club desperately at the agent.
But like his arms beforehand, the club shattered to pieces, spikes and all. The moment Keigo hit it with his gloved fullbring.
'No…' Grandfisher whispered as fear began to take over his being while struggling to maintain his composure. 'How…how were you able to
'Avoid an attack that was impossible to avoid?' My fullbringer, of course. But to you, I guess that doesn't add up to that rat ass excuse of analysis you made about it,' Keigo snarked, which caused the Arrancar to fly into a rage.
'SHUT UP!' he shouted, yet it sounded more like a shirk. 'All I need to do is keep my distance, shoot you down from affair, and you are finished!'
The desperate Espada then prepared to launch a Bala at Keigo. Before he could throw it, he once again heard an audible crack. Like before, Keigo appeared below Grandfisher and stuck the arm charging the Bala by striking under its elbow, shattering it, and canceling the attack.
Grandfisher, in frustration and unbearable pain, used Sondio to put a couple of meters of distance away from Keigo.
'You think that….' The Espada boasted hesitantly as he grabbed his broken arm, and already the bones began to reconnect themselves. 'That continuing to break my bones repeatedly would lead you to victory! I will just reconstruct my limbs again and again! No matter how many times you shatter them!' Grandfisher cried in a fury. But Keigo remains passive.
'Fish legs…the reason I only targeted your bones' structure wasn't that I was limited to that. It was because it was the safest route to take,' The fullbringer exclaimed coldly yet passively, but Grandfisher looked at him in confusion.
'What are-?!' The Arrancar began to question only for his arm to suddenly be engulfed in a massive torrent of his own spiritual energy 'What WHAT IS THIS!?' He screamed in panic.
'Spiritual power is amazing yet terrifying, especially for concentrated amounts. Pour too much than what the body can handle or weaken the body beyond what it can contain and t just tears itself apart' Keigo then looks at the uncontrollable spiritual pressure flowing out of Grandfisher's female arm.
'Or, in your case, blow itself up
Grandfisher then stretched out his eyes in complete terror and disbelief at the overflowing spiritual pressure in his arm and then to Keigo.
'You…just what the hell are you!' He cried out almost pitifully. But Keigo showed no remorse.
'I am just like you said, Grandfisher. I am just an inferior human who wasn't strong enough or brave enough to save my sister' Asano then narrowed his eyes sternly. 'But I don't need to be anything more than that... to take down scum like you.'
On hearing that, on the 10th, Espada began to give in to his fear as he felt his spiritual power overwhelm his body. Tears and snot began to run down his face like unleashed dame of emotions.
Until it was all overtaken by rage.
With a glare in his female eyes, Grandfisher pinched into his other hand to the point it drew blood, and an electric-charged cero immediately formed in his hands.
A Grand Ray Cero.
'Then die with me like the scum you are!' he screamed in spiteful hate and launched the strongest of all Ceros at Keigo.
But the latter remain calm.
'….I am afraid that it is only you this time.'
With a spike of own spiritual pressure. Keigo uppercut the Grand Ray Cero when it almost made contact with him. But instead of shattering like the bones in Grandfisher's arms and hands or a crack in the air itself. The cero itself popped open like a bluff of smoke—much to the stun hollow's utter incomprehension.
'Im-impossible…' the Espada muttered even as he began to lose the last bits of control over his spiritual power. 'That...That goes against the laws of reality itself!'
Yet Keigo sighed. 'Oh, I am afraid that the laws of reality don't apply to me all that much...but anyway I don't want to be here when this place becomes ground zero' However before the agent left, he gave one last moment to his sworn enemy. 'Try to make your last moments count.'
And with that, Keigo left with a burst of bringer light. While Grandfisher was left alone. Shock and Rage then gave away terror and the humiliation of his death at the hands of a lowly human. But then the dying Espada notices the upper floors of the building above him crumbling and falling apart. Yet instead of its remains instead falling to the ground, they rose in the air before fading away into dust. Then upon closer inspection of the air. He also notices that there are literal cracks within the space-time continuum itself that were slowly spreading and widening themselves apart.
Then Grandfisher remembered how Keigo could move behind him repeatedly in an instant and the words that he said to him about his power.
'The Laws of reality don't apply to me that much...'
And all the fear and hatred of his enemy then turn into awe, respect, and acceptance.
'It would seem you were my superior, Keigo Asano, and I was your inferior as a lowly hollow'
And with that, Grandfisher's body exploded in a burst of spiritual energy, its red light consumed everything in sight.