"Mazuru-kun is saying that he has the ability to become Cero (0) Espada?"
"Mr. Aizen doesn't think he has the ability to become the Cero (0) Espada?" Mazuru asked Aizen.
Aizen smiled lightly.
With the powerful reiatsu reaction disappearing, no, it should be said that after being restrained within the body, the mask of the hollow broke. His broken mask is somewhat similar to Szayel Aporro's, the mask only left a circular frame around the eye sockets. It looks like a pair of glasses without lenses. He has mid-length bloody red hair. His face resembles a demon. There are black lines on his cheeks, and his eyes are also crimson. Being stared at by him will give one the feeling of being looked by a predator.
"Beelzebub greets Lord Aizen."
On his waist was a sword with a crimson hilt. With his slender figure, he walked up to Aizen and with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he gave a knightly salute to Aizen.
Beelzebub, that's his name!
Just after Aizen made him, the name Aizen gave him was Metastacia. Later, during the devouring evolution process in the Menos Grande forest, it seems that during devouring and merging with too many hollows, his will was replaced by another hollow, and thus his name changed.
This is not a strange thing.
Because the evolution of the hollows are like this, when hundreds of Gillians with low IQ devour each other, the one whose individual consciousness and strength is much higher than the others, will have the control of the body even after it successfully evolves into Adjuchas from Gillian.
Metastacia's ability is indeed impressive, but at the beginning it didn't have a high level of consciousness, so it's normal for his consciousness to be "assimilated" and replaced by another hollow during the process of devouring and fusion.
But the name Beelzebub is quite interesting.
Among the seven deadly sins, this corresponds to the demon representing gluttony, and his prototype, the ability to devour and fuse possessed by Metastacia, is gluttony.
Aizen looked at him, nodded slightly, and didn't say anything else.
Beelzebub looked at Mazuru next to Aizen again, "Shinigami, in the forest of Menos Grande that day, the power you showed was indeed very strong, but now that I have gained even stronger power, I want to know, can you still be as strong as before in front of me, or...will you be swallowed by me?"
As soon as this remark came out, Gin couldn't help looking at Mazuru.
Because Kaname is blind, he can't see, so he doesn't have much expression.
(T.L Note: Wtf does blindness has to do with expressions in response to someone's words?)
The corners of Aizen's lips curled up slightly, he didn't stop Beelzebub from provoking Mazuru.
Beelzebub had great strength before arrancarization, and Aizen also wanted to see what level of strength he reached after arrancarization, and whether he could bear the name of Cero (0) Espada.
"Now that you've said this, if I still don't fight you, I'd be appear a little timid."
Mazuru said lightly.
The battle between Mazuru and Beelzebub was not placed in the Las Noches. Baraggan, who had his aesthetics backward, finally rebuilt the Las Noches. If they fought there, it might destroy the Las Noches.
So Mazuru and Beelzebub went to fight in the desert of Hueco Mundo.
Beelzebub is very strong, and he possesses many abilities. These are the abilities possessed by the hollows that he had devoured and fused. After arrancarization, some of these abilities have disappeared, but most of them remained and has been enhanced once again.
Therefore, even Mazuru, in the face of this endless stream of abilities, had to resort using his Bankai not long after the start of battle.
A crimson barrier appeared in the desert, covering Mazuru and Beelzebub.
Aizen, Gin, and Kaname stood not far away, looking at the barrier ahead, even Aizen didn't know what was happening inside.
Because of this, he looked forward more and more whether Mazuru was stronger, or Beelzebub can create a miracle and give him an extra surprise.
...
In the crimson world.
After Mazuru activated his Bankai, Mazuru and Beelzebub did not continue to fight.
Mazuru asked Beelzebub, "How do you feel?"
Beelzebub responded, "It's better than ever. After the arrancarization process, power poured out endlessly. It really makes people addicted to it."
Obviously before, they were still at war with each other, but here, Mazuru and Beelzebub chatted with each other as if they had been friends for many years.
After Beelzebub answered, he turned to Mazuru and said, "Speaking of which, Aizen and the others were also watching the battle in the Menos Grande forest earlier, so this is the first private chat between you and me when we are truly alone."
"I must say, chatting with myself, this feeling is quite subtle."
Beelzebub casually spitted out a big secret between the lines nonchalantly.
He and Mazuru are actually the same person.
But, this sentence, as well as this matter as a whole, is destined to be unknown by others. Because of the crimson barrier, even Aizen didn't know whats happening inside, and thought that Mazuru and Beelzebub are still fighting inside the barrier.
Previously when Mazuru saw the unformed Metastacia in Aizen's laboratory, he saw the huge potential of it.
In the original book, Aaroniero Arruruerie, who devoured Metastacia's body, was just a mere Gillian, but because of Metastacia's ability, he joined Espada as a Gillian and became the Noveno (9th) Espada.
The ability to devour and fuse infinitely is not an insignificant thing.
At that time, when Mazuru learned that Aizen was planning to put it into the Soul Society to try to make him devour shinigami's ability, Mazuru persuaded Aizen for only two reasons.
Firstly, as he said previously, putting this kind of hollow with extraordinary potential in the Soul Society is too wasteful.
Secondly, it is also because in the original book, Shiba Kaien and his wife seemed to have died at the hands of this hollow. He was once the vice-captain of the Thirteenth Division, and had a decent relationship with Kaien, so if Kaien's death can be avoided, that would be great.
After that, he didn't pay much attention to this nonsense. It wasn't until he chased Tokinada to Hueco Mundo, killed him and through his Bankai, imprisoned Tokinada's soul and learned a lot of secrets from his incomplete soul.
Especially the Zanpakuto called Enrakyōten, which needs to be activated at the cost of the soul.
At that time, Mazuru had some new ideas.
What really made him make up his mind was the success of Szayel Aporro's arrancarization and meeting with Starrk.
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