Soken's situation is like a fish on a chopping board. Even if Soken was unwilling, after he fell into Aizen's hands, he had no choice but to assist Aizen in the experiment.
Although Mazuru mentioned the quincy's hollowfication experiment in front of Aizen earlier but after capturing Soken, Aizen didn't plan to do that. After all, Soken is the last pure-blooded quincy in the world of living, and Aizen hastily hollowfied him, it will only pollute the pure quincy blood in his body.
So, while Soken was still in a daze, Aizen just took a few tubes of blood from him and left. Watching Aizen leave, Soken couldn't help but look at Mazuru again.
"You guys are shinigami right...and this place, if I'm not mistaken, it seems to be Hueco Mundo...You guys, what exactly do you want to do?"
The Soul Society massacred the quincies two hundred years ago, coupled with the battle a thousand years ago, there is a deep hatred between the quincy and the shinigami, but Soken is not someone who judges the present based on the past, as long as his family and human beings in the world of living are safe and well protected by the Soul Society, it doesn't matter even if the quincy masters no longer exist.
(T.L Note: Doesn't exist not only means dying but can also refer to abandoning the quincy powers like Ryuken)
However, today Soken thought he had discovered something bizarre. Shinigami from the Soul Society, and two captains at that, appeared in Hueco Mundo, and from their behavior, it is obviously not on orders from the Soul Society, but on their own initiative. Soken felt that an undercurrent is lurking in the dark.
Mazuru did not respond to Soken's words, but examined the last pure-blooded quincy. The reason why he is said to be the last pure-blooded quincy is because his son Ryuken gave up the powers of quincy master (actually didn't), the second is because his grandson Ishida Uryuu is a mix-blooded quincy. Originally Kurosaki Masaki was also a pure-blooded quincy, but because of being eroded by the hollow "White", her blood has become unpure.
"Is this the extent of a pure-blooded quincy's strength? Even if you're old, you shouldn't be in a desperate situation just by facing five Gillians."
Aizen also doubted Soken's strength before, and Mazuru also had similar doubts.
When he first watched the anime, he saw Soken being besieged by five Menos Grandes, and then fall in a desperate situation, he didn't think it was a big deal at that time, after all, in the first dozens of episodes, everybody thought that the Gillian-level Menos Grande are some kind of boss-monsters. But in the later stage it was revealed that Gillians are well-deserved miscellaneous troops, even Uryuu can easily kill Gillian.
Therefore, Soken, a pure-blooded quincy whose bloodline is much purer than Uryuu's, fell into a desperate situation when facing five Gillians, is really outrageous.
Soken was stunned when he heard Mazuru's question, and then said in a deep voice, "This is really the extent of my current strength, but it has nothing to do with my age. Even if I was younger, facing five Gillians, I will not be able to do better."
"Really? I don't believe it." Mazuru's sharp gaze fell on Soken.
Soken frowned slightly. He felt an extremely strong sense of oppression from Mazuru's. Although Mazuru looked very young on the outside, Soken didn't dare to treat him as a young man, after all shinigamis have extremely long lifespan. The other party seems to be only about twenty years old, but it is very likely that he has already lived for two or three hundred years.
"I heard that not long ago, your daughter-in-law died, and your son seemed to have some conflicts with you because of that matter." Mazuru's voice sounded.
Soken's expression froze immediately.
"No, it seems that not only your daughter-in-law, but also many other quincies scattered around the world died around that same time. It is all quite a coincidence that they all seem to be mix-blooded quincy."
Hearing this, Soken couldn't hold back anymore and he asked in a deep voice: "What do you know?"
Mazuru smiled lightly, "It seems that you know the inside story about this matter."
Does Mazuru know anything? He only knows a little bit about it, part of it comes from third-party sources, that is, the information about the "Thousand Years Blood War" from the social media, and part of it comes from the clues secretly investigated by Aizen.
During the same period of time, non-pure-blooded quincy masters scattered all over the world died one after another. Since the Soul Society massacred the quincies two hundred years ago, there were not many quincies left in the world of living and the remaining quincies always remained under the surveillance of Soul Society. Even if some of them slipped through the net and were not monitored, that just accounted for a minor number of quincies.
The deaths of non-pure-blooded quincies one after another naturally attracted the attention of Soul Society, but they didn't take it seriously after some simple investigation.
For the Soul Society, it doesn't matter even if all the quincies died but this incident aroused Aizen's curiosity. After Mazuru saw this information, he thought of some information about Bleach's final villain "Yhwach" that he had read in some articles in his previous life.
Sometimes, Mazuru regrets it, if he knew that he would transmigrate to the Bleach world, even if he doesn't like reading manga very much, he would had been patient and finished the Thousand Year Blood War arc.
Although the articles from these third-party channels let him know a little about the story of the Thousand Year Blood War arc, he has no solid idea about the story after all.
Facing Soken's eyes, Mazuru just said a word, "Auswählen" (German for "Select", Japanese for "Holy Selection")
Soken's old body trembled immediately.
"Auswählen…"
The word reminded Soken of some bad memories, and the sadness in his old voice became evident. Ishida Kanae, previously named Katagiri Kanae, Uryuu's mother, she was also a victim of Auswählen. It was also after her death that Ryuken learned some hidden truths about quincies from Soken, thus turned against his own father and gave up being a quincy master. It can be said that her death was the sole reason why the Ishida family became less harmonious and continued to deteriorate as a family.
But in the final analysis, it still stems from that one man——Yhwach!
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