Chapter 152

Just as Kuchiki Senya was slowly passing through, he suddenly felt the barrier around him rapidly turning red, and he hurriedly stepped back.

But he was shocked to discover that the barrier's force was groping toward the space behind him, and Kuchiki Senya realized it at once.

Behind him was the Zanpakuto slung across his back; the power of a Zanpakuto is sacred and inviolable, and moreover Kuchiki Senya's Zanpakuto had been naturally formed.

Lavigny's power was indeed formidable, but not so formidable that it could change the very attributes of something formed by heaven and earth.

"Heaven-Severing Myriad Forms, Vanish!" Kuchiki Senya shouted loudly.

Then the Heaven-Severing Myriad Forms behind him vanished without a trace, directly vanishing into the void.

And Kuchiki Senya took the chance to slip right in; seeing that it caused no disturbance whatsoever, only then did Kuchiki Senya relax a little.

"You're in?" Lavigny had only just now finished settling those Hollows of the Grand Hollow color.

Seeing Kuchiki Senya return, she hugged him once more, which served as a bit of work on the Hollow power on his body.

"You'd better not wear your Shihakusho anymore; later I'll take you to change into something else," Lavigny said to Kuchiki Senya.

Kuchiki Senya was taken aback — did Hollows even need to wear clothes?

"Haven't you never been to a city?" Kuchiki Senya asked Lavigny suspiciously.

"I was chased out of the city, that doesn't mean I've never lived in one, alright?" Lavigny said with a thoroughly tsundere expression.

Kuchiki Senya shrugged; whatever she said went. Before long, she had brought Kuchiki Senya to the place.

"Our Hueco Mundo's streets are very simple — of course we also have houses and the like, and various things, but our food is actually composed of spiritrons; these spiritrons just stimulate different sensations," Lavigny explained to Kuchiki Senya.

With her explanation, Kuchiki Senya very easily understood the composition of their world.

"So that's how it is. I thought it was still the same as before — all nothingness," Kuchiki Senya said, narrowing his eyes.

He clearly remembered that in the original manga, Hueco Mundo was a stretch of nothingness with basically no construction, after all most things here were mindless.

Lavigny took Kuchiki Senya to change clothes — a beast-hide-like outfit.

"Forgive the bold question, but he really has the feel of a Shinigami — surely he isn't really one?" The shopkeeper was a rabbit-shaped Hollow, and now asked Kuchiki Senya with a teasing look.

Lavigny shook her head and said, "How could that be? Where would a Shinigami be able to enter our world?"

Hearing her say that, the other party only then relaxed a little.

Kuchiki Senya's expression turned odd — since when did Hollows have such manners?

Afterwards Lavigny took Kuchiki Senya to eat something.

"This time I've chosen real food that you can freely create yourself; you can make food however you like, according to your own thoughts," Lavigny continued to Kuchiki Senya.

The two were now in a private room; Kuchiki Senya looked at the unique spiritrons drifting in the air before him.

"Really make whatever I want?" Kuchiki Senya asked.

"Yes, the taste of what this thing produces depends on your imagination," Lavigny said, nodding.

Kuchiki Senya was half-skeptical, and in the end produced a portion of braised pork according to his own thoughts.

Seeing the steaming lump of something, Lavigny was also very curious.

Kuchiki Senya waited for the spiritrons to finish assembling; now it seemed that aside from lacking temperature, there was still a bit of taste.

After Kuchiki Senya ate it, his eyes lit up — this thing really did taste like what he'd imagined?

"Great, finally a chance to eat..." Kuchiki Senya finished speaking and then conjured up some more food for himself.

"Actually, what this eating provides isn't taste, but a feeling, right?" Kuchiki Senya then asked Lavigny again.

"Yes," Lavigny nodded.

For example, the feeling of satisfaction after eating, the feeling after eating that makes them feel as if they really ate — but as for taste, it can't quite be faked.

But even so, it was still far better than having nothing at all.

Although Kuchiki Senya was a Shinigami and didn't need to eat to sustain life, eating was still essential to Kuchiki Senya; now the appearance of this thing happened to let him continue experiencing the feeling of eating.

After eating and drinking his fill, Kuchiki Senya finally left together with Lavigny.

The moment the two stepped out, they saw a patrol outside.

"This is Pikaro's squad — whose is the rest?" Kuchiki Senya looked at the patrol on the other side with some surprise.

Pikaro's patrol was easy to identify — just some giant bugs flying in the air — but the rest of the army, wearing masks, gave Kuchiki Senya a vague sense of unease.

"They're the Royal Investigation Group," Lavigny said.

Kuchiki Senya narrowed his eyes — why would people from the Royal Investigation Group be here?

"They... aren't Hollows?" Kuchiki Senya was somewhat astonished.

"Mm, they're 2.1 Quincy," Lavigny continued.

Now Kuchiki Senya was even more shocked — there really were Quincy?

Although Kuchiki Senya knew that whoever controlled Hueco Mundo had to be Quincy, he hadn't expected Quincy to actually have come to Hueco Mundo and treated it as their place of development.

"Actually I really don't like them, because Quincy are also our enemies; they've always been hunting us in the past, and they make us disappear forever — not sending us off like you Shinigami do," Lavigny said.

Kuchiki Senya was well aware that if the number of souls in Hueco Mundo got too low, it would cause the collapse of the World of the Living and Soul Society.

So that was why Soul Society had moved against the Quincy back then — but who would have thought that many years later, the Quincy had actually become the new kings of Hueco Mundo. What immense irony!

105. Triggered Quest: Hueco Mundo's Pleasure Quarters

Seeing signs of the Quincy, Kuchiki Senya and Lavigny only wanted to slip past these people as quickly as possible.

After all, Kuchiki Senya's aim was to slip past these people directly; he had no intention of getting into any conflict with them.

It was just that they wanted to leave, but the other side had no intention of letting them go.

"Routine inspection." One of the masked Quincy stepped forward and blocked Lavigny's path.

These Quincy held spiritron-composed guns in their hands; if they tried to flee, they would be shot straight through — these were the sacred bullets bestowed by their new king.

At this moment Lavigny was also masked; hearing the other's command, for a moment she didn't know what to do.

"Inspect what?" Lavigny asked.

"Turn around." The Quincy lecherously eyed her figure.

Kuchiki Senya frowned at the side, and then he was seen taking the chance to pinch Lavinia's waist.

"Tsk tsk, quite a nice skin you've got there." The Quincy stared at Lavinia with a sinister look.

"Have you seen any suspicious people?" he continued to ask Lavinia.

Lavinia shook her head. She knew she couldn't afford to offend these people; even if she revealed that she was an Arrancar, it would be useless — they were Quincy, and they didn't buy into Hueco Mundo's ways.

"Haven't seen anyone? But I think you look very suspicious. Come back to the prison with me!" The Quincy suddenly let out two cold laughs and grabbed Lavinia, ready to leave.

Lavinia's brows knit tightly; she had no idea what these people actually wanted to do.

She turned to Kuchiki Senya for help, and at that moment Kuchiki Senya also stepped forward.

"Do me a favor and go do something proper." Kuchiki Senya said calmly, looking at the few Quincy.

Hearing those words, the Quincy's faces changed. They looked at Kuchiki Senya with displeasure and slapped the mask off his face in one swipe.

"Hm?" They had just been about to speak when they saw that Kuchiki Senya had none of a Hollow's characteristics.

Even an Arrancar would have some white armor on their body, or at least on their face — but Kuchiki Senya had none at all.

This proved he wasn't a Hollow at all!

"Who are you?" The few Quincy immediately grew wary.

What they had come to sweep for now was suspicious personnel — after all, earlier outside they had detected a very likely intrusion by outsiders.

"What orders were you given from above?" Kuchiki Senya asked calmly, looking at the men.

One of the Quincy frowned at Kuchiki Senya and said, "Right now, we're the ones asking you!"

"I'm asking you — what orders were you given by the people above!" Kuchiki Senya's voice gradually turned icy.

When had these few Quincy ever seen such a scene? Especially once they realized that this fellow Kuchiki Senya was no simple matter — if he were a Hollow, he definitely wouldn't have this kind of nerve.

And if he really were a Hollow, he wouldn't be this calm upon seeing Quincy like them.

"We, we came to sweep for suspicious personnel." The few Quincy said.

Hearing this, Kuchiki Senya also let out two cold laughs, then asked, "Then does she look like a suspicious person to you? A Hollow, and an Arrancar at that — at minimum the combat strength of an outpost squad captain — and you're saying she has a problem?"

"Don't think I don't know the disgusting things you've done. As Quincy, you should have a Quincy's pride." Kuchiki Senya said coldly, continuing to look at them.

The faces of the few Quincy also changed. They looked at Kuchiki Senya in embarrassment and immediately explained, "Sorry, we'll, we'll leave right now!"

They thought their intentions had already been seen through by Kuchiki Senya, and from his words, he should also be someone on the inside.

Besides, it had only been said that there was a possibility of an outside intrusion; it hadn't been said that anyone had actually gotten in — at the very least, the barrier had no record of it.

"Finally bluffed my way through…" Kuchiki Senya let out a breath of relief.

Getting these people to behave wasn't exactly an easy thing either.

Lavinia also relaxed; if it weren't for Kuchiki Senya, she might have been taken away by those Quincy by now.

Although she didn't know why they wanted to capture her, from the look of them, they probably wouldn't have let her off easily.

"Let's go. Next, we should keep heading deeper in." Kuchiki Senya called to Lavinia as they walked further inside together.