Chapter 395: Chapter 394: The King’s Restraint and the Prisoners of Hueco Mundo

In that instant, fury ignited within Yhwach’s soul.

The desire to march into Hueco Mundo himself—to declare war and raze Las Noches to dust—burned hotter than ever.

What Kyo Mazuru had done was no mere defiance.

It was blasphemy.

Blasphemy against a god.

But the rage that rose like fire was quickly doused by calculation.

He exhaled, eyes narrowing. "...No." he murmured to himself. "Not yet."

Venturing into Hueco Mundo now would be a meaningless indulgence. It would vent his anger, yes—but it would also jeopardize everything he had prepared.

Hueco Mundo was not his true enemy.

His true target had always been—and would always remain—the Soul Society.

If he launched an open assault now, the repercussions would be immediate. The Soul Society would sense the disturbance in reishi flow between realms.

They would prepare.

They would fortify.

For the last two years, the Gotei 13 had watched Hueco Mundo like a hawk. In anticipation of another arrancar war, they had conducted endless drills, simulations, and combat exercises.

Any large-scale shift in Hueco Mundo’s reishi would trigger alarms across Seireitei.

And that would mean the Invisible Empire’s existence—his empire—would be revealed before the proper moment.

It would ruin the plan he had built over a thousand years.

Of course, Yhwach did not fear the Soul Society. Even if exposed, he was confident that once he reached his full strength, he could annihilate Gotei 13 with ease.

But this war was not about confidence—it was about inevitability.

He had prepared too long to settle for anything less than perfect execution.

He had lost once, a thousand years ago. He would not lose again.

He drew a slow breath, his anger cooling into razor-sharp focus.

Then his thoughts turned once more toward Hueco Mundo.

Mazuru had refused him—twice now.

The first refusal, through Askin, could be dismissed as arrogance. But the second... after the King himself had spoken... that was unforgivable.

Even so, a crusade against Hueco Mundo was pointless now. Not yet time.

In Yhwach’s vision of the future, once he achieved his ultimate goal—once he absorbed the Soul King and remade the order of worlds—Hueco Mundo, Soul Society, and even the World of the Living would all be under his dominion.

At that point, whether or not he conquered Hueco Mundo would be irrelevant.

Mazuru could kneel at his feet or resist until the end; either way, he would be consumed by the new world order.

Still, the man’s existence irritated him.

The two soul fragments that had fallen into Mazuru’s hands—Masch’s and Askin’s—were now unreachable. Somehow, the Shinigami had seized them within the realm of his barrier.

That power... was truly troublesome.

’An ability rooted in the soul itself.’ Yhwach thought. ’Rare. Too rare.’

Even in his long existence, he had seen only a handful of beings capable of manipulating the soul directly.

And every one of them... had been quincy.

The quincy were not defined by raw reiatsu like the shinigami. Instead, they possessed the unique ability to gather and control external spirit particles—to absorb reishi from the air, to mold it into weapons or armor.

Some rare quincy, however, were born different.

They could not absorb.

Instead, they could bestow.

Their power was the opposite of taking—it was giving souls.

A forbidden parallel to Yhwach’s own ability of Soul Sharing.

But those who displayed that gift had almost all been erased by his own hand.

In his eyes, such power was sacrilege—an echo of his divine authority that dared to exist independently.

Only one such being had ever survived.

The man the world called his "other half."

His right hand.

His balance.

Jugram Haschwalth.

The vice-emperor of the Wandenreich, the commander of the Sternritters, and Yhwach’s chosen mirror.

Haschwalth’s gift— The Balance —was nearly identical to Yhwach’s own.

He could distribute strength, divide power, even balance misfortune.

Yhwach had once called him "my other body".

And now...

Now he had seen a similar ability manifest in a shinigami.

That was what unsettled him most about Mazuru.

The King of Hueco Mundo’s control over souls—his ability to capture, isolate, and even sever the spiritual links of Yhwach’s fragments—belonged not to mortals, but to gods.

’That power,’ Yhwach thought coldly, ’should not exist in a shinigami.’

Had Mazuru been quincy, Yhwach would have slain him for daring to rival his essence.

But to see such divine manipulation in a shinigami—it was beyond offense. It was an abomination.

His gaze darkened. "Kyo Mazuru..." he murmured, the name heavy with intent.

Because of that cursed ability, the two fragments—Mask’s and Askin’s—could no longer be reclaimed. But the remaining ones, within Cang Du, Quilge, and Bazz-B—those could still be recovered.

And he would recover them.

’He probably doesn’t even realize how my power works.’ Yhwach thought. ’He believes I hid fragments in Askin’s body from the start. That will be his mistake.’

He raised his hand, palm open. Spiritual light began to gather around his throne.

"Prepare to activate the Auswählen." he commanded softly.

Haschwalth bowed wordlessly and moved to obey.

Yhwach’s voice deepened, resonant and cold. "If Cang Du, Quilge, and Buzzby must die to retrieve what’s mine, so be it. Their souls will return to me—and through me, to life again. The Sanctification will proceed."

He closed his eyes, sensing the faint threads of the fragments still connected to him through the three captives.

The premise was simple: once their souls were reclaimed, their deaths would be temporary. As long as their reishi remained intact, he could redistribute power, reform their bodies, and restore them.

All it required... was the return of what Mazuru had taken.

...

Meanwhile, in Las Noches, the aftermath was settling.

The wounded—Kariya Jin and Grimmjow—had been escorted by medical arrancar for treatment.

The surviving quincy—Cang Du, Quilge, and Bazz-B—were bound in reishi-sealing chains and dragged through the halls of the palace, their powers nullified by Mazuru’s barrier.

Nelliel and her subordinates led the escort. Their footsteps echoed against the cold stone floor as they descended toward the lower levels—the laboratories.

Before, the Sternritter had strutted through Hueco Mundo like conquerors. Arrogant, cruel, convinced of their superiority.

Now, with their king’s will severed and their souls cut off from reishi, they were silent—pale and defeated.

Mazuru had no intention of granting them mercy.

Execution would be too merciful.

"The quincy," he said softly, watching as they were dragged away, "vanished two centuries ago. The last purebloods left in the living world were the Ishida line."

He remembered the Soul Society’s old records.

Nine years ago, when Yhwach performed Auswählen, every half-blood quincy had perished simultaneously.

Those who remained were pureblood—the last true remnants of the old order.

And pureblood quincy... made perfect experimental material.

A faint smile crossed his lips. "Back then, Aizen experimented with Shinigami-Hollow hybrids—and even Shinigami-Arrancar fusion. But Quincy-Hollow integration... that was left incomplete."

There had only been two subjects of that project: Kurosaki Ichigo and his mother, Kurosaki Masaki.

Whether that experiment had been a success or failure was still uncertain. The data had been too limited.

But now—Mazuru had samples.

A new line of study could begin.

"Let’s continue what Aizen started." he said quietly.

The quincy prisoners were escorted deep into the research wing of Las Noches. Behind reinforced doors, the laboratories of Hueco Mundo buzzed to life once more.

Though Szayelaporro Granz had long perished, his research division had survived—augmented by new scholars and surviving scientists. Among them were remnants of Aizen’s own team, including those under Ichimaru Gin, who was already reviewing data on hybridization processes.

Even in death, Hueco Mundo’s laboratories never slept.

Now, under Mazuru’s command, they would awaken again—

not for war,

but for creation.

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