Espada? Number 10? No Espada Zero, Yammy Rialgo**
"Mr. Shiraha, what happened?" Orihime asked as she continued treating Renji and Ishida. A dull pulse of pressure had rolled across the training ground moments earlier, heavy enough to make her chest tighten.
"This Reiatsu feels almost exactly like Ichigo's earlier state, but stronger," Chad said as he approached, his voice tense. Even from a distance, the weight of it pressed against him like a falling boulder. Everything about it carried the same Hollow resonance Kurosaki Ichigo once emitted, only magnified several times over.
"Espada… Ulquiorra… and another one. That pressure is strange, but it has to be another Espada. Yammy, most likely," Shiraha murmured. The moment the two signatures entered Karakura Town, he recognized one immediately. Ulquiorra's Reiatsu remained etched into his memory from their clash in Hueco Mundo. The second was unfamiliar yet unmistakably powerful. And according to the original sequence of events, Ulquiorra and Yammy always appeared together the first time they crossed into the Human World.
"Ah, Shiraha, looks like those two Arrancars are Espada under Aizen," Urahara Kisuke said, lowering his hat with a knowing smile. "Their Reiatsu is similar to the Arrancar signatures that appeared in Naruki City more than ten years ago. So they must be here for you, right?"
He was referring to Grimmjow's overwhelming appearance back then one Kisuke still remembered vividly. But these new signatures were far stronger than the Grimmjow of that time.
"Probably not for me," Shiraha replied calmly. "Aizen likely noticed Ichigo."
In the original flow, Ulquiorra and Yammy were sent to determine whether Kurosaki Ichigo posed any threat. And if Ichigo had begun Hollow training under the Visored, Aizen would not need direct surveillance to sense the imbalance in the flow of power. In this world, Aizen's reach likely extended far enough to track everything of consequence. For him to overlook Ichigo would be impossible.
"Ichigo, hm?" Kisuke said with faint surprise before smiling lightly again.
"Mr. Shiraha, those Reiatsu signatures… are they connected to Black Knight?" Orihime rushed to Shiraha's side with Chad, temporarily pausing her healing. The weight of those spiritual pressures had nearly buckled her. Even at a distance, they were suffocating.
"It's just two of Aizen's Arrancars," Shiraha said casually.
"Aizen… Arrancar?" Orihime and Chad echoed in confusion. They knew Aizen's name well enough, but Arrancar was something foreign to them. Before Shiraha could clarify, his magic communicator rang.
Since arriving in the Human World this time, he had left the old Soul Society headset behind and instead received a magical communicator from the Technology Development Bureau designed solely to relay urgent communications from Seireitei directly to him.
He clicked the receiver.
"Captain Shiraha, our Technology Development Bureau detected two Arrancars in the eastern district of Karakura Town. Reiatsu signatures suggest they are fully developed. Please provide immediate support."
Arrancar the term had already been catalogued and analyzed in Seireitei. After studying Aizen's research and Urahara's archived materials, the Bureau understood the scope of Aizen's experiments. Hueco Mundo was effectively his fortress now, a base of operations so dangerous that invading without strategy was unthinkable.
"I understand. I'm heading out now," Shiraha answered before sliding the device back into his pocket.
"Mr. Urahara, please explain things to Orihime and the others. I need to handle this quickly," he said with an easy smile.
"Ah, you're dumping everything on me again," Urahara sighed, but his smile remained unchanged.
Just then, the system's mechanical voice echoed in Shiraha's mind.
"Sign-in Quest: Defeat Yammy in his Resurrección state alone.
Reward: Dior template progress +10%."
"So it really is Yammy," Shiraha thought. "But Yammy's Resurrección only increases his size and strength. Even as the so-called Espada Zero, he never impressed me." In the original story, Yammy was overwhelmed by Byakuya and Kenpachi. His sheer bulk meant little against refined skill. Ulquiorra far surpassed him in actual threat level.
But the reward mattered. Completing this quest would push his Dior template progress from fifty to sixty percent enough to unlock the fourth template.
A faint smile curved his lips.
"It's time."
In the next moment, Shiraha vanished with a silent flash of Cang, leaving behind only the whisper of displaced air. This time he did not call for Yoruichi.
Karakura Town – Eastern Suburbs
A black rift tore open high above the quiet outskirts. The Garganta expanded, splitting the sky with a grinding echo. Two silhouettes one remarkably tall, the other slender and composed stepped out of the abyss and descended toward the earth.
They struck the open field with a thunderous crash.
The suburb, usually a place where people wandered for fresh air and quiet relaxation, erupted with startled voices as the ground quaked.
"What happened? Was that a meteorite?"
"Why wasn't there any warning?"
"If something this big hit the town center, we'd be done for!"
As the dust slowly cleared, a massive crater over ten meters wide came into view. And within it, standing unshaken amid broken earth, were two figures.
Ulquiorra Schiffer and Yammy Rialgo had arrived in the Human World.