Wait, what's going on?
Beltz was puzzled.
This definitely wasn't the real Gorosei; although he looked exactly like Saint Nusjuro, his fighting style was the traditional Quincy way.
Creating armaments by manipulating Reishi and fighting with the ability to control shadows and blood.
This is a Quincy!
The Quincy that Beltz had stopped to ask turned around, bowed respectfully upon seeing Beltz, and then said:
"He's a newcomer arranged by Lord Haschwalth, named Bakotsu."
"Bakotsu?" Beltz was even more surprised; Bakotsu was exactly Saint Nusjuro's Beast Form.
His heart stirred, and he continued to ask, "Besides Bakotsu, are there any other newcomers?"
"Yes, five in total," the Quincy replied honestly. "They all look quite old, which is a bit strange; I've never seen them before."
All quite old?
Beltz noted this keyword, his heart even more shaken.
It was obvious, these were the Gorosei!
How could the Gorosei from One Piece appear here?
Beltz thought of several possibilities.
The first was cloning.
The Wandenreich's technology was actually quite advanced. After all, Reishi technology was different from mundane technology; in fact, as early as a thousand years ago, the Quincy were already using firearms in battle.
BG9, who was executed earlier, was a robot.
Beltz absolutely believed that the Wandenreich possessed cloning capabilities.
In the previous war, the Gorosei had been beaten until blood sprayed and flesh flew on many occasions, only surviving and constantly resurrecting by relying on their heaven-defying Immortality.
After they left, those residual limbs or blood could be used as raw materials for cloning.
The second was imagination.
This brings us to Gremmy Thoumeaux; Gremmy's ability was similar to making wishes come true, even being able to imagine physical life into existence.
The Sternritter had an auxiliary member named Shaz Domino, who was also a Sternritter but not quite a formal member.
Because he was a life form imagined by Gremmy, who gave him the ability to absorb Reishi for self-regeneration, so he maintained himself by absorbing Reishi.
Gremmy found such an existence interesting and didn't bother much with him.
Later, Yhwach found out and granted Shaz Domino a Schrift. His Schrift wasn't one of the twenty-six English letters, but the Greek letter 'ϛ'.
It was also possible that Gremmy had created the Gorosei using his imagination.
The third possibility was that Yhwach himself had taken action.
Yhwach could grant a Schrift to a soul, but it wasn't only humans or living beings that had souls in this world.
The world of Bleach follows a 'pantheistic' worldview, which says that everything has a soul.
Let alone animals, even alcohol, asphalt, and even air have souls.
The basis of a Fullbringer's ability is actually extracting the soul of any object and manipulating it.
So, the blood and limbs left behind in this world mentioned before, they also contain souls!
Then Yhwach could grant them his own soul, allowing them to awaken a Schrift!
If a robot like BG9 can have a Schrift, other things certainly can too!
Of course, the most likely scenario is a combination of these three possibilities.
First, clone the Gorosei; if that fails, have Gremmy assist with his imagination, and then Yhwach grants them schrifts, and then... the Gorosei appear in this world!
Although this was just his guess, he thought the probability was high.
The Gorosei were originally characters from One Piece, possessing abilities completely different from those in the world of Bleach.
Yhwach is the most sensitive to this kind of power.
Because he is the son of the Soul King, and the Soul King is equivalent to the Creator God of this world, so he is the son of the Creator God.
In Yhwach's own words, everything in this world was born to be taken by him.
As the son of the Creator God, having inheritance rights over the world is quite reasonable.
However, people from One Piece are not products of the Three Worlds system created by the Soul King, so Yhwach, who has inheritance rights over everything in the Three Worlds system, was the first to notice their abnormality.
So, to study these life forms that exist outside the Three Worlds system, it wouldn't be surprising if Yhwach went to great lengths to produce some avatars.
Beltz quickly figured this out.
What he was unsure about was how much these Gorosei would differ from the originals.
Are they entirely new individuals, or will they inherit the original's memories?
If even memories can be inherited, that would indeed be quite bad.
Could the "everything will be revealed in a month" that Yhwach mentioned refer to these avatars?
But Beltz soon shook his head again.
Ultimately, avatars might be identical to the original in terms of ability, but how could memories and everything else be completely cloned just from some genes?
If they truly possessed the original memories, then this old man shouldn't be called 'Bakotsu', but 'Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro'.
Being called Bakotsu is clearly because his Beast Form is Bakotsu, and in the world of Bleach, a name contains all of one's power; every name has a specific meaning.
Yhwach likely just wants to study the nature of their abilities... Hmm... if that's the case, then Yhwach would probably have people closely monitor their growth.
In that case, it's better if I don't get too close.
But does that mean these Gorosei avatars will become Sternritter?
Beltz suddenly realized that the six vacant Sternritter positions seemed to have become quite tight all of a sudden.
If the Gorosei take five, then only one is left?
That is to say, from start to finish, they were actually only fighting for a single position!
Tsk, it seems it won't be that easy.
He didn't watch any longer and headed to the training grounds; he needed to prepare for his training.
The arrival of these five old bastards put some pressure on him.
Fortunately, he was in the third round of the competition, and thanks to his status as an adjutant, he still had nearly a month of training time!
In this month, he could become even stronger!
He had to make good use of the time in One Piece.
One month in One Piece is probably equivalent to a year in the world of Bleach.
And he couldn't just train his body; he had to find ways to fight.
Only through battle can one progress faster!