Hueco Mundo Forest.
Kaiser had gotten Loly as he wished, but the process wasn't entirely smooth.
As the older sister who led and looked after the Picaro, and a mother-like figure to Ci En, Loly was surrounded by many rowdy children, and their destructive power was not to be underestimated.
Most importantly, these children were very innocent. Kaiser couldn't threaten them like he did Harribel. As long as they believed Kaiser had ill intentions towards Loly, these playful and impulsive children would attack Kaiser without hesitation, ignoring all other considerations.
What's more, Loly herself possessed powerful abilities, and Harribel was not truly submissive to Kaiser. The slightest weakness would cause her to immediately betray him.
Dealing with this group of individuals combined indeed took Kaiser some effort and wasted a lot of time, but for him, it was merely troublesome to handle.
Among them, Ci En, who appeared to be Vasto Lorde-level, had not recovered the full power of Szayelaporro's prime as the No. 0 Espada. After being revived by Loly, he was merely a child growing up again.
Furthermore, Loly had stripped away various information from his memory, such as Szayelaporro's cruel desires and Ilfort's destructive impulses. His soul was sustained by a single promise as its core. The current Ci En was, to Kaiser, merely a battle-loving baby with Vasto Lorde-level Arrancar potential.
Mayuri Kurotsuchi once said that if more than 100 Picaro gathered, their destructive power could reach the level of Kuchiki Byakuya's Bankai, Senbonzakura.
However, even Kuchiki Byakuya himself would be forced to his knees by the current Kaiser, so the Picaro naturally couldn't harm him. At most, their childish nature just made Kaiser feel annoyed.
Whether out of pity for the children or to obtain Loly, Kaiser was destined not to kill the Picaro. Therefore, it took a lot of time to get these mischievous children to calm down.
As for Loly herself, she was quite agreeable. After Kaiser proactively offered to take a direct hit from 'Black Blade' to demonstrate his power, Loly, who was not warlike and cared for the children, succumbed to Kaiser's embrace under Harribel's persuasion, as Harribel did not want to cause more sacrifices.
After all, if Loly were to forcefully manifest Mugetsu (Final Getsuga Tenshou) again, she would suffer a backlash and potentially even die, which Harribel did not want to see.
Moreover, since Kaiser dared to propose it, it meant he had enough confidence to handle it. Harribel had many vague guesses and expectations about Kaiser's abilities. If it was truly as she thought, then why would Loly need to sacrifice herself?
"Damn it!"
Ci En punched a quartz-like dead branch nearby, his face contorted in rage.
Kaiser manipulated spirit particles (reishi) to directly create a magnificent house in the area, and then he, Loly, and Harribel joyfully entered the bedroom, emphasizing efficiency.
After the Picaro were defeated, Kaiser threw them into the water park he had just built for them. Soon, these mischievous and playful children were distracted and happily played with the water.
Only Ci En outside suffered. He couldn't be as innocent as a normal child, yet he couldn't change any of this. He was also bound by a Quincy spell used by Kaiser, only able to helplessly watch as Loly, who was like a mother to him, walked into the house with that evil man.
Of course, Ci En would not admit that a tool like Loly was his mother, but he was saved by Loly and experienced a cycle of life and death, different from Szayelaporro's conception notification method.
If the original Loly was considered a computer, the former Ci En was like a virus, a malicious bug formed from incomplete data of Szayelaporro. But later, Loly defeated him, saved him, and once again gave Ci En true life.
That was a copy different from Szayelaporro and Ilfort, not bound by those false memories, but a truly existing individual named Ci En. Whether Ci En admitted it or not, Loly, who gave him life, was essentially a mother-like figure to him.
But now, because he wasn't strong enough, he was beaten to his knees by the enemy, watching helplessly as Loly was plundered and possessed. This made Ci En feel an unprecedented humiliation!
Such humiliation could stand alongside the obsessive promise in his soul, even temporarily overshadowing the name Zaraki Kenpachi.
Meanwhile, Kaiser, who was enjoying both physical and mental pleasure inside the house, didn't care about the thoughts of a naturally evil seed, after all, it was a malicious beast formed from Szayelaporro's incomplete data, born after being crippled by Loly.
Although Loly had deleted various information such as Szayelaporro's cruel desires and Ilfort's destructive impulses, in Kaiser's eyes, a rotten apple is a rotten apple. Ci En's roots came from Szayelaporro, and the main trunk that remained was the promise to fight Zaraki Kenpachi again.
Therefore, this was a naturally evil Arrancar brat, completely different in nature from the innocent children of the Picaro.
If he hadn't promised Loly, he would have easily gotten rid of this thing, and naturally wouldn't care too much about his thoughts. He even directly bound him with a spell similar to the "Five-Pillar Binding" used by Ishida Uryū.
Suddenly, the joyful Kaiser stopped, a look of annoyance on his face.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't make you happy."
Loly said weakly, thinking that her performance was too poor, giving Kaiser a bad experience.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Harribel, however, keenly sensed that Kaiser seemed to have received some message.
"It has nothing to do with you. It's time for me to get to work."
Kaiser took a deep breath, then stroked Loly's cheek, comforting her: "You've been working very hard, and I really like sincere and pure girls like you.
The war has already begun... Loly, you will stay here, hidden in this Hueco Mundo Forest, don't expose yourself. I hope our next meeting isn't inside your belly."
Leaving behind this strange remark that made Loly thoughtful, Kaiser pulled Harribel away. Before leaving, he didn't forget to kick Ci En, releasing the spell on him, and mockingly said, "I'm leaving, kid. Your beloved Zaraki Kenpachi might die in this war soon. It seems you're destined not to fulfill your promise in this life."
"Stop, what did you say? What do you know? Stop right there!"
Upon hearing news of his promised rival, Zaraki Kenpachi, Ci En's eyes widened in anger. He quickly scrambled to his feet and yelled at Kaiser.
However, Kaiser paid no attention to him. Holding the fully dressed Harribel, his body enveloped in a large amount of spirit particles (reishi), he transformed into a brilliant blue stream of light and shot into the sky, leaving the Hueco Mundo Forest at an extremely fast speed.
Loly, meanwhile, stroked her slightly bulging abdomen, searching through the large amount of life data left within her. At this moment, she understood that Kaiser truly cared about her, more than anyone else, unwilling for her to encounter danger.
Because, just as her former master Szayelaporro used her as a backup surrogate for conception notification, Kaiser also used her as a backup reincarnation vessel.
Once Kaiser accidentally died, the large amount of life data he left in the Anti-Membrane network would automatically coalesce, forming an "empty shell," continuously attracting Kaiser's residual spirit particles (reishi) in the world to return and inhabit it, causing a fetus to form and grow within Loly, thereby allowing him to safely reincarnate and return.
Loly felt a hint of her former master's conception notification in this, but it was very different from conception notification, which directly drained the mother's nutrients to burst forth instantly in full power. This method focused more on collecting external spirit particles (reishi) rather than extracting the mother's nutrients.
Loly could only silently sigh in her heart, marveling at how amazing this man, who had forcefully become her husband, truly was. Having just gained her abilities and the data left by Szayelaporro, he was able to develop such a formidable variant technique in an instant before leaving.
However, when Loly used her Anti-Membrane to sense that Kaiser's target for this trip was the incomparably dazzling orange-haired young man, her heart involuntarily skipped a beat.
Kurosaki ichigo, the young man who possessed incredibly formidable power while also being incredibly gentle.
Loly already felt guilty for having secretly downloaded the power he used to stop Aizen, and used it for her own selfish gain. Now, Loly truly didn't want to see a conflict arise between Kaiser and Kurosaki ichigo.
But Loly was powerless; she could only stand by the window, silently praying that neither side would be hurt.