German Hollow Quest 21

Gantenbainne begins to visibly sweat and his pupils slowly dilate.
But his expression quickly shifts to that of a man who resigned his fate just now.
"Aw hell naw!
We are so done for!"

After Dordoni manages to cough up the bit of food which almost managed to kill him he speaks up.
"What's he doing here?
I was told he's not going to come!"

To your shock the large monster of an arrancar speaks up once more, making your innards tremble.
"Well, it's nice seeing you guys too.
And at first I wasn't going to show up. Buuuuut.
You see, I was just in this neighborhood while searching for some darn Vastos.
Too bad I got bored."

Aaroniero stands up and you presume he looks at you, it's hard to tell with his helmet.
"Kaizar Soize, Neliel Tu Odelschwanck meet Marr the Primera Espada."

The giant begins walking down from the hill on which he was standing up until now.
"Yo!"
He waves in your general direction once but he quickly stops as he looks at a fruit dangling down from a tree right around his height.
The man is easily 3 meters tall and he can casually just pluck one of the fruits.
After turning it around a few times to examine it he turns to you and starts speaking.
"Well I'll be!
I haven't seen these things for a long time.
Last was 4 erm...."
He seems to have dazed off, it doesn't take him too long to snap out of it however.
"Lan!
What's that really high number?"

The small girl in the hoodie looks at him and replies.
"Hundred..."

"No no.
The one after that."

She nods.
"Thousand..."

He snaps his finger in a flash of enlightenment.
"That's it!
Four thousand years ago.
When that little shit Baraggan threw a tantrum and turned everything to dust.
Typical little amoeba, if he can't have it all then no one can."

Your eyes and Neliels widen after hearing that.
To hear this man just casually speaking about events that happened so long ago is simply insane.

ayy

Hey spooky!

He takes off his helmet and casually tucks it under his armpit.
You aren't sure what exactly you were expecting but it was not this.
The man actually looks quite normal with a few exceptions, his hair is like a long black mane flowing freely in the wind, his eyes have an unnaturally yellow color with a thin vertical pupil, his mask fragment covers the entirety of his lower jaw and his face has quite a few nasty looking scars.

He takes a bite out of the fruit and almost immediately spits it out.
"Now I remember why I never ate these things.
Tastes like shit."
With that he puts his helmet back on.

He begins to casually walk up to you and you can see the rest of the Espada rising from their seats and line up in front of him.
They are all nervous at his appearance.
Aaroniero then signals them and they clear the area to show off you and Neliel.
"Marr, these are Kaizar Soize and Neliel Tu Odelschwanck the new Espada."

He stops in his tracks and starts eyeing the two of you.
Marr whistles after looking over Neliel.
"Niiice.
Finally we have an actual woman and not just these bitches!"

The female Séptima Espada, that you only presume is Amas, gets offended by this.
"What did this oaf just call me?!"

Almost without any signal or build-up Marr twitches once and then his neck twists to look at her and then Amas, after realizing what she just said, seemingly closed her mouth.
At first it didn't even register what she just did since it happened so fast.
But after thinking it over you realize what was that she actually did, she bit her own tongue on purpose.
Blood begins to trickle from the side of her mouth but she doesn't do anything instead she just stands there like a statue clearly mortified.

Marr then turns his attention from her to you.
He puts his hand on his chin as he looks you over much closer than he did with Neliel.
Without a warning he grabs your head with two of his large fingers and begins turning your head left and right.

You are so confused right now.
At first you didn't get why everyone was so afraid of him since he barely has any reiatsu, in fact it was much lower than that of a common gillian.
But you were enlightened when he grabbed your head and you felt his tremendous strength.
Just by feeling his touch you managed to realize that if he wanted to he could crush your head with only those two fingers, probably without much effort.
This man is a monster.

After finishing your examination he lets go of you and leaves your personal space.
"Now this is more like it!
I was a bit disappointed at first but I see what's going on.
And it's about time we got some actual power in here.
I was getting tired carrying all this dead weight all by myself!"
He begins to laugh.

He turns away from you and sits on the table which creaks and bends under his impressive weight.
"So...
Which one of you was the one who curb stomped lil' No. 10 outside?"
His tone shifted from a more casual one to a completely serious one.
You can feel his bloodlust practically oozing from him.

>Say nothing.
>Say nothing but raise your hand.
>Tell him that you did it and you'd do it again.
>"You have some manners, coming to our home and demanding things from us."
>Other? (Write-in)

>>"You have some manners, coming to our home and demanding things from us."

Hey spooky!

>walk backwards and away from the scary guy to safe distence

>>Tell him that you did it and you'd do it again.

>> raise your hand.
We know each other and do this pretty regularly

>> raise your hand.
>> This may sound undignified, but she totally started it.

>Say nothing but raise your hand. Nonchlantly.
Let's not provoce things.

Hey Spooky!

>"Now this is more like it! I was a bit disappointed at first but I see what's going on.

Looks like he managed to see through Kaizars mucus absorption trick pretty easily. Careful, Marr is much more than just a simple brute.

Hand raising wins.

>Writing.

You don't want things to escalate.
After all, who knows how will this maniac react to you?
So rather than denying anything you casually raise your hand up in the air and start gritting your teeth, just in case.

It's hard to read his more subtle movements with all that armor obscuring him but you guess that he just glanced at you.
"So...
It was you, huh?"

You lower your hand.
"Yes."

He stands up and the heavy table creaks once more now that all the pressure is gone.
Marr walks up dangerously close to you and looks down at you.
The giant then raises his lower arm, his fist clenched tightly.

You were not sure just what he was going to do, so you simply braced for impact.
After closing your eyes you made peace with yourself.
But after waiting for several seconds without anything happening you opened your eyes out of curiosity.
To your surprise his fist is still aimed at you but it doesn't move.

"Come on!
Don't leave me hangin'!"
He says in his ominous tone.

You look at him confused as all Hell.
Without knowing how to react you simply extend your own arm, fist clenched, and you bump your fists together.

Marr gives a satisfying groan and returns your act by pulling his fist back slightly and gently pushing it against yours.
"Hell yeah!
That's what I'm talkin' about!"

Your confusion didn't leave you, in fact you are more perplexed than before.
Partly because of this mans weird attitude and partly because with that gentle "bump" he just did he almost ripped out your arm from its socket and now the entire thing just feels numb.

Marr turns away from you and looks at the other Espada.
"I like this guy!
Why didn't you guys tell me that we have someone actually worth a damn amongst us now?"

Aaroniero is the one who speaks up.
"We all agreed it'd be for the best if you judged him yourself."

Marr begins laughing.
"Finally someone put that uppity lil' bitch in her place!
Seriously I was getting real tired of beating the shit out of her."

HARDCORE MUTHAFUKKIN' GANGSTA

We should ask marr about his life. And actual name, perhaps. This "fist bumping" must be some kind of ancient tradition, it definitely wasn't around in nazi germany.

How much you wanna bet he's Greek and they worshipped him as a God of war.

And the Romans worshipped him after that. Using a closer name no less.

The towering monster casually walks over to a large boulder sticking out of the ground, covered in moss and rips it out.
He throws the rock over his shoulder and brings it to the table.
After giving it some thought it made sense, the chairs you had would probably not be able to hold him.
Marr then slams the rock into the ground and sits down on it, taking his rightful place at the end of the table.

The other Espada all seem to relax and start whispering amongst themselves.
"Looks like he is in a good mood today."
Dordoni whispers it to Sanderwicci who nods in agreement.

Aaroniero clears his throat and addresses the Primera once more.
"Marr, you said that you come here.
What changed your mind?"

Marr then proceeds to kick his legs onto the table then folds his arms.
"Well I was lookin' for some Menos buuuut then I got bored after a while.
So I decided to check things out, I even found a small town on my way here, that was fun."

That got Neliels attention.
He was probably referring to your "neighbors", the town which you managed to save once from complete destruction.
And while it's true that they are still far away from your camp and many of them migrated to Vanaheim in the last few years it was still a pretty large encampment for a hollow village.
"What do you mean by fun?"
She asks.

"Hmmmm?
I removed the whole thing from the landscape of course!
Why? What else could I have done with it?"

Neliel glares daggers at him, she was never fond of unnecessary killing.
"There was no reason to do that, they were peaceful and weak."

"Yeah...
That's the point.
You have to remove the trash from your land if you want anything to grow on it.
They were fuckin' weak and someone might show up there now that the place is vacant."

Neliel simply sighs, even she comprehends the destructive potential of this man and that it's best not to agitate him.
She then shifts her attention to the other Espada.
"So...
What will be our task now that we are a part of your army?"

>Fist bumping first shown 1937
>First used commonly by someone 1950
kaizar wouldn't know because he's out of touch. Marr must frequent the human world to observe evolving culture.

There's gonna be an influx of hollows on October 19th 1987 due to the Black Monday stock market crash. Suicide plusses are likely to have chains or succumb to despair.

Aaroniero entwines his fingers and leans forward.
It seems that being the highest ranking Espada other than Marr leaves him in charge for the time being.
"I'd enlighten you if you allow me.
Our orders come directly from Master Aizen and so far the only command he gave us is this:
Find hollows with the potential to make them a part of our army, preferably Vasto Lorde but lesser Menos are fine as well.
There's just one restriction, nobody goes alone.
This is to assure no Espada will be killed even by accident, the only exception from this rule is Marr."

"'Sup!"
Marr raises his hand.

Neliel interjects.
"We can take care of ourselves."

"There's no doubt about that.
But the orders were clear, everyone goes out in pairs in case they come across someone with strange abilities.
There are only ten of us, so we must take every precaution while we are still growing."
He turns to face you.
"The two of you can pair up if you so desire but I'd ask you to choose someone lower ranking as we need to properly divide our forces."

You put your hand on your chin and start thinking.
>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
>Stay here at the base to manage things.
>Other? (write-in)

1976 Tangshan earthquake - 450,000 deaths
1970 Bhola cyclone - 375,000 deaths
2004 indian ocean earthquake and tsunami - 280,000

Lots of mass hollows incoming in following years

>>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
I believe I can work well with anyone but Aimee.

>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
Though Nel and us should arrange regular spars to help each other improve.

Recon
Go with...marr, we're the only one who can remotely stay alive when interacting with him, and he seems really chill. He's probably lonely without a partner, too.

Besides, ten espada makes it so that one person wouldn't have a second partner, if we count escamas as one person.

>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
Anyone but Aimee, We do need to actually get work done.

>>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
Go with Dordoni.

>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
We should go with marr, we need to understand how he works and he seems to like us more than the other espada.

>>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
Go with Marr, he seems chill, and is probably tired of literally everyone ever being terrified of him

Unless he volunteers for it I'd rather not. Dude seems very My way, my style, or else. And they've said this is one of his "good" days.

Holy fuck, those are a lot more deaths than the two atomic bombs that dropped.

>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
Go with Neliel

>>Go with the recon team and look for hollows.
Dorodoni, or not Mar.

You only pick what you want to do now.
The vote for a partner comes later.

I guess you've got a point. If we can potentially run into Haribel or Stark, we'd want someone chill, really.

I'll swapto going with Dordoni

The recon team wins.

>Writing

How apropo that I'm drinking a nice sweet Dornfelder whilst reading this.

Now that you think about it this'd be the perfect opportunity to recruit some people, not for Aizen but for yourself.
If you can get to some potentially powerful allies first then you could make them loyal to you instead.
You grin a little.
"Okay, I'm fine with that.
So who wants to team up with me?"

Aaroniero speaks up once more.
"I think we talked enough about business.
Besides I think it'd be better if you asked someone personally.
You are the Segunda and we accept your authority."
He looks at Esca and Amas.
"Even if begrudgingly."

Marr then stands up from his seat.
"Not me though.
And I think I wasted enough time here."
He reaches up to one of the lower hanging fruits and plucks one of them.
"I think I'll go and throw this into lil' Barrys face or shove it up his ass, I haven't decided yet."

Neliels eyes widen.
"You said he was the one who destroyed all plants four thousand years ago!"

"Yeah, so?"

"Wouldn't it enrage him if you did that?"

"That's the point, duh..."

She frowns.
"And you'd have to get past his army to do that."

Judging from his voice Marr is getting annoyed.
"Again...
So?
This won't be the first nor the last time I put that runt in his place."

Something catches your attention.
"You keep referring to him as "runt" and other such things."
Your expression gets considerably more serious.
"Just how old are you?"

Marr gives you a grin which almost reaches from ear to ear.
With such a clear view you see that his teeth are not normal instead they resemble Aimees much more than a regular persons.
He gives a bellowing laugh and the other Espada give you a grim look.
"Some questions better remain unanswered amigo..."
Dordoni gives you a pitying look.

After calming down Marr starts to speak.
"I hate numbers but this one I looooove.
Every time I say it you maggots all make the best faces.
So I'll humor you before I leave."
He walks close to you and leans to your ear.
Marr whispers two words.
After he says it your mouth opens in shock.

He whispered "Four hundred and ten billion years..."

Or, if we want to be less funny, one million probably. He's a hollow dinosaur

Your mouth keeps hanging and you struggle to keep yourself together.
Marr instead laughs uncontrollably while the other Espada are giving you the typical "I told you so" look.
Neliel didn't hear it so she is oblivious to the shock that you experienced.
"What's wrong Kaizar?
What did he say?"

Marr keeps laughing at you.
"Priceless!"
He says as he flicks your hat, annihilating it in the process.
The Primera begins walking away and gives you a backhanded wave.
"Well I'm off.
You losers can keep frolicking in the forest all you want, I'm gonna go kill shit now."

As he walks off you keep struggling with breathing.
Beads of sweat begin to roll down from your forehead.
You manage to repeat his words.
"Sixty-six million..."

>"I'm gay"

you fucking called it

Dinosaurs had SOULS?

As far as I'm aware everything in bleach has a"soul"

>People think he was a dinosaur
>Obviously he is the soul of the meteor that killed dinosaurs off
FOOLS

I'm like 90% sure that the only reason Fullbringers work is because EVERYTHING has a soul. Like, their fast movement thing works by using the grounds soul or some shit

>Implying there ever was a meteor
>Implying Marr didn't just eat every living dinosaur to achieve vasto lord

That's a disturbing possibility.

Pretty sure you had to be a living being to become a hollow, but the real thing to take from this is that there are ancient dinosaur hollows still kicking around well at least one is

I was wondering, just now: why don't hollows hunt in the beast realm? There are VERY few shinigami there except those who are banished, so the resistance would only be from untrained animal souls. Might not be as individually filling, but animal souls are trillions of trillions more numerous than human souls.

No, what to take from this is that if there's dinosaur HOLLOWS then the reverse is likely true. Which means there's some dinosaur shinigami just lying around somewhere, unless Marr ate all of them too.

INB4 SOUL KING IS A DINOSAUR
INB4 YHWACH IS A DINOSAUR
INB4 DINOSAUR QUINCIES

>Dinosaur Shinigami
That's what we call dragons mate.

It took roughly half an hour to calm down both your and Neliels nerves.
Then the feast that you organized finished mostly in silence, nobody felt like talking anymore.
After finishing your plate you look at the others.
"Was he serious?"

Dordoni looks at you.
"It's impossible to tell.
But he never lies, he sees no point in it.
That and his monstrous strength makes it hard to doubt what he said."

"What about his Resurección?"
You ask.

"Nobody has ever seen it and lived to tell about it."
Aaroniero interjects.
"There's only one documented case of him ever using it and the place is uninhabitable ever since.
There's an eternally raging storm which tears your flesh off if you stray too close to it and it appeared after Marr used his resurrected form."

You have to wonder just what kind of power this monster has.
But then it hits you.
"How does Aizen keep him under control?"

"He doesn't have to, he came to us willingly.
But he has Kyōka Suigetsu which manages to control him to a degree."

You look at what's left of your hat, namely nothing.
"And is he always so...
Temperamental?"

"You have no idea.
It's usually way worse.
The only one whom he doesn't bother much is Wang Lan.
She sometimes tries to educate him but he has a very short attention span for anything other than fighting."

You look at Lan who for the first time removed her hoodie.
She doesn't look like what you imagined at all.

She actually speaks up.
"He's not bad once you know how he works..."

"Easy for you to say niña.
You are the only one he hasn't beaten to a pulp yet."

She shrugs.
"I didn't give him a reason to beat me up."

But after all of this is done and you managed to recover from that cold shower it's time to get to business.
>Pick one Espada to pair up with.

>Also, Roll 1d10.
4th Roll counts only.

Isn't OMG basically a dragon, with his release and shit? And don't shinigami change shape depending on their mentality, like when they feel old they look old?
Why do you think Old Man Genocide has a rule of never releasing in the human world? It's because last time he did so it killed the dinosaurs, obviously.

Dordoni

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>Pick one Espada to pair up with.
Dordoni

Rolled 10 (1d10)

And the roll

Rolled 10 (1d10)

Dorodoni or Nelliel

Rolled 10 (1d10)

Wang lan, or neliel

WHAT ARE THESE ROLLS?!

Wang lan so we can learn to get on marrs good side
Also she cute

Dordoni.
Huh....

Guys, We have Nel, Quit being a cheating cunt.

We were told to try to keep it even by picking someone lower.
Besides, new info is good.


That aside, i wonder why a t rex hollow is human as arrancar? Shouldn't he have a rex head?

Nel is shit, Haribel is better.

Cute.

Wang lan

What do you mean we "have Nel" as far as I'm concerned we have nothing more than a good friendship

A NEW WAIFU HAS ENTERED THE RING

Wang Lan.

She can Lan our Wang anytime she wants

Dordoni, Mainly voting this to piss off the waifufags.

I don't think anyone seriously intends to waifu wang lan t.bh

I just don't want to waifu Nel because she's the shittiest arrancar. Harribel or nothing, bruh.

dice+2d6

1=Dordoni
2=Lang

Also, while I'd love nothing more than do what 10 means I can't simply ignore a signal from the dice gods.

So pick one:
-I do what I planned originally.
-I'll instead do something you'll enjoy as a reward for the jackpot

Rolled 2 (1d2)

1=Dordoni
2=Lang

Also, while I'd love nothing more than do what 10 means I can't simply ignore a signal from the dice gods.

So pick one:
-I do what I planned originally.
-I'll instead do something you'll enjoy as a reward for the jackpot

>-I'll instead do something you'll enjoy as a reward for the jackpot

>-I do what I planned originally.

>-I do what I planned originally.

>-I'll instead do something you'll enjoy as a reward for the jackpot
Starrk? Please be Starrk.

I want the box senpai!

>-I'll instead do something you'll enjoy as a reward for the jackpot

As someone who isn't really invested in this waifu faggotry, openly pining for someone we haven't met like this is kinda annoying.

I agree with your opinion on Nel

>-I'll instead do something you'll enjoy as a reward for the jackpot

I THINK IT WILL BE A POWER UP.

Or TIER! We will get Harribel!

Or... Or...

I DONT KNOW SENPAIS

Neliel

>-I'll instead do something you'll enjoy as a reward for the jackpot

Okay then.

>Writing

Jackpot, please

>-I'll instead do something you'll enjoy as a reward for the jackpot
We get 3 10 in a row can't say no to that.

>Dragongirl

Spooky why

Why

It's like a siren call

Metafaggotry is the worst kind of faggotry.

So canon wise how off track are we?

Grand fisher dying fucks with alot of shit more than likely.

Grand fisher shouldn't have looked at our daughter like that.

I imagine for starters we get Ichigo who either starts out a straight laced momma's boy or a bitchy edgelord like Jotaro who pretends he doesn't care about his doting mother.

You're forgetting that the only reason Fisher killed Ichi's mom was because Yhwach sucked most of her soul out and all of her Quincy powers before they fought. That would have killed her too, it'd just have been slow and drawn out instead of quick.

I thought we just mauled him but didn't kill him?

I dont think getting your innards squeezed out like toothpaste is a mauling.

Yeah No we split him into chunks

Oh my bad. So we instead get an Ichigo who doesn't think his mom dying was his fault.

You can't help but stare at Lan.
Apparently she is somewhat capable of handling Marr and that'd be a useful thing to have.
It'd also be a good idea to observe each of the Espada to determine their abilities, there are only three that you still don't know and she'll probably be the easiest one to figure out due to her rank.

So you stand up and walk up to her.
"Want to be partners?"

Her expression shifts to a neutral one and simply nods.
It seems she returned to her deadpan state.
She stands up an pulls her hoodie over her head once more.

You turn to the other Espada to ask them a question.
"I assume it's not a problem that we'll be first since we'll rotate our shifts."

Dordoni just nonchalantly dismisses you.
"You can do whatever you want amigo."

You turn to Lang this time.
"Wait here, I'll have to do something first."

It took only a few minutes to find Yata at his lab, the guy disappeared really quickly during the feast.
He is tinkering on random stuff you presume.
"I have a favor to ask..."
You say to him.

He sighs and looks over at his shoulder.
"What did you break this time?"

"I lost my hat."

"Well go and find it."

"I don't think it exists anymore."

After giving you a judging look he starts to rummage through some of his stuff to pull out a vial which he smashes on his table.
The white substance begins to create a foam into which he injects several tools, all developed by him.
When it's done a completely new and differently styled hat pops out.
Though it's still a german in design it doesn't resemble the one worn by the SS, instead it looks like the more common wool caps worn in the military.
He hands you your new headwear while still looking at you extremely disappointed.

You fiddle around with it and find the hat to be a perfect fit.
"What was the matter with the last design?"
You ask him.

"This one is easier to make.
And I don't want to hear any complaints or I take it back!"

You smirk a little.
"And what's with the military motif?"