"So that's what happened." Urahara said with a frown as he shut his fan with a snap. "That's unfortunate."
"You can say that again." I groaned before turning back, where Jinta was trying to bully Ururu before Rika, once more in her loli form, came charging and downed the redhead with a drop kick before starting to pull his legs like a pro wrestler. "I ended up revealing Rika's existence to Aizen's cronies and got nothing in return."
"I wouldn't say nothing exactly, we did learn that Aizen has turned Menos level Hollows into Arrancars. Which should get Soul Society moving as well, we will have several seated officers in town soon."
"Who I don't want asking questions about Rika." I said with a grunt.
Sure, technically the people coming were all allies but they reported back to their bosses of everything they learned. Which was fine at this moment since Old Man Genocide was practical enough to ignore Rika's existence till the problem with Aizen was dealt with and perhaps even after if we make ourselves useful enough.
Except Yamamoto wouldn't be the one calling shots all the time. Soon enough, a new version of Central 46 would be chosen and they would be just as useless as their predecessor if we were lucky.
"I am hoping that she didn't show her more… extraordinary abilities." Urahara said with a frown and I couldn't really blame him. I had no intention of opening that can of worms where someone could see any time soon.
"Just ordinary physical abilities." I said with a sigh. Which were already far above that of a lieutenant and even the weaker captains without her using her Resurrección. Making her actually use that… the only upside of it was the fact that I had her do it in Hueco Mundo, where there was nobody important around to die from the sheer amount of power she displayed.
"That's good, I wouldn't want Aizen to learn about that. It will be an important ace in the hole when the battle comes." The shopkeeper said as he snapped his fan back open and smiled behind it. "As for how our dear coming friends from Soul Society might react to Rika-chan… how about we instead just not let them see her any time soon."
"I can get behind that." I said before sighing. "But I'm not sure Rika can."
"She disobeys you?" He asked with a frown.
"You know she's different than all the other Hollows I have in my shadow, that's the whole reason she could become an Arrancar." I shot back, not liking what his tone implied. "She has her own consciousness and desires. Now that she is an Arrancar, those are all far more apparent." I sighed as I recalled some of the things Rika did in her new form. "At this point it would be more accurate to stop treating as one of my hollows and start consider her as someone who simply happens to live inside my shadow."
It was hard to think of her as a simple summon when she would pop out of my shadow on her own and start demanding food. Or with how she had turned back to her adult form and was using it to shake Jinta while holding him up from his ankles.
Somebody probably should be stopping that.
But not me.
"Speaking of our coming Shinigami friends though, where exactly was our already here Shinigami friend when the Arrancars were trying to turn the town into an all you can eat buffet?"
"I was working." A gruff voice came from behind but when I turned, it was not only the turnip headed friend of mine but instead he was accompanied by three new figures. "We were trying to find the missing Bounts."
The one standing to his right was a very tall man with a suit and top hat combo that looked like it was out of some movie about old London. To his left was a shorter man with red hair wearing some sort of hoodie with a linear zipper on the front of his face. And the third person standing in front of him was…
"Renji, who is this gorilla?" A little girl with short blond hair and the aura of a complete brat oozing off of her.
"Okay, I admit defeat, where did you get these… I assume the Good, the Bad and the Ugly?"
"Who are you calling ugly?!"
"Ahh, yes. Cain-san, these are our new friends that I designed specifically for dealing with our Bount problem."
"Mod Souls." I said with a raised eyebrow.
"Indeed." Urahara said happily. "Meet Noba, Kurōdo and Ririn. Each one of them possesses the physical abilities on par with a seated officer and the ability to sense the abnormal spiritual particles of Bounts along with their own special powers. Why, I would go as far as to say they are some of my finest works!"
Ah, yes. The Bount filler arc original characters who sometimes appeared in other filler arcs or other anime original scenes. And in opening and ending themes too.
"Aren't Mod Souls like, super illegal to make? Something about creating life for the sole purpose of fighting being cruel?" Which was why Soul Society had all the then created Mod Souls and killed them with the exception of the one living in Ichigo's plush lion. Just to show how un-cruel they were.
Crazy how Soul Society are supposed to be the good guys yet still.
"Ah, don't worry about such small stuff." Urahara waved his fan. "More importantly, did you people find anything."
"We did." Renji nodded and my head snapped to his way, had he actually succeeded at something? Was this the end of Renji's status as a fraud?
"We found a Bount woman with a fan and sword, we tried to capture her but she fought to the end." He said with a frown and I tried to remember who they were talking about... I had nothing.
Still, Renji had actually beaten someone. Good for him.
"Hmph, it's only because we three were with you that you managed to get out of that fight alive." The blonde brat said and turned her nose up before starting a tirade about how great she was, how incompetent Renji was, and how everyone in the room should be glad to have her around us.
I was quite proud of my self control as I waited for almost a full minute before snapping my fingers and give command to Rika. Who once more turned to her loli form and jumped at Ririn who could only squawk in fear as the battle of little girls began.
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