Chapter 186: The Exiled Criminal
For the current young shinigami of the Soul Society, many of them don't even know about the group of "Bount", because the time when Bount was born was too long ago.
At that time, there was not even the Technological Development Department.
There was only a Seireitei Research Institutes.
The birth of "Bount" originated from an experiment called "Eternal Life" in the Seireitei Research Institute. Because of the improper operation of the experimenter Ran'Tao, a violent explosion occurred in the research institute.
What happened was that one of the Jōkaishō exploded after a meltdown, even destroying a tenth of the Seireitei and releasing energy from the artificial souls that made its way into the cycle of rebirth, affecting souls that were approaching reincarnation in the human world.
(T.L Note: The Jōkaishō (Emblem of Buddhakṣetra) are massive, powerful devices that were once used by scientists in the Seireitei to power their experiments and allow them to control the generation of Reishi)
The affected souls were born all around the Human World with powerful spiritual abilities and became known as the Bount.
Due to the unique circumstances of their creation, the Bount were born with the ability to maintain eternal youth by consuming either living or dead Souls; this, combined with their fatal attacks on living humans for their Souls, led to the myth of the vampire being created by human society. In addition, the visible agelessness of the Bount caused humans to persecute and hunt them down under the impression that they were witches and monsters. Eventually, the Bount decided that they had no place in the human world.
What's even more tragic was that Bount didn't have the ability to reproduce, and could only survive by sucking the souls of the dead.
Because the birth of Bount originated from an experiment error of the Soul Society, so many years ago, the Soul Society launched a hunt for Bount, and because the experiment that caused them to be born was not very glorious, after the extermination of Bount, all the information about them was also destroyed.
This was also the reason why the young shinigami in the Soul Society have never heard of Bount. In addition to the long amount of time passed, there was another part of the reason, which was due to the lack of information.