Chapter 392 - 391: I Refuse
"Visit?"
The word left Mazuru’s lips like a blade.
His voice was calm, but the edge within it was unmistakable. "So you break into my Hueco Mundo, in my Las Noches without permission, start a war with my subordinates, cause deaths in my court... and call it a visit?"
The sarcasm in his tone was sharper than his sword.
Askin’s face twisted. The others—Bazz-B, Cang Du, and Quilge—shifted uneasily, their pride colliding with the truth.
Before facing Mazuru, none of them had taken Hueco Mundo seriously.
Even when Tousen Kaname had slain Mask, even when Ulquiorra had forced Askin to reveal his Vollständig and Gift Bereich, they’d dismissed it as weakness on the arrancars’ side.
After all, the Sternritters were numerous—more than twice the size of the Gotei 13. It was inevitable that some of their own members were "parallel imports", as Bazz-B liked to call them: less refined, less competent.
But strength in numbers bred arrogance.
Their real objective wasn’t an alliance. It never was.
They had come to test, to measure, and—if the test failed—to enslave.
They’d even justified it with a neat phrase: "Weighing Hueco Mundo’s qualification for alliance."