4 Chapter 4. Changes in the Hueco Mundo

It has been a few days since Nova decided to 'stalk' the orange-haired boy. During this time Nova learned the boy's name was Kurosaki Ichigo. He lives with his father Kurosaki Issho and his sisters Kurosaki Karin and Kurosaki Yuzu. Sadly Nova didn't learn anything other than these. Also during this time Ichigo 'killed' few hollows in the name of helping others. One of them was a woman with long orange hair named Inoue Orihime who is a classmate of him. Except that it was pretty peaceful. But not anymore as Ichigo was confronting the shinigami who came to bring back the girl shinigami who named Rukia.

The battle between them was quite interesting as Ichigo who got his powers recently was winning against a shinigami with proper training and discipline which made Nova think the shinigami have grown weaker. But soon the other shinigami who came immobilized Ichigo and took the girl. He was wearing a captain's clothes indicating he was captain. He had long black hair. He also was wearing a scarf and white headpieces.

Before going he let his subordinate destroy Ichigo's spiritual vein making him cry in agony.

Suddenly a man wearing dark green shihakusho came carrying a wooden umbrella after the shinigami left and took Ichigo.

"Boring." Nova yawned after Urahara Kisuke left carrying Ichigo. After 'stalking' Ichigo and his friends for days, Nova got bored quickly and decided to return to the Hueco Mundo.

"Garganta." The rift appeared and Nova entered instantly.

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It has been several months since Nova came back to the Hueco Mundo and now he was currently in the Los Noches, headquarter of Sosuke Aizen and his subordinates.

The reason why Nova decided to join them was that Aizen was creating the arrancars whom he considers the same race as him.

But he didn't reveal any of his powers due to being overly cautious about Aizen. Nova felt like Aizen was the most dangerous person he ever met. Aizen was dangerous due to his super-high intelligence, not his fighting prowess. Aizen was super smart as if Nova made a small mistake he would know something is wrong with Nova and investigate him and possibly learn about his identity which Nova didn't want to.

During his stay at the Los Noches, Nova learned that Aizen wants to become a god which is very out fashioned and nearly impossible. But Nova had feelings that Aizen has something that can help him to achieve this goal and he can possibly do it. That something was the same thing that created arrancars. The Hogyoku.

Hogyoku is a little blueish sphere. From what arrancar's know, it has the ability to dissolve the boundary between Shinigami and Hollow, allowing one race to gain the power of the other. Due to it, the arrancars born from this sphere is actually stronger than the ones from the past. But there is a catch. They are only stronger in their base and the first resurrection form. Beyond that, they became relatively weaker as they can't use further stages of the resurrection. So Hogyoku allows hollow to attain a lot of power alongside cutting off their potential to develop further. Nova also learned after he was banished, there was almost no natural arrancar. Due to this these arrancars and hollows don't know that their potential has been cut off.

"Quite unfortunate." Nova muttered after learning all of this.

"What is unfortunate?" a female voice asked from the behind of Nova.

"Nothing. Miss Harribel." Nova scratched the back of his head while faking laughter.

Tier Harribel stared at Nova for a bit and walked away. Tier Harribel is the tres espada or third espada. She has olive skin, green eyes, and short golden hair which was messy at the moment.

Nova stared at the Harribel who was walking further away, muttered "Tier Harribel, huh. Well, she is a quite scary woman." and went his way.

While working here Nova witnessed the prowess of all the espadas excluding the upper 4 which includes Coyote Starrk the primera espada, Baraggan Louisenbairn the segunda espada, Tier Harribel the tres espada, and Ulquiorra Cifer the cuatro espada as they don't often train.

Nova stopped walking after few minutes and said "Something interesting is about to happen." with a smirk on his face. He felt a garganta being opened and two of the espadas were about to enter it. From the wavelengths of their spiritual energy, Nova guessed one of them was Yammy Llargo and Ulquiorra Cifer.

'Is your plan is setting sail now, Sosuke Aizen?' Nova thought with a smirk on his face.