6 Chapter 6. Agreement

After reaching an agreement with Urahara Kisuke, Nova was hunting a few Numeros as a test subject for Urahara. Nova made sure he hunted those with three digits numbers since their disappearance won't alert Aizen as Aizen was only seeing hollows as disposable pawns for his plan.

"This makes it four." Nova exclaimed while carrying an arrancar on his back. The arrancar has lost consciousness due to a powerful attack on the back of his neck.

"Garganta." A rift appeared and Nova was about to enter it until he heard a voice behind him.

"Who are you? And what are you doing?" a voice said.

"Nothing." Nova looked back and answered in a cheerful tone.

"Nothing?" The source of the voice was Tres Espada, Tier Harribel. Tier had felt Nova was suspicious a long time ago. But tonight was the day she would know the truth.

Without further notice, Tier attacked the arrancar in front of her. Her attack was decisive but not deadly since she needed the arrancar alive for interrogation about his motive.

But she had underestimated the opponent in front of him. Nova had vanished from her sight. Tier was dumbfounded by this. She never thought there would be an arrancar who is not Espada, faster than her. It wasn't out of arrogance but it was true there were very few arrancars faster than her and all of them are Espadas.

A few seconds later, the space around Tier began to act strange as it was bending all of the places. It didn't last long, rather Tier didn't stay awake long as became unconscious from the same on the back of her neck.

After a while Tier awakened. She was ashamed of herself since being defeated by the lower ranking arrancars was a disgrace for her position as one of the Espada, not only she was Espada, but she was also an upper ranking Espada.

"Hey, you. You are finally awake." a familiar voice sounded.

Tier stared at the source of the sound, the arrancar who defeated her.

"Why didn't you kill me?" Tier asked.

"Why would I kill you? I'm not that heartless." Nova said cheerfully.

'Not heartless?' Tier sighed after hearing these words. She never imagined an arrancar would say these words. Heart. It is the thing all hollows lacks and tries very hard to refill its blankness.

"First thing is first. Let me introduce myself." Nova said. "My name is Nova. An arrancar just like you. But I am natural not born with the help of the Hogyoku. And my goal is to turn the arrancars born with the help of the Hogyoku, Artificial arrancars into the natural ones just like me."

This piqued Tier's curiosity. "Why do you want to turn us into natural arrancar? And how are you gonna turn us to natural arrancar?"

"We, Arrancar often classified same as the hollows by the quincies and shinigamis even though we are different. Humans and monkeys. They both originated from the same family but humans will never consider monkeys the same as them since monkeys aren't in the same level of intelligence as them. That's the same with arrancar and hollow as hollows are just mindless beasts who are hungry for food. While arrancars are not as mindless and hungry as them. We even have the same looks as Quincies, Shinigamis, and Humans. So we should be considered the same as them. Therefore I will create a place like the Soul Society where the arrancars can live peacefully, not afraid of others who might come and kill us just because we were born like this. This is my dream. No, this is my goal. For this goal, i first need the Soul Society to view us different. I will make them view us different even if it need a force. Do you understand, Tres Espada Tier Harribel?" Nova finally ended his long speech.

Tier was looking at him with full of surprise in her eyes. But there was also hope in her eyes. If she said she never thought of what Nova said, it would be a lie. She too, wanted arrancars to live in peace. But she lacked the strength to do it. That's why she joined Aizen. She hoped for power to bring peace upon the arrancars.

"So, will you join me?" Nova asked.

"I will," Tier said. Her words were serious. Very serious. "Did you find a way to turn artificial to natural?"

"Unfortunately not yet. But soon Urahara Kisuke will find a way." Nova replied.

"Urahara Kisuke? The former captain of 12th squad?" Tier asked. She never expected Urahara Kisuke, whom the word shinigami is engraved in his heart would help an arrancar, the enemy of his.

"He already agreed to help me. As a price, I will help him when he asks." Nova said.

"Since it's Urahara Kisuke, he might be able to. But isn't he an enemy?"

"No. I don't consider shinigami as the enemy. I only consider Quincy as the enemy. Do you know why?" As Nova asked this question Tier became silent.

"If it wasn't for shinigamis, hollows would have been eradicated long ago. And the job of shinigami is to keep the balance not to kill us. While quincies only thought of killing us. Just like they did thousands of years ago. That is why."

Tier stood silent as she was wondering how old is the arrancar in front of her.