Chapter 178 Cruelty
Ichigo went toward the ruin with great speed. His shunpo was at the same level as Soifon.
Even though he was very fast, he expected that there should be someone who could follow him.
But he found that what he expected wasn't what he had expected.
How could a very old Vasto Lorde use such a simple plan!
Was he expecting him to fall for such an old trick?
He was stopped by a bunch of low class arrancars and hollows.
They rain on him with provocative words. But it wasn't really creative at all for a modern teen like him.
"He really wants to lure me to his enemies. But shouldn't he use someone more fit to the role than these people?"
Ichigo looked at the low class arrancars and hollows.
They were just a bunch of losers.
They tried to rile him up but Kenpachi did even better than them.
"I don't want to kill you all. Just go away."
That was how pathetic they were. Ichigo couldn't bring himself to kill them.
He felt that he would have a nightmare if he were to kill them.
"T–this… it's impossible! How is he still not chasing after us!"
"He didn't seem to be angry at all!"
"No way should we try harder. Maybe we should use more bad words!"
They thought they had done a good job but the reality is always disappointing.
They were so bad at it.
Ichigo shook his head. Then he wanted to move on.
He didn't want to waste anymore time with them.
But he was stopped by the low class arrancars.
They looked desperate. It was like if he didn't chase them to where he should be something bad would happen to them.
Or someone that might be close to them.
"Please stop! We also didn't want to do this but if you don't come with us. They are going to kill our family!."
Family…it was the word that shook Ichigo the most.
He stopped and looked at them more seriously to see if they were lying to him or not.
To his surprise. They weren't lying.
Barragan must have taken their family hostage so he could control them.
He could even tell them to die and they would die for him.
Ichigo thought about it and then he did something.
He looked at them with pity.
When they saw him looked at them with such eyes.
They felt that he was going to say something that they did not want to hear.
"I can't help you because your family is already gone. I can't sense any of them with your spiritual signature anywhere."
The low class arrancars were shaken but it seemed that they already knew about it.
It was just that they could not accept it.
They looked at each other and said
"So what is the point of living? Why don't you just kill us?"
"..."
Ichigo looked them in the eyes. What he had seen was the eyes of those who lose the will to live on.
Ichigo sighed. He knew how they felt as he also had the same experience as them.
He lost everyone he held dear. His life was over because he didn't want to live on.
And who was he to reject them.
"So be it. I will make it painless for you all."
They didn't want to harm him in the first place so he would just purify them.
He didn't reject them, it didn't mean he won't give them a second chance.
He performed a soul burial to them. Making them reborn in soul society.
It would be very hard to live in rukongai but it was still better than being consumed by the hollow world.
Ichigo sent them. He then looked in a direction that should be the direction of his fortress.
"Useless"
Ichigo spoke only one word but he knew it was already enough to convey his feeling.
He then continued toward the ruin.
…
Inside an old building among the high dune.
"It wasn't supposed to be like this"
The subordinate who was ordered to use the luring method to deal with the enemies was shocked that the team he had picked would be killed easily.
"He was more dangerous than I had thought. I need to do something. Otherwise, I would be killed by him."
The subordinate felt like he should run away.
His family was also had gone just like them but he chose to live on and tried to find away to fuck up Barragan plan.
"Wait a minute, why don't I lure him toward Las Noches. But before I can do that I need to get closer to him first."