Chapter 111: Third Subordinate Officer

Starrk's heart was full of unwillingness, all his methods were restrained leaving him at a loss.

He was badly wounded and was waiting for death.

However, after Mazuru came to his side, he did not delivered the final blow for a long time.

Starrk couldn't help asking Mazuru, "Why not kill me? Do you want to humiliate me, the loser?"

"Humiliation is not productive enough, I just want to chat with you a few more words."

Mazuru sat beside Starrk who was lying on the ground. He didn't worry about Starrk pretending to be injured and giving him a surprise attack.

In this space, his existence is no longer limited to his physical body, it can be said that the entire space is him.

All the crimson mist, crimson sea, everything is him.

Even if Starrk got successfully landed a surprise attack, it wouldn't do him any harm.

"What do you want to talk about?" Starrk saw that his life was already in the hands of others and he didn't have any ability to turn things around, so he simply gave in to Mazuru's idea of chatting.

"You've seen it too, that Nelliel, um, that's my subordinate's name. Despite being a hollow, she follows me." Mazuru spoke, then stared at Starrk and said, "Are you interested in becoming my subordinate too?"

Stark was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Mazuru said, "You said you weren't interested in humiliating me! Do you think that I don't know that hollow and shinigami could never live in harmony?!"

"But didn't you saw with your own eyes just now?" Mazuru responded to Starrk calmly.

Starrk's eyes flickered, although it was a bit unbelievable, but he did saw it with his own eyes.

No matter whether Nelliel was forced or did so voluntarily, she indeed chose to become Mazuru's subordinate, so no matter how difficult it was for him to accept, he had to admit that hollow and shinigami could coexist peacefully at certain times.

"As a shinigami, when you faced hollow, you didn't kill it. Instead, you tried your best to accept him/her as a subordinate... It seems that you are very ambitious."

Starrk was very clever and immediately realized Mazuru's purpose of subduing hollow to become his subordinates.

Normal shinigami, when encountering hollows, will only choose to fight hollows to the death and will never even think about subduing the hollows.

But Mazuru did this kind of thing, either because he was really kind and unwilling to kill hollows, or he had other plans, anyway, Starrk didn't think Mazuru was a kind person. Since he wasn't a kind person, it was the latter.

In short, Mazuru is not a good person!

"I admit that I do have some selfish intentions." Mazuru did not deny this, "What about you? What do you think? Do you want to maintain your stubborn character and die unwillingly like this, or do you succumb to me who is more powerful than you and become my subordinate?"

Starrk didn't respond to Mazuru's question. He was already seriously injured at the moment, and Mazuru's words of submitting to power reminded him of some past events.

Once upon a time, because he was too powerful, all the hollows close to him would automatically die. Because he was too lonely, he was extremely eager for a companion who could walk side by side with him.

He had also met Baraggan, the King of Hueco Mundo.

Baraggan was indeed powerful and seemed qualified to be his companion, but in the end, he gave up.

Because Baraggan's idea of relationship was for superiors and inferiors not of equal companions which he didn't like very much, so after fighting with Baraggan, he chose to leave. Until later, he split into Lilynette, barely getting rid of some loneliness, But Lilynette is essentially a part of himself and he has never been able to find a powerful companion who can walk side by side with him.

'If it's him, maybe he can...'

Starrk glanced at Mazuru, thinking in his heart.

Immediately he dismissed the idea.

Even if Mazuru has such great strength, he is still a shinigami after all.

Hollow and shinigami are opposite to each other.

No matter what kind of ambitions this shinigami has to make him make subordinates in Hueco Mundo, it is impossible for him to stay in Hueco Mundo for a long time after all.

After all Hueco Mundo is not the world of shinigamis.

Starrk didn't answer Mazuru's question, he slowly closed his eyes, waiting for the arrival of death.

Born alone, and then died alone, this ending seems to be quite apt for him.

Mazuru looked at Starrk, saw that he didn't respond, and said again, "Well, after all, you are an Arrancar and you are also one of the strongest in Hueco Mundo, so it's not that easy to make you succumb."

"After all, the strong have their own pride."

"As I said before, you are very lonely. In order to relieve loneliness, you split your soul and gave birth to a girl to relieve your loneliness."

"But is this the way of resolving loneliness what you really want?"

Starrk's closed eyes suddenly opened, looking at Mazuru, instead of denying Mazuru's words as before, he acquiesced to the fact that he was lonely, and asked Mazuru, "What do you really know?"

"Let's put it this way, about Hueco Mundo I basically know a dozen or so things more than anyone else."

"I know you've been looking for a powerful companion who can be with you without being weakened or dead."

"Hueco Mundo is about to undergo a big change. In the past, Hueco Mundo only had you as an Arrancar. So even Vasto-Lorde were weak existences to you."

"But the future Hueco Mundo will become a world for Arrancars. A strong man like you will definitely not be left-out."

"Arrancar?" Starrk understood, Mazuru called him 'Arrancar' previously for the fact that he evolved by breaking his mask.

"That's right, although they didn't became Arrancar by themselves instead they relied on external factors to break the mask, but the strength after becoming Arrancar is indeed real."

"These kind of hollow may still be not as powerful as you, but in terms of their existence-level, at least they are at the same level as you, so they should not be weakened by your power and die."

Mazuru lifted his Bankai.

The blood-red world disappeared.

Nelliel who stood in the distance, found that the blood-red barrier in front of her had disappeared, and Starrk, who had previously fought with Mazuru, healed some of his injuries with Mazuru's help, while following Mazuru along with Lilynette.

Although Lilynette still had some complaints about Mazuru, still like Starrk, she did not continue to attack Mazuru.

This made Nelliel a little curious.

When Mazuru first made her his subordinate, he knew that she hated killing, so he told her that she can use her new powers to maintain peace and stop senseless killings, and when he subdued Harribel, he told her that she can use the power to protect the people around her.

So, how did Mazuru subdued Starrk who had already become an Arrancar?

For Starrk, he shouldn't need to pursue the power of Arrancarization.

On the way back to Las Noches with Starrk and Lilynette, Nelliel asked her queries to Mazuru.

Mazuru asked her back, "What do you think a hollow is?"

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