Aizen has abducted Orihime.
In order to save her,
Ichigo, Ishida, Sado, Rukia, and Renji have marched into Hueco Mundo.
They finally reach Las Noches.
Upon breaking into the palace,
the group decides to split up and go down separate paths
in order to look for Orihime.
Each of them encountered powerful Arrancars who were waiting,
and a fierce battle began.
Ishida fights Arrancar Number 105, Cirucci Sanderwicci,
whose ever-changing whip puts Ishida into a predicament.
But Ishida is unexpectedly saved by Pesche,
who was lost after looking for Nel.
Angered, Cirucci releases her zanpakuto and attacks.
Rip…
Golondrina!
Who should I slice first?
You're not getting away, four eyes!
She knocked it away!
It's as I thought. All those feathers are vibrating at high speeds!
That turbulent sound that's been reverberating is proof of that!
Here! One more!
I have no choice.
Wha—?!
What…is that?
How unfortunate.
I was really hoping to hold off on using this until a little later.
Shall we continue?
I'm glad that I took precautions.
When I left the hospital with Mr. Urahara…
I figured it would be of some use,
so I borrowed it from the hidden storehouse in the hospital
using Mr. Urahara’s ability.
Seeleschneider… The only bladed Quincy weapon.
You “borrowed” it from a hidden storehouse without permission?!
Y-You thief!
Shut up!
I never said that I took it without permission!
Then did you take it with, or without permission?!
Without!
See, you took it without permission, you thief!
Whose side are you on?!
Just be quiet already!
What?! How can you talk like that to the person who saved your life!
You're pathetic, Ichigo!
I'm Uryu!
What?!
What is it this time?!
You're Uryu?!
That's right!
Then who's Ishida?
I told you! It’s Uryu Ishida!
Ah… Which means that you're not Ishida Uryu!
Enough already!
Quincy…
Wha—?
I see… So you're a Quincy, eh?
You know about them? I feel honored.
I know about them.
They're that poor tribe
that was wiped out by the Soul Reapers, aren't they?
But that's all I know!
That's right!
So why is someone like you helping a Soul Reaper?!
I just don't understand!
I don't need to answer you.
Why don't you pay more attention to your feathers instead of me?
Did you forget about earlier?
That wasn't a fluke or a temporary rise in Spiritual Pressure.
A long flight record…
Will you stay quiet already?!
Humph!
Honestly. You're so ungrateful!
High-speed vibrations are destroyed by even greater high-speed vibrations.
Seeleschneider works like a chainsaw.
Reishi oscillates at three million revolutions per second
along its Reishi blade.
Quincies are highly perceptive.
From what I can see,
the reishi on the surface of your feathers oscillate
at about 1.1 to 1.3 million revolutions per second.
That's less than half of Seeleschneider’s.
So… In short, my feathers don't work against you anymore, right?
Yeah. That's right.
Okay.
I didn't think that you could freely remove your released form like that.
Is it the same for all of you?
We can't freely do this.
I discarded it.
What?
I can't go back to that form again.
The formal name for our zanpakuto releases
is Resurrección, or “Returning Blade.”
It's something that brings back
our original Hollow attack abilities to our Arrancar bodies.
We can only return to human form again
when we return our abilities back into sword form.
Changing our forms without returning our powers back into sword form
is the same as burning off our own arm.
I’m bad at conserving energy.
I expend a lot of Spiritual Pressure just by wearing these arms and feathers.
So if I can't use them, I may as well discard them.
And it's much more useful…
To gather that excess Spiritual Pressure.
Is this battle something you really need to go that far to win?
Huh?! Are you stupid?!
If we didn't have to win, then we wouldn't have started a war in the first place!
Arrancars are soldiers.
The Espada are their leaders.
We were born to kill and defeat our enemies.
Forgivable defeats?
There is no such thing!
Not anywhere!
I should have done this sooner!
Take this!
There!
Tsk! Come to think of it,
there's no need to fight in a form that leaves me vulnerable
to hits from your sword!
If we have swords with the same abilities,
then the one with the longer reach will win.
What is it? Have you given up?
The same ability?
You seem to be getting slightly the wrong idea.
Seeleschneider's Spiritual Pressure vibrations aren't for cutting.
It uses vibrations to loosen the bonds between the reishi of the object it cuts
to make it easier to take its reishi.
A Quincy battle is about gathering the reishi from the surrounding area
and fighting with it as a weapon.
Seeleschneider is the strongest embodiment of that idea.
Your reishi is pretty much mine.
Y-You've got to be kidding!
Also, you've got another thing wrong.
Seeleschneider is not a sword.
Quincies don't use any weapon other than bows.
Sorry… I win… Cirucci Sanderwicci.
Indeed, one’s reach was the winning factor.
Let's go, Pesche.
Is that all right? She's not dead.
The choice of whether someone lives is in the hands of the victor.
I am the victor of this battle.
I pierced her soul chain, the source of spiritual power production.
Arrancars are Hollows who have become more like Soul Reapers…
Their soul structure should be similar.
Letting her live may be an insult to her,
but I have no intention of stooping to their standards.
Even if she awakens and comes after me,
she won't have enough power to fight me.
I see…
If that's the case, that's fine.
Come on, let's go, Ichigo!
I'm Uryu.
Damn it.
That's quite a slight.
Lord Cirucci Sanderwicci…
I've come for you.
Please be quiet.
Damn it.
How trifling.
You're just no match for me,
Arrancar Number 107, Gantenbainne Mosqueda.
It's useless.
A human who can't even use a Sonido
will never be able to get his attack to hit me!
I keep on telling you that.
Right, Yasutora Sado?
If you still want to fight, I won't stop you. But you'll die.
Try and see if I'll die.
You only use the force of strength.
But attacks like this are useful too, you know.
I’ll say it to you once more… You'll really die.
Right now, I have no intention of dying.
Jeez. You've got some guts.
What?!
I told you that I have no intention of dying.
Yasutora Sado, I understand your feelings.
I suppose I've got to fight you at full strength.
That's right… I have to get past you.
Sounds pretty interesting.
I'm not finished yet!
You fool!
Uno!
Dos!
Cientos!
Stand, Yasutora Sado.
I know that you're still hiding your power.
You're strong… Guys like you shouldn't fight like this.
Swear, in the name of God… that we'll fight fairly.
No response, huh?
That makes me sad!
Sorry.
I wasn't exactly hiding it.
It's just that ever since I came to Hueco Mundo,
I sensed something about my power that's different
from when I was in the World of the Living.
I was puzzled by that something,
and I wasn't able to get a grasp of my power until now.
But I've finally grasped it…
I can use my full power from here on.
Brazo Derecho Del Gigante.
This is my right arm's true form.
Ichigo and the others have Nel and her group with them…
No one's come to me.
If you're jealous, I'll trade places with you at any time.
What are you saying, Ichigo?! We're best friends!
A best friend would never get my name wrong.
|THE ARRANCAR ENCYCLOPEDIA
The Arrancar Encyclopedia.
Today we will discuss sword releases.
An Arrancar's sword release is called a Resurrección, or "Returning Blade."
An Arrancar does this to bring its original Hollow attack abilities
to its Arrancar body.
What do you think? I'm pretty sexy even when I'm released, aren't I?
But if you fly around like this, won't we be able to see up your skirt?
I'm armored under my skirt too, so it's all right!
What?! Just what do you think men's fantasies are?!
I don't care!
I'm sorry.