So how does your stomach feel,
Ashisogijizo?
You swallowed it whole, so I guess it will take some time for digestion.
Based on what I know now, it was a good idea to make you without teeth, though.
If you had bitten it, it'd have multiplied inside your stomach
and destroyed you.
Did I imitate you well?
You forgot...
That Pernida is a Quincy.
I can kill enemies with a bow and arrows.
No, no, I have not forgotten.
I really didn't imagine that the left arm of the Soul King
would do something so embarrassing as declaring that they are a Quincy!
Embarrassing?
How am I embarrassing?
How could it be embarrassing to declare that I'm a Quincy?
I've always been a Quincy.
You really keep talking bad about Quincy.
It's annoying.
What was that?
The way he spoke changed for a moment.
His vocabulary has been increasing
since the start of this fight.
Is he recovering his memories as the Soul King?
Or is he just evolving for some reason?
His nerves are connected to the arrows.
He bent the arrow with the nerves on the ground!
Darn it! That's going to hit me.
Idiot!
I didn't order you to come out!
If you had fallen to the ground, you'd have become meatballs by now.
I judged that you needed a shield during this fight.
I don't remember teaching you to join a fight based on your own judgment.
No. You did not teach me that.
Are you saying that you learned on your own to do things I didn't teach you?
I don't know.
Nemu. No.
Sleep No. 7.
Since Ichigo Kurosaki and the others appeared,
we've been through countless fights.
I taught you too much.
Do you know how difficult it would be
for me to raise the next you
to become the current you?
I don't know.
If you don't know, then don't act based on your own judgment!
You're not allowed to die of your own accord!
You can only die when I order you to!
If you understand, stand up!
Yes, I understand, Lord Mayuri.
Do you remember
what you called me
when I first woke up?
I really liked that name.
You're awake, huh?
Good morning, No. 7.
BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War
Lord Mayuri, I forgot this.
This is a Hojiku-zai.
Actually, the reason I came out was to give you this.
Did you realize from the start that I forgot to take a Hojiku-zai with me?
Yes. When we were attacked,
I noticed you didn't touch the drug stand
where normally you take drugs before fights.
You really do observe me.
That's creepy.
I am sorry, Lord Mayuri.
Nemu, can you hear me?
Yes.
This is my strategy.
I'm now flying around to scatter
highly-concentrated narcotics over a wide area.
I don't know how they will work on him
but with the arrow from earlier, I calculated the strength of its nerves.
With this concentration, I can definitely stop his arrows.
This concentration will affect me as well,
but that can't be helped.
Nemu, your job is
to inject a nerve-coagulating agent directly into the ineffective arrow.
It's not a narcotic
that blocks the nerves from communicating
and drains power from them.
As the name says, it's a "coagulating agent."
It forcefully freezes any organs connected to
those nerves as soon as the agent reaches them.
In other words,
when this drug reaches them,
open eyelids will stay open.
The contracted heart won't expand.
And his open mouth won't be closed either!
You're loud, Lord Mayuri.
Shut up.
I don't know what's inside his body,
but I was able to confirm that blood flows inside it.
I will kill him with this drug by making his blood flow coagulate.
His nerves on the ground are numbed by the narcotic.
You can step on them.
Before he can sever the nerve from the arrow,
inject the drug!
It's over, Pernida.
Kurotsuchi, that's not enough to kill me.
Why does he speak like that?
It sounds like Zaraki...
I see.
He can evolve by absorbing information from objects his nerves touch!
This is bad.
If his nerves have evolved up to Zaraki's level,
Nemu's speed won't be enough to match it.
Get away, Nemu!
This is... the Matai Fukuin Shoutai power.
Lord Mayuri.
What? Captain Kurotsuchi doesn't call you by your name?
Yes.
Lately, he's been calling me Nemu.
Isn't that nice?
Nemu is your name, right?
No, my name is Sleep No. 7.
Something came out!
Hey, Kuna, what are you doing?
I didn't do anything!
Seriously.
We have to restore all the lab functions before the captains come back.
These are the initial remains of the synthetic soul project "Sleep."
It really brings back memories.
Sleep? You mean Nemu?
Yeah. These are No. 1 to No. 3.
Remains?
In other words, dead bodies.
It looks like cotton wadding.
We kept failing at the beginning.
The fourth one finally had a brain.
The technology of No. 4 fixed my head.
Yes... And the fifth one was able to get to the embryo stage.
With that technology, the captain modified his Zanpakuto
and became captain.
I see.
The sixth one grew to an age of two years.
But then the cells stopped dividing, and it died.
It was the life expectancy of synthetic soul cells.
That's why when the No. 7 surpassed that life expectancy,
the captain was extremely happy.
Why did Lord Mayuri stop calling me "Sleep No. 7"?
Why are you asking me and not him?
I don't think he would answer.
If you can understand that,
you should be able to realize that it's pointless to ask me!
Well...
I think he's just embarrassed.
Embarrassed?
I don't think Lord Mayuri has such feelings.
You're full of surprises, you know that?
The captain said...
The synthetic Soul Reaper...
New souls created from nothing are the dream of any Soul Reaper.
However, it's stupid to have a dream while awake.
That's why I will call this project "Sleep Project."
It was the captain's irony.
And this is just my guess.
The synthetic Soul Reaper is not the dream of any Soul Reaper,
but Captain Kurotsuchi's dream.
Do you understand?
Every day, we see you eat, sleep, breathe,
grow up, and learn something new.
During this time, Captain Kurotsuchi has always been in a dream.
He is probably embarrassed about you finding that out.
But I haven't though.
Seeing you become more intelligent each day,
I also know that one day you'll notice it.
If I am still ignorant,
Lord Mayuri would continue calling me No.7?
That's impossible.
You are the captain's masterpiece.
It's impossible to think you wouldn't evolve.
Nemu, why do you have this power?
You gave me this power.
You gave me the body of a Soul Reaper.
I have pushed the body's capabilities to within 0.8%
of the limit where its structures would fail.
You...
It's not a problem.
I can last another 400 seconds using that power.
I'm not saying that!
When did I ever give such an order?
It's not an order, it's a mission.
My mission is to protect you, Lord Mayuri.
No, your mission is to grow!
I think that I can best show you my growth by protecting you.
She has certainly learned to express her thoughts...
I didn't think I'd ever have to let Nemu fight in my place.
It's quite humiliating.
Soul cutting 6%.
I'll cut 6% of my soul and directly shoot it into him to destroy him.
Gikon Jurinju.
Lord Mayuri...
Impossible...
Nemu...
Are you in despair?
Feeling hopeless?
What did you say? Did I hear it wrong?
My ears aren't working well these days.
Let me see your face.
Impossible, huh?
You graciously lectured me as a scientist, did you not?
It's not possible, right?
"The synthetic soul died"?
"What's so depressing about that"?
I remember you told me that.
"Perfection is meaningless to a scientist."
"Perfection is despair."
"I detest perfection."
"Her death is good then."
"She died because she's imperfect."
"So I could make something even better."
I'm sure you'd say something like that.
I see.
You had begun to feel that useless meat doll you created was perfect, huh?
Mayuri Kurotsuchi, you have fallen.
You have to thank this monster of a left hand.
He killed that meat doll
and crushed that conceited attitude of yours.
You are alone and helpless.
Even that thing you thought of as perfect is no more.
If it were me, I would be laughing out loud right now.
You're absolutely right.
I never thought that a fake scientist like you would notice my negligence.
It's hilarious.
I see.
So you've come to eat what's left of Nemu?
Go ahead then. Eat every last bit of her.
But...
I'm going to have to take her brain back.
You feel numb as soon as you touch me, right?
Stop wasting time with me and eat Nemu.
If you don't hurry,
you'll die before you finish eating.
What's happening?
Within Nemu's pituitary gland that you ate,
I put an organ that forces the synthetic soul cell
to divide faster than it normally would.
That was done to extend her growth past the theoretical limit,
which is a unique organ that could go out of control suddenly.
It is controlled directly by the brain's basal ganglia,
which is linked to the parietal lobe.
Let me keep it simple so that a fool like you can understand.
When you take in that organ without the brain,
you will end up killing yourself from overgrowth.
I see, so the remnants of the nerves are still alive?
That's a headache.
Doesn't this put me in the same position as Zaraki then?
What? Squad 11 didn't run away?
A group of fools beyond imagination, indeed...
The fact that you didn't interfere in the fight is commendable.
Listen well.
Ahead of 30 houses from here,
below the rubble on the right, there are two body containers.
Go along with them.
Don't worry, although it took me some time,
I've dezombified them.
Their lives were cut down a bit,
but they shouldn't complain, as I did save their lives after all.
Kurotsuchi, thank you.
Put me inside the vacant one...
And put Zaraki in the remaining one.
We'll see you soon, Captain Zaraki.
Be right back.
Captain Kurotsuchi, thank you for saving Captain Zaraki!
I'm receiving a lot of thank yous today.
How creepy.
But that doesn't really matter.
Evolution!
I've finally created a soul from scratch that evolves on its own!
I've surpassed you, Kisuke Urahara!
I can't seem to imagine the frustration on your face.
But all the reason more to see it for myself.
So the next time we meet, I'll show you the difference between you and me.
Me and you...
The two of us.
This arena was also moved up here.
His Majesty really knows how to wear you out.
Yeah.
Everyone, gather!
Extensive planning.
Did you bring them here along with the town?
That's right.
We should all charge then.
Why is Uryu Ishida in the Ain Ast?
Don't let him out of your sight, go!
It seems you have a strong interest in Uryu Ishida, don't you?
Bazz-B, what are you doing?
Shouldn't you first say,
"So you are still alive?" before you ask me what I am doing?
The feeling was whispered.
The reflection in the mirror.