It's hard to say clearly who created these Hollows.
Perhaps Aizen wanted to completely bind Kisuke Urahara and Hueco Mundo together, so he devised this trick: the moment the Shinigami came to the Human World to investigate, they'd be attacked by Hollows.
However, a few Menos Grande were definitely not enough to deal with Yoshio.
"Sit Upon the Frozen Heavens, Hyōrinmaru!"
At that moment, Tōshirō Hitsugaya had already released his Zanpakutō.
Facing a few Menos Grande, with his strength, it was naturally no problem.
Yoshio didn't go to help. After all, he was responsible for covering the rear while Tōshirō Hitsugaya was responsible for opening the way—that was how it should be.
Don't be eager to do work that isn't yours.
Just do your own job well.
Yoshio directed the squad to exit the Dangai. By the time the Shinigami had settled in, Tōshirō Hitsugaya's battle was already over.
"Running into Menos Grande right off the bat—feels like bad things are coming."
Tōshirō Hitsugaya flew back and said with a grave expression.
"Don't worry," Yoshio said breezily. "Four captains came to the Human World, and Captain Aizen is here too. If anything happens, there'll naturally be a taller guy to shoulder it."
"By the way, where's Hinamori?"
Before they arrived, the Hinamori had already been patrolling on Sector 26.
"She's in Tokyo Sector 26, not the same sector as ours. She's under Captain Kuchiki's command right now."
Tōshirō Hitsugaya complained, "You're a lieutenant—shouldn't you at least care about your own squad members?"
"Who says I don't know? I was just testing you," Yoshio said.
"Let's split up and search now. Remember—report to the safe house every day, whether you find clues or not."
The Seireitei had established safe-house-like areas in many cities of the Human World to facilitate contact between Shinigami on assignment and the Seireitei.
For an operation of this scale, those safe houses would naturally be activated.
Reporting once a day was mandatory—if no one reported, that signaled a problem, and they could directly home in on that area.
"What about you?"
Watching the squad members gradually disperse—some alone, some in small groups—to carry out their tasks, Tōshirō Hitsugaya looked back at Yoshio again.
"Me?" Yoshio yawned, looking a bit sleepy. "I have to wait here for Captain Aizen. Until he gets here, I'm the team commander. Have you ever seen a team commander personally go out to search?"
"…" Hitsugaya sighed. "Then I'll go first. If I find a lead, I'll come back for you."
"No problem."
Yoshio waved a hand. Tōshirō Hitsugaya used Shunpo and vanished after a few flickers.
Watching Tōshirō Hitsugaya leave, the smile on Yoshio's face gradually faded. He slowly closed his eyes and shifted part of his consciousness into Angra Mainyu's body.
Although he could do many things at once, it was always more comfortable to devote more focus rather than only half.
Now, among the captains of GoteI 13, only first and second were left. The remaining Suì-Fēng is just an imaginary body. This is the best time to go to the Seireitei and pick up the leftovers.
However, considering Angra Mainyu's combat power was currently extremely low, he still needed to act cautiously.
Although Yoshio and Angra Mainyu were one entity, their Souls Abilities were not shared.
To put it another way, only when someone's favorability toward "Yoshio" reached 80 or higher would he permanently gain that person's Souls Ability. In this case, this person's favorability exceeded 80 toward "Yoshio," but not toward "Angra Mainyu."
Therefore, Yoshio could use the other party's Souls Ability, but Angra Mainyu could not.
In other words, if Angra Mainyu also earned Tōshirō Hitsugaya's favorability, he would be able to use Child of Kirin.
Of course, Angra Mainyu could also gain others' favorability—but Souls Abilities he obtained would not be usable by Yoshio.
Unless Yoshio activated "Spirit Merge," reintegrating Angra Mainyu into his body, thereby permanently obtaining the Souls Abilities Angra Mainyu had acquired.
However, with Yoshio as an insider, Angra easily breached the Shakonmaku and infiltrated the Seireitei.
He first snuck into the Tsunayashiro Clan.
In that sense, the destruction of the Tsunayashiro Main Clan was also to Yoshio's advantage.
For example, many secrets controlled by the main family had already been lost before the Tsunayashiro branch family learned of them.
Much of the treasure they held also had not been handed to the branch.
So the branch needed time to excavate the secrets the main family once controlled.
And since it was about digging up secrets, naturally you couldn't have too many outsiders around.
In such circumstances, even risky moves were taken—in pursuit of profit and status, what was life worth?
Thus, under these conditions, Yoshio could easily infiltrate the "Tsunayashiro Clan."
Most importantly, Yoshio had previously entered the Tsunayashiro Clan under the identity of Tsunayashiro Muneyoshi. He knew the family's layout and even the location of the Third Treasury.
In fact, the location of the Third Treasury was very well hidden. If not for Tsunayashiro Tokinada leading the way, Yoshio would have had great difficulty finding it.
And the treasury's main gate had excellent security measures. Yoshio didn't know if there were other ways to open it, but at the time, it was opened with the gatekeepers' blood.
Those gatekeepers were, of course, dead—but that didn't matter; Yoshio had the ability of Appearance Mimicry.
He had arranged everything in advance before leaving.
He used Appearance Mimicry to transform into that gatekeeper's likeness, then collected some of his own blood.
With that blood, he could open the Third Treasury's gate and devour the soul king fragments within.
But when Yoshio arrived, he found the Third Treasury already surrounded.
Indeed, while the location was hidden, a thorough search by the Tsunayashiro branch family now occupying the estate could still find it.
However, they had no way to open the main gate and were likely still seeking a method.
But he had already sentenced the Tsunayashiro branch family to death.
Yoshio's current form was a mass of black sludge. He simply loosened his body and surged toward the crowd.
At first, they didn't notice the black mud on the ground, but as Yoshio writhed, the guards naturally sensed something was off.
"Who's there?!"
A guard shouted, but before his voice fell, the black sludge pounced. A great mass of viscous black liquid slammed the guard to the ground, wrapping him like a giant slime!
And then…
Digest!