"Roar!"
An Adjuchas roared and charged at Aizen and his two companions, wanting to kill them to gain favor with Baraggan.
"Swish!"
Tosen swiftly drew his sword. A flash of blade light, and the Adjuchas fell heavily, dissolving into Reishi.
"Attack! Kill them!" Baraggan's Hollow subordinates shouted.
"Wait!"
Baraggan suddenly spoke, stopping his subordinates.
"I'll handle this. It'll help pass the time," Baraggan said.
At this moment, Aizen spoke: "First meeting. I am Aizen, Aizen Sosuke. You are Baraggan, the King of Hueco Mundo, correct?"
"Indeed. And who are you?" Baraggan asked.
Before Aizen could answer, Baraggan continued: "Since you don't wear Hollow masks, you're not Hollows, are you? Humans or Shinigami?"
"Well, whatever. It's all the same. I happen to be quite bored. If you hadn't come, I wouldn't know what to do. The game of having subordinates split into two teams to fight each other is already tiresome. Your presence is most welcome," Baraggan said indifferently.
"Then, welcome to my castle… Las Noches!" Baraggan said to Aizen's group.
"Oh, interesting. Daring to call this a castle when it lacks a roof and walls?" Tosen mocked.
"A roof is completely unnecessary! As a king, the entire sky of Hueco Mundo is my roof!" Baraggan declared proudly.
"It seems the King of Hueco Mundo loves jokes," Tosen said.
"No need to say more, Kaname. No need to bother with him. Focus on the main task," Aizen intervened, stopping Tosen from continuing the argument.
"Yes, Aizen-sama!" Tosen said respectfully, then stepped back.
Shiing!
Aizen drew the Zanpakuto at his waist.
"King of Hueco Mundo, would you do me the honor of looking at my Zanpakuto, Kyoka Suigetsu?" Aizen said to Baraggan with an inscrutable expression.
Then, holding the sword reversed, a flash of light gleamed on the blade for a moment.
"What are you doing, brat?" Baraggan looked at Aizen, puzzled, wondering if he was mentally unsound.
Finally, someone came to cause trouble and help Baraggan pass the time. If they were mentally unsound, killing them wouldn't give Baraggan much satisfaction.
Ignoring Baraggan's look as if he were an idiot, Aizen continued: "I have a question for you, King of Hueco Mundo."
"For me?" Baraggan asked, puzzled.
"Indeed. Are you content with the status quo?" Aizen said.
"What?" Baraggan said, somewhat unable to comprehend.
Although Baraggan found life boring now, with no one who could understand him, a 'King' was inherently a lonely existence.
"Don't you feel the gap between it and your ideals? Don't you wish to break through to a new level?"
Aizen transformed into a life coach, persuasively coaxing.
Swish!
Aizen performed a sword flourish and sheathed his Zanpakuto.
"Then, lend me your strength. Follow me! I will grant you greater power!" Aizen invited.
"Greater power?" Baraggan asked.
"Indeed. My research is nearing completion. Research on Shinigami Hollowfication and Hollow Shinigamification… breaking the boundaries between opposing existences to elevate them to a higher level. And you too shall step into a new world," Aizen explained.
"Hmph... Hahaha! Greater power? A new world? How laughable, you insects! I, Baraggan, am the King of Hueco Mundo! The King of the World! The supreme existence! Aside from the world I myself created, there is no such thing as a new world!" Baraggan laughed heartily.
"Is that so?" Aizen said somewhat mysteriously.
"Men! Teach these impudent insects a proper lesson!" Baraggan shouted angrily.
Baraggan no longer had any intention of toying with Aizen to pass the time. Aizen's arrogance had thoroughly enraged him.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!"
Numerous Hollows immediately stepped forward, surrounding Aizen and his two companions.
"Yare yare, what can you do?" Gin sighed, then, along with Tosen, met the attacking Hollows.
"Your opponent is me. To die by the hand of me, Baraggan, King of Hueco Mundo, is a blessing earned over three lifetimes!" Baraggan pointed at Aizen.
"Heh, how ironic, King of Hueco Mundo," Aizen chuckled.
"What?" Baraggan asked, not understanding.
"You are clearly a Hollow, yet armed with a weapon, you resemble a Shinigami more than a Shinigami," Aizen said.
Baraggan's appearance indeed resembled a Shinigami more than a Shinigami. Aside from wearing black Shihakusho, the Shinigami of the Gotei 13 looked no different from humans.
But Baraggan, holding a double-bladed giant axe like a scythe, looked no different from the Grim Reaper.
"Outrageous!" Baraggan roared, leaping down from the high platform with his double-bladed axe, slashing at Aizen.
Swish!
Baraggan cleaved 'Aizen' in two from the middle.
Then, with two more swings, he 'killed' 'Gin' and 'Tosen'.
"Hmph, foolish thing. Only capable of empty boasts," Baraggan said disdainfully, seeing Aizen and his companions easily 'killed'.
"Truly boring. Can't even serve to pass the time-"
Swish!
Before Baraggan could finish, a blade light came slashing at him.
Seeing this, Baraggan hastily retreated.
Unfortunately, Baraggan couldn't completely avoid it.
Crrack!
The crown on Baraggan's head suddenly split in two from the middle.
Ding-dong!
The two halves of the crown fell to the ground with a clear, melodious sound.
"This... what is this?!" Baraggan exclaimed in shock.
At that moment, Aizen and his two companions, who had been 'killed' by Baraggan, reappeared before him.
"You... why are you still alive?!" Baraggan said incredulously.
"The true ability of my Zanpakuto, Kyoka Suigetsu, is [Complete Hypnosis]," Aizen said.
"Complete Hypnosis?" Baraggan asked, puzzled.
"That means what you just killed were merely illusions," Aizen explained.
"Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu!"
Aizen deactivated Kyoka Suigetsu's ability.
"How... what's going on?!" Baraggan looked around in disbelief.
The entire Las Noches was filled with scattered limbs and severed bodies, a hellish scene of rivers of blood. All of Baraggan's Hollow subordinates lay in pools of blood.
"This is your world," Aizen explained.
Earlier, when Baraggan ordered his subordinates to attack Aizen's group, those Hollows had already been killed by Aizen and his companions. What Baraggan saw afterward, of his subordinates attacking Aizen's group, was merely an illusion created by Kyoka Suigetsu.