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His orders had quickly changed from assisting with opening the senkaimon, to assisting with a mission in the world of the living; which mean going through the senkaimon. It was extremely rare for members of the kido corps to go to the world of the living; rare as in, it almost never happened in any given century. Mitsuoki had inquired as to why he was being sent there and was informed that a soul reaper had been dispatched prior to his reassigning to deal with a pair of hollow. Things had gone awry, leaving the soul reaper requesting back up. The one who Mitsuoki was opening the gate for was on the way to a different assignment. The line of thinking that was present was, since Mitsuoki had enough experience dealing with hollow, and he was already on his way there, it would be more efficient to have him go in and bail his comrade out. When told this, Mitsuoki had corrected the individual and clarified that no one in the thirteen court guard squads are his 'comrades.' He isn't friends with any of them, he simply works for the same organization that they do. While his messager didn't particularly appreciate being demoted from comrade to work associate, he understood and accepted the demotion with grace and humility. Mitsuoki had told the messenger that he understood his orders and thanked the messenger for informing him.

Exiting the senkaimon, Mitsuoki looked over the surrounding area with the same cold, apathetic, and elegant gaze that he always had. He used shunpo to vanish from his current position and take up a now spot atop a large building, where he could look over the area and get a better idea as to what was going on. There was no hint of the hollow at all, and he couldn't see anything in the way of context clues that would help him know where the battle was taking place. "Well, I guess I'll just walk around a bit." he said to himself in a tone that implied that not being able to do his assignment and having to default to roaming the streets and looking at stuff was a burden, while also implying that, that tone was one hundred percent pure sarcasm. He used shunpo once more to vanish from the building's rooftop and reappear at its base, among a fair sized crowd of humans who began moving around him, though, not exactly knowing why they were doing that. No one was even aware of the fact that they were avoiding the place where he was. It reminded Mitsuoki of the fact that he would never be able to understand humans. 'They move around me, but pay no attention to the fact that their instincts are making them avoid an empty pocket of space. Why is it that humans are so complacent?' he thought before beginning to move along, heading to the town's market district.

The boy looked at Mitsuoki but said not a single word. He slowly got up and looked at his mother. "I asked before, is this your mother?" Mitsuoki asked, to which the child nodded. "Understand that the pain of our losses can never go away, just as a missing limb does not regrow. The wound will heal, she may even have a new son; but, she will never forget you. She will never be finished mourning your death, but she will find a way to continue living her life. If you are lucky, the two of you will find each other when she passes. You may even linger in the soul society to meet your younger sibling. But there is no point in lingering in this world, you will only feel pain and loneliness." Mitsuoki said. The boy turned to Mitsuoki and said that he was ready to go. He was fine with things if his mom had another son, but he didn't want to have to watch her be sad every day. He wanted to be waiting for her in heaven, that way, when she got there, he could introduce her to all his friends. Mitsuoki slowly drew his zanpakuto from its sheathe and the boy took a step back with a scared look on his face. "Do not be afraid. This blade is not for you." he said, reassuring the boy. He turned the blade so the bottom of the hilt was facing the child and gently pressed it to his forehead, leaving a light blue mark. The boy began glowing in the same color as the mark, soon turning to a mass of particles that floated away.

Flash stepping from rooftop to rooftop, Mitsuoki went to the location where he was hearing the hollow's cry from. It took a few dozen steps before he was close enough to feel the hollow's spirit pressure, not because he was so far, but because it was so weak. More flash stepping. Flash stepping past homes that contained arbitrary and virtually worthless items. Past labor zones and work offices, full of people that did boring tasks just so they could have a place to sleep. People who went to sleep so they could have energy to go to work the next day. He flash stepped past schools, filled with human children, who were all learning the skills necessary to follow in their human parent's footsteps and join them in performing menial tasks to just barely survive. He kept going, leaping to the top of a bridge before stopping and looking around. Mitsuoki's eyes narrowed while he began focusing his senses on the spiritual pressure. It was so unbearably weak that he couldn't track it while moving. He caught the feel of it and vanished once more, moving past the cars and people traversing the bridge and getting closer to the hollow. His final flash step had put him directly in front of an incoming attack that seemed to be some form of energy based one. Mitsuoki put his hand out and the air in front of his hand shimmered just before the blast of red light hit an invisible wall.

The hollow let out a slow, thought induced, groan that implied it was thinking. "I am Palagii Clae, the Vasto Lorde." the hollow said. Mitsuoki let out a sigh and forced himself not to scoff at the hollow. "You are far from a vasto lorde, mister Clae. Had you been one, I and my associate would both be on our knees, just from being this close to you." "Wait, you're tellin' me that thing's not-" "He has the form of a human, as well as the size- yes. However, his cero is weaker than that of a gillion." The hollow vanished from sight using a hollow's version of flash step, appearing near Mitsuoki with his claws extended to cut him. Mitsuoki replied by putting up the same barrier as before, and noting that the claws did nothing to it. "Excuse me, Mister Clae, but do you mind if I end this fight?" he asked in a respectful tone. The hollow paused its attack and let out a curious "Hmmm?" Mitsuoki's eyes locked with the hollow's, noting that the hollow was focusing deeply on him. Mitsuoki vanished using his sonido and appeared directly in front of the hollow, with two fingers pressed to its mask. "Hadō number 26, Hidenkō" he said, just before a blast of red lightning shot from his fingers, through the hollow's mask, and through the trees behind it for several meters.