While walking, Joel wasn't paying much attention to where Ryuu was leading the group. He figured any place would be better than the room he was staying in, but that was until he began to hear the loud sounds and chaos of a crowd of people all going about their separate business. He was about to ask why they came, but Ryuu made a good point about this being basically an all you can eat for the hollows. He sighed it off, trying not to show how much regret he had for leaving, thinking about how he was supposed to conduct himself? He slowly took steps back waiting for everyone to wave each other away and finally turned walking off to nowhere in general, almost sulking at how uncomfortable he felt.
He walked in a straight path, heading to the outskirts of the shopping district and finding himself in a quieter area. Finally he stopped and looked back, paying attention to the noise of the crowd. Joel wondered how could people have so much fun spending their money. Though, it wasn't his place to question the humans anyway. He figured he was just bored and chuckled at the fact that he was missing his old home in the soul society. The human world was much too loud. However, the sky was just as beautiful, so he decided he could make the best out his time.
Joel began walking towards the noise of the district and the further he stepped inside, the more he could tell the difference in noises. Soon it seemed people were running, looking confused and scared.
"What's happening," One man came rushing out of a building Joel passed.
"We don't know. We just heard a loud crash and the buildings are crumbling, the earth is shattering. I think it's an earthquake," a lady answered.
Joel couldn't help but to crack a smile in excitement. He was finally able to do what he came there to do. He cut one of the corners and headed inside an alley way. He put a pill into his mouth and was forced outside of his corporeal body. Having been the first time in weeks that he had been able to feel fully comfortable he over powered his jump, sending him rocketing to the sky. Luckily, it gave him a good view over the entire shopping center and he could see Ryuu and Kaito fighting against two similar looking hollows. Once his gaze fixed on the hollows he could feel his sword calling to be fed.
Landing on the building, the shinigami hopped from roof to roof until he made it to the others. With a loud crash he jumped down with all of his weight on top of the hollow Kaito had just sent flying. He paused for a second, losing balance and leaning heavily on the wall before flipping off of the fiend. He quickly looked towards the hollow and then the one Ryuu was fighting and quickly saw that they may have been the same type of hollow. Their masks and bodies were too identical for them not to be related in some way. Upon closer inspection he could see a cut on the leg of the hollow Ryuu was fighting. It was apparent that it was a reproduction type. Something that could be truly scary if not handled properly. Joel even remembered, while learning in the academy, that these types of hollows could start as big and then become smaller with each piece of their being taken from them. There was a chance that if he cut at it all day, there would thousands of small hollows by the end of his struggle. This excited him more. For he knew that soon, the hollow would be so small, that he could erase it from all existence. He didn't care at this point how many stabs and slashes he would have to take. All that was a back drop to his combined hunger. For his blade wasn't the only one that was hungry.
He took his blade from his under his now black jacket and flipped it around in his hand, readying his draw stand with his right hand on the hilt and left around the sword sheaths trigger. Now was his chance. A chance for redemption. A chance for revenge. A chance to satiate his hunger. The hollow seemed mad at the fact that he was not only tossed easily, but also stepped on by two smaller entities. Joel scoffed at its primitive mindset.
Like an animal it shook in anger and screamed. It knew it was cornered. Joel could tell it could feel either his lust to destroy it, or his swords lust devour it. It's animalistic fear only made Joel want to slice it up even more, but he waited. It pounced, being at the end of its on patience and directed it's rush towards Joel, mouth wide open, possibly wider than the man's body. Truly, it was trying to eat him whole. Truly it was also hungry. However, Joel could tell just by the contrasting feeling. His sword was hungrier, and on this food chain, it was also on top.
BOOM!!!
With the pull of the trigger, Joel released his blade and flung his hand, breaking it in the air, and tightening the muscle in his arm before flipping his sword and placing it back into its sheathe. the hollow closed its mouth in cadence with the bang and landed chin first on the ground. The shinigami breathed and looked down at the half split hollow and then towards the sides at its masked snout. He was disappointed. Though, he cut through it like butter he wasn't able to cut it perfectly in half. Deciding to finish the job he kicked one half of the hollow, making it tear and screech in agony. The force was strong enough to send on half flying in the direction he kicked it in and returning to his relaxed look, Joel sighed and began walking over towards the half he had made just for himself.
"C'mon. Heal. Now it's even. Three on three," he said in a low tone while walking towards the half of hollow husk. With perfect timing it started forming into its own body, smaller than the one Ryuu was fighting. Joel grinned at the creature in anticipation.
"Good. Now, it's time to eat."
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