護廷十三隊
Application: Shizuka Hyouzoku
Another day in Naruki City brings more troubles. Ever since the God King’s appearance in the World of the Living, hollow activity has reached an all-time high while the 10th division’s reserves are at an opposingly all-time low. Still, they do their best, led by the gallant Lieutenant Hyouzoku who struggles but still proves successful thus far in maintaining the city’s peace.
Yet in the midst of this fragile peace roams a flourishing serial killer who has made headlines in local papers and local news stations. While humans are drawn to the news in shock and horror, what is more surprising is who the culprit is revealed to be. After being tracked down by other Shinigami who were patrolling the area, the suspect is revealed to only be a child, no older than 13 years old, but more importantly: a Fullbringer. What possesses this child to commit these heinous acts is unknown, but what is known by both those in the Soul Society and in the World of the Living is that he must be stopped.
The hidden truth, unknown to all save for himself, is that this child does not perform these heinous acts of his own volition. With their two souls entrapped literally within mice in a metal cage, the child’s parents are being dangled above his head as hostages by a particularly lazy Hollow. It does not wish to seek nourishment on its own but uses these valuable prisoners as encouragement for the boy to deliver souls for it to feast on. At first, the child was merely tasked to turn over other Hollows, but due to its spoiled nature, the young Fullbringer is now being tasked with killing other humans and feeding them to the villainous Hollow. Promised night after night that his parents’ souls will be returned to him, the child is too young to realize the Hollow is more than pleased to utilize his naivete in perpetuity as the death toll rises.
Despite all attempts, the child is forced to comply as he has deduced he is unable to overwhelm the Hollow himself and is unable to find anyone else who is willing to help. With the recent alliance between Xaltation and the God-King, the Fullbringer organization has ignored the boy’s pleas despite him being one of their own, fully turning a blind eye to the secret evil that has ravaged his life.
One 10th Shinigami has scratched only the tip of this plot’s iceberg, having tracked the Fullbringer boy and returning to Shizuka Hyouzoku to pass on the minimal intel he has gathered. Unaware of the truth that plagues this boy and what is on the line for his parents’ survival, it is now up to the Lieutenant himself to deal with the growing threat in whichever way he deems best.
