"Arghh…" Lightly fisting himself in the head to relieve the frustration and pain residing in his brain.
He droops below, to his knees, gripping the unfamiliar but yet familiar dense ground.
He once again separated himself from reality, and into his inner domain where lies the mysterious being who laughed at him before.
Oh King…
"It's you again!" Standing up with an air of confidence, he slowly closes his eyes to listen to the sound cues.
Placing a considerable amount of Reishi to both his ears, he started to feel a new wavelength with the unknown individual and himself.
Feeling the sensation of a touch upon his unfulfilled Hollow heart, with quick reflexes, he pry open his eyes instantly.
"What are you?!" Walking up closer to the mysterious being, he tries to grab onto them. But their black mirage-like body dissipates into nothingness and back to its original state.
How was your first worthy meal?
His eye's widens in disbelief, he asks, "What do you mean?"
Fufufu…
Raising a brow, he looks at the intangible being with utter confusion.
Do you feel satisfied?
The mysterious being caresses Darwin's partially filled heart and begins mending it with delicate hands.
With a relaxed eye, he looks at his own heart and asked, "How are you touching me but I can't sense or grasp who you are?" Understanding the being held no hostility the entire time and carried only goodwill.
Silence pervading the area, he quietly awaits his answer knowing that they were still within his presence.
Thump
Darwin touches his Hollow hole and feels a part filling up, it felt unknown.
"Three fifths now…" He slowly laments.
"What would happen if my Hollow hole fills up?"
Again. He waited.
Sensing silence was what awaited for the question, he sighs with a dejected lower brow and flat lip.
But to his surprise, a droplet of water flows down to his Hollow hole.
He feels the being grab onto his waist with considerable force, their head against his chest.
It's been so long…
—-
"Darwin!" Screaming out his name with distress hinted at her voice, Harribel dashes forward throwing a spear like punch directly to his drooped figure.
Turning his head towards Harribel instinctively, he waves his arms upwards with immense force, parrying the light and slow attack.
His eyes slowly caves in, narrowing to Harribel's figure. Her sad demeanour and yet the hope apparent on her worried-stricken face causes Darwin to feel something different in his primal state.
'I just hope his carnage can be stopped. If it means sacrificing my life, I will do it!' Harribel claimed internally.
She notices her follows spread out, surrounding Darwin in four different directions.
"Lady Harribel, I will join you!" Appachi said with persistence.
Sung-sun and Rose joining in and nodded to affirm her words.
Harribel silently gritting her teeth in frustration, she said, "No! Don't join on this fight!"
Giving weird looks laced with worries in their expression, Sung-sun couldn't help but ask, "Why?!"
Harribel replies solemnly, "It's because I've experienced this before! Please…" Looking down, she reminisces on a historical moment.
—-
"DIEGO!" Harribel watches as she gets pulled away by Adjuchas to a safer location.
What she witnessed as her body involuntarily flees with the guards gripping on to her with desperation, was a massacre.
Diego, the being, who had their eye's darken pitch black, their thick and muscle densed body continues to pummel strong Hollows alike, sending them to to their graves.
She bawls her eyes, with her futile struggles from the guard's grasps. She continues to watch behind her in despair.
She yearns to help the individual at the epicenter of terror and destruction.
—-
"Sorry Lady Harribel. But we don't think we can follow this order." Rose sternly replies.
Returning back to her calm and composed self, she analyses Darwin's state and body language.
Darwin swiftly moves at light speeds, directly behind Rose who had said that.
Before Darwin thrusts his sharpened blade into the back, Harribel blocks the attack with both her hands while gritting her teeth in struggle.
With immeasurable force placing over her arms, she buckles down and looks up at Darwin's cold and unforgiving green eyes.
Appachi and Sung-sun simultaneously shoots out cero beams at Darwin. While Rose pulled Harribel away with her incredible tail strength.
With strong coordination between the sisters, Darwin who was hit by the beam was surrounded in the dust and rubble erupting around his radius.
With a smokescreen covering Darwin's figure, Rose rushes in, leaping up to bite onto Darwin's shoulders.
Harribel noticing something amiss, she cries, "Don't!"
It happened too soon, Harribel's body went limp, she watches a scene more horrifying then what she had seen previously.
A lioness, bloodied, sprawled on the cold floor in the midst of blood puddles.
Appachi screams, "How dare you Darwin!" Rushing towards Darwin's still body.
With her battle cry and tears flowing out of Appachi's eyes, Harribel regains her senses and hardens her resolve.
'I'm sorry Rose…' Once again, her teeth clenched together in pain. Her unwavering eyes dashes towards where Darwin was standing. Shifting his body's muscular structure, Darwin left arm creates an impenetrable shield, and his right arm creating a piercing spear.
Darwin exhales steam out of his slightly opened lips.
Harribel yells, "Move!" With her loud and thunderous voice, Appachi responds quickly, leaping to her side as she barely dodges the spear thrust.
With resolve smearing in her charged attack, a revolving, high pressurised water sphere manifests at the tip of her shark-like hand, she said, "Torrente Giratorio."
The attack blasts forth with precision and speed, drilling towards Darwin.
Shielding himself with his left hand, the high pressurised water attack drills into his shield with incredible force.
With her attack gnawing at his defenses planting his feet stationary without being able to move. He channels Reishi in his left arm, turning the shield into a bowl, and then into a sphere gulping her attack inside and he absorbs her attack.
Sensing her powerful attack reduced to absorption, she felt a looming inevitability rising on her sixth sense.