192 Chapter 192: Future

No one expected Jin's defeat would come so quickly.

That meant it was also the Bount's defeat.

Mazuru did everything very systematically. First, three of the Bount's dolls were banned, and Yoshi was severely injured, Jin and Ugaki were restrained and lost the ability to fight anymore.

Of all the people present in the place, only Sawatari and Maki, the former shinigami, had not made any move yet.

But after seeing Mazuru's weird methods, it didn't seem to matter anymore whether they make a move or not. After all, their strength was not even as good as Jin. Even Jin lost to Mazuru so thoroughly. So, even if they made a move, they couldn't change the result in any way.

Even though Jin was imprisoned, he seemed very calm, or in other words, after realizing the disparity in strength, he had no other way other than calming down.

His red eyes first stared at Mazuru, and then it fell on Ran'Tao beside Mazuru.

"Ran'Tao, what exactly do you want to do?"

Before now, he had been looking for Ran'Tao's whereabouts. Today, Ran'Tao took the initiative to appear in front of him, which was a bit unusual event in itself, but because Jin was overwhelmed by emotions by her sudden appearance, he didn't think about it.

He just wanted to kill Ran'Tao who appeared in front of him at that very moment.

But right now, after realizing that he couldn't kill Ran'Tao and the shinigami standing next to Ran'Tao who could kill them all at any time, but still gave them two choices, he became more and more curious about Ran'Tao's purpose.

"..."

Ran'Tao didn't know how to answer Jin, could she tell Jin that because she created Bount, she didn't want to see Bount die and become extinct, so she obeyed Mazuru's words and prepared to come and stop Jin's conspiracy which will inevitably cause the extinction of the Bount race.

At the same time, it was also because of what Mazuru said to her.

Mazuru told her that he could provide the Bount with a safe place to stay. 

Seeing that Ran'Tao was speechless, Mazuru who was standing beside Ran'Tao suddenly said, "It's really sad."

"What do you mean by that?" Jin asked.

"Time has stopped on your body since the moment you were born, you can't reproduce, that is, you can't give birth to replenish your race and enrich your lives, and your own existence has even become intolerable by both the world of living and the Soul Society. Even Hueco Mundo's hollows regards you as food and nothing else."

"Isn't your existence miserable?"

Jin was silent, and the rest of Bount were also silent in response to it.

"The moment you saw Ran'Tao, you were so eager to kill her because you had deep hatred for her creating you."

"After trying countless methods, you still couldn't break the fate that enveloped yourselves, so you wanted to vent your anger on the creator of your race. According to him, if you were never born and never existed, naturally you would not have such a sad fate."

Mazuru talked eloquently.

Jin's eyes finally moved from Ran'Tao and fixed at Mazuru, because what Mazuru said were all the truths.

Since Ran'Tao couldn't give him an answer, he asked Mazuru instead, "What do you want to do?"

"My purpose has been made very clear from the very beginning, two choices."

Jin's eyes flickered.

Choosing to resist, the result was self-evident, it was death.

"If I lead the Bount and submit to you, what can I and my people gain?"

After all, there was nothing more terrifying than death, but he was not afraid of death so if obedience to Mazuru couldn't profit them in anyway, he doesn't mind fighting Mazuru to the end.

Even if it was not remotely possible to defeat Mazuru. 

"Perhaps, I can give you, the Bount a safe shelter to live." Mazuru said lightly.

Hearing the words "shelter", Jin was in a trance for a while, and the rest of Bount, even Utagawa and Sawatari, who had the ambitions of becoming the leader, couldn't help but being stunned.

Mazuru continued, "You can't decide your past, but you can decide your future."

"Future?"

Jin asked in a dazed matter, "Bount… is there a future for the Bount?"

Unable to reproduce, time always being stagnant on them, what awaited them was endless loneliness, and exclusion from the world of living and Soul Society. The only remaining place Hueco Mundo where they could go, regarded them as food.

If such a life was Bount's destiny, then he was willing to die rather than living with that sad fate.

"Who says there is no future?"

Mazuru turned to Jin and asked, "Your birth stemmed from an experiment. Since that experiment allowed you to be born, have you ever thought about changing your own destiny through a new experiment?"

Jin and the rest of Bount were taken aback.

For many years, they have lived in the cracks of the world of living, and at the same time, they had to avoid the pursuit of the shinigami and the predation of the hollows. Furthermore, none of them were scientists.

For them, there was no time and energy to delve into science and study how they were born.

"So, if you haven't even tried, how do you know that Bount has no future?"

"Ran'Tao is your creator. For so many years, she has made different attempts to change your destiny. Although she didn't succeed, she still achieved some results."

"Haven't you all already seen the results of experiments?"

"Ran'Tao's experimental results?" Jin and the rest of Bount fell into thought at the same time. 

Looking at Ran'Tao, immediately, they thought of another person.

Soma Yoshino!

Her appearance was exactly the same as Ran'Tao, and she was the only Bount with "maternity", that is, she could reproduce offspring.

"Perhaps she is really enough to change the Bount's fate."

Thinking of Yoshino, even the calmest Jin had ripples in his heart.

"So, back to the original topic, how do you choose?"

Choose to create a future that may change the sad fate of the Bount race, or choose to die.

The answer was actually very obvious.

However, Jin still has another question, "With your strength, why do you think about us, the Bount?"

Mazuru gave them an option to submit, the purpose of which was obviously to subdue the Bount race.

But according to the strength shown by Mazuru, does he really need Bount's power? With his own power, he could easily destroy all the Bount.

Mazuru smiled mysteriously.

When Yoshino, Ho and Ban, who were hunting outside, returned to the villa that was the base camp of Bount, they suddenly found out that the atmosphere in the villa became very strange, and the hall was in tatters, as if some kind of battle had just happened there.

Then, Yoshino found a person who looked exactly like herself.

"You are?"

She didn't understand what exactly had happened.

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