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The title master was a little more formal than what Zukota liked, but he could understand a persons natural instinct to refer to someone of high strength or confidence by some form of title. He decided to let it go and continue with the conversation.

"Honestly, this is the first time that I have ever been this close to a hollow without being in a fight," he explained, "also, I notice that you are much stronger than the average hollow."

He looked intently at the little girl, then back to the hollow, "I'd say from your power level that you are at least a high grade adjuchas, and very nearly a vasto lordes type hollow. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw one of you outside of Hueco Mundo."

He smiled at the little girl, "I'm sorry that we've been ignoring you this whole while. Tell me child what is your name? Is there anything I can help you with?"

"So you have the ability to disguise your power as well as your outer appearance?" He frowned in concentration, "That is quite the dangerous power."

Zukota bent down to be at the same level as Nina, "It is a pleasure to meet you Nina, tell me do you know your parents names? If so I may be able to help you to find them."

"Most Arrancar look like humans or soul reapers except for the bit of mask on their face or bodies," Zukota announced, reciting knowledge from his past experiences with their kind. "You however are in the form of a wolf, which is not the normal case for a ressureccion either."

"Don't tire yourself out Nina, if you really can't remember I can take you into the Seireitei and have your spiritual pressure analyzed and compared with anyone we have on record," he smiled at her warmly.

"Hahaha! I made you look the fool didn't I," said his inner hollow, delighted he had pulled a trick on his master. "I suppose I should have expected this from you, but I don't recall you ever using this ability before."

Zukota snapped out of his inner conversation and spoke plainly to the arrancar he now saw clearly, "I have a sort of condition myself that makes me similar to you, but my condition creates another version of myself that dwells within my soul and has powers like a hollow." He tried to explain it in a way that the arrancar could understand, he did not know if the hollow had ever met a soul reaper who had the ability to 'hollowfy' before, "This inner hollow of mine has unique abilities, specifically centered around illusions and mind reading. He saw from your memories how you used to appear and made it to where that was what I saw, he tries his hardest to irk me, and must have decided this trick would do just that."

"He still tries to fight me from time to time, but I have shown him who's boss," he smiled to himself, "and I too have fought my fair share of Arrancar and other Vaizard."
"I hope that you won't do anything that will cause me to have to behave rudely," Zukota frowned seeing Kalron's hand position, "Especially with a child this close to where we would be fighting."

"I was suggesting no such thing," He said leveling a glare as dark as a moonless night, "I am a Shinigami first, and that means that I protect people from anyone or anything that threatens their lives."

He turned noticing that a contingency of the black ops had surrounded the area and were hidden waiting for any sign of trouble, "the curse of being Captain Commander I suppose," He sighed. "Kalron, I am going to have the girl brought to her parents, I would like for you to come with me to my home where we can discuss things without any distractions."

Zukota signaled to the black ops to come out and speak with him, two men appeared before his feet, bowing to him and awaiting orders, "I want you to take this young lady to the research division and have her spiritual pressure analyzed and compared to the others we have in our database; and if you find a match I want you to take her to her parents."

The men looked at eachother slightly bewildered, "but Captain Commander, what about the hollow?"

Zukota, switching to the tone of command he used to make his points clear, "I want you to deal with the girl, the hollow is none of your concern."

The men gave a slightly frightened glance to one another, "Yes sir," they said simultaneously.

The black ops members all vanished with a wave of Zukota's hand. "Come Kalron, we must speak privately," He began walking toward Seireitei, "I hope you can keep up with flash steps, because it will take hours to get back if we walk."