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((If you haven't read my edited post, that was meant for smico as some sort of friendly jeering. No offense.))

Smiling, Ky bowed slightly then proceeded inside the Quincy house. "Thank you for hearing me out." Taking a seat on an empty couch and crossed his legs, acting all civilized. Examining the room around him, Ky saw that the Quincy living quarters were quite spacious compared to what he had perceived before. "Very nice atmosphere you people have here. It's very bright and refreshing." Ky said, trying to spark up some friendly conversation even though he knew that it was somewhat futile seeing as how the Quincy were such a group of cold and calculated, result-oriented people...not that Ky had any problem with it.

"Of course. Let me start then." Ky said calmly, clearing his throat, preparing himself for one long, long discussion. "As you may or may not know, Quincy and Bount have something in common, being as both humans who are gifted with spiritual abilities. However, as you may have noticed, both of our races have been, shall we say, lacking in manpower as of late which is the reason to our races to be belittled by most of the shinigami, vizard, and arrancar races. However, with the current strife prevailing over the Sereitei, one can't be too careful."

Taking out a small piece of paper from his coat pocket, Ky put the sheet of paper on the table and smirked. The paper had something of a logo imprinted on it with the words "Judgement Archer" below it.

Logo:

After putting the piece of paper with the logo on it down on the table, Ky returned to his cross-legged sitting position. "As you may or may not know, we Bounts have an organization called the Ravens. Similar to the 13 Court Guard, the Ravens consists of 13 exceptional Bounts with abilites far beyond those of other Bounts. But due to our lack of manpower, we have decided to extend our reach and make the Ravens available to gifted humans, not just those of the Bount class. This is where project Judgement Archer begins. If you're interested, please tell me before I continue on. I don't want to waste your time if you are not interested."

"You're a sharp one." Ky said, praising the young Quincy's perception. He obviously knew how the world works and the fact that, no matter how good a deal or situation is, it always comes at a price. "Well then, I guess I should tell you."

Breathing in deep, Ky coughed, preparing himself for the explanation. "As you may already know, the Quincy have the ability to manipulate the spirit particles around them. This ability has made the Quincy quite formidable in the past. Recently, however, we, the Bount, have also been conducting research on the matter and are nearly complete with it. All that is left now is to gather actual data from real Quincy and examine that data in order to complete the research. This is where project Judgment Archer comes into place."

Coughing once more, Ky made himself more comfortable in his seat before continuing to explain his plan in detail.

"Project Judgment Archer is a program I created several years ago in order to make infantry assault armor, giving those who wear it, even normal people, the abilities of a Quincy, minus the training. This is still, however, in its prototype stages and actual Quincy data is still needed to work out the kinks to the armors. However, if you accept our deal, I would give you these special armor suits without charge, and along with it, the perks of being part of the Ravens. Keep in mind that if these suits would, in theory, be able to endow Quincy powers to a normal person, imagine how it would increase your fighting ability by ten-fold."

Adjusting his monocle, a sly smirk came to Ky. He knew that, if everything went according to his plan, the Quincy would accept and not only would the Bount get a new ally, it would also mean gathering tons of important research data about reishi collection which would be almost impossible to acquire if Ky did this otherwise.

"Of course, you can consider this as us Bount using you people as guinea pigs for our weapons. But if you people would be willing to sacrifice a bit of that Quincy pride you hold so dear in order to join my organization, I promise you that you would have access to any of the things we Bounts enjoy. New technology, money, power, anything you can think of. All you people need to say is yes. But if you say no, however, it would be a big loss on both our sides. I won't hold a grudge against you if you say no, but seeing that our races are lacking both in aspects of power and people, it would be in our best interests if we work together. After all, in essence, we are just human."

Asai gripped his pants tightly before snapping his neck in the direction of the door. He released his article of clothing and then got up, not excusing himself from Ky before opening up the door, finding an unusual person standing there.
"Yes, what is it you need here?" he stepped back, this time his stare was different. Just through his one red eye it looked like he was daring the bount to enter.'
He looked at him for a few seconds, and instead of awaiting a reply, he wasked back into the room containing Ky still. He walked slowly, obviously having something on his mind. Once he reached the back of the couch he placed his hand on it, and hopped over it and using its headrests for a seat. He leaned forward with his forearms on his knees, and decided to enlighten the bount.
"Look man, I'm not sure what you thought you were going to achieve by doing this, but the answer is unanymously no. That is across the board, don't expect anything else from someone from this place regarding these so called 'experiments'. As for this raven team, it sounds like nothing more than your own little team of X-men. We are not going to voluntary submit the Quincy clan to your manipulative doings."
Asai leaned back, straightening his spine some. "Now, if you don't have any other buisness, I suggest you revise your proposal before it is taken as an insult."
"You don't have any other buisness with us do you?"

Shio sat crouched on the fence, in his now normal spider-man style.. His legs were open and his arms were hanging between the crouched legs... His gaze had been set on the man who'd just left.... He had an eerie feeling to him and just didn't seem right to him... He sighed as he gazed out at nothing now.... Behind him on the inside of the fence was the dead body... He'd gotten it a while ago... maybe twenty minutes ago...

"God.. So many strange people.. so many strange things happening... I can't fit in anywhere with this crap.." He now sunk his head down like a cartoon again... He was sorta 'Bored' and there was nothing for him to do... Asai was probably busy, and couldn't be bothered at the moment... The body might be his ticket into getting a glimpse of what he was doing but really he didn't wanna use the 'Shell' as an excuse to speak with someone.. it felt wrong...

He sighed once more before flicking out his PDA from his back pocket... He looked at the pictures he'd taken randomly... three of the seven were blurred horribly, so they were deleted.. The others weren't perfect. but still were images of the women... He looked at each, one by one..

'Rhia'... The women who'd shooed him away from what might have been his death... She was a shinigami and seemed nice.. Not too friendly.. but nice...

The 'Eerie' one... This women had the same feeling as the man who'd just left.. and her 'Ribbon' was strangely colored AND perfect, as if it were re-sculpted multiple times by an invigorating sense of presences...

The last one, just from a glance at the eyes in the picture, and attitude that radiated from her.. She was scary... She was amazingly powerful, and wanted to kill him no doubt... There wasn't one doubt AT ALL in his mind that that women wanted to kill him just for being near her.. It made him think really why the other two could be near her unless close...

"Conclusion . . ."

"There friends... Maybe related.. there all different 'types' of beings with similar presences, but great differences... One has an evil sense to them.. One is purer then the other together.. and the other scares the living shi-" He fell backwards clumsily as the wind blew for a second.. He rolled backwards twice into the house's front lawn.. now on his butt rubbing his head.. "-t... Outta me..." He shook his head and looked directly in front of himself at the dead shell...

"Your a good listener.... I bet you were a doctor... Or maybe real estate agent.. Maybe you worked at the bank and had a wife... Maybe you had children.. Maybe you had a daughter who sat just beside me in class, but never glanced once at me.... Enh.. I'll never know..." He stayed on the ground staring at the body for a few minutes before looking down at his PDA... He picked it up and started typing something in... He was directing the moving people to drop off his stuff down the trail that led to the actual Karakura town.. and not the hidden base..... In a little while they'd call, and he'd start moving in..

Asai was done with the Bount, and the card that Ky so rudely threw at Asai, well he flicked a paperclip at it in midair and it reditected itself to land cleanly on the table. He then got up and walked to the door as the bount(s) left. That's when he noticed Shio crouched on the fence, above waht looked like a dead body.
"Greetings again, Shio, what is going on here?" he asked, motioning to the body. "And you're in my pose, ya' thief."
That was his sorry attempt at making a joke. He walked closer, shuffling his feet while he visually examined the body.
"I thought you were fighting that shinigami still from earlier... But I guess after I got out of the shower he must have left."
Asai was quiet as he looked at Shio for a second... He then came up with an idea, but first turned his attention to the corpse below him.
"I want to ask a favor of you, but first would you please explain what happened to this? I'm afraid I missed something of sorts."

"Technically, they're one in the same. You do not need to take the body to the police station, yet... And I know of why your 'friend' left earlier . Because of this."
Asai finished speaking and held up a cellular phone. But the pager had a little screen that contained a bunch of little blinking red dots instead of anything like usual. The buttons had some wierd symbols as well, instead of regular numbers.
"This is a shinigami cellular phone. It is how they monitor hollow-attacks." he explained. "I got one from back when I was in soul society, trying to be a shinigami."
Asai's words faltered a bit there. He looked away for a second, knowing that his statement must have seemes wierd to Shio. But he gritted his teeth quickly behind his bandages, and presses on with his information.
"Hollows have been making these newer frequent apperances, but they are not dissapearing like usual. I think that the shinigami are either no longer taking interest in their so called 'job', or they are unable to get back into earth now." he ushered Shio close to the screen, and pointed.
"See, those right there, those two are gilian. They are on opposite ends of town, but still dangerous together. These over here, are bigger hollows, and those clusters are flying type. If you see good enough, you can tell the diffference in size, but they're everywhere."
He stopped for a second, taking a breath. "That's why I need you to talk to the bounts."

((don't leave yet, im just not feeling like typing a half-screen post this second. respond only plz.))