"Karyu-san, it's just as you said...these guys have their own faction and Hiroko is in league with them just as the evidence suggests. Chances are is that they already know about us, that explains some of the unexplained shinigami casualties there were in the Human World. These guys are probably just messing with us..." Aiku tells him as he connects the dots on this scenario. So that's who these guys were, they were everything Aiku feared that the Hollows would be able to do: organize themselves and begin forming a chain of command...it was even worse considering it was these newly dubbed Arrancar. Their increased intelligence, reasoning skills, and aptitude for deception and trickery was going to be troublesome to fight against and there already was one strutting around the Seireitei as if he was one of the shinigami. Hiroko was definitely a spy that came to the Soul Society under the guise saying that he came with peace, rainbows, and butterscotch cookies. Aiku needed to erase him from the equation once he had a chance to do so, he wasn't going to allow these monsters to mock and disgrace the Soul Society with their antics. "It is your homeworld, mongrel...you're a Hollow and Hollows dwell in the Hollow Realm, you certainly aren't human nor are you one of us. At least have some pride in where you've spent most of your time as a Hollow, I guess it would be typical for the Hollows to disgrace your own kind...you all being that barbaric to hunt and kill each other. Your kind lacks morality and values as well, I simply cannot understand the thought process of you all..." he says as he turns his nose up at Florencia in disgust, "...is that all you have to say, Arrancar? Or do you have anything else to say?" Aiku personally hoped that was it, he was done here and he had mostly got what he wanted. Now all there was left was for Ash to finish his own interests.