Aaroniero Arruruerie
Aaroniero Arruruerie a character from the manga and anime Bleach. He is the 9th espada and the only espada of the Gillian class.
Name:
Aaroniero Arruruerie
Publisher:
Real name:
Aliases:
- Kaien Shiba
- Metastacia
- 9th Espada
- アーロニーロ・アルルエリ
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
- Energy Absorption
- Shape Shifter
- Super Eating
- Swordsmanship
- Water Control
First issue:
Weekly Shonen Jump (1968) #1884 No. 27, 2006
Hueco Mundo
Aaroniero can be seen in the conference room, discussing with his fellow espadas what to do with the intruders. He later meets up with Rukia outside of his chamber and tells her to follow him. She follows him into a dark room, there he takes off his mask. Underneath his mask is the face of Kaien Shiba. Aaroniero tries to trick Rukia in to thinking he's Kaien Shiba, but his behaviour gave him away.
When Kaien was still alive he used to be the mentor of Rukia and she looked up towards him. One night Kaien went to kill a Hollow, after the hollow had killed his wife. Kaien and the hollow fought, but he didn't know the true ability of the hollow. It had the ability to merge with other organisms. It took control over Kaien. After a while Rukia and her squad captain Ukitake appeared to stop the creature. Rukia had the battle Kaien as the captain was too ill to fight. She was very reluctant, but in the end managed to kill him out of self defense.
When Kaien died the hollow/Kaien creature returned to Hueco Mundo, the hollow was an experiment of Aizen. Back in Heuco Mundo It was eaten by Aaroniero thus gaining the abilities and memories of Kaien. During his fight with Rukia Aaroniero points out that he is using the spirit body of Kaien Shiba and all his experiences and memories are in still intact. Aaroniero was using them to impersonate Kaien and manipulate Rukia in turn. After hearing this Rukia can't brin

Aaroniero uses this oppurtunity to attack Rukia with Kaien's Zanpakutou Nejibana. He impales her and lifts her up. As Rukia is mortally wounded she thinks back about Kaien and remembers his teachings. Motivated by her memories of Kaien, she uses the last of her strength to perform a technique used by her zanpakutou, impaling Aaroniero through one of his facse and shattering the container. The face that has been left over dies screaming in agony.
Chapter Hell
After his demise, Aaroniero was seen falling into an unknown place together with fellow Espada, Szayel Aporro Granz. Both are confused to where they are. They try to comprehend what happened to them and how to get out of their location. The discussion escalates and Aarroniero tries to attack Aporro. But before they can attack each other they are stopped by a mysterious figure, calling himself Shuren. Shuren informs the duo that hey have died and are currently in Hell. Aporro demands Shuren to let him go, Shuren responds by summoning three of his underlings. Before Aporro and Shuren come to blows, Aaroniero releases Glotoneria and attacks Shuren and his group. Aaroniero heads for the obese member of the group, called Taikon, but is easily defeated. After Aporro also falls at the hand of the group, Shuren ponders. Saying that beings of Aporro's and Aaroniero's level could never open 'that'.Personality
Aaroniero is deceving and cruel, shown when he uses Kaien's appearance to try and trick Rukia into killing her friends. He is also very greedy, constantly wanting to evolve and become stronger by eating other Hollows. Fitting as his aspect of Death is Greed.
Somewhat cruel and sadistic, Aaroniero enjoys toying with his opponents. Interestingly, his two heads appear to have a degree of individuality, since they refer to themselves in plural when exposed, and each reacted differently to the idea of death.
Powers and Abilities
Aaroniero Arruruerie is the 9th strongest Espada, he's techniqually the weakest Espada when Yammy releases his Zanpakutou. Like all Espada Aaroniero posseses the standard hollow powers such as Sonido, Hierro, Cero etc. Aaroniero also has the unique abilty to eat hollows, thereby gaining their powers, memories and experiences. It hasn't been explained if this ability is only works on eating hollows. As has also been able to use Kaien Shiba's Zanpakutou, Nejibana.- Cero: Like all arrancars Aaroniero posseses a cero, but the color is unkown.
- Sonido: Master During his battle with Rukia it is shown how fast at sonido he is, passing by her without Rukia noticing him.
- Garganta: The way how all arrancars travel to places.
- Gran Rey Cero: An exclusive cero that all Espada posses.
- Shapeshifting: Aaroniero has shown the power to shafeshift his face, to that of Kaien Shiba.
- Absorption: Aaroniero main ability is to eat dead hollows to obtain their powers.
Zanpakutou
Glotonería ( Spanish for "Gluttony," Japanese for "Eating Hollow") It takes the form of a worm with sharp teeth and tentacles, which he hides underneath his

Resurrection: He activates it with the command Devour, it's name is Glotoneria. After releasing his Zanpakutou his whole lower body becomes a giant, smiling, multi-faced sort of Octopus. While in this form he can use all the powers of his devoured victims. Aside from having any ability of all hollows that he has consumed he still posseses Kaein's shinkai Nejibana, making jim very lethal.

Nejibana: Because of the absorption of hollow Mestacia, Aaroniero obtained Kaien's look and his Zanpaktou's shinkai Nejibana. a Trident based weapon with incredible reach, and water based attack, it is a very strong shinkai mainly a melee type zanpaktou.