François is now an Arrancar.
He has a very muscular, wide and bulky build, standing at 6ft, he also has brown short hair and the remnants of his mask on his face is now in his right cheek.
Even though he was reborn again. The wounds that Ignacio gave to him was still present, even his severed left arm.
Seeing that he is naked, the staff came in from the door and gave François a tattered hazel nut colored short, which he immediately wore.
Ignacio trying to be calm and keeping a blank face, couldn't help but remark with excitement in his voice.
"What an interesting solution in dealing with me... Don't underestimate me though."
He clenches his fists and rushed towards François, with the intent to knock him out quickly. But François grips his blade tightly and began to use his sonido to its full extent, creating after images all over the battlefield, fooling and confusing Ignacio as he stops in his tracks.
Seeing his quick mastery over sonido after being reborn, Ignacio responds to this action with a hint of annoyance but mostly keeping his cool.
"I am impressed. But it's quite frustrating to face you like this, you know."
He looks in every direction to try and find François through the after images, but he fails. As he tries to concentrate, suddenly, all the after images rushed towards him. Ignacio readies his guards, only for the after images to stay still at point blank range.
Out of nowhere, François appeared below Ignacio, crouched up. Ignacio sees this, but it's too late as François uppercuts him and cuts both of his arms off in just 5.36 seconds exactly.
Ignacio bleeds out of both arms and is losing alot of blood, he looks behind his back just to see François standing there. Ignacio tells him.
"I may be armless... But I can take you out with just my feet."
Ignacio launches himself in the air towards François with his right foot pointing at him, but it was easily dodged by him and even grabbed his whole body while still in the air and did a suplex on him. Ignacio's head and neck took the brunt of the suplex, so he suffered a cervical fracture and a big crack in his skull. François then planted his right hand on Ignacio's face and pressed his head against the ground.
With defeat near Ignacio, he begins to struggle as he is pinned to the ground. Ignacio stretches out his left leg and points his left foot at François' face and begins to form a red Cero, but François cuts off his foot with his Zanpakuto in just 0.1 seconds while his palm is still planted on his face.
Ignacio continues to struggle but it was all in vain. The bell rings and the match is over.
François lets go of Ignacio's face and stands up and begins to walk away and head towards the door.
Even when the match was over, Ignacio refuses to give up.
"I won't give up!! I will serve the Emperor as his closest advisor!!!"
He points his right foot at François and begins to form a Cero from it. But François slices his foot off and stopping a Cero from forming.
With all his limbs being torn, Ignacio gives up and stay down at the sand.
Medics came in and started healing Ignacio's wounds and slowly regrowing back his limbs.
Guerra, inside his box, was sitting there amazed at François' performance in the fight.
"Astounding! This is the power of an Arrancar, despite even being Adjuchas class one!"
With the competition finally over, Guerra moves on into different matters that his Empire needs.
He plans to head out to his Research Facility that was recently relocated to Western Capital.
As he arrived in the Western Capital just by running/walking there, he saw the Research Lab and was about to enter through the door.
Suddenly, an explosion occured at the facility, fire came out of the door and Guerra took a step back.
He gave a worried look and then spoke.
"What the HELL happened?!"
The locals were looking at the scene in horror.
Despite the sudden explosion in the Research Lab and its intense flames, Guerra snaps his fingers and the force of it was able to exterminate the flames.
Guerra went inside the building and saw the floors, walls and ceiling's with bright colors have been blackened due to the fire.
He looks around to see his scientists dead, Guerra gave a disturbed sigh in frustration.
He goes to check the room that Shiba was held in, he opens the door, only to see him dead with a note attached to his head. Guerra grabs it and reads the note.
"Now that I've become a Vasto Lorde through intensive consumption of modified variations of Shiba's fingers, your Empire lacks the necessary equipment for me to reach perfection. So I decided to turn to Barragan's side and join Las Noches since he promised me to have a lab of my own and proper resources. Good luck, Emperor!"
Guerra was furious and crampled the note.
"Szayelaporro..... I never should have hired you.... Now of all times?! The scientists haven't even produced the war machines yet!"
The Research Lab lost months worth of progress on building Guerra's desired "War Machines".
After 1 hour, Guerra sits inside his office and is writing down on a piece of paper.
He issues an order to the Resource Department that they will produce machines of war for the upcoming battles against Barragan. Despite that the hollows there not having the experience or intelligence, it's the only way that they can make the machines.