...that for eating?

Bawabawa is most certainly not for eating! He is a combat parasite! Besides, if you tried to eat him, you wouldn't be able to digest him anyway, since he's a parasite after all. I'm not sure, but I think he'd just stay in there and leech off your reiatsu.

Fuck that. You bring a hollow in, weeks into our starving here, and you think it's gonna live?

I've told you before, Bawabawa is a parasite. If you try to eat him, he won't tie. And...if you try to cut him up and eat him, the piece you ate will just grow the rest of him back and start leeching.

[ooc: He's bluffing about the regrowth thing, but you never know, eh? Maybe it would happen]

That thing normally lives inside a stomach?

Yup. My friend Dondochakka, one of his abilities is that he can store numerous combat parasites inside his stomach. But we'd been using Bawabawa here as a pet for Nel, who is sort of like our little sister...sort of. We're the ones who take care of her anyway.

Basically. An over-sized tapeworm.

In a way. But Dondochakka can take his parasites out whenever he needs them to fight with us. And Bawabawa is special, too! He's very smart, and gentle too, aren't you boy?

Bwahbwah!

[ooc: Italics are obviously Bawabawa's "voice"]

...that is certainly an interesting creature.

It looks like a giant worm!

Gamakichi!

Who's there with you, Minato-san?

Gamakichi. He's a toad I used to be able to summon back home.

I'm a fighting summon! Give me an enemy and I'll take care of 'im!"

Oh! That's cool. Bawabawa is a fight-parasite...which I guess is sort of like summoning...only instead of coming from another world, he comes from my friend's guts.

Oh, how cute! He looks cheerful.

He is cute! I'm super-glad to see him again, though since I think he's only here as part of a curse, he'll probably have to go home tomorrow. Ichigo and Renji and all those guys know Bawabawa---we gave them all a ride on his back to Las Noches from the place we found them.