Soul King Palace Residents

These are the various residents of the Soul King Palace.

=Mera=

Appearance
Mera has the appearance of a slender young girl with spiky hair, which is tied up in a ponytail at the back. She wears a vest with a large, furred collar, and a short skirt.

Personality
Mera is very harsh towards her creator and master, Ōetsu Nimaiya, unceremoniously kicking him from behind as he played pranks on Ichigo Kurosaki and Renji Abarai.

Plot
When Ichigo Kurosaki and Renji Abarai land at Ōetsu Nimaiya's palace, Mera informs Nimaiya of this. Later, as Nimaiya shares a photo of Ichigo and Renji standing on their heads with his Zanpakutō harem, Mera, kicking him from behind, asks how long he is going to keep this up. As Nimaiya asks what she is doing, Mera, stating Nimaiya will not get anything done, tells them to follow her. Leading them to the Hōōden, she tells them to step inside. After they fall down, Nimaiya explains how all the girls they met are Zanpakutō.

Later, after Ichigo fails to defeat the Asauchi, Nimaiya, telling him to go home, has Mera grab him and hold him in place while he tells him to not come back to Soul Society either. After Ichigo is sent back to the Human World, Mera looks on as Nimaiya says Ichigo must return to and know about his roots.

After Isshin Kurosaki explains the life and death of Ichigo's mother to Ichigo and asks him how he will get back, Mera, popping out behind him, says the timing is perfect and they will return. Back at the Hōōden, Mera explains how the Chōkaimon they opened had a precise time for a round trip, so Nimaiya had decided to send him back for one night because if nothing had changed, it would have been useless to wait any longer, prompting Nimaiya to, sliding out from behind her, say this is correct.

=Kazuo and Kazuhiro=

Appearance
Kazuo and Kazuhiro are two identical, bespectacled, and muscular men whose black hair is cut short and neatly trimmed.

Personality
Kazuo and Kazuhiro are very loyal to Tenjirō Kirinji, willingly holding Ichigo Kurosaki under the water for a long period of time and enduring the hyper-healing properties of Kirinji's hot springs under his order.

Plot
As Kazuo and Kazuhiro hold Ichigo Kurosaki underwater, Ichigo, having stayed there for ninety-three seconds, finally burtst out of the water, pushing one of them away in the process. When Tenjirō Kirinji tells them to hold him down again, they comply, telling Ichigo to not be mad at them. As they struggle with Ichigo, Kirinji, tellnig them to wait, punches Ichigo in the face, sending him flying backwards. When Kirinji states Ichigo and Renji Abarai are ready to go, Kazuo and Kazuhiro launch them to the next palace. When Kirinji, stating this must have been hard on them, tells them they can take of their kimono, they gratefully do so, revealing their bodies were burned by the hot springs. As they comment on how the hot springs would have made them rot and explode if they were not wearing these kimono, and how Ichigo and Renji are incredible for being able to withstand the ponds for so long, Kirinji tells them how Ichigo immediately counterattacked when Kirinji struck him, prompting them to express surprise.