Tale of Herrera

{{quote|The rest of you need to hone your skills. It would do me no good if everyone was killed before I can kill Aizen.|{{Herrera Tresckow]]}}

The Tale of Herrera (ヘレラ物語; lit. Herera Monogatari) is a fan fiction story written by LaviBookman. It covers the backstory of the fan-made character Herrera Tresckow, who attempted to assassinate {{bw|Sōsuke Aizen}} while the latter was building his arrancar army to {{bw|Invasion of Soul Society|fight Soul Society}}.

Excerpt

 * Aizen. He is the only person holding back the arrancar, with all of these pledges of oath to his cause for transforming hollows into arrancar. Servitude, especially to the shinigami, is not the way of the hollows. He defeats powerful hollows, then gives them the option to gain more power by pledging allegiance to him: that both arrogant and insulting. Herrera’s own pledge to Aizen was not out of respect: rather, he wanted to destroy him from within. With some verbal manipulation, Herrera managed to convince others to see the truth about Aizen. Not that he ever lied to his followers: Aizen was truly a despicable being.

Behind the scenes
The story was partially inspired by the 20 July plot.