Vamp

Vamp, known alternatively and somewhat derisively as "Dracula", was a mysterious being with the appearance of a young Kentaro Hiroshi who first appeared roughly a month following The Collapse. He grievously wounded Randy Jones and subsequently fought Garrett Sheppard in Grat, where he was eventually defeated before being seemingly vaporised by Tiffany Henderson. Despite this Vamp appeared a short time later in the Reikai. He killed a number of spiritually aware people in the before dying at the hand of Kentaro. Vamp originated as an experiment carried out by Arata at the direction of Dastan Shiba and was confirmed as an enhanced variation of the Soulless earlier encountered by Kentaro, and was designated as #.3.

Appearance
As noted by Kay, Marisa and Tiffany, Vamp bears an uncanny appearance to Kentaro, with his appearance being almost identical to Kentaro's when the latter fought the original Imawashī. The likeness was such that Randy Jones dropped his guard and was subsequently attacked. He sports spiked black hair with his long fringe hanging between his piercing red eyes, his head framed neatly by his long bangs, and has a scar that runs through his left eye. Following his first meeting with Kentaro he sports a half-healed stab wound to his forehead.

Personality
Vamp has demonstrated little in the way of a personality, speaking in one-word sentences. He is a creature driven by simple impulses like hunger and self-preservation, with little discernible intelligence, though he demonstrates the mindset of a predator by lying in wait for his targets to drop their guard. He was likewise fit to bide his time and attack at the most opportune time; an example being when Randy had just dispatched a Hollow and had dropped his guard. Although compared to both a Reikon Kyuuban by Sanada and a by Shūhei, Vamp possesses none of the aforementioned races characteristics, with the exception of biting and draining a target of their blood. This led Garrett to comically describe Vamp as "". He seems to operate on instinct like a low-level, such as when he attacked Kentaro upon identifying the latter as a threat, or running away when overpowered or surprised.

The sight, or perhaps the smell of blood, drives Vamp into an uncontrollable frenzy which required Vamp to be bound by powerful Kidō, leading Kentaro to pity him, and claim that he was going to put him out of his misery. Even in this frenzied state Vamp's sense of self-preservation remains strong, for he fled from Marisa rather than attempt to harm Randy further. Against Garrett however he demonstrated yet another side of this frenzied state, which propelled the Soulless-like creature to attack Garrett with a degree of verocity the young Fullbringer had never seen before. Garrett was forced to embrace the Hollow-like training he underwent with Kenji, which focused on pure destruction, just to keep his head above the water when faced with Vamp's frenzied state.

History
Vamp originated as an experiment conducted by Arata at the behest of Dastan Shiba as a form of enhanced Soulless, and came to be known as #.3. He was installed with a data collection protocol that recorded Vamp's various encounters. All that is known is that Vamp appeared in the roughly a month following the destructive events of The Collapse, where he was known to have attacked Randy Jones and at least one other man.

Synopsis

 * Main article -- Bleach (Kenji Hiroshi).

Part IV

 * Main article -- Bleach: Cataclysm.

Rising arc

 * The Resolve to Fight
 * Tracking Kentaro!? (unseen)
 * Garrett's Vengeance

Bound by Blood arc

 * Terrors of the Night
 * Returning Terrors
 * Facing the Terrors
 * Terrors End

Equipment

 * Sword: Vamp was seen attacking Randy Jones with a sword, for he stabbed the latter in the stomach, and was known to have attacked at least one other in the same manner. He did not have this weapon after leaving the Human World and travelling to the Reikai.

Powers & abilities
Blood-sucking: Vamp demonstrated the ability to drink the blood of his victims. When he did this to Sanada and Akiye he also absorbed their spiritual power, strengthening himself, whilst knocking Akiye unconscious and greatly weakening Sanada. This tendency to drink the blood of his victims led Garrett to nickname him "Dracula".

He was capable of overpowering Humans with both high spiritual energy and significant combat training. Marisa noted that Vamp's power and combat abilities was virtually identical to Kentaro's own when he fought against Shinzō's Imawashī, confirming him as a Captain-class combatant. After drinking the blood of Sanada and Akiye, Vamp absorbed some of their spiritual power, which further bolstered his reserves.

Hollow Summoning: After sucking the blood of Sanada and Akiye, Vamp demonstrated the ability to summon vast numbers of low-level Hollow directly to the Reikai. Both Kentaro and Kensei noted him to be the source of the Hollow summoning.

Swordsmanship: Vamp displayed some ability with a sword, successfully defeating Randy, and killing another Human.

Hakuda: Vamp used his arms and legs to attack his opponent, and was strong enough to hold Kay aloft by her throat with only one hand. He frequently used a lunging attack with great speed, but was consistently overpowered and outmanoeuvred by Kentaro's superior Hakuda abilities. Against numerous opponents he displayed the tendency to bite his opponents.

Sensory Blockage: Garrett Sheppard noted that something was actively preventing him from sensing spiritual energy, and attributed this strange phenomenon to the one who attacked Randy. Kentaro noted that Vamp wasn't simply warping or throwing off his sense for spiritual power as he had thought initially, but rather the source of Vamp's spiritual power was being actively blocked, but how is unknown. Kentaro only consistently located him using the "darkness sense" of his.

Immense Durability: Vamp survived being stabbed through the skull, which shocked Kentaro upon encountering him again. Kentaro surmised that nothing short of incinerating him and casting his ashes to the wind would succeed in destroying him. Despite this Tiffany Henderson, employing a fully-powered Shiden, failed to kill Vamp.

Self-healing: Vamp demonstrated a limited form of self-healing. Kentaro noted the earlier stab-wound he inflicted was half-healed when he encountered him again. He had likewise healed from the wounds earlier inflicted upon him by Garrett and Tiffany when first encountered by Kentaro.

Behind the scenes

 * Vamp, and the arc he appeared in, was originally filler content designed to highlight some of Kentaro's growth following The Collapse. The decision was made later to canonise the event and tie it to the events surrounding both Garrett Sheppard and the Soulless. This new arc, dubbed The Rising, was originally known as Return of the Soulless.