{New friends are always good, that's for sure! And licking eeee! She doesn't mind that, not at all.}

We have the advantage of training, Captain. Training and strategy and skills that have been honed over millennia.

Not to mention the ability to think in advance, which is something ninety-nine point eight percent of the Hollows that we face lack totally.

{She still has a century plus of shinigami life on you, boy. You may have bankai, but she has experience.}