Hotaru "Kusaka" Hiroshi (ホタル日下浩, Hiroshi "Kusaka" Hotaru) is the son of Kenji and Ino Hiroshi, the younger brother of Kentaro, twins with Akira, the elder brother of Kay as well as the adoptive brother of Shinrei. He was born roughly a year following Averian's defeat and is active mostly on patrols within Hueco Mundo combating the splintered Hollow army, though he has recently came into conflict with the Engelhaft Gewitter.