"Some," Rukia replied, holding the reins to the left to turn her bird and looking at Ichigo to make sure he did the same. "There was an exceptionally large and dangerous one that existed several months before I arrived. It was defeated. Now all you can expect to see is the occasional 'small' one...small, relative to the primary, I should add."

He seemed to be riding well, so she nodded her approval. "But it seems there will always be an abundance of monsters, no matter how many are slain. It's the nature of this world."