Devouring Fairy-Tale Dragons, Valhalla Yhwach

"Lieutenant Lu... no, Captain Lu!"

An officer spoke nervously. "If the strongest man in the Soul Society, someone like you, were to act, capturing the Fairy-Tale Dragon would naturally be effortless!"

He was not flattering him. He genuinely believed it.

If what the person beside Lu Li had just said was true, then Lu Li was probably the strongest person in the world. He simply did not understand why someone like that was a Lieutenant rather than a Captain or Captain-Commander.

Others might not know, but they knew their own situation well. How could the Fairy-Tale Dragon possibly compare to Yhwach? It was not even worthy of carrying his shoes.

"Stop changing the subject."

Lu Li tapped the tabletop with one finger. "The Western Branch will be disbanded starting today. Choose an administrator and submit the report. As an affiliated division of the Gotei 13, you will be responsible for managing this region of the Soul Society in the west. From now on, report to the Captain-Commander once every week."

Sōsuke was not the Captain-Commander. Though he also looked down on the Western Branch's combat strength, that did not mean he did not care about the western world.

Having already ascended the Throne of Heaven, Sōsuke hoped to manage the entirety of the Soul Society properly. Moreover, in this era, the West was developing vigorously and held the dominant position in the Living World. Sōsuke wanted to get a handle on it as well.

That was why Lu Li had come here: to put the Western Branch in its place, so that this independent armed organization within the Soul Society would completely fall under the Gotei 13's management.

This was absolutely necessary. The way the western Soul Society was connected to reality differed from that of the East. It was