6th Division Barracks.
As violent Spiritual Pressure burst forth like boiling water, Araki, like an unmatched fiend, smashed through the gates of the Gotei 13, 6th Division Barracks...
"Y-You're Captain Araki of the 11th Division?!"
"The captain of the 11th Division... isn't that the newly appointed Lord Kenpachi?"
"The new captain of the 11th Division is named Araki, right? In other words, Araki Kenpachi, correct? What is such a vicious man doing at our 6th Division?!"
"Isn't it obvious? Our captain must have done something earth-shattering again!"
"Shh! Keep your voices down! Don't say another word! Be careful not to get dragged into matters that small fry like us shouldn't be involved in!"
Watching the fiendish Araki, the members of the Gotei 13, 6th Division all hastily kept their distance, afraid that their foolish captain's foolish actions would get them beaten up by Araki.
Because the 6th Division members understood their exceptionally clever captain very well and possessed considerable tact, Araki encountered no obstruction as he made his way straight to the doors of the 6th Division Barracks.
"Bang!"
With a dull thud, Araki kicked open the doors before him.
"Hm?!"
Inside the 6th Division Barracks, Saito Furofushi, the captain of the 6th Division, was sprawled across her desk, hugging a stack of documents as she "napped." At the boom of Araki's kick, Saito slowly opened her eyes.
"Which blind fool dares interrupt my nap?!"
The moment Saito Furofushi opened her eyes, she did not care who had awakened her. She vented all her waking irritation at Araki, who stood at the Captain's Office door.
"Heh..."
Araki merely sneered, and his figure instantly vanished from where he stood.
"Hm? Did I wake up too abruptly? I think I just saw Araki!"
As for Saito, who had just awakened, her brain was still not functioning properly.
"You were the one who told Captain Katori that my body could keep regenerating like a lizard's tail, weren't you?!"
Before Saito could think any further, an icy voice already rang beside her ear.
"Uh..."
Hearing that familiar voice, Saito's body stiffened in place.
"So I wasn't seeing things..."
Cold sweat streamed down Saito's forehead like a creek. She could not have mistaken that voice. It really belonged to Araki.
"Ah!"
Before Saito could think further, she felt someone seize her twin ponytails from behind and yank them hard. The searing pain completely wiped away the last traces of sleepiness, leaving her fully awake.
"I was wrong! I didn't mean to tell Katori! I was just drunk that day and made a joke with Katori..."
After Araki grabbed the twin ponytails controlling her fate, Saito Furofushi immediately chose surrender.
"I'll show you 'I didn't mean to.' I'll show you 'I didn't mean to.' I'll show you—"
"Go explain it clearly to Katori! Give this old man back his lost innocence!"
Araki's fury surged upon hearing her words. He was truly furious right now~
That girl Saito was getting out of hand after only three days without a beating! It seemed he needed to set aside time every week to have a proper chat with Saito about her place at the bottom of the household hierarchy...
"Got it, got it..."
Saito obediently gave in.
Outside the 6th Division Captain's Office.
"What do we do now?!"
A Division member pressed himself against the Captain's Office door to listen to the sounds inside, his expression changing again and again.
"Wait..."
The Division members looked at one another before ultimately reaching the same conclusion: wait.
"Are we, the members of the 6th Division, really going to stand here and listen helplessly while our captain is bullied by a captain from another Division?!"
A Seated Officer's anger flared at those words. Did the 6th Division members have no dignity?!
"You want to be a hero? Then hurry in and save our captain! Maybe if Captain Saito is happy, she'll even make you vice-captain~"
The 6th Division members showed nothing but disdain.
"Uh..."
"I mean, there's actually nothing bad about listening from out here."
The Seated Officer decisively gave up his lofty dream of rescuing his captain...
What nonsense! The man inside, who was "riding" their captain, tugging her twin ponytails while asking whether she knew she was wrong, was the current Kenpachi of the Gotei 13!
In other words, aside from Captain-Commander Yamamoto, he was the strongest Soul Reaper in the Seireitei. Facing such an unparalleled fiend, would going in alone not be suicide?! Of course, if he could mobilize every member of the 6th Division against Araki, then they might have a little hope...
Do not misunderstand. It was not that they had any hope of defeating Araki! Rather, the 6th Division had enough members that even with Araki's strength, he might not be able to defeat every single one of them before the Captain-Commander discovered the disturbance in the 6th Division and intervened...
But since the other 6th Division members had no intention of acting, there was no need for him to show off either. He should simply stay quiet and do his job properly~
Not long afterward, the doors of the 6th Division Captain's Office were forcefully pushed open. Araki walked out looking refreshed and invigorated, leaving behind only the first captain of the 6th Division—Saito Furofushi—who looked as if she had been thoroughly played with.
"Urgh..."
When the 6th Division members saw Araki emerge from the Captain's Office, they all lowered their heads. None of them dared look up at the peerless fiend who had barged into their barracks and defeated their captain.
"Whoosh!"
Fortunately, Araki had no intention of troubling these 6th Division members. After all, debts had their owners, and Araki did not enjoy slaughtering innocents! With a spatial ripple, Araki vanished from the spot, leaving behind nothing but an utterly ordinary wooden board.
"Sigh..."
After Araki departed, the 6th Division members looked at one another before beginning their afternoon work amid a chorus of sighs.
If they could not see it, then they would pretend they had not seen it! Time to go, time to go...
Time flew by.
Several more months passed in a hurry...
During that time, whenever Araki had free time, he would visit the 6th Division and have a "heart-to-heart talk" with Saito about life.
The 6th Division members gradually became accustomed to Araki's visits.
Furthermore, as Araki had instructed, Saito privately explained matters to Katori Bakuunsai, captain of the 8th Division. After racking her brains, Saito finally made everything clear to Katori! Katori was very angry about it!
In the end, under Saito's reluctant gaze and inner torment, she chose to pay out of pocket and gave Katori ten copies of the newest and best-selling lewd novels. Only then did she barely calm Katori's anger and reconcile with him...
Afterward, Katori, having received the ten lewd novels gifted by Saito, sought out Araki and Chōjirō Sasakibe to express his heartfelt apology.
Chōjirō Sasakibe was "terrified" by this and felt somewhat "flattered."
For a time, it seemed that everyone except Saito Furofushi had achieved a perfect ending! How delightful and congratulatory~ It seemed a world where only Saito Furofushi was hurt had been born...
However, the truth was...
Within the 6th Division Barracks.
"Now Araki comes running over to see me every month whenever he has time~"
Saito Furofushi seemed to be enjoying herself.
Yes, high-end hunters often appeared as prey...
It was like that certain slick-haired man. Before he coated his head in hair gel, almost none of the Gotei 13 captains thought that he was the true mastermind behind everything~
Compared with Saito Furofushi's enjoyment, Araki appeared somewhat exhausted...
Keeping Observation Haki active all day and setting aside time every week to spar with Unohana Retsu and deepen their relationship had already left him tired. Now he also had to make time every month to visit Saito Furofushi...
Araki felt as though his body was about to be completely drained.
Until several more months hurried past...
That day, as usual, Araki leaned against the floor-to-ceiling window in the 11th Division Captain's Office.
Just as Araki was dozing off, his eyes unfocused...
A vision from the future, appearing frame by frame like a PowerPoint presentation, abruptly jolted Araki awake and banished all drowsiness. It was a warning from his advanced Observation Haki!
"So it's finally here?! My months of waiting were not in vain!"
"...Tenteikūra!"
Faced with the image reflected in his mind, Araki said nothing further and raised his left hand.
As streaks of ink spread across Araki's left arm, a transparent wall bearing a black spiral pattern appeared before him. At that moment, every Gotei 13 member enveloped by Araki's Spiritual Pressure heard a message in their minds...
1st Division Barracks.
"Has it come?!"
At the Swordsmanship Dojo, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13, casually set down the wooden sword he had been using for training and accepted Ryujin Jakka from a Division member nearby.
"An assassination from behind?"
Chōjirō Sasakibe stood close behind Yamamoto, thoughtfully looking at the Zanpakuto clenched in his hand.
6th Division Barracks.
"Oh! Oh! It's time for the Soul Society to hear the name Saito Furofushi!"
Having received the message, Saito Furofushi was brimming with excitement. She would use a war to tell the Soul Society who the strongest woman in the Soul Society truly was.
At the same time, the captains of the 2nd Division, 3rd Division, 4th Division, 5th Division, 7th Division, 8th Division...
Every captain of the Gotei 13 had gripped their Zanpakuto! As the saying went, "A weapon in hand breeds murderous intent!" The Great Villains of the Gotei 13 were ready to slaughter.
That day, dark clouds blanketed the Seireitei.
A misting rain drew back the curtain on this war between the Quincy and the Soul Reapers—a war in which reconciliation would never be possible, where only one side could survive.
"Bzzz..."
The skies seemed to sound a horn heralding the apocalypse.
Led by His Majesty, who was like a true god, seemingly The Almighty, the radiant Sternritter of the glorious Lichtreich finally set foot in this world that only the dead could enter.
The expeditionary knights firmly believed that their Majesty would not only become the "King" of the Human World, but would also unify the "Soul Society" and Hueco Mundo! He would become the true ruler of the Three Worlds!
The war had begun!
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