"Saito, stay behind and straighten out the 11th Division. Get the entire division ready for battle!"
"Retsu, come with me..."
Araki wore a smiling face as he stood before the judge, while secretly using Tenteikūra to notify Furofushi and Retsu.
"Ready for battle!?"
Saito was utterly bewildered. Araki and the judge before him were clearly smiling so brilliantly—why was she being told to prepare for battle? Were they going to kill someone?
Although Saito could not understand what Araki meant, that did not stop her from carrying out his order. The instant she received Araki's Tenteikūra, she directed the soldiers outside the barracks into the 11th Division headquarters.
"Let's go~"
Meanwhile, Araki was already striding ahead with a smile on his face.
"This..."
The judge first looked at Araki's receding figure, then at his own sedan chair behind him. In the end, he gritted his teeth and started after Araki...
Even the Royal Guard of Division 0 was walking on foot. If he, a judge of Central 46, rode in a sedan chair, would that not make it seem as though he did not respect the Soul King?! The reason he had risen to his current position was because he had never made the wrong choice when it truly mattered...
The 11th Division barracks were not close to Central 46; they were more than ten ri apart. That distance was naturally nothing to captain-class figures like Araki and Unohana,
But for this judge, who usually traveled by sedan chair, it was exceptionally agonizing. After ten ri, every step was torture!
By the time they reached the entrance to Central 46, the judge had practically lost half his life from exhaustion. His entire body was soaked in sweat as he panted heavily at Araki and Unohana. "Huff! Huff! Huff..."
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