One month later...
1st Division barracks.
"One hundred billion. A full one hundred billion!"
"Those bastards from Central 46 are fucking greedy! But I like it."
Araki narrowed his eyes as he looked at the immense fortune before him, piled as high as mountains—roughly one hundred billion Rings in total...
The deal Araki had struck with Central 46 was simple: the more they gave, the more he earned. Still, he had not expected those Sages of Central 46 to be so greedy that they would cough up a full one hundred billion just to squeeze wealth out of the Five Great Noble Clans.
"Looks like I still underestimated the wealth controlled by Central 46."
Araki stared at the mountain of gold before him and muttered to himself.
It had to be said that, even as the Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13, he had underestimated the wealth controlled by those bastards in Central 46. He had originally thought those assholes could at most come up with thirty or fifty billion!
Yet in less than a month, the Great Sages of Central 46 had produced a full one hundred billion in wealth. And by Araki's calculations, this was not even their limit! This one hundred billion was merely Central 46 testing him...
Based on Araki's understanding of these bastards, if they could produce one hundred billion, they could naturally produce two hundred billion! If they sold off all the family assets of those Sages and judges, gathering three hundred billion should not be a problem either!
As expected, the wealth accumulated by aristocratic clans over thousands of years in a feudal era far exceeded Araki's imagination.
"Where did all this money come from?!"
Even Saito Furofushi, a member of the First Generation Gotei 13, was dumbfounded by the mountain of wealth before