Amagai Shūsuke

Two days passed.

With the Soul Reapers' physical abilities far surpassing those of ordinary humans, the immense postwar workload had already been preliminarily completed, temporarily putting the entire Thirteen Divisions back on track.

However, aside from the loss of large numbers of seated officers—the backbone Soul Reapers—the most serious problem facing the Thirteen Divisions was that nearly half of its captain and Vice-Captain positions now stood vacant.

This left many division Vice-Captains and seated officers unable to make decisions at all, forcing them to submit the relevant issues to the General Division Headquarters in the form of documents for instruction.

As a result, the one truly left at a loss... was Chiba Makoto.

Other than inviting his many old friends in Seireitei to a banquet as a celebration of his "coming back from the dead," Chiba Makoto's remaining time was completely buried beneath documents.

As the true current adjutant to the Captain-Commander, Chōjirō Sasakibe possessed the self-awareness of a man about to retire. Even as he sat beside him stiffly, drinking tea and meditating, he showed no intention whatsoever of helping process the documents.

Moreover, with Chōjirō Sasakibe supervising him under the pretext of "handing things over," Chiba Makoto had no opportunity to do as he had in the past—dumping all the cumbersome, trivial paperwork onto the Third and Fourth Seats under the guise of "training" them.

Chiba Makoto's eyes were bloodshot, and a thick air of resentment radiated from his entire body, yet his hands continued rapidly reviewing document after document...

Regarding this, Chōjirō Sasakibe spoke in the tone of someone who had been through it, offering an utterly unhelpful remark. "Vice-Captain Chiba, it may feel a little unfamiliar at first, but captains cannot bury their heads in mountains of paperwork. Therefore, an adjutant must possess this kind of