After finishing his conversation with Nel, Asano Kiyoshi looked at the documents piled across nearly the entire desk and let out a long sigh.
What he had wanted was not a life of sitting in an office every day, reviewing all sorts of paperwork...
But at that moment, a ripple of Reishi came from afar, and Chōjirō Sasakibe's voice rang through his mind:
"Attention, captains of all divisions! Proceed to the First Squad immediately! An emergency Captain's Meeting is being convened! I repeat, an emergency Captain's Meeting is being convened! All captains must arrive within half an hour!"
As the voice faded, Asano Kiyoshi's heart sank. This sort of emergency notification delivered through the First Squad's Vice-Captain generally meant only one of two things!
First: Soul Society was about to face an invasion by foreign enemies!
Second: Soul Society was about to decide to eradicate evil!
Neither was something Asano Kiyoshi wanted to see right now.
Unexpected incidents arising midway through things were the most irritating.
Because they meant many people would die due to needless changes!
And those deaths could have been avoided through a gradual process.
Starting a war was no trivial matter...
He shook his head, and his figure vanished directly from his office chair. When he reappeared, he was already on a street several hundred meters away.
The member sweeping the street jumped in fright at the sudden appearance of the Chief Kido Master, yet instinctively greeted him anyway.
"Good afternoon, Chief Kido Master!"
Looking at the youth standing ramrod straight beside him, Asano Kiyoshi smiled faintly, then patted his shoulder with a grin.
"Good afternoon to you too~ Remember to eat more. You're too skinny."
With that, he vanished again, leaving behind only an overjoyed youth standing where he was.
And seeing the youth's excited,