A week had passed since the previous unrest. Looking at the newspaper on his desk, Asano Kiyoshi could not help feeling his face burn.
That damned Omaeda—where had he even come up with these bizarre headlines?
Nel picked up the newspaper with a grin and read aloud to Asano Kiyoshi:
"Great Riot in Soul Society! The lord of Thunder Who Calmed All!"
"The Queller of Unrest, the New Sun in Soul Society's Sky!"
"The Unobservable Giant Face of Terror, the Ten-Thousand-Foot Thunder Dragon Stirring the Heavens!"
"The Leader of Soul Society's New Generation! The Light of Miracle Blanketing All of Soul Society!"
Those unbearably cringe-worthy descriptions made Asano Kiyoshi feel a wave of embarrassment. Looking at Nel, whose eyes and brows were still filled with amusement, he said helplessly, "Nel, you've been laughing since earlier. It's been nearly half an hour..."
Yet even so, Nel kept laughing, with no intention of stopping.
Asano Kiyoshi looked at the newspaper in his hands and rubbed his aching head. It seemed he would have to talk to Omaeda next time. He could not let him write articles in such an exaggerated style.
Setting the newspaper aside, Asano Kiyoshi looked at the documents he had just reviewed and fell into thought.
After the last noble uprising, the situation across Soul Society had undergone another major reshuffle.
If the nobles had still posed even the slightest threat to the Gotei 13 before, then after the Night of Upheaval, the nobles as a whole were like Ji Han without Zhuge Liang in Soul Society—basically useless.
However, Asano Kiyoshi was not the sort of person to discard people once they had served their purpose. He naturally would not mistreat families such as the Kuchiki Clan and Shihoin Clan, who had supported his reforms.
Still, a necessary surrender