"Captain-Commander, there's actually something I wanted to mention as well. After this turmoil is over, I want to retire too and stop being a Soul Reaper."
The Captain-Commander's intention to step down was entirely within Yoru Machi's expectations. After all, when the Captain-Commander had fought the fake Yhwach, Yoru Machi could already sense that both his spiritual pressure and physical condition had begun to deteriorate.
If things followed the original plot, then after the Captain-Commander stepped down, the most suitable person to succeed him would undoubtedly be his student, Kyoraku Shunsui, captain of the Eighth Division.
But Yoru Machi had also heard from Chōjirō Sasakibe that he himself was one of the candidates for Captain-Commander.
Yoru Machi did not know whom the Captain-Commander would ultimately choose as his successor, but to avoid being selected, he decisively declared that he would retire with honor after the Thousand-Year Blood War.
"Bastard! I chose to step down because of my advanced age, because I know I no longer have the strength to manage the entire Thirteen Court Guard Squads.
"But you, brat, have only been a Soul Reaper for a little over a hundred years. You are in the prime of your life, and you have the nerve to retire alongside an old man with one foot in the grave?"
The Captain-Commander knew exactly what Yoru Machi was thinking. This lazy brat was merely worried that the Captain-Commander would make him take the fall, which was why he had suddenly brought up retirement.
Back when he had been asked to become a Soul Reaper captain, he had refused every which way. Now that he was being asked to take over as Captain-Commander, would that not be even more unbearable than killing him?
Originally, Yoru Machi truly had been the Captain-Commander's first choice for