Yoru Machi: You Really Think I'm a Soft Touch!

Seireitei, Fifth Division Barracks training grounds.

The more than three hundred Soul Reapers who had originally been standing around loosely immediately put on serious expressions when they heard what Yoru Machi had just said through Tenteikūra, turning their gazes toward him.

Yagami Yoru Castle was a name with which most Soul Reapers in Seireitei were actually quite familiar.

After all, although he was merely the Third Seat of the Thirteenth Division, the various rumors and achievements surrounding him had long far surpassed his rank.

Of course, while most rank-and-file Soul Reapers often heard tales of Yoru Machi over drinks, most of them treated those stories as entertainment.

After all, a mere Third Seat uncovering a captain's betrayal, defeating several captains, and even fighting the Captain-Commander without losing—such things sounded like pure fantasy to Soul Reapers who had never met Yoru Machi.

They would rather believe those were exaggerated absurdities than accept that they were true.

Yet when they heard that Yagami Yoru Castle had been appointed captain of the Fifth Division, those rank-and-file Soul Reapers who had once doubted the stories had no choice but to start believing that the rumors they had heard might actually have been true.

The reason was simple. Rumors could be fabricated, but the Captain-Commander and the other captains would never make a joke out of a captaincy in the Thirteen Court Guard Squads.

Since Aizen and the others rebelled, the captaincies of the Third Division, Fifth Division, and Ninth Division had remained vacant.

The Thirteen Court Guard Squads had thousands of Soul Reapers. Was it really so difficult to find people to fill those captaincies?

If the Captain-Commander and the others had not insisted on quality over quantity, how could the captaincies of those three divisions have remained vacant for so long?

Now, someone