Even Captain Isshin Shiba of the Tenth Division admitted that Toshiro Hitsugaya might not even need a hundred years to become a warrior who surpassed him.
Even now, Toshiro Hitsugaya's strength within the Tenth Division was second only to Isshin Shiba's.
The Tenth Division's Vice-Captain, M Matsumoto Rangiku, had now become the Gotei 13's greatest slacker after Ailin, captain of the Eleventh Division.
She had handed nearly all division duties over to Toshiro Hitsugaya. Every day, she was either attending banquets with members of the Female Shinigami Association or drinking at an Izakaya with a few drinking buddies.
Toshiro Hitsugaya was currently holding the position of Third Seat in the Tenth Division while doing a Vice-Captain's work.
If Toshiro Hitsugaya had not joined the Tenth Division so recently and lacked seniority, M Matsumoto Rangiku probably would not have been able to keep her position as Vice-Captain.
At the True Zero Spirit Arts Academy, seventeen or eighteen youths dressed in black Shinigami uniforms stood proudly in the middle of the academy grounds, accepting the admiring gazes of their younger schoolmates.
Viewed from above, those dozen or so specks of black stood out starkly amid the sea of white.
The Shinigami uniform was clothing only true Shinigami were qualified to wear.
Shunshunmaru Shutara of the Royal Guard had passed the Royal Guard's assessment and become one of its Four Great Divine Generals precisely because of her great achievement in creating the Shinigami uniform.
Like an Asauchi, a Shinigami's uniform was bound to them through thick and thin and could provide a certain degree of defense.
Moreover, after the Shinigami uniform was damaged, a Shinigami could restore it by expending spiritual power.
Being able to wear a Shinigami uniform proved that these dozen or so people had successfully passed their graduation assessment