Two days later, at the Great Kūkaku Training Hall.
Iwao, his face covered in bruises, kept glancing at the entrance to the Great Kūkaku Training Hall, his expression full of tension.
"Didn't you say we were leaving for Hueco Mundo today?"
Iwao lowered his voice. "Are we going or not? Should I knock Koganehiko and Gin Hikō unconscious? What do we do next? Do we sneak into Seireitei again?"
Duan Mu sat on the edge of the circular ring. He didn't answer Iwao's barrage of questions, but stared intently at the Command Divine Machine in his hands.
Whether they could leave depended on whether the information came through.
Two days ago, under the pretext of being "curious," he'd asked a Fourth Division officer he was on good terms with to send him the guest list. Messages had been coming in constantly since eight that morning, but the name Duan Mu wanted to see still hadn't appeared.
Could he be staying away?
"What are you looking at, anyway?"
Seeing this, Iwao walked over to Duan Mu, confused. When he saw the messages on the Command Divine Machine, he was at a loss for words.
"You want to go to the Flower Arrangement Gathering that badly? I really don't see what's so interesting about arranging flowers. If we don't leave soon, we won't be able to get away once Big Sis gets here."
"So why'd you come to the Great Kūkaku Training Hall in the first place? Right under Big Sis's nose, how were we ever supposed to sneak out so easily..."
"She's here!"
Duan Mu's eyes lit up. He jumped to his feet. "Let's go."
Iwao was initially confused by what Duan Mu meant by "she's here," but the words "let's go" made him forget all about the rest. He hurriedly