"Who came up with this title!? It's unbelievably lame. Take it back and think of another one!!"
"Hey... Did they get the page count for this special issue wrong!? It's missing a page."
"The mail-order catalog is finished."
"Can someone go to the Fifth Division? Has Captain Aizen's manuscript for the 'Back of the Pine Leaf' column arrived yet...? What about the manuscript Captain Kyōraku sent over? Why haven't I received it here?"
"Look carefully. There's no way it isn't here."
"By the way, whoever goes to the Fifth Division to retrieve the manuscript, ask Lieutenant Captain Hinamori Momo when she'll have time to draw the illustrations."
"And Captain Ukitake of the Thirteenth Division's 'The Pisces' Rejection' has missed seven issues in a row. Can someone hurry him along? We can't leave the page blank forever, can we?"
"..."
Duan Mu stared at the scene before him, his expression somewhat vacant. He suddenly began to wonder whether he had come to the wrong place.
How did this look anything like a division headquarters? It was practically a publishing house...
No!
This really was a publishing house.
The sign at the entrance where Duan Mu now stood read...
9th Division Barracks · Seireitei Communication Editorial Office.
Apart from the office building, the 9th Division's barracks also contained a two-story building called the Seireitei Communication Editorial Office. This was the building Duan Mu was standing in. The first floor was a printing office, while part of the second floor housed the editorial department. Once a manuscript was completed, it could immediately be sent downstairs for printing and publication.
There was a blackboard outside the editorial department, recording its members' schedules and work arrangements for the day.
"The deadline is coming up, so everyone's rather busy."
Shuhei Hisagi stood beside Duan Mu and