"Turn around. Close the door!"
As Spiritual Power surged in his palm, a barrier that blocked detection instantly formed, enclosing the entire captain's office.
"Little Duan Mu, why are you so nervous? Afraid I'll eat you?"
The shadow on the desk teased him, raising a cat paw to lick it before wiping it across her face.
If he had not known her true identity so well, Duan Mu might really have believed that the shadow sprawled across his desk was merely a talking black cat.
"I can't help it. There are simply too many people watching me."
A smile almost instinctively appeared on Duan Mu's face. "Since you entered the Seireitei through Kūkaku's cannon, you should have already heard about my current situation from Big Sister Kūkaku, right, Lady Yoruichi?"
Although he did not know why Yoruichi had appeared here, Duan Mu's eyes still lit up when he saw her.
If he could raise her favorability and become friends with her, his experience points—which had been nearly depleted—could be replenished.
Upon hearing this, Yoruichi stared straight at Duan Mu with her slit pupils and spoke in a steady, powerful male voice. "But Kūkaku never told me you had become the captain of the 9th Division."
Although Kūkaku had said that she could come to Duan Mu for help inside the Seireitei, and although Yoruichi trusted Kūkaku very much, Duan Mu was someone she had only met a few times—and even Urahara Kisuke believed that he was hiding his true depths.
She simply could not trust him based on a single sentence from Kūkaku.
Moreover, Kūkaku had never told her that Duan Mu had now become the captain of the 9th Division. No, strictly speaking, no one in the entire Rukongai knew about it.
Had Kūkaku deliberately concealed it from her,