Early morning.
Duan Mu yawned as he pushed open the bedroom door. Familiar clamor greeted him.
The tavern was as lively as ever. One burly, fierce-looking man after another shouted at the top of his lungs.
However, today's tavern was slightly different.
While boasting to one another, the men kept sneaking glances toward a table in the center of the tavern.
More precisely...
They were looking at a certain orange-haired girl with an outrageously impressive figure at the table.
That girl was Orihime Inoue.
Sitting beside Orihime Inoue were Yasutora Sado, Ishida Uryū, Ishida Sōgen, Shihoin Yoruichi, Shiba Ganju, and the others... Basically, the entire traveling group had gathered here.
Duan Mu froze when he saw this, then suddenly regretted asking Captain Commander Yamamoto to release them so early.
It had been two days since he became a sage. During those two days, Duan Mu had only visited the underground meeting hall once, on the day he became a sage.
After that...
Duan Mu never went there again.
The reason was simple.
Endless nonsense!
Maybe it was because they had just become sages, but those people had practically maxed out the art of pointless rhetoric. They had talked about the key issue for an entire day, yet Duan Mu still had no idea what the key issue was...
The most ridiculous part was...
Those idle fools actually had the nerve to suggest holding another meeting tomorrow.
Thus, after asking Nayula, Duan Mu stopped going to the underground meeting hall. According to Nayula, Captain Commander Yamamoto had decided to temporarily act on behalf of Central 46, to prevent them from making decisions based on personal preferences due to their incomplete membership...
In other words, those people had absolutely nothing to do. They simply wanted to experience what it felt like to