The next day!
Duan Mu walked through the streets of District 38, tallying the losses caused by yesterday's battle.
The more he counted...
The uglier his expression became.
With the Yorozuya at the center, all the surrounding houses had been damaged.
The houses were still easy enough to deal with. Duan Mu could rebuild them himself, but...
The greatest losses were not the houses, but the farmland in the outskirts behind the Yorozuya. The area at the center of the battlefield had basically been wiped flat.
Fortunately, at the captain's meeting just now, Captain Commander Yamamoto had made it clear that the residents' losses would be compensated by the Gotei 13.
But he had not mentioned repairs to the houses or rebuilding the Yorozuya at all.
Duan Mu had not dared to ask...
After all, those Espada had come for him. The losses suffered by the residents of District 38 could also be said to have been caused by him.
Consider it payment for my life!
Duan Mu shook his head slightly and stopped dwelling on it. As for why the Espada had targeted him, he had chosen to tell the truth.
The reason was simple.
He had not wanted to speak earlier because he was afraid the Captain Commander might kill him in order to continue sealing the Hogyoku. The odds were extremely low, but even if they were only 0.00...01%, Duan Mu was unwilling to take that risk.
Now, however, it no longer mattered. After all, judging from what Yoruichi had said when she arrived, Urahara Kisuke ultimately had not preserved his blood. The Hogyoku's unsealing had become inevitable!
More than ten minutes after yesterday's battle ended, Yoruichi and Big Sister Kūkaku finally arrived with Ichigo Kurosaki and the others, who had just finished their Bankai training.
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