"Boss Duan Mu!"
Duan Mu and Omaeda walked side by side through the Onmitsukidō barracks, nodding in response to each squad member who greeted them.
"Captain Duan Mu, have you finished your work? I'm off tomorrow. If you need it, I can help you with it tomorrow morning."
"I-I-I can go too!"
"And me! I can take leave as well."
"..."
Omaeda looked at the squad members surrounding Duan Mu, his fat face twitching uncontrollably. Has this guy... become even more popular?
Normally, whenever Duan Mu walked through the Onmitsukidō, he was greeted with respectful salutations. But over the past few days, the squad members' attitudes toward him had become much friendlier.
Moreover, ever since he subdued his Zanpakuto, Omaeda had felt that Duan Mu seemed to have changed.
He couldn't say exactly how. He simply felt that being around him was much easier than before.
Duan Mu still wore that same smiling expression whenever he met someone, but for some reason, he seemed even more approachable now.
What was even stranger was...
The people who shared this feeling were basically all male squad members. The female squad members, on the other hand, felt that Duan Mu was the same as before, except that his smile had become more attractive.
After finally escaping the squad members' concerned greetings, Duan Mu arrived at the cafeteria and couldn't help wiping away nonexistent sweat.
Duan Mu was actually somewhat bewildered as well. He felt that the squad members' concern for him had been rising sharply lately. What left him most speechless was that the male squad members of the Onmitsukidō, the Fourth Division, and the 9th Division seemed to have suddenly developed soaring favorability toward him.
If their names hadn't failed to appear on the system interface, Duan Mu might have thought the