"Um, Brother Chen Fan..."
"What's wrong?"
"Was your trip to the Shionin Family successful?" Rukia asked.
Chen Fan glanced up, thought for a moment, and said, "Well... it's about the same as usual."
Do the others agree?
"I don't care whether others agree or not. It's us getting married, not those guys. What do I care if they agree or not?"
"Can nobles and commoners really marry?"
"Well... it's hard to say!"
"Honestly, he's not being honest at all!" Rukia stomped her feet in anger at Chen Fan.
"Hehe, is something bothering you? You've seemed downcast the whole way, something must be on your mind. Why don't you tell me? Maybe I can help," Chen Fan said with a smile.
"This is my own business, and no one else can help," Rukia said with a sigh.
"Well...! I knew it. Even if I asked you what was bothering you so much, you wouldn't give me a straight answer. But don't forget, as long as you're still in this group, I'm your comrade."
Rukia was slightly taken aback when she heard Chen Fan say that.
Suddenly, three people popped out. "Wow, so handsome!"
"That's so cool..."
"How cheesy..." It was Sentaro Kotsubaki, Kiyone Kotetsu, and Kaien Shiba;
"Did you hear that? I'm your comrade or something."
"How shameless!"
"Now she's definitely going to fall in love with you...!"
"That's true...!"
"Hey, hey...! You bunch of bastards, this is really outrageous! Eavesdropping on someone's conversation! I was getting so into this touching speech, and you guys ruined it all!" Chen Fan said to the group with a laugh and a scolding tone.
"Now I finally know how Lady Yoruichi got Chen Fan's heart! Lord Chen Fan so good at sweet talk and so handsome, no girl could resist him!"
"Really, you guys..." Chen Fan shook his head with a helpless wry smile;
"Alright, you lot, stop fooling around! Rukia's about to cry! Quickly take everything to the captain's office, the captain's waiting to deal with it!" Kaien Shiba said.
They threw all of Chen Fan's belongings into the hands of Sentaro Kotsubaki and Kiyone Kotetsu, and sent the two of them to the captain's office with Rukia;
Then he took out a bamboo tube of water and handed it to Chen Fan, and they sat down together on the bank of the stream.
"How was it? This trip didn't go very smoothly, did it?" Kaien Shiba asked.
Chen Fan's mind flashed back to his crazy adventures with Yoruichi and Soifon, and he said, "Well! It wasn't all that bad!"
"You bastard! You must have done something filthy."
"Uh...! Is it that obvious?" Chen Fan said, feigning ignorance.