Hiyori Sarugaki, the Shady Merchant

Chapter 393: Hiyori Sarugaki × Swindler

In a stretch of unfinished buildings, Nara Dan and Kisuke Urahara appeared before one of the structures.

"This is where that group is hiding?"

"Looks like they're not living too well..."

After all, this was a cluster of abandoned construction sites, surrounded by demolished buildings—practically a ruin by any measure.

Kisuke Urahara denied it, though.

"Not at all."

"I've set up extra Underground Space for them."

"Their lives down there are way more leisurely than mine, stuck watching the shop as the owner."

Ignoring Urahara's antics, Nara Dan strode forward and stepped straight into Shinji Hirako's territory.

"Whoosh!"

A yellow object, fast as lightning, shot through the air straight at Urahara's face.

Urahara merely tilted his head slightly, dodging the speeding projectile with ease.

"Now, now."

"Hiyori."

"There's no need to be so enthusiastic when I visit..."

"Just a normal welcome would be fine."

Urahara fanned himself with his small fan, putting on an exaggeratedly startled expression.

"Bam!"

The yellow object slammed into a load-bearing pillar behind him, blasting a massive crater into the hard concrete.

Debris scattered everywhere, and the true form of the yellow object turned out to be a soft slipper!

"Urahara baldy!"

"You sneaking in without a word is bad enough!"

"But you brought some unknown guy along too!"

A short, yellow-haired girl leaped down from a high vantage point, landing lightly on the ground.

Hiyori Sarugaki, former Vice-Captain of the Twelfth Division—formerly Urahara's Vice-Captain—

was also one of those framed and sent here.

"Kid!"

Hiyori Sarugaki immediately sensed that the tall figure before her had a young soul age and reeked of Shinigami.

"You're a Shinigami?"

"Here to capture us?"

"I knew you, Urahara, couldn't be trusted!"

"Now you've finally betrayed us!"

With that, Hiyori Sarugaki drew her Zanpakutō