Fate Like the Heavens (2)

Abarai Renji, who had always harbored a deep sense of inferiority, never could have imagined that Kuchiki Rukia carried an equally inescapable knot in her heart—and that he himself had tied it tight around her from the very beginning.

"The guards said you sat in your cell all night without eating or drinking. What exactly are you being so stubborn about? And just now, instead of calling me by name, you sarcastically called me Vice-Captain..."

Renji deliberately twisted his face into a more ferocious expression, pressing it against the cold iron bars as he lowered his voice. "What, do you have a problem with my position as vice-captain?"

"How could I?! How could I..."