Morgana nodded and dispersed the darkness that had merged into the air. Kayle woke Orihime, while Ren carried the cat cage.
Seeing Ren preparing to leave, the Death Gods gathered below all looked at him with admiration and respect. Some nobles even invited him to visit their homes.
Ren naturally ignored those invitations. Especially invitations from Death God nobles—was this some kind of joke?
He left through the tavern's back door and swiftly vanished from everyone's search with Shunpo.
Outside Rukongai, in the countryside!
There stood a courtyard, a rather luxurious one.
Nemu Kurotsuchi said, "Lord Ren... this courtyard is also property of the Twelfth Division. Please rest here. If you need anything, just tell me!"
Ren nodded, swept his gaze over the courtyard, and said, "Not bad."
He then set down the cat cage, looked at Yoruichi, who was still stunned, and asked, "Well... shocked?"
Inside the cage, Yoruichi looked at Ren with admiration. "Very shocked! A wanted criminal running into the Seireitei and still acting so impressive would have been astounding enough! But the impressive part wasn't entering the Seireitei—it was subduing the captain of the Twelfth Division and making him serve you! That alone would have been incredible, but causing such a huge disturbance in Rukongai is simply unimaginable!
You drank in Rukongai and wrote poetry... now every noble knows you, and every Death God in the Seireitei knows you too! Before long, the entire Soul Society will probably know about you! And with all those poems and verses you wrote, they're bound to spread throughout the Soul Society and endure for ages! This is the kind of thing that gets passed down through the generations, yet the person who did it is actually a wanted criminal of the Seireitei! In all my life, I've never seen