Uchiha Hikaru shot Zaraki Kenpachi a sidelong glance and refused without hesitation. "No."
"Did you forget what you promised me before?" Zaraki Kenpachi persisted.
Seeing this, Uchiha Hikaru immediately used Flash Step to vanish. Zaraki Kenpachi moved after him and shouted:
"Are we playing cat and mouse again?"
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni's conversation with Uchiha Hikaru had been interrupted, yet there was not the slightest displeasure on his face.
Ryujin Jakka in his hand reverted to a peachwood cane. He folded both hands over it and watched with a smile as Zaraki Kenpachi chased after Uchiha Hikaru.
He looked just like a kind old man, utterly lacking the fierce air he had possessed earlier with his upper body bare and muscles bulging.
"Uchiha Hikaru... I truly understand you less and less."
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni murmured softly. Kyoraku Shunsui had not heard him clearly and asked curiously,
"What is it, Teacher?"
"Nothing." Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni slowly walked away step by step. Halfway there, he suddenly remembered something and said, "You and Ukitake are not allowed to make the same mistake again."
Kyoraku Shunsui grinned broadly, looking exceptionally delighted. "Yes, Teacher."
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni slowly made his way back. Someone would naturally repair the damage inflicted upon Soul Society today; there was no need for him to worry about it at all.
What concerned him now was Uchiha Hikaru.
From Zaraki Kenpachi's words just now, he seemed to have picked up on something.
"Appeared again," "promised to fight," and "playing cat and mouse again."
Those three statements from Zaraki Kenpachi completely exposed the fact that they had met more than once before.
So the question was:
When had the two of them met?
Had it been today, or even earlier?
If it had been today, then the person who had vanished among the