Yamabuki Chidori took out a pair of handcuffs from his clothes and tossed them over, telling him to put them on himself.
Yamada Kawa obediently slipped the Reiatsu-suppressing handcuffs over his arms.
"Um... does this count as turning myself in? Can my punishment be reduced?" Yamada Kawa asked cautiously.
Before Yamabuki Chidori could say anything, Kensei Muguruma had already exploded.
"You bastard who came out of nowhere, who the hell are you? Are you trying to steal my bounty?" Kensei Muguruma clenched his fist and threw a punch at him.
Kensei Muguruma was still a teenager at this point. He was nowhere near as calm and composed as he would be in middle age, and instinctively assumed that this bastard who had suddenly appeared was here to cause trouble.
So he threw a punch without even thinking.
Without considering whether he could win.
Though, thinking about it, he would only know the answers to those questions after fighting.
Kensei Muguruma did not yet have a Zanpakuto, but his Reiatsu was already formidable. It had even reached the level of a Lieutenant, making him slightly stronger than Aizen at the same time.
The violent gust from his punch swept forward, but Yamabuki Chidori merely calmly extended a hand, grabbed the brat around the waist, and slung him over his shoulder.
He looked exactly like a child kidnapper.
"Y-you, put me down! What are you trying to do?" Kensei Muguruma shouted.
But no matter how much he yelled, Yamabuki Chidori acted as though he had not heard him. He casually opened a Wormhole before him and said to Yamada Kawa, "Go back. Confess honestly, reform yourself properly, and strive for a reduced sentence."
Yamada Kawa nodded vigorously. Surviving was already no easy feat; he no longer dared ask for anything else.
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