How Scary! They're Ganging Up on an Old-Timer Like Me! / I Threw My Dignity to the Dogs Long Ago

But he knew Tekka Gekka very well.

He was Kisuke Urahara's closest friend. The two had left Soul Society together and opened a general store in the Human World.

When he left, Tekka Gekka was the commander of the Kidō Corps. Then Aizen framed him, and Soul Society exiled him.

His skill with Kidō was exceptional. He could instantly cast Hadō #88, Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō, without an incantation.

And I'd answer with a Splitting Void!

"So... why have you brought your deputy to see me? Don't tell me you want a raise. Think about how much time you've spent slacking off lately. The only reason I haven't docked your pay is that we're old friends," Yamabuki Chidori said earnestly.

"Pay? You have the nerve to bring up that measly salary?" Hane Hane Chiyo looked at him with disdain. She was now Seireitei's bestselling novelist. For female fans of boys' love, she wrote romances that made them blush; for male shut-ins, she wrote girls' love stories that gave them nosebleeds.

In eight hundred years of writing, she had never produced a single normal romance.

And yet she was a hit!

Who knew how much money she had made over the years?

Of course she had no interest in that paltry salary.

"So you're resigning to become a full-time writer?" Yamabuki Chidori asked.

"Exactly. I want this young man to take over as commander of the Kidō Corps," Hane Hane Chiyo said.

Yamabuki Chidori wasn't thinking about who would command the Kidō Corps. Instead, he said gravely, "Does that mean I could become a full-time manga artist too? My comics are pretty popular."

He had previously drawn Magical Girl Battles the Cthulhu Evil God. He had never expected it to be so popular. The printing presses had practically smoked themselves to