Chapter 1: Direct Interview!

Thank you for meeting with me today, Captain Hirako!

I've been waiting for this, Shuhei. You've got good taste, picking me for the Seireitei Bulletin's front cover.

Let's get started right away and head over to your photoshoot.

Yeah! Let's do this!

Yoooo, you ready?

Yes, please go ahead!

Collapse, Sakanade!

Perfect! Thank you very much. Are you really okay with showing us your Shikai?

Well, I gotta go all out for the front cover.

All right then, I'd like to begin the interview portion now. Can you tell us, in as little or as much detail as you like, about your enlistment in the Court Guard Squads?

That's hard for me to talk about. Pass!

Pass?! O-Okay then, how about your experience between enlisting and becoming Captain...

Ohhhh, too bad. There's not enough time for that. Pass.

Umm, do you intend on answering any of my questions?

Huh?! You dragged me all the way out here and then talk to me like that?!

Who the hell do you think I am?! I'm the fashionista of the Court Guard Squads! You should have plenty of other things to ask me about!

I came here to interview the Squad 5 captain!

Anyway, if I have to pass, I'm going to pass. If that's all you've got for me, I'm leaving.

Fine then, umm... How did you spend your time in the world of the living?

Man, these are some cruddy questions. Well, I...

Oh yeah, I drank some boba.

What is boba?

You haven't heard of it? It's all the trend in the world of the living. They take the eggs of this fish called boba and put them inside these stylish drinks, and you eat them while you drink.

I've never heard of that before. So do you drink it or do you eat it?

If you need a special feature, you should do it on that. A lot of your readers have duties in the world of the living, so I bet it'd be a huge hit.

Understood. We'll start by researching the ecology of this so-called boba fish.

Thank you very much, Captain Hirako! We'll send you the photo for you to approve later.

Got it. Good luck!

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Research the ecology? Did he really fall for that joke?

At this rate, I'm going to be sharing the front cover with some strange fish.

Hey, Shuhei! Time out for a sec! Time out!