Chapter 1

Healthy again, Renji? Some luck you had, huh?

I healed in no time. No big deal. I heard you had it much worse.

Is it true you were ordered to scrap the article you wrote?

Yeah. A replacement article will be published in the Seireitei Bulletin. Other than a handful of court guards, nobody knows we were censored.

Our staff had to stay up all night to fix it, but... Well, it was an order from Central 46.

We're supposed to forget all about that business.

But you have no intention of forgetting about it, right?

I mean, for once I can actually understand Central 46's decision to keep something from going public.

It is our job to record these matters, though.

If that approach to spurring the captains into action gained traction...

...there's no doubt that someone with bad intentions would show up to abuse it.

After looking into it, I found that it was nobody's fault, and nobody had any bad intentions.

All I wanted to do was leave a record of the awful event for future generations.

Sorry for making you listen to me go on and on about it.

It's okay. It's only been a few weeks, after all.

Squad 11 should be at the Senkaimon by now, but things still haven't calmed down around here.

After what happened, that's no surprise.

I wish we wouldn't go getting into pointless fights.

It's bound to happen when you've got a bunch of hot-blooded guys together with Captain Zaraki in the world of the living.

............

Ah, there's Captain Kyoraku. Has he come to take a look, too? That's unusual.

Maybe he just stopped by for a cup of tea. No, the captains must have been summoned here again.

You mean that mysterious meeting we lieutenants were told we didn't need to attend? I guess it's over.

It got cut off?!

That can't be good. Let's go!

Yes, sir!