Chapter 4

Captain! I reported to the Head Captain and secured the safety of the local residents.

All right.

Captain Komamura! Please use this! I got it from Captain Soi Fon.

Thank you, Tetsuzaemon. I owe you one.

All right, let's divide and conquer, Sajin. Rangiku and I will deal with this one.

I leave the other one to you.

Not a problem. I will put an end to my own copy.

What are you planning to do with that? Cut me down? Stop Kaname?

Both, of course.

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

Get ready!

You said you would stop Kaname, but what will you do after that?

Will you stand on the sidelines again and watch as someone else cuts him down?

That thing is not Kaname.

Regardless of his quest for vengeance, my friend always held aspirations for the way he thought the world should be.

Though the path he took was not one we could follow him down, to be sure.

If that man is a piece of the soul born of Kaname's delusions and has abandoned even those aspirations, then...

...it is my duty to cut him down and return that piece of Kaname's soul to him.

Do you pity the man who has given up even his own sense of justice for vengeance?

Can you say for certain that when someone you care about is brutally murdered, you will not be consumed by your own desire for vengeance?

You cannot truly understand the pain, suffering, and hatred that is born from devoting yourself to vengeance.

And yet you claim to be his friend.

That's enough! What do you know?!

I won't allow you to disparage the captain!

It's all right, Tetsuzaemon. It doesn't matter what he says to me.

My reason for wielding this blade is not mistaken!

He really did disappear.

Wait.