"Come out, Haineko!"
"Will you listen to me or not!"
"How dare you call me an Auntie? Stop talking nonsense!!"
"Hey! I said, did you hear me or not!!"
"Hmph, you're really too willful!"
Rangiku, looking annoyed, rummaged through Toshiro's captain's office, turning the whole place into a mess. However, in the end, she found nothing and angrily plopped herself heavily onto the sofa.
"Willful and capricious, you're really pissing me off! I'd love to see which idiot created a Zanpakuto like you!"
Bang!
Toshiro kicked the door open and walked in.
"Matsumoto!!"
Toshiro shouted angrily.
"Ah—!"
Suddenly hearing Toshiro's loud shout, Rangiku was so startled she almost jumped off the sofa.
"What are you shouting about? Chattering away, so annoying!"
Toshiro demanded.
"What's this? It's just Captain. You almost scared my heart out."
Rangiku breathed a sigh of relief, then patted the two big white rabbits on her chest, causing a spectacular scene of heaving waves.
Then Rangiku explained to Toshiro: "It's nothing really. There have been quite a few battles lately, right? But as the Lieutenant of the 10th Division, my strength can't even compare to those two 3rd Seats, Sojiro and Ashido. It's really embarrassing for me as Lieutenant. So I wanted to train hard and improve my strength. Just now, I was having a conversation with my Zanpakuto."
"That didn't sound like a conversation with your Zanpakuto, it sounded more like a quarrel."
Toshiro said with a speechless expression.
Just then, someone else visited.
"Ano... sorry to intrude, Captain Hitsugaya, Lieutenant Matsumoto."
Isane, Lieutenant of the 4th Division, stood at the door and greeted them respectfully.
"And me too, Shiro-chan, Rangiku-nee."
Momo's figure also emerged from behind Isane.
"Momo, Isane, why did you two come together?"
Rangiku asked.
"Isane and I just attended a meeting, and then I invited her to come over for a visit."
As she spoke, Momo handed a stack of documents to Rangiku: "Rangiku-nee, this is the report from the Lieutenant's Liaison Meeting. You didn't attend again, but you should at least read the report to understand the meeting's content."
Ever since Momo was also appointed as Lieutenant of the 10th Division by Toshiro, the originally lazy Rangiku had become even lazier. She rarely attended Lieutenant Meetings anymore, leaving everything to Momo.
And Momo, in order to better help Toshiro, accepted everything without refusal. Rangiku, this Lieutenant, spent her days doing nothing, almost becoming a useless person.
"Ah, thanks, Momo."
Rangiku took the report and then casually tossed it onto the table, showing no intention of reading it.
Momo said with a playful pout: "Rangiku-nee..."
"Matsumoto-san, what are you doing?"
Isane suddenly looked curiously at Rangiku's Zanpakuto stuck in the floor.
"Oh, that? I was just having a conversation with my Zanpakuto. There have been a lot of enemies lately, right? So I wanted to train and improve my strength. But that Haineko has been ignoring me all day today. It's so useless, it's driving me crazy."
Mentioning the Zanpakuto, Rangiku immediately looked depressed and flicked her golden hair.
"That's not right, Rangiku-nee. How can you speak ill of your own Zanpakuto? You need to communicate with it more openly."
Momo quickly advised.
"Like me, when I'm feeling down, Tobiume is always worried about me. At times like that, I think I'm not alone… Tobiume is always by my side."
Momo hugged herself, smiling happily.
"Momo, even your Zanpakuto has to worry about you? It seems I haven't been caring for you enough."
Toshiro said, somewhat speechlessly and guiltily.
"Uumm... about the Zanpakuto matter..."
Isane Kotetsu suddenly raised her hand like an elementary school student and walked over to Toshiro: "My Itegumo has also been very sluggish for the past two or three days. Besides Hinamori's invitation, the main reason I came to the 10th Division this time was to ask Captain Hitsugaya if he knows what's going on."
"After all, Captain Hitsugaya's Hyorinmaru is the Strongest Ice-type Zanpakuto, and my Itegumo is also ice-type. So I thought maybe Captain Hitsugaya would know what's happening..."
Hearing Isane's words, Toshiro suddenly seemed to think of something, and his expression changed instantly.
Before Toshiro could answer, Rangiku exclaimed in surprise: "What! Isane, your Zanpakuto is like that too?"
"Mm. This has never happened before, not once..."
Isane said with a worried expression.
Rangiku, however, was thick-skinned and waved her hand dismissively: "Well, well, since it's the first time, it's nothing. That Haineko is a repeat offender when it comes to this kind of thing."
Isane said: "It's precisely because it's the first time that I'm worried, Matsumoto-san."
"Mm? Shiro-chan, what's wrong?"
Momo suddenly noticed Toshiro's expression looked very bad.
"No, it's nothing."
Toshiro answered somewhat evasively, then immediately turned and walked out.
"Shiro-chan, where are you going?"
Hinamori Momo asked.
"Idiot, it's still working hours. I suddenly remembered I have some work that requires me to go out."
Toshiro replied with his back to Momo and the others.
"Eh? What a pity. When Isane and I went to the 4th Division earlier, Captain Unohana rarely specifically prepared some sweet natto for you and asked me to bring them back."
Momo said with a regretful expression.
Ever since Toshiro drank and watched the moon with Unohana while recuperating in the 4th Division, their relationship had somehow become better.
When interacting privately, Toshiro called her Hana-chan, and Unohana directly called him by his given name.
When facing Unohana, Toshiro could always see the shadow of his mother from his previous life in her. And for some reason, Unohana was also very close to Toshiro. She often made clothes or food Toshiro liked and had someone bring them over, like this time.
Perhaps influenced by his predecessor, although Toshiro had never eaten strange things like sweet natto in his previous life, after transmigrating, he got used to them over time and even started to find them quite tasty.
Hearing 'sweet natto', Toshiro's body instinctively stopped in its tracks.
"Hehe, Captain, don't you love sweet natto the most? How about we use the sweet natto as a snack and have a few drinks?"
Rangiku, the big drunkard, also urged Toshiro.
"Idiot! Do you think this Captain is a child who can't walk when he sees food?"
Toshiro scolded Rangiku, then 'bang', slammed the door and left.
But after walking out of the Captain's office, Toshiro's expression immediately became grave.
'Could it be that thing is about to happen?'
'I hope I can still make it in time. Genryusai-sensei, you have to hold on...'