Chapter 227 There's a Good Show to Watch

The admission of Hinamori Momo to the team is just a small matter for the entire Gotei 13.

A future vice-captain may sound impressive, but it is not a big deal for the entire Gotei 13.

Unless the person who joins the team is a future captain, then this matter is worth the attention of the entire Gotei 13. Otherwise, to put it bluntly, it is just a vice-captain. Other teams will at most ask a few questions out of curiosity, and there will be no more attention.

But for the entire Third Division, this matter is not a small matter.

After all, this is the future vice-captain of their team. Although Shoten Chitetsu did not say it explicitly, it has been shown in all aspects.

The evidence is that after Hinamori Momo joined the team, Shoten Chitetsu has been personally leading her and helping her familiarize herself with various affairs within the team.

Sometimes, Shoten Chitetsu will hand over some of his own affairs to the other party. At first glance, it seems that he is asking Hinamori Momo to help her share her worries, but in fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is to train the other party and let the other party familiarize herself with the work of the vice-captain as soon as possible.

With the permission of Sekiya Chitetsu, Hinamori Momo also accompanied Aze on many missions. She had many opportunities to accompany Aze, so many people could often see that the captain of the third squad, who used to be alone, was always followed by a girl, helping him deal with various chores.

This was clearly what an adjutant should do, and it should be done by Sekiya Chitetsu, but now it was done by Hinamori Momo. Anyone who was not stupid could see what it meant.

Thanks to this, Hinamori Momo really attracted a lot of attention, including some captains and some acquaintances in the past.

Like Abarai Renji and Kira Izuru, both of them were stunned after hearing about this, and then they felt envious.

"Is Hinamori going to be promoted to vice-captain?"

"Is Hinamori-san going to become Ai Jun... No, is she going to become the adjutant of Captain Ai?"

After secretly sighing and envying for a while, the two immediately threw themselves into their work with full enthusiasm.

Of the two friends around him, one became the captain early, and the other was about to become the vice-captain. If he didn't work hard, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

"At least he should become the vice-captain like Hinamori."

The two set such a goal. One began to constantly train himself and challenge the strong in the team, and the other was sent to the real world to start the work of purifying the hollow.

It is worth mentioning that Rukia Kuchiki also joined the 13th Division and became a teammate of Kira Izuru.

After knowing this, Abarai Renji seemed to often go to the 13th Division's barracks, under the pretext of wanting to visit Kira Izuru. In fact, everyone knew that he was not interested in wine, which made Aize feel a little funny.

"What a straight man."

Aize often commented on Abarai Renji, which made Hinamori Momo beside him hesitate to speak.

"You think so too, right?"

Aize occasionally saw Hinamori Momo hesitate to speak, so he asked this question.

"Yes, yes..."

How could Momo Hinamori answer? She could only laugh dryly.

Unfortunately, Aize failed to notice the subtle thoughts in the girl's mind. After paying attention to Abarai Renji, Kira Izuru, Kuchiki Rukia and others for a while, he stopped paying attention to them and continued to do his own things.

Sometimes he went on missions, sometimes he trained in the team house, sometimes he trained Momo Hinamori with Shoten Sentetsu, and sometimes he paid attention to his old friends. Aize's life in Soul Society was so simple, peaceful and ordinary.

However, Aize sometimes felt a little uncomfortable.

"... Is there something nearby?"

This was a feeling that he would have from time to time since the last battle with Byakuya Kuchiki.

After that time, Aize always had a sense of discomfort as if someone was watching him nearby.

Especially when holding a Zanpakutō, this feeling of discomfort would become extremely obvious, or it could be said that it was when holding a Zanpakutō that Aize would notice this abnormality.

When he didn't hold his Zanpakutō, Aize felt nothing, as if everything was normal.

But when Aize held his Zanpakutō, although it wasn't like this every time, he still felt like he was being watched from time to time, as if the Zanpakutō in his hand was telling him something, which made Aize frown often.

"Could it be..."

Aize had a guess, but he didn't show it. Instead, he pretended to know nothing and continued to live his life as usual.

However, whenever he wanted to do something he didn't want others to know, he would touch his Zanpakutō inconspicuously until he was sure that there was no sense of peeping and no sense of disobedience around him. He would do it, otherwise he would temporarily suppress it and wait until the sense of peeping and disobedience disappeared before doing it.

Under such circumstances, as the days passed, some changes were quietly taking place in the Gotei 13.

First was Hinamori Momo. After she mastered the Shikai and was able to release her Zanpakutō, she was finally promoted by Aize to the vice-captain of the third division, the Shoten Sentekino Hidden Retirement Team, and retired with honor.

Afterwards, because Kira Izuru was diligent in the work of purifying Hollows, his performance was quite good, and his strength grew very rapidly, he was promoted by Ukitake Toshiro to vice-captain of the 13th Division, filling the vacancy of the former vice-captain of the 13th Division who was killed by the Hollow not long ago.

Abarai Renji thrived in the 11th Division, and by challenging himself, he reached the 6th seat, and later the 4th seat. However, the 3rd seat and vice-captain of the 11th Division were goals he could never overcome, so that in the end he failed to become the vice-captain or the 3rd seat of the 11th Division, and instead went to the 6th Division, as in the original work, and became the vice-captain of the 6th Division.

In addition, Hisagi Shuhei was also promoted by the captain of the 9th Division, Tosen Kaname, to become the vice-captain of the 9th Division. The friends and seniors who had been in the same period as Aize all successfully took high positions in the Gotei 13 and became vice-captain-level figures one after another.

During this period, a genius who was no less than Aize enrolled in the Shinō Academy of Spiritual Arts. He successfully mastered the Shikai in just one year, applied for early graduation, and joined the 10th Division, becoming the third seat of the 10th Division.

The other party is also Momo Hinamori's childhood sweetheart. The two have a close relationship, which surprised Momo Hinamori when she heard the news. She went to find the other party when the other party just enrolled in the Maou Spiritual Academy. Unfortunately, she failed to recruit the other party to the third team, which made Momo Hinamori feel a little regretful.

When Aize learned the news, he also paid attention to the other party for a while, but he did not intend to poach him.

As I said, he was not short of people, and he did not intend to receive all the geniuses in the original work into his team, so he just paid attention to it for a while and ignored it.

No mistakes, one song, one post, one content, one look!

At this stage, the Soul Society is still relatively calm, and the original plot has not yet officially unfolded, so Aize is not going to do too much. He just wants to quietly improve himself and strive to play a sufficient influence in the major events that will happen later.

This is also to confuse a guy who is secretly watching him, so that the other party cannot judge his true or false as much as possible.

Otherwise, being secretly calculated by that kind of guy, even Aize will feel very troublesome.

In this way, a period of peace passed, until something happened and the peace was broken.

This thing was that the captain of the 10th Division, Isshin Shiba, suddenly disappeared mysteriously.

After the incident, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni urgently summoned all the captains, held a captain meeting, and told everyone what happened before Isshin Shiba disappeared.

It is said that when Isshin Shiba learned that the Shinigami stationed in the real world were attacked and killed by unknown objects one after another, he went to the real world alone to investigate, but was attacked by a powerful Hollow. After returning, he reported the results of the investigation to Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, and then suddenly went to the real world again and disappeared.

For this reason, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni issued a task to the 2nd Division, the 5th Division, and the 8th Division, asking the three divisions to send people to the real world to investigate, find out the truth about Isshin Shiba's disappearance, and bring him back.

Unfortunately, after the three squads went to the real world, no matter how they investigated, they could not find any clues about Isshin Shiba's whereabouts. It was as if this person had evaporated from the face of the earth and could not be found at all. It was very strange.

After confirming that Isshin Shiba could not be found, although Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni did not cancel the order to search, he also acquiesced to the other party's rest and decided to re-elect the captain of the 10th Squad.

There were two candidates for this position.

One was the former vice-captain of the 5th Squad, Gin Ichimaru, who was recommended by Aizen Sosuke.

The other was the third seat of the 10th Squad, Toushirou Hitsugaya.

The former had been recommended by Aizen Sosuke a long time ago, and the latter was Momo Hinamori's childhood sweetheart, the genius who was praised as no less than Aize and graduated from the Maou Spiritual Academy in just one year.

After investigation, it was found that both of them had practiced Bankai and had the ability to become captains.

Therefore, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni decided that both of them would be the candidates for the captain of the 10th Division, and decided to select one of them to become the captain of the 10th Division.

When Aize learned about this, his expression was very strange.

"Wow, Gin Ichimaru is going to be the captain of the 10th Division?"

If Aize's memory is correct, then the vice-captain of the 10th Division seems to be Rangiku Matsumoto, right?

And Rangiku Matsumoto... seems to be Gin Ichimaru's childhood sweetheart?

Not only that, the reason why Gin Ichimaru joined the Gotei 13 and went to Aizen Sosuke's side was because of Rangiku Matsumoto's appearance?

It seems that the two have not officially recognized each other yet?

As a result, Gin Ichimaru is now going to be the captain of the 10th Division, and let Rangiku Matsumoto become his adjutant?

... It feels like there is something interesting to watch.