Soul Society.
Youhun Street, District 1, Runlin'an.
Countless wandering souls are walking on the streets, coming and going, and there are crowds of people.
Compared to the Youhun Street area, which is obviously lacking in resources, far away from Seireitei, and relatively low in numbers, Runlin'an District, numbered Sequence 1, is undoubtedly the safest area with the most resources.
At least there is obvious order here, although the order here is not perfect.
Perhaps because of the close distance between Runlin'an District and Seireitei, you can often see the Shinigami dressed in black passing by on this street where wandering souls live.
The being named the God of Death basically wears the same clothes and accessories. Looking around, almost every Shinigami is wearing a dark kimono called a Shinigami outfit, with a samurai sword-like weapon around his waist that is specially designed to kill evil spirits. In fact, it was not an ordinary katana, but a weapon called the Zanpakutō that was specially used by the Shinigami.
Whenever a god of death passes by on the street, the wandering souls on the street always stand up straight and cast awe-inspiring gazes at the powerful and 'privileged' gods of death... …
At this moment, the Shinigami soldiers who were supposed to protect the Seireitei, maintain the order of the three realms, dissipate the evil spirit named "Hollow", and frighten the wandering souls, stood alone in a house in Run, the first district of Wandering Soul Street. In front of the ramen shop next to Lin'an Street.
"Sure enough, Captain, you came here to eat noodles again."
"So that's what's going on, right? The noodles served by others taste better than those cooked in the team cafeteria?"
"Really, I throw my responsibilities aside and always go to Wandering Street to eat ramen. What would it sound like if I said this to others? If the other squad members knew about it, they would think that the captain of our squad is not Responsible~"
"Shhh, keep your voice down. If the captain hears your discussion, he will inevitably be beaten severely."
Two Shinigami soldiers wearing pitch-black Death Armor uniforms stood in front of the ramen shop as if no one else was around, talking in low voices.
They did not choose to enter the ordinary ramen shop in front of them, but carefully stood outside the door of the ramen shop, constantly peering into the interior of the ramen shop along the cracks in the door.
Among them, from the complaints in the words of the two Shinigami team members and the frowning brows, it can be seen that they are helpless towards someone in the ramen shop.
"What do you say now?!"
"Anyway, we still have to call the captain out of the store, right? The other team members are still in the team building waiting for the captain to have a meeting!"
"makes sense……"
"Speaking of which, last time I went to the store to invite the captain, so not only did I get scolded, but I was also beaten up by the captain in the name of teaching! After all, it's your turn this time, right?"
"Eh? Didn't you say that you just need me to accompany you here? What you said is completely different from when you asked me to come! If I had known that I would need to go inside to invite the captain, I wouldn't have come. of……"
"Shut up! Do you really think I don't know what you think? If the position of deputy captain of our sixth division hadn't been vacant right now, would you have been kind enough to accompany me here?"
"Don't think that I don't know. In fact, your heart is as dark as mine! You and I are just trying to get the position of deputy captain of the sixth division, so we frequently go to the captain to show our faces."
The two Shinigami soldiers looked at the ramen shop in front of them with great distress, as if there was some wild beast in this ramen shop, and no one dared to go in first...
In the end, because the two Shinigami team members had different opinions on who entered the ramen shop first, they stood in front of the ramen shop and started arguing. Both of them had different opinions and could not convince each other. other side.
Yes, the relationship between these two Shinigami soldiers is very similar to the relationship between the two third seats of the Gotei 13th Division, Kotsubaki Sentaro and Kotetsu Kiyone.
Yes, even though they are members of the same team, they trust each other and can give each other their backs!
However, because they were both the third team members, they were competing with each other for the vice-captainship, which caused the two to dislike each other.
"what happened?"
"have no idea……"
"It seems that the Death Gods are starting to argue."
As the voices of the two Death God soldiers became louder and louder, many Wandering Street residents who were curious about the scene in front of them looked over.
Therefore, there was a spectacle of two Death Gods standing in front of the door of a ramen shop on Wandering Soul Street, constantly 'bargaining', attracting countless Wandering Souls to quietly stop and watch.
And at the moment when the two Shinigami team members were bargaining, a fight was also going on in the room that was not too big or too small in this seemingly ordinary ramen shop.
It stands to reason that this ramen shop is located in Soul Society, the safest and most prosperous area on Wandering Soul Street. It can be regarded as an area where every inch of land is valuable and there is a constant flow of customers...
Even if the store chef's skills are limited, there should be a constant stream of customers in the store. However, this scale is not considered small in the ramen shop industry. There is only one customer in the store at the moment.
Yes, although there are many tables and chairs in the ramen shop, even the bar built around the kitchen has a row of chairs...
In addition, the room, which is neither too big nor too small, also has seven or eight long tables. This store can accommodate fifty or sixty people for dining at the same time. At present, except for one customer, There were no other guests.
And at this moment, the only customer in the store didn't look like a good person.
The only customer in the store is a girl, but the girl is like a rose flower with thorns. Although she is charming, she exudes an aura of "keep away from strangers", as if if you approach the girl, you will be stung by poisonous thorns~
Opposite the girl, in the kitchen surrounded by the bar, stood a young man with a handsome face.
The young man is the owner of this shop and also works part-time as a chef.
At this moment, the young man stood in the kitchen, looking at the bad girl sitting in front of him with extremely disgusting eyes.
As for the bad girl in the store...
If you just look at the girl's appearance, this girl with a pair of lavender ponytails and an extremely delicate face, logically speaking, anyone who is not blind would think that she should be a beauty.
It's just the girl's demeanor at this moment that makes her look like a bad little girl no matter what.
Yes, the girl's demeanor is extremely 'irritable' at the moment!
I saw the girl sitting in front of the young man, leisurely raising her long and beautiful legs. Her long and elegant purple hair, which she styled into twin ponytails, swayed wantonly with her rhythmic and constantly swaying legs. ~
"If you want to eat noodles, eat quickly! If you don't want to eat, please go out and turn left."
"Also, stop shaking, you'll feel dizzy."
"If you keep wandering, please get out."
Finally, the young man inside the bar couldn't bear it anymore. The girl in front of him kept shaking and he lectured angrily to the girl.
To be honest, if it weren't for the girl's identity, the young man would really want to slap the girl on the ground, then grab the girl's two twin tails, and then loudly say to the girl: "I let you shake ! I let you sway! Let me see if you still sway this time!!"
Ahem...
"Hey, hey! Is this how you talk to customers?"
When the girl heard this, she looked at the young man in front of her with a hint of displeasure in her eyes.
"Customer? Why don't I see my customer?!"
"You don't think that as long as you enter my store, you are my customer?!"
"I'm sorry! I'm a person with principles. In my eyes, a person who doesn't spend a penny or eat a bowl of noodles cannot be called a customer."
The young man spoke calmly to the girl.
"Oh, profiteer!"
"Hey! Listen to me, I'm the God of Death~ and I'm also the captain of the Gotei 13th Division."
"When you come to a noodle shop opened by a low-level Wandering Street citizen like you, you are given enough face!"
"You can brag to other wandering souls from now on. Even the captain of the Gotei 13th Division will agree to eat the noodles you ordered!"
After hearing the words of the ramen chef, the girl frowned tightly and said to the young man in front of her.
"so what?!"
However, young people don't take advantage of girls at all.
"you……"
When the girl heard this, she showed her sharp fangs.
At the same time, she stared fiercely at the young man in front of her with her sharp eyes. At this moment, the girl thought silently in her heart: "Damn Araki, you will fall into my hands sooner or later. I will have plenty of time by then to have fun with you." ~"
Thinking of this, the girl's eyes began to soften gradually, with a hint of teasing at the same time.
This made the young man in the bar frown and said helplessly: "Sure enough, being too handsome is troublesome, and you will always be targeted by some inexplicable bad woman~sigh~"
If this scene were seen by other wandering souls on the wandering ghost street, or by the two Shinigami guarding outside the ramen shop, their jaws would definitely drop in shock!
Just because that bad girl sitting at the bar of the ramen shop is not an 'ordinary person'!
Just as the girl said, her true identity is a Shinigami, and not just any ordinary Shinigami. She is the leader of the Gotei Thirteenth Division, the top one!
In fact, anyone who knows something about the Seireitei can know the girl's identity and status from the way she dresses.
In this great Soul Society, not counting the royal agents and the retainers of higher-level nobles who are not short of resources and money, only those in the Gotei 13th Division can fight in the dark Death Overlord. There were only thirteen people wearing the white feather fabric that symbolized status and was worth a lot of money...
These thirteen people are called team leaders by countless Shinigami soldiers of the Gotei 13th Division!
That is not only a symbol of strength, but also a symbol of power!
On the back of the girl's haori, which is white on the outside and red on the inside, is written a large Chinese character six, which means that the division the girl is in charge of is the sixth division of the Gotei Thirteen Divisions!
Yes, the girl in front of him is none other than the captain of the Gotei Sixth Division, the Thirteenth Division that protects the Seireitei.
With the privileges controlled by a girl, even if the girl pulled out her Zanpakutō and killed the master of the Yuhun Street Ramen Shop because of his rude words, no one would say anything...
Because, to the Soul Society, he is just a wandering soul seeking death who bumped into the captain of the division, nothing more.
"Who said I don't eat noodles? Give me some tonkotsu ramen!"
However, surprisingly, the girl sitting in front of the bar was not angry at the words of the young man at the bar. Instead, she actually ordered a tonkotsu ramen. Yes, in the end, it still ends with the girl's submission.
"Okay, fifty taels in total."
"Pay first, pay later! Our store does not accept credit!"
In this regard, the young man at the bar did not feel happy because the noodles he ordered were about to be eaten by the captain of the team. Instead, he calmly asked the captain in front of him for noodles.
It seems that in the eyes of young people, face money is more important than anything else.
"Fifty taels? You want fifty taels for a bowl of ramen? Why don't you go and grab it?"
"The original price of your money is already amazing! Why did the price increase again after a few days of absence?!"
However, when the girl heard the price of ramen, her eyes widened.
"This leader of the team, you are joking. I am a good citizen and I will never rob..."
"My money has increased to fifty taels since you came in just now~"
"If you don't want to eat, you can just leave. Although our store is not big, our main focus is the love between you and me..."
"Just in time, I see that the members of the Gotei Division have come to pick you up again. As the captain of the Gotei 13 Division that protects the Seireitei, don't always make it difficult for the team members~"
The young man in the bar seemed to be very familiar with the girl. He clearly knew the girl's identity and his attitude remained tough.
Yes, the young chef at the ramen shop not only did not feel excited or flattered because of her identity as a girl, but actually felt a little disgusted! After all, it was precisely because of the girl's presence that all the customers in his shop were scared away!
Of course, the young owner of the ramen shop did not blame the customers who fled. After all, anyone who saw the embryo-killing leaders of the 13th Gotei Division while eating would be scared away. .
However, this does not prevent the young man from grabbing the girl in front of him and cutting leeks like crazy!
To be honest, the cost of opening a ramen shop in this location was still very high, so he had to put the losses he incurred on customers on the captain of the Gotei 13th Division in front of him.
"I will eat, of course I will eat..."
Hearing this, the girl painfully took out fifty taels and placed it on the bar. Then she turned to look at the soldiers of the Sixth Division stationed outside the ramen shop, with a bit of disdain in her eyes: "Huh! Really, The ghost is still lingering! I just came out to rest for half a day, why are you so anxious for me to go back?!"
“Thank you for your patronage!”
On the other side, the young man at the bar took the girl's small change from the table, and then brought a bowl of steaming ramen from the back kitchen. Well, judging from the young man's actions, it is difficult to say that the young man was not prepared in advance.
"So fast……"
The girl's eyes widened as she looked at the steaming bowl of ramen in front of her.
Even with her eyesight, she couldn't see clearly how the young man in front of her prepared ramen.
"Also, what I ordered was tonkotsu ramen! What you ordered is clearly clear soup noodles!"
The girl first sighed with emotion at the speed of the ramen chef at the bar.
Then she immediately started complaining about the bowl of noodles in front of her table.
"Don't eat?!"
In this regard, the young man at the bar showed no intention of coddling the girl, and pretended to remove the ramen on the table.
"Huh? Who said I won't eat? I spent money on this!"
The girl watched the young man's actions and protected the noodle bowl on the table, preventing the young man from taking away the noodles.
"Ah……"
The young man looked at the girl's duplicitous actions and shook his head.
Sister, this tsundere thing has been out of the environment a long time ago.
"Suck~"
On the other side, the girl who protected her noodles was showing off her noodles with a big mouthful of noodles while asking the young man at the bar, who was also the owner of this ramen shop and the ramen chef: "Hey! I said Araki, you don't want to Stay in Yuhun Gai and open your ramen shop! Why don't you come to the Gotei 13th Division with me! It is simply a waste of Soul Society's resources for such talents to stay here. "
The girl was rare and not arrogant, but looked at Araki with great sincerity as he extended the invitation.
As the girl invited Araki, she quietly looked at the young man in front of her, Araki...
In fact, the girl no longer knows how many times she has sent an invitation to the young man in front of her in the past few decades... However, the regretful thing is that every time she has sent an invitation in the past few decades, What awaits is the young man's rejection.
"..."
In response to the girl's invitation, the young man named Araki remained silent, as if he was thinking about something.
"As expected, you still don't want to go to the Gotei 13th Division?"
"That's fine, but I won't give up because of this. I will still invite you until you agree to go to the Seireitei with me."
The girl looked at the young man in front of her, who was silent for a long time, and sighed helplessly.
Although she was a little disappointed, she had expected it.
"The Gotei 13th Division, right?!"
"Okay! Let's go there!"
However, just as the girl was waiting for Araki's rejection again, the young man, Araki's voice of agreement came to her ears.
"Eh?!"
"What did you say?!"
The girl who was the leader of the Gotei 6th Division heard this and put down the noodle bowl in her hand. Her eyes widened in surprise once again.
This was the second time the girl was shocked by Araki's words after coming to the ramen shop.
The last time the girl was shocked was when she heard about the damn sky-high price of noodles.
"..."
Compared to the girl's surprise, the young man whom the girl called Araki was much calmer.
Just because, in Araki's mind, his mission system successfully issued a mission to the Seireitei. Everything was just a tool to make him stronger~
youth,
Let’s call it Araki for now.
He is a time traveler.
