Morning Discussions.

By now it was just before 5AM. I wanted to visit Ikkaku and thank him for his help, from what I had heard he was the one that carried me back to the hospital. But visiting him right now would most likely only piss him off.

That’s one of the drawbacks of being an early riser is suppose. So I grabbed Merc in the intention of going out for some morning training, which sadly was my only hobby after all.

‘Morning, Partner.’ The metallic voice rang through my spirit. ‘You have a minute?’ ‘More like three hours. What’s up?’ I answered while going out into the hallway.

‘That’s good, I wanted to talk with you about some stuff.’ I had felt that earlier and now was as good as a time as ever. ‘Go ahead, Merc. What do want to say?’

‘We need to get stronger.’

Cutting right to the chase eh? ‘That’s the plan, why do you want to talk about it? It’s not like I am going to sit on my ass whenever I get the chance.’ I answered and slid the office door to the side. Omaeda was sitting at my desk and working on some papers.

He looked at me and hope started to shine in his eyes. “Nize!” he said and got up to, I assume either huge or crush me. Thank god that I was strong enough by now to hold him at arm’s length. “Are you here to help me with the paperwork? Please be here for that! In fact I will pay you if you are!”

“I am sorry but I have the day off so no.” His hopes crushed the giant stopped his efforts to hug me and kneeled to the ground in despair. My desk came into view, the morning sunlight shone on it and reflected in a certain earring.

I had completely forgotten about the blasted thing. Thank god Omaeda no longer liked wearing stuff like that, although I am fairly certain that it would have been below his standards before I forcefully changed them.

But I couldn’t exactly leave it lying around. Walking around Omaeda and over to the desk I asked Omaeda. “So why are you up this early? It’s pretty unusual for you.” Omaeda turned his head after I had put the earring into my pocket.

“You did write that note didn’t you? Have you forgotten what the captain wrote on her note?” I pulled up my shoulders to signal that I didn’t have the slightest clue. The kneeling giant almost teared at the gesture. “She wrote what she would do to me if she didn’t find me in the office, it is terrible Nize absolutely terrible.”

That much I could imagine, but to be honest if it made Omaeda work every amount of threat was justified. I kneeled in front of him and put my hand on his shoulder. “Well, have fun doing your own tax returns for once.” I said with a friendly smile and then left the room.

‘So, where were we?’ I asked Merc and soon enough the knight answered. ‘I want you to get stronger and for that you will have to leave Soul Society.’

Now that last part hit me unprepared. ‘Why?’ ‘Because whoever trained Ichigo Kurosaki will help us much more than Soifon or anybody else around here ever could.’

That made enough sense, but I was still ****. ‘I see your point but how would I even go about that? It’s not like I can just leave.’

‘But you can. You just took the way to leave with you.’ I stopped dead in my tracks. For anybody around the third seat just suddenly stopped in the middle of a random hallway. People looked at me like I had some kind of episode but I was completely concentrated inwards right now.

‘Are you serious? You want me to use the earrings to go train?’ I could see a projection of the plate armour standing in the middle of the hallway. Merc nodded with a clanking noise. ‘Yes, I believe that would be for the best.’