Death's offering

Nanquan went back to the room to tidy up a bit, then went to find Qingyin.I heard that there will be a team funeral for the thirteenth division tomorrow, so they must be able to help.

She always thinks back on what happened that night.Although she never took the initiative to mention it again, because there were always whispers among the team members, she also learned some more detailed information.The girl who killed her own vice-captain herself is called Kuchiki Rukia. Some people say she is cruel, and some say she can achieve this result at a young age.It sounds particularly harsh in Nanquan.They were not at the scene, so they didn't know how they felt facing that kind of scene.So far, Nanquan is doubting whether she has enough courage and wise judgment if she is faced with this choice.This incident seemed to be a knot in her heart.The more you want to forget, the more you can't help thinking.So recently her insomnia started to pop up again.

During the day she wanted to escape by working harder, but at night, she was at a loss.And just now in front of Captain Fuzhu, she always unconsciously remembered what he said that night: "This is his dignity." She didn't know if Fuzhu could see her unnatural expression, even though she told herself that she would be in the thirteen. The team behaved kindly, but the character is not so easy to change.So she left without saying much.

"Three seat voiceless, excuse me. What do we need to do for work tomorrow?"

"Senior Nanquan, you are too polite. You can just call me Qingyin! Tomorrow is the team funeral. If possible, I hope all of our team members can participate, so please help us take care of the daily guard area."

"No problem. Only the guards in Jingling Court work? What about the real world?"

"Then there's no need. There are too many scattered players in this world, and it's impossible to recall them all. This time, the captain said that the players in Jinglingting should just participate."

After returning, she arranged patrol work for the team members brought from the third team.Kira used to be responsible for this kind of thing, but fortunately, the team members were quite cooperative, so she didn't encounter any major problems.Nanquan offered to help out at the scene tomorrow, so that Qingyin could take time to mourn her teammates.In fact, she also has her own selfish intentions: she also wants to say sorry to Zhibo Haiyan, if she hadn't stood by, maybe no one would have sacrificed.

The ceremony on the second day went smoothly, except for a small accident at the end.

The final process is to release a disc-shaped flame with the 54 wastes of the broken way, and burn the victim's body to the ground.I don't know if it's because Qingyin was too sad, and accidentally didn't control the strength well, causing some of the flames to escape from the target direction.The dissipated flames flew towards a certain direction.Standing there was clearly Rukia Kuchiki.She was also absent-minded at first glance, completely immersed in her own pain, and did not notice her own danger.

Minamisen, who had been looking for and observing Rukia from the beginning of the ceremony, was the first to notice.Rukia had absolutely no intention of avoiding it.Just when Captain Ukitake cast a worried look at Rukia with a sickly but helpless look, Qingyin yelled for her to avoid, people around exclaimed, and Rukia raised her head and looked at the person in front of her with a puzzled expression. At the critical moment, Nanquan used Duankong in time, pulling Rukia back a step.Fortunately, no one was injured in the end.

In the evening, the team members of the third squad had completed the handover tasks and came back. Nanquan sat down with them and had a rare meal.Voiceless called her out.

"Well, Senior Nanquan, thank you very much today. If it weren't for you... I might have gotten into a big disaster..." Qingyin said with a face full of shame.

"What's the matter, I just noticed it at the time, and I'm still relatively close to Rukia." She didn't expect Qingyin to come to her specifically for this matter.

"Hey? Senior, do you know Rukia? I don't seem to have introduced our team members to you."

"Ah, no, she said it when she came to thank me." Nanquan was startled and almost revealed his secret.She was too careless.

"Oh! But those are irrelevant, the main thing is to thank you. I don't know what's going on...I'm so stupid!"

"No, you're just too sad, and you've been busy all the time, it's normal to be a little absent-minded."

"But as the third seat, these are my responsibilities! Now the captain is not in good health, our vice-captain is gone, and that guy Xiantaro can't do these things. If I can't do it, how can I explain to the captain. Today I heard our team members say that our third seat is not as good as the members of the third division. If this continues, the thirteenth division may have no future. I...I can't smear the captain like this..."

Nanquan didn't expect that a simple action of his own would bring such a big trouble to Qingyin.From Qingyin, Nanquan saw her deep love for the thirteenth squad, and respect and reverence for their captain.And their team members actually said such a thing, it must be a big blow to the newly appointed third seat.I act too conspicuously...

"Qingyin, don't worry. I have nothing to do, I'll leave first." She is not good at comforting others.In order to hide her self-blame, she had to leave with an excuse.As expected, Qingyin watched Nanquan leave in puzzlement, and wondered if she had said something that made her unhappy.

In the next two days, she tried to be very low-key, even a little negative.Especially in front of the thirteenth team members, her performance was not satisfactory.And this kind of working status has caused dissatisfaction among people on both sides.This day, she had just received a new job from Captain Ukitake, and on the way she met two former members of the third division who were on duty.Originally, they left after simply saying hello, but she suddenly remembered that there was a detail she hadn't asked Captain Fuzhu, and was about to turn around and walk back, when she heard the conversation between the two who had just turned the corner.

"Senior Nanquan doesn't know what's going on. The work status has been very poor these two days. I heard from the members of the [-]th team that we came here just for perfunctory. It's hard for them to say nothing. This is not to discredit our team. ?"

"Yeah, I've heard that too. I'm really worried that she's wasting all of our hard work. Our team members who came here are also dissatisfied, saying that she assigns work randomly. Really... You can't just rely on your beauty Do whatever you want..."

She didn't want to hear the rest, and she didn't want to ask if she wanted to go back and ask.This is what she has to bear. If it can reduce the damage to the thirteenth squad and Qingyin, she would rather bear these charges.It is true that she showed her negativity at work on purpose, but the work that should be done was assigned to others.

That night, she suffered from insomnia again.Not wanting to lie in the house anymore, she got up to go out for a walk.Where are you going?She thought of a good place.

In the thirteenth squad, there is a bamboo forest around Yugantang, which is carefully managed by Captain Fuzhu.If it was late at night, there would definitely be no one to disturb her. Usually she would like to walk through it when she passed by. It was so quiet and peaceful inside, just like the inner world she longed for.She walked into the bamboo forest, only the sound of wind and birdsong.It felt very similar to the grove she used to frequent at the Maou Academy.She lay comfortably on the ground, closing her eyes to feel the silence.

"Nanquan, you like this place too, don't you?" A soft voice broke her enjoyment.

"Huh? Captain Fuzhu. I'm sorry, I came to your bamboo forest without authorization." She stood up quickly, a little embarrassed, she didn't expect to meet someone so late, and she didn't notice his arrival at all.Fortunately, his voice was very low, otherwise he might have yelled.

"Why are you apologizing? I should be the one apologizing for scaring you~ Didn't I say it before, don't use honorific titles." Fuzhu walked to the stone slab and sat down, and motioned for her to sit down too. "This is not my personal bamboo forest. Everyone can come, but I didn't expect there to be people at this late hour."

She paused for a moment, and wanted to leave quickly, but seeing that Fuzhu had already sat down, she had no choice but to sit down opposite him. "I'm just..." For a moment, she didn't know what to say.I can't say that I have an old problem of insomnia, but who would come here in the middle of the night?Maybe if it makes him doubt himself, it will not be worth the candle.

"Hehe, the legendary iceberg beauty is actually a person with a very warm heart~" Fuzhu said suddenly.Her downcast eyes looked at him in surprise, as if full of puzzlement. "Ah, I said some nonsensical things again. Actually, I heard everyone said about you, and I was worried at first, whether your personality can get along well with our team members..." Nanquan said nothing. Thinking of it, Fuzhu was so honest.She was very worried, because she was not in a good state recently, and his worry seemed to be a reality.He looked at Nanquan, and then said with that reassuring smile, "However, I think the rumors seem to be biased."

"It's true that you make people feel very cold, you don't have any emotions when you talk, and you usually never show interest in other things. But in fact, you are very warm inside~"

Nanquan didn't know how he came to this conclusion.She never felt that she was a warm person, or, she never thought that the word warmth had anything to do with herself.She listened quietly, not daring to raise her head.

"I know all about the recent incidents! I deliberately pretended not to work seriously, but in fact I didn't want to steal the limelight too much. Last time Qingyin made a mistake at the team funeral, which made her feel very guilty, but because of your help, some team members felt that she The three seats are not qualified, so you used your own method to help her regain authority. Although I don’t approve of the method, it’s still a very cute behavior~ It’s already good that you came to help, we still need you to take care of the emotions of the team members, Even if you are misunderstood by your own players, you will bear it silently."

"Captain Fuzhu, you misunderstood, I didn't..." How did he know this?

"It's really duplicity. Sometimes... be honest, and you won't have so many things on your mind. You won't run out at night~" When Qingyin went to talk to Nanquan after dinner, he was also going to go to Qingyin To be comforted, I heard the conversation between the two, and saw Nanquan's expression after leaving in a hurry, and then there were rumors that she didn't treat her work well.It so happened that later he ran into a team member of the third team who was gossiping about Nanquan.Combining all these together, it is not difficult to analyze the reasons.How could it be possible for a person who was serious and responsible at work to suddenly become a fool?What's more, in fact, the quality of the task was not affected at all, she just pushed it to the team members.Seeing her natural expression with closed eyes here tonight, Fu Zhu became more and more certain that this girl is just not good at showing her heart to others.At least, his suspicion of her has now disappeared.

Nanquan found that he had grasped his own weakness.Indeed, what she is worst at is honesty.Whether it's in Mao or Goutei [-], whether it's for classmates or colleagues, whether it's for the mysterious person or Ichimaru silver.Grievance, pain, happiness, and love, she just kept these feelings in her heart, and facing the world with a cold face seemed to be a way to make her feel safer.It's been like this since she came to the world of corpses and souls. She just can't remember what she went through before she was alive, which made her so depressed.These years have improved a lot, but the truest emotions have always been hidden by her.