Chapter 74: Extra 2: Daily Life After That...
(1) Haiyuan Festival
Rikkai University's annual Kaihara Festival was just as lively as expected.
"Jiu Jing, do you have any problems with the layout here?"
"Jiu Jing, how is the preparation of the props going?"
The tennis club's event this year was a stage play, with the regulars starring as Cinderella. Of course, since we were all boys, there was a bit of a crossover. But remembering the chaste smile on the club captain's face when he proposed this idea...
Does he also find this kind of cross-dressing very interesting?
Several of the regulars are working with me on the preparations for the stage play. As for the Vice-President and Senior Liu Sheng, their class's event today is the Butler Café. The two seniors also happen to be waiters in the class and have no time to spare to come and help.
"Well, the clothes are fine, and the props are all there. Kirihara-kun, do you really not need a wig?"
My question was met with fierce opposition from the other party.
"Absolutely not!!"
Kirihara, wearing a Cinderella dress, sat in the preparation room backstage with a gloomy face, and it looked like he wanted to tear the clothes off his body right then and there.
"Why isn't Jiu Jing the Cinderella? You're a girl."
"I'm not the main cast, and one of the highlights of this show is your cross-dressing." I rolled my eyes at him and shoved the script into his hands. "Have you memorized all your lines?"
"I've already remembered this. Can't I just take off my skirt first?"
"Of course you can, but I won't help you put it on later."
"Jiu Jing, please come to the front desk!"
Hearing Marui-senpai's call, I soothed Haikai, who was still worried about the pink princess dress, and went to the front desk to coordinate with the others: "Well, let's move the sign a little bit. It will be easier to transition later."
Not long after, I saw the minister coming to the stage play with two boys wearing uniforms from other schools.
"Ah, Minister, you're here."
Yukimura: "Thank you for your hard work, Jiu Jing."
The taller boy from another school looked at me and suddenly said, "Ah! You're the girl from the hospital last time."
I remembered from the voice that he was Takeshi Momoshiro, a member of the Seigaku team that defeated our Rikkai University in the national competition.
"Senior Taocheng, do you know her?"
The other smaller guy left a deeper impression on me: Echizen Ryoma. At the national tournament, he faced the captain in a singles match and ultimately defeated the captain's boy, Yukimura, by overcoming his five senses.
However, I didn't expect the captain's special move to be the destruction of the five senses. At that time, Atsu-kun from the detective agency accompanied Jinghua to watch the game. After the game, he asked me with a puzzled look, "Is the captain of your tennis club a superpower?"
At that moment, I began to doubt whether the Minister was really a superpower. But then I thought, when Kirihara got high, he could turn his hair white and his eyes red and enter some kind of "devil mode".
Mysterious, tennis is so mysterious.
Taocheng: "Oh, I met him once before when I went to see Tachibana."
"Busan—! Do I really have to wear this dress?!"
At that moment, Kirihara suddenly appeared on the scene, holding up the hem of his skirt. It would have been better if he hadn't come. When he showed up, the two boys from Seigaku, who had no idea what the play was about, immediately lost their composure and started laughing wildly at him.
This reaction also directly caused Kirihara's glass heart to be completely shattered. Before I could say anything, he turned around and prepared to run out of the performance.
I saw a pink shadow quickly bypass the crowd and rush to the door, and then -
He bumped head-on into another figure that suddenly rushed in!
"Akaya!"
"Wow, Kirihara?!"
Kirihara: "It hurts, it hurts... Why aren't you looking at the road? Huh?"
"Ah, the boy is wearing a pink princess dress, mysterious!"
...No way?
"What happened!"
"Oh~ Is this the school festival in Japan? It's so lively."
The two who appeared at the gate were the equally striking blond Shiman and Kirara. And the one who bumped into Kirihara was none other than my stupid red-haired brother!
"Aren't you Jiu Jing's brother?"
"Huh? Ah, Homura found it!" Saburo jumped up and rushed towards me. "Humura, Homura, we're here to play."
I silently ignored someone's outstretched arms and turned sideways: "...Kirihara, are you okay?"
Zhiwan: “I was ignored.”
Yunmu: "Yeah, I was ignored."
Five minutes later, Kirihara, who had attempted to escape, was taken back by his seniors to be comforted, while I was responsible for keeping an eye on my own amazing brother. Although Zhiwan and Yunmu were both normal people, they couldn't stop this wild horse that had run away from the reins!
"Eh! I thought Homura was going to play Cinderella, but it turns out she wasn't?"
I rolled my eyes at him and said, "He's the regular star of the tennis club. I'm just the manager."
"The show is about to start, please find a seat."
Although there were some minor incidents, the stage play ended without any major incidents.
Especially at the end, when Kirihara's skirt was torn, they had to temporarily reduce the size and had to ask Ryoma from Seigaku to take her place.
However, since Ryoma-kun is quite petite, the princess hug at the end was perfect. I even found the perfect angle to take photos of the actors on stage, and then I gave the camera to the manager. He must be very happy.
Of course, none of this is the main point. The main point is that after watching the show, Yunmu looked at me with a puzzled expression: "Your deputy minister is the one who plays the prince, right? Is he really a junior high school student? Why do I feel that he looks much older than the others?"
Zhi Wan: "Actually, I was curious about this too. When I first met him, I thought he was your tennis club's instructor..."
Don't ask, the answer is that many people have already had this misunderstanding.
(2) Follow-up to the Rukongai Incident
This is the story of what happened when Jiu Jingyan went to Runlin'an for the second time.
Unlike the girl's grandmother's house, the home where Oda Sakunosuke and his five children lived looked a little shabby, but the yard and the door were tidy.
There was no sound coming from the house. Maybe the owner of the house went out?
"Huh? You're from next door..."
Jiu Jingyan took a deep breath and turned to look at a red-haired young man who was carrying something and looked like he was going home after buying something.
"Hello, nice to see you again, Mr. Odasaku."
The other party did not suspect anything and brought her into his home.
"Thank you for your book. The children were very happy."
"You're welcome." The girl took the tea handed to her and smiled shyly.
"So, what brings you here today?" The young man paused as he sat at the table. "If you're lobbying for the Shiba family or Captain Hitsugaya, forget it."
"It's not for them." She looked at the young man's calm expression, recalled some of the information she had gathered in the present world, and sighed inwardly. "I came here for you, Mr. Oda. Do you remember Jiu Jing Renzi?"
After mentioning his aunt's name, the other person's eyes suddenly changed.
"Nine Pure Flames, that's my name."
What she didn't expect was that the man actually knew this name.
"Are you Miss Renzi's niece?"
He lowered his head, then raised it again after a while and looked at her.
"You're not the Grim Reaper?"
"To be exact, I used to be." The girl straightened her back. "For some reason, I became a member of the Jiujing family."
"so."
"That day at my grandmother's house, I recognized you immediately because I heard my aunt say that it was Mr. Odasaku who recommended her to the Armed Detective Agency."
As she spoke, she touched her neck a little embarrassedly.
"To make a long story short, Mr. Oda, do you want to start writing novels again?"
She hadn't come here to persuade a man with psychic powers to embark on the path of death, or to work for the Shiba family. She had simply come because of that conversation in the present world, and the regretful look in her family's eyes had left a lasting impression on her.
She even heard from Shinji that "The Rejection of Pisces" was liked by not only the children but also the parent Oda Sakunosuke.
"Captain Ukitake passed away a long time ago."
“…I know that.”
The girl raised her lips, a smile that was somewhat sad. "Each chapter of that book is an independent story. In fact, it is because Captain Ukitake has been prepared to die in battle or even die in action at any time since the beginning."
But even so, he did not stop writing.
"Auntie said she likes the story you wrote very much."
"Yeah?"
"Also, Mr. Dazai is also in the Armed Detective Agency now. He helped me in the past as well."
The two were silent for a long time. After a while, the girl saw the young man smile faintly.
"…………Yeah."
His tone was very light, like a sigh, or like he was expressing some emotion.
Not long after leaving Soul Society, Homura received a message from Toushirou.
The taciturn red-haired man who seemed to have a lot of stories and indeed had a lot of stories went to the Maou Spiritual Arts Academy.
In the near future, Oda Sakunosuke's name was published in Seireitei News as the author of a novel, just as she had expected.
As an intern at the Shinō Spiritual Arts Academy, he went to the human world and caused a small disturbance.
But at this moment, it is still unknown.
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The author has something to say: Well, this article is officially finished here! Thank you all for your company along the way.
The Thousand Year Blood War arc will be broadcast this year. How should I put it? I hope that by then I can see more fans re-watching Bleach.
If I have the chance again, I will definitely write about Bleach again, because I really love this manga and its characters. But not in the next article, maybe after the bloody battle? My heart is really itching to whore Ichigo (rubbing my hands).
The next article will return to the anime. You can refer to the preview on my copy for the specific content. If you are interested, you can collect it.
Well, see you in the next article!
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