195 Chapter 195: Surging Undercurrents
With Shusuke Amagai becoming the captain of the Fifth Division, the two captain positions that were vacant due to Aizen and his people's defection have all been filled. Although the position of the vice-captain of the Third Division was still vacant, compared to the importance of filling the vacancy of a captain, the position of a vice-captain was not that important.
It was even more so for the Fifth Division, because of the bad deeds committed by the former Fifth Division captain Aizen Sosuke, the entire Fifth Division had been suffering from bad reputation among Gotei 13, and the morale of many members of the Fifth Division was also low due to it.
Although the captain of the Ninth division also participated in the rebellion, the captain of the Fifth Division, Aizen Sosuke, was the mastermind!
And there was also the vice-captain of the Fifth Division, Hinamori Momo, who was hurt too deeply by Aizen, beacuse the person she admired the most gave her the most ruthless slash. With every passing days, she became more and more depressed. So naturally, she didn't have much thought about boosting the squad's morale.
Amagai seemed to have also understood the Fifth Division's problem, so the first thing he decided to do after he became the captain of the Fifth Division was to boost their morale and restore the reputation of the Fifth Division
Then he did a series of things for it.
Such as, looking for lost kittens, being a security guard in a kimono shop, helping other teams repair their walls and so on…
In the Third Division, Mazuru who paid a little more attention to Amagai also noticed his movements. After learning about the many things that Amagai had done since he took office, he suddenly wondered if this guy came across from the next-door Naruto studio.
There was almost no difference between these things that Amagai was doing and those tasks performed by genin who freshly graduated from the Ninja Academy.
'Moreover, he did these things as a captain, so how would the shinigami of Gotei 13 react to a captain doing these things?'
Unsurprisingly, some of the shinigami members of the Fifth Division, who were already demoralized by Aizen's defection, became more and more dissatisfied with their new captain's behaviour. Amagai's behavior made the entire Fifth Division a laughing stock in the Gotei 13.
On the other hand, Vice-captain Momo, who had been in a depressed state since she recovered from injury had some resistance to the new captain Shusuke Amagai, because of the profound influence that Aizen had on her. Even if Aizen had defected, but before defecting, Aizen was indeed a well-deserved good captain from every angle. So after Amagai was compared with him, she was blown away immediately. And after realizing that the team members were getting more and more dissatisfied with the new captain, she immediately went to find Amagai.
Originally, she wanted to preach to Amagai, but in the end, for some reason, she was taught by Amagai instead.
Afterwards, the members of the Fifth Division discovered that the vice-captain Momo also followed the captain Shusuke Amagai to do those trivial things that were laughed at by others.
"However, excluding certain ambitions of his, this Shusuke Amagai is actually a really good talent."
Why Momo changed her mind and started following Amagai to do those little things that would be laughed at, Mazuru learned about the details of it from Momo's childhood friend (whom she accused previously) Hitsugaya Toshiro.
According to the words of Amagai, Aizen Sosuke, the former captain of the Fifth Division, was the chief culprit of the rebellion. Because of him, the Fifth Division lost the trust of the rest of the squads. If the Fifth Division which was the rescue team of Gotei 13 was not trusted by the other divisions, it will not be a good thing for the entire Gotei 13 and even cause a disaster.
So in order to regain the trust and reputation lost due to Aizen's betrayal, they must do somethings down-to-earth.
Momo felt that Susuke Tengai was right.
She also saw first-hand, the harm caused to her and the entire Fifth Division by Aizen and his people's defection. All previous classmates and contemporary colleagues had come to visit her, and she gradually understood the responsibility she must take in such a difficult time.
As the vice-captain of the Fifth Division, after Aizen's rebellion, she was the backbone of the team members.
She was obliged to lead the players out of the trough.
"Unfortunately, Momo has not yet understood what kind of person Amagai is, so she is really pitiful."
Mazuru thought of Momo again, who was undoubtedly a very pitiful person.
During the Aizen period, she has always been a pawn manipulated by Aizen and played by Aizen in every possible way.
When Aizen defected and she just healed her wounds, she met Amagai. Although Amagai seemed like a good captain, but in fact, he was an avenger with hidden ambitions.
"However, I should meet him once."
As far as Mazuru was concerned, although he didn't liked those nobles, he had no dislike for Gotei 13. Even after learning that Yhwach was not dead and that the Wandenreich was hidden in the shadow of the Seireitei, he doesn't mind helping Gotei 13 to increase its strength if he could. Although he had been on guard against Yhwach and in order to deal with future crises, he had always been strengthening his own power. For Yhwach and the Wandenreich, their biggest enemy had always been the shinigami of Seireitei and mainly the Gotei 13.
Amagai was able to pass the captain's assessment, so he undoubtedly possessed the strength of a captain-level shinigami. If he really committed suicide like in the original book, it would be too sad.
Moreover, his tragedy, in the final analysis, still stems from the corrupted nobles.
After Amagai became the captain of the Fifth Division, another small thing happened in the Seireitei.
The head of the Kasumioji family, Kasumioji Rurichiyo, disappeared and her whereabouts became unknown. Kumoi Gyokaku, a retainer of the Kasumioji family, was shocked and immediately offered a huge reward to find the missing young head.
The Kasumioji family was a high-class noble family second only to the four great nobles, and the women of the family have been in charge of the family and governed it for generations. Kasumioji Rurichiyo was the orthodox successor of the Kasumioji family. Her mother passed away shortly after giving birth to her, and her father also passed away soon after her mother. Therefore, she became the head of the Kasumioji family at a very young age. However, because she was too young to take on such an important task, the household affairs of Kasumioji's family were all handled by the retainer Kumoi Gyokaku.
Throughout history, it was inevitable that some people will have different thoughts when they get the power of the masters despite being ministers, and it was the same with the Kasumioji family.
In the eyes of many people, the disappearance of Kasumioji Rurichiyo on Kumoi Gyokaku's watch was just a "good coincidence". It was just a small talk after dinner. It was nothing more than the disappearance of a nobleman not like some noble family getting massacred.
But in Mazuru's view, this was the beginning of Amagai's revenge.
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