Star: After use, you beore noticeable and leave a deeper impression on others.

  "!"

  Haruki and Rukia passed each other by. On the surface, Haruki tinued walking forward without a ge in expression, but inwardly, his heart was in turmoil.

  Damn it!

  I must get this ability!

  At first ghis ability might not seem particurly useful, but there's no ability more suited to Haruki than this!

  Leaving a deeper impression on others means it's easier to raise their favorability, right?

  For someone who gains abilities by raising others' favorability, is there anything more powerful than an ability that makes it easier to do so?

  Absolutely not!

  Rukia actually has su ability...

  Its name being Star makes seo Haruki. After all, Renji's soul ability is Chasing Stars, and Rukia is the star Renji is chasing.

  But the ability of Star still shocked Haruki. However, upon further refle, Rukia does possess such a trait.

  Still, while he wao raise Rukia's favorability to obtain her ability, now wasn't the time.

  Once Rukia joins the Gotei 13, he'll have plenty of opportuo raise her favorability.

  Haruki tinued walking toward the Tsunayashiro residence. When he reached the gate, a servant was waiting for him.

  Without saying much, Haruki handed over the information he had gathered to the servant.

  The servant took the dots and said softly, "Vice-Captain Haruki, this is your reward for the mission."

  Haruki raised an eyebrow. He hadn't expected to receive a reward for this mission?

  Nice, very nice.

  Haruki couldn't help but smile as he took a bag of soul s from the servant.

  "Please vey my gratitude to the main family. If there are simir tasks iure, feel free to call on me again."

  Haruki was in a good mood. Not only had he spent over a month in the human world, but he had also obtained a soul ability from Sōken Ishida. Now, upourning, he even received a handsome reward.

  People always say the Tsunayashiro family is terrible, but they seem quite reasoo me.

  Although he had worked for them without eveing a member of the main family, which felt a bit disrespectful, Haruki wasn't the type to care about such things.

  Especially sihe Tsunayashiro family's servants were very polite. Well, the Tsunayashiro family members might be arrogant and abnormal, but their servants were humble. After all, isunayashiro family, servants had to be well-mannered.

  Not having to i with the main family members actually made Haruki quite happy.

  He left with the money, and after walking about a hundred meters, he ted it. The reward was a whopping three million soul s!

  Holy crap, three million!

  As expected of the foremost of the five great noble families—they're incredibly generous.

  For text, a captain's monthly sary when they first take office is only two million.

  Of course, captains' saries increase with seniority. Someone like Unohana, who has been a captain for a thousand years, probably earns an astronomical amount!

  No wonder Kyōraku wanted Unohana to retire when he became Captain-ahe Soul Society's finances were probably struggling to pay the saries, so they had to let the old-timers go.

  Haha...

  Joking inwardly, Haruki happily returned home.

  He didn't go back to the Fifth Division immediately, pnning to wait ahree days.

  He'd pretend he was still in the human world and take a few more days off in the Soul Society before returning to work.

  During these three days, he po focus on Quincy training.

  For the hree days, he didn't leave his house.

  After activating Ior of the Quind Child of the Kirin, he spent three days successfully cultivating "Quincy power."

  The biggest differeween Quind Shinigami is that Shinigami absorb spiritual particles into their souls, strengthening their spiritual power and enhang their bat abilities.

  Even Zanpakutō are powered by the spiritual energy within the soul.

  Quincy, oher hand, while they also possess spiritual energy, primarily manipute external spiritual particles to form spiritual ons for bat.

  Now, thanks to his abilities, Haruki had gained Quincy powers. Although he had only trained for three days, he had achieved basitrol over external spiritual particles.

  He could now ma basic spiritual ons. If he went out and cimed to be a Quino one would doubt him.

  It wasn't until the Ior of the Quincy ability went on cooldown that Haruki finally left his house.

  He had permaly obtaihe Child of the Kirin ability and could use it again after a day, but Ior of the Quincy wasn't ready yet.

  After leaving his house, Haruki returo the Fifth Division.

  "Captain Aizen, I'm back."

  In the Fifth Division's office, Haruki greeted Aizen with a smile.

  Aizen, who was handling paperwork, didn't even look up. He simply pushed a stack of dots to the side.

  Haruki was fused. Aizen then said, "These are the dots you haven't handled over the past month. Go take care of them."

  "e on, Captain Aizen," Haruki's face fell. He said with a pitiful expression, "I was out on a mission. Shouldn't the division's affairs during that time be someone else's responsibility?"

  "You were on a mission? Who prove that?"

  "With all due respect, we 't just deny it like this," Haruki insisted.

  "There's no record in the division," Aizen finally looked up, a faint smile on his face.

  "..." Haruki fell silent.

  "Fihe higher-ups always win," Haruki sighed.

  He picked up the dots and headed to his office.

  At that moment, Aizen added, "Did you meet Urahara Kisuke?"

  Haruki stopped and said somewhat irritably, "You already know, so why ask?"

  "Some things o be said by you personally."

  "Yeah, I met him," Haruki said. "But I didn't tell him anything. I just asked him figai to make my movements easier. Ah, I fot t a Gigai when I left. My mistake."

  "I see. ime you go to the human world, I'll prepare a Gigai for you," Aizen adjusted his gsses.

  That's it?

  Seeing that Aizen didn't seem to have anything else to say, Haruki quickly left with the dots.

  Iing with Aizen was still quite stressful.

  After pg the dots in his office, Haruki wasn't in a hurry to hahem. Instead, he first greeted his fellow division members.

  After raising their favorability a bit, he sat in his office, sweating as he looked at the intimidating stack of dots.

  Heaven help him. He had only been an ordinary squad member before, and at most, he had briefly served as the ninth seat. How could he hahe administrative duties of aire division and its jurisdi?

  There was so much here that he didn't uand!

  Oh well, he'd take it slow.

  With a heart full of despair, Haruki stared at the words on the dots, then bolted out of the Fifth Division as soon as it was time to clock out.