"School is so boring."
The general knowledge class was so dull that Isshin Shiba felt like he was about to fall asleep.
He decided to find something to do, so he took his pen and poked Sōsuke Aizen, who was sitting in front of him. "Sōsuke... Sōsuke..."
Aizen turned his head and said helplessly, "If you don't pay attention, Professor Shirai will make you stand outside."
The Academy's previous general knowledge professor had retired, and a new one hadn't been hired yet. For now, staff from various departments took turns teaching the course.
The professor for the new students' class was Riko Shirai.
"Isn't that even better!" Isshin, far from stopping, became even more enthusiastic. "We can take the opportunity to wander around while we're being punished. Sitting in the classroom is just too boring!"
Just then, Isshin felt a jolt of alarm as he sensed a terrifying killing intent from the professor's podium.
Whoosh—
A piece of chalk shot towards him at high speed.
Isshin's reaction speed was not slow. A slight turn of his head would have been enough to dodge the chalk.
But Isshin didn't do that.
Thwack—
Isshin blocked the chalk with his forehead.
If he hadn't, the chalk would have hit the female student in the row behind him.
After blocking the chalk, he even turned to the girl behind him, gave her a thumbs-up, and flashed a sunny smile.
But the female student didn't realize what he had done and had a puzzled look on her face.
"Isshin Shiba and Sōsuke Aizen, talking in class! Both of you, go stand outside!" Riko Shirai was furious. Isshin was the most mischievous student in the class. It had only been a few days since school started, and he had already been punished several times.
"Yes!" Isshin got his wish and didn't want to stay a moment longer.
After the two went outside the classroom, Isshin immediately said, "Let's go for a walk. It's too stuffy in the hallway."
"I got dragged into this because of you, but you don't seem to feel any remorse at all," Aizen said.
Aizen didn't really want to waste time in these less important classes either, but it had only been a few days since the term started. He hadn't had a chance to demonstrate Kyōka Suigetsu to the professors and students yet.
"You don't want to be in general knowledge class either, right?" Isshin said. "Let's go. We'll hurry back when the class is about to end. She always likes to run late, so she won't notice."
Aizen didn't argue, and the two quietly left the corridor.
Once they were far from the classroom, their destinations diverged.
"Hey, hey, we finally got out, and you're going to the library?" Isshin quickly grabbed Aizen.
"I haven't finished reading all the books in the Academy," Aizen said, pushing up his glasses.
"You mean you still plan to read all the books in the Academy?!" Isshin was shocked and judged others by his own standards. "There are so many books, you wouldn't finish them in a lifetime!"
"How could that be? I only read the ones I haven't seen before. It shouldn't take too long," Aizen said with a light laugh.
"That's still so many books..." Isshin looked at Aizen as if he were a monster. He felt that an insurmountable gap had already formed between them.
"It's fine to read a little less. We went through the trouble of sneaking out, so let's not go to a place like that!" Isshin pulled Aizen away from the direction of the library.
"There's not much to see around here," Aizen said.
"Don't you think that wasting time is a pleasant thing to do?" Isshin said with great seriousness.
"How is that different from staying in the classroom?"
"It's different. Out here, there's the added pleasure of secretly breaking the rules."
"..." Aizen was beginning to regret coming out with him.
In the hallway, they could still hear the sounds of professors lecturing in other classrooms.
Isshin savored the joy that came from the thrill of sneaking around.
After turning a corner, Isshin saw a man and a woman standing at the door of a classroom and was startled.
"Oh no, someone's ahead!" Isshin thought it was a professor from another class and quickly hid behind the corner with Aizen.
The corner wasn't far from the two, and Isshin and Aizen could even hear their conversation.
"That woman's voice sounds familiar..." Isshin whispered.
"That's Kakyō, the Professor's new disciple. If I remember correctly, she's a third-year," Aizen said.
"It's her... being called out during class. Could it be that she was disrupting the class like us?" Isshin grinned. "She looks pretty well-behaved... I can't believe she'd get to the point of being reprimanded by a professor."
"I was the one who was implicated by you," Aizen reminded him.
The two fell silent and continued to eavesdrop on the "professor's reprimand." But after listening for a while, they realized this was not a reprimand at all.
"Lord Tokinada, didn't I already make things clear with the Deputy Headmaster yesterday...? Why have you come to find me again?" Kakyō said with her head lowered. "I'm sorry, but I really have no intention of marrying you."
"It seems our courtesy these past few days has given you some misunderstandings," Tokinada Tsunayashiro said coldly. "Don't be ungrateful. You have no room to refuse."
"I'm sorry, but I must refuse," Kakyō's expression changed slightly. "Right now, I only want to train under my Professor."
"Professor? What's so good about these professors at the Academy!" Tokinada glanced at the professor lecturing inside the classroom. "If you wish to train, the Tsunayashiro family can provide you with much greater help. We have elite Shinigami to guide you in Zanjutsu, Hakuda, Shunpo, and Kidō. Isn't that much better than what you learn here?"
Tokinada was not a patient man. At any other time, he wouldn't have this much patience.
But his desire to marry Kakyō was not because he was taken with the woman.
It was a requirement from his clan.
The Tsunayashiro family was interested in Kakyō's constitution, which contained a fragment of the Soul King. They viewed her as a test subject. That was why the higher-ups had ordered Tokinada to marry her, to facilitate future observation and experiments.
"I'm sorry. I am Professor Katori's disciple, and I only wish to train under him," Kakyō said earnestly.
"You are Katori Sora's disciple?" Tokinada's face grew cold. "Why haven't I heard about this? How dare you use him as a shield in front of me?"
Tokinada was furious. He thought Kakyō had found out about his conflict with Sora over the department head position and was now using it to defy him.
"She is the Professor's new disciple!"
Isshin Shiba and Sōsuke Aizen stepped out from behind the corner.
"Has the Tsunayashiro family fallen so low as to pressure a student of the Academy?" Isshin sneered.
"A member of the Shiba clan..." Tokinada frowned.
As a highly valued new-generation junior of the Shiba clan, Isshin was somewhat well-known in the Seireitei. Tokinada would certainly recognize him.
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