For ordinary souls living in Rukongai, their time is same like when they were in the present world. They take birth (appear in Rukongai) one day and then live there days, slowly grow old and die. But for shinigami living in Seireitei, the passage of time actually doesn't matter to them much.
After all, the lifespan of shinigami is far longer than that of humans and ordinary souls. The oldest ones even live for one or two thousand years. Under such circumstances, they naturally don't care about the passage of time of one or a couple of years.
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After Hisana married Byakuya and changed her name to Kuchiki Hisana, she has been living in the mansion of the Kuchiki family. As expected by Mazuru and Shunsui, as an ordinary soul, she cannot bear the concentration of spirit particles in the air of Seireitei. The high concentration of spiritual seeds in her body caused problems in her body not long after, even so, she had no regrets. Even if her life ends soon, as long as she has spent the final moments of her life with her beloved, that is enough for her.
For her, the only regret is probably that she was unable to find her younger sister who was abandoned by her back then.
After she died in the world of living, she and her younger sister appeared in the 78th district of South Rukongai. The living environment was extremely harsh. For Hisana, an ordinary soul, it was almost hell, and because of that, she could only abandon her sister and escape alone.
Later, she met Byakuya, fell in love with him and got married. Finally, she was no longer troubled by life, and she came up with the idea of finding her younger sister. Even though her body had problems, as long as she could, she never gave up looking for her sister.
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In a tavern, Rangiku is drinking with Mazuru.
It seemed that she drank a lot of wine causing Rangiku's cheeks becoming slightly red and her body was full of faint smell of alcohol.
After hearing the things about the Kuchiki family mentioned in Mazuru's chat, Rangiku couldn't help sighing, "Although they live in the same world, shinigamis and ordinary souls… they are indeed completely different."
"Compared to shinigami, the ordinary souls are too fragile. Not only is the lifespan not as long as shinigami, but it is not even a little closer to shinigami's. And in an environment with a higher concentration of spiritual particles, due to various maladaptation, the body will dysfunction in various ways and have all kinds of problem."
"Hisana-san, if she continues to stay in Seireitei, I'm afraid that she won't last long."
Mazuru also picked up the wine glass, glanced at Rangiku and said, "But after all, it is her own choice, isn't it? Noble and commoner, shinigami and ordinary soul, for such a love, there will always be some kind of price to pay."
"But still, the price is too cruel!" Rangiku is a rather emotional person, "Now, I only hope that Hisana-san can find her sister!"
Although she didn't know Hisana and had no contact with Byakuya, but she also heard that Mazuru in front of her was Byakuya's teacher, so she sincerely wished well for Hisana.
"She will be very happy to know your sincere words." Mazuru said.
Rangiku was a little embarrassed.
She has gradually become Mazuru's drinking buddy since Mazuru demanded to invite him for a few drinks in order to apologize to him. Mazuru himself didn't know since when he became a senior alcoholic.
Well, all of this is Yoruichi's fault!
She was the one who brought Mazuru to drink, and then met Shunsui in a tavern, and later Yoruichi left Soul Society. Sui Feng who knew that Yoruichi used to invite Mazuru to drink, thought that Mazuru liked to drink, so she invited him repeatedly to Feng's house to drink. Now, although in front of people, Sui Feng is arrogant and a little shy, deliberately distancing herself from Mazuru, but in private, their relationship has not been deteriorated but just the chances of meeting with Sui Feng has become less as she doesn't train with him anymore.
Occasionally they still get together to catch up on the past, of course, because of Sui Feng's shy personality, most of the meetings are in Feng's house.
(T.L Note: I wish I had a female friend who due to shyness will invite me to her house to drink)
As for drinking with Rangiku, it was purely because of Mazuru's impulse, he couldn't think of anything that Rangiku compensate him with.
For Rangiku, that novel-incident may have made her feel guilty, but for Mazuru, it was not a big deal.
Otherwise, he would not have written such a novel in the first place.
Having said that, all his passions seemed to be spent in that novel and he never wrote again after that.
After continuing to drink with Mazuru. They chatted many things.
Prompted by the case of Hisana's case, Rangiku remembered another thing she recently witnessed in Rukongai, "Speaking of which, in Rukongai, there are many things about souls living there."
"The souls who died in the world of living and came to Soul Society, for various reasons, they hardly find their relatives from the present world, so in order to get rid of loneliness, most of them form new families in groups of three or four."
"Most of them are ordinary souls, but occasionally there will be one or two souls with spiritual power."
"It's okay if they have weak spiritual power. But some people who are born with strong spiritual power can't restrain the reiatsu that emanates from their bodies because they haven't studied controlling it systematically. That is undoubtedly a disaster."
Mazuru listened quietly to Rangiku's narration, and only after she had finished speaking, he asked Rangiku, "Why did you bring this up suddenly?"
Rangiku didn't hide it either, "I just thought of something I saw recently."
Because of drinking with Mazuru and having known him for a fairly decent amount of time, Rangiku knew that Mazuru didn't have any pretentions just because he was a captain. So, she now talks with him informally without the restraints of the past.
Rangiku recounted about something he saw recently.
Probably because of a mission, she went to Rukongai. On the way back, because she sensed a strong reiatsu, she followed the reiatsu's trail and came to a house where ordinary souls lived.
Then she saw a boy who was constantly exuding powerful reiatsu in his sleep, and an old woman lying beside the boy seemingly in extreme discomfort because she couldn't bear the boy's unconscious release of reiatsu.
"Although I told the boy that reiatsu as strong as his, might kill his grandma if it is not controlled. But I don't know if the boy listened to my advice and went to Shinō Academy to study."
"I guess not yet." Mazuru responded.
Rangiku was puzzled for a moment, curious about how Mazuru knew about it.
Mazuru said as a matter of fact with a smile, "Rangiku, have you forgotten that this year's Shinō Academy recruitment season has passed, he needs to wait at least until next year."
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