nownovels Chapter 131 ⥤ Kisuke’s Reward
Chapter 131 ⥤ Kisuke’s Reward
Chapter 131 - 131 ⥤ Kisuke's Reward"There's really a reward?" Kisuke asked, surprised.
He had thought Akira was just another exploitative bureaucrat, but surprisingly, he actually kept his word — quite unlike the upper officials who never followed through on their promises.
"Of course." Akira clapped his hands and gestured, "You may come in."
Kisuke peered outside the door, curious about his reward.
But before his lips could even curl into a smile, his expression froze.
Stack after stack of documents filled the room until there wasn't even space to set foot.
Seeing the mountain of paperwork, his face turned from white to green with nausea.
He took back his earlier judgment. Akira was worse than those bureaucrats in Soul Society!
No — he was the most evil of them all!
Being long-lived beings, Shinigami typically worked at a leisurely pace. It wasn't unusual for a single task to take weeks to complete.
Kisuke was especially skilled at stretching his work — turning a one-minute task into ten minutes or even an hour.
Of course, he would have been disciplined long ago if not for one thing: his work was always perfect. Given the results, his low efficiency wasn't considered much of an issue.
Kisuke was quite content with this arrangement — after all, taking it easy was how life should be lived.
Until now.
"This much work will kill someone." He groaned, his features twisting until he resembled an anthropomorphized bitter gourd.
"Life is precious, love is priceless." Akira said, patting his shoulder solemnly, "But for freedom's sake, both can be sacrificed. Urahara, you wouldn't want to end up in the Nest of Maggots at such a young age, would you?"
Working in the Onmitsukidō's Kanritai (Management Force/Detention Unit), Kisuke knew all too well how filthy and chaotic the Nest of Maggots was. Simply managing that place was enough to break someone's spirit — let alone being confined there.
But surely with this mountain of documents, taking several months or even a year wouldn't be unreasonable?
"I just calculated." Akira said, "You spent two hours and eight minutes processing the previous batch. This pile is ten times that amount. Adding break time, I'll return to check tomorrow at this time."
Kisuke: "?"
So you do have a proper sense of time! Evil bureaucrat!
Having assigned his new minion the task like a proper NPC, Akira left with Yoruichi.
He had complete faith in Kisuke's abilities.
For ordinary people, this volume of documents would take several months, even with multiple people working together. But for someone like Kisuke, it wasn't an insurmountable challenge.
No matter how troublesome, could it be more difficult than creating the Hōgyoku?
With Kisuke's schedule packed full, he wouldn't have time to re