Two days have passed since the entrance exams.
Gilgamesh, Renji, and Rukia all successfully passed the entrance exams and were assigned dormitories.
Most dormitories at the Shin’o Academy are double rooms. Naturally, Gilgamesh shares a room with Renji. Although Rukia wanted to share a room with Gilgamesh, the male and female dormitories are separated, so it wasn’t possible.
In these two days, apart from the previous appearances of Isshin Shiba and Kaien Shiba, no other captains approached him. Given his outstanding performance, Gilgamesh expected more captains to show interest in him. At the very least, Isshin Shiba should have continued to reach out, considering he had already expressed his intentions.
But there was nothing.
Gilgamesh realized that someone must have given the order to keep the captains from contacting him. And who has the authority to command all the captains? The answer was clear: the head captain of the Gotei 13, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni.
As for why Yamamoto would do this, Gilgamesh had a good idea.
Late at night, in the student dormitory of the Shin’o Academy.
Renji was sound asleep.
Gilgamesh, however, was not sleeping. He stood by the window, holding the black cat form of Yoruichi, silently gazing out at the starry night.
Yoruichi yawned lazily and asked, “Not sleeping yet? Tomorrow is the entrance ceremony.”
Gilgamesh didn’t answer the question but instead said something seemingly out of context, “It’s about time.”
Yoruichi was puzzled and was about to ask for clarification when a serious voice came from the window, “Gilgamesh, may we talk?”
Following the voice, Yoruichi squinted her cat eyes and thought, ‘Kaien? What is he doing here?’
Yoruichi knew Kaien through her friendship with his sister, Kukaku. However, she couldn’t fathom why Kaien would seek out Gilgamesh in the middle of the night.
Suddenly, Yoruichi recalled Gilgamesh’s earlier cryptic words and his behavior of staring out the window, which left her momentarily stunned.
‘Could he have known Kaien would come? But how?’
Yoruichi had been with Gilgamesh the entire time over the past two days and knew they had no contact with Kaien. The only interaction was during the Kido aptitude test two days ago when Gilgamesh whispered something to Kaien.
Although she didn’t hear what was said, she knew it wasn’t an arranged meeting. Otherwise, Kaien wouldn’t have spoken as he did upon arrival.
As Yoruichi’s thoughts were in disarray, Gilgamesh walked out of the dormitory, still holding her, to a secluded spot under a large tree.
Kaien appeared before Gilgamesh using Shunpo.
Looking at Kaien’s serious expression, Gilgamesh said, “It seems you believe my words now.”
Kaien replied, “Not completely.”
“I can see the future.”
These six words had echoed in Kaien’s mind for days. Had anyone else said this, Kaien would have dismissed it as a joke. But Gilgamesh seemed to possess an inexplicable allure that made Kaien inclined to believe him.
What truly swayed Kaien was Gilgamesh’s fight with Miho Kano, where he had seemingly foreseen her strikes. This had been the cause of Kaien’s reaction then.
Over the past two days, Gilgamesh’s look of pity kept surfacing in Kaien’s mind, leaving him unsettled and unable to focus on work. Finally, he couldn’t resist coming to Gilgamesh.
Were it not for Yamamoto’s orders, Kaien would have sought out Gilgamesh right after the entrance exam. Yamamoto’s intention was to protect Gilgamesh from external distractions, allowing him to grow without interference from the nobles and other captains.
The different squads could vie for Gilgamesh upon his graduation, including Yamamoto himself, who had high hopes for Gilgamesh’s future, possibly reaching the level of the original Gotei 13 captains or even the Royal Guard.
Kaien couldn’t help but ask, “Did you know I’d come to see you tonight?”
Kaien suspected this when he saw Gilgamesh awake and unsurprised by his arrival.
Yoruichi also found this question intriguing and looked at Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh gently stroked Yoruichi and, with a smile, replied, “Yes, I knew you would come, so I was waiting for you.”
Yoruichi was even more puzzled, but Kaien was shaken to his core.
Taking a deep breath, Kaien asked, “Have you seen my future?”
Yoruichi was stunned and momentarily couldn’t process it.
Gilgamesh nodded slightly, “Yes, I have seen your future.”
Kaien couldn’t help but ask, “What did you see? Why did you look at me that way?”
Instead of answering immediately, Gilgamesh countered, “Are you sure you want to know?”
Kaien felt extremely anxious and uneasy. He had a hunch that the future Gilgamesh saw involved something terrible happening to him, something he might not be able to bear. He was afraid to face such a future, yet he had to know. Only by knowing could he hope to change it.
Unconsciously, Kaien had come to fully believe in Gilgamesh.
Taking another deep breath, Kaien nodded firmly, “I need to know.”
Gilgamesh nodded and slowly said, “In the future I see, your wife is devoured by a Hollow, and you, in an attempt to avenge her, are taken over by the Hollow and meet a tragic end.”
Boom!
Gilgamesh’s words hit Kaien, Yoruichi, and the hidden Isshin like a thunderbolt!
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