After breaking up with Ichigo, Orihime cried for hours. She then decided to do a stream on Periscope that caused many of her friends to try to console her in person. Nothing work. Tatsuki finally had enough with her stupidity and slapped some sense into Orihime.
"Snap out of it, gurl!" She said, as she slapped Orihime. "You always wuz complainin' 'bout how dat Nigga treated you bad and sheeit. But nawh dat you're free you're cryin' ovuh him? Wake up! You're better off without him!"
Orihime stopped crying and paid attention to what Tatsuki was saying. It dawn on her she was right. She had to move on with her life and forget about Ichigo.
"Gurl, git yo ass back in da market! There's plenty of guys dat wanna go out with you! Hell, dey 10 times better in bed den Ichigo wuz, nawh what I'm sayin'?" Tatsuki winked at Orihime.
"You're right." Orihime said, blushing. "Screw Ichigo. It's time to get back in the sea and get me a man!"
"Gurlz night out! Let's celebrate!" Tatsuki shouted.
They all jumped up and down screaming like silly school girls at a Justin Bieber concert. For the entire week, Orihime went on many dates with many guys. One of the guys that took advantage of this opportunity was Uryū Ishida, whom she dated twice. Overall, she a great time with all her dates, and stopped noticing Ichigo's increasing absences in class.
Meanwhile, Ichigo and his organization had accepted the Nakayama's job offer. Once the terms were agreed upon—the south side and parts of the old town district would fall under the control of Ichigo's organization if the operation was successful—the Nakayama clan asked how the operation would take place.
"It's a secret. It's a chance y'all gonna have to take." He said with a grin.
The Nakayama clan did not like the answer, but nevertheless, agreed to move forward with the operation after Ichigo showed them some blueprints of the Town Hall. This of course was just a diversion tactic. The real plan was already underway.
Prior to the meeting, Ichigo's organization had compiled extensive information on the candidates—financial, political, etc., anything they could use as leverage to blackmail or get an edge—how the voting procedure would take place, how the voting machines operated and their model numbers, copies of the actual ballots, and where the ballots would be stored, were among some of the material they had obtained.
Once they were able to assemble all this information, they began to shop around for potential freelance hackers on the Dark Web. They settled for Chinese hackers, as they had expertise in hacking into voting machines and government databases. If they were caught, China would never allow Chinese citizens to be extradited to Japan and face electoral fraud charges, so that was a big plus for Ichigo's crew. They contacted the hackers and hired them to hack into the voting machines. The deal would involved paying for their services using cryptocurrency—35% now, the rest when the job was completed.
Next, they bribed a few officials that worked at the Central Election Administration Committee. The officials printed out the exact ballots that would be used during the elections. All Ichigo's crew had to do was falsify them by the thousands to reflect the population that would use a paper ballot.
Poll workers that were in charge of transporting the ballots to their respective destinations, were also bribed to exchange the ballot boxes filled with actual votes for ones that that been tampered with.
In short, Ichigo's crew controlled the voting's process—from ballot box, all the way to where they would finally be counted.
Lionel Richie's All Night Long plays in the background
As Election Day was drawing to a close, Ichigo and his crew were gathered at their office building, as they sat glued to the 72" 4K LED TV in the conference room. Nighttime had arrived and the results were slowly coming in. They all eagerly anticipated what few outside their circles knew—they were going to pull off the greatest heist in Karakura Town's history. On the other side of town, Orihime and her friends were out clubbing and getting intoxicated. They danced with a couple of guys and posed for selfies. Some of the girls even left with some of the guys to spend the rest of the night at a love hotel. As for Orihime, it had been a week now since Tatsuki had helped her get over Ichigo and he had now become a distant memory for her. She had definitely gotten over Ichigo. She and Tatsuki sat in the backseat of a taxi, as they were being driven back home after leaving the club, the only two in their group of seven that didn't end up going to a love hotel with a guy.
"That was *hic* some night, huh, Orihime? Lotta hot dudes out there, huh?" Tatsuki said, slurring her speech.
"It sure was. Say wanna stay at my place tonight for a sleepover?" Asked Orihime, who was not as nearly as intoxicated as Tatsuki, but still reeked of alcohol.
"Yea, I *hic* like dat a lot. Juz like old tymes when we wuz lil'. " Tatsuki said, trying to sit up straight.
11 PM came and the election results could now be projected with absolute confidence by the TV networks. In a close election, the mayor and city council members favored by the Yoshida brothers lost by a 10% margin. The entire office erupted in cheers once they heard the news, as Ichigo opened up two bottles of champagne and poured them all over on the crew.
"We did it Reddit! We shocked da mutterfuggin' wirld!" He shouted, as he sprayed the champagne on his crew as if he had just won Japan's F1 Grand Prix.
Tatsuki spent the night at Orihime's place, both of them nursing their hangovers. Meanwhile, Ichigo celebrated with his crew until the early hours of the morning. He went up to the rooftop of the office building to watch the sunrise, when he heard what sounded like Kon's voice asking him what he was looking at.
"Da wirld, mayne." He answered, his eyes gleaming, as the sun began to rise over Karakura Town, "And everything in it."
This was only the beginning.
