Requested by Kiharu Lamperouge- thank you
Mayuri
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He had not bothered to visit the living world in centuries; he had been imprisoned before that bastard Urahara had freed him, and since then there had been far more interesting things to create in his labs, and subordinates to do his work for him.
But recent reports had interested him, and so once the war was over and all the boring repairs done, he requisitioned himself some time off and went to visit- in the name of science.
If you had walked into the late-night pharmacy on the corner of Westham Avenue in the east quarter of Karakura that night, you would have seen a very disturbed store attendant carefully watching the only customer in the shop, his hand hovering over the panic button.
Mayuri's manic smile was stretched ear to ear, and he wandered from row to row with a basket slung over one arm, picking up pack after pack of non-prescription medication. Occasionally he laughed out loud, like a very warped child in a strange sort of candy store, if you squinted.
If you squinted really, really hard.
The sheer quantity of pills astounded him, and that was before he even caught sight of the space behind the till where the prescription medicine was made up. On seeing it, however, he turned that smile onto the pharmacist, who slammed the panic button, only to realise that somewhere along the way it had stopped working. You don't often need a panic button in a small-size pharmacy in a nice, suburban area.
He slipped out the back when Mayuri turned his disturbingly avid attention- worryingly- to the shelf dedicated to medicine for female genital problems, and on catching sight of a girl with her ghostly-pale face pressed up to the glass of the window and an unearthly stillness to her stare.
On finding that he was alone in the shop, Mayuri slipped around to the cordoned off area.
This, he thought, was very interesting.
With a wave of his hand he summoned Nemu inside from where she had been waiting, and handed her the now quite heavy basket to carry for him.
Humans, he had to believe, were very ingenious.
Who would have thought that they could accomplish so much so soon?