"Go join the others." Kazuma says to the kids who did as he said but it was obvious by their expressions that they didn't like that he told them what to do.
"Aqua, Eris, can the two of you do something or help me find a way to feed them?" he asked the goddesses.
The group of townspeople let out a mall cry of shock when his bracelet and necklace vanished in a combination of blue and silver light.
The two goddesses floated next to him, as they looked at the kids before they turned to look at the crowd, both women gave him a thumbs up before they reached into their sleeves and began to pull out loaves of bread.
"If you have those two then why did your kids steal from us?" the woman asks him
"Sorry, I just learned how to call them so I'm still learning a lot of things, don't worry it won't happen again." he answers her, he could see that the woman wanted to say something else but for whatever reason, she stopped herself from doing so.
He watched the angry townspeople leave before he turned his attention back to the kids who had surrounded the two goddesses, as he looked at the two women giving the kids the bread, he remembered how the Eris church would do the same thing.
He stopped himself from remembering the past, that church and its members along with all of those people were in another world, one that he couldn't go back to just yet.
He took a deep breath and exhaled before closing his eyes and walking back to the house, but he didn't go inside this time, instead, he sat down on the ground and closed his eyes.
He could feel the hardwood wall behind him and allowed himself to enjoy this somewhat peaceful atmosphere.
"You look like your having fun." Eris says to him, but her voice was coming from the inside of his head.
Kazuma opened his eyes and he saw that the Eris that he had called earlier was still handing bread to the kids.
"So what's going on how are you here, but I can hear you inside my head?" Kazuma asks the goddess.
"It's simple, the one that's feeding everyone is a tiny piece of my power, it's something that I sent to you so that you didn't have to do things on your own."
"Eris cut that out tell him the truth, we all knew that you would die if you were left on your own so we made doubles and gave them to you when we gave you some of our power." Aqua interrupted Eris.
"Anyway, what's the deal with you grabbing that useless thing, that sword is barely holding itself together."
"It's a good thing that you used a broken one because we would have destroyed a new one or one that wasn't broken for even coming close to us." Aqua says to him.
Kazuma can't help but genuinely smile Aqua was always like this, she was loud, rude, and overall she made him forget about everything.
"I missed this," Kazuma says to himself, but he failed to notice that both Yuki and Shino had heard him say it.
For a brief moment he swore that he could see Aqua standing in front of him again, but she had a sad smile on her face, and next to her were the rest of his party.
"We're glad that you aren't alone in there." Eris says to him and Kazuma can feel a warm hand on his head.
"That sword is useless for you and us, find something that we can use properly so that it's easier for them to help you while you are in there," Wolbach says to him, but her voice sounds further away than the others.
"Our time has run out.' Eris says to him before both her and Aqua's presence vanishes again.
"And where the hell am I supposed to find one of those?' Kazuma asks himself, as he looks at the kids.
Meanwhile, the people that had one to see Kazuma and tell him what the kids he was taking care of had done, had started talking to their neighbors.
The women gossiped with each other while the men didn't say anything until they needed something to talk about.
It didn't matter how they told the story as it was changed every time someone told someone else about what they had been told.
As word spread Kazuma turned from someone that had randomly shown up to an exiled Soul Reaper that had opened an orphanage and had two beautiful women living with him.
Others claimed that he had opened his version of the Soul Reaper Academy and had started to teach the children of the Rukonga how to use their powers if they had any.
Some immediately questioned the reality of the stories that they were hearing, but those that were telling them just said that all that they had to do was look at the fact that no one had gone missing since he arrived.
Others pointed out the fact that sometimes at night, a person could hear the hollows roar or they could see the flashes of light when Kazuma was fighting with them.
And so the stories began to grow, some said that the man was a captain that had retired others just said that Kazuma was just a man and nothing else.
Regardless of what the stories said about him, they soon reached the ears of the Seireitei.
"Captain." Isane said to Unohana as she walked into her office.
Unohana for her part was busy learning the duties of a bride or what they were supposed to do.
After her temper had calmed she had decided to ask the few people that she knew that had someone that was married or were married themselves what exactly was expected of her.
No one dared to try and teach her anything, most just told her that she would figure it out as time passed and a few of the women that she asked were kind and foolish enough to give her a copy of the things that they were forced to learn.
So Unohana decided to do what she had planned even if no one would help her, she began to train herself to prepare herself for the day that, that man showed his face again.
"Yes." she answers Isane, as she reads the last page of her third book.
"It's about the man that fought with you, some of our recruits decided to break curfew and heard that someone was living at the edge of the Rukongai."
"We would normally not care about the gossip that goes on in there, except that the man was reported to have two of our missing students as well as several children that have managed to gain a ZanpakutÅ of their own."
Unohana placed her book on the table next to her before standing up and walking toward her lieutenant.
"You wouldn't have come to me for this, so is there something that I should know," Unohana asks Isane.
Isane begins to sweat as she feels her captain's spiritual pressure but she remains firm after all her captain wouldn't just kill her for something so small.
"No one that has met him has ever seen him holding or carrying a ZanpakutÅ." Unohana closes her eyes as she hears her lieutenant's words and for a brief moment, Kenpachi makes her presence known.
"Anything else?" Unohana asks her lieutenant.
"A team has been sent to investigate if the rumors are true and if they are, they were ordered to apprehend the deserter if he is a soul reaper."
"If he's just someone that has awakened his powers they were ordered to offer them to attend the academy." Isane answers her.
"What were they told to do if it is that man?" Unohana asks Isane and Isane immediately feels her body being overwhelmed by fear as her captain's eyes shine with cold uncaring power.
"They were ordered to capture or kill him." Isane answers her captain but she opens her eyes and is shocked to find that she hasn't been yelled at or killed.
Unohana gently places her hand on Isanes cheek and warmly smiles at her.
"Then there's nothing to worry about, if its that man then they will fail in capturing him not to mention kill him and if he is a traitor, then he will be dealt with," Unohana says to her as she turns around and walks back to where she had been sitting.
She picks up the last book that she was given and begins to read it.
