Northwest Seireitei

[Nobody]

In all the confusion, the chaos, the mayhem Kokuren was for the first time in a long time, visibly shaken. The alarms blaring, the people rushing about frantically, she could feel her heart racing, her pulse rising, her breathing growing labored.

"Gah!-"

She raised a hand to her head, flinching as it began to throb painfully so. It was as if her mind was warring with itself, struggling to bring something to the surface where there was nothing. With time both hands were now clutching the side of her head as she clenched her teeth. As her mind felt it was splitting itself in two, a ray of light shown through, anchoring her.

"BOSS!"

Yes, her Captain who had helped her, believed in her, gave her courage, strength and support. With everything happening surely he would need her by his side She stood firm, taking several breaths before taking several steps, intent on returning to his side before stopping. She considered the situation, reassessed it and what she should do. 'Chances are people are getting hurt somewhere...everywhere. If that incident is to serve as a reminder, then many will come here. I should help lighten his load, if even a little'

And so she resolved herself, continuing on but this time her intent was to remain at Twelfth, helping them out as best she could.​

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Having left the warehouse on her own, ignorant of the aid sent to her to keep her safe she had spent some time running through the Institute, stopping those she passed who were rushing to perform their own duties, sometimes roughly doing so. She pried whatever info she could from them and continued on repeating this before she moved on to hunting down Shibuya.

"LADY HARAIIIIII!!!! WHERE ARE YOU CUTEY?!"

She began calling out loudly, going as far as to ask where she was last seen. If she was going to help the Captain, then she needed to find that adorable grimacing woman.

 

[Ywi]

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Out of the darkened corners and cracks of 12th crawled the Azamushi Shibuya had released, its movements spotted by the target it was meant to spy on and thus changed its intended pathing as the remaining bugs slithering across her body repeated 'eyes' in not only her head, but the head of Five as well.

Five didn't know what it was supposed to do, wandering over surfaces in search of something, anything to occupy it now that its purpose was taken from it.

What it came across was Kokuren harassing some poor, poor squad members. Five wasn't awake yet to know why 'again?' bitterly floated into its consciousness, but it wouldn't question the feeling.

「 Miss is loud! Miss is disturbing! 」 it squawks, attempting to hit the same volume as Kokuren as it pops off the flat plane of the wall to veer closer to her, 「 What is it that Miss needs the Master for! Please say it quietly! My ears hurt! 」

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