The Alchemist in Bleach

However, although the commander-in-chief was not a qualified military leader, he was strong!

He can flip the table whenever he wants, and most importantly, this guy, like Sister Hua, is actually a reformed... criminal with a long criminal record...

Long ago, in order to achieve his goals, he was willing to stop at nothing, even sacrificing the lives of his subordinates without hesitation. He was known as the Demon of the Sword by Yhwach. Although he is not like that now, who can really say for sure?

Therefore, in Soul Society, although the Captain-Commander is under the jurisdiction of the Central 46, he still has absolute authority, which is almost equivalent to the history of Soul Society. If he wants, the Central 46 must also issue orders according to his ideas!

He rarely does that; most of the time, he just stands quietly, like he is now, watching them argue and waiting for the outcome.

However, the captain often misses opportunities and makes mistakes because of this, and this is precisely his biggest flaw: I know I'm wrong, but I just won't change...

I know this is the most appropriate thing to do, but I just can't accept it.

This is also reflected in the original work. During the final battle, even when things had gotten so bad, he still resolutely refused Inoue's treatment. The reason was simply because she was human, and humans should not get involved in the war of Soul Society; they had no such obligation.

In the conference room, after the group from Central Room 46 had finished discussing and finalizing the distribution of benefits, the Chief Captain tapped his cane lightly on the ground, and the conference room instantly fell silent as everyone looked at the Chief Captain standing in the middle.

"I agree with the plan to counterattack Hueco Mundo. It concerns the face of Soul Society, and there is no small matter!"

"!" Upon hearing the captain's words, the forty councilors and six judges felt a sudden jolt in their hearts, a bad premonition creeping into their minds.

Sure enough, but here it comes...

"However, I think everyone is aware of Hueco Mundo's strength now. The current 13 divisions are not enough to launch a counterattack against Hueco Mundo, so we need to expand our forces."

Upon hearing this, the six presiding judges immediately rubbed their temples in distress. Sure enough, it was that same old trick again. Couldn't they stop using military expansion as an excuse every time? Using the same excuse for hundreds of years, how could they be so shameless?

But despite their complaints, they knew it was actually a good excuse.

The Gotei 13's recruits mainly come from the Shinigami Academy, which now provides dozens or even hundreds of Shinigami reserves to the 13 every year. After a period of assessment, they can officially join the team. In addition to this, there are some secondary recruits. For example, the 11th Division can directly recruit people from Rukongai. As long as the number is not large, each Kenpachi can decide for himself. Alternatively, nobles can temporarily go through the process at the Shinigami Academy.

These are normal channels, but the expansion of the army mentioned by the Captain-Commander is not included here. After all, it is impossible to forcibly pull students from the True Spirit Arts Academy into battle temporarily. The Captain-Commander would not allow such a thing.

So where did these people come from?

The answer is nobility!

This is why this excuse has been used for hundreds of years and is still effective. For the nobles of today, the Thirteenth Team may be mine, but what is mine can only be mine!

Trying to squeeze money out of the nobility? Don't even think about it!

As expected, the captain's words caused an uproar in the conference room. Then, in less than a minute, they reached a consensus: preserve their strength and develop slowly, abandoning the counterattack on Hueco Mundo…

Although, according to regulations, they could reject the captain's application and then continue to discuss the matter.

However, rules are rules.

The regulations state that the Chief Commander has no right to overturn the decisions of the Central 46th Bureau, but at the same time, the Central 46th Bureau also does not have the right to dismiss the Chief Commander.

but!

The Commander-in-Chief actually possesses the ability to change the members of the Central 46...

It's very simple. Just like Aizen in the original work, quietly kill off all the members of the 46 Chambers. Then, before the new members of the 46 Chambers are elected, this position will be temporarily held by the Captain-Commander...

Although the chief commander wouldn't do that, they generally wouldn't ignore his opinion either. In any case, the benefits had already been distributed fairly well during the previous argument, so it was okay to stop now.

"Then let's vote on the next item, the Rukongai Universe Limitless Heavenly Net... which is the barrier to prevent Hollows from freely entering and leaving Rukongai." The judge, unable to accept Ichiro's inexplicable and morbidly humorous name for the plan, simply gave a brief overview of the plan, which was more straightforward.

"Let's just approve it. There's nothing to say about it. This plan is beneficial to both the development of Soul Society and the maintenance of spiritual balance. The layout of Rukongai is no longer up for discussion. The key question is, should we set up this barrier in the human world?"

"There's no need for that. We can just set it up in Rukongai. Just be careful, this can only intercept lower-level Hollows. It won't stop Hollows of the Grand Order. Setting this up in the human world might cause the Grand Order Hollows to start coveting the human world, making it even harder to maintain the balance of spiritual particles."

"I second that."

"I second that."

"I second that..."

"..."

Unlike the counterattack on Hueco Mundo, which involved too many interests and required a lot of wrangling to reach a consensus, the Skynet Project in Rukongai Inui involves very few interests, especially very few interests belonging exclusively to a certain noble; it is almost entirely beneficial.

Leaving aside the issue of spiritual balance, the implementation of this plan will make Rukongai more stable. Stability means economic development, and it also means that it will supply the Seireitei with more high-quality talent, especially in the Shinigami field.

After all, the primary targets of Hollows are humans or spirits with high spiritual power, and most of the Shinigami have excellent talent in the latter.

In this situation, how could the plan possibly be hindered?

Of course, another prerequisite is that their interests have already been roughly divided; otherwise, they'll continue arguing...

"Next topic: increasing the budget for the Thirteenth Division... Captain-Commander Yamamoto, could you explain this? We just applied for it recently, but that was for forming the Swordsman Squad, which is understandable. This... adding medical teams to each division is unnecessary, isn't it? The Fourth Division's support capabilities are still excellent."

"Yes, but now that the chanting has been established, the learning pressure on the Fourth Division has increased dramatically. Therefore, I believe that some of the health pressure needs to be transferred to them so that they can concentrate on their studies. This is the most efficient way."

"That doesn't require that much funding, does it? That's enough to rebuild a fourth division. And the procurement of medicines in Rukongai... isn't that handled by someone specifically?"

"This is another reason why I set up a medical team. In this incident, the Fourth Division, as the medical team, actually faced a shortage of medicine and had to temporarily collect it from various places. This had a huge impact. If each division usually has reserves, then when this situation occurs again, medicine can be transferred from each division without affecting the Fourth Division's work."

“But this amount is too huge! This level of amount is beyond our current capacity!” At this moment, another councilor carefully examined the captain’s application, rested his chin on his hands, and said, “How about reducing it to 60%?”

"The formation of the medical team requires a lot of manpower and resources. The personnel will be transferred from the Fourth Division, but what we lack now is supplies."

"We will have the Zhenyang Medical Center replenish the missing supplies, up to 70%, no lower!"

"Let's leave it at that for now, and we'll talk about it later if it's not enough."

'Seventy percent of the supplies are just as Ichiro said; when dealing with nobles, you have to go along with them.'

"Is 70% enough? It seems like too much, but the formation of the medical team is also beneficial to us, so we can accept it."

Of course, the most important thing is that they don't have to pay for this money right now... There's a family that happens to be in charge of this, and the representative of that family is currently tallying up the results of the meeting. The full amount still needs to be shared by everyone, 70%?

It's not my money anyway, so I might as well give it to them.

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I need to ask for another day off...

I'm so sorry, something came up at home today, and I've only managed to type a little over half of the chapter... I'll have to take another day off. I'm very sorry, but I'll make up for it tomorrow.

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Chapter 164 The butterfly stirs up another storm!

"Captain, is it done?" Outside the conference room, seeing the captain walking out of the conference room with a slightly light step, he couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"Yes, 70% plus some medical supplies."

"Huh? How can there be so much?" Chojiro stopped in his tracks, staring at the Captain-Commander in astonishment. If he remembered correctly, the budget he submitted seemed to be twice as much... 70% plus supplies... Is the Central 46 really that easy to talk to?

Suddenly, Chojiro's expression changed, and he asked nervously, "Did you threaten them, Captain-Commander?"

"..." The captain was speechless. "Am I really that worthless in your eyes?"

"Probably... about right."

"That was before the formation of the Thirteen Teams! Don't worry, I didn't threaten them. I just waited until they had all reached an agreement and were satisfied before bringing it up. After all, only a few noble families are responsible for providing medical funding to the Thirteen Teams, but the benefits they receive belong to all the noble families."

Chojiro nodded, indicating that he understood.

This is a common drawback in Soul Society, or rather, a common shortcoming of long-lived beings. They have a very weak sense of time, making it difficult for their mindset to change. This is why, even though the Gotei 13 has been established for hundreds of years, there are still such obvious loopholes in its management structure.

"The Rukongai Inui... Project Skynet has been approved. Go and inform Ichiro and the others, and tell them to take action as soon as possible."

"Yes!" Chojiro replied, then a smile appeared on his face as he exclaimed, "I really don't know what's going on in this kid's brain that he can even do this."

"Heh~ What can't that kid do?"

……

On the other side...

"Are you kidding me? Using a temporary soul to store spiritual pressure? Do you know how inefficient that is?"

"Ninety-two percent. If handled properly, efficiency can be increased to ninety-five percent. That is to say, there is only about five percent loss. But sacrificing five percent can be exchanged for an increase in the upper limit. No matter how you look at it, it is worthwhile."

"This five percent is not just a matter of loss rate, but also a matter of spiritual pressure compatibility. Five percent loss has a much greater impact!"

"Compatibility issues can be adjusted during the production process to minimize the impact. Don't you need this step when you make spiritual food?"

"How much effort would that take? And besides the energy loss, it would also consume a lot of spiritual energy. Are you kidding me?!"

Shortly after the meeting ended, when the messenger from Central Room 46 arrived, this was the scene he witnessed... Ichiro and Hikifune were discussing, or rather arguing, with their faces red and necks bulging.

The Grim Reaper who delivered the message was somewhat stunned. He glanced at the two arguing, then hesitated before looking at Hiyori standing to the side.

Hiyori's puffed-up cheeks twitched, and she switched the lollipop to the other side, saying nonchalantly, "Don't worry, it's normal. It'll stop making noise in a bit, here you go~"

The messenger, Death, turned around with some confusion, only to be astonished to find that the two who had just been arguing fiercely, wishing they could strangle each other, were now exchanging tacit understandings while looking at a piece of paper.

"I see. By using compressed spiritual particles to increase the spiritual pressure level and abandoning the aggregation effect of quantitative change, the amount of spiritual particles wasted is indeed not high. However, this presents another problem: the spiritual particles are too inert and cannot be effectively absorbed by the Shinigami... no, they are completely unabsorbable! The compression level is too high! However, if it is neutralized with the temporary soul... there is indeed a lot of room for improvement."

"Right? But there are still a few things I don't understand about your temporary soul, here..."

"Oh... your way of thinking is quite unique... but you should look at it this way..."

...!

"See? You'll get used to it." Hiyori twirled the lollipop in her mouth again, saying with a hint of helplessness, "Oh right, I almost forgot, who are you? What are you doing here?"

"..." The Shinigami, who was delivering the message, snapped out of his daze, somewhat speechless. Wait, I've been standing here for almost five minutes, and you only just remembered to ask who I am? Fortunately, he hadn't forgotten his mission and quickly replied, "I'm here to deliver a message, from Rukongai Qiankun..."

He glanced down at the document and continued, "The Wuji Tianwang Cosmic Light Reincarnation Great Cycle Heaven and Man Six Paths Wall Plan! Phew~ It has been approved by the sages of the Central Forty-Six Chambers and can be implemented."

Hiyori looked at the Shinigami, who had almost finished reciting the entire verse in one breath, as if he were an idiot, nodded, and stood on tiptoe: "Okay, I got it."

After saying that, right before the Grim Reaper's horrified eyes, he kicked Ichiro in the face!

"Wake up, bald man!"

"Snapped!"

"You bastard Hiyori! Are you looking for death?!" Ichiro glared angrily at Hiyori, his train of thought interrupted!

"Project Skynet is approved." Facing Ichiro's roar, Hiyori remained unfazed and nonchalantly replied, while simultaneously tiptoeing and kicking, feeling a sharp pain in her foot.

"So it's approved... Oh, Project Skynet, never mind then, good kick!" Upon hearing the words "Project Skynet," Ichiro's anger instantly dissipated. He rubbed his cheek and looked at the stunned Grim Reaper beside him. "Has it been approved from above?"

"...Ah, yes, the Third Seat of Heavenly Heart, regarding your submission, the Great Reincarnation of Heaven and Man, the Six Paths Wall of the Rukongai Qiankun Wuji Tianwang Zhouguang Lunzhuan Tianren Liudao! Huff~" He took a breath and continued, "The sages of the Central Forty-Six Chambers have already agreed to this plan, and we hope that you can start it as soon as possible."

"Huh?" Ichiro looked at the Grim Reaper with a head full of questions. "What the hell are you talking about? Did I submit something like this? Could it be... Oh, hey, just say Project Skynet, that's all. You're such an honest kid. I understand, let's get going."

Messenger Death: "..."

"Captain of the boat, let's go... Ouch~" As he spoke, Ichiro suddenly covered his cheek and gasped, having been kicked by Hiyori. "Hey, Hiyori-chan, could you please be a little quieter next time you call me?"