Chad hasn't talked about this to Ichigo, or to anyone, but he's been thinking about the fact that everyone in Soul Society is dead.
And it's struck him that some of them are like people he knows. The captain in the pink kimono could have been a slacker with a guitar like Chad's friends. His snippy vice-captain with the glasses and the book might have been like half the girls who hang out down at the library.
And they're dead now. And to them, death's just one of those things that happens. You get over it. You keep on going.
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