Matsumoto pulled herself together and saluted. "Well, sirs, it was a combination of the tentacle incident last time together with this chapter's title. Hitsugaya-taichou, um, decided to take some unscheduled leave."
"Has he been found?" Yamamoto demanded.
"Not yet," Matsumoto admitted, "but Yumichika's got real incentive to look."
Ukitake was surreptitiously checking the script behind the convenient screen of Shunsui's broad shoulders. He did not intend to turn up for a rescue scene and then be the person present with the longest hair and eyelashes.
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