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Pa—!
Soi Fon slammed the intelligence report she had just received onto the wooden table, causing it to shake.
Half a year?
Soi Fon's face was faintly dark. She had been monitoring Target Number 7 for a full half year. All of Ishikawa Katori's actions during this half year had been under the surveillance of the Onmitsukidō, even down to how many times he took out the trash.
However…
During this half year, the person being monitored had made her wonder more than once, 'Does this person really need to be monitored?'
Aside from the fact that Fourth Division members frequently sneaked over to him for tutoring, which was somewhat sensitive, the monitored subject was basically doing odd jobs, such as: farming, weeding, shoveling snow, building houses, repairing houses, transporting goods, helping women take care of children, finding lost animals…
He was like a tireless working machine, working year-round, traveling around Rukongai, doing all sorts of odd jobs.
Moreover, no matter what the job, he completed it perfectly, making the customers extremely satisfied.
But…
Are you really okay with doing this kind of work every day as a Vice-Captain-level powerhouse?
Don't you have any dignity as a powerhouse?
Soi Fon looked at the intelligence report she had slammed on the table, and her cold, pretty face couldn't help but twitch.
It's fine for a Vice-Captain to run off and serve a group of ordinary people, but at least pick and choose your jobs. Why are you even taking jobs like cleaning public restrooms!?
Can't you have a little ambition, kill a few Shinigami, or sneak into Seireitei for a sightseeing tour?
That way, at least the investment of the Onmitsukidō personnel would become more valuable.
And the most outrageous thing is…
According to the Onmitsukidō's statistics, in the past six months, this guy has actually helped 236 people for free while working everywhere. He helps one or two people almost every day. Soi Fon has never seen such a helpful guy in her life. He's simply a model philanthropist in Soul Society!!
Although, without exception, the people he helped for free were all women.
When she first learned of this, Soi Fon thought that he was pretending to be a nice guy on the surface, but secretly he was a scumbag who liked to play with women's feelings. Although the Onmitsukidō doesn't care about such trivial matters as a promiscuous private life, in order to prevent human resources from being wasted, Soi Fon sent people to investigate carefully.
The result was only one conclusion: the guy who runs the Everything Store really just likes to help women and has no dirty thoughts whatsoever.
Because when he helps women, he doesn't care about their age, their figure, or even whether they are beautiful or ugly… He treats everyone equally. Whether it's a beauty or a beast, whether it's a grandma or a baby, as long as the other party is female, needs help, and he happens to meet them, he will enthusiastically step forward to help.
Soi Fon even suspected that even if a talking Hollow came to him for help, as long as it was female, he would treat it the same way.
Moreover, it really is just pure help. Even if Soi Fon deliberately sent some beautiful women to seduce him, and even if some of the women who were sent really developed feelings for him, the kid named Ishikawa Katori didn't have any contact with these women that went 'beyond the scope of friendship'.
When they had been together for a while and the relationship between the two parties got better and better, that guy would instead start to avoid contact with those women who had feelings for him.
Is this guy really necessary to be supervised?
Soi Fon rubbed her aching forehead, once again feeling doubtful about her original decision.
Clearly, judging from his experiences in Soul Society for the past five and a half years, he is a powerful and potentially unstable factor that could threaten the peace of Seireitei, but he just doesn't show any signs of instability.
The only sign of instability is probably only those customers in his tavern.
But those lawless villains, after leaving the numbered area, actually became extremely stable. Some troublemakers don't even need the Onmitsukidō to take action, and Ishikawa Katori has already eliminated them…
A group of villains who do all kinds of evil deeds wander around in the stable area every day, but the security in West Rukongai is actually better than before Ishikawa Katori came to Soul Society.
Not only the west, but the south is the same. No matter how fierce the fighting is in the numbered area, once they leave the numbered area, they all stop fighting… squeezing into a broken tavern, drinking some inferior wine.
The most exaggerated thing is…
There are even some oddballs who accidentally fought from the numbered area to the stable area, stopped fighting, helped each other to the Everything Store for treatment, and then went back to the numbered area to kill each other. This strange way of thinking made Soi Fon feel for the first time that there are so many oddballs in Soul Society.
If you say he is a good person, he is extremely cruel when he kills people, and has been given the titles of 'Strongest Villain', 'Bloodthirsty Demon', and 'Mad Killer' by the villains in the south and west.
But if you say he is a villain, he never hurts the innocent, but is happy to help others, and has been given the titles of 'A Great Philanthropist Who Is Hard to Come by in a Thousand Years', 'A Great Hero of Rukongai', and 'Light of the West' by the residents of Rukongai.
Speaking of which…
Soi Fon rubbed her aching forehead and muttered to herself: "If I remember correctly, my original purpose should have been just to supervise him and prevent him from doing anything that would threaten Seireitei, right?"
That's how it was at first, but as time went by, those Onmitsukidō members who were used to monitoring dangerous people and investigating their dangerous thoughts seemed to be at odds with Ishikawa Katori, and began to be keen on digging up Ishikawa Katori's dirt. Any information would be sent to her as soon as possible.
Even the fact that he hugged a woman to save her was sent to her with an expression as if they had 'caught a big scoop', as if he had committed a heinous crime by hugging a woman.
Even if the woman he rescued from the river in a princess carry was an old lady with a wrinkled face.
This gave Soi Fon the feeling that the Onmitsukidō members responsible for supervising Ishikawa Katori had already regarded this job as a pastime for relaxation.
Should the intensity of supervision really be reduced?
A hint of hesitation flashed across Soi Fon's face. In terms of strength alone, the other party is undoubtedly a dangerous person. If he lived in the numbered area far away from Seireitei, it would be fine. Anyway, that area has never lacked powerhouses, and some people even jokingly call it the Eleventh Division's dedicated training base.
But he lives in the stable area and has extremely high prestige throughout West Rukongai. It can be said that the entire west is his eyes and ears. If he uses this to monitor Seireitei's movements, it would be easy.
Even if the other party has not shown any intention of doing so, he has to be guarded against, because the duty of the Onmitsukidō Third Division Supervisory Team is to monitor all unstable factors.
Once a Shinigami is judged to be a potential threat to other Shinigami in terms of 'thought' and may hinder the work of the Squad, they will be investigated, arrested, and finally imprisoned in the 'Maggot's Nest' for real-time monitoring after approval from the Central 46.
If Ishikawa Katori was a Shinigami, then based on the level of danger he showed in front of those villains, it would naturally be enough to be imprisoned in the 'Maggot's Nest', but he is not a Shinigami, but a civilian in Rukongai, and is not within the scope of supervision of the Onmitsukidō Third Division Supervisory Team.
Of course, if the other party is 'just' a civilian, the Onmitsukidō can completely expel him to the numbered area on the grounds that he is very dangerous.
However, Ishikawa Katori has the Shiba, who was once one of the Five Great Noble Families, as his backing. The former Five Great Noble Families, even if they have declined, still have great prestige.
Moreover, for some reason, even the Central 46, the highest authority that can punish noble members, seems to have selectively ignored the Shiba. Even when the Shiba left Seireitei and moved to Rukongai, they did not encounter any obstacles.
You must know that this kind of behavior, strictly speaking, can already be called defection.
There have been many speculations about this. Some people say that the Shiba are only superficially declining, but are actually still powerful; others say that the Shiba actually have connections with big figures who are not under the jurisdiction of the Central 46, so the Central 46 chose to ignore them.
There are various speculations!
In any case, one thing is certain, that is, without actual evidence, one cannot simply arrest the person protected by the Shiba on the grounds of 'killing the danger in the cradle'. The Central Central 46 will not approve it either.
No, that's not right!
Soi Fon's face darkened. Because she reads the intelligence reports sent by her subordinates every day, she seems to have been influenced by those subordinates without realizing it, and is always thinking about arresting Ishikawa Katori.
But thinking about it carefully, the fact that the other party is not showing any signs of danger is not a bad thing. There is no need to supervise him with the premise of arresting him.
Although he has gathered a large number of villains, gained the favor of the entire western residents… including the Shinigami from the west, is respected by many members of the Fourth Division, several new members of the Gotei 13 in the past two years call him teacher, and has Vice-Captain-level strength…
But it can't be said that he is a dangerous factor… right?
Soi Fon was silent for a moment and muttered to herself: "As expected, I should continue to monitor him."
However…
A strange look flashed in Soi Fon's eyes. It's time to get in close contact with him.
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