Chapter 2: East Gate
All of this was just to sustain his existence and grow even stronger.
Because of everything he had endured, Masatsuki Aozaki had developed a reckless indulgence toward his own desires.
Rangiku Matsumoto was a soul living in Kagarashi. As someone with the potential to become a Shinigami, the Reishi in the air wasn't enough to sustain her. She had been on the verge of starving to death when she encountered Masatsuki Aozaki, who was collecting protection money on the streets.
"Hey, kid. What's your name?" Masatsuki had a strange sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen this scene before.
"Rangiku... Rangiku Matsumoto..." The frail girl spoke weakly.
Without hesitation, Masatsuki used the food he had scavenged to pull her back from the brink of death—securing himself a future beauty of a wife in the process.
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"Aizen-sama, are you interested in that man?"
Under the shade of a tree, a blind man with dark skin and goggles gazed toward the battlefield where Masatsuki was rampaging through the streets.
"Interested? No... That man has been mine from the beginning. He's been quite helpful with my operations in District 62."
Aizen casually flipped through a file in his hands. It was Masatsuki's dossier.