Bleach: Starting with Marrying Retsu Unohana

Shutara Senjumaru asked Araki.

"No, this time it's for something else..."

"In any case, there are too many people and too many eyes around here. Senior Shutara, would you mind having a word with me in private?"

Araki looked at Shutara Senjumaru and said with a smile.

"Ara~"

"If you're not afraid of your partner, why don't you come to my 'embroidery room' for a chat?"

After hearing Araki's words, Shutara Senjumaru first glanced at Araki, then at Uno Retsu in the distance. She narrowed her eyes slightly and teased Araki.

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."

To everyone's surprise, Araki simply smiled and accepted Senjumaru's invitation.

"..."

This left Senjumaru speechless for a moment, but he tacitly accepted Araki's arrival.

As for Muno Retsu, she still maintained a 'royal' attitude and didn't take Araki and Senjumaru's words to heart.

the other side……

After the head of the Tsunayo family returned to the Tsunayo family, he picked up his Zanpakuto and started smashing the furnishings and decorations in his living room.

"Damn it! That Shi Tan guy is infuriating!"

"Didn't Shitan know that from the moment he took on the surname Tsunayoshi, it was his destiny to dedicate his last drop of blood to the Tsunayoshi family?!"

The head of the family, Tsunayoshiro, held the ancestral Zanpakuto, 'Enra Kyōden', his eyes burning with rage.

"What's wrong, Master?"

"Master, are you alright?"

When the retainers of the Tsunayoshiro family saw that the head of the family had lost his temper as soon as he returned to the family, they all gathered around him and kept trying to persuade him.

"call……"

After hearing the advice of his retainers, the head of the clan, Tsunayoshiro, first sighed deeply, then angrily addressed them, "Summon a clan meeting! Bring all the clan elders and Shitan's father here. I want to have a serious discussion about Shitan's matter!"

"Yes, yes!"

The retainers who received the order from the head of the clan dared not say a word and immediately headed towards the courtyard where the clan elders were.

"You scoundrel Shi Tan! Today I'll teach you what it means to have elders you can't afford to offend."

Tsunayoshi decided to use his power as head of the 'Five Great Noble Families' to teach his unworthy descendant, Tsunayoshi Tokina, a lesson.

Just as the head of the Tsuna family returned to the clan and began making grand preparations to deal with Tokinada, Araki had already followed Shutara Senjumaru to Senjumaru's embroidery room...

However, although Senjumaru calls his place the 'Embroidery Room', in reality, this so-called 'Embroidery Room' is more like a huge 'laboratory', containing various experimental instruments.

However, compared to the 'Technology Development Bureau' founded by Kisuke Urahara in later generations, it was not that large in scale, and this huge 'embroidery room' belonged only to Senjumaru.

"Here we are~"

After Senjumaru entered the password for the 'laboratory' door, Araki and Senjumaru finally entered the so-called 'embroidery room'. Araki looked at the mountain of instruments piled up in the dark laboratory and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Captain Araki, my embroidery room looks a bit messy. I hope you'll forgive me."

Senjumaru walked in front of Araki, preaching to Araki behind him as he went.

"It doesn't matter."

Araki smiled gently at Senjumaru upon hearing this.

"Haha~"

Senjumaru simply smiled at this.

The two continued forward until they reached the innermost part of the laboratory, where Araki and Senjumaru finally stopped.

"oh?!"

It was after Senjumaru and Araki entered the laboratory that a man who was guarding the instruments inside, constantly fiddling with various tools, seemed to sense something and slowly stopped what he was doing...

"Hey! Mayuri Kurotsuchi, you're still dreaming your unrealistic 'dreams'~"

Shutara Senjumaru watched the man's retreating figure, his eyes slightly narrowed, and spoke to the man in a tone that sounded like he was mocking him.

"I already told you, be a little quiet when you come back and don't disturb my research!"

"Also, shouldn't you change your arrogant tone? Stop looking down on people all the time!"

As Shutara Senjumaru finished speaking, the man with short blue hair who had been facing away from Araki and Shutara Senjumaru finally turned around, revealing his golden eyes and a strange mask that could cover his entire face.

"Ah you are……"

The man, whose appearance and personality were both incredibly strange, turned around and saw Senjumaru and Araki. His eyes narrowed slightly before he looked on with a look of sudden realization.

“I see…” The man whom Shutara called Mayuri Kurotsuchi spoke to Senjumaru in a mocking tone: “Is that so? So Shutara, you’ve reached the age where you can bring a man home? As expected, you’re just a mere mortal~ completely different from a true genius like me!”

"Haha~"

Upon hearing this, Senjumaru's beautiful lips curled into a disdainful smile, and her slender hand somehow picked up a 'needle' that emitted a cold light.

"A man who speaks without restraint will have his tongue sewn shut."

Senjumaru, holding the 'embroidery needle', warned Mayuri Kurotsuchi.

"Humph……"

Upon hearing this, Mayuri Kurotsuchi wisely shut his mouth, admitting that he was indeed no match for the old woman, Shutara Senjumaru.

"Captain Araki, please don't mind. Besides completing my own 'research,' I also need to fulfill the duties of the captain of the '12th Division' every day, so I don't spend most of my time in my 'boudoir'..."

"However, the work in the 'embroidery room' cannot be interrupted. At the same time, in order to prevent anyone from taking advantage of my absence from the 'embroidery room' to harm my lovely 'research' subjects, I have kept a vicious dog in the 'embroidery room' to guard the house."

As Senjumaru smiled at Araki, he explained Mayuri Kurotsuchi's identity.

"A vicious dog? It should at least learn some manners."

Araki smiled slightly after hearing Senjumaru's words.

Throughout the entire Soul Society, Shutara Senjumaru is truly unique in comparing Mayuri Kurotsuchi to a vicious dog while simultaneously leaving him helpless.

Yes, Araki naturally knew the true identity of that eccentric blue-haired man. That man was none other than the future captain of the 12th Division, the second director of the Technology Development Bureau, and the man who won the MVP award in the Thousand-Year Blood War arc, known as Mayuri Kurotsuchi.

The person before him, who had not yet experienced the trials of the 'nest of maggots,' was merely a scientific madman, nothing more.

"So, Captain Araki, what is it you want to talk to me about?!"

Shutara Senjumaru looked at Araki and asked with a smile.

"Well..."

Araki narrowed his eyes slightly upon hearing this, but did not immediately inform Senjumaru.

"Mayuri Kurotsuchi, you really have no sense of propriety!"

"Now that we have distinguished guests, why don't you hurry up and make way for them?"

Senjumaru assumed that Araki was hesitant to tell Mayuri because she was present, so he gently reprimanded Mayuri.

"You woman..."

After hearing Senjumaru's words, Mayuri Kurotsuchi's forehead veins bulged. He really hated Senjumaru, but due to certain factors, he couldn't directly confront Senjumaru right now. After thinking for a while, Mayuri Kurotsuchi had no choice but to endure it for the time being.

"Alright, since you require me to leave, then you'd better tell me to what extent you require me to leave? Is it temporarily leaving this 'laboratory'? Or the 'Seireitei'? Or perhaps you could just let me leave the 'Soul Society' temporarily! I've been wanting to take a trip to the 'Human World' or 'Hollow Gulch'..."

After listening to Senjumaru's words, Mayuri Kurotsuchi began to speak on his own.

“No, I think Mr. Mayuri Kurotsuchi doesn’t need to avoid it.”

Araki shook his head slightly after hearing Mayuri Kurotsuchi's words.

"Um?!"

Upon hearing this, Mayuri Kurotsuchi looked puzzled.

“It’s safest for a ‘vicious dog’ like Mr. Mayuri Kurotsuchi to stay in the ‘garden’ after all.”

Araki did not answer Mayuri Kurotsuchi's question, but instead addressed Shutara Senjumaru beside him.

"Ara~"

"You know a lot, don't you?"

Senjumaru simply smiled after hearing Araki's words, clearly indicating that Araki's thoughts were somewhat aligned with hers.

"What's the meaning?!"

At this moment, Mayuri Kurotsuchi's eyes revealed a hint of confusion. He hadn't yet figured out the meaning of the conversation between Senjumaru and Araki. It wasn't until over a hundred years later, when Senjumaru was promoted to the 'Zero Division,' and Mayuri, before his promotion, was personally imprisoned in the 'Morphin's Nest,' that he finally understood. But that's a story for later...

"Actually, the reason I visited Senjumaru-senpai this time is that I hope he can use his 'laboratory' as a base to recruit a group of like-minded people and create a brand new organization with 'technology development' and 'innovative technology' as its core. As for the name of the organization, how about 'Technology Development Bureau'?!"

Araki, looking at Shutara Senjumaru before him, finally revealed the purpose of his visit.

"'Technology Development Bureau'?!"

After hearing Araki's words, Senjumaru narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly. She looked Araki up and down, and then a slight smile appeared on her rosy lips.

"I wonder why Araki-kun is so eager for me to reveal my techniques?!"

After looking him over, Senjumaru asked Araki a question.

Yes, in Senjumaru's view, Araki's decision to have her establish the "Technology Development Bureau" was tantamount to asking her to publicly share the technology she had been researching for many years with the entire "Seireitei," which was undoubtedly an outrageous act for researchers of this era.

"I'm not asking Senju-senpai to reveal his techniques, but rather I hope that Senju-senpai can use the power of Soul Society to complete the technique he was unable to finish more quickly..."

Araki smiled gently at Senjumaru upon hearing this.

"oh?!"

Senjumaru looked thoughtful after hearing Araki's words.

"To be honest, with Senju-senpai's achievement in developing the 'Shiha Armor,' you could have been in the 'Zero Squad' long ago. The reason you haven't been promoted isn't because of a lack of 'qualification' or 'achievements,' but because you've been so engrossed in your research that you haven't had time to consider the matter of being promoted to 'Royal Agent'..."

Araki first boasted to Senjumaru.

Then, Araki looked at Senjumaru and continued, "But with the intervention of the Seireitei's resources, I think your research progress will probably speed up a lot. In that case, you can leave the Seireitei sooner and go to the Soul King Palace without any burden! Once you go to the Soul King Palace and officially become a member of the Zero Division, you will find that the projects you are researching in the Seireitei are not as important as you imagined."

Araki paused for a moment before looking at Senjumaru and asking, "After all, Senjumaru-senpai, you wouldn't want your research to slow down your progress towards becoming a 'Zero Squad,' would you?!"

"This……"