Restricted Death

Chapter 11 Knife
Rukia had an inexplicable feeling. She looked at the senior students sitting there, and finally her eyes fell on Tachigawa Nobuyuki.

Apart from seeing him in the crowd at the entrance ceremony, this was probably their first formal meeting.

But the way the other person looked at him was as if he knew him.

She lowered her eyes a little uncomfortably and bowed to the people there.

Hisagi Shūhei went through the motions: "Please introduce yourself..."

"Hello, seniors. I'm Rukia from Class B of the First Rebirth Academy. I'm from the 78th District of South Ryukon Gai. I don't have any special hobbies, but I hope to become an excellent Shinigami through studying at the Spiritual Arts Academy. If I can join the Student Council, I'd be happy to join any department."

Compared to Hinamori Momo just now, Rukia's performance was not that good. Xin had already noticed that Kogoro next to him gave Rukia the lowest impression score.

Born in Rukongai and a student of Class B, Kasumigaoji Kogoro probably has already eliminated her in his heart.

"Please answer the first question."

"I will choose to stay and fight against the Hollow together with my senior classmates."

"Please explain your reasons."

Rukia pursed her lips and said, "I just feel that at a time like that, I shouldn't leave Senior alone. Even if I have to sacrifice myself, it would be a good thing if someone could accompany me. I'm not an outstanding student, and for the Soul Society, losing Senior would definitely be a greater loss than losing me. If I stay, it should reduce the risk Senior faces."

After hearing her answer, Xin couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, and suddenly said: "That's very well said."

Everyone present was stunned, and Xin continued, "It's rare for a freshman like you to have such awareness."

Kogoro, who was sitting next to him, frowned and said nothing. He looked at the girl named Rukia again. Apart from her decent looks, there was nothing special about her. She was also a student in Class B.

But after hesitating for a moment, Kogoro changed Rukia's score in the notebook.

Up to now, there are not many qualified candidates. Half of the places in the first round of re-entry have already been reserved by aristocratic students, and Tachikawa Nobuyuki cannot change them at all. As for the other candidates, he can do whatever he wants.

After hearing the letter, the student union cadres seemed to understand something, and some of them started writing in their notebooks again.

Shin's face was covered with a smile, and Hisagi Shuhei then said, "Please proceed to the second question."

Regarding the remaining two questions, the answers Hinamori gave just now were very standard. For the second question, she described the specific approach, and for the third question, Hinamori Momo said very flatteringly that she would first ask the president's opinion.

However, Rukia's answer was much worse than Hinamori Momo's, but the cadres present did not rush to give scores, but looked at Nobu first.

Jianxin still gave encouragement before continuing with his own grading.

Hisagi Shuhei finally said, "After our evaluation, Rukia-san, congratulations on passing the interview."

Rukia didn't expect that she could pass the test smoothly. She even felt that her performance afterwards was very poor, and for a moment she couldn't help but show surprise in her eyes.

"Thank you, seniors." She bowed repeatedly.

"You really should thank the president. He is so tolerant of you." Guang Goro suddenly couldn't help but sneered.

Xin was not angry, but chuckled and said, "We should always give our juniors more opportunities. I believe I will not make a mistake."

No matter how slow Rukia was, she realized it at this moment. It seemed that because of the encouragement from the student council president just now, the others' evaluation of her had increased, and she immediately felt a lot more grateful.

Xin noticed something and his smile grew even wider.

"Okay, remember to report on time tomorrow."

"Yes!"

After Rukia left, Shin looked at Kogoro with a smile, which made Kogoro wonder if this guy had a problem with his brain, as he was clearly mocking him just now.

What he naturally didn't know was that because of his taunt, Rukia's favorability suddenly reached 15 points.

[Reiatsu Level: Lv: 17]

[Zanpakutō unlock progress: 10%]

Rukia walked out of the interview classroom and saw Hinamori Momo waiting for her in the corridor.

"Rukia!"

"Hina...Momo."

"How is it?" Hinamori asked impatiently.

"Ah, I passed too!" Rukia said with a smile.

"Really?! That's great!" Hinamori couldn't help but hug Rukia excitedly and cheered!
Although the two had only known each other for a short time, Hinamori's enthusiastic personality did not make Rukia feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, she felt that he was a very good person.

"Thanks to Tao's encouragement, I thought I was going to be eliminated." Rukia thanked sincerely.

Hinamori smiled and said, "You're welcome, you're welcome. However, the fact that you were able to pass is due to your own ability! It has nothing to do with others."

Rukia still said with some fear: "I was so nervous when I first walked in. I felt that the seniors were so scary."

Hinamori Momoya said, "Yeah, I also think it's quite unnerving to see all those seniors sitting together with such serious expressions, but the president is a very kind person."

Rukia's mind flashed back to Tachigawa Nobuyuki's appearance, and she mused, "The president is indeed a very good person. I wasn't performing very well at first, but he encouraged me. And because of his encouragement, the other seniors seemed to have relaxed their expectations of me."

Hinamori Momo said excitedly, "Yeah, you think the president is great too, right? I heard that the student union was founded by the president himself! And the president himself is a famous genius student in the Spiritual Arts Academy. He is best at kendo, and even his kendo teacher is no match for him!" "You know so much?"

Hinamori Momo said as a matter of course, "Because I asked about it in advance, I thought I would meet the president during the interview, and knowing more about him would be helpful for the interview."

Rukia thought to herself that the other party had made sufficient preparations. On the other hand, she was really lucky to have passed this interview.

Thanks to President Xin for being a generous and good person.

The two chatted as they walked out of the teaching building, and Hinamori asked Rukia which department of the student union she wanted to join.

"I haven't thought about it yet. I don't know enough about these departments."

"It would be nice if we were both assigned to the same department."

"Ah."

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There were still quite a few students left to be interviewed, and I believe it took them another hour or two to finish.

A total of nineteen freshmen finally passed the interview assessment.

These 19 people will be evenly distributed among the six departments of discipline inspection, organization, finance, publicity, study, and art.

In total, each department can have three new students.

After completing the final personnel assignment work in the Student Union headquarters office, Xin leaned back in his chair and stretched.

"I'm so tired. It's really hard work."

Kogoro took his men away.

"Are you going to eat?" Xiubing asked, and Kanizawa also looked over.

"You guys go ahead, I have other things to do."

Xiu Bing was surprised and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xin just smiled: "Secret."

Xiu Bing looked puzzled. "You're not going to meet the new girl from earlier, are you?"

Xin rolled his eyes at him and was too lazy to explain.

Hisagi Shuhei and Kanizawa left the office together. On their way to the cafeteria, Kanizawa suddenly asked Shuhei, "Does Shin really like the junior student he interviewed today?"

Shuhei was confused by this sudden question, scratched his head and said, "That girl named Hinamori is really cute...it seems possible."

Xin also left the student union's headquarters office. It was already lunchtime and the students' classes for the day had ended.

He went to the kendo classroom alone and entered smoothly thanks to his privileges as a member of the student union.

Next to the kendo classroom is the sword storage room, where countless black blades are densely packed and neatly displayed throughout the room, with serial numbers marked underneath each blade.

Students at the Spiritual Arts Academy are not allowed to equip themselves with Asabi frequently. They can only use it during kendo classes and practical combat classes. Because during the six years at the Spiritual Arts Academy, there are very few examples of people awakening their own Zanpakutō. 99% of people awaken their Zanpakutō slowly after they are assigned their own Asabi after graduation.

However, there are still most of the Shinigami who never have their own Zanpakuto in their entire life, and having a Zanpakuto is equivalent to having the capital to become a chief officer.

The so-called Zanpakuto is built based on the soul of the god of death himself. After obtaining Asagi, the god of death continuously injects his own spiritual power into Asagi over time, and eventually he can have a spiritual dialogue with Asagi and gain strength.

Xin moved slowly among countless shallow strikes. He stopped in front of the number of the shallow strikes he often used in his kendo class. When he reached out to grasp it, he didn't feel anything special.

After a moment of silence, he put the shallow handle back to its original place.

[Zanpakutō unlock progress: 11% (Half-Shikai)]

[Zanpakuto has been unlocked. Calling its true name will reveal its true form.]

Calling by true name... Calling by true name...

Xin glanced at all the knives in the knife storage room. In his eyes, these knives were no different, and none of them gave him the so-called telepathy.

Not here?
Xin frowned and thought, looking at his system interface over and over again. Suddenly, he realized something.

[Reiatsu Level: Lv: 18]

[Spiritual Power Reserve: 15%]

This so-called spiritual power reserve means literally that the spiritual power in his body has always been in a state of dissatisfaction, because he is releasing spiritual power all the time, which is equivalent to opening a hole in a ball and constantly letting air out. The hole is very small and basically will not be noticed.

The reason for doing this is that his current spiritual pressure level is far beyond that of his classmates of the same period. He does not think that the so-called means of hiding spiritual pressure can be hidden from those who are stronger than himself.

As long as the spiritual power is always in an dissatisfied state, there is only so much spiritual power in the body, and outsiders cannot see anything.

He returned to the kendo classroom, sat cross-legged in the middle of the classroom, and slowly closed his eyes.

[Spiritual Power Reserve: 16%]

(End of this chapter)