Demon Slayer: The Journey That Began When I Became Yoriichi's Sister

Chapter 775 Conference Room

Watching Byakuya Kuchiki's figure disappear through the gate as if fleeing, Yuko's sense of guilt grew even heavier.

"Sister Hua, I feel so guilty being a teacher." Yu Zi scratched her head, looking at the vast, dilapidated wooden house. "Byakuya is always so polite to me, and I just let a bunch of bandits in. Isn't that inappropriate?"

Unohana Retsu walked in with graceful movements: "What's inappropriate about it? This is called making the most of resources. The Kuchiki family has so many unused rooms that would just gather dust if left empty. Come on, Yachiru is already waiting for us."

"I wonder where Rukia is."

"Over here, over here!"

Yuko followed Yachiru to the backyard, to a quiet corridor.

Yachiru skipped and hopped ahead, as if she were at home, and came to the corner on the left side of the corridor.

Click.

The once perfectly sealed wall suddenly cracked open in the middle, revealing a hidden door inside.

Yu Zi's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets: "No way, there can be a hidden door here?"

Yachiru turned around and made a shushing gesture, "Xiaoyu, keep your voice down. It wouldn't be good if Bai Jun heard you, even though he usually turns a blind eye."

It's amazing that you even knew about this.

Yuko's lips twitched as she slipped through the hidden door, which led to a secret room.

"Did you dig this yourself?"

"How long did it take to dig?"

"It won't be long now." Yachiru puffed out her chest proudly.

Yuko stepped inside and was astonished to find it was an extremely luxuriously decorated tea room. The tatami mats were brand new, the screen was painted with exquisite seasonal scenes, there was even a small bookshelf, and it was decorated with many flower arrangements and potted plants.

This potted plant was obviously planted by Sister Hua.

Are these people using the Kuchiki family's house as their association's activity room?

Before Yuko could say anything, a loud rumble came from the wall next to her, and Rukia came out from behind carrying a tea set.

"Ms. Yuko, Captain Unohana, you've arrived."

Rukia wasn't surprised to see the three of them and greeted them with a smile.

But seeing Rukia was something I hadn't expected.

Pointing to the door of the secret room, he asked, "Just how many secret passages did you dig in the Kuchiki family's residence?"

Yachiru explained, "We just dig some up when we have a get-together."

"This doesn't look like something you just casually dug up."

It turns out there was already a mole within the family.

As expected, massive palaces always begin to decay from the inside out; this Rotten Wood family has probably been hollowed out.

These women probably couldn't even hide from the Kuchiki family head what color underwear he was wearing today.

Women are truly terrifying creatures.

and many more……

“Now that you have Rukia, shouldn’t it be easy to handle Byakuya?” Yuko looked at Yachiru with suspicion. “That guy may seem like a normal person on the surface, but he’s actually a cold-on-the-outside-but-warm-on-the-inside siscon.”

"Sister... Sister complex!"

Rukia's face visibly flushed red, and she stammered, "Big...Big brother isn't that kind of person."

"No, that's the kind of person he is."

When faced with Yuuko's question, Yachiru first showed a confused expression, then suddenly realized.

"It seems so!"

"..."

Yuko looked at Unohana Retsu with a resentful expression.

It was definitely your fault!

Such a young child is obviously stupid; he can't think that far ahead at all.

They were definitely tricked by Sister Hua!

Unohana Retsu pretended not to see Ikuko's resentful little look.

Yu Zi sighed. Now that she was already here, she couldn't just leave like that, could she?

That's incredibly disrespectful.

She looked around. "Hasn't the others arrived yet?"

"They're all in the conference room at the back!" Yachiru jumped to the bookshelf and pressed one of the books.

Click.

The entire side wall was flipped over.

Yuko is already numb. You could tell her now that the entire dilapidated wooden house has been hollowed out, and she would believe it.

She followed the group into the room behind the flip-up door. This room was three times larger than the tea room they had just left, with a huge long table in the center.

Several people were already seated around the long table.

Matsumoto Rangiku was sprawled on the table, flipping through a copy of "Modern Fashion Weekly," with a half-empty bottle of sake beside her. The table and her chest were pressed together, revealing her snow-white breasts.

In other words, everyone here is a woman.

Ise Nanao pushed up her glasses and was engrossed in writing on a pile of documents, looking somewhat haggard.

Yuko suddenly realized that being the vice president of the Female Grim Reaper Association wasn't so easy.

Hana-nee, the chairperson, is obviously just there for the fun of it. And Yachiru, the president… are you kidding me? Making a kid work? Does she want to go to jail?

Needless to say, this kid is definitely a hands-off manager.

It's easy to imagine that with the two older women slacking off, the workload piled up on this vice president.

Yuko couldn't help but show a hint of pity in her eyes.

This vice-captain, who was exploited by Kyoraku Shunsui in the 8th Division, is also being exploited in the Association.

What surprised Yuko the most was Soi Fon. She was sitting in the seat furthest from the door, arms crossed, eyes closed, taking a nap.

Noticing Yuko enter, Soi Fon opened her eyes and nodded slightly to her.

Yu Zi's lips twitched: "Since you already knew, you should have told me beforehand."

"I only thought of it later." Soi Fon looked apologetic, pulled out a chair next to her, and invited Ikuko to sit down.

Before Yuko could even sit down, Yachiru jumped up to the conference table above, patted the table, and attracted everyone's attention.

"Everyone, look over here!"

"Let me introduce a new member!"

Everyone saw Yuko when she came in.

To be honest, Ikuko is definitely not a good figure in the eyes of most of the Shinigami in the Gotei 13.

Therefore, they also gained varying degrees of vigilance and caution.

Among those present, the only people she was really familiar with were Soi Fon, Hana-san, and Yachiru.

Among them, Yachiru can only be considered a heartless child.

Oh, and we also have to count Matsumoto Rangiku when she was drunk.

However, she was now conscious and was intentionally or unintentionally avoiding Yuko's gaze.

Not many people in Bleach knew that Bount had obtained Ikuko's power; only some captains and vice-captains knew.

And coincidentally, Matsumoto Rangiku was one of them.

It would be a miracle if she fell for Yuko.

"Clang clang~" Yachiru lay on the table, stretching out her hand towards Yuuko, "Yuuko~"

"Everyone, give them a warm welcome!"

"From today onwards, I will serve as a special advisor to the association!"

Sparse applause rose from the audience.

Amidst an awkward moment, Yu Zi nodded to everyone as a greeting.

At least they didn't make her introduce herself.

"Xiao Yu, please introduce yourself."

She had just thought that when she heard Yachiru say this.

Yuko's expression froze for a moment before she gave a completely emotionless self-introduction.

"Tsugikuni Ikuko, just call me Ikuko."

Yachiru was clearly not impressed. "Eh~ that's it?"

She pouted and leaned even closer, almost climbing onto the table.

What do you like?

"Hobby?"

Yu Zi gave a forced smile and said, "I don't really have any particular hobbies. As for hobbies, does liking a quiet place count?"

Yuko has always had a knack for handling awkward silences.

But when she encountered the naturally gifted Yachiru, she met her nemesis.

"No, this won't do." Yachiru jumped off the table, ran quickly to Yuko, grabbed her hand, and led her to the podium.

Yuko stood still, and even when Yachiru tugged at her twice, she couldn't budge her. But fearing that the child might do something even worse later, she sighed and followed her onto the stage.

"Okay, Xiao Yu. Let's start over."

Yuko is like a primary school student being guided step by step by her teacher.

She was so embarrassed by the scene that she almost cried.

Yu Zi stood on the podium, looking at the circle of women staring at her below, her eyelids twitching incessantly.

"Um... I'm Yuuko Tsugikuni. My hobby is watching excitement, I hate trouble, I like eating hot pot, and I'm currently a teacher at Karakura Town First High School. That's all."

"Hmm~" Yachiru pondered for a moment, just as Yuko was terrified that she would have to start all over again.

"Although it's still very simple, let's leave it like this."

Yuko secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

I'm so scared of you.

She dragged her tired body off the stage, sat down next to Soi Fon, and couldn't help but complain to her, "If I had known, I would never have come."

Soi Fon was sweating profusely; it was indeed very embarrassing.

Fortunately, they all knew each other in private, and this incident was not staged when the Women's Death Association was established.

Seeing that everyone was seated, Yachiru sat at the table, propping her elbows up, and asked listlessly, "What fun things are going to happen today?"

Your Female Grim Reaper Association is really just a high school student's extracurricular activity room!

Maybe it's not even as good as that!

At that moment, Ise Nanao pushed up her glasses and let out a heavy sigh, instantly bringing the atmosphere back to freezing point.

"President, we need to talk about serious matters."

Yachiru was still stuffing konpeito into her mouth when she asked indistinctly, "Serious business? Are there any snacks today?"

Qi Xu slammed the thick stack of documents in her hand heavily on the table with a bang, then stood up abruptly and pushed up her glasses.

"No snacks! Not only are there no snacks, we don't even have the funds for next month's activities!"

The entire room fell silent.

Seeing that no one spoke, Yuko raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but ask, "Isn't the Women's Shinigami Association an official organization? Doesn't it receive official funding?"

Besides, with so many team leaders here, you could easily donate a little bit.

However, Yuko didn't say the second half of her sentence: she also had money, but she didn't want to donate it.

Nanao turned her head, her eyes, hidden behind her glasses, filled with a deathly aura of despair.

"Advisor Yuko, you know absolutely nothing about our association's financial situation." Nanao turned to point at Yachiru, who was squatting on a chair licking powdered sugar, and shouted sharply, "President!"

Yachiru stood up with a serious expression and slammed her hands on the table: "Everyone is spending money too recklessly!"

Nana shouted, "No, that's not true! You're the one who spent the most!"

Yu Zi rubbed her ears, thinking to herself that this organization was indeed a makeshift operation.

Retsu Unohana slowly put down her teacup and smiled at Nanao: "Does Vice President Nanao have any solutions?"

Yu Zi suddenly had a bad feeling. Could it be that as soon as she joined the association, she wouldn't even get any benefits, but they would try to take money out of her pocket?

She has made up her mind to refuse any requests for donations.

Nana took a deep breath and pulled a poster from under the pile of documents: "Street performances are out of the question. But we can sell merchandise."

"The surrounding area?"

Everyone looked at the poster, which appeared to be a poster for a male celebrity group from the present world.

Nanao adjusted her glasses, a cold glint flashing in the lenses: "According to my investigation, the female Shinigami within Seireitei have an immense voyeuristic desire for the private lives of certain popular male Shinigami. If we could obtain some high-quality, non-public celebrity photos and produce them into photobooks or limited-edition singles for sale..."

Yu Zi's eye twitched: "Isn't this just taking pictures without my consent?"

“This is called sharing aesthetics,” Nanao corrected. “The current Seireitei is in low spirits because of the turmoil caused by the Bount and Aizen incidents. Everyone needs some visual comfort. We’re doing charity work and collecting some service fees on the side.”

"It is said that paparazzi in the modern world have already achieved financial freedom through this."

Isn't this still taking photos without permission?!

Matsumoto Rangiku instantly perked up and sat bolt upright: "Oh! This is great! If it's a photo of the captains, it'll definitely sell for a lot of money! Especially Captain Kuchiki or Captain Hitsugaya."

Yu Zi complained: "Now you're calling yourself the captain so seriously, but actually you really want to film him, don't you!"

Matsumoto Rangiku chuckled and stuck out her tongue. Then, belatedly realizing she was responding to Yuuko, she fell silent for a moment.

This woman... doesn't seem as scary as the rumors say?

And if she wasn't angry when she actually got drunk and hung herself on someone last time...

So... this person is actually very easy to talk to?

Nanao pushed up her glasses, the lenses gleaming with a cold light: "That's right. Compared to Captain Komamura, who has lost the mystery of his face being covered by a wooden barrel, the handsome captains are still a cut above."

She pulled out another poster from the documents, which featured the handsome officers of the Gotei 13.

The people on the list are Byakuya, Ukitake, Kyoraku, Hisagi Shuhei, Kira Izuru, and Kurotsuchi Mayuri.

Yuko raised her hand: "I understand the logic, but how did Mayuri Kurotsuchi get on the list?"

Although Kyoraku is an older man, he is quite charming, and it's possible that some children might like him.

But who exactly likes this guy who looks like a pharaoh? A mummy?

Nanao rested her hands on her chin, looking thoughtful: "It's said that Captain Nie is actually very handsome."

"..."

Soi Fon raised her hand: "Can I only film men?"

Yuko turned her head and glanced at her.

Soi Fon noticed her gaze, coughed lightly, and turned her head away.

No need to hide, you little brat.

It's just secretly filming Yoruichi, right?

She helped!

No, no, no!

This must be a candid shot!

This was definitely a candid shot!

Yu Ziyi refused firmly: "You guys do it, I'm not doing this kind of thing. Who knows if I get caught and end up on some sweet potato the next day?"

"I don't want to be called a 'subordinate woman'."