Kurisa said
Koujaku listened to Celestria and it seemed as if he hit a bit of a nerve but then it again it was hard to tell with this girl. Regardless Koujaku decided to play a game of poker with her, it was just for fun anyway, at least for him. However after a small while Koujaku was all out and got his ass quite frankly handed to him yet he didn't show any bitterness he just smiled and chuckled "Well you really are as good as you say you are, quite impressive...I've never been beat like that before, clearly I was playing some rather terrible people" Koujaku once again chuckled, it was all just for fun anyway so why take it seriously?

Celestria

Celestria watched from behind her cards as Koujaku played, analysing his face and moments, the slightest action not going unnoticed. As expected, she had won their little game, within a reasonable time-frame also. After the final card had been dealt, she watched as the exotic man across from her chuckled while smiling. Usually her opponents would throw all sorts of threats or insults at her but Koujaku didn't, he just merely laughed it off. Celestria respected that, not that anyone would be able to tell. "I do not beat, I annihilate. However, to tell you the engraved truth, I let you loose gently due to my insatiable urge to show fairness towards you. Do not mistake this for pity, I merely do not feel the need to obliterate your chances within my first move, so, in other words, I dampened my sharpened knowledge, blunting it like a pencil would upon contact with thinly sliced and direly bleached tree material." Trying to avoid bruising his ego, Celestria told Koujaku the truth. It was extremely rare for her to go easy on anyone so she even surprised herself when she just couldn't bring her hand up to place down the one card that'd cause her to win the battle after only one turn.... Instead, she avoided that and gave him a chance to win, which he clearly wasn't successful in achieving.

After waiting far too long Giovanni turned to leave "well clearly he aint here, soooo catch me later if you feel like it. let me know how your mission goes, come back alive and all that good stuff. ok... later' and he walked away out of the squad 1 barracks. He went back to his original plan of visiting the academy, afterall it was still his responsibility to recruit people to the squad as well as the corps. Someone had been given that task, to act as a recruiter, and it was helping but as the highest ranking member of the Kido corp he could stand a little face time with the students of the academy before they make their choices of squads. Also he wanted to check on the students he had brought to the academy a year ago. He would look in on them about once every two weeks, they were all doing well so far, a few bumps here n there but they were all doing their best and thats what the entire soul society needed from each of them, their best.

Phobos said
"Huh?" Hozumi scratched his head, wondering what was this special hug and how he could get it "Can I get a special hug mommy?" He said, turning to Aya with his puppy eyes. He wasn't sure what it was, but his mom told him he was special so he thought he deserved it. Hozumi then listened to Fumio ask him if he wanted to go. Fumio was a lieutenant and it might be more fun if he were to go to Fumio, but he did love going with his mom cause she always had fun adventures. It wasn't until Fumio said his last words that made Hozumi make up his mind. His eyes were glimmering "Fumio!! I wanna go with Fumio-senpai!" He said with a grin, wanting to sit on his shoulders. He had sat on his mom's shoulders before, but compared to Fumio she was short. And Hozumi always enjoyed being in high places

Fumio Hari Kouineji

Fumio chuckled at the sight of Hozumi's sudden burst of energy. "Heh, well Okay then kid" He knelt down in front of Hozumi. "Climb aboard~ Don't pull on my hair though or I'll take you straight off" He waited patiently for the young boy. 'Hmmm, I'll take him to the Captain but I'll drop him off to Aya before I go meet with the other three'.

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Ko watched Giovanni start to leave, and she couldn't help but sigh. She swore he would be here, but there had to be other captains right? Well one of them had gone off to do other things but there was still two of them right? "Right then.." She turned to Gustavo "Where is another captain we can talk too? You know where they are right?" Clearly she had little clue where another captain was, but as any good future captain she was gathering information... That was good right? Yeah, not lazy at all. Though either way they needed a mission. "Or we could just grab one from administration."

Gustavo laughed awkwardly, and turned to face Koyo, "Well let's see in this entire year I have gotten to know one, tw-, ok just one captain, and that was the head captain, other than that no." He rubbed the back of his head, and let out another awkward laugh not knowing what to do or say. Didn't Giovanni say something about going to ask the captain of squad 6 for a mission? He did didn't he. Gustavo quickly put on a bright smile, and faced Koyo. "We can ask the squad six captain, and see if he has anything to do for us, I'm going to take a guess that he is in his captains quarters, and if not then we can go asking around for him, sound like a plan?" His face turned from joyful to serious in a matter of seconds, due to no longer feeling any sudden pressure placed on him.

Giovanni wanted to go check on the school... really he did. It would be nice and easy but he had this feeling in his stomach that made him kinda sorta regret leaving his squad mates. So he went back to them "ok sooo i changed my mind, ill hang with you two today. If The head captain is busy, the captain of squad 6 or 8 should be available." he thought to himself for a second "unless they are in a captains meeting but thats...unlikely." that was his contribution for the sake of group cohesion, No reason for him to pass up a chance at teamwork, hard work and...well work. He could take tomorrow off since clearly he'd be actualy working today.

Past Yu

Yu stretched his arms as he walked down the hallways of Squad one, he just got down with some early practice, and was heading back to his room to see Amaya and Ayashi. Along the way he notice three people standing by the Head Captains door with one walking away. "The Head Captain is most likely busy if he didn't respond to you three. I can try to be of help though, I am the Lieutenant. So what did you need from the Head Captain?" Yu asked the little group.

AbigailTenshi said
Celestria watched from behind her cards as Koujaku played, analysing his face and moments, the slightest action not going unnoticed. As expected, she had won their little game, within a reasonable time-frame also. After the final card had been dealt, she watched as the exotic man across from her chuckled while smiling. Usually her opponents would throw all sorts of threats or insults at her but Koujaku didn't, he just merely laughed it off. Celestria respected that, not that anyone would be able to tell. Trying to avoid bruising his ego, Celestria told Koujaku the truth. It was extremely rare for her to on anyone so she even surprised herself when she just couldn't bring her hand up to place down the one card that'd cause her to win the battle after only one turn.... Instead, she avoided that and gave him a chance to win, which he clearly wasn't successful in achieving.

Koujaku continued to smile slightly as she spoke, he then rubbed the back of his head with his right hand as he spoke "Well then, I guess that means I'm worse at this game than I thought. If you were giving me a chance to win I clearly didn't see it. Phew...if that's how you play going easy then I don't think I want to see how you play when you aren't holding back, that must be something else" Koujaku continued to smile. He didn't mind losing or even being told that she was going easy on him. It was all important to him, it helped him learn and of course to learn sometimes you have to fail...this was something Koujaku knew..

"ah lieutenant, yes our 5th seat here would like us to have a very difficult and challenging mission. " Giovanni explained. He remembered Yu from all the times he himself was running around this building for the head captain. He had missed the fact that he had became lieutenant but it was well earned for sure. "so if there is any kind of mission you have that the Elite of squad 5 would be able to complete that would be great" Giovanni had already surmised that together the, in theory, possessed the abilities to take on a mission that a new captain would be given. they were not cohesive enough to take a mission that would be given to a veteran captain, which would have much more danger, difficulty and deaths. But at the same time collectively they had the skill and the no how to COLLECTIVELY knock out a lieutenants mission...theoretically.

"Eh? When did I get demoted to 5th?" Last time she remembered she was the 4th seat, of course this may have been just a slip of the tongue but Ko gave a expression of drowsy surprise either way. Pumping her fist in the air she just caught on that they finally met a person that could help them "Yeah! We were... very busy but decided to help out by taking on a tough mission." The other two could tell that she barely resisted pointing out that they had been lazy most of the day and would have continued to do so if she wasn't bored... Not that Yu couldn't catch on either, given her reputation for such things.

"4th seat. i apologize. im not going to let her lie for me. this is my well earned day off. im only going along with this for her. so please for her sake dont hold back." Giovanni explained. no point sugar coating anything, squad 1 was all about business, facts and results. Especially results, those were extremely important to squad one. He had learned that from working under the head captain with the kido corp. so long as anythring produced results it was deemed important. if there were no results there was no importance. it was a slightly flawed system that deterred a lot of people from trying new thing but it insured that everything that worked worked well. That was giovanni's biggest hurdle working on the Kido corps, being able to produce results for the head captain to see. good times...not really

Kurisa said
Koujaku continued to smile slightly as she spoke, he then rubbed the back of his head with his right hand as he spoke "Well then, I guess that means I'm worse at this game than I thought. If you were giving me a chance to win I clearly didn't see it. Phew...if that's how you play going easy then I don't think I want to see how you play when you aren't holding back, that must be something else" Koujaku continued to smile. He didn't mind losing or even being told that she was going easy on him. It was all important to him, it helped him learn and of course to learn sometimes you have to fail...this was something Koujaku knew..

Celestria

Celestria began gathering the remaining cards on the table after listening to Koujaku speak. "Interesting..." She mused aloud, focused on his attitude towards loosing despite her going easy on him. He was most definitely an interesting specimen, someone she felt she could learn from a great deal. Clearly Celestria wasn't the "social" type of person, she didn't indulge in the socially acceptable activities that near enough everyone else did. All she tended to spend her time on was games; mentally challenging games, thus her lack in physical strength. She never found physical strength to be a necessity which seemed to be the case for the vast majority of the Soul Society. Those with great minds could use the physical strength of an enemy against them or to their advantage. That was one of many statements Celestria lived by. "In mist of your defeat, I would like to purpose a proposition. As I am the winner of this game, I'd like for you to show me more about yourself, more specifically your areas of interest and activities which you excel at. From what my sense of sight can tell, you seem to be rather skilled within the physical fighting style. Is this correct? The evidence that suggests this to me would be your toned body, suggesting that you hold a graceful nature of movement that would fit your persona, as I have witnessed during our card game. Also, the Zanpakuto that you carry is one of a bladed sort which is extremely common. However, I feel that you emit an elegant, swift and skilful aura. I am unable to analyse your Zanpakuto as it is in a sealed state, however it would not be impossible to tell it's style if I were to watch you fight with it. Now, to summarise, will you grant me a display of an area of interest to you? Also, to witness you train?" Standing from her seat after her long-winded, monotonous analysis report, Celestria walked to the edge of the table, close to where Koujaku sat, and stood there in wait. If he were to reject her wishes, she would bid him farewell, unless he had something else in mind.

Jangel13 said
didn't need to ask your name cause it was already given" Angelo said before he kept walking forward Angelo knew their was going to be a catch to how easy this was and Angelo just kept walking but decided that as long as he remembered his training and kept alert he could get to the seretai where whoever or whatever is giving him an uneasy feeling wouldn't be able to stop them once they were inside. "whoever you are you had better be damned important" he said simply as he kept walking with myzurik he was trained to be silent and he knew what it took to be silent and he needed to make sure they stayed that way until he could do the handoff and be rid of him

"Already given you say? And to whom do I have to give the pleasure of revealing such classified information to an underling? None the matter, there's no point in crying over spilled tea unless...it was your last cup of course." Myzurik said jokingly while forcefully being accompanied to the Shinigami's destination. Why haven't they made their move yet? Is it because they know what I know or are they just waiting for an opportune moment?The blue haired man wondered to himself as the straightforward Shinigami spoke once more. "I'm not really important, just a little bit above average you see. While some might say I'm being modest when I say this, I'm actually not. They never even put the spotlight on me but now since most of their good men are dead, they wish for dumb Myzurik to replenish their numbers. They're like children really, not knowing how valuable things truly are until they've wasted it. Then the worst part comes when they want to deprive another little kid out of their toy that they wished to waste on their own. So in actuality, I'm only as important as they want me to be. And you should know that since you were sent to capture me alone, they consider you as only a simple pawn and nothing more..."

Past Yu
Yu stared at the two as they gave their reasons for wanting a mission, although simply asking would have been good enough. Yu didn't need to be given reasons for them wanting one. "Lets see a tough mission. Well I have heard reports of two Gillians getting closer to district 77, from what they told me they are currently located in the forest and are approaching from the west side, that would be the most challenging one that I could give you. I don't think I need to warn you on how strong a Gillian is correct?"

Gustavo stood there, and listened as Koyo, Giovanni, and the Lieutenant of first squad have their conversation. He wasn't much for talking to new people, and getting to know complete strangers other than those who where already in his squad. The Lieutenant seemed nice, but Gustavo still couldn't get into the idea of having conversation with the group. The man eventually decided upon a mission for them. He gave them a small debriefing of the situation, and asked them if they understood how dangerous Gillians were. Two Gillian class hollows? The idea of fighting Gillians was still frightening for him, but he refused to show those emotions to those around him, and he instead stared blankly at the Lieutenant, and gave a slight nod to show that he was still following along.

Axel said
"Already given you say? And to whom do I have to give the pleasure of revealing such classified information to an underling? None the matter, there's no point in crying over spilled tea unless...it was your last cup of course." Myzurik said jokingly while forcefully being accompanied to the Shinigami's destination. The blue haired man wondered to himself as the straightforward Shinigami spoke once more. "I'm not really important, just a little bit above average you see. While some might say I'm being modest when I say this, I'm actually not. They never even put the spotlight on me but now since most of their good men are dead, they wish for dumb Myzurik to replenish their numbers. They're like children really, not knowing how valuable things truly are until they've wasted it. Then the worst part comes when they want to deprive another little kid out of their toy that they wished to waste on their own. So in actuality, I'm only as important as they want me to be. And you should know that since you were sent to capture me alone, they consider you as only a simple pawn and nothing more..."

Yet your still talking" Angelo sighed softly moving slightly faster with his target wanting to just be rid of him already "pawn, knight, rook, bishop, queen, and king. They are all simply pieces of a chess board it is how they are used that determines their usefulness. Couldn't care less what I do it what I am as long as it helps the seretai I'll be happy" Angelo said simply since his zanpacto was a defense type that used his own pain in his enemy he would handle it all if it meant the seretai would be safe. He will work as hard as possible to keep it that way, he kept walking with his target glad he could see the gate to the seretai in the distance but not letting his guard down still

Ko grasped her fist in excitement "Yeah, that is just perfect for us right guys? Those big guys won't know what hit em" She was trying to keep their nerves together just in case, even if she did kind of sound like she was ignoring the real danger that these things posed to them. "Right then, all we need to do is have a few details, such as if are there any more smaller hollows? Either way we should go and intercept them before they even get to do any sort of damage" Smileing away Ko brushed her hair away from her face "Also gives us a chance to show off our abilities to each other. Heh".

Giovanni did his best not to roll his eyes. Menos were strong, packed a lot of raw power, but they are slow. Hit them hard and hit them fast to take them down, aim for the head and watch the sky. That Negacion was a pain in the ass but that Cero was even more Dangerous. Gio was lucky, though he can fly when he uses his shikai, kept him from being stepped on. If there was two of them it would be a tricky to take them both out but technically it wasnt his issue. If was Ko's she wanted to lead the mission it would be her job to come up with a plan. Giovanni just nodded and didnt comment on the mission, "when ever you're ready Ko"

"The reports didn't speak of any other hollows, but you should always be on guard just in case. Be careful though. I don't want to hear that the first mission I ever give and someone died on it. When you are done, just report it to a Squad One member and they will tell me. Good luck." Yu said as he waved at them and continued down the hall towards his room.