If You Like It... Eat More

After all, Akira had not gone to the gynecology department and vivisected a hundred female Shinigami.

The questions he had used to get through Unohana's inspection were almost every unclear point he had accumulated in Kaido and medicine over the past several years.

He honestly could not imagine how Retsu Unohana had managed to drain out every last drop so precisely without making him look bad.

Could it be... that Unohana truly was that experienced? In Kaido and medicine, of course.

All at once, Akira's eyes widened. He sat upright with a sharp swish and muttered, "I... I fell for it..."

There was no doubt about it. Today, Unohana had sent him to the gynecology department, then used a gift as a pretext. From start to finish, he had fallen completely into her rhythm.

That was why he had forgotten to hold anything back in secret. He had allowed Unohana to personally map out his current level in Kaido and medicine.

"In other words... if I ever slack off in the department, and she questions me like that again, I will be exposed on the spot?"

Akira's eyes went dead.

Meanwhile, in the Aoki family's courtyard, Risa Aoki knelt dejectedly on a ground covered with small stones. A cold wind blew over her, and she instinctively hugged herself with both arms, trying to steal back a little warmth.

This was punishment. It was Chiyoko Aoki's response to Risa's rudeness and loss of composure that day.

She had teased and slandered Captain Unohana's disciple as if he were a woman. That matter could be minor or severe. If Akira decided to pursue it seriously, it might even implicate the entire Aoki family.

So the moment Risa returned home, she suffered Chiyoko's harshest punishment. Not only was dinner forbidden, she had to kneel outside and repent until dawn.

Although she was exhausted, hungry, and cold, Risa did not dare resist her mother's authority.

Besides, she understood that her mother had not had an easy life. After her father had irresponsibly gone and died, Chiyoko had carried the Aoki family alone.

Logically, Risa should have resented Akira. He could clearly have explained himself from the beginning.

Yet for some reason, as someone who had disliked men since childhood, she kept seeing his innocent, gentle face in her mind. Without realizing it, she began finding excuses for him.

'Maybe... he was only indulging me? Or maybe he did not have time to remind me? Or maybe he ruined his own image on purpose so we could become familiar faster?'

'Thank you for looking after me today?'

'Honestly. I did not even do anything...'

And now, tired and hungry in the cold night wind, Risa somehow felt that Akira's smile had been so very warm.

The next day, when Akira arrived on time to begin another day of clocking in at the gynecology department, he found that Risa had arrived even earlier than he had. On his desk sat a refined, appetizing bento.

'This... Risa Aoki is not planning to poison me over something that small, is she?'

For a moment, Akira's gaze toward her turned strange. Otherwise, he could not think of any reason she would do this.

He could already see the fatigue Risa was struggling to hide. Clearly, she had experienced a fine dose of Chiyoko Aoki's motherly love last night.

That made it even harder for him to guess any possibility other than poisoning him for revenge.

Under Akira's gaze, Risa awkwardly turned her head to the side, as if she did not dare meet his eyes. In a tone that tried very hard to sound indifferent, she said, "I made a little too much bento this morning. It would have been wasteful, so I prepared one for you..."

As she spoke, her tone slowly grew firmer, as if she had convinced herself. She even turned back, trying not to lose to him in presence.

However, when she saw Akira's eyes, which seemed filled with concern and curiosity, warmth surged through her chest. All her courage was somehow drained away, and her voice weakened almost instantly.

"Is that... okay?"

Akira nodded. Although he still felt somewhat puzzled, he was almost certain Risa meant him no harm.

"Thank you very much. I will eat it gratefully," he said, perfectly serious.

"Who... who asked you to eat it gratefully? If you... if you like it... then eat more."

Risa stammered through the words. After one last small pause, she lowered her head and hurried out of the office, looking very much as if she were fleeing again.

Akira watched her back for a moment. Then he briefly cleaned the office and returned to the gynecology department's Kaido and medical books.

In truth, he had no choice but to work hard. From now on, Unohana would likely check his progress every day after he returned to the courtyard.

If Akira could not squeeze out anything useful, it was difficult to imagine what Retsu Unohana, gentle terror that she was, would do.

For long-lived Shinigami, time was often the easiest thing to ignore.

Akira settled down and focused on studying Kaido and medicine. For the moment, he was not anxious about spreading Forest Seeds.

After all, Ichigo would not reach adulthood for more than a hundred years. Right now, with Akira clinging firmly to Retsu Unohana's powerful protection, he did not need to worry much about trouble falling onto his head.

Besides, in the absence of any other trouble, Unohana herself was the greatest trouble in his life.

As for Risa's revenge and poison, neither appeared as expected.

Aside from frequently preparing all kinds of bento for him, Risa usually showed a strangely contradictory attitude. She seemed to deliberately keep her distance, yet at the same time, she appeared to want to get closer.

In the end, Akira could only judge that all of this was probably a task Chiyoko Aoki had given her.

Although he had joined the gynecology department and had not received any patients, he absorbed a great deal of Kaido and medical knowledge in the office every day like a sponge.

But as Akira appeared in the gynecology department more and more often, word gradually spread that the department now had a male Shinigami doctor. Ripples passed through Seireitei, one wave after another.

What truly detonated the news across Seireitei, however, was Retsu Unohana. During a public gathering of captains, she seemed to casually confirm the existence of this disciple and stated that, based on his specialty, she had deliberately assigned him to the gynecology department.

For a time, Akira "Gynecology" Morisawa became famous. His name spread inside and outside Seireitei.

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