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You are Gin Ichimaru. You're the youngest third seat the Gotei has ever seen, a genius they say. An empty rank above you, and a recommendation letter in hand. You're in love with a girl with golden hair and missing pieces and you are in the jaws of a beast.
You can wrest those jaws apart and slither out, or let it swallow you. Do your work from inside its belly. But you can’t do both. It’s long past time you’d decided.
A few decades were spent half-heartedly trailing at his coattails ever since you clawed your way out of Rukon. Half in the saddle and half out. Now it’s time to choose and you don’t… have to do this. The letter in your hand and not the Captain Commander’s says that all on it’s own.
It’s novel. A beast charitable enough to ask before he eats ya. But that’s what this is, right? An out?