469 469. God's Work

6 days later,

Dobby knew how to make Ichiraku ramen. He wanted to help the poor people in Rukongai. Especially the ones living in the bad part of it. There were so many sad kids, old people, and other vulnerable. From his perspective, Soul Society was worse than hell.

Because in normal cases, you'd either go to hell, heaven, or get reincarnated. But here, these souls were kept to balance the number of hollows. On top of that, the Shinigami living inside the Seireitei didn't really help the people outside. They were ignorant about everything and only saw the souls as replaceable goods.

If it was up to him to decide, he'd just kill all the hollows and send all the souls in Soul Society to get reincarnated, making a new equilibrium, but it was not up to him to decide, it was Alexander's department.

So, to help the people, he opened his Ramen shop. Here, he sold his amazing Ramen and Tea made by Iroh. Honestly, Iroh had more flavors of tea than his ramen.

But, Iroh's newly created bubble-tea was the best seller. Apparently, he had told about this new invention of his to Zuko and Aang but they didn't like it. However, now it was a bestseller in the drinks department.

Dobby's scheme was simple. He was going to create a whole industry around his Ramen shop. He was going to hire people to gather raw items for him. He would even give them grains and other things to start farming. This way a whole industry would be built that would immensely bring in money for all. The kids would then be hired to deliver the food to homes, giving them a chance to earn a living too.

However, there was no need for people of the Soul Society to eat. They only needed to drink water, so the main focus of his dishes was broth now. The real ramen would be a plus. In time they would get used to eating.

In total there were 320 districts and he had opened up a shop in all of them. Depending on the population, the number of stores was decided. Only one of them was managed by him, and the rest were managed by many other seraphs and unsullied.

It took him just one day and a special offer of free trials and coupons on the first purchase to make his shop a hit.

The name of the shop was 'God's Work'. Eventually, the words of this shop reached the Seireitei. Many curious Shinigami came to the first district to check out the shop.

Instantly, they fell in love with food and tea. Shinigami, unlike normal souls, needed to eat food in order to sustain themselves. So, they became the highest spender group. There were 6000 shinigami in total inside the Seireitei so business was good.

After a while, Dobby received an offer to open a branch inside Seireitei so he opened one in each district. Each shop's land was offered to him by rich and noble families.

This way, Dobby controlled the whole food supply of Shinigamis. By doing this, he started influencing them. The first thing he did was complain that his shipment was being stolen in outer and lawless districts of Rukongai.

So, many low-level shinigami and students of Shinō Spiritual Arts Academy were sent to protect the area. This led to a quick decrease in crime.

Then, he started creating a higher market and business environment for the Rukongai. In every district where his shop was, a few more shops opened, selling other things such as clothes.

He singlehandedly changed the face of the whole Rukongai. He had to spend a lot of money and resources from his own pocket but it was all worth it.

At the moment, there was a long line of people in front of Dobby's shop. All the seats were taken too.

"Ken-Chan, I want bubble tea," Yachiru said from the top of Kenpachi's shoulder.

Kenpachi looked at Iroh, "You heard her,"

"Haha, yes I did, one sweet Bubble-tea for our lovely Yachiru. Do you want ice-cream on it too?" Iroh asked.

"What is ice-cream?" She cutely asked.

"It is a sweet and cold desert," Iroh explained.

Yachiru was sold the moment she heard sweet, "Yes, I want that,"

"What about you, captain Kenpachi?" Dobby asked.

Kenpachi was very respectful towards Dobby. Mainly because he saw how he helps the poor kids of Rukongai. When he was small, there was no one to help him. Respect was also due to Dobby's towering height.

"Same as usual," he said and waited.

Dobby quickly made him Tophu and chicken meat ramen and gave it to him. Kenpachi ate it in just a minute. Meanwhile, Yachiru's bubble-tea had just arrived.

Suddenly a brown-haired girl came, "Hey, pack one for Captain Kuchiki,"

"Okay, ultra spicey one for you," Dobby got to work.

"Haha, who would have thought the elegant flower lover like spicey food," Kenpachi made fun.

Mihane looked at him with narrow eyes. She was the 9th Seat of the 6th division. But she didn't say anything. She was just an officer after all and she didn't want to mess with Kenpachi.

"Oh, kid, what do you want?" Iroh exclaimed, seeing the regular white-haired boy coming to the shop.

Toushirou Hitsugaya sneered hearing that. Being called a kid was always hurtful to him. But Iroh looked and acted so wise that Toushirou couldn't bring himself to get angry at him.

"Watermelon ice-cream," he said and took a seat.

Yachiru had just finished her bubble-tea when she noticed Toushirou. She jumped close to him and started staring at his ice-cream intently.

"Tsk... give her one too," he gave in and ordered.

While they ate, Dobby decided to gather some info, "So, what's new around soul society?"

"Nothing's new, except tomorrow's execution. That dumb Kuchiki girl broke the law and is now paying for it," Kenpachi scoffed.

...

Alexander had been in the library of Soul society. It was kept very secure and from inside it was huge. It had restricted access so no one came in and he had the freedom to roam around and read everything. It took him 6 days to read them all. Many of them were just about history. He found out about the so-called Soul King.

According to history, millions of years prior to his death, the being that became known as the Soul King emerged from a chaotic, primordial world overrun by Hollows.

To protect the original inhabitants of that world, the Soul King proceeded to annihilate all the Hollows that preyed upon them. However, these actions eventually started to destabilize the world.

In response, five powerful beings from that time decided to work together to fix everything, and for their own respective reasons, sealed an unresisting Soul King inside a crystal and used his omnipotent powers to split their world into three new ones: Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the Human World, and in the process they created the cycle of life and death.

Despite the Soul King's lack of resistance, the five beings were unconvinced of the Soul King's cooperation and feared his immense power, and proceeded to tear off the Right Arm of Stillness and the Left Arm of Progress and tear out the Soul King's organs, leaving the Soul King trapped in an agonizing state between life and death for millions of years.

The Shinigami who did this later became known as the ancestors of the great noble families.

Even after all this, the reason why Soul KIng was so revered and protected was that the Soul King's sole purpose was to regulate the flow of souls into and out of Soul Society and keep the flow stable.

Without the Soul King, the balance would be lost in the Soul Society, as well as the Hueco Mundo, and the Human World would all collapse into one.

Alexander then left. Outside, he saw many Shinigami going towards the place called Sōkyoku Hill. He followed them. ~Let's see what they are up to,~

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