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Ren nodded. He was pleased to be called Lord 20th. He never liked official titles that all the other captains or officers were given.

"You all will just die in vain here. We also do not know if there are any more and the messenger might get ambushed along the way. Just go. I will be fine by the time you return."

The other shinigami looked at each other before nodding and running back to Seireitei as fast as they could. Several hollows tried to chase but a large blue barrier appeared behind Ren. If they wanted to give chase, they could not do so immediately.

"Haha fine. We will just kill you before we go and consume so more souls," said a large hollow that resembled a featherless bird that was twice the size of Ren.

The hollows began their assault and all closed in on Ren. Ren was able to dodge them all casually with his hands still behind his back. He would bend here, duck there, shunpo over there. No matter what the hollows did, they were unable to land an attack on him.

This continued for a few minutes before they all stopped and looked at their prey in a new light. They could all see that the shinigami they initially thought was weak was in fact very dangerous.

Seeing none of them continued attacking, a faint smile appeared on Ren's face.

"Well since you are all done. I guess it is my turn."

Ren made a few hand gestures and the barrier that just covered the one directions soon surround him and the hollows from all sides. Then a red aura began to form around Ren with his Zanpakuto having an especially dark red aura around it.

"Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Khorne!"

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20 minutes later, the shinigami who had originally left Ren behind were returning along with 20 more unseated shinigami and 2 officers, both lieutenants. They had left a message for someone else to inform a captain immediately but they did not want to be too late and rushed ahead.

When they had arrived, they saw that Ren stood in a similar position as to when they left with no hollows in sight. Everyone looked very confused.

"Where did the 20 hollows go?" asked the female lieutenant ask she had her zanpakuto ready to slay some hollows.

Ren gave her a small, friendly smile before explaining, "It was only a single hollow. It had a special ability to create very powerful illusions. It could even give those illusions the ability to give off energy.

I was only able to find out after I had kept getting attacked from a single direction and not all of them."

The others nodded at their words. It was not the first time that they dealt with hollows with strange powers. Some of the more powerful ones had unique abilities similar to a shikai's. The shinigami did not think much of it before they began to return to Seireitei.

They met the captain of the 3rd squad along the way and informed him that the matter had been settled. The captain looked Ren up and down before congratulating him and taking off in another direction.

When they arrived back at Seireitei, Ren and his squad members split off from the other shinigami before returning to their barracks to report what happened.

Ren let his men go rest while he went to the officers' building to fill out all the paperwork. Or at least he was supposed to. He simply left the form on his lieutenant's desk. When the lieutenant returned and read it, he spat out the coffee he was drinking while he had a look of frustration on his face.

'No matter how many times I yell at him about this, he never learns his lesson. This incident even involved the officer of 3 other squads and he dares to watch this? I will definitely teach him a lesson this time!'

"Ren!!!!" he yelled before he ran out of the building to try and find Ren but he knew it was of no use. The only person who could find Ren was the 4th seat. Otherwise, no one would ever be able to find him if he did not want to be.

What was written on the report was:

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Mission Report

Date: Today

Original mission: Recon/Lunch

Enemies?: A few insects but no one that deserved to be called an enemy was present.

Summary of what occurred: Wouldn't you like to know? Oh, yeah. Guess you would. I was planning to take my subordinates for a light jog but then noticed I forgot the lunch. I asked one of them to go back and get it for me but they all went since they did not want to leave that burden to anyone of them. I let them be while I waited by a tree. When they returned, they brought back not only the lunch I made but even more, people to enjoy it with. But before we could eat, it started raining so we had to return early.

Notes on subordinates: One did not call me Lord 20th at first but we had that corrected.

]