Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Days, Weeks, Months, Year, time pass by in a blink of an eye, Xin who practiced at home already spent 10 years in Soul Society.
Time passes by, it's like yesterday but he did not expect that it's already 10 years since he arrived here.
He did everything that he needed to do to become stronger, he even mastered all the Kido, master Hand to Hand combat but still Xin felt that something was missing.
He doesn't know why he felt like this, as if there is something hidden inside of him that makes him curious.
"Xin, did you get the thing that I asked for you?" Nanao said.
"Yes captain, I have them all," Xin takes an envelope and passes it to her. Inside of the envelope is the thing that they want Xin to collect.
"Hey girls, the goods are here, do you want to check them?" Nanao asked.
"Realy? Xin is really fast when it comes to doing missions," Rangiku said.
Yachiru said," Open it I want to see what Xin-chan take us this time,"
Nanao nodded and took the things inside of the envelope, one by one he played it on the table to show to them.
"Kya!!"
The girls scream seeing the content of the envelope, it's a palm-size card with a picture on it, and the picture this time is pretty bold.
"X-Xin-kun, how did you get these pictures?" Nanao fl.u.s.tered.
"Yesterday, the Shinigami Men's Association decided to hold a special meeting at the Onsen of lieutenant Ōmaeda house. I see that the club member is complete, so I secretly took some of their pictures.
"If I'm not wrong, I said that you need to take their picture while doing their work for this month's training card edition?"
Xin nodded," That's right, but it's hard to come to each division, and some of them are not working at all,"
The Shinigami Women's Association is known to undertake additional fund-raising activities. Chiefly, they raise money by publishing Captain Photo Collections. However, when the photo collection production was experiencing difficulties, they resorted to selling trading cards. The Captain's Photo Collection books are sold for 2,480 Kan each.
Because they are all women, they can't just take pictures of each shinigami, they decide to let Xin go to the Shinigami Men's Association as a spy.
And Xin is also the one who modified the training cards to make them more presentable and of course luxury.
"Well never mind, this thing can be sold for those noble ladies for high prices," Nanao said.
Rangiku nodded while taking the picture of her Captain half-n.a.k.e.d leaning on the Onsen." I will take this as a souvenir,"
Xin takes his camera out of nowhere and stately takes a Rangiku photo perverted looking at Toshiro's picture.
"Then Let me take some too,"
"And me too,"
The girls then start to pick their favorite picture to add to their collection, but well Xin made dozens of each picture so it's not lost even to take one of each of them.
After that Nanao put the trading card to the board and placed the price for each of it. There's also a ranking for this card, the more popular the card the higher the price.
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Price List and Ranking:
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Byakuya Kuchiki: Prince of Silence - 2,480 Kan
Sōsuke Aizen: Smile of the Sun - 2,480 Kan
Tōshirō Hitsugaya: Winter Lion - 2,480 Kan
Jūshirō Ukitake: Sickbeard - 2,480 Kan
Jūshirō Ukitake: Shunsui Kyōraku: Cuddly Pillow - 2,480 Kan
Gin Ichimaru: White Snake - 2,010 Kan
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Marechiyo Ōmaeda: Gold Pig 10 Kan
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto: Skeleton ( Last Place ) 5 Kan
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"What about you Momo? Rukia?," Are you guys not going to take a souvenir?" Kiyone asked.
Kiyone Kotetsu a new trainee of the Fourth Division under her sister Isane Kotetsu. She joined the club one year ago.
Momo and Rukia on the other hand join the club 3 years ago, then invited by Yahiru to join, at first they try to refuse but hearing that Xin is also a member, they both hurry to join.
"No, we are fine, the real goods will arrive later," Momo mysteriously said.
Rukia also nodded, she can't wait to buy the mysterious thing later.
Unohana who just arrive walk beside Xin and ask," Xin, can you do me a favor, can you give this thing to Captain Tōshirō,"
She passes a bundle of clothes to him, inside is the thing that she wants to deliver to Toshiro.
"Okay, Unohananee," Xin then stood and ran to deliver the package. Of course, he did not forget to take a couple of pictures of them when they were not looking.
Seeing that Xin had already left, Isane mysteriously said," Okay, he is gone, let's see what we have for this year's collectible cards."
Isane takes a box and puts it on the table, the girls start to sit on the table and silently wait for it.
When she opens the box, they see a dozen of Xin's pictures, they all become excited because all of this is taken when Xin is actually sleeping.
"Okay girls, you can take anything you want, but you need to pay for it, this year's mysterious trading card is…"
"Xin's Sleeping Face" and the price is 8,000 Kan"
"I want this all," Nemu takes a bunch of pictures and passes her year's worth of savings.
"I want this 2," Rukia takes the picture that Xin is sleeping while grinning and the awkward sleeping posture that Xin habitually does.
"Me too," Momo took a picture Xin gently hugging his pillow, Momo's face blushing seeing his expression.
"T-This, Oneechan, isn't this Xin who just left just now?" Kiyone asked.
Isane nodded," That's right, actually the most popular trading card is not the picture of the Captain but its Xin photo, every Xin's picture is highly sought after, even the black market for Xin's picture is too priceless."
Kiyone daze hearing what he said, she did not expect that the price of Xin's sleeping picture is almost triple of the other Captain half-n.a.k.e.d photo.