Rangiku shrugged, not entirely convinced of that. "It depends on how you were raised. There are enough people here for whom it hasn't been much of a change at all, except for the confinement." Most of the monsters would barely have been a challenge if they'd appeared in her own world, or if they'd been at full power. The building wouldn't even have been standing. It was a much more bitter thought today than it normally was.

"Eh, better than when I last saw him at least," she agreed, looking Kira over. Of course, the last time that she'd seen him had been when he'd come to apologise for attacking her and they'd got rip roaringly drunk together. He seemed to have a new sense of purpose. "We just need to get him armed so that he can protect himself and others more effectively." She hated having to think so clinically about people whom she considered friends, but it couldn't be helped.