Day 41: Breakfast

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Endrance turned his head to look at the intercom, giving it a look that would wither an entire rose garden in an instant. He would never get used to ending up in his room again from somewhere else in the Institute.

He brushed his bangs out of his eyes, not sitting up just yet. He could tell already that his torso had been heavily bandaged, even more so than it had been the night before. The cuts on his arms were covered with fresh bandages, and the one on his cheek seemed to no longer be there at all.

Endrance had been expecting to wake up in a lot of pain, but even that seemed numbed. "They must have given me something," he murmured quietly, as he slowly sat up.

At that moment, his nurse came to get him, pushing a wheelchair along with her. "Peyton, dear, good morning. I've come to take you to breakfast, so..." He shook his head. "I'm fine. There's no need for that...I can walk perfectly well."

She sighed. Well, if he insisted, she wasn't going to stop him. She motioned for an orderly to take the chair away, and walked him to the cafeteria. Once they had gotten there, she pointed him toward a seat, then set a full tray of pancakes covered with syrup, a bowl of fruit, and a glass of orange juice in front of him. "Now eat all of that, Peyton, or else you won't be strong enough to keep walking like that."

He glared at her back as she walked away, then stopped suddenly. There was that faint pulse he'd felt the night before...it was exactly the same.

And so he completely ignored his food in favor of staring at the cafeteria doors, looking at every patient that came in.

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"Well, gettin' outta here might not be bad, but I'm more interested in this triangle-thing." Kenpachi grinned right back at Gin. He was sure that there was some reason why Gin wanted the triangle-headed monster out of the way--after all, Ichimaru didn't have the same lust for battle as Kenpachi and his division and no reason to direct him to a good fight out of the kindness of his heart--but that didn't matter. Whatever he was guarding, if he was as strong as Gin was suggesting it might be a fun fight.

"Where can I find it?"

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"Saaa," Gin sighed, picking idly at his meal.

"Ain't no one too sure on that. Only seen it once m'self. But seems t'be that most of th' strong beasties end up anywhere from that room we came in from, through that one over yonder," he said, pointing from one end of the room to the other and indicating the Sun Room and the Kitchens.

"Things tend t'not stay in one place 'round here."

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Kenpachi glanced towards the sun room, then towards the kitchens. "So the big fights are usually here, eh? Anywhere else?"

And then he heard the screaming from another table...

"...And the rest of you! You yoctograms are all just simplified fractions before my integral might! Stay out of my way or prepare to be derived, got it?"

Kenpachi glanced over at the screaming man, his ears burning at the sound of a challenge. His grin grew ever wider, competing with yet failing to match Gin's. "I don't understand half of what that guy's talkin' about, but I know a challenge when I hear one. Who is that guy?"

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"Your guess's good as mine," he shrugged when Zaraki asked him where else the fights might occur. It was fairly random, unless one was going after the radio clues, but frankly, he doubted Zaraki had the attention span to listen to an explanation on something like that, let alone figure out where the clues might suggest he look.

He followed the shinigami's gaze to the new boy who was standing on a table and shouting his lungs out. Soon to be sedated no doubt, Gin watched the nurses approach with only casual interest. There was at always at least one or two every few days. They all ended up learning their lesson the hard way. Not that it bothered him. Most times it was at least entertaining.

"Ain't seen him b'fore," Gin said, though he took note of the boy's appearance and any distinguishing features before looking back at Zaraki. "Must be new."

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The nurse seemed to be occupying the man's attention for now, but Kenpachi knew he'd have to encounter the man sometime that day. He wasn't the kind of man to let a challenge, even an open challenge to a room full of people, go unanswered.

"Huh," he said, then glanced back at Ichimaru. "Any other big movers and shakers around here?" Naturally he suspected Gin would toss him at his enemies. The man was too crafty not to try and use the captain to eliminate his problems, but it gave Kenpachi more information about this place, and just because they were Gin's enemies didn't mean they wouldn't possibly make for entertaining fights.