WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU Part 10 Full Translation

Marriage Registration



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Part 2/2

pages 115-120



“Look! How do you like it?”

Having completed sewing holes for their tails to pass through, Iba handed over the hakama one by one to each of the two.

“Thank you Tetsu san! Is it okay if we also wear them now?”

Shouma said hastily, raising his hands to the cords of his student hakama, “wait wait” he was halted by Iba.

“Keep it for tomorrow! I have to return to work already”

“Okay……”

Shouma disappointedly put the hakama back into the bag. “Hey Shouma let’s go!” Urui urged, whilst waving enthusiastically at Iba they dashed towards the alleyway beside the squad building.

Rukia and Renji who received a numbered ticket at the reception desk of the Personnel Record administration Bureau, decided to use the lengthy waiting time to visit the 7th division barracks which was nearby to the administration bureau, they ran into the other pair in that alleyway.

“Wh-what! Those are the kids people have been talking about……!”

The young brothers of the werewolf clan who pass through the academy are rumoured to be ‘super cute’, they were particularly quite famous amongst the female troops who liked cute things.

"Awesome!! Two vice captains!!”

Shouma’s eyes sparkled as he looked up at the couple.

“Tetsu san! Lieutenant Abarai and Lieutenant Kuchiki have arrived!”

Urui went back to the rear of the squad building to call out to Iba.

“Yo, wolf kid! What’s your name?”

Renji bent down, his line of sight connected with Shouma’s.

“I’m Shouma! From tomorrow, I’m an apprentice shinigami of the 7th division! ……cool! I wish I also had that sort of hair colour!”

“Hehe, you think it’s a nice colour? My real hair?”

Looking at Renji’s crimson hair, Shouma wagged his tail.

“Yeah……!”

Rukia approached closer as though she was being drawn in by that fluffy tail, Shouma suddenly pricked up his ears and began sniffing. Following the source of the scent, his nose was brought near Rukia’s body.

“Hey, hey!”

Renji caught the back of Shouma’s collar and held him up.

“You can’t just go boldly sniffing a woman like that! If you sniff around like that it will look bad!”

"……Don’t sniff around in the first place”

“I’m sorry! But I did that because there was a sweet scent, I instinctively……”

Hearing 'sweet’, Rukia said “I see, was it the scent of this?” from her sleeve she took out a small pouch. Opening the mouth of that pouch, she showed the inside to Shouma.

“Candy!!”

Looking at the multicoloured candy, Shouma unconsciously licked the tip of his nose whilst sticking out his tongue. Rukia closed the pouch and handed it over to Shouma.

“Eat it together with your older brother”

“Yay!!”

Shouma hoisted up the pouch and hopped up and down, from behind him Urui, who had returned with Iba in tow said “Thank you very much Lieutenant Kuchiki!”

“We must go now! Shall we look around the premises?”

“Oh yeah, right! Tetsu san thank you for the tail holes!”

“Tetsu san see you again tomorrow! Goodbye, lieutenant Abarai, lieutenant Kuchiki!”

Iba urged them forward, ahead of him the pair looked as if they were competing with each other as they left.

“The brothers are very pleasant……”

“They seem quite popular at the academy from what we hear.”

"I strongly understand that feeling……!”

“That fluffy tail, it’s making me want to touch it or something”

Rukia’s thoughts ran away to that wagging tail, as if it had seared itself into her memory just now.

“So what did you guys come here for? By the looks of it, it seems like you’re off duty but……”

Renji was wearing his shihakusho but with his vice captain badge removed, Rukia was clad in a cool, pale blue-green kimono.

Iba put his hand on his chin whilst looking in the direction of the pair who lowered their heads together.

“We’re going to be getting married now, so we’ve come to pay a visit”

“We will continue as lieutenants together with being a married couple, so we came to say, please continue your support towards us”

“I see, right! Fellow vice captains getting married, this is a joyous thing!!”

Iba clapped his large hands, applauding the shy couple. However, suddenly attaining a thought about something, his hands stopped.

Marriage, marriage registration, Personnel Record Administration Bureau, waiting time — inside Iba, everything linked together into one.

“Right now the both of you, you’re under the Personnel Bureau’s damned long waiting time?”

“That’s right! Really, how is it this long!?”

“We thought we’d use the opportunity to come here, sorry to disturb you, captain Iba……”

“I don’t mind! I suppose we’re busy with one thing or another, thank you for showing up!”

Iba clapped Rukia’s shoulder with a pat, he struck Renji’s shoulder with a fist.

“Ouch!!”

“Keep it up, Abarai!!”

Iba grinned. Renji answered back with a “yes sir!” and a bow.

“I have to return back to work, since I’m still in the middle of filling in paperwork. I wish you happiness!”

Iba glanced at the documents tucked under his arm, he then lightly raised his hand at the pair as he went to return back to the squad barracks.

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When they returned to the path leading towards the Personnel Record Administration Bureau, Rukia asked Renji a question.

“Renji……captain Iba, was he always that way from the beginning……?”

“Even though I was told he was ‘a certain way’…… I didn’t think anything in particular about it you know?”

“I see……”

Rukia appeared as if she was thinking about something, “what is it?” Renji enquired.

“I don’t have that much of a deep relationship with captain Iba but…… I suppose I was surprised by how easy it was to talk like that…… I had the impression that it would be difficult for me to talk to him”

“Well…… he’s not the easy to talk to type”

“What would be good to say……uh……amicable…like he’s become gentle……”

Rukia shifted both hands, trying to represent something fluffy and round.

“That shape……are you thinking about those small wolf kids……?”

“That’s right, that’s it Renji! Perhaps captain Iba had changed because he has become the acting parent of those children……!”

Even though it was through sunglasses, when Iba looked at the werewolf brothers, his eyes were very gentle.

(…… certainly, if such a fluffy thing is wandering around near oneself, it’s impossible to come off as being unapproachable forever……!)

Rukia strongly thought whilst at the same time deeply lamenting the fact that their apprenticeship was not at the 13th division instead.

End.