Long See No Time. [Erika, Kisuke]

"I'm not a businesswoman nor am I interested in gains or profits. I won't pretend to be good at your job."

Erika retorted, she was far too honourable to make a living out of ripping off people or upselling them to make greater profits. She was awful at it and she'll likely remain just as bad at it no matter what people tried to do to change that.

Still there was the trouble that he was asking her for things that she didn't have the authority to give, Murasaki could make these deals or even an authority within the Third Division but Kurotsuchi had unceremoniously left them for something personal which still baffled her to think about, who threw away a captaincy for such an asinine thing as her?

She was sure that the smarter a person became, the less sense they made in both words and actions because that was to the point of absurdity.

"Listen Urahara, I can arrange that you have the opportunity to talk to Captain Kagayaku about that but I am not a voice of authority within the Third Division and without a captain the authority falls to the vice-captain or the captain commander herself."

Once again trying to straightforward approach and get him back onto the rails of giving his insights into the situation of Hell. She stretched a little bit and gave away that this gigai was uncomfortable. Too tight, Erika would probably end up wasting some of her salary on whatever unique gigai that he could push out depending on what kind of note their meeting ended with.

She bit her lip and sighed, she was losing him and it bothered her. She did want to just come here and be able to go back with some advice to give Murasaki, it was her that proposed Urahara in the first place and the weight that she had in the words that he gave. It just bothered her, Urahara and Aizen were from the same cloth. Schemers, manipulative individuals that played mindgames - she knew that by her experience in the Winter War. She knew that by her role as a seated officer under the former Captain of Squad Five and she hated people like that.

Erika wasn't made for that kind of thing. Urahara had been key in the victory of the Winter War though, a monumental success for that matter, was it too much for her to want to be able to rest easier with his insights for whatever could occur within Hell. A realm that she had never been into, a realm that most shinigami knew of by only name and nothing more.

"No, I just want to know what Hell is like. Hell went from a sealed enigma into a fortified fortress of demons, underneath Shadow Fall after the Demonic Incursion eight years ago. Unable to be easily breached let alone surveyed. You knowledge could prevent the deaths of shinigami on mass and help us to try and restore stability to the soul cycle rather than every sinful soul we cleanse to Hell straight into the demons' clutches."

"I want your insight so that we can plan better, you were present during Demonic Incursion and fought in it. Surely in your time since then you've kept your eye on it and what's going on down there after Shadow Fall took control and turned it into a second realm for their expansion?"

She bit her lip while she turned solemn. It didn't matter did it?. Urahara was the type that saw gains and losses, tangible things meant more than intangible things and the benefits. How much this was worth it, how much would she swallow her pride to have Urahara's help? How much did Tsubaki value and respect Urahara's abilities? Enough to make her put aside her ill-feelings towards manipulative people.

Eh? Erika stared at him caught dumb for a moment while she let his words sink in. He would do that much? She had expected to leave with just some greater understanding of Hell but his direct assistance in the situation with Hell was far more than she expected.

"Thank you, Urahara."

She said and knelt down to bow her head, the kind of thing one would realistically only expect a shinigami to do to a superior as a form of respect and maybe it would irk him a bit to see her do such a nostalgic gesture from the era of his time being a captain but Erika was honourable and she did appreciate his help.

He would want something though, right? She felt bad that he had given her more than what she had come for and was unable to reciprocate besides this gesture. Well, there was some way that she could give him something.

"If it is within your capacity I would also like to make an order for various gigai to distribute among the divisions tailored to their specialties."

Would it satisfy him to receive that kind of business deal? The Gotei did have means to make gigai but there were few that could make them to the extent of this man in front of her. To make a gigai that flawlessly concealed the reiatsu of an individual was difficult and could benefit the Fifth among other quirks that he may be able to incorporate which may benefit the other ones.

Good gigai were hard to come by after all.