Setting: Karakura High School, 3rd Year Wing The hallway is quiet—too quiet. You’re just trying to drop off a book you forgot in your locker. Midterms are in a week. You’ve got stuff to do. No time for drama.

Then you hear it.

Clack. Clack. Clack. Rhythmic, like boots hitting tile. You peek around the corner... and freeze.

Coming from the west hallway

Yoruichi leads her crew—the Sable Serpents. Each girl a legend. A nightmare. Yoruichi’s scarf flaps like a war banner. Rukia casually spins her bokken over her shoulder. Rangiku’s smirk is full of unholy violence. Suì-Fēng cracks her knuckles.

You see the others behind her: Orihime humming, Nemu silently adjusting her mask, and Isane gripping her ruler like a guillotine.

You start backing up. Slowly.

Then—

From the east hallway

Bambietta’s boots stomp with fire in her eyes. Her gang—the Crimson Royals—march behind her. Candice cracks her whip. Giselle spins her barbed bat like she’s waiting to hurt someone. Meninas punches her fist into her palm. Tier Harribel walks calmly, her sheer presence heavier than gravity.

You look between them. West Hall. East Hall. You are in the middle.