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           K onpeito; the instant he had eyed the saccharine assemblage, confined aloft his desk, bag semi-ajar, permitting  glistering, 'neath  the sun's  illumination, icy-blues Bonbons  to  oppose 'gainst a brace of Teal perplexities, the vivid  configuration of  a pink-haired figure, an optimistic youth no longer amongst  their ranks, their Shinigami world, abruptly  emerged  within  his  mind as intrusively as she  had  invariably  been tangibly. - An ex - lieutenant holding a juvenile affinity with these delicacies, evermore carrying portions ‘pon her lithe person as if they were an additional form of armament, benign in edges, to forthwith utilize and temporarily assuage her roused appetite after battles or briefings. - Hiyori, a tempestuous  woman, was expeditiously dubbed as the accountable individual for leaving him this unwanted, albeit kind, present as she often would do over the course of her visitations to the Soul Society.- To Hirako Shinji - And no matter the amount of  times, plural in  its entirety,  in all reality,  he’s  chastised and demanded  she’d cease treating him like a  unadulterated child, she  boldly continued. Obstinate nuisance, he thought, unknowingly inserting a sole Konpeito into his mouth.