Akiko found the Captain-Commander's reaction to be strange. She supposed that she'd never questioned properly the age of one Kumori Mōryōmaru but he had to be a decent age to be addressed with such respect by the Captain-Commander. Raizen then went on to explain why the level of secrecy they'd been dealing in had been necessary. The Captain-Commander heard him out and frowned, leaning its head against the open palm of its hand while it looked at the pair before them. The Captain-Commander, let out a sigh. Obviously it was easy to see how badly this could have gone if it had been any of what could be considered the stronger Captains they'd had to deal with. The relaxed agitation the Captain-Commander had seemed to possess was disturbed by only one thing, the idea of the Seireitei Civil War. Such a thought seemed to unnerve this individual, enough for their eyes to widen. For a moment it would appear as if the Captain Commander wasn't simply sitting here but was instead viewing another time all together. "Yare yare, if that is the case, then you've done us all a service. Something like that would be needless slaughter. Arigatou, waro." this statement from the Captain-Commander, made the brows of Akiko raise gently.
She wasn't at all involved in that entire situation probably because of her age, but... the reaction of simple thanks was far from what she expected. 'Ano, I suppose, I was in at the tail end of that... I didn't see anything scary enough to cause that kind of reaction in me. Soutaichou's age shows in strange ways...' she thought absently. "We should have known he wouldn't have simply disappeared, though I can't say I like the methods the pair of you used in this situation. But I can't actually punish you for doing your jobs so well. Be warned..." started the Captain-Commander. "Even if the death of a thousand can be ignored for the sake of saving us all... such actions will cause you a great deal of scrutiny in the future, if you rely on them too many times. The pair of you should make sure you behave yourselves," mentioned the Captain-Commander, their words aimed mostly to Raizen as the lad was quite conspicuous to begin with.