The now 3rd seat Giovanni Cain looked sighed as he finished up his paperwork. As rewarding as it was to be the reason the kido corps came out of absolute seclusion and merged with the 5th squad it was equally taxing. Damn near everyone needed to be retrained, half the kido corps forgot how to even hold a sword and squad five was barely receptive to the anal nature of the members when it came to kido. A few months later it was almost smoothed out but every now and then they would hit a bump in the road. That wasn’t even the frustrating part, oh no that was the easy part nowadays. The frustrating part was maintaining the balance. See now that everyone was pretty much used to the other unit it was simply a matter of maintaining equilibrium, balancing research with patrols and trainings. Gio was one of the people responsible for making sure that squad 5 would maintain its reputation of total preparedness and excel in just about everything. That meant a more rigorous training regiment for everyone, himself included. 

On top of all that he maintained contact with his mysterious female friend form the 64th North district. It was a precarious alliance but she proved several times that she was worth trusting. She was his ears, and he was her eyes. while initially most of their dealings with each other involved the Sect it tended to trickle down to protecting the souls in the northern outer districts. Gio recognized that he wouldn’t have the man power or the patience to deal with all the directions and districts so he settled for the North. After the first couple trips out that way he stopped running into trouble from the souls. He was no hero to them but he solved some of their problems and that seemed to suffice them. 

But now that a new day was dawning, and everything seemed so on edge Gio stepped out of his Barrack to soak in the sun. “lets see what this day brings” he recited to himself