[Soul Society]
(Engineering HQ - Hideki's Office)

...Chouko stops grinning for a moment, and Hideki can tell she is glaring at him through her visor.

"...are we really having this conversation right now, Koutetsu? 'cause I thought you had more faith in me than that." Something else comes through his printer. "You wanna throw down? I will totally throw down. I'll throw down the gauntlet of all gauntlets, 'cause the gauntlet is my arm."

Oh. It's a kishi conversion engine. That could work.