Chapter Summaries

Tokoyo Misao returned to the Tenth Division after using Hollow power, then attended an emergency captains' meeting as Soul Society declared a red alert over Yhwach and the Quincy. The chapter ended with the captains ordered to stay at their posts and Soul Society personnel in the World of the Living recalled.

• Tokoyo Misao silenced his Soul Pager, confirmed that Hollow power had entered his body, and found that he had failed to awaken Fullbring.
• Tokoyo Misao gave Little Orihime a wooden Tenth Division emblem marked with an Eternal Eye and returned to the Tenth Division through the Senkaimon.
• Rangiku Matsumoto told Tokoyo Misao that alarms were sounding and the captains had been summoned to the First Division.
• Kenpachi Zaraki attacked Tokoyo Misao at the meeting, but Captain-Commander Yamamoto's Reiatsu stopped him.
• Captain-Commander Yamamoto revealed that the King of the Quincy had survived and that the Quincy had been hiding in a Valley of Screams.
• Captain-Commander Yamamoto declared a red alert, ordered captains to remain at their posts, and recalled captains and squad members stationed in the World of the Living.

Tokoyo Misao secured Soul Society’s defenses and gave Orihime Inoue a Substitute Soul Reaper Badge, then helped Ichigo Kurosaki try to use Soul Reaper powers. He pulled two figures from Ichigo’s body, leaving Ichigo stunned by the strangers within him.

• Tokoyo Misao argued that Soul Society should protect the World of the Living, and Yamamoto assigned him to station there while ordering the captains to prepare for war.
• Tokoyo Misao gave Orihime Inoue a Substitute Soul Reaper Badge to register and monitor her.
• After Orihime explained that Ichigo Kurosaki wanted to stop using Quincy powers against Hollows, Tokoyo Misao agreed to help him use Soul Reaper powers.
• Tokoyo Misao released his Bankai and pulled a black-clad middle-aged man from Ichigo’s chest.
• Tokoyo Misao then pulled a white-haired childlike figure from Ichigo, who greeted Ichigo and challenged the man in black, leaving Ichigo confused.

Ichigo Kurosaki chose to use the Soul Reaper and Hollow powers embodied by Tensa after learning they could purify Hollows, while Old Man Zangetsu opposed him becoming a Soul Reaper. A few days later, Ichigo and Orihime hunted Hollows together, and Ichigo used Tensa to destroy two of them.

• Old Man Zangetsu and White Ichigo fought over Ichigo Kurosaki’s powers and the name Zangetsu, while Tokoyo Misao explained that both were parts of Ichigo.
• Ichigo asked whether Tensa could send souls into reincarnation, then called White Ichigo Tensa and gained a red-and-black chain made from Soul Reaper and Hollow power.
• Over the following days, Ichigo grew more skilled with Tensa and teamed up with Orihime Inoue to catch two Hollows.
• After Orihime shielded them from a Cero, Ichigo confirmed he could use Soul Reaper and Hollow powers, then pierced both Hollows’ masks with Tensa.

A newly formed space in the Dangai expanded, killing Stealth Force squads and creating a mirage of Karakura Town over Soul Society. With the balance of the worlds at risk, Yamamoto gave Mayuri Kurotsuchi three days to find a solution, while Tokoyo Misao headed to the park and found hundreds of strange things.

• Little Orihime spotted red-hatted, white-draped beings in the park and called her master.
• Akon’s monitoring team sent a Stealth Force squad into the expanding space, but the squad was wiped out and the connection was lost.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi told the captains that the space threatened the balance of the three worlds, while Soi Fon protested the Stealth Force losses.
• The captains saw Karakura Town mirrored in the sky over Soul Society, and Mayuri explained that the worlds had not yet connected.
• Yamamoto gave Mayuri three days to deal with the space and ordered Rangiku and Hitsugaya to support Tokoyo Misao in the World of the Living.
• Shunsui told Mayuri that Kisuke Urahara might be sought if the crisis continued, and Mayuri left determined to find the Quincy; Tokoyo Misao reached the park and saw hundreds of strange things.

Tokoyo Misao recognized the red-hatted spirit creatures as connected to Senna, who helped clear them from the park before joining the group for a meal. At dinner, Tōshirō reported that a new space in the Dangai had appeared and cut off communications between the World of the Living and Soul Society, leaving Kisuke Urahara about to discuss footage of the incident.

• Ichigo and Orihime encountered red-hatted spirit creatures, and Senna appeared to sweep many of them away with her Zanpakuto.
• Tokoyo Misao recognized Senna and invited her to eat with them; a man in armor then sent the remaining creatures away with a gale.
• Tokoyo Misao brought Senna to the chamber of commerce, where Rangiku and Tōshirō greeted Orihime warmly and treated her like a younger sister.
• Tokoyo Misao hosted the group for Chinese food, while Tōshirō and Rangiku competed over a chicken drumstick and Tōshirō gave it to Orihime.
• Tōshirō told Tokoyo Misao that a city had appeared above the Seireitei, Rinki was flowing from the World of the Living, and communications between the worlds had been cut off.
• Tokoyo Misao explained that a growing space had appeared inside the Dangai, and Kisuke Urahara said he had seen the footage Misao sent him.

Kisuke Urahara explained that blanks were souls who had lost their memories and that those memories formed the Shinenju, which Senna was. Senna’s memories became confused after she recalled different families, and Tokoyo Misao rescued her from armored exiles before taking her back to rest as Soul Society’s group arrived.

• Kisuke Urahara explained that blanks were souls without memories and that their memories gathered into a Shinenju, identifying Senna as one.
• Senna remembered different families, wandered into a cemetery, and was confronted by armored men who tried to take her away.
• Tokoyo Misao arrived in time to stop an armored man from knocking Senna out, and the men recognized the Tokoyo Clan crest before escaping through spatial rifts.
• Senna asked who she was and why she remembered different parents, so Tokoyo Misao brought her back to the trading company to rest.
• Kisuke Urahara said communication with Soul Society had been cut off and prepared to leave with Hachigen as a group arrived at the trading company.

Soul Society’s group demanded that Tokoyo Misao hand over Senna, whom he revealed to be an aggregate of memories and the key to the Shinenju. Misao moved the group to a training ground and began arranging fights, leaving Ichigo to face Renji and Rangiku to stop Kaien from intervening.

• Rukia explained that Senna had no official Soul Society records and that her Zanpakuto, Mirokumaru, had been lost in the Dangai a century earlier; Senna struggled to recall her past.
• Kaien said Ganryū Ryōdōji planned to expand the Valley of Screams Space and that Senna, as the Shinenju’s key, had been ordered brought back and protected.
• Misao accused Soul Society of concealing its plan to destroy the Shinenju, then transported everyone from his backyard to a training ground.
• Misao assigned Ichigo to fight Renji, who released Zabimaru after Ichigo blocked its extension with his chain.
• Renji fired Shakkahō at Ichigo, prompting Kaien to move to intervene, but Rangiku engaged Kaien and kept him from interfering.

Ichigo Kurosaki overwhelmed Renji Abarai by combining his Soul Reaper and Quincy powers, while Orihime Inoue began sparring with Soi Fon and trapped her with a powerful Reishi technique. The chapter ended with Soi Fon trying to break free from Orihime’s flower-shaped barrier.

• Ichigo combined Tensa and his moon blade bow, then used Reishi to overpower Renji’s Reiatsu and send him flying.
• Renji introduced himself as the Sixth Division lieutenant and asked Ichigo’s name, so Ichigo announced that he had mastered Quincy, Soul Reaper, and Hollow powers.
• Jūshirō Ukitake questioned Tokoyo Misao about Ichigo, but Misao denied that Ichigo was his disciple and directed Orihime to spar with Soi Fon.
• Orihime revealed herself behind Soi Fon, introduced herself as Misao’s only disciple, and blasted Soi Fon away with three wide-area Shō attacks.
• Soi Fon charged Orihime with Hakuda, but Orihime used the Shield of Six Flowers to trap her inside a Reishi barrier.
• Soi Fon punched the barrier with concentrated Reishi, but the flower remained intact.

Tokoyo Misao continued to resist Soul Society’s attempt to reclaim the Shinenju while Soi Fon watched from inside Orihime’s Shield of Six Flowers. After the fighters converged in the training ground, Misao left with Rukia and Senna to investigate uninvited guests in the chamber of commerce’s backyard, leaving Soi Fon trapped.

• Soi Fon realized Tokoyo Misao’s Reishi manipulation had trapped her, while Rukia Kuchiki clung to Misao and tried to stop him.
• Jūshirō Ukitake urged Tōshirō Hitsugaya to obey Soul Society’s orders, but Tōshirō released his Bankai and chased Ukitake when he ran.
• Soi Fon watched Misao with Rukia and suspected he might be connected to the Valley of Screams incident, which she had secretly been sent to investigate.
• Senna insisted she was a Soul Reaper, and Misao used a spirit array to take her and Rukia to the chamber of commerce’s backyard after sensing intruders.
• Soi Fon tried to persuade Orihime to release her by suggesting Misao was caught in a romantic rivalry, but Orihime refused to help.

Soi Fon’s feelings for Tokoyo Misao were exposed, while Misao confronted Ganryū Ryōdōji about the Ryudoji Clan’s plan to collapse the Valley of Screams and merge Soul Society with the World of the Living. Ganryū revealed that he wanted Misao’s Eternal Eyes to protect his scheme from Hell, leaving the two sides facing off over the power of the Tokoyo Clan.

• Little Orihime blurted out that Soi Fon liked Misao, and the others teased Soi Fon until she fled the secret training ground in shame and anger.
• Ganryū Ryōdōji recognized the Tokoyo Clan crest on Misao’s haori and proposed an alliance after explaining his family’s history of exile.
• Misao rejected Ganryū’s account of the Ryudoji Clan’s motives and dismissed his forces as too weak to rule Soul Society.
• Ganryū explained that placing Senna, the Shinenju, at the center of a Valley of Screams Space would make the Blanks gather, causing the space to collapse and the World of the Living to collide with Soul Society.
• Ganryū revealed that he wanted Misao to join his plan because he believed the Tokoyo Clan’s Eternal Eyes could control Hell and prevent it from interfering.

Tokoyo Misao defeated Ganryū and his companions, then brought Senna back to Soul Society and declared her a member of the Tenth Division. On the outskirts of Junrinan, Mayuri Kurotsuchi demanded Senna for investigation, but Misao refused and challenged Mayuri’s authority to question the Tokoyo Clan.

• Tokoyo Misao learned Ganryū did not know of the Wandenreich, then ended their confrontation by using his Zanpakuto to dissolve the Blanks and kill Ganryū and his companions.
• Soi Fon arrived with Soul Society’s order to bring back the Shinenju, and Tokoyo Misao agreed to escort Senna back for her report.
• After arriving near Junrinan, Tokoyo Misao said Senna would join the Tenth Division as his subordinate, while Mayuri Kurotsuchi demanded to investigate her.
• Tokoyo Misao told Mayuri that Ganryū had likely been bait and revealed he had mixed Adjuchas power into the Quincy King’s reclaimed power.
• When Mayuri pressed him about the Tokoyo Clan’s power, Tokoyo Misao rebuked him and said only the Royal Guard could question a great noble.

Tokoyo Misao settled Senna into the Tenth Division and agreed to help Shunsui Kyōraku contact Kisuke Urahara about finding the Wandenreich. The next day, Misao set out for a walk before his planned fight with Retsu Unohana and noticed changes in Junrinan.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi told Tokoyo Misao that dissections of the Quincy corpses revealed nothing unusual, and Shunsui Kyōraku quietly confirmed the same.
• Rangiku Matsumoto took Senna to join the Tenth Division while Soi Fon assigned two squads to watch her.
• Renji Abarai revealed that Soi Fon had seemed anxious around Misao, but Misao said she had only been trying to escape Orihime's shield.
• Shunsui Kyōraku asked Misao to find Kisuke Urahara and offer to clear his fugitive status if he helped locate the Wandenreich, and Misao agreed to put him in touch with Kyōraku.
• Senna worried she could not remain a Soul Reaper, but Tōshirō Hitsugaya encouraged her to make new memories, and she thanked him.
• Misao told Tōshirō that he planned to fight Retsu Unohana in Muken, then walked through Junrinan and saw how the Heaven and Earth Trading Company had brought goods from the World of the Living.

Tokoyo Misao patrolled Rukongai with Rukia, supported her plan to improve conditions there, then fought Unohana in Muken and won. He later helped Uryū Ishida reclaim his Quincy powers, ending by giving him two Quincy Seeds.

• Tokoyo Misao met Rukia, who wore her Kenseikan and asked him to teach her Bankai.
• Tokoyo Misao and Rukia patrolled Rukongai, where she urged him to support her effort to pressure the Central 46 Chambers to develop it.
• Tokoyo Misao promised to support Rukia and later fought Unohana in Muken until the following morning, winning their battle.
• Tokoyo Misao spoke with Kisuke Urahara about Soul Society and asked him to contact Captain Kyōraku.
• Uryū Ishida told Tokoyo Misao he wanted to regain his Quincy powers, and Tokoyo Misao gave him Quincy Seeds containing his and Kanae Katagiri's powers.

After more than two years in seclusion, Tokoyo Misao returned to the Tenth Division and learned that Sōsuke Aizen had exposed Isshin Shiba’s life in the World of the Living. The captains ordered Isshin’s arrest, while Tokoyo challenged Yamamoto’s assumptions about how the great nobles could use Soul Society’s rules against lesser nobles.

• Uryū Ishida absorbed Reishi from a vast area of land, but said he could not yet control his power or awaken his Schrift.
• Tokoyo Misao absorbed Reishi from the Blanks until his power surpassed the Soul Reaper limit, then discovered more than two years had passed.
• Tōshirō Hitsugaya told Tokoyo that a captains’ meeting was underway and that Orihime had grown up and missed him; Senna thanked Tokoyo for helping her make new memories.
• At the meeting, Sōsuke Aizen revealed that Isshin Shiba was living as a human in the World of the Living and had transferred his Soul Reaper powers to his wife.
• Yamamoto presented Central 46’s ruling ordering Isshin’s arrest, and assigned Byakuya Kuchiki to carry it out.
• Tokoyo questioned whether the great nobles would dare sentence Isshin to death and explained that they could ruin lesser nobles through legal and economic power.

Tokoyo Misao and Kenpachi Zaraki entered the Valley of Screams Space in the Dangai to spar, and Zaraki began showing off the swordsmanship he had learned from Yamamoto. Their first exchanges revealed that Zaraki had improved his technique, but Misao warned him not to let swordsmanship become a shackle.

• Yamamoto sent Tokoyo Misao and Kenpachi Zaraki to fight in the Valley of Screams Space, with Yachiru staying behind.
• Tokoyo Misao and Kenpachi Zaraki arrived in the Valley of Screams Space and prepared to spar.
• Kenpachi Zaraki attacked with a powerful two-handed slash, and Tokoyo Misao blocked it.
• Kenpachi Zaraki followed with another controlled strike, which Tokoyo Misao blocked as he recognized Zaraki's improved kendo.
• Tokoyo Misao told Kenpachi Zaraki that swordsmanship should not become his shackle, then kicked forward.

Tokoyo Misao defeated Kenpachi Zaraki in the Valley of Screams Space and began absorbing the space into darkness. Yachiru Kusajishi tried to reach Ken-chan, but Chōjirō Sasakibe stopped her while Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto examined the strange power behind her Shikai and decided she could not be allowed to leave.

• Tokoyo Misao drove Kenpachi Zaraki into the ground, then overwhelmed Zaraki’s controlled sword strike and left him unable to fight.
• Tokoyo Misao explained that swordsmanship had improved Zaraki’s control but restrained his fighting instincts, then began spreading black information through the Valley of Screams Space.
• Yachiru Kusajishi sensed that Kenpachi Zaraki was unhappy and demanded permission to go to him, but Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto refused.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe blocked Yachiru Kusajishi as she attacked with her Shikai, Three-Step Sword Beast, and its three Hollow-masked figures.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto sensed that the figures’ power was neither Soul Reaper, Hollow, nor Quincy, and concluded that Yachiru Kusajishi could not be allowed to join Zaraki.

Yachiru Kusajishi battled Chōjirō Sasakibe in the First Division while the Ryoka arrived in Soul Society amid the clash. Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends landed near Junrinan and prepared to rescue Isshin Kurosaki, as Orihime Inoue sensed something familiar in Yasutora Sado’s new power.

• Yachiru Kusajishi used Tokoyo Misao’s sword-drawing technique against Chōjirō Sasakibe, who answered with his Bankai, Kōkō Gonryō Rikyū.
• The clash between Yachiru Kusajishi and Chōjirō Sasakibe destroyed the reception room and sent powerful Reiatsu across Soul Society, while Yamamoto remained seated.
• Sōsuke Aizen told Gin Ichimaru to collect the unusual black Reiatsu and noted that the Ryoka’s arrival would begin his plan.
• Orihime Inoue, Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryū Ishida, and Yasutora Sado fell through a fissure into Rukongai and landed safely near Junrinan with Yoruichi.
• Yasutora Sado revealed armored power over his right arm, and Orihime Inoue said it felt familiar.

Orihime Inoue entered Seireitei while Ichigo Kurosaki and the others were stopped at Hakutōmon, where Gin Ichimaru drove Ichigo back. Orihime headed toward the Tenth Division, walking sideways as she believed her teacher had instructed, and encountered suspicious Soul Reapers after an alarm sounded.

• Orihime Inoue entered Seireitei, while Ichigo Kurosaki, Yasutora Sado, and Yoruichi faced Jidanbō Ikkanzaka at Hakutōmon.
• Ichigo Kurosaki knocked Jidanbō Ikkanzaka down, but Gin Ichimaru used Shinsō to strike Ichigo and force him away from the gate.
• Gin Ichimaru wondered what Captain Aizen would do about Tokoyo Misao's only disciple, Orihime Inoue.
• Orihime Inoue walked sideways through Seireitei toward the Tenth Division as patrolling Soul Reapers stared at her.
• After an alarm sounded, Little Mustache and two Soul Reapers confronted Orihime Inoue, who explained that her teacher had told her she could walk sideways through Soul Society.

Orihime Inoue fought Mayuri Kurotsuchi after he tried to capture her, defeating him with powerful Kidō Engraving and continuing to search for the Tenth Division. Meanwhile, Yachiru Kusajishi was stopped at the First Division and erupted with killing intent as she felt Kenpachi Zaraki’s frustration.

• Little Mustache and two Soul Reapers tried to arrest Orihime Inoue, but she blasted them into the sky with Shō.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi attempted to capture Orihime Inoue with poison, but her Reishi barrier protected her and she struck him with engraved Kidō.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi released Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo, but Orihime Inoue destroyed it with Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō and trapped him in Black Coffin.
• Orihime Inoue bombarded Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s remains with Senju Kōten Taihō and repeated Shakkahō blasts before continuing toward the Tenth Division.
• Shunsui Kyōraku learned from Soi Fon that Mayuri Kurotsuchi had attacked Orihime Inoue and asked Soi Fon to guide her discreetly.
• Yachiru Kusajishi was stopped at the First Division and released immense killing intent as she felt Kenpachi Zaraki’s frustration and disappointment.

Yachiru Kusajishi transformed into a demonic form and attacked Chōjirō Sasakibe before Retsu Unohana subdued her and reported intruders in Soul Society. Tokoyo Misao defeated the transformed Kenpachi Zaraki, brought him to the captains’ meeting for treatment, and the story left Yamamoto questioning Gin Ichimaru about the intruders.

• Yachiru Kusajishi devoured her sword beasts, transformed into a demonic form, and nearly killed Chōjirō Sasakibe before Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto intervened.
• Retsu Unohana subdued Yachiru Kusajishi and told Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto that intruders had entered Soul Society.
• Kenpachi Zaraki rose in an incomplete Bankai-like form, and Tokoyo Misao discovered that Zaraki’s transformed body had become physical.
• Tokoyo Misao struck Kenpachi Zaraki with his Heaven and Earth Supreme Emperor Fist, severely injuring him and breaking apart the Valley of Screams Space.
• Tokoyo Misao carried Kenpachi Zaraki to the captains’ meeting, where Retsu Unohana began treating him.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto questioned Gin Ichimaru about the intruders, and Gin said he had intercepted them at the Hakutōmon and sent them back out.