Chapter Summaries

Kenpachi Zaraki, Kaname Tōsen, and Gin Ichimaru fought Ichigo Kurosaki, Dōsan Hanyū, and Uryū Ishida as Aizen watched events unfold through the Law of Causality. Aizen wondered how changing the story’s protagonists would alter cause and effect, and resolved to lose once more.

• Yamamoto heard that Kenpachi Zaraki, Kaname Tōsen, and Gin Ichimaru’s Spiritual Pressure had surged, but ordered Rukia Kuchiki’s execution to proceed without sending support.
• Dōsan Hanyū fought Kenpachi Zaraki with a wooden sword, wounded him, and drew out his Hollowfication as Yachiru watched.
• Kaname Tōsen wounded Ichigo Kurosaki and trapped him inside his Bankai, Enma Kōrogi.
• Gin Ichimaru repeatedly struck Uryū Ishida with Shinsō and resented having to fight him instead of pursuing Aizen.
• Aizen saw Momo Hinamori off, considered how changing the story’s protagonists would affect causality, and decided he wanted to lose once more.

Dōsan Hanyū defeated Kenpachi Zaraki, and Ichigo Kurosaki knocked Kaname Tōsen unconscious after Tōsen hesitated at Zaraki’s defeat. Yoruichi Shihōin carried the exhausted Ichigo away, Gin Ichimaru withdrew from his fight with Uryū Ishida, and the Seireitei grew alarmed as the captains’ Spiritual Pressure faded.

• Dōsan Hanyū used the Law of Causality to make Kenpachi Zaraki’s accumulated wounds reopen, defeating him without killing him.
• Kaname Tōsen was shaken by Zaraki’s faint Spiritual Pressure, giving Ichigo Kurosaki an opening to land a Getsuga Tenshō and knock him unconscious.
• Yoruichi Shihōin caught the collapsing Ichigo and carried him toward her secret hideout, where Soi Fon confronted her.
• Gin Ichimaru noticed Zaraki and Tōsen’s Spiritual Pressure fading, then let Uryū Ishida go after declaring the fight his victory.
• The Soul Reapers of the Seireitei grew fearful and confused as Zaraki’s and Tōsen’s Spiritual Pressure nearly disappeared.

After Kenpachi Zaraki and Kaname Tōsen fell to Dōsan Hanyū, the Soul Society captains wondered whether the Ryoka could save Rukia, while Yamamoto ordered her execution to proceed. Mayuri Kurotsuchi tried to incapacitate Dōsan with a drug and an illusion, but Dōsan overcame them and wounded him.

• Byakuya Kuchiki, Shunsui Kyōraku, Nanao Ise, and Chōjirō Sasakibe reacted to the Spiritual Pressures of Kenpachi Zaraki and Kaname Tōsen vanishing, while Yamamoto ordered Chōjirō to continue Rukia's trial.
• Rukia cried for help from her cell in the Senzaikyū as she heard Spiritual Pressures rumbling outside.
• Dōsan Hanyū faced Mayuri Kurotsuchi after defeating Kenpachi Zaraki, and Mayuri mocked Zaraki for barely damaging Dōsan.
• Mayuri used an illusion and revealed that he had planted Superhuman Drug: Prototype 2.0 in Zaraki to interfere with Dōsan's senses.
• Dōsan sensed the illusion, slashed at Mayuri, and declared that poison could not poison causality before wounding him.
• Mayuri's Spiritual Pressure weakened after Zaraki's and Tōsen's.

After Kenpachi Zaraki and Mayuri Kurotsuchi were defeated, Yamamoto ordered Chōjirō Sasakibe to address the Gotei 13 through Tenteikūra. As captains and Soul Reapers reacted to the crisis, Chōjirō began announcing Yamamoto’s supreme order.

• Chōjirō Sasakibe reported the surging spiritual pressure to Yamamoto, who ordered him to use Tenteikūra to address the Thirteenth Division.
• Jūshirō Ukitake rose despite his illness and set out with Kiyone and Sentarō as he reflected on the crisis in Seireitei.
• Retsu Unohana calmly offered treatment to an injured 11th Division Soul Reaper, while Isane Kotetsu trembled at the captains’ fading spiritual pressures.
• Aizen and Gin Ichimaru met among the bodies in Central 46 Chambers, and Aizen assured Gin that everything was under control.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe cast Bakudō #77: Tenteikūra and began conveying the supreme order issued by Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto.

Komamura and Iba went to meet the lost Ryoka Sado, while Byakuya confronted Rukia at Senzaikyū. Dōsan sensed that events were following a chain of causality leading to Ichigo rescuing Rukia and Aizen’s victory, as Soi Fon pursued Yoruichi.

• Komamura told Iba that justice mattered more than the process and led him to find a lost gentleman.
• Sado wandered into the Seventh Division while trying to reach Senzaikyū, and his concealed spiritual pressure drew attention.
• Byakuya told Rukia that her friends’ progress had reached its limit, and Rukia insisted she was an academy student who did not know Ichigo.
• Dōsan sensed that Ichigo would rescue Rukia but Aizen would emerge victorious, and he realized that following the flow of events could restore his power.
• Soi Fon ignored Yamamoto’s orders after finding a trace of Yoruichi Shihōin and prepared her Shikai.

Yoruichi escaped with the injured Ichigo while Dōsan Hanyū confronted Soi Fon and effortlessly stopped her attack. Soi Fon tried to protect the Tenth Division Soul Reapers as they fled, but Dōsan suddenly swept past them at high speed.

• Yoruichi sensed Soi Fon’s killing intent and hurried away with Ichigo, while Dōsan Hanyū appeared beside Soi Fon and gave Yoruichi time to escape.
• Soi Fon attacked Dōsan with Suzumebachi and Shunkō, but he stopped the strike with one finger and dispersed her spiritual pressure.
• Tenth Division Soul Reapers arrived and wrongly assumed Soi Fon was fighting without help because she refused to let them join in.
• Soi Fon prepared another Shunkō attack and ordered the Soul Reapers to retreat, then Dōsan rushed past them like a gust of wind.

Dōsan Hanyū escaped Soi Fon after altering the course of events and reaching barely Captain-level strength. In the Senzaikyū, Rukia Kuchiki met Captain-Commander Yamamoto and the mysterious Sanpaku Tōsetsu, who began an unknown procedure on her.

• Soi Fon stopped her subordinates from pursuing Dōsan, who had fled after noticing two possible causal outcomes involving her and Yoruichi Shihōin.
• Dōsan reflected that intercepting Soi Fon had increased his Spiritual Pressure to barely Captain-level and considered where to go next.
• Rukia, bored and resigned to her apparent execution, complained when Yamamoto arrived and called her the Seireitei's most heinous villain.
• Sanpaku Tōsetsu emerged beside Yamamoto, joked with him, and reminded him that he had been promised freedom after completing his task.
• Tōsetsu reached toward Rukia, left a burned hand pressed against her face, and told her she could call him Rukia Kuchiki for a while.

Dōsan Hanyū interrupted Sanpaku Tōsetsu’s attempt to take Rukia’s face and confronted Captain-Commander Yamamoto. The chapter ended with Yamamoto holding back while Dōsan insisted he was not there to take Rukia away.

• Yamamoto had released Sanpaku Tōsetsu from Muken so he could impersonate Rukia during her execution.
• Sanpaku began changing Rukia’s face until Dōsan Hanyū’s sword pressure cut off his hand.
• Dōsan plucked Sanpaku’s thread of causality, leaving him writhing as Hell’s corruption weakened him.
• Yamamoto questioned Dōsan about his identity and purpose, and Dōsan said he wanted to set a few things back on track.
• Yamamoto attacked, but Dōsan shielded Rukia and said he was neither Yamamoto’s enemy nor there to take Rukia away.

Yamamoto and Dōsan Hanyū avoided a battle that could destabilize the three realms, while Dōsan Hanyū refused to rescue Rukia and said Ichigo Kurosaki would save her. The chapter left Rukia in Senzaikyū and Ichigo training under Yoruichi Shihōin as Tenjirō Kirinji arrived.

• Gin Ichimaru questioned Aizen about Dōsan Hanyū meeting Yamamoto, and Aizen said the two would not fight.
• Yamamoto chose to leave rather than risk a battle with Dōsan Hanyū that could merge the three realms.
• Dōsan Hanyū told Rukia he had not come to save her and said Ichigo Kurosaki would do so.
• Yoruichi Shihōin pushed Ichigo through Bankai training and told him he was not yet strong enough to face Byakuya Yamamoto.
• Tenjirō Kirinji appeared during Ichigo's training and recognized Yoruichi Shihōin.

The Zero Division descended on the Seireitei and confronted Yoruichi Shihōin and Ichigo Kurosaki, disrupting Kisuke Urahara’s plans. Yoruichi chose to explain the situation to Tenjirō Kirinji while Captain-Commander Inoue faced the newcomers, and Ōetsu revealed that they had captured a young Quincy.

• Orihime Inoue tried to make Tōshirō Hitsugaya reveal where little Rukia was by tickling his feet with grass.
• Tenjirō Kirinji struck Ichigo Kurosaki and sent him flying, prompting Yoruichi Shihōin to warn Ichigo not to attack.
• The Zero Division descended, and Kirio Hikifune, Senjumaru Shutara, Tenjirō Kirinji, and Ōetsu identified themselves to the assembled Soul Reapers.
• Yoruichi Shihōin stood behind Ichigo and swore on her family’s honor that she would tell Tenjirō Kirinji the truth.
• Ōetsu told Inoue that the Zero Division had captured a young Quincy and was holding him at the First Division Barracks.