Chapter Summaries

At the Shin'ō Academy, Number 360 revealed that Yachiru's swordsmanship instincts had been edited into her soul, then challenged Dōsan Hanyū to prove his worth as a teacher. Dōsan disarmed Number 360 with a single strike, but a student objected that his physical strength made the match unfair.

• Number 360 defeated Sōji Sanjō in hakuda, Kidō, and swordsmanship, stunning the students who knew her as a troublemaker.
• Number 360 explained that she was a weakened copy of Yachiru, with Yachiru's swordsmanship instincts edited into her soul.
• Princess Anzuhime and other students demanded that Dōsan Hanyū defeat Number 360 in swordsmanship to earn their acceptance as his students' teacher.
• Dōsan and Number 360 fought with wooden swords, and Dōsan dodged her opening strike before knocking her sword from her hand.
• A student criticized Dōsan for relying on his superior strength, arguing that the match was meaningless against a former Captain.

Dōsan Hanyū defeated Number 360 in two swordsmanship exchanges, prompting her to realize he had copied her movements. Watching her technique gave Dōsan an insight into Shunkō: he and Soi Fon had focused too much on physical conditioning and spiritual-pressure control while overlooking physical technique.

• Number 360 used Flying Dragon One-Sword Style: Mumyō Shinryū, but Dōsan Hanyū disarmed her with a fast counter.
• After a student criticized Number 360, she challenged him to try fighting her and then asked Dōsan for another match.
• Number 360 and Dōsan performed identical sword-drawing slashes, but Dōsan won the exchange and knocked her sword away.
• Number 360 realized Dōsan had matched her movements and force, and Dōsan recognized that physical technique was a missing element in his and Soi Fon's Shunkō training.

Dōsan Hanyū developed a new direction for strengthening his spirit body, then escaped Kyōko Tsunayashiro’s unexpected marriage proposal. He met Byakuya Kuchiki after class and asked whether he knew medicine for the brain.

• Dōsan Hanyū realized he could imitate Tenzō Tenjō’s spirit-body abilities and develop a power that surpassed Shunkō.
• The students left after Kyōko Tsunayashiro dismissed them and asked Dōsan Hanyū to stay behind.
• Kyōko offered Dōsan another chance to marry into the Tsunayashiro family, but he fled when class ended.
• Byakuya Kuchiki met Dōsan and led him to a private room after finishing a calligraphy lesson.
• Dōsan asked Byakuya whether he knew of any medicine for the brain.

Byakuya Kuchiki visited Dōsan Hanyū after his release from prison, trained with him, and hesitated to warn him about a danger in Seireitei. Meanwhile, Gin Ichimaru and Tachikawa Magaki discussed a Hollow experiment and Aizen’s plan to use Miroku to copy Dōsan Hanyū.

• Byakuya Kuchiki met Dōsan Hanyū for tea and reflected on their friendship and the improvement he had gained from training with him.
• Byakuya Kuchiki asked Dōsan Hanyū whether he had considered leaving Seireitei, but Dōsan said his friends were there; Byakuya then challenged him to a fight while debating whether to warn him.
• Gin Ichimaru and Tachikawa Magaki discussed their Hollow test subject and how consuming Byakuya Kuchiki might affect its mutation.
• Gin Ichimaru told Tachikawa Magaki that Miroku had been passed from the Shiba Clan’s previous head to Kaien Shiba, and that its whereabouts were unknown.
• Tachikawa Magaki explained that Miroku could perform complete replication, and she and Gin identified Dōsan Hanyū as the person Aizen intended to copy.

Dōsan Hanyū and Byakuya Kuchiki trained in secret, where Byakuya successfully released Senbonzakura during their sparring but could not harm Dōsan. Byakuya asked how Dōsan had developed his extraordinary defense, while Honrō Useki followed them and prepared to publish a report.

• Honrō Useki detected Dōsan Hanyū and Byakuya Kuchiki training, then secretly followed them after losing Tachikawa Magaki’s trail.
• Honrō decided to make news about Dōsan Hanyū before exposing the Tsunayashiro Clan and Sōsuke Aizen’s conspiracy.
• Byakuya attacked Dōsan with Shunpo, but Dōsan caught Senbonzakura’s blade and held it fast.
• Byakuya successfully released Senbonzakura while Dōsan held the blade, then struck him with a storm of cherry-blossom blades.
• Dōsan’s body withstood the attack without injury, and Byakuya asked how he had achieved such a defense.

Byakuya Kuchiki tested his improved control of Senbonzakura against Dōsan Hanyū, then asked whether he could become a captain. He warned Dōsan that a major upheaval was coming and urged him to leave Seireitei for the World of the Living.

• Byakuya unleashed Bankai and controlled Senbonzakura's blades to attack Dōsan's Mirror Reversal, forcing Dōsan to use Dankū and Sōren Sōkatsui.
• Dōsan and Byakuya continued their training at close range for two hours, honing their sword strikes and Shunpo.
• Byakuya asked Dōsan whether he could become a captain, and Dōsan compared his current ability to Captain Soi Fon's.
• Byakuya said that an upheaval tied to a case from fifteen years earlier would threaten the Thirteenth Division, Central 46 Chambers, the Five Great Noble Clans, and Soul Society.
• Byakuya warned Dōsan that he stood at the center of the coming crisis and told him to leave Seireitei for the World of the Living.

Dōsan Hanyū faced Mud Hollow while it possessed Byakuya Kuchiki, and Byakuya demanded a dignified death before falling to Dōsan’s blade. Honrō Useki then confronted Kaname Tōsen over his apparent alliance with Tachikawa Magaki, and revealed his concealed Bankai as Tōsen drew his sword.

• Mud Hollow appeared through Byakuya Kuchiki and greeted Dōsan Hanyū, while Byakuya struggled to resist the possession.
• Byakuya tore away Mud Hollow’s mask, demanded that Dōsan kill him honorably, and ran onto Dōsan’s blade.
• Byakuya apologized to his grandfather, Lord Ginrei, before collapsing, while Dōsan worried about what would happen when he recovered.
• Honrō Useki watched Tachikawa Magaki meet Kaname Tōsen and became disillusioned when Tōsen let her leave without stopping her.
• Useki accused Tōsen of betrayal, and Tōsen challenged the justice of Soul Society and the Thirteenth Division before drawing his Zanpakuto.
• Blood sprayed from Tōsen as Useki revealed his permanently maintained Bankai, Spirited-Away Quiet Pavilion.

Honrō Useki fought Kaname Tōsen after awakening Bankai, but Aizen’s Kyōka Suigetsu had trapped him in an illusion from the start. Honrō died without revealing what he knew, and Aizen warned that Dōsan Hanyū had become more frightening as he recovered the power he had spent ten years earlier.

• Honrō Useki used his Bankai against Kaname Tōsen, who identified its line-of-sight attack and countered with Enma Kōrogi.
• Dōsan Hanyū sensed Honrō’s Spiritual Pressure and rushed to the battlefield, arriving as Honrō lay mortally wounded.
• Honrō thanked Dōsan and died without identifying his attackers, fearing that revealing the truth would put Dōsan in danger.
• Tōsen told Aizen that Honrō had said nothing and believed Dōsan’s ability had altered events to protect him.
• Aizen revealed that Honrō had been under Kyōka Suigetsu’s illusion and said Dōsan was becoming more frightening as he regained what he had expended ten years earlier.
• Tōsen asked Aizen what he had seen ten years ago.

Dōsan Hanyū faced a Sixth Division squad that tried to detain him as a criminal suspect, but he refused to submit to an arrest without proper authority. Soi Fon arrived and cut the squad’s wrists, leaving them wondering why she had attacked them instead of Dōsan.

• A Sixth Division Seated Officer accused Dōsan Hanyū of a crime and ordered him into custody.
• Dōsan cited regulations requiring an arrest order from a superior, then named Kūkaku Shiba as his direct superior at the Shin'ō Academy of Spiritual Arts.
• When the Seated Officer tried to stop him from leaving, Dōsan’s killing intent made the squad collapse in terror.
• Soi Fon arrived, cut open the Soul Reapers’ wrists, and reprimanded them for fighting in the Seireitei.
• The Sixth Division squad wondered why Soi Fon had attacked them when they considered themselves victims and Dōsan the suspect.

Soi Fon intervened when Sixth Division officers accused Dōsan Hanyū of murder, but Kuchiki Ginrei dismissed their suspicions and invited Dōsan to speak with him. As Soi Fon left, Chōjirō Sasakibe summoned her to an emergency meeting called by Yamamoto, making her fear the meeting concerned Dōsan.

• Soi Fon rushed to the Sixth Division after sensing killing intent and stopped its officers from accusing Dōsan Hanyū.
• A wounded Sixth Division officer told Soi Fon that Dōsan was their prime suspect, and she warned the officers that they would not have caught him if he were guilty.
• Kuchiki Ginrei arrived, heard the officer's account, and greeted Dōsan warmly, asking why he had not visited lately.
• Ginrei learned Dōsan had been detained by Central 46 for three months and told him to have Byakuya inform him if anything similar happened again.
• Ginrei dismissed the Sixth Division officers and asked Dōsan to stay and chat while Soi Fon departed.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe stopped Soi Fon and told her that Yamamoto had called an emergency meeting, leaving her worried it concerned Dōsan.

Captain Soi Fon secured Dōsan Hanyū’s help for a dangerous mission in South Rukongai, while Number 360 introduced a lifelike Soi Fon doll in Dōsan’s kendo class. The chapter ended with Soi Fon and the Second Division’s expeditionary force waiting to recruit him after class.

• Captain-Commander Yamamoto assigned Soi Fon to deal with an Intermediate Menos Grande preparing to build a node in South District 78, and appointed Marechiyo Ōmaeda to handle the Second Division during her absence.
• Soi Fon asked Yamamoto to let Dōsan Hanyū accompany her, and Yamamoto agreed.
• After Soi Fon left, Sasakibe warned Yamamoto that the Tsunayashiro Clan was growing bolder and that Ichimonji could mass-produce Captain-level Artificial Souls.
• Number 360 brought a life-size doll resembling Captain Soi Fon to Dōsan Hanyū’s kendo lesson and threatened to share recordings of the students’ embarrassing requests with the captains.
• Soi Fon and the Second Division’s expeditionary force waited along Dōsan Hanyū’s route back to his office after class.

Soi Fon waited with a Second Division team to ask Dōsan Hanyū to join a mission, while Dōsan spent class bargaining with Number 360 for dolls. The chapter ended with Soi Fon seeing someone carrying a doll of her own face.

• Rizukihime Kasumiōji joined the Second Division and became its Fifth Seat after Dōsan Hanyū's rise to prominence.
• Soi Fon and her team waited for Dōsan Hanyū to finish class so they could set out on a mission she had arranged without his consent.
• Number 360 offered Dōsan dolls in exchange for killing Ichimonji Tsunayashiro, and Dōsan demanded the entire Tsunayashiro Clan as part of the deal.
• Dōsan left class carrying a Soi Fon doll, and Soi Fon froze when she saw its face appear around the corner.

Soi Fon took Dōsan Hanyū to South Rukongai's 78th district on an ordered mission, while Kurotsuchi and Ichimonji Tsunayashiro prepared their own schemes around his arrival. In Hueco Mundo, Tenzō Tenjō and a group of powerful Hollows gathered before a Garganta to Soul Society.

• Soi Fon caught Dōsan Hanyū holding a body pillow of her, berated him, and ordered him to accompany her to South Rukongai's 78th district.
• Kurotsuchi waited until Dōsan Hanyū and Soi Fon entered the world-crossing passage, then used Ashisogi Jizō to travel ahead and prepare an experiment.
• Ichimonji Tsunayashiro learned that Dōsan Hanyū was headed to South 78th and ordered Number 360 to lead a squad of Captain-level Artificial Souls there.
• At Las Noches, Tenzō Tenjō stood with ten powerful Hollows before a Garganta leading to Soul Society.

Baraggan’s former subordinates and Tenzō Tenjō joined Aizen’s Adjuchas force as it headed for South District 78 to confront Dōsan Hanyū. Dōsan’s group arrived in the district, where his sword and No Cause warned him of danger as they made for the settlement.

• Tenzō Tenjō argued with Baraggan and the Adjuchas, then killed a mantis Hollow who challenged him.
• Grimmjow led the Adjuchas through a Garganta toward South District 78.
• Kaien and Ikkaku received the Captain-Commander’s order to assist Soi Fon and Dōsan Hanyū.
• Dōsan Hanyū’s group arrived in South District 78, and Soi Fon ordered Ittōbō Murashita and Rizukihime Kasumiōji to scout.
• Dōsan sensed Hollow Spiritual Pressure and warned that there might be danger, so the group stayed together and continued toward the settlement.

Dōsan Hanyū and Soi Fon investigated the Hollow attacks in South District 78, where they met the young Renji Abarai. Renji revealed that he knew a place with unusually strong Spiritual Pressure, giving them a lead to follow.

• Dōsan sensed that Hollows had devoured at least five hundred souls in District 78 over the past three days.
• Renji Abarai ran into Dōsan while fleeing a man, and Dōsan caught Renji’s bowl of water with a newly created Kidō spell.
• Dōsan used his sword to clear the Hollow Spiritual Pressure clinging to Renji and warned him not to go out at night.
• Soi Fon told Renji that his Spiritual Pressure could earn him a place at the Shin'ō Academy and advised him to mention her name.
• Renji demonstrated his Spiritual Pressure and offered to take Dōsan and Soi Fon to a place where it was unusually strong.

Dōsan Hanyū discovered and destroyed the nearly activated Ipponkan trap, but his sword warned that the danger had not passed. Grimmjow and the other Menos Grande prepared to attack him as Tenzō Tenjō left to pursue a familiar Spiritual Pressure.

• Soi Fon led Dōsan Hanyū and the Second Division into the forest after Renji showed them the location.
• Dōsan identified a concealed Bakudō Number 95, Ipponkan, and warned that it would destroy all living beings in the area at the Reishi level.
• Dōsan told Renji to return to safety, then continued with Soi Fon and the others toward the blue Spiritual Pressure sphere at the heart of the forest.
• Dōsan used Mirror Reversal to disperse the sphere, but his sword continued to cry out, signaling that the crisis was not over.
• Grimmjow and the Menos Grande discussed attacking Dōsan, while Tenzō Tenjō left to pursue a familiar Spiritual Pressure to the east.
• A Menos Grande noticed that a Soul Reaper was approaching and wondered whether Soul Society had sent reinforcements.

The Arrancar and the Artificial Soul Corps prepared to fight while Mayuri Kurotsuchi theorized that Dōsan Hanyū’s ability revised dangers in his favor. Aizen challenged Tachikawa Magaki’s claim that he had never explained the ability, leaving her and Tōsen unsettled.

• Rudbornn persuaded Grimmjow to attack the arriving Artificial Soul Corps before confronting Dōsan Hanyū, and Grimmjow agreed.
• Inorei Hikaru faced the leopard Menos Grande as Number 360 challenged Rudbornn and his Hollows, setting both sides for battle.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi used experimental equipment to monitor his brain waves as he reasoned that Dōsan Hanyū’s ability revised threats and made his attacks succeed.
• Aizen told Tōsen that Dōsan Hanyū’s ability could prevent people from recognizing it, then warned him that what seemed right or wrong might be reversed.
• Tachikawa Magaki asked Aizen to explain Dōsan Hanyū’s ability, and Aizen asked whether she was sure he had never told her.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi revived Jin'ya Tsunayashiro and another powerful dead Soul Reaper to test them against Dōsan Hanyū. Jin'ya agreed to fight Dōsan and Soi Fon for a chance at true resurrection, while fearing the other zombie would awaken.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi reviewed Nemu's notes and found that she had deliberately omitted information about Dōsan Hanyū's ability.
• Mayuri ordered Nemu to bring test subjects six and seven, whom he had revived during Dōsan's thirty days in custody.
• Jin'ya Tsunayashiro awakened as a zombie and recognized that Mayuri could control him.
• Mayuri promised Jin'ya true resurrection if he killed Dōsan Hanyū, and Jin'ya eagerly accepted despite being limited to eighty percent of his strength.
• Jin'ya saw the other sleeping zombie and feared his power, while Mayuri explained that the man's strength could recover only to seventy percent and sent Jin'ya to fight first.

Dōsan Hanyū and Soi Fon were ambushed by the supposedly dead Jin'ya Tsunayashiro, who attacked Dōsan with an enhanced Black Coffin. Dōsan emerged unharmed, and Jin'ya challenged him while counting on a helper who was returning to life.

• Soi Fon asked whether the mission was over, and Dōsan Hanyū said it was too late to leave.
• Jin'ya Tsunayashiro cast an enhanced Hadō #90: Black Coffin at Dōsan and Soi Fon.
• Soi Fon escaped the attack, while Rizukihime Kasumiōji urged her to flee as the Black Coffin engulfed Dōsan.
• Dōsan Hanyū dispersed the Black Coffin with a single motion and faced Jin'ya Tsunayashiro, whom the others recognized as having been dead for more than three months.
• Jin'ya realized Dōsan had grown stronger during the years since his death, then challenged him while relying on a helper who was coming back to life.

Jin'ya Tsunayashiro confronted Dōsan Hanyū, and their battle escalated from a Kidō exchange to close combat. After realizing he was outmatched, Jin'ya grabbed Dōsan and began casting Hadō #96: Ittō Kasō.

• Jin'ya and Dōsan clashed with Spiritual Pressure, while Soi Fon sent the Second Division members away to watch the surrounding area.
• Jin'ya's Shakkahō and Dōsan's Byakurai and Mirror Reversal demonstrated Dōsan's growing Kidō skill, though Jin'ya's Dankū countered the lightning.
• Jin'ya switched to Hakuda and struck Dōsan, but Dōsan's gray mist and enhanced defense injured Jin'ya's hand and arm.
• Jin'ya mistook Dōsan's gray-mist technique for Shunkō and became more cautious in close combat.
• Jin'ya took Dōsan's punch to the chest, seized his arm, and began casting Hadō #96: Ittō Kasō as his body burned and cracked.