Recaps

Haruto survived the Quincy attack and a noble ambush, then pursued training in Zanjutsu and Hakuda while preparing for the Shin'ō Academy graduation exam. When a sheep-headed Hollow began hunting students, Haruto confronted it as the exam turned deadly.

• Haruto defeated Miralles with Hyōga Seiran, then learned that Daitenta had died helping him enter the barrier.
• After the attack, Haruto returned to Soul Society with the survivors and learned that the Tsunayashiro Clan meant to target him.
• Haruto fought Satō Tsunayashiro at the Noble Assembly, killed her, and escaped the castle keep before a Gillian destroyed it.
• Haruto sought Zanjutsu instruction from Jin'emon Kotsubaki and learned Hakuda from Chikane Iba, mastering Bone Strike.
• Five months later, Haruto and Isane hunted Hollows in East Rukongai and received notice that the graduation exam would begin in a week.
• Haruto organized his classmates into a team for the Hollow hunt, while the sages presented ten captured Hollows, including one with Vice-Captain-level Reiatsu.
• As the exam began, Haruto stayed behind to watch for the strongest Hollow and agreed to discuss Daijiji Kū Seigen’s offer after the exam.
• Haruto found that a sheep-headed Hollow had killed a student squad, then trapped it with Sajō Sabaku and Rikujōkōrō and struck it with Raikōhō.

Haruto defeated the evolving Hollow, awakened Seisen, and joined the Thirteenth Division as its Fourth Seat. After beginning his new duties and training, he uncovered Sakai Shukugo’s abuse of captive Pluses and fought the monstrous Tsuchigumo.

• Haruto and Daijiji fought the self-aware Gillian, but it evolved into an Adjuchas and killed Daijiji.
• The Adjuchas attacked Haruto and the students, while Mutsuki Shōkaku sacrificed her life to wound it.
• Haruto released Seisen, reached Fifth-Class Reii, and defeated the Adjuchas after protecting the wounded students.
• The survivors buried Mutsuki and attended the graduation ceremony, where Nanao and Ayaka chose the Eighth Division.
• Haruto declined offers from other divisions and joined the Thirteenth Division as its Fourth Seat under Jūshirō Ukitake.
• Haruto studied Kidō, tested his techniques, and traveled to Yoshiwara after learning Ayaka and Yuyu had gone to the World of the Living.
• Haruto found Naa Ichihara confronting Sakai Shukugo over his shipment of captive Pluses and intervened when Sakai’s toxin weakened her.
• Sakai transformed into Tsuchigumo, a monster made from ten thousand Pluses, and survived Haruto’s first Senju Kōten Taihō before Haruto struck again with six blasts.

Haruto took the Soul King’s Hakusui into his soul, then went to Karakura Town to investigate Quincy attacks while posing as a student. After helping Lily and confronting Quincy attackers alongside Sōken Ishida, Haruto was ambushed by Seirin Tsunayashiro, whose released blade broke through his defenses.

• Haruto defeated Sakai Shukugo, sealed his powers, and accepted Naa Ichihara’s offer of the Soul King’s Hakusui in exchange for protecting the Yoshiwara District.
• Haruto showed the Hakusui to Kirio Hikifune, who helped him fuse it with his soul and discovered that he could release Reiatsu from different parts of his body.
• Haruto studied the Tsunayashiro Clan’s history, then accepted a mission from Jūshirō Ukitake to assist Hiyori Sarugaki in Karakura Town after Quincy attacked the 11th Division.
• Haruto joined Hiyori and the others in Karakura Town, then went undercover at Seitō Academy, where he met Lily Spuncol and Sōken Ishida.
• Haruto followed Lily as she fought a Giant Hollow, then helped her defeat a Quincy attacker and revealed that he was a Shinigami while Sōken was a Quincy outside the attackers’ faction.
• Haruto and Lily exchanged knowledge of Kidō and Numbered Spells, but Sōken later confronted Haruto about the Quincy medallion he sensed in Haruto’s Kukai Box.
• Schubert and two Quincy soldiers attacked Sōken, while Hiyori and Kanmuri Yasu fought other assailants and Seirin Tsunayashiro ambushed Haruto.
• Haruto’s Kurohitsugi trapped Seirin after he overcame her gravity, but she released Tsukiyami, shattered the coffin, and broke through his three Dankū barriers.

Haruto defeated the Quincy assault, learned that his Zanpakuto’s soul came from Yuguran Seisen, and began training in Quincy abilities. After a brief respite, he investigated a new threat in the World of the Living, where Baishin and unfamiliar fighters confronted him before withdrawing.

• Haruto defeated Seirin Tsunayashiro and teamed up with Sōken Ishida to kill Schubert, then helped Isane treat the wounded and remove Hollow contamination from Isumi Ishida.
• Sōken Ishida identified Haruto as a Quincy who had survived Auswählen, traced Seisen’s origin to Yuguran Seisen, and gave Haruto Quincy teachings, and Haruto removed the Still Silver from his heart himself.
• Haruto returned to Soul Society with Byakuya, where he learned his spiritual pressure had reached fourth class and received an Ishida Quincy Cross that merged with his Fullbring to form a new Asauchi.
• Haruto stopped Genya Sakurai from attacking Sentarō Kotsubaki, then spent time at a hot spring inn with Ayaka and Isane before an emergency call sent him back to the World of the Living.
• Haruto escaped the Dangai’s Kōtotsu and Kōryū, rescued Lisa Yadōmaru and her squad, then searched Naruki City and found groups of Hollows but no trace of the reported Captain-level Reiatsu.
• Haruto encountered Baishin at Maple Drop Park and fought him, protecting Agata Asuna while Baishin attacked with sword barrages and close-range strikes.
• Two green-clad Soul Reapers interrupted Baishin’s fight and tried to seize Agata, but Haruto’s barriers protected her and the three enemies withdrew through a spatial ability.
• Lisa Yadōmaru told Haruto that the Eighth Division had fought five unfamiliar Fullbringers, and Haruto warned that the enemy might be drawing the divisions together and offered to stay alone in Naruki City.