Recaps

Haruto stopped Ganryū Ryūdōji’s attempt to use Agata and the Valley of Screams, then helped Agata pass on and returned to his life in Karakura Town. There, he protected the Kyōshiba siblings from Soul Society’s pursuit, learned powerful Kidō, and drew the Tsunayashiro Clan’s attention.

• Haruto defeated Baishin, but Ganryū Ryūdōji captured Agata and escaped after trapping Haruto in a Dangai-powered barrier.
• Haruto joined Lisa Yadōmaru, Kisuke Urahara, and the others in learning that Ryūdōji planned to use Agata as a Shinenju to control the Valley of Screams, while Soul Society prepared the devastating Kidō Cannon.
• Haruto and his allies entered the Valley of Screams and fought Ryūdōji and his subordinates, with Haruto eventually freezing Ryūdōji and Lisa cutting him apart.
• Haruto helped Agata use the Shinenju’s power to absorb the Blanks into Soul King Hakusui, then accompanied her to her graves and promised to remember her before her soul faded.
• Five years later, Haruto sheltered Seigen and Ika Kyōshiba from the Stealth Force and learned that the Kusaka Clan likely wanted the siblings’ Scorching Water Mirror.
• Haruto worked with Shinji Hirako, Kirio Hikifune, and the others to fake Seigen’s death, then deceived En Kusaka about the siblings and used a Quincy cover story to protect them.
• Tessai Tsukabishi taught Haruto techniques related to Hadō #99 and Bakudō #99, while Haruto quickly mastered Bankin and began planning his own Five Dragon Destruction.
• The Tsunayashiro Clan head resolved to use Haruto’s conflict with the clan against Yamamoto’s plans to promote him, and Ayaka scolded Haruto at the dessert shop after his return from the World of the Living.

After joining the Second Division and taking up a role in the Stealth Force, Haruto traveled to Hueco Mundo, where he encountered Szayelaporro and allied with Tier Harribel. He gathered the expeditionary force to hunt a Vasto Lorde, then helped the Miyano siblings trap Hammerhead.

• Haruto transferred to the Second Division, became its lieutenant and captain’s aide, and took command of the Patrol Corps under Yoruichi.
• Haruto passed Yoruichi’s Shunkō test, earned the right to join the Shihoin Clan’s external register, and recruited Naa Ichihara as his adjutant.
• Haruto led a purge of Stealth Force insiders, then joined the Hueco Mundo expedition and tested the Black Gate built by Kirio Hikifune and Tessai Tsukabishi.
• Haruto found the expeditionary force under attack, rescued Kanmuri Yasu’s survivors, and fought Szayelaporro, who killed the Soul Reapers before escaping Haruto’s assault.
• Haruto met Ashido, then found Haru Kusaka’s group facing Tier Harribel and struck down a noble who ordered him to attack her.
• Haruto persuaded Harribel to join him against a Vasto Lorde and returned to the expeditionary headquarters, where he asserted command and gathered Captain-level fighters for the hunt.
• Ashido summoned Shusuke Amagai, while Haruto planned to lure out Hammerhead by making him sense a new Vasto Lorde in Las Noches’ territory.
• Hammerhead left Las Noches and approached Haruto, who froze him with Seisen and sealed him with Bankin Taihō as the Miyano siblings attacked with their Bankai.

After defeating Hammerhead and capturing Kitahara Kenshin, Haruto became entangled in the Kuchiki Clan’s crisis when Kōga unleashed Muramasa’s Bankai across Seireitei. Haruto and the other Soul Reapers fought their materialized Zanpakuto as the disturbance spread, while Haruto prepared to confront Muramasa.

• Haruto absorbed the Soul King Hakusui’s power in Hueco Mundo, evolved to Second-Class Spiritual Pressure, and sensed a second Zanpakuto beside Seisen.
• Haruto returned to Soul Society and led a team into the sewers to capture Kitahara Kenshin, ultimately killing him after Kenshin combined Bankai, a Bakkōtō, drugs, and Hollowfication.
• Haruto arranged for Kisuke Urahara to investigate Hollowfication and Arrancarfication, then visited the wounded Soi Fon and agreed to discuss her transfer to the Patrol Corps.
• Ginrei Kuchiki told Haruto that Kōga had killed Tsunayashiro Getsuritsu and others after Hine’s murder, and asked Haruto to bring Kōga back or kill him.
• Muramasa’s Bankai activated across Seireitei, materializing Zanpakuto and forcing Haruto, Byakuya, and other Soul Reapers to fight their own weapons.
• Haruto defeated Yugram Seisen in a Quincy-style duel, while Kisuke subdued the materialized Zanpakuto near the Second Division and encountered a Reigai resembling himself.
• Haruto stopped Byakuya from pursuing Kōga and helped the Soul Reapers contain the Zanpakuto uprising, including blocking Itegumo’s attack on Soi Fon.
• Kiyone, Byakuya, and Shinji defeated their materialized Zanpakuto, while Kaien Shiba arrived at the Fifth Division and called out to Shinji.