Chapter Summaries

Haruto sent a Hell Butterfly to warn the others that the enemy would act soon, then arranged to keep Agata safe in her office overnight. After Agata fell asleep, he left the crowded office to prepare the deserted building for a fight.

• Haruto concluded that the enemy would move soon and that he needed to stay alert until he understood how they concealed their Reiatsu.
• Agata told Haruto that a Soul Reaper had saved her from monsters about a dozen times, most recently two months earlier.
• Haruto learned that Agata had no children and that her husband was away, then told her to stay at work overnight so she would not be attacked.
• Haruto accompanied Agata to her office, where she changed into a tracksuit and quickly fell asleep beside her desk.
• Haruto left the office and began planning to turn the deserted building into a battleground.

Haruto used Kidō and the building’s defenses to repel a massive invasion of red-hatted spirits, then confronted Baishin as the Soul Reaper unveiled his Bankai. The chapter ended with Haruto cutting off Baishin’s arm, while Baishin remained ready to fight.

• Haruto used Eye Opening to monitor the spirits invading the office building and repeatedly struck them with low-level Kidō.
• Haruto’s defenses and abundant Reiatsu let him defeat nearly a thousand spirits, while Soul King Hakusui showed faint signs of evolution from absorbing their souls.
• Haruto left the building to face Baishin, who activated his Bankai, Snake Dragon Chain Dance, “Broken Blade” Severed Shadow.
• Haruto released all three abilities of Seisen’s Shikai and used a compressed slash to sever Baishin’s left arm.
• Baishin examined his injury, recognized the danger of Haruto’s blade, and prepared to continue fighting.

Haruto suffered severe injuries as Baishin combined his metallic body with powerful Kidō attacks. Haruto blocked Baishin's spatial rings with Shisō Kekkai, but the barrier restricted his movement and left him vulnerable to another attack.

• Haruto and Baishin injured each other in a collision, but Haruto's heavy strike failed to significantly impair Baishin.
• Baishin used Silver-Winged Comet Heaven to accelerate his blade-wing and severely wounded Haruto's right side.
• Baishin shattered Dankū and extended his arm to attack Haruto, who used Ransōtengai and Reverberation to deflect the blow but was hurled through a building.
• Baishin launched Sealing Tin Chain Rings through spatial transfer, and the rings erased Haruto's Kuyō Shibari.
• Haruto used blood from his wound to cast Shisō Kekkai, blocking the nine rings while limiting his own room to dodge.

Haruto defeated Baishin by exploiting his metallic body with extreme cold and heat, then shattering him with Seisen. After healing his wound, Haruto warned someone not to move.

• Baishin pierced Haruto with Dragon-Serpent Iron Dance, but Haruto grabbed his ankle and revealed that he had lured Baishin into lowering his guard.
• Haruto froze Baishin with Hyōga Seiran, reinforced the ice prison with Daichi Ten'yō, and trapped him in Kurohitsugi.
• Haruto used Sun Storm: Steam Flow Slash to strike Baishin with concentrated Reishi flames, leaving him badly damaged by the clash of extreme heat and cold.
• Haruto used Haze to deceive Baishin, then pressed Seisen against his Saketsu and stabbed the wound across his chest and abdomen.
• Haruto activated Seisen's burst forth ability, scattering Baishin into countless fragments of iron, then stitched his own wound closed with Ransōtengai and Kaidō.
• Haruto told someone not to move while concealing the killing intent in his eyes.

Haruto confronted Ganryū Ryūdōji and his armed subordinates, learning that the former noble clan leader sought revenge against Soul Society and had targeted Agata. Ryūdōji trapped Haruto in a barrier and escaped with Agata, leaving Haruto imprisoned for twenty-four hours.

• Haruto attacked the hidden group with Quincy-style techniques, but one of their armaments absorbed his lightning cannon.
• Haruto met Ganryū Ryūdōji, who explained that the Ryūdōji Clan had been exiled after attacking the Shihoin Clan on the Tsunayashiro Clan’s orders.
• Haruto deduced that Ryūdōji’s group had been trying to abduct Agata, while Ryūdōji said he wanted revenge against Soul Society.
• Ryūdōji offered Haruto a chance to join him, but Haruto refused to be swayed by his claims.
• Ryūdōji’s subordinates imprisoned Haruto in a barrier powered by the Dangai, and Ryūdōji escaped with Agata after mentioning that Baishin had cooperated with them.

Haruto waited for his Reiatsu to recover before Lisa Yadōmaru and Kisuke Urahara arrived with news about powerful Fullbringers and the Dangai’s closure. Urahara revealed that Ganryū Ryūdōji and his clan were behind the crisis, leaving the group to confront the scale of their preparations and their discovery of a vast Valley of Screams.

• Haruto recovered his Reiatsu and waited until Ryūdōji’s barrier shattered, then met Lisa Yadōmaru as she arrived.
• Lisa brought evidence of powerful Fullbringers, while Mashiro Kuna and Kisuke Urahara joined them.
• Haruto greeted Urahara, and Lisa asked him to explain the situation to the assembled Soul Reapers.
• Urahara explained that an enemy had closed the Dangai and that reopening it would take at least twelve hours, even with help from Soul Society.
• Urahara identified Ganryū Ryūdōji as the instigator and said his exiled clan had survived in the Dangai using stolen Shihoin Clan armaments.
• Urahara explained how Blanks formed Valleys of Screams and revealed that the Ryūdōji Clan had found the largest one on record.

Haruto and Kisuke Urahara explained that the Ryudoji Clan could use the Shinenju, an aggregate of Blank memories, to control the Valley of Screams and threaten Soul Society. As the Kidō Corps prepared its devastating cannon, the group in the World of the Living faced a narrow window to stop the threat before the weapon fired.

• Haruto told Kisuke Urahara that the Ryudoji Clan could control Blanks, and they identified Agata as the Shinenju that would let the clan command the Valley of Screams.
• Kisuke Urahara explained that the Ryudoji Clan could crash the Valley of Screams into Soul Society or collapse part of the Dangai, and that either disaster could devastate the worlds.
• Lisa said Soul Society would use the Kidō Cannon if the Shinenju activated, and Kisuke Urahara warned that its blast could destroy the Valley of Screams and a radius of roughly 300 spirit miles in the World of the Living.
• At the Kidō Corps headquarters, Shigekuni Yamamoto ordered the cannon prepared, but Tessai Tsukabishi and Kirio Hikifune secured twenty minutes for adjustments while Yoruichi and Byakuya quietly hoped the weapon would not fire.
• Tatsufusa Enjōji asked what the cannon would do to souls in the World of the Living, and the group recognized that the Central 46 Chambers had authorized a blast that could kill hundreds of millions and disrupt the balance of the three worlds.

Haruto and Kisuke Urahara prepared a team to enter the Valley of Screams and confront Ganryū Ryūdōji, while Kūgo Ginjō watched Urahara from a nearby bridge. The team began its operation as Ginjō’s group considered whether to attack.

• Haruto asked Kisuke Urahara to open a passage to the Valley of Screams, and Urahara warned that keeping it open would prevent him from joining the fight.
• Urahara described the Ryudoji Clan’s advantages in the Valley of Screams and provided supplies and equipment to help the team recover and travel safely.
• Haruto said he would face Ganryū Ryūdōji, while Lisa Yadōmaru, Mashiro Kuna, Soi Fon, Ayaka, and Yayahara Yuyu prepared to fight; Urahara assigned Tatsufusa Enjōji to assist him in the World of the Living.
• Urahara opened a spatial passage, and the Valley of Screams Special Team began its operation.
• Kūgo Ginjō and his companions watched Urahara from a bridge, and Ginjō dismissed a suggestion to attack because Urahara was alone.

Kūgo Ginjō judged his Fullbringer allies unreliable and left after gathering information about Soul Society. In the Valley of Screams, Haruto’s group arrived as Ganryū Ryūdōji prepared to use Agata, whom he identified as a Shinenju, and the two sides faced off with the Kidō Cannon’s deadline approaching.

• Kūgo Ginjō concluded that his Fullbringer allies lacked the skill and temperament to be reliable partners, then left with the information he had gathered about Soul Society.
• Ganryū Ryūdōji told Agata that she was a Shinenju and began transforming the Valley of Screams into a ritual site.
• Haruto, Lisa Yadōmaru, Soi Fon, and the others arrived and attacked, interrupting Ryūdōji’s preparations.
• Ryūdōji summoned millions of Blanks and warned Haruto that the Kidō Cannon would not let his group leave the Valley of Screams safely.
• Haruto said he had come to prevent the loss of familiar faces, while Ryūdōji questioned whether Soul Society still upheld righteousness.

Haruto and Ganryū Ryūdōji fought among the Blanks growing toward the Shinenju, while discussing Baishin’s past and the source of Ryūdōji’s power. Ryūdōji revealed his dual Zanpakuto release and demonstrated Heaven Measuring’s spatially unbounded attacks, leaving Haruto wounded and wary as he tried to create distance.

• Haruto asked Ryūdōji what had made Baishin fight for him, and Ryūdōji said Baishin had sought an opponent worthy of ending his story and might have suffered from his fused Zanpakuto.
• Ryūdōji explained that one of his Zanpakuto had formed when a Blank fused with his grandfather’s blade, then released Spear and Sword Dual Mastery with Heaven Measuring and a golden sword.
• Ryūdōji attacked Haruto with Heaven Measuring, striking him from a distance and knocking him into a mountainside before blasting apart its peak.
• Haruto emerged with only a slight wound, and Ryūdōji explained that Heaven Measuring’s attacks could hit regardless of spatial distance.
• Haruto used Shunpo to open the distance from Ryūdōji.

Haruto fought Ryudoji in the Valley of Screams and discovered that Heaven Measuring could strike across an enormous area while God Sealing could block attacks and cut off Reiatsu. Haruto landed Fūsatsu Kakei despite Ryudoji’s defenses, and Ryudoji threw God Sealing to the ground as the fight continued.

• Haruto realized Heaven Measuring’s spatial reach covered much of the Valley of Screams and failed to escape Ryudoji’s attacks by moving farther away.
• Haruto used a Haze clone to bait Ryudoji, then fired Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō at close range, but Ryudoji blocked most of it with God Sealing.
• Ryudoji explained that God Sealing stopped Reiatsu from flowing through whatever it touched, disabling Haruto’s right hand’s Kidō.
• Haruto grabbed God Sealing and used modified Sajō Sabaku to try to seal it, but Ryudoji commanded Blanks to resist and swarm Haruto.
• Haruto and Ryudoji’s clashing attacks caused an explosion, and Ryudoji’s Blanks healed his injuries after the blast.
• Haruto revealed that he had planted Fūsatsu Kakei in Ryudoji’s body, and Ryudoji threw God Sealing to the ground.

Haruto faced Ryudoji after he revealed his Bankai, which let him extend space and control multiple Blank-made weapons at once. As Haruto probed its limits and counterattacked, the other Soul Reapers defeated most of Ryudoji’s subordinates and helped contain the Blanks.

• Ryudoji activated his Bankai, turning his spear into prayer beads and declaring that his power reached beyond Infinity.
• Lisa Yadōmaru, Mashiro Kuna, Soi Fon, Ayaka, and Yayahara Yuyu defeated their assigned Ryudoji subordinates, while Makeup restrained the Blanks.
• Ryudoji used his Bankai to attack Haruto with weapons that appeared through extended space, wounding him and explaining that he could control five targets at once.
• Haruto learned that Ryudoji’s weapons were made from Blanks and that his Bankai extended his Zanpakuto’s ability to anything it touched.
• Haruto attacked through the conversation, tested Ryudoji’s defenses, and began targeting the openings created when Ryudoji used weapons to block.

Haruto used a massive Sklaverei-powered barrage to overwhelm Ganryū, then immobilized him with Seisen and left Lisa to deliver the final blow. Afterward, Lisa returned Seisen and Haruto thanked her for the illusion that had helped him deceive Ganryū.

• Haruto absorbed Reishi from the Valley of Screams and prepared a vast barrage of Heilig Pfeil while Ganryū attacked to stop him.
• Haruto baited Ganryū into striking and unleashed Modified Senju Kōten Taihō: Multiple Holy Arrows, which destroyed Ganryū's weapons and badly damaged his Bankai.
• Ganryū survived the barrage and rushed for God Sealing, but Haruto had disguised Seisen as the Zanpakuto and froze him with its last Ripple.
• Haruto called on Captain Lisa, who cut Ganryū into a thousand pieces while he was immobilized.
• Lisa returned Seisen to Haruto, who thanked her for the illusion that had fooled Ganryū; Lisa told him to call her lieutenant.

Haruto and Agata prepared to work together to stop the Shinenju from merging with the approaching Blanks and destroying the Valley of Screams. After sending the other Soul Reapers away, Haruto remained with Agata and Ayaka as the ten-minute deadline approached.

• Lisa Yadōmaru accepted credit for her Kidō, while Haruto agreed he could not hide his strength after the battle.
• Ayaka helped the injured Haruto, and Mashiro Kuna and Soi Fon reacted to his performance.
• Haruto spoke with Agata, who said she was glad someone remembered her and confirmed she understood what she was.
• Agata said she and Haruto could stop the Shinenju's merger with the Blanks if they worked together, and Haruto agreed.
• With ten minutes remaining, Haruto sent Lisa, Soi Fon, Mashiro Kuna, and the others back through Urahara's Senkaimon, then asked Ayaka to leave too.

Haruto absorbed the Valley of Screams and returned to the World of the Living with Agata, whose remaining memories faded as he found her grave. The chapter revealed Agata Asuna’s connection to Aura Michibane and ended with Soul Society witnessing the Valley of Screams being absorbed.

• Haruto used the Blanks’ instinct to fuse with Shinenju to absorb them into Soul King Hakusui as Agata released the Shinenju’s power.
• Lisa and the others returned to the World of the Living, reported that the Ryudoji trouble was resolved, and arranged for Yoruichi to collect the Heavenly Bestowed Armaments.
• Haruto returned to Naruki City with Agata and searched its cemeteries until he found the graves of Agata Asuna and Tenshō Agata.
• Haruto reassured Agata that he would remember her and might meet her child in Soul Society, then watched as her soul faded away.
• Haruto found bouquets at Agata Asuna’s grave bearing the names Kūgo Ginjō and Aura Michibane, revealing that Asuna was Aura’s birth mother.
• The Captain-Commander and the Kidō Corps watched the Valley of Screams rapidly disappear as though a power were absorbing it.

Five years after the disaster, Haruto’s dessert shop in Karakura Town employed several Soul Reapers who had risen through the ranks. Soi Fon arrived with an order from Central 46 asking Haruto to help investigate a fugitive from Soul Society.

• Five years after the explosion, Karakura Town had been rebuilt, and Nanao Ise, Ayaka Kurumadani, Isane Kotetsu, and Kiyone worked at Haruto’s popular dessert shop.
• Haruto returned to the shop and used mental suggestion to clear out its customers before Soi Fon arrived.
• Soi Fon explained that Central 46 had sent her to investigate a fugitive and handed Haruto a scroll listing suspected addresses.

Haruto helped Soi Fon’s Stealth Force search the dessert shop, then revealed that the fugitives they were seeking, Seigen and Ika Kyōshiba, were hiding upstairs. As Isane treated Ika, Seigen began explaining Soul Society’s three great priestly families.

• Soi Fon brought the Stealth Force to search Haruto’s dessert shop, and Haruto exposed an impostor among them and crushed him with Hainawa.
• The Stealth Force found nothing and left, after which Haruto led Nanao and the others upstairs to investigate a hidden presence.
• Haruto found Seigen and Ika Kyōshiba in an empty bedroom and told them the Stealth Force had gone.
• Isane began treating the unconscious Ika, while Seigen recovered enough to speak with Haruto’s trusted friends.
• Seigen named the Kusaka Clan, the Ise Clan, and the Kyōshiba Family as Soul Society’s three great priestly families.

Seigen explained the three divine weapons and revealed that he and Ika had recovered the Scorching Water Mirror, only to be attacked by a mysterious captain upon returning to Seireitei. He suspected the Kusaka Clan was behind the assault, and Haruto examined the mirror as he considered helping the Shusuha siblings.

• Seigen told Haruto that the Ise, Kusaka, and Kyōshiba families possessed divine weapons that absorbed and reflected different kinds of power.
• Seigen confirmed he and Ika had recovered the Scorching Water Mirror while seeking to restore their family's standing.
• Seigen said a previously unknown captain attacked them as they entered Seireitei, forcing them to use the mirror, but they still lost.
• Seigen identified the Kusaka Clan as the likely enemy and explained that its Mirror-Sheltering Jewel could suppress the Scorching Water Mirror.
• Haruto asked to inspect the Scorching Water Mirror, and Seigen handed it to him; Ayaka then asked if she could try it.

Haruto met Captains Shinji Hirako and Kaien Shiba, who brought news that Central 46 had ordered the arrest of Seigen Kyōshiba and his sister, with lethal force if they resisted. The group gathered to plan their response, while Shinji said the First Division would stay out of the matter and Yamamoto would focus on stability.

• Ayaka handled the Scorching Water Mirror, and Seigen explained that it drained outsiders’ Reiatsu and hindered their absorption of Reishi.
• Haruto left Seigen and Ika inside, then greeted Shinji Hirako and Kaien Shiba outside and brought them in to talk.
• Shinji told Haruto that Central 46 had issued a search warrant and ordered the Gotei 13 to kill Seigen and Ika if they resisted.
• Shinji explained that Kaien had found Haruto because the injured siblings needed unofficial treatment and the Kotetsu daughters were staying at his place.
• Haruto invited everyone to devise a plan, and Shinji said the First Division would not intervene while Yamamoto maintained stability.

Haruto and Shinji Hirako discussed how to protect Seigen Kyōshiba from the Central 46 Chambers, then considered Kirio Hikifune's plan to use Haruto's modified Reigai to fake Seigen's death. Haruto agreed to the plan, but the chapter ended as he questioned Shinji Hirako's ability to fight Seigen's Bankai with his Shikai.

• Haruto explained that his connections across the Gotei 13 could keep its divisions from acting against Seigen Kyōshiba and the Shusuha siblings.
• Hiyori arrived with a message from Kirio Hikifune and proposed using Haruto's modified Reigai to fake Seigen's death.
• Haruto agreed to Hikifune's plan after Ika pointed out that the Reigai was not an important spiritual tool.
• Haruto asked who would stage Seigen's death, and Shinji Hirako volunteered before Haruto challenged his ability to counter Seigen's Bankai with his Shikai.