Chapter Summaries

Haruto attended an auction with Byakuya, bought a secret version of Raimeisan, and learned it while waiting to sell his Kidō Orb. The Orb contained Dankū, but when bidding opened, no one offered a price.

• The auction began with an ownerless Zanpakuto inherited from the massacred Shiwasu Clan, and it sold for sixty-one gold after bidders competed for it.
• Haruto asked Byakuya to lend him money to buy a Zanpakuto, but Byakuya said he had less than five gold left from his quarterly allowance.
• Haruto spent seven small gold koban on a secret version of Hadō #67: Raimeisan, modified for concealment rather than killing.
• Haruto studied the secret Raimeisan while Byakuya watched, and he learned the technique before their lot came up.
• The host presented Haruto's Kidō Orb, which contained Bakudō #81: Dankū and would not be usable for at least half a year, but no one bid on it.

Haruto and Byakuya attended an auction where Haruto sold the Dankū Kidō Orb for fifty gold and a secret manual for Senju Kōten Taihō sold for 2,200 gold. After the auction ended, they left through the forest, aware that someone might be following them.

• Haruto received five pieces of Soul Gold after the Dankū Kidō Orb sold to the occupant of room seventeen for fifty gold.
• The auction's final item, a coded manual for Senju Kōten Taihō, sparked fierce bidding, and the buyer in room one won it for 2,200 gold.
• The host concluded the auction and instructed guests to depart at five-minute intervals or stay overnight for free.
• Haruto and Byakuya chose to leave despite the late hour, then headed into the forest instead of taking the main road.
• Haruto and Byakuya spoke loudly to conceal their suspicions and entered the forest because it was easier to detect anyone following them there.

Haruto and Byakuya killed several attackers who had followed them from the auction, then trapped and struck a powerful Shinigami hiding nearby. The chapter ended with them believing their coordinated attack had hit its target, though the smoke still obscured the blast site.

• Haruto exposed the attackers with Byakurai and killed six Shinigami, including the one who had blocked his first strike.
• Haruto found five gold koban and a metal-wheel lighter on the dead man from room ten, whom he suspected had sought the secret Raimeisan technique.
• Haruto and Byakuya cast Sajō Sabaku and Rikujōkōrō together to trap a hidden opponent who could use Shunpo.
• Byakuya strengthened Rikujōkōrō with Kōjutsu Eishō while Haruto prepared an enhanced Raikōhō.
• Haruto fired Raikōhō into the trapped enemy, and he and Byakuya sensed that their attack had connected.

Haruto and Byakuya pursued the injured auction host, but Haruto sensed a new threat just as an attack descended. Ten minutes earlier, Tsunayashiro Mamoru and his guard Uji had cornered Senju Shinran over a stolen Hadō manual, leaving Senju facing Uji’s deadly Zanpakuto.

• Haruto and Byakuya chased the wounded auction host, and Haruto shouted for Byakuya to stop when he sensed dangerous reiatsu approaching.
• Ten minutes earlier, Tsunayashiro Mamoru and Uji confronted Senju Shinran in a devastated forest and demanded that he hand over everything he had.
• Senju revealed that his Zanpakuto, Shade Tree, drained life force from targets within its domain to make plants grow wildly.
• Uji explained that Senju’s released Zanpakuto could extend its attack range to thirty meters when focused in one direction.
• Uji raised his Zanpakuto and challenged Senju to outrun his gun.

Uji explained Kaleidoscope’s ability to copy knowledge into Reiatsu-powered ammunition, then used it to hunt the wounded Senju Shinran. After killing the auction host who had attacked Haruto and Byakuya, Uji and Tsunayashiro Mamoru searched the wreckage for resources to support Mamoru’s rise in the Tsunayashiro Clan.

• Uji revealed that Kaleidoscope could read knowledge and reproduce it as ammunition, then fired a copied Hadō #91 at Senju Shinran.
• Senju Shinran survived the blast by using a spiritual tool containing Dankū and escaped while badly injured.
• Uji sensed that Senju Shinran’s attempt to attack Haruto and Byakuya had failed, and decided to pursue the injured host who had betrayed them.
• Uji fired a second shot and killed the host from a distance, while Tsunayashiro Mamoru watched the attack’s destructive power.
• Uji and Tsunayashiro Mamoru searched the ruined ground for the host’s money, which Uji said would help build Mamoru’s foundation.

Haruto and Byakuya escaped the pit after Haruto blocked Uji’s attack with Dankū, then recognized Tsunayashiro Mamoru and Uji as threats. Haruto’s opening attack was countered, and Byakuya’s strike at Mamoru was interrupted by Uji, who fired a Ginfu Shakkahō round.

• Haruto used Dankū to block Senju Kōten Taihō, then dug himself and Byakuya out of the pit.
• Byakuya recognized Tsunayashiro Mamoru’s clan ties, and both sides realized the encounter could not be allowed to become known.
• Haruto attacked Tsunayashiro Mamoru with Raikōhō, but Mamoru released Ryūjaku and deflected it while clearing the smoke.
• Byakuya used Senka to appear behind Tsunayashiro Mamoru and attack him.
• Uji warned Mamoru and fired a Ginfu Shakkahō round at Byakuya.

Haruto and Byakuya defeated Uji and Tsunayashiro Mamoru after coordinating their attacks, then gathered the spoils before patrols could arrive. The chapter ended with Byakuya questioning whether Haruto had planned the fight around the auction.

• Haruto used a Kidō attack to draw Uji away from Byakuya while Byakuya released Senbonzakura.
• Haruto bound Uji with Hainawa, allowing Senbonzakura to kill him.
• Tsunayashiro Mamoru surrendered and offered to abandon his clan, but Haruto bound and killed him with Zanka no Tachi.
• Haruto and Byakuya gathered the spoils, and Byakuya challenged Haruto about whether the auction had been part of his plan.

After splitting the spoils from their fight with the Tsunayashiro Clan, Haruto and Byakuya parted ways with Byakuya planning to report the incident to Ginrei Kuchiki. Half a year later at Shin'ō Academy, Haruto learned that Munechika had challenged him in the quarterly exam.

• Haruto and Byakuya divided more than three thousand gold, and Haruto accepted Uji's secret Kidō technique while Byakuya took two Zanpakuto as evidence for his report to Ginrei Kuchiki.
• Haruto reassured Byakuya that exciting events would come to Soul Society in the future.
• At Shin'ō Academy, Haruto easily dispersed Gyōkaku Kumoi's Haien and praised his progress after teaching the fifth-year class for half a year.
• Isane told Haruto that Munechika had challenged him for the quarterly exam.
• Haruto recalled Munechika's recent relationship with Juzu, and Ayaka joined Haruto and Isane with a playful remark.

Haruto learned that Munechika had released his Zanpakuto and met him at the sixth-year training grounds for a match. The fight began as rumors spread that Munechika had broken up with Juzu Izumi, who was absent.

• Ayaka told Haruto that the Mikazuki Clan had reclaimed Munechika's lightning-countering Zanpakuto, and Haruto deduced that Munechika had released a new one.
• Haruto told his students to gather at the Shin'ō Grand Auditorium the next morning for Konsō instruction, then went with Ayaka and Isane to the sixth-year training grounds.
• Haruto saw that Munechika's Reiatsu had grown and noted that Juzu Izumi was absent from the crowded stands.
• Mutsuki started the match, and Munechika released his Zanpakuto with the command, "Double-edged robe cutter, Shiren!"
• Students in the stands traded rumors that Munechika and Juzu Izumi had broken up, with some blaming the Mikazuki Clan and others claiming the breakup was part of his Zanpakuto release.

Munechika released his Zanpakuto and attacked Haruto, but Haruto repelled the first strike with a silent-incantation Shō and a flick of his finger. Munechika launched a second attack at twice his initial speed, and Haruto recognized his Shunpo.

• Munechika released his Zanpakuto, revealing a flexible gold-and-red blade, and charged at Haruto.
• Haruto knocked Munechika and his Zanpakuto several meters back with a single finger flick.
• Nanao identified Haruto’s defense as pure Shō, while Ayaka and Isane discussed his Reiatsu and training.
• Munechika attacked again at twice his initial speed, and Haruto recognized the movement as Shunpo.

Haruto battled Munechika, whose Shunpo and strength were boosted at great cost, and discovered that his Zanpakuto Shiren prevented wounds from healing. After Munechika injured Haruto’s palm and seemed to lose his grip on his sword, he revealed that he had prepared a Hadō attack.

• Munechika used an advanced but physically punishing Shunpo to attack Haruto, while Kanemitsu and Gondawara watched and discussed his crude technique.
• Haruto exchanged blows with Munechika, then caught his Zanpakuto blade between two fingers using Kidō Seki and urged him to stop fighting.
• Munechika broke free with a powerful strike that cut Haruto’s palm, then retreated as Haruto realized Shiren could prevent wounds from healing.
• Haruto asked whether Munechika had any other moves, and Munechika raised his hands and cast Hadō #63.

Haruto defeated Munechika after countering his Raikōhō and immobilizing him with a modified Hyapporankan, then asked Headmaster Mitarai to handle the incident. Haruto went with Isane to seek treatment for his wound, and the story moved to the noble district of Seireitei that night.

• Munechika fired Raikōhō at Haruto, who tore the lightning apart with Hanki Saisai and pinned Munechika with Hyapporankan.
• Haruto told Mutsuki Shōkaku that Munechika needed help, and she fetched Headmaster Mitarai.
• Haruto released Hyapporankan after Mitarai arrived, and the headmaster agreed to take responsibility for the matter.
• Isane offered to bring Haruto to her mother for Kaidō treatment before their planned gathering that night.
• Haruto and Isane arrived in Seireitei's noble district as night fell.

A secretive noble ordered an end to Zanpakuto collection while discussing the Kuchiki and Tsunayashiro clans’ growing rivalry. Later, Haruto joined Isane, Ayaka, and Byakuya at the Kotetsu residence, where Kiyone returned with a new friend connected to his treatment.

• A Stealth Force-like messenger reported that a medicine experiment succeeded within the expected range, and the shadowed noble said the Zanpakuto collection would be paused.
• The noble discussed the risk of the Kuchiki Clan catching up to the Tsunayashiro Clan and ordered the messenger to tie up loose ends.
• Haruto arrived at the Kotetsu residence and told Isane and Byakuya that Vice Captain Yamada had healed his wound with Kaidō.
• Haruto explained that Isane’s mother had spoken with Yamada, who became interested in Haruto’s Kidō abilities and asked him to try Kaidō.
• Ayaka said Kiyone had gone shopping with a neighbor, and Kiyone returned with a new friend she said was connected to Haruto’s injury treatment.

Haruto welcomed Hanatarō Yamada and Sentarō Kotsubaki to a gathering at Kiyone’s home, where the guests had come to see Isane’s flower arranging. After Isane completed the arrangement, Haruto led the group in applause.

• Hanatarō Yamada introduced himself to Haruto and the others, and the guests exchanged greetings.
• Haruto noticed someone waiting outside, so Kiyone invited Sentarō Kotsubaki inside.
• Sentarō introduced himself and offered the guests tea leaves from his hometown as a housewarming gift.
• Haruto learned that Sentarō’s father, Jin'emon Kotsubaki, was the Seventh Division vice-captain and the Gotei 13’s Zanjutsu instructor.
• Isane completed her flower arrangement, and Haruto led the guests in applauding her work.

After Isane's flower-arranging gathering, Haruto and Byakuya discussed the medicines Munechika had taken and the noble faction behind them. Haruto concluded that the drugs were being tested to create expendable users of advanced Kidō, but he believed they posed little threat to him.

• Isane's flower arrangement moved Nanao and Sentarō, and Hanatarō explained the Tsubakibana before the girls held a tea party.
• Haruto declined the tea party, and he and Byakuya walked through the quiet Seireitei inside a modified Kyokkō that blocked eavesdropping.
• Byakuya told Haruto that several noble families had recently been destroyed by Hollows and that secret forces were active around the Seireitei.
• Byakuya explained that Munechika had taken the Heavenly Wisdom Pill and the Formation-Breaking Pill, whose combined use was normally fatal and whose side effects damaged the mind and body.
• Haruto inferred that an upper-ranking noble was testing the medicines to develop disposable advanced Kidō users, and Byakuya agreed that the drugs were likely meant to train deathsworn.
• Haruto judged that even a successful experiment would produce little more than Raikōhō shells and said the resulting fighters would not threaten him.

Haruto learned that Byakuya had brought him along to help protect Munechika and shut down an auction selling two drugs, as the Kuchiki Clan planned to assert its authority. At the Mikazuki Clan, Munemori confronted Munehata over his attempt to harm Munechika, and Munehata defended himself by accusing the clan head of draining the family’s funds for Munechika.

• Haruto realized the other upper nobles, rather than the Kuchiki Clan, were likely to grow anxious about the recent events.
• Byakuya told Haruto that they would protect Munechika at the Mikazuki Clan and take down an auction selling two drugs.
• Haruto negotiated to join Byakuya after spending ten minutes on his own assignment, and rain began falling over the Seireitei.
• Munemori told Munehata that Munechika’s injuries had not come from Haruto and that Director Mitarai had confirmed it.
• Munehata argued that he had acted to restore the Mikazuki Clan’s reputation and protested the money spent on Munechika at the expense of the rest of the family.

Muneban betrayed and killed his brothers Munemori and Munehata, then led Heizō toward the injured Munechika. Haruto appeared at the Mikazuki Clan’s grounds and killed Heizō’s three assassins with a single technique.

• Muneban stabbed Munemori after revealing he had poisoned him and claimed Munehata’s plan made more sense.
• Muneban freed the weakened Munehata, then killed him and reported that his instructions were complete to a man in black.
• The man in black, Heizō, accompanied Muneban toward Munechika’s house, where they encountered Haruto in the rain.
• Heizō summoned three assassins to surround Haruto, but Haruto used Swallow’s Return to kill them.

Haruto defeated Heizō by luring him into sealing a decoy Zanpakuto, then paralyzing and freezing him with Kidō. Heizō survived long enough to recognize that Haruto was approaching, but the chapter ended before he could identify him.

• Haruto used an invisible Zanka no Tachi strike to kill Heizō's subordinates in an instant.
• Heizō released Shichika Hachiretsu and explained that it could reseal any Zanpakuto it touched, then pierced Haruto's heart with poisoned kunai.
• Haruto's body burst into lightning-filled water, revealing that Heizō had pinned down a discarded Zanpakuto as a decoy.
• Haruto paralyzed Heizō with Hadō #67: Raimeisan and unleashed Hyōga Seiran, freezing the Mikazuki Clan's home and Heizō's body.
• Haruto retrieved the decoy Zanpakuto and approached Heizō, who remained conscious enough to begin asking who Haruto was.

Haruto defeated the death warriors who attacked the Mikazuki Clan residence and found Munechika left as the clan’s sole survivor. After Munechika chose death over fleeing, Haruto killed him and burned his body, then left with the Zanpakuto taken from the dead.

• Haruto smashed Heizō’s frozen head, recovered the Refracting Returning Blade and Shiren, and spoke with the wounded Munechika.
• Haruto asked Munechika whether he wanted to flee or die, and Munechika chose death after admitting he lacked the courage he had imagined.
• Haruto killed Munechika and used Sōkatsui to burn his body to ash, leaving Shiren as his only trace.
• Haruto picked up Shiren, worried aloud about its unlucky nature and Juzu’s chances of achieving Shikai, then left using Shunpo.

Haruto and Byakuya divided the spoils from their raid on an auction, and Haruto explained that he had killed Mikazuki Munechika and planned to give Munechika’s Zanpakuto to Juzu Izumi. Byakuya packed away their gains, while the chapter left their mission and the results of Byakuya’s training under discussion.

• Haruto arrived late and found Byakuya had already defeated the opponents and gathered the auction’s seized goods.
• Haruto handed Byakuya two Zanpakuto and explained that he had killed a Vice-Captain-level Soul Reaper after the opponent lost his nerve against Hyōga Seiran.
• Byakuya asked about the extra Zanpakuto, and Haruto said it belonged to Mikazuki Munechika and that he would give it to Munechika’s girlfriend, Juzu Izumi.
• Haruto told Byakuya that Munechika had been his dying wish, and Byakuya mocked Haruto’s claim that he was kindness incarnate.
• Byakuya packed their spoils into the Kukai Box, and Haruto kept the confiscated money as they agreed to have the goods tallied later.