Chapter Summaries

Two months into the Expedition, Jun’s team found a silent trail of Hollow corpses and discovered a huge beetle-shaped Menos Grande feeding on them. The group watched from a distance, wary of the unknown creature and its conspicuous Hollow Hole.

• Jun explained how Hollow Hole positions could reveal Adjuchas and Vasto Lorde, and noted that some powerful Hollows could not be identified that way.
• Jun’s team noticed that three rest signals had passed without any Hollows appearing and called the Expedition together.
• Jun and Kensei Muguruma suspected that a special Menos Grande had killed a Gillian, and Kensei ordered everyone to continue at maximum alert.
• The Seventh Division leader spotted a Gillian’s corpse and numerous other Hollow corpses through a gap between two great trees.
• Jun’s Expedition moved closer and found a huge beetle-shaped Hollow eating the bodies, then watched without daring to move.

Jun stayed behind in Hueco Mundo as the expedition escaped the Rhinoceros Beetle and faced the arrival of Coyote Starrk and Lilynette Gingerbuck. After closing the Senkaimon, Jun survived the pair’s overwhelming Reiatsu and befriended them.

• The Rhinoceros Beetle pursued the expedition through the Forest of Menos, repeatedly breaking through Shishō Saemon as the group fled toward the desert.
• Tendō and the Kidō Corps raised their final Shishō Saemon while Kensei Muguruma and three First Division Bigwigs prepared to hold off the Rhinoceros Beetle until the Senkaimon opened.
• A wolf’s howl silenced Shishō Saemon, and the Rhinoceros Beetle fled when a Vasto Lorde appeared; Jun warned the expedition, and everyone rushed through the Senkaimon.
• Jun forced Kensei unconscious, sent the remaining Soul Reapers through the gate, and closed it from outside using Space Kidō.
• Jun endured the Reiatsu of Coyote Starrk and Lilynette Gingerbuck, used Tenteikūra to communicate with them, and introduced himself before collapsing onto the sand, relieved to be alive.

Jun stayed in Hueco Mundo with Starrk and Lilynette, teaching them while exploring the worlds beyond the Forest of Menos. In Soul Society, Isuzu mourned Jun until Aizen convinced her that Jun might still be alive and able to return.

• Jun questioned Starrk and Lilynette about what they were, then watched Starrk and Lilynette defeat an Adjuchas and learned how they compared its strength with Vasto Lorde.
• The expedition team returned to Soul Society without Jun, and Kensei Muguruma apologized to Isuzu for failing to bring him back.
• Soul Society held Jun's funeral, where Isuzu, Jing, and many mourners grieved his reported death.
• Aizen reminded Isuzu that Jun could use Space-Breaking World and might have escaped or become trapped in the Dangai, renewing her hope that he would return.
• Jun coached Starrk in controlling his Reiatsu and taught Starrk and Lilynette speech and arithmetic while spending time with them.
• Starrk took Jun to observe Hollows and explore a vast ocean, a grassland, and a stone world beyond the Forest of Menos, and said he had once lived in the grassland.

Jun introduced Starrk and Lilynette to a game of force-feeding Gillians to other Hollows, then watched Starrk overpower and stuff Ulquiorra with hundreds of them. Jun agreed to stay with Starrk and Lilynette a while longer and advised Starrk to observe whether the Hollows he fed would grow stronger.

• Jun named three newly discovered regions of Hueco Mundo and focused on studying Hollows instead of exploring them.
• Jun had Starrk summon Gillians and force them into an Adjuchas Rhinoceros Beetle, then they repeated the game with two other Hollows.
• Starrk found Ulquiorra, overpowered him, and stuffed him with more than two hundred Gillians while Jun and Lilynette watched.
• Jun protected the exhausted Ulquiorra inside a Tōzanshō and agreed to stay after Lilynette asked him not to leave.
• Jun told Starrk to observe whether the Hollows he fed grew stronger, and Starrk agreed to continue the game.

After helping Starrk and Lilynette turn Hollows into Arrancar, Jun prepared to return to Soul Society and urged Starrk to protect himself from those who might hurt him. Starrk sent Jun back badly injured, where Yamada Taiyū recognized him and rushed him toward the Fourth Division.

• Over more than forty days, Starrk and Jun found and stuffed Gillians into adjuchas and two Vasto Lorde, leaving wild Gillians scarce in the Forest of Menos.
• Jun explained human relationships and Soul Society to Starrk and Lilynette, and Starrk revealed that he and Lilynette were one being who could separate through Resurrección.
• Jun advised Starrk to guard himself against unkind Hollows and promised to take him to the ocean before asking him to injure Jun and send him back to Soul Society.
• Starrk agreed to Jun’s plan, and Jun lost consciousness after being seriously injured and thrown through a spatial rift.
• Yamada Taiyū stopped his sword from striking the battered Jun, broke his own wrist in the process, and called for Akiyama to take Shimizu-san to the Fourth Division.

Jun recovered from his near-fatal injuries with Retsu Unohana’s treatment and reunited with Isuzu. After returning home, he learned how he had been rescued, spoke privately with Aizen about the battle, and came up with an explanation for his space Kidō.

• Isuzu rushed to the Fourth Division after hearing Jun had been rescued, but Retsu Unohana let her stay only if she did not touch him.
• Jun woke after seventeen days in a coma, and Retsu Unohana used her Shikai to help him repair his damaged spiritual foundation.
• Jun recovered enough to leave the hospital, while Isuzu and his younger sister cared for him at home and visitors came to congratulate him.
• Jun learned that Starrk had thrown him through the Dangai and that Yamada Taiyū and Akiyama Eiji had brought him to the Fourth Division.
• Aizen visited Jun, and they discussed his fight with the Vasto Lorde, his survival in the Dangai, and the space Kidō he had used.
• Jun decided to explain his space Kidō by saying that Isuzu had taught it to him, and Aizen accepted the explanation before leaving.

After Central 46 punished Isuzu for learning space Kidō, Jun returned to the Tenth Division with growing anger toward them. Aizen spent three months teaching at Shin’ō Academy, assessed Kōga Tatara, and revealed to Jun that he had begun treating people as pieces in his plans.

• Central 46 transferred Isuzu from the Twelfth Division to the Thirteenth Division and sternly warned Jun and Isuzu not to pass on space Kidō again.
• Jun returned to work in the Tenth Division and vowed that he would someday kill Central 46 himself.
• Aizen began a three-month teaching assignment at Shin’ō Academy and watched Kōga train with Daijin Hibiki, Shimokawa Tōichirō, and Matsutoshi Jūrō.
• Aizen praised Kōga’s talent and responsibility but warned Jun that Kōga’s personality was a problem and that he might need a major experience to mature.
• Aizen asked whether Kōga was part of Jun’s plan, and Jun realized that Aizen had begun treating people as pieces on a chessboard.

Jun and Isuzu traveled to the World of the Living to investigate a long-forgotten accident at the Seireitei Research Institute. After decoding hidden journal entries, Jun revealed that they were searching for the Bount, and he resolved to find them.

• Jun and Isuzu became Kōga's mentors during a teaching assignment and grew closer to him.
• Isuzu reminded Jun of his promise to explain the old Research Institute accident, so they took an extended assignment in the World of the Living.
• Jun brought Isuzu to the World of the Living and told her they were looking for the Bount.
• Jun showed Isuzu overlapping journal entries that revealed an explosion and that someone had been taken away for experiments.
• Jun explained that the entries had been preserved across nineteen graduations over fifty-seven years, and said he was more certain than ever that they should find the Bount.

Jun and Isuzu searched remote islands for surviving Bount, discussing how Soul Society had hunted them and why they struggled to survive. They found an isolated Bount named Koinu, who recounted his brutal past, and Jun offered to help him regain his power.

• Jun explained to Isuzu that Central 46 had branded the Bount as soul-eating monsters to justify their slaughter.
• Jun and Isuzu searched the wilderness of Sengoku-era Japan and found signs of Bount on deserted islands near Kyushu.
• Jun mapped an island with his Kidō and located a Bount living in a submerged cavern.
• The Bount named Koinu tried to flee, but Jun caught him with a Bakudō.
• Koinu told Jun and Isuzu how samurai tortured him, Hollows attacked him, and Soul Reapers destroyed the Undying Army he had been forced to join.
• Jun asked Koinu whether he wanted to regain the power that had once saved him.

Jun and Isuzu gathered Bount across Japan, giving them names, food, and a settlement where Jun planned to teach them and develop their powers. With 372 Bount assembled, Jun faced the urgent challenge of feeding them and protecting them from Hollows, and devised a bold plan to address their food shortage.

• Jun fed Koinu, healed his broken limbs, renamed him Minamijima Inosuke, and accepted his worship as the Shimizu God while Isuzu became the Clean Clothes God.
• Jun and Inosuke found four Bount in a cave; Jun restrained the man, and Isuzu washed the three women before the group joined the growing community.
• Jun and Isuzu spent over a year gathering 372 Bount, including Kariya Jin, and established a town in a canyon north of Inabayama on Shikoku.
• Jun promised to teach the Bount to read, write, and control their powers, but recognized that feeding them and hiding their Spiritual Power from Soul Reapers and Hollows were major problems.
• Jun discovered that the Bount could eat Hollows for Spiritual Power, but the supply would not last, so he came up with a bold new plan.

Jun returned to Hueco Mundo, found Ulquiorra, and then settled the Bount in a town in Mino Province while working on a protective barrier. The chapter left Jun dealing with the disruption caused by Starrk’s uncontrolled Reiatsu after Starrk arrived in the World of the Living.

• Jun ran through Hueco Mundo’s Silent Sand Sea, found the Forest of Menos and Ulquiorra’s Tōzanshō, then left him a message before traveling to Mino Province.
• Jun explained the Bount’s origins and their danger from Soul Society; Miki Ichirin and the other Bount chose to settle peacefully, while Kariya Jin demanded revenge.
• Jun began building a large concealment and disorientation Barrier around the Bount’s town, but struggled to supply and link its Spiritual Power generators.
• Jun examined Kariya Jin’s Seal and learned that Aijima had given it to him, then returned it when Kariya demanded it.
• Starrk arrived in the World of the Living with uncontrollable Reiatsu, froze the town’s residents, and left after Jun told him to meet in Hueco Mundo.

Jun evacuated the Bount to Hueco Mundo after Starrk’s arrival disrupted his plans, then returned to the World of the Living and misled the Second Division during its investigation. Months later, he found the Bount thriving in Hueco Mundo and learned that Starrk had encountered an even stronger being in the Endless Sea.

• Jun sent the Bount through the Space-Breaking World to Hueco Mundo and left Starrk and Lilynette to protect them while he returned with Isuzu.
• Jun told the Second Division that the powerful Reiatsu seemed stronger than the Vasto Lorde that had injured him and described a village with chaotic traces of Reishi.
• After nearly three months, Jun returned to Hueco Mundo and found that the Bount had learned to control their Spiritual Power by exchanging Reishi.
• Starrk told Jun that he had met Zegurodo Basirororuzu, a whale who was even stronger than him and wanted to meet more of his kind.
• Jun introduced Isuzu to Starrk and Lilynette as his wife and partner, then asked Starrk to take them to their usual place.

Jun brought Isuzu to see the sleeping Ulquiorra, explained Starrk’s unusual desire for a community, and later helped Starrk capture the self-aware Adjuchas Grimmjow. He relocated the Bount to a hidden mountain settlement in Kai Province, where they could live safely while learning from him during the year he had left.

• Jun showed Isuzu the sleeping Ulquiorra and confirmed that he was a Vasto Lorde, while Starrk’s presence frightened her.
• Jun explained that Starrk’s wolf-pack nature made him crave a community, though Hollows with different symbols might not understand one another.
• Starrk sensed and captured a leopard-shaped Adjuchas, whom Jun identified as Grimmjow and said could potentially become an Arrancar.
• Starrk decided to make Grimmjow an Arrancar and urged Jun to hurry, while Jun sent the Bount from Hueco Mundo to the World of the Living.
• Jun established the Bount in connected caves beneath a mountain in Kai Province and gave them rules for staying hidden and safe.
• Jun told Miki Ichirin that he was not leaving yet, but that he had just over a year to teach the Bount.

Jun helped the Bount settle into a hidden cave, learned how Kariya Jin had lost his father and Aijima, and explained that Aijima had been exiled to Hueco Mundo for advocating for the Bount. The group adopted the name Undead and Jun secured their refuge before returning to Soul Society with Isuzu as their three years in Hueco Mundo ended.

• Kariya Jin told Jun about his father, his childhood escape from the Soul Reapers, and falling in love with Aijima before she vanished.
• Jun revealed that Aijima had proposed accepting the Bount into Soul Society and was exiled to Hueco Mundo after the upper ranks rejected her proposal.
• Jun and Miki Ichirin persuaded the Bount to reject soul hunting and choose a new name, and the group agreed to become the Undead.
• Jun concealed the cave entrance, installed a Rending Space Realm and a sealed passage to Hueco Mundo, and made ten linked Crests for travel.
• Jun returned to Hueco Mundo, waited for Starrk, and spent several more months there before returning to Soul Society with Isuzu.

Jun and Isuzu learned the truth behind the old Spiritual Power traces, then decades later Jun discovered that Retsu Unohana had encountered and wounded a young Zaraki in Rukongai. The chapter left Jun regretting that he had missed their meeting and imagining an absurd thousand-year romance between them.

• Shunsui Kyōraku told Jun and Isuzu that the Spiritual Power traces came from victims of a disastrous experiment, and warned them to stay out of the matter.
• Jun and Isuzu denied knowing anything when the Second Division questioned them, and Kyōraku later confirmed that the Bount were presumed dead.
• More than thirty years passed; Mizunami achieved Bankai and joined the First Division, while Jun became the Tenth Division's Fifth Seat.
• Retsu Unohana found a boy named Zaraki atop a mountain of corpses in the eightieth district, was wounded by his blade, and cut his face before Reiatsu subdued him.
• Jun read the record of Unohana and Zaraki's encounter, regretted missing it, and joked that their scars suggested a thousand-year affair.
• The author explained that the chapter had given Unohana and Zaraki's first meeting an alternate setting rather than following the original timeline.

The chapter recounts how Zaraki became the first King of Rukongai after slaughtering a battlefield with a stolen Zanpakuto, then follows Jun and Isuzu as they investigate a hidden archive in the Journal Hall. Jun reveals that Kōga may inherit his secret legacy, and leaves Isuzu with his determination to change Soul Society.

• Zaraki took a Zanpakuto from a gang leader and killed the fighters who swarmed him, prompting the Captain-Commander to leave the blade with him after it achieved Shikai.
• More than thirty years later, Kōga confronted Jun and Isuzu about a secret hidden in the Journal Hall.
• Jun used Kaei True to conceal the Journal Hall and showed Isuzu and Kōga how Kōga could pass through the eastern wall into a hidden space.
• Jun revealed journals in the western wall containing secrets about Starrk, the Undead, and Arrancar, explaining that Kōga might inherit his legacy if he proved capable.
• Kōga vowed to enter the western wall, while Jun told Isuzu he was striving to protect their descendants and declared that they would cleanse Soul Society.

After Jun’s story inspired Kōga to become diligent and humble, Kōga’s swordsmanship duel turned deadly when his opponent tried to kill him. Muramasa appeared as Kōga’s sword spirit and revealed his ability, drawing attention from across Seireitei as Kōga was summoned to meet the Captain-Commander.

• Kōga changed his habits, sought instruction from everyone, and began sparring with students across the academy.
• Kōga fought a senior student in a swordsmanship match and was nearly killed when his opponent used full-power Shunpo to attack him.
• Muramasa appeared, stopped the attack, and identified himself as Kōga’s sword, stunning the academy crowd.
• Jun questioned Muramasa, who demonstrated his ability by summoning Clear Rain and said he could control other swords’ thoughts.
• Tessai Tsukabishi arrived to summon Kōga to meet the Captain-Commander, and Jun agreed to take him.

Jun introduced Kōga and Muramasa to Soul Society’s leaders, then grew wary when Kōga’s Zanpakuto was secretly labeled dangerous and the Kuchiki Clan arranged his future. He sought Aizen’s help and visited the Kuchiki estate, determined to protect Kōga from being separated from his sword or trapped by the clan.

• Jun brought Kōga, Muramasa, and Clear Rain before the Captain-Commander and the captains, where Muramasa explained his power to manifest and influence Zanpakuto.
• Muramasa manifested Isshin’s Engetsu, who stayed in the Tenth Division for a month and defeated most of its members before the captains learned that manifested swords drew on limited Spiritual Power.
• Kōga’s academy dispute appeared settled, but confidential records still classified his Zanpakuto as extremely dangerous, and Jun vowed to protect him.
• Years later, Kuchiki Ginrei announced that Kōga had been preselected for the Sixth Division and chosen as a future son-in-law, prompting Jun to ask Aizen to check whether anyone was pressuring Kōga to abandon his Zanpakuto.
• Jun visited the Kuchiki estate and resolved to get Kōga out if the clan would not listen to reason.

Jun visited Kuchiki Ginrei to ask that Kōga start at the bottom of the Sixth Division, then negotiated for Ginrei’s daughter, Aozumi, to attend Shin'ō Academy before marrying Kōga. Aozumi’s enrollment and planned marriage to Kōga became public, while Aizen watched the news with interest.

• Jun told Kuchiki Ginrei that Kōga was his disciple and asked him not to give Kōga special treatment after graduation.
• Ginrei proposed that Kōga marry his daughter, Kuchiki Aozumi, and Jun asked that Aozumi attend Shin'ō Academy so the couple could meet first.
• Sōjun supported Jun’s request, and Jun and Sōjun agreed that Jun would help Aozumi adjust to the academy.
• The Kuchiki Clan announced that Aozumi would enroll at Shin'ō Academy and marry Kōga after his graduation.
• Kōga was bewildered by the congratulations, while Aizen learned the news and reflected on Jun’s insight.

Jun confronted Kōga and Lady Aozumi about their arranged marriage and warned them that their clan might be using them to control Kōga's dangerous Zanpakuto. After Jun pushed Kōga to take responsibility and pursue a workable future with Lady Aozumi, the two began to reconcile, though his clumsy assurances still upset her.

• Jun met Lady Aozumi and told her and Kōga that they could either accept their arranged marriage or resist at a potentially deadly cost.
• Jun explained that Kōga's Zanpakuto had been labeled extremely dangerous and suggested Lady Aozumi might be a sacrifice in her clan's plans.
• Jun staged an argument so Lady Aozumi could leave in tears, then scolded Kōga for acting childishly and failing to take responsibility.
• Kōga tried to approach Lady Aozumi, offended her, and lost a bet with Jun, who made him slap himself and challenged him to consider his own choices.
• Kōga followed Lady Aozumi for several days before apologizing for shifting responsibility onto her and promising to become dependable.
• Lady Aozumi told Kōga that his promise to take care of her was hurting her, then ordered him to leave.